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Good news for Budapest, the new safe haven for Western conservatives: Mel Gibson came to town. Around the end of November, locals were happy to see the famous actor around the city. Everybody knows Mel Gibson, and Hungary is no exception. The movie star was in Hungary’s capital to film the John Wick prequel series, The Continental. When browsing the U.S. press for recent articles about him, though, I bumped into some very intriguing headlines. “How Does Mel Gibson Still Have a Career?,” Variety asked. “Mel Gibson Is Living Proof That ‘Cancel Culture’ Is Mostly Bullshit,” the Daily Beast concluded....

Some days, it just doesn't pay to run up on someone and attempt armed robbery. You may pick the wrong home. You may find out the hard way your target is armed. Or in the case of this viral video, the guy you're robbing may think you're a little bitch and respond accordingly. It's a story in three parts. Thug attempts to rob a dude. Dude is all like "seriously?" Thug finds himself eating pavement and squealing like a pig. Make sure the volume is up. https://twitter.com/LoniLove/status/1383403362884874240

Court papers reveal the British socialite’s defence could outsize the prosecution case, which had 24 witnesses over two weeks. They included the four women who accused the 59-year-old of abusing them as teenagers or of ‘serving them up’ to her paedophile friend Jeffrey Epstein. Ahead of defence arguments starting on Thursday, Maxwell’s lawyers surprised observers by saying they expected to hear all 35 of the testimonies in just two or three days. Some of the witnesses are coming from abroad and three may not be willing to testify unless their identities are kept secret by the New York court. The...

Like a small, unnoticed fire in the basement which can destroy your home, Communism is lurking in the shadows of our nation. Americans don’t know enough about communism to see it when it starts here. Writing in the Tablet, Mary Mycio notes that we have “a certain herd immunity to Nazism and fascism.” But not to communism. The Soviet Union fell a long time ago, as people’s memories go. It fell almost 30 years ago. That means that no one under 45 or 50 will have any real memory of communism as a living force in the world. They know...

One of the world's largest forest preservation projects, in Indonesia, has issued credits up to three times more than the amount of carbon dioxide it is likely to absorb, Nikkei has found, an apparent incongruity that if repeated could lead to a flood of unworkable "carbon zero" projects. Rimba Makmur Utama, an Indonesian property development company managing the Katingan Mentaya Project, denies the allegations. Royal Dutch Shell, Volkswagen and Takeda Pharmaceutical -- more than 20 globally known companies in all -- are flocking to the credits offered by the forest preservation project in Central Kalimantan, on the island of Borneo....

Mark Levin says he had Covid last week... despite being vaccinated with J&J and constant use of masks. Praises DeSantis for monoclonal antibody program.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zd0BMT0yEkc

Senator Richard Blumenthal(D-Conn.) said he was “excited and proud” to help the Connecticut Communist Party celebrate the 102nd anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party USA over the weekend. On Saturday, the Connecticut People’s World Committee (CPWC) presented its annual “Amistad Awards” to State Sen. Julie Kushner, D-Danbury, Pastor Rodney Wade of Waterbury and SEIU activist Azucena Santiago at a union hall in New Haven. (Video of the event here). Blumenthal was the surprise guest to help celebrate the occasion, and share his appreciation of the awardees. “I am really excited and honored to be with you today and...

A Chicago father was beaten to death in front of his home while he was hanging Christmas decorations. The victim Jose Tellez, 49, had been decorating his Gage Park home two of his children on Saturday at around 6.30pm when two male suspects wielding blunt objects jumped out of a sedan and brutally beat him in the head.

He showed me his AZT prescription from the doctor, and it was a medicine that came 'highly recommended' by the CDC and a man named Anthony Fauci. We had high hopes that he would do well on it, but that was not to be the case.

Media mogul Rupert Murdoch has become the latest rich elitist to buy a huge property in a remote area even as the plebs continue to be told “you’ll own nothing and be happy.” Murdoch and his wife have purchased a 340,000 acre cattle ranch and attached mansion house in Montana that was previously owned by the Koch family for a whopping $200 million dollars. The sale of the property, known as Beaverhead, is the largest ranch deal in Montana history. “The ranch is in southwest Montana near Yellowstone National Park, and features elk, antelope and mule deer. There’s also a...

An NBC Sports crew working on assignment in Oakland, Calif., was robbed at gunpoint Saturday morning.. and the robbers got away with a camera from the crew's vehicle. .... This robbery is reportedly the third involving news organizations in Oakland within 2 1/2 weeks' time. On Dec. 3, a San Francisco Chronicle photographer was held up in an armed robbery, and before that a security guard for local news station KRON-TV was shot and killed during an attempted robbery ... "We in Oakland believe in a comprehensive and effective approach to ending gun violence," Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf (D) said...

Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. Explanation: What's going on behind that mountain? Quite a bit. First of all, the mountain itself, named Kirkjufell, is quite old and located in western Iceland near the town of Grundarfjörður. In front of the steeply-sloped structure lies a fjord that had just begun to freeze when the above image was taken -- in mid-December of 2012. Although quite faint to the unaided eye, the beautiful colors of background aurorae became quite apparent on...

The CNN producer charged with luring a mother and her nine-year-old daughter to a rental home in Vermont for 'sexual subservience' training also told someone else he'd 'trained' girls as young as seven. John Griffin, a producer on CNN's New Day and worked for Chris Cuomo, was charged last week by federal prosecutors in Vermont who say he paid for sex with underage girls, including one whose mother he convinced into letting her visit him.

Police have identified the victims of a car crash Saturday involving a human smuggler as a mother and daughter from Texas. The Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) confirmed the mother, 59, and daughter, 22, were locals from Mission. The alleged smuggler ran a stop sign while fleeing from police and T-boned the victims’ vehicle. He also allegedly had six illegal immigrants in his vehicle, all of whom are now in custody. One of the immigrants flew through the windshield upon impact, but survived. Officers have not yet released the pair’s identities, but did confirm they were the only deaths...

This season, it's important to focus on the true meaning of Christmas: compliance. Christmas caroling, once a holiday tradition of family and friends spreading joy and cheer to neighbors and communities, is now illegal, and rightfully so. We are—and will forever be—in the midst of a dangerous pandemic, and nothing spreads lethal viruses more virulently than through friends, family, singing, and joy. Dismay not! You can still find a sliver of Christmas cheer while isolated in your sanitized home, double-masked and quadruple-vaccinated, by listening to some of these COVID-19 Christmas Carols: “I'll Be Vaxxed for Christmas” - A merry, joyful...

Nearly half of Bay Area employers expect employees to work in person on three days a week post-pandemic, a market shift that could result in roughly 1.1 million fewer commute trips per day... The survey, conducted monthly since April, found that an average of 40.75% of Bay Area employers surveyed expect their workers to return to the office three days a week once the pandemic subsides. Around 15% to 20% of employers said they expect their workers to return to in-person work five or more days per week while less than 5% of employers said they thought their employees would...

A law due to take effect by the end of the year requiring nearly all foreigners in Russia to be regularly screened for a range of diseases with blood tests, as well as X-rays, will make the country less appealing for talent. That’s according to a group of Russian business organizations, which shared an open letter to Bloomberg on Monday about the new directive requiring virtually all overseas workers, as well as family members over the age of seven, to undergo quarterly medical examinations for diseases including leprosy, tuberculosis, syphilis and HIV/AIDS. Screenings by drug therapists, psychiatrists and infectious-diseases experts...

On this date in 1945, British hangman Albert Pierrepoint executed eleven guards of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp and two other Nazis in occupied Hameln. Liberated only eight months before these hangings, Belsen provided the to-us-familiar store of Nazi atrocity stories. Forty-five sat in the dock at the Belsen trial under British military authority, including the notorious camp commandante Josef Kramer — better known as the Beast of Belsen — and the “Angel of Death” Irma Grese. Those two, and nine others less distinctively nicknamed, faced the gallows. (They were hanged together with two other war criminal convicts not connected to...

Could a "Point of Order" in the US Senate defeat the "BBB" ("Build Back Better") legislation? According to the US Constitution, on a split 50-50 vote, the Vice President controls a tie-breaker vote in the Senate. Could a single Senator defeat that vote, by raising a "Point of Order" questioning the eligibility of the VP to hold her office?