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Oil futures rose Tuesday and U.S. prices traded above $80 a barrel, supported by tight supplies and growing expectations that the omicron variant of the COVID-19 virus won’t derail global demand. The market theme is “about demand recovery rather than supply concerns, although both are supportive of oil prices,” Manish Raj, chief financial officer at Velandera Energy Partners, told MarketWatch. Despite omicron’s spread, “global oil demand remains robust among all modes of transportation.” West Texas Intermediate crude for February delivery CL00, 3.73% CLG22, 3.72% rose $2.56, or 3.3%, at $80.79 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Front-month contract...

The U.S. Air Force is being accused of bending the rules and pushing a female officer through the Special Tactics Officer (STO) program despite allegations she repeatedly quit the training. The Air Force told American Military News the allegations are “factually incorrect or missing context” and say training standards are different now compared to years before. The allegations were raised by an anonymous Air Force combat controller and first shared via Twitter on Wednesday by Brian Kimber, an Air Force Pararescue (PJ) veteran, journalist and podcaster. Kimber’s tweets were reposted the same day by Navy SEAL veteran and Congressman Dan...

MADISON, Wis. — One of the lead deputies who spent weeks “turning the house upside down” spent several hours Monday testifying what he found inside the Halderson home in the fifth day of Chandler Halderson’s homicide trial. Deputy Greg Leatherberry, a crime scene investigator for the Dane County Sheriff’s Office, spent much of the day on the stand as he described in great detail what he found in every room of the family’s multi-level home in Windsor as they investigated the murder and dismemberment of Bart and Krista Halderson. Not every room in the home had something of value to...

Living alone for several years and/or experiencing serial relationship break-ups are strongly linked to raised levels of inflammatory markers in the blood–but only in men–finds a large population study. Although the inflammation was classified as low grade, it was persistent, and most likely indicates a heightened risk of age-related ill health and death, suggest the researchers. Divorce and committed relationship break-ups, which are often followed by a potentially lengthy period of living alone, have been associated with a heightened risk of poor physical and mental health, lowered immunity, and death. But most previously published studies have focused on the impact...

YouTube’s censorship overlords suspended MRCTV for posting a video that dared to highlight government officials’ garbled messaging on COVID-19 guidance. MRCTV Managing Editor Brittany Hughes’ Jan. 3 video, “Enjoy Your Covid Hysteria, Libs - But Leave The Rest Of Us Alone,” dissected the hysteria surrounding the omicron COVID-19 variant. Hughes remarked that National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Dr. Anthony Fauci incoherently “says that even if you’re vaccinated and boosted, you should only go out and about if you’re sure that everyone around you is also vaccinated and boosted because omicron is so contagious that even vaccinated and...

In a speech on voting rights he's giving in Georgia today, Biden boasts: "I will not yield. I will not flinch."Tough guy, that Biden! Let's remember: he's the hero who single-handedly took on "bad dude" Corn Pop! But the White House press-shop moment was washed out by the news that Stacey Abrams, who's again running for governor of Georgia, has announced she won't be attending Biden's speech, citing a "scheduling conflict." That led Joe Scarborough and Willie Geist to facetiously muse that Abrams' appointment for a car tune-up and tire rotation is keeping her away. Get the rest of the...

We live in a red county, but in a ultra blue state. We received a phone call last night from someone not in our database saying their furnace wouldn't stay on longer than several minutes. Apparently hubby had gone out there at some point several years ago and gave them a 2nd opinion which saved them a LOT of money. Well fast forward to now. Hubby called them back, went over there and the first thing out of the late seventies couple was "I need to know your vax status." Hubby said I'm not vaxxed, I have natural immunity and...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has recently told the world that nations which separated themselves from the Soviet Union, specifically those of the Intermarium, the lands between the Black, Baltic, and Adriatic Seas, are not independent but, rather, “masterless” for the moment. He singled out Poland, Ukraine,” and the “Baltic provinces.” It is telling that Lavrov did not call Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania — “Baltic States” [strani Baltii] but “Baltic provinces” [Pribaltika]... What Lavrov implied, of course, was that Russia would take care of the master part sooner or later, slowly but surely. But sometimes the Kremlin sees an opportunity...

California smash-and-grabbers use hammers to steal $100K in jewelry Shocking video shows a smash-and-grab gang using hammers to take over a California shopping center — allegedly swiping around $100,000 of jewelry after threatening customers and staff. The footage shows the gang of nine suddenly swarming La Placita Tropicana shopping center in San Jose with the hammers already in their hands. Customers and staff were terrified as the gang screamed at them to “Get on the ground!,” one of the owners told the Mercury News. The footage from Jan. 3 shows the gang spreading out and smashing glass displays while others...

President Trump on Monday verbally scorched a Republican U.S. Senator (Mike Rounds of SD) he had endorsed last election for describing the 2020 presidential election as fair.

If there was ever a doubt that the vaccine mandates are about control, not healthcare, one need only look to hospitals across the nation adopting the most asinine policy imaginable. Senator Rand Paul did, and his short critique was stinging. From California to New York, hospitals are allowing vaccinated Covid-positive employees return to work while still denying uninfected but unvaccinated former employees from returning. The illogical policy somehow makes sense to hospital administrators who care nothing about the spread of Covid and everything about embracing the universal vaccination agenda. As Senator Paul noted: "So you can still work in a...

Under a new temporary guideline to combat the surge in COVID-19 patients, the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) will allow health care workers to work if they are positive with COVID-19. The order will run until Feb. 1 and applies only to asymptomatic cases. The new order was issued due to the high spread of the COVID-19 Omicron variant, which has caused staffing shortages in all sectors including nurses. The spread is beginning to fill capacity at most hospitals. “Given those conditions, [we are] providing temporary flexibility to help hospitals and emergency services providers respond to an unprecedented surge...

Horrifying surveillance footage shows the moment a gang of hammer-wielding thugs swiped upward of $110,000 in jewelry from a California mall. Nine men stormed a San Jose shopping center January 3 and began smashing glass display cases at three stores as terrified employees ran for cover.

"Kids reportedly have no difficulty with the train problem, but adults aren't faring so well. The puzzle was designed for the fresh eyes of 6 and 7 year olds, so maybe all of us grownups are just overcomplicating things! "Check out the problem below, and let us know if you were able to solve it!" There were some people on a train. 19 people get off the train at the first stop. 17 people get on the train. Now there are 63 people on the train. How many people were on the train to begin with?

There are two main paths to acquiring citizenship in the United States and a few minor ones. The first is to be born here. The others are via legal immigration, birth abroad to a U.S. citizen, and certain adoptions. Then there’s birthright citizenship, which is recognized in only 25 countries, 13% of the nations on earth, and all but three of them are in the Americas. In recent years, France, New Zealand, Australia, and Ireland have abolished birthright citizenship. The US-born children of foreign diplomatic officers are not eligible to be citizens. Citizenship is currently granted, however, to all other...

When I say the Democratic Party is the very personification of divisiveness, deprivation of God-given unalienable rights and subjugation, I speak the truth and I present facts to support the truth I speak. The party has been same from its very first platform. The Democratic Party was founded upon hatred, racism and subjugation, practices that continue to this very moment under Biden – but I'm getting ahead of myself. Let's go back to the very beginning and what the party represented. The Democrats' platform in 1840, 1844 and 1848 all read: "All efforts by abolitionists … to interfere with questions...

What if the Pre-Vatican II Popes Were Actually Right? Whether we think of him as an anti-pope or merely one of the the worst popes in history, the fact remains that Francis has arrogated to himself a power that no pope can ever have: to reshape the Holy Catholic Church to fit the anti-Catholic objectives of the globalists. Even if we consider him to be far worse than his immediate predecessors, though, we have to look back to the pre-Vatican II popes if we want to find Successors of Peter who assiduously defended the Mystical Body of Christ. And...

“After He had fasted forty days and forty nights, He then became hungry” (Matthew 4:2). For a quite lengthy period prior to the three diabolical temptations directed at Jesus, He fasted. We don’t know exactly what He did during the forty-day period, but He likely spent most of the time communing with His heavenly Father. Even in His perfect humanity, Jesus needed solitary preparation time in medi-tation and prayer, as we all do in anticipating a major testing. Consider how Moses spent forty years in Midian in preparation for his leadership of Israel out of Egypt to the Promised Land,...

Rob Regent of SGW Designworks breaks down the inner working of the 9mm smart gun, which works only for the designated user, during a presentation for shareholders and potential investors in Boise, Idaho, U.S. January 7, 2022. REUTERS/Brian LosnessJan 11 (Reuters) - Personalized smart guns, which can be fired only by verified users, may finally become available to U.S. consumers after two decades of questions about reliability and concerns they will usher in a new wave of government regulation.Four-year-old LodeStar Works on Friday unveiled its 9mm smart handgun for shareholders and investors in Boise, Idaho. And a Kansas company, SmartGunz...

God is undivided. He’s not split in any way. He’s altogether lovely, pure and loving. There is only one God, and this God is one in fullness and perfection. He’s totally unified with all things that are holiness. We were by God created to be holy, to be loving, to be one, as Peter writes in the New Testament. “Therefore, preparing your minds for action, and being sober-minded, set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ. As obedient children, do not be conformed to the passions of your former...