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WASHINGTON (AP) — With the continuing threat of Russia invading Ukraine, a foreign policy crisis is colliding with one of President Joe Biden’s political vulnerabilities: Rising gasoline prices at home. Americans are already dismayed by Inflation at a 40-year high, and Biden is warning that gas prices could get higher if Russian President Vladimir Putin chooses to invade. It’s a recognition of Biden’s own risks ahead of the 2022 midterm elections: Inflation has become an albatross for Democrats despite the nation’s strong economic growth last year. Biden wants to put the focus on how the Ukraine situation is contributing to...

GOP Rep. Mike Turner contends that the latest filing from Special Counsel John Durham is potentially a message to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton attorney Michael Sussmann advising him that “he’s not being well-served by his lawyers.” Fox News host Bill Hemmer reported on America’s Newsroom Wednesday that Sussmann is now calling on the court to remove a section of the latest filing by Durham, “calling it prejudicial and false.” Hemmer asked Turner, “Does he have a point that report should be kept away from the case?” “What’s interesting about this filing is basically Special Counsel Durham is sending...

Pediatricians call it "breath-holding spells." It is when children hold their breath when upset until they experience syncope, or passing out. The media in Washington appears close to a collective faint over the recent filings of Special Counsel John Durham. While the media has largely buried or downplayed the alarming disclosures by Durham on the origins of the Russian conspiracy claims, Durham keeps adding new details implicating top Democratic figures in what he describes as an ongoing investigation. You can only hold your breath so long and Durham shows no signs that he is done by a long shot. The...

A total of 34 cryptocurrency wallets allegedly associated with the Canadian truckers protesting COVID-19 restrictions, which had been raising money with Bitcoin for the Freedom Convoy 2022 campaign have reportedly been blocked. In particular, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) Canada’s national police force has issued an order requiring all FINTRAC-regulated organizations in Canada to stop interacting with 34 crypto wallets, according to The Counter Signal. It is still unknown whether or not this request from the police will result in a breakdown in the disbursement of the funds. The order comes after Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau invoked the...

@RandPaul Maybe the ACLU should travel to Canada to get a first hand look at what non-partisan, spirited defense of civil liberties looks like [RE: Canadian Civil Liberties Association: Trudeau's Emergencies Act Invocation Is Not Legitimate]. Not one peep from ACLU on Biden’s emergency act abuse with vaccine mandates.

Experimental Status of LENR David J. Nagel George Washington University NUCAT Energy LLC LENRIA Corporation ARPA-E Workshop on Low-Energy Nuclear Reactions 21-22 October 2021 Goals & Outline of this Presentation: Provide background on LENR Experiments Give a few examples of promising approaches to repeatable LENR experiments that could be understandable and acceptable to the broader scientific community Provide a brief summary of the entire LENR field. Fundamental Considerations for any LENR Experiments: What was done? Equipment, Materials and Protocols What was found in the original & subsequent experiments ? Experimental Approaches to LENR: The Reactants, How to Join Them...

Democrats who investigated the alleged Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election are silent following the latest Durham filings, which indicate that operatives mined internet traffic pertaining to Trump Tower and the White House as part of efforts to link Trump to Russia. Fox News Digital reached out to the offices of the 14 Democrats who sat on the House and Senate intelligence committees during their respective Russia probes seeking comment on the latest developments. On the House side, these politicians include Reps. Adam Schiff, Eric Swalwell, Joaquin Castro, Mike Quigley, Jackie Speier, André Carson and Jim Himes. On the...

[H/T Serkit] Trudeau voiced support for farmers in India who blocked major highways to New Delhi for more than a year in 2021, saying at the time: “Canada will always be there to defend the right of peaceful protest.”https://youtu.be/ssHNImTnxjs

MSNBC contributor Donny Deutsch on Wednesday issued a stark warning about the GOP taking back control of the House and Donald Trump getting re-elected to the White House. During a panel discussion on “Morning Joe” about the disconnect between the American elites and the average American, Deutsch said that if House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) takes back his House Majority Leader position and Trump wins the presidency, then “our democracy is over.”

Businessman Mike Gibbons is rising in early polls of Ohio’s crowded Republican Senate primary, and he is seeking to introduce himself to voters as the pro-Trump candidate in the race, according to a new advertisement campaign he will launch Tuesday. Former President Donald Trump has yet to make an endorsement in the race to succeed retiring GOP Sen. Rob Portman, but several Republican candidates are actively courting that endorsement in a race that has largely been driven by the candidates’ level of fealty to Trump. A pair of polls showed Gibbons making significant gains with voters in recent days. One...

At his residence, he became forceful with her, insisting on having intercourse. She told police she was scared, so she did what he wanted, according to the complaint. The witness told police Corbett bragged about the incident to a friend through social media.

9:18 AM PT -- A judge has granted Bob's family the temporary restraining order it requested to block the release of photos from the scene in his hotel room. Bob Saget's death is creating a mystery for many experts, who wonder how he suffered such a severe skull fracture ... and what exactly he hit -- but authorities are firm on what didn't happen, and they think the injury was caused by something connected to the bed. As we've reported, Bob died from a brain bleed after hitting his head on something. Sources with direct knowledge of the investigation tell...

Freedom Convoy donor Tammy Giuliani lost a lot more than $250 to the cause after getting doxxed by pro-Trudeau hackers. Her Ottawa restaurant, the popular Stella Luna Gelato Café, was forced to close on Tuesday following threats of violence.

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Europe needs a bolder space policy, French President Emmanuel Macron declared Wednesday, warning that Europe’s sovereignty is at stake if it falls behind rival powers in a key field for technology, science and military competitiveness. Speaking at a meeting in Toulouse, France, Macron said recent events had shown how crucial it is to be able to monitor troop movements from orbit — a reference to satellite images showing Russia’s mass military deployment near Ukraine that raise fears of an imminent invasion. “There is no full power or autonomy without managing space,” Macron said. “Without (it) you can’t conquer new frontiers...

@ggreenwald Absolutely unbelievable: the excuse Twitter used to censor the pre-election Hunter Biden reporting was its policy on prohibiting use of "hacked" material. That was a lie: nothing was hacked. This [GiveSendGo] donor information was hacked, and Twitter is allowing full disclosure of all names.

There are few things as freeing as an emergency. There are also few things as dangerous as an emergency. For two years now, to varying degrees the people of the United States and Canada have been living under emergency rules. On Monday, in Ottawa, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau introduced a new state of national emergency, not because of COVID this time, but because of the supposed threat posed by truckers protesting COVID restrictions. In the 20th century freedom triumphed over both fascism and communism, in the 21th century the greatest threat to that freedom is not from such noxious ideologies,...

The Biden administration is asking a federal judge to keep a report about Georgia voting machines from being seen by the public in any form. The Biden administration is urging a federal judge not to issue any form of a report about potential flaws in the Dominion Voting Systems’ equipment used in Georgia, even though both sides in a court case over the machines want at least a version of the report to get out. U.S. District Judge Amy Totenberg is considering releasing a redacted version of a report from J. Alex Halderman, a University of Michigan computer science professor....

Can someone please explain the price for Diesel? About a week ago I filled up at a local station in Louisville, KY. The listed price on the outside board said $3.49 a gallon. While filling up I looked at the price on the pump. Shock. It was $3.79. I complained and they did give me the difference, but that time the price on the outside sign was bumped up to $3.79. Last Friday I was at my local station in Greeneville, TN. The price for regular gas was $3.09. The Diesel? $3.79. Seventy cents more for Diesel. I can only...

New method can pull rare earth elements from electronic waste and coal ash.. When a pulse of current goes through a tube containing coal ash, a flash of light indicates rapid heating. Rare earth elements then become much easier to extract.. As chemists scramble to find ways to reclaim valuable metals from industrial waste and discarded electronics, one team has found a solution that sounds a little like magic: Zap the trash with flashes of electric heat. Rare earth elements (REEs) present an environmental paradox. On one hand, these dozen or so metals, such as yttrium and neodymium, are vital...