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Thank you @adsliaison and @GoogleAds for walking right into it, again! Good communists can’t control themselves & always succumb to the totalitarian impulse. We deeply appreciate your efforts to try & silence us, it presents the perfect foil for the free speech parallel economy.

Here is a lesson in Bidenomics. “Going Green” sounds great to some (like Al Gore, Leonardo DiCaprio and Greta Thunberg), but there are costs to not growing America’s energy supply. Rising energy costs have helped create the rise in consumer prices and inflation. Not to mention chip shortages for car and trucks. The University of Michigan conditions for vehicles plummeted to 46 (100 baseline) as used vehicles prices sky rocket. Under Biden’s reign of error, West Texas Crude futures prices have risen 87% (regular gas prices are up 49% even with Biden’s releasing two days of supply from the Strategic...

“I’m not allowed to sue Pfizer for some reason. That in itself tells me they knew people were going to die and they are just immune from any accountability.” On January 17, 2022, the Toronto City Council’s Board of Health held a virtual hearing to address the city’s reaction to Covid. The conference was open to the general public, and it featured public speakers who shared their thoughts on the local administration’s approach to the declared pandemic. Dan Hartman told the Toronto City Council health board that his 17-year-old son Sean had died from the Pfizer shot. The grieving father...

That headline isn't a direct quote, but it's close. The maniac in question is the CEO of the Prince George's County public schools in Maryland, who wants everyone to know that she is determined to force children to wear face coverings, for hours on end, every day, until COVID doesn't exist anymore. That's not an exaggeration, either. The epitome of anti-child, anti-science, wildly unrealistic "zero COVIDism," right here: The leader of a Maryland county school district indicated that students will be required to wear masks on school grounds and in classrooms until "COVID no longer exists." "I have not been...

(WHTM) – The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania has found the commonwealth’s no-excuse mail-in voting law, Act 77, is unconstitutional. According to court documents, 14 members of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives filed a petition to block the 2019 law that would allow any qualified voter to vote by mail.The law allowed voters to submit a ballot by mail up to 50 days before an election and placed voters on a list to permanently receive a ballot application by mail. It also established 15 more days to register to vote and extended amil=in and absentee submission deadlines. Act 77 also outlined...

larence Thomas, the hardline conservative supreme court justice, is facing calls for his recusal in the case over race-based affirmative action in college admissions that the court agreed to hear this week. Related: US supreme court will hear challenge to affirmative action in college admission The case, which is being brought against Harvard and the University of North Carolina, is the latest potential conflict of interest involving Thomas and his wife Virginia Thomas. Ginni, as she is known, is a prominent rightwing activist who speaks out on a raft of issues that frequently come before the nation’s highest court..... SFFA’s...

A Pennsylvania appeals court has struck down the commonwealth’s landmark 2019 mail-in voting law. In an opinion from Judge Mary Leavitt Friday morning, Commonwealth Court found that the law, which allows all Pennsylvanians to vote by mail without an excuse, was unconstitutional, agreeing with 14 House Republican lawmakers who filed suit against the law in September.

I’ve always thought that it would be a humbling experience - and an immense honor - to be elected to serve in Virginia’s General Assembly, the oldest continuous law-making body in the New World. To be part of the House of Delegates is to follow in the footsteps of great men of the Enlightenment: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Patrick Henry. You’d think the history of the place alone would be enough to make members leave behind their bad manners, their hateful diatribes, their name-calling. It’s an institution that demands decorum......Perhaps emboldened by November’s elections that restored a Republican majority in...

Prepare for war: That is the message Joe Biden is thought to have delivered to Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky when the two spoke this week, after the US rejected Russia's security demands in eastern Europe. US intelligence believes the invasion will likely come in February, when colder temperature will have frozen the ground solid - allowing Putin's tanks and artillery to roll in without getting bogged down in mud. If they're right, that gives Zelensky and his generals just a few weeks to prepare their defences. No doubt the question being asked in Kiev right now is: Where will Putin...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told President Joe Biden to "calm down the messaging" about the threat of a Russian invasion because it was stirring panic, CNN reported, citing an unnamed Ukrainian official. Biden and Zelensky spoke by phone Thursday amid rising tensions between Russia — which is amassing tens of thousands of troops at Ukraine's border — Ukraine, the US, and NATO. Biden told Zelensky on Thursday that a Russian invasion could happen as soon as February, when the ground freezes over, tweeted Emily Horne, White House National Security Council spokesperson. However, Zelensky told Biden in the call that Ukraine...

There is confusion over when Sue Gray's report on No 10 lockdown parties will be published after a statement from the police on their investigation. The Met said on Friday it had asked for "minimal reference" in the report to events they are investigating to avoid prejudicing its inquiries. Many in the Cabinet Office, where Ms Gray is based, were taken by surprise by the Met's statement, sources say. The report was due to be sent to Downing Street this week. Boris Johnson's premiership is potentially at stake, as Conservative MPs wait to see the outcome of Ms Gray's inquiry...

Six people who were found dead in a Milwaukee home on Sunday were shot dead in an 'execution style' mass killing and three of the victims were due to testify at an upcoming murder trial, police have revealed.

January Barometer The idea of the January barometer is this: If the Standard & Poor's 500 market index ends January higher than it started, the rest of the year will follow suit. This prediction has been correct 34 out of 38 times since January 1950. Christine Hauser cited this fact in a January 2012 article in "The New York Times." A good start in January may mean investors are ready to get into the market, which will cause it to climb. Not everyone buys into this idea, including Lu. He said the historical observations are interesting, but unreliable.

Google is boosting its benefits and offering employees more parental leave and vacation time. Employees will now get a minimum of 20 days of vacation a year, up from 15. It's also increasing parental leave to 18 weeks and upping caregiver leave to eight weeks. Google is increasing parental leave and offering additional vacation time as part of an overhaul of its employee benefits. The company announced on Thursday that it had expanded parental leave to 18 weeks for all parents (previously 12 weeks) and 24 weeks for parents who give birth (previously 18 weeks). As of April 2, it...

Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul is warning Americans that the Biden administration and the “bipartisan neocon consensus” in Congress are eager to drag the U.S. into a new war over the looming conflict between Russia and Ukraine. “I was heartened when President Trump spoke of stopping our ‘endless wars’ and I was hoping for more restraint from President Biden,” Paul wrote in an op-ed published Wednesday in Louisville’s Courier-Journal. “Unfortunately, that wasn’t his history and it doesn’t seem to be his current direction.” “The endless wars are ramping up again even as I write today,” Paul warned. The libertarian-leaning senator is...

Friday's Commonwealth Court opinion declares Act 77 of 2019 unconstitutional, though an appeal is expected by the Department of State. A statewide court says Pennsylvania’s expansive two-year-old mail-in voting law is unconstitutional, agreeing with challenges by Republicans who soured on mail-in voting after then-President Donald Trump began baselessly attacking it as rife with fraud in 2020′s campaign. According to a Commonwealth Court filing released Friday, the court ruled that Act 77, allowing residents to vote by mail in Pennsylvania, violates Article VII, Section 1 of the Pennsylvania constitution. The Commonwealth Court denied the Pa. Department of State acting secretary's application...

The story revolves around discovering a woman’s body remains in a suitcase and is more than just a love relationship gone bad. Gergana Prodanava was a 38-year-old woman who worked at the Great Western Hotel in Exeter, England. Reported missing in August 2016, Gergana had no idea what was in store for her. She could never have imagined that the one she loved would one day take her life. A Cursed Love Story During her early 20s, Gergana met Kostadin Kostov in Bulgaria. Kostadin was 26 years old at that time. They started dating in 2000 and shortly fell in...

Standoffs on the ground between parents and school districts continue, as a battle in the courts looms... Defying an executive order issued by newly-elected Gov. Glenn Youngkin that renders masks optional in public schools, several Virginia districts responded by suspending students who decline to wear a mask, segregating them into isolated rooms, and calling police on mothers who advocate for them. After the issuing of Executive Order 2 on Youngkin’s inauguration day, January 15, Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS) went into action by joining a seven-district lawsuit against the order and directing their administrators to suspend students without face coverings...

The latest country to announce it is eliminating most of its COVID-19 pandemic restrictions, including mask mandates, is Denmark. Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said Wednesday that beginning Feb. 1, mask restrictions on public transportation, in restaurants, in shops and other indoor facilities will be lifted, the Associated Press reported. "We say goodbye to the restrictions and welcome the life we knew before," Frederiksen said. "As of Feb. 1, Denmark will be open." Health Minister Magnus Heunicke said that while the European nation recently has had 46,000 new cases daily on average, only 40 people are in hospital intensive care units....