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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) does not yet have an annual funding appropriation from Congress and, like other federal agencies, is struggling to operate under a continuing resolution (CR) with funding levels the Trump administration agreed to more than a year ago. One dismal "path forward" would be to extend the CR further, to fund EPA for the entire year. Such a CR would effectively sabotage EPA by providing less than half, in real dollars, the agency's 1980 funding, and a workforce at its smallest level since 1987. It would starve the agency of new resources to begin rebuilding...

CNN President Jeff Zucker announced to his staff Wednesday morning that he is resigning immediately from his role at the cable news network, which he has led since January 2013. Zucker said in a statement that his decision stemmed from him not disclosing a “consensual relationship” with his “closest colleague” when it first began. “I certainly wish my tenure here had ended differently,” he wrote. “But it was an amazing run. And I loved every minute.” Zucker oversaw all of WarnerMedia’s live programming, including all divisions of CNN and Turner Sports. That includes CNN, CNN International, HLN and CNN’s digital...

White feminism is killing the project of equality, argues Rafia Zakaria. She says dominant feminism is based on a set of beliefs and principles that upholds an exclusive system of "whiteness" and bolsters white supremacy — ultimately ignoring the challenges and concerns of women of colour. The lawyer and author of Against White Feminism says she felt compelled to write an alternative history — a story that turns the spotlight off whiteness and on to the intersectional perspectives from brown, Black and Asian women. Zakaria says her book is intended to provide different dimensions of the feminist movement that exists...

Saudi Arabia’s Deputy Defense Minister Prince Khalid bin Salman and China’s Minister of National Defense Wei Fenghe discussed defense cooperation last week, exploring ways to strengthen their bilateral military relations and coordination. The Chinese defense minister pledged to push forward “practical cooperation [and] strengthening solidarity” between the two armies. Satellite images that were published by CNN last month indicate that Saudi Arabia is building its own ballistic missiles with the help of China. The Kingdom is known to possess foreign-made ballistic missiles, including from China, but is not believed to have made its own before. As the United States scales...

Alex Jones breaks down why former Nazi George Soros recently compared Xi Jinping to Hitler. https://freeworldnews.tv/watch?id=61f9acc70469583486e0fdfa

The ABC, CBS and NBC evening networks committed one of the most egregious acts of news censorship by ignoring the U.S. debt topping $30 trillion for the first time ever. The U.S. Treasury Department released data on Tuesday showing that the U.S. total public debt outstanding was $30.01 trillion as of Jan. 31. The Wall Street Journal reported the new figure “was a nearly $7 trillion increase from late January 2020, just before the pandemic hit the U.S. economy.” Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget President Maya MacGuineas reportedly told The Journal that the enormous spike in the national debt...

Megyn Kelly interview concerning Ray Epps. Good, short interview and Stuart Rhodes is covered.

Colleges with students fully vaccinated against COVID-19 are now seeing surges in infections. The case spikes were largely driven by the highly transmissible B11529 omicron variant.The University of Oregon (UO) is one such college that saw COVID-19 cases rise among fully vaccinated students. Aisha Ghorashian, a senior at the university, told NPR: “You feel the stress on campus. People don’t feel safe. You see people wearing double masking and those N95 [masks] that I’ve never seen people wear before.”Despite UO’s student body having a vaccination rate of more than 96%, the university still reported 960 COVID-19 infections in the first...

Shouting “Fire Whoopi Goldberg!” on Twitter or Facebook might feel good, but getting rid of The View star for her idiotic comments on the Holocaust won’t fix anything. Her network temporarily suspended Goldberg early on Tuesday. ABC News President Kim Goodwin said in a statement, “Effective immediately, I am suspending Whoopi Goldberg for two weeks for her wrong and hurtful comments.” But that might not be the end of her troubles. Page Six reports that insiders at ABC — which produces and broadcasts The View — say that Goldberg is “in deep s**t” and needs to be given the heave-ho....

"The system continues to fail us. We are not safe anymore. Not even the members of the service. I know you were tired of these laws — especially the ones from the new DA. I hope he’s watching you speak through me right now." These are the words of slain NYPD Officer Rivera’s widow, Dominique Luzuriaga. Officer Rivera was laid to rest last week. His partner, Officer Mora will be buried on Wednesday. As a native New Yorker and a doctor on the front lines of COVID for the past two years, having taken care of over 21,000 COVID patients,...

Starbucks on Tuesday announced that it will be increasing the prices of its products in 2022, citing rising inflation, supply chain disruptions and increasing labor costs, according to a statement by the company. The coffee giant missed its projected quarterly profit as the highly contagious omicron variant of COVID-19 swept across the globe, causing increased labor shortages and further coronavirus-related restrictions, particularly in China, Starbucks' fastest-growing market. The move marks the second time in just four months that the company has hiked prices, having also increased menu item costs in October, reports The New York Times — and more price...

Despair is in the air. Three-quarters of Americans believe their own country is in decline. Trafalgar Group, December 2021It’s hard to dispute that when you see things like junkies destroying U.S. infrastructure while governors who liberally micromanage law-abiding people throw up their hands.What westerners think India is like vs. what it's actually like.Contrast the Ascending vs. the Descending world – LA and random cities of India quietly switching places as the Westerner maintains his perpetual denial. pic.twitter.com/0Z2i2RZYJv— The Last Contrarian (@lastcontrarian) January 15, 2022h/t Aaron RennI do think there are major problems in our country that are not likely to...

Actress Susan Sarandon in an eyebrow-raising tweet has called into question the need for police in New York City — and she did it by reposting a message likening cops at the funeral for fallen Officer Jason Rivera to fascists.

The energy crisis surrounding Europe worsened as Germany's fuel-supply network was hit with a cyberattack on Jan. 29. The incident follows mounting tensions between the US and Russia over Ukraine and the possibility Nord Stream 2 pipeline from Russia to Germany could be axed if Russia invades Kyiv. The US has insisted it would block the pipeline opening upon a Russian invasion of Ukraine. Western governments and their corporate media counterparts aren't helping the situation as they drum up the prospects for conflict between Russia and the US. This week, it just so happened a cyberattack partially paralyzed Germany's most...

Everyone else is trying to dodge the novel coronavirus as best they can, but a group of people in Great Britain have recently gone the opposite route. They have signed up to have doctors deliberately expose them to the virus as part of a “human challenge” trial. While this may sound rather crazy, this type of testing has been used for many years and allows researchers to gather data on diseases and the effectiveness of measures taken to prevent or treat them. Still, you’d have to be a little nervous when someone in a surgical mask shows to give you...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The setup was like a typical congressional hearing. There were members of Congress, witnesses, cameras, and members of the press, including yours truly. But what was atypical about the hearing was the location. Members of the House Freedom Caucus, led by Chairman Scott Perry (R-PA), were having the ad-hoc hearing at FreedomWorks, a conservative grassroots advocacy group, because Democrats have been preventing them from holding hearings about the ongoing crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border. Democrats are the current majority and can dictate if such hearings take place, according to the congressional members. "We've repeatedly requested that congressional...

A new song in support of Canadian truckers has been launched with the Freedom Convoy 2022 now in Ottawa and the trucker blockade at Alberta’s Coutts border. Jayme Knyx, a born-and-raised Calgarian who now resides in Kelowna, released the song titled Just Drive less than a week ago and it has gone viral and is now being shared around the world.

Tennessee Governor Bill Lee (R) announced on Monday a state partnership with Michigan’s Hillsdale College to launch a number of K-12 charter schools. Lee announced the partnership during his state of the state address on Monday evening in front of a special joint session of the state Legislature. Hillsdale College is a liberal arts college in southern Michigan known for its refusal to accept federal funds. The college has launched an initiative to revitalize “public education through the launch and support of classical K-12 charter schools.” Lee and Hillsdale College President Larry Arnn are working together to build a system...

Whoopi Goldberg caused a lot of controversy on Monday when she claimed on The View that the Holocaust wasn’t about “race.”It was a shocking moment on the show, and even her fellow liberal co-hosts challenged her to explain what she “really meant.” Goldberg explained that, in her view, the Holocaust wasn’t about race but rather “man’s inhumanity to man” because it was about “two groups of white people.”Whoopi has made stupid comments on the show before (basically every episode), but these were probably her most controversial comments since 2009, when she said Roman Polanski’s rape of a 13-year-old girl in...