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Nearly 10 years ago, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney scolded his future opponent for telling Russian President Dmitry Medvedev he'd have more "flexibility" toward the country after his election. "This is to Russia, this is, without question, our number one geopolitical foe," he told CNN's Wolf Blitzer on March 26, 2012. "They fight every cause for the world’s worst actors. The idea that [President Barack Obama] has some more flexibility in mind for Russia is very, very troubling, indeed." Pressed by Blitzer, Romney then said the "greatest threat" America faced was a nuclear-armed Iran. But the perceived damage was done.

Perhaps the most overlooked engine fueling inflation is the “wealth effect,” the extra spending from Americans feeling flush as their stock portfolios and home prices jumped by trillions during a tag-team, Olympic sprint for both. By far the biggest share of the extra outlays on the likes of new cars, home improvements, and laptops comes from America’s top income tiers. Besides opening their wallets as their net worth swelled, those high-earners—who own the most expensive houses—tapped the fast-rising value of their manses as ATM-style fonts for cash. The sudden spike in their nest eggs and their cash-out refis keep the...

House Republicans are scheduled to pick up at least ten House seats due to Democrat retirements alone, according to an analysis by left-leaning Punchbowl News. Republicans are only in the minority by five seats with 30 total Democrat retirements, the largest mass exodus in three decades.

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) said Tuesday he does not plan to attend President Joe Biden’s first State of the Union address, happening in one week, because of extraordinarily strict coronavirus measures in place for the event. Cotton is one of at least a few Republicans who have so far expressed intentions to skip the annual joint session address, which takes place in the House chamber. Spokesman James Arnold told Breitbart News, “Nancy Pelosi’s COVID theatrics are a joke and Senator Cotton will not be attending.”

Grunge pioneer Mark Lanegan has died at the age of 57, according to a tweet from his personal Twitter account. Lanegan, whose 1985-formed Screaming Trees – along with The Melvins, Mudhoney, Soundgarden and others – laid the foundation for Seattle’s grunge movement of the 1990s, died at his home in Killarney, Ireland, KIRO-TV reported. The Screaming Trees released seven albums, five EPs and three compilation albums throughout their career, growing in prominence alongside Alice in Chains, Pearl Jam and Nirvana, the TV station reported. According to Variety, Lanegan followed his stint as the Screaming Trees lead vocalist with a prolific...

A Toronto Liberal MP said some public support of the truckers’ Freedom Convoy was actually saluting Nazi leader Adolf Germany. “How many guns need to be seized? How much vitriol do we have to see of ‘honk, honk, which is an acronym for Heil Hitler, do we need to see by these protesters on social media,” said Ya’ara Saks, as she debated whether or not to vote in favour of the Emergencies Act. While there were no serious acts of violence during the three-week standoff in Ottawa, a cache of guns was seized by RCMP at the Coutts border cross...

The largest lithium-ion battery in the world experienced a meltdown over the weekend, its second in five months. An energy storage facility owned by Vistra Energy in Moss Landing, California, triggered fire alarms on the evening of Feb. 13. Four fire trucks responded to the event and found around ten battery packs in the facility melted entirely, according to local broadcaster KSBW. “The building’s systems contained the event without the need for outside assistance,” the company said in a Feb. 15 statement on the outage. “There are no injuries to personnel. An investigation is underway to determine what caused the...

The robotics program will take place in nearly one-third of the company’s locations.Midwestern fast-food chain White Castle is outsourcing some of its jobs to robots.The hamburger chain announced plans this week to install Miso Robotics' "Flippy 2" in 100 locations.The Ohio-based chain has been experimenting with the robotic fry cook since September 2020, when the original "Flippy" was installed in a Chicago area restaurant. After upgrading to "Flippy 2" at the original test location in November 2021, White Castle decided to roll out a larger version of the program."By taking over the work of an entire fry station, Flippy 2...

The fight for Canada’s freedom continues despite what Justin Trudeau and the legislature have done by approving the Emergencies Act to continue. The Liberal government won the vote 185-151 with the support of the New Democratic Party. Canadian psychologist Dr. Jordan Peterson took to social media to remind Canadians of what the Emergencies Act was intended to do and to ask them if they believe the Trudeau regime is using it for that purpose. “Canadians, you have no idea what was done today in the name of — what? Safety? Punishment? What’s the rationale, even hypothetically? The Emergency Act was...

WASHINGTON (AP) — When Russian President Vladimir Putin authorized troops to cross Ukraine’s border into regions controlled by Russian-backed separatists, the White House initially stopped short of calling it an invasion. That changed on Tuesday, and key allies in Europe joined in saying Putin had crossed a red line. “This is the beginning of a Russian invasion of Ukraine,” President Joe Biden said. But not all invasions are viewed as equal. Asked whether Putin’s decision to send in what he called “peacekeepers” amounts to an invasion, the European Union’s foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, said, “I wouldn’t say that’s a...

Corporate media is part of the agenda to jab everyone, but Neil Cavuto's personal experiences with Covid are different from propaganda. They demonstrate a severe delusion spreading across America.Since early evidence showed the vaccines were not only ineffective but clearly dangerous to many, I’ve said that cognitive dissonance is a component of the ongoing agenda to jab every man, woman, and child on earth. I underestimated its importance. Now, I’ve concluded that invoking cognitive dissonance is the most powerful tool being used by the powers-that-be. How do they “invoke” cognitive dissonance in others? Isn’t it internalized within one’s psyche? Yes...

A study describes a new and effective therapy to treat glioblastoma: the concomitant use of ADI-PEG20 together with focal brain radiotherapy. This double treatment completely eliminated the tumor in the animal models used in the study. Currently, glioblastoma is a terminal disease whose average life expectancy is less than two years. The treatments used at present are based on therapies that are more than 30 years old. The results of this study offer a new therapeutic option against glioblastoma: the use of the drug ADI-PEG20, which eliminates systemic arginine, in combination with the application of focal brain radiotherapy. With this,...

By now, you might have heard about a woman named Candy. She was the “trampled lady” in Ottowa as the police rode through on horseback because of Trudeau’s authoritarian orders. In case you missed it, Candy was standing in the crowd peacefully. She is an elderly woman and a grandmother. And she also has to use a walker in order to get around. But none of that mattered when Canadian police rode through on their horses, knocked her to the ground, and trampled here. There were initial rumors that Candy had been trampled to death. Fortunately, that was not the...

Last week, we documented Special Counsel John Durham’s motion discussing the potential conflicts of interest of Michael Sussmann’s attorneys. That filing was important for a number of reasons, mainly because Durham stated that Sussmann’s client, Rodney Joffe (a federal contractor with access to “sensitive” data) “exploited” internet traffic data (domain name system, or DNS) pertaining to “the Executive Office of the President of the United States (“EOP”).”We also asked why Joffe and Sussmann continued to push false allegations of Trump’s ties to Russia after the election. One could theorize that they made the Trump/Russia connection in the summer and fall...

Chinese tech giant Huawei rose to prominence because it received tens of billions from Beijing, thus allowing the firm to undercut competitors and gain market shares, said book author Jonathan Pelson.However, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) did not shell out the money for only pure business reasons.“The CCP was not helping Huawei so that [it] can succeed as a company,” Pelson said. “They were helping Huawei so that the CCP could succeed in its geopolitical efforts, to export its philosophies and its governance principles around the rest of the world.”Pelson made the remarks during an interview with EpochTV’s “China Insider”...

Most Americans disagree with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s handling of the Canadian freedom truckers in his country, but a majority of Democrats support his protest crackdown, a Trafalgar Group survey released Tuesday found. “Do you approve or disapprove of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s handling of the trucker protest in his country?” the survey asked. Overall, it found 55.3 percent disapproving, compared to 35.1 percent who approve and 9.6 percent who are unaware of it. Notably, there is a significant partisan divide, as 87.3 percent of Republicans disapprove of Trudeau’s handling of the protest, but 65.7 percent of Democrats...

Tripp Powell, who is seeking the Alabama Senate District 21 seat in the November 2022 general election, was removed from the Republican primary ballot over the weekend. The Alabama Republican Party removed four candidates from its primary ballot over the weekend, alleging they had supported Democrats in violation of party rules. The party’s bylaws give the GOP's candidates committee broad discretion to disqualify candidates. But some of those removed from the ballot said Monday they thought the party had arbitrarily applied the rules. Tripp Powell, a Tuscaloosa businessman who was challenging Sen. Gerald Allen, R-Tuscaloosa, in the GOP primary, said...

Enes Kanter Freedom, who was recently nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize and is newly without a team in the NBA, received a warm welcome from Senators on Capitol Hill at an awards ceremony last week for his continued activism against the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) human rights abuses. When it comes to the NBA, “you can talk about all the social (injustice) happening all around the world. But when it comes to China, you cannot speak up,” Freedom said at a ceremony hosted by advocacy group Committee on Present Danger: China in Washington on Feb. 17. “If you do,...

Leukemia, the blood cancer, is a group of hematopoietic malignancies. Many types of leukemia are associated with poor outcome. Unfortunately, during the past few decades, the first-line leukemia therapy has long been traditional chemotherapy with high cytotoxicity and low selectivity, such as the "7+3" strategy, i.e., a combination of cytarabine and doxorubicin. Side effects of such intensive chemotherapies are often severe, especially in older patients. Therefore, it is an urgent need to understand the mechanisms of leukemia, and develop novel targeted therapy based on such comprehension. In this work, Jiang's group first found through drug screening that opioid receptor agonists,...

<p>Twin sisters in Wisconsin are facing attempted homicide charges while the restaurant worker they are accused of shooting and beating is recovering in a neck brace.</p><p>Anthony Rodriguez, 26, says he was the only server working around midnight Jan. 30 at a George Webb location in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin. He says a few customers became upset over an incomplete order and were asked to leave, but instead, one of them opened fire.</p>