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We estimated the net worth of members of Congress by analyzing financial-disclosure reports. The reports cover 2020 and provide the most up-to-date estimate of members' net worth. The wealthiest 15 members were worth at least $1.3 billion, half of Congress' wealth. Each year, every member of Congress is required to file a detailed report disclosing their financial holdings. Designed for transparency, the disclosures provide insight into each member of Congress' wealth and assets — and occasionally reveal potential conflicts of interest and violations of federal law. Insider compiled members' annual disclosures filed this year, analyzing thousands of pages of documents...

VIDEOThey just can't get over it. That nasty Joe Manchin took away their beloved Build Back Broke bill and now the media is SEETHING with bitterness.

Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., blasted the White House "staff" for leaking "absolutely inexcusable" things about him after rejecting President Biden’s Build Back Better Act during an interview on "Fox News Sunday." He said he would not be pressured into supporting the bill by his fellow Democrats Manchin said during a Monday interview with MetroNews Talkline that the White House "retaliated" against him after he told "Fox News Sunday" that he could not support Biden's signature COVID–19 relief legislation. "Basically, they retaliated," the West Virginia Democrat said. "I figured they would come back strong."

Bill O’Reilly has revealed that he had to console Donald Trump after he was booed by his own supporters for getting a vaccine booster shot. Trump told MAGA fans that he’d had his COVID-19 booster during Sunday’s final stop on the “History Tour” he co-headlined with the disgraced ex-Fox News star. The revelation prompted a chorus of boos and jeers from anti-vaxxers in the crowd. In an interview with Dan Abrams on NewsNation, O’Reilly said Trump phoned him after the event and was apparently hurt by the reaction. “I told him that today, he called me,” said O’Reilly. “I said...

When American mayors, governors and others wanted their populations to submit to COVID-19 lockdown and other orders, they were faced with what they perceived as an obstacle: those individuals who simply would not follow orders.Now, in the state of New York, a proposal is being prepared for lawmakers to consider that would resolve that dispute.A plan prefiled for the coming legislature would allow authorities to simply determine who they wanted locked up – and then lock them up.The idea, cast as a "public health law," is being prepared for the 2021-2022 legislature.It would allow the governor or his appointee to...

Ron Watkins [CodeMonkeyZ] Everyone please send prayers for Joe Oltmann, Jovan Pulitzer, and a few others (who I won't name). They are very sick with what is suspected to be anthrax poisoning. 🙏🙏 t.me/CodeMonkeyZ/2304 91.0K views Dec 21 at 00:02

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@RandPaul Even CNN talking heads now admit that cloth masks are “facial decoration.” Wonder if YouTube will censor CNN? Clip...

Take your vaccine like they tell you. Do not ask questions. Just follow orders. This one graphic shows everything you need to know. This is one of the reasons why nobody wants to talk to me. ... The graphic is from a paper which was published in April 24, 2017: Pilot comparative study on the health of vaccinated and unvaccinated 6- to 12- year old U.S. children The point of this article is that the COVID vaccines are not the first unsafe vaccine. We’ve been doing this for years. The COVID vaccines are simply the latest manifestation of a problem...

Joe Biden’s presidency is in trouble. This past weekend, it was abruptly torpedoed by Senator Joe Manchin – live on Fox News. The U.S. President’s signature piece of legislation is – was – the so-called Build Back Better bill. It’s been pitched as the most ambitious overhaul of American social policy since Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Deal of the 1930s, and Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society of the 1960s. The New Deal’s legacy is programs such as Social Security (more generous than the Canada Pension Plan, and created decades earlier); the Great Society’s legacies include Medicare and Medicaid – health insurance...

Preface: I am not looking for medical advice or help in decision making. Just venting and hoping to get an idea of how other folks in my situation are making out or how they are preparing. So… my job has a strict vaccine mandate that is set to start Jan 4th. Basically, if I don’t load my card into the HR system which collects these, I will be fired from my job on Jan 5th… no severance. My religious exemption, originally approved at first, was ultimately denied, and they are not allowing exemptions for remote workers (like me), nor periodic...

I am sharing this because I purchased a bit and a friend sent me a vid explaining what it really is. the domain spoken of in this vid re crypto currency is .io, apparently in on Diego Garcia and run by CIA The REAL Creator of Bitcoin ,, Excellent vid below. – Philip J. Venables This week we reported on “The Reveal” that was released by Ivy McLemore, a sophomoric website claiming that Bitcoin was started by a man named James Bilal Kahil Caan. We called a PROPAGANDA ALERT and informed our audience that this is just more CIA disinformation...

CNN's New Day Tuesday morning mocked Joe Manchin's statement explaining that as a West Virginian, he couldn't be intimidated into supporting Build Back Better. New Day aired a clip of Manchin saying: "Well, guess what? I'm from West Virginia. I'm not from where they're from. And they can just beat the living crap out of people, and think they'll be submissive." Co-host John Berman led the charge, saying: "You know I always love it when someone says, I'm from West Virginia, we don't back down to anything. People from all 50 states will say that."Get the rest of the story...

The initial handling of allegations by actor Jussie Smollett who staged a fake attack in Chicago was a “major failure” by the local prosecutor’s office, according to a damning investigative report released Monday. The 60-page report by special prosecutor Dan Webb, who was appointed to review the case, detailed several instances when Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx and others in her office made false statements in 2019 when they first prosecuted Smollett and then abruptly dropped the charges weeks later. Foxx lied about having cut off contact with Smollett’s younger sister, Jurnee Smollett, after learning the actor had become...

A dean at San Diego State University has called out the “Right’s agenda” on Twitter, accusing conservatives of supporting racism and standing against equality.

This is a dense book. 450 pages long. Here are some methods for getting the gist of it in minutes. Yup, I know… It’s a long, dense book full of facts and evidence. Methods to get the gist of the book quickly: The first third shows that Fauci is the leader of the largest cabal of organized crime thugs to have ever walked the face of Earth. The middle third goes into more detail about the history of establishment of Fauci's criminal cabal. The final third ties together loose ends with more details and factual history. The overriding theme is...

WASHINGTON, Friday, Dec. 20. If any correspondence has taken place between Lord Lyons and Secretary SEWARD, it has been of an informal and confidential character, as no official communications have passed between them with reference to the Trent affair. LATER. -- Lord LYONS had an interview with our Government to-day, in which the Trent affair was informally talked over. The official dispatches of her Majesty's Government have not yet been presented, but the impression so generally prevails that there is no danger of war with England, that the interest in the subject has in a great degree subsided. The dispatches...

President Joe Biden’s disastrous economic agenda has set the U.S. economy on a collision course, so what does CNN do? The network pinned blame on older Americans. CNN released a ridiculous story headlined, “The data that shows Boomers are to blame for the labor shortage.” The story suggested that “Early retirement — whether forced by the pandemic or made possible otherwise — is having a huge impact on the labor market. And data show that retiring boomers, far more than ‘lazy’ millennials, are the biggest force behind the labor shortage.” But as Washington Post columnist Marc Thiessen pointed out Oct....

“The Mask Has Fallen”: Interview with Dr. Kwasniewski in Inside the VaticanThe following interview appears in the January-February 2022 issue of Inside the Vatican magazine (reprinted here with publisher’s permission). The issue also features ITV’s annual “Top Ten People” of 2021, plus former Anglican archbishop and Catholic convert Gavin Ashenden on his embrace of Rome; Darrick Taylor reviewing Julia Meloni’s The St. Gallen Mafia; and Tad Wojcik on the prospects for ethical vaccines. Go to InsideTheVatican.com for information on subscribing.Inside the Vatican: You have edited a substantial new book called From Benedict’s Peace to Francis’s War. Tell us what...

In addition to the usual control gate (red) there is also a program gate (blue). Credit: TU Wien Revolutionary new electronic components can be adapted to perform very different tasks – a technology perfectly suited for artificial intelligence. Normally, computer chips consist of electronic components that always do the same thing. In the future, however, more flexibility will be possible: New types of adaptive transistors can be dynamically switched during run-time to perform different logical tasks. This fundamentally changes the possibilities of chip design and opens up completely new opportunities in the field of artificial intelligence, neural networks or even...