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When I traveled to Moscow in 1986, I brought 10 pairs of Levi’s 501s in my bag. I was a 17-year-old gymnast, the reigning national champion, and I was going to the Soviet Union to compete in the Goodwill Games, a rogue Olympics-level competition orchestrated by CNN founder Ted Turner while the Soviet Union and the United States were boycotting each other.

The price of gasoline has risen across the United States again as experts warn that more pain could lie ahead at the pumps for Americans. The average price of a gallon of regular-grade gasoline currently stands at $3.488, an increase of more than 30 percent since the same time last year, when it was $2.505 a gallon, according to data from the American Automobile Association (AAA). In the last week, the price of regular-grade gasoline has soared nearly 1.4 percent, from $3.441. According to the latest data from the Energy Information Administration (EIA), total domestic gasoline stocks decreased by 1.6...

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation has learned that Prime Minister Trudeau "will inform the provinces he will invoke the Emergencies Act to give the government extra powers to deal with the protests across the country. But in a meeting with the Liberal caucus, the PM said there were no plans to deploy the military." The move follows a meeting Sunday of the federal cabinet and its Incident Response Group (IRG).Trudeau tweeted late Sunday that the IRG discussed "further actions the government can take to help end the blockades and occupations."Earlier that day, Emergency Preparedness Minister Bill Blair told CBC's Rosemary Barton Live...

Since the Anita Hill-Clarence Thomas hearings, the left has pushed a baseless story that Joe Biden unfairly treated Anita Hill. This is balderdash.Reporter April Ryan recently asked White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki whether President Biden has consulted Anita Hill on his Supreme Court nomination process for replacing retiring Justice Stephen Breyer. There are many reasons Biden would not do this, starting with the fact Biden thought Hill lied in her allegations against Clarence Thomas.Also, Hill has long criticized Biden for the way he allegedly treated her during Thomas’s shocking 1991 Supreme Court confirmation hearings. Why would he consult her?As...

Asian J Psychiatr. 2020 Jun; 51: 102165. Published online 2020 May 13. doi: 10.1016/j.ajp.2020.102165PMCID: PMC7219413PMID: 32732175How did “flatten the curve” become “flatten the economy?” A perspective from the United States of AmericaHal B. JensonAuthor information Copyright and License information DisclaimerDepartment of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, Western Michigan University Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine, 1000 Oakland Drive, Kalamazoo, MI, 49009, USACopyright © 2020 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's...

MOLINE, Ill. - The Satanic Temple has opened an "After School Satan Club" at an elementary school in Moline, Illinois. The club is being held at Jane Addams Elementary School, Fox News reported. Lucien Greaves, co-founder of the Satanic Temple, said the club will teach students benevolence, empathy, critical thinking, problem-solving and creative expression.

Fauci denies his agency’s grant for EcoHealth Alliance’s research at a Wuhan lab led to Covid-19, but full lab records remain undisclosed.Anthony Fauci denies that his U.S. agency’s grant to study bat coronaviruses at the Wuhan Institute of Virology could have led to Covid-19, but the grant recipient, EcoHealth Alliance, still has not released records of the viruses it kept at the lab. Available records reveal EcoHealth had plans to experiment on many unknown viruses, with the Chinese managing virus identification and access to the research.Fauci cannot, as he does, say definitively that his agency’s grant did not lead to...

Los Angeles Rams fans rioted to celebrate the Super Bowl victory over the Cincinnati Bengals late Sunday night, going so far as to vandalize a city bus filled with passengers. In what has become an expected trend following a home sporting team’s championship victory, some Los Angeles fans took it upon themselves to block traffic on Grand Avenue in downtown L.A., the Daily Mail reported. People are now spraying "Rams" on a Silver Line Metro bus (with passengers in it) moving south on Grand Avenue pic.twitter.com/hDWC7cpOkx — Jeong Park 박종찬 (@JeongPark52) February 14, 2022 1:51 / 49:03 Fireworks can be...

Dr. Vladimir Zelenko has done many interviews about the science behind Covid-19, treatments, and the so-called "vaccines." But in this interview, we went down a spiritual and conspiratorial path. There are reasons to be concerned, but ultimately there is one tremendous reason to have hope. That's the overarching message from Dr. Vladimir "Zev" Zelenko in my latest interview for The Midnight Sentinel. We covered much more than that and the entirety of the interview is enthralling. I strongly recommend making the time to listen to the whole thing. Around halfway into the interview, I asked Dr. Zelenko to describe the...

In 2010, as a 5th grader at Sellers Elementary in Glendora, California, part of the curriculum was learning the 50 states and their capitals. As we learned them, I felt that I could remember better if I learned information about each state. I had no clue what I was in for.During my research, my eyes were opened to how different life, politics, economics, and culture were in various states. As I dug more, my desire to leave the Golden State was planted and began to grow. Now 12 years later, due to a better financial situation, I am finally leaving.To...

Special counsel John Durham’s team alleged on Feb. 12 that a tech executive aligned with the Democratic Party was paid to spy on former President Donald Trump’s residences and the White House when Trump was president. Lawyers for the Clinton campaign allegedly paid the technology executive to infiltrate servers at the Trump Tower and the White House, Durham said in court filings (pdf), in order to establish an “inference” and “narrative” to tie Trump to the Russian government. Durham’s office made the claim as part of his investigation that had brought charges against Michael Sussmann, a lawyer who had worked...

The proposed indictment that we are providing is the evidence necessary for your county prosecutor to file a mass tort claim in the name of We the People and expose the crimes against humanity. By providing every county prosecutor in America with this evidence, We the People set off a coordinated, nation-wide criminal investigation into these crimes against humanity. If any county prosecutors fail to initiate a criminal investigation, We the People shall hold them criminally and civilly liable for their complacency of ignoring the mass genocide plaguing America and the world and we shall pursue their indemnity bonds. It...

As demonstrations against COVID-19 restrictions continue across Canada, the word freedom is on the lips and placards of many protesters. Often associated with protests and rallies in the United States, the term has taken hold among protesters who are part of the Freedom Convoy, which rolled into Ottawa in late January and has become entrenched in the city's downtown. For many, freedom is a malleable term — one that's open to interpretation. That flexibility, in part, has fuelled its growth among certain groups, said Barbara Perry, director of the Centre on Hate, Bias and Extremism at the Oshawa-based Ontario Tech...

From the perspective of freedom-loving citizens in this country, the trucker convoys and blockades protesting mask and vaccine mandates are a stirring spectacle of patriotism, civic responsibility, and true grit. They represent the offset to heavy-handed and arrogant government that is using everything in its power to suppress their efforts: threats, fines, police coercion, theft of property, and the manifestly illegal sequestering of funds donated to the truckers by private individuals. A conflict of this nature is often framed as the state versus the nation, the authorities versus the people. Whether it applies to the current situation, as we will...

The administration of U.S. President Joe Biden on Sunday described a predicted invasion of Ukraine by Russian forces as “imminent enough” after appearing to promise not to use the word “imminent,” as it clearly outraged officials in Kyiv. Biden officials have repeatedly claimed for more than a month that a full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine was “imminent,” prompting protests in the country from officials who complained that the reality on the ground on Ukraine’s eastern border did not match the rhetoric out of the White House and that the latter was tanking Ukraine’s economy – making an invasion more likely.

It’s the season for green-money showers in Australia -- the Coral Community just got one billion dollars of green bribes from PM Scott Morrison (this after $141M from PM Malcolm Turnbull just over three years ago). Koalas got $50M from Morrison whilst the Queensland Government bought a huge grazing property to be converted into a national park. And of course, the Green Broadcasting Commission got an extra $3.3 Billion over three years to promote their green agenda. Much of this green graft is directed at bribing green voters by mollycoddling trees and corals, both of which are among Australia’s long-term...

Gary Gensler, Biden’s current Head of the SEC, in 2015 and 2016 was running Hillary’s campaign finances at the same time millions flew from her campaign to entities with the sole purpose of making up a Russia collusion story that eventually led to spying on candidate and President Trump. When Hillary Clinton was putting together her 2016 Presidential campaign, she brought in Gary Gensler as her Chief Financial Officer. CNN reported in April 2015: Hillary Clinton’s campaign will add to its top ranks a man who’s known for being tough on Wall Street. Gary Gensler, the former chairman of the...

It’s time to determine how immune our population is. This experiment with the COVID-19 induced immunity injections now requires an assessment of the results. Let’s remember what the goal of this government-run goat rodeo is: to make our population immune. It’s not about how many jabs we can achieve through intimidation. It’s about how immune we as a nation stand. Let’s look back at COVID-19. It began with our government’s medical bureaucracy, pushing solutions to achieve what mankind has never achieved before against an airborne virus. The initial solutions proposed, masks, social distancing, shutting down the economy, were to last...

A pair of researchers at the University of Victoria, have confirmed the observation of a record breaking "rogue wave" off the coast of Vancouver Island two years ago. In their paper published in the journal Scientific Reports, Johannes Gemmrich and Leah Cicon describe data they analyzed from a buoy anchored off Vancouver Island. Rogue waves are a type of wave with a crest disproportionately higher than the waves around it. Though sometimes confused with tsunamis, rogue waves are quite different. They are thought to be generated by winds, whereas tsunamis are generally created by geologic events such as earthquakes. Also,...

Yesterday, I wrote a post detailing what was in Special Prosecutor John Durham's latest filing, a seemingly innocuous motion that contained within it the allegation that Rodney Joffe, a tech executive, at the behest of Hillary Clinton's campaign, spied on Trump, both in Trump Tower and his apartment and, later, in the White House. However, my cynicism is such that I doubted that this would actually come to anything. Mark Wauck, a retired counter-intelligence special agent for the FBI, is more optimistic.You can read Wauck's entire post here. It's built upon responding to what I wrote.As noted, I'm cynical that...