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Around 7 p.m this Sunday evening, the police are present at certain strategic entrances to Brussels. It screens vehicles in order to prevent the planned gatherings of the so-called "freedom convoys."....

Woman fatally stabbed inside NYC apartment after being followed: cops A woman was stabbed to death inside her Chinatown apartment early Sunday after her alleged killer followed her home — and her final moments were caught on chilling surveillance footage. Video obtained by The Post shows the suspect tailing the 35-year-old victim on the street as she enters her Chrystie Street apartment building, following close behind as she opens the front door and strolls into the hallway. Minutes later, a neighbor across the hallway of the victim’s sixth-floor apartment at 111 Chrystie Street called 911 around 4:30 a.m. after hearing...

Working Hard for You in the House In order to avoid a taxpayer-funded bailout, the U.S. Postal Service urgently needs reform. It has lost money every year since 2007. That’s why I voted in favor of H.R. 3076, the Postal Service Reform Act. This legislation will improve Postal Service operations, increase accountability and transparency, and save nearly $50 billion in the next decade. The bill passed the House on Tuesday night with overwhelming bipartisan support 342-92.  This week I had great conversations with fellow Citadel graduate Chuck Lawless, the Dean of Doctoral Studies and Vice-President of Spiritual Formation and...

Now it makes sense.Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel is the brother of Rahm Emanuel and is credited with being the brain behind medical death panels.The New York Post in 2009 reported on Dr. Emanuel’s health care priorities.Emanuel believes that “communitarianism” should guide decisions on who gets care. He says medical care should be reserved for the non-disabled, not given to those “who are irreversibly prevented from being or becoming participating citizens . . . An obvious example is not guaranteeing health services to patients with dementia.” (Hastings Center Report, Nov.-Dec. ’96).This weekend a Gateway Pundit reader sent us this interesting tidbit from...

HONOLULU (KITV4)-- The name plate is now gone for "H20 Process Systems" on Young street in Honolulu, a business owned by routine Democratic party donor Milton Choy. The business man, specializing in waste water industrial services, contributed over 200 thousand dollars to political candidates legally. But it's the smaller dealings, that appear in charges announced by the US Attorney, that are foundational to a bribery scandal against former State Senate major leader Jamie Kalani English and representative Ty Cullen. Choy is reported to be the "Person A" who sought to benefit from favorable legislation and offered cash and other gifts...

ROUND 5 OF THE '50S TOURNAMENT OF CHART-TOPPERS II COMMENCES!ROUND 5 – THE GREAT 8 Votes due: Sunday, Feb 20 @ 12:00 pm Eastern. 8 songs, 4 pairs, 4 winners! Vote for your favorite in each pair listed. (You may abstain from any pairs, but please don't overdo it!) Any ties will be broken via Billboard annual ranking, then back to Round 1 ranking (seed), then Round 1 point total, then Round 1 vote count. Past Rounds: Rounds 1A and 1B: Rd 1A, Rd 1B Round 2: Rd 2 Round 3: Rd 3 Round 4: Rd 4

Article Written by Nick Mastrangelo and Laura Elizabeth Jenkins at americangulag.org American Gulag obtained this footage from Tommy Tatum showing a small group of unidentified individuals working in tandem to break a window on Jan. 6th. In this video, a black-hooded man carries an Asian woman dressed in red, with a red hood, a US flag scarf, and a MAGA hat, onto the window sill on the west side of the Capitol Building.

Russia "doesn't give a s**t" about the risk of Western sanctions if it were to invade Ukraine, the country's ambassador to Sweden has said. "Excuse my language, but we don't give a shit about all their sanctions," Viktor Tatarintsev told Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet in an interview published on Saturday. "We have already had so many sanctions and in that sense they've had a positive effect on our economy and agriculture," the diplomat said, according to the AFP news agency. It comes as President Joe Biden told Russia's Vladimir Putin during a phone call on Saturday that the U.S. was committed...

A Texas baseball coach was chased and beaten by a group of middle-school students in an act of retaliation against him, news outlets report. The attack was captured on cell phone video now circulating on social media, and shows a Houston high school employee running from four students, who can be seen punching the man and knocking him to the ground. (Warning: This video contains graphic language.) Officials with Cypress-Fairbanks Independent School District confirmed to TV station KTRK that the assault took place at Langham Creek High School on Feb. 10. The attackers are students at Aragon Middle School, the...

A retired Marine general spoke out about critical race theory training in the armed forces, arguing that the Marxist ideology will ultimately weaken the U.S.’s military capability.Writing for military magazine Task and Purpose, retired Marine Corps Lt. Gen. Greg Newbold argued that critical race theory and related ideologies run counter to the “stone-cold pragmatism” needed to win conflicts. “Wars must be waged only with stone-cold pragmatism, not idealism, and fought only when critical national interests are at stake,” he wrote. “Hopes for changing cultures to fit our model are both elitist and naive. The failures of our campaigns in Iraq...

Passengers on an AirAsia flight had their trip rerouted after spotting an uninvited passenger on the plane. In a video shared on TikTok by user @edal8808, what appears to be a long snake can be seen slithering through an overhead light fixture. In the caption, the user wrote that the flight, which was headed from the Malaysian capital city of Kuala Lumpur to Tawau, had to instead make an emergency landing in Kuching, according to a translation of the text. AirAsia did not immediately respond to a request for comment from NPR. However, the airline's chief security officer Liong Tien...

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Stewart Rhodes will return to court next week, seeking to avoid a transfer to the Washington D.C. jail. Stewart Rhodes was moved from his Plano, Texas holding cell to the Cimarron Prison and Correctional Facility in northeast Oklahoma two weeks ago. Cimarron is a medium-security facility in Cushing, Oklahoma. Rhodes is the founder and leader of the Oath Keepers, a group that describes itself as a non-partisan association of current and formerly serving military, police, and first responders who pledge to fulfill the oath all military and police take to “defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic.” The...

On Wednesday, OpenAI cofounder Ilya Sutskever claimed on Twitter that 'it may be that today's largest neural networks are slightly conscious,' ... He didn't name any specific developments, but is likely referring to the mega-scale neural networks, such as GPT-3, a 175 billion parameter language processing system built by OpenAI for translation, question answering, and filling in missing words. Sutskever faced a backlash soon after posting his tweet, with most researchers concerned he was over stating how advanced AI had become, Futurism reported. 'Every time such speculative comments get an airing, it takes months of effort to get the conversation...

In a study published in Geophysical Research Letters on February 8, scientists said that a total of five earthquakes, including one massive, "hidden" tremor, created the tsunami after striking close to the South Sandwich Islands on August 12, 2021, in the remote Southern Ocean off the coast of the continent of South America. The study showed that tsunami-causing earthquakes such as the August 12 incident had complex patterns that could confound how scientists measure major tectonic activity Researchers described an initial rupture that happened deep below the oceanic crust in between the South American and South Sandwich tectonic plates at...

Yesterday morning I expressed some pessimism in terms of what sort of progress might be made during Joe Biden’s anticipated phone call with Vladimir Putin. After all, weeks of shuttle diplomacy Washington, Moscow, Paris, and Vienna haven’t appeared to move the needle noticeably. Did Biden have some new offer that would be acceptable to our NATO partners while convincing Putin that there was a viable compromise available? Well, the calls between Putin and both Biden and Emmanuel Macron took place as scheduled. In a rare instance of transparency from the Biden administration, the White House put out a statement summing...

“And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city: and fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them.” ~ Revelation 20:9 KJVAmerica is in crisis more than our country has ever been, since the 1850s and much worse than the 1960s, and most of the freedom-loving conservative and independent Americans recognize the Biden regime’s willingness to break the Constitution and act lawlessly, with horror and disgust, along with his high-handed tyrannical edicts and mandates declared with nothing more than a wink and a nod,...

Warning: This story quotes several racist slurs allegedly directed at Black workers at Tesla’s California plant, according to a lawsuit filed against the company. The N-word and other racist slurs were hurled daily at Black workers at Tesla’s California plant, delivered not just by fellow employees but also by managers and supervisors. So says California’s civil rights agency in a lawsuit filed against the electric-vehicle maker in Alameda County Superior Court on Thursday on behalf of thousands of Black workers after a decade of complaints and a 32-month investigation. Tesla segregated Black workers into separate areas that its employees referred...

President Trump’s team hired Auditor Bryan Geels after the 2020 Election to look into Georgia’s results. Geels identified 97,000 ballot issues in the state. When the President spoke of these issues with Georgia’s Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, the issues were misrepresented but Raffensperger’s team promised President Trump that they would get with the Trump team (i.e. Geels) to go over the results. Raffensperger’s team never addressed the issues and never contacted Geels. Instead, they lied to the press about the President’s phone call. Last week Garland Favorito from VoterGA held a presentation in Georgia showing thousands of ballot issues...

It seems that the extent of the head trauma is more extensive than was originally suggested. “This is significant trauma,” Dr. Gavin Britz, the neurosurgery chair at Houston Methodist, told The New York Times. “This is something I find with someone with a baseball bat to the head, or who has fallen from 20 or 30 feet.”