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They're the books we know we’re meant to have read – but which many of us are too daunted by to actually pick up and start. That hasn’t stopped nearly half of Britons from pretending to have devoured classics in an attempt to impress others. An overwhelming 95 per cent of people find reading older novels and plays hard work, a poll has found. However many said they bluff their literary knowledge to appear more intelligent.

Former Attorney General Bill Barr revealed that his last conversation with former President Trump before the 2020 election was a heated exchange that resulted in the two men not talking for weeks. In his upcoming book, "One Damn Thing After Another," Barr recalled that in October 2020, Trump called soon after a Newsmax segment on Hunter Biden's laptop. Reports about the computer revolved around emails that appeared to connect Joe Biden to his son's business dealings when the elder Biden was vice president.

ransomnote: The Expose is over the target and taking flak, banned and censored - even Paypal turned against them in an effort to deprive them of funding. Please pray that the Expose receive the funds it needs to keep serving the public.After two long years of unbridled media-induced hysteria, the pandemic narrative finally began losing steam, only to be replaced by the latest bogeyman in globalists’ crosshairs – Putin and his Ukraine war.Shortly before, even Bill Gates was forced to admit that the battle against Covid had definitely been lost – as far as the pharma industry was concerned; however,...

ransomnote: The Expose is over the target and taking flak, banned and censored - even Paypal turned against them in an effort to deprive them of funding. Please pray that the Expose receive the funds it needs to keep serving the public.The war is a distraction, says Strange Sounds, it’s pretty straight forward – when everyone is looking up, keep your eyes on the ground. Keep a close eye on what’s slipping under the radar.Pfizer DocumentsIn the first week of January a federal judge in Texas, Mark Pittman, ordered the Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) publicly release the data it...

BERLIN–German oil and gas company Wintershall Dea AG, one of the investors in the now frozen Nord Stream 2 pipeline, said it would write off its 1 billion euro, or $1.1 billion, financing in the project and won't pursue new energy ventures in Russia. Germany last week halted the $11 billion Nord Stream 2 project that would have doubled the capacity of an existing pipeline traveling along a similar route and linking Russian gas fields directly to Germany. The project was backed by a number of Western energy players, including Shell PLC, which said on Monday that it would end...

Dominion Energy Virginia, deliberately ignores the fact that the state’s zero emission law does not work. Utilities are doing this around the country. They will make a fortune building useless wind and solar generation before they finally admit it does not work and have to revive the abolished “power generated when needed.” The Virginia Clean Economy Act, which foolishly mandates zero emissions from electric power generation by 2045. Below is the executive summary of my analysis on Dominion’s VCEA compliance plan, building on the engineering realities I outlined previously. “Reliability means designing for the likely worst case. With conventional generation...

A senior Pentagon official said on Tuesday that some Russian troops in Ukraine have surrendered or sabotaged their vehicles to avoid fighting, according to The New York Times. The official said that a large amount of the Russian troops are young, and have not been trained properly in preparation for this all-out invasion of Ukraine. The Russian troops are reportedly dealing with fuel and food shortages, in addition to low morale. The official added that there have been cases where Russian troops have punched holes in their vehicles' gas tanks to avoid continue fighting. They didn't clarify how the military...

ransomnote: The Expose is over the target and taking flak, banned and censored - even Paypal turned against them in an effort to deprive them of funding. Please pray that the Expose receive the funds it needs to keep serving the public.With evidence surfacing on social media of spike proteins and graphene in Covid injections being transmitted from the “vaccinated” to the “unvaccinated” many have expressed disbelief that this is possible. This concept may be new to us but it is not new to those who are developing the Covid injections.One of the earliest mentions, during the Covid era, that...

President Joe Biden on Tuesday unveiled his four-point plan to continue to “move forward safely” with the Chinese coronavirus, despite proclaiming that “we will never just accept living with COVID-19.” “Thanks to the progress we have made this past year, COVID-19 need no longer control our lives,” Biden proclaimed, despite the fact that blue state leaders continued to implement mandates and restrictions during the first year of his presidency, and the science has remained unchanged.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—This Lent, devout Catholic Joe Biden has announced that he is giving up coherent speaking for the next 40 days. It's traditional for Catholics to give up some mortal pleasure during the 40 days preceding Easter, and Biden is no exception to the custom. "Ffffor -- for the n-next, next 40,000 - excuse me - 40 hundred days, I will be giving up, you know, the thing," he said during his State of the Union address this evening. "The speaking of... of the -- the Eng, English wordle - begyerpardon - English word things, I'm giving all that up,...

Democrats know they're on the ropes with the midterm elections in eight months away. They hope to reverse their projected fortunes by highlighting one thing while ignoring two others. The State of the Union speech delivered embarrassingly at times by Joe Biden on Tuesday was as milquetoast as possible. This was by design. He made a few waves with some controversial statements, such as calling to “fund the police,” but for the most part he stuck with standard issues without turning too many heads. He lied a lot, but that’s to be expected. He’s a seasoned politician with decades of...

The California legislature has officially declared COVID-19 misinformation a public health CRISIS, yet the head of California's HHS will do nothing to stop it. Neither will anyone else.Steve Kirsch21 hr ago COVID-19 misinformation is a major problem. Check out this headline:It’s so easy to stop COVID-19 misinformation. Just debate the top misinformation spreaders. Problem solved. It will be obvious which side is the purveyor of false information.Fact check this: No fact checker organization will debate usI told PolitiFact that if they really wanted to stop misinformation, all they had to do was debate us. The PolitiFact Editor in Chief,...

In a new report, scientists have collaborated to investigate the antiviral properties of cow milk protein against variants of SARS-CoV-2, the virus behind the illness. The protein in question is lactoferrin, found in the milk of most mammals. Bovine lactoferrin, from cow milk, has bioactive characteristics against many microbes, viruses, and other pathogens and has been found to inhibit SARS-CoV-2 infection under experimental conditions by blocking the ability of the virus to enter target cells, as well as by supporting cells' antiviral defense mechanisms. "Bovine lactoferrin has shown antiviral activity in human clinical trials," says Jonathan Sexton, Ph.D. "For example,...

You’re aware of the phrase “history repeating itself” but I want to share a story of how history is being turned upside-down as millions of Ukrainians try to flee the Russian siege of their country. It’s especially appropriate to do so from a Jewish perspective, and especially this month as we celebrate Purim, commemorating the salvation of the Jewish people in ancient Persia, at a time when all Jews were threatened with murder by the evil Haman, a plot that was also turned around. As recounted in the Book of Esther, rather than the Jewish people being killed, Haman, his...

VIDEOWhat a difference a day makes! On Monday he had to wear a mask outdoors despite nobody being within 50 yards of him. On Tuesday it was mask off indoors surrounded by people and lots of hugging and handshaking. Amazing how things change in just ONE day!

In #Russia, the Ministry of Defence said that 498 Russian servicemen had died in #Ukraine since Russian gofces invaded on 24 February. This figure is probably a serious underestimation of Russian casualties.

Like the old E.F. Hutton ads, when Fed Chair Jerome Powell talks, people listen. Stocks rose, while bonds fell after Jerome Powell said he was inclined to back a quarter-point U.S. rate hike in March to combat inflation that is “too high.” In a broad-based equity rally, financial and industrial companies led gains in the S&P 500. The two-year Treasury yield — which is more sensitive to imminent Federal Reserve policy moves — was near 1.5%. The Fed chief also noted that the central bank is prepared to be more aggressive if inflation is more persistent than expected, while adding...

WASHINGTON — It is rare that a president can show he is living up to the mantle of "leader of the free world" — and even less common for him to do so against the backdrop of his main political rival praising an autocrat. But that's what President Joe Biden did during his first State of the Union address, highlighting how he has led the Western world in defending Ukraine against Russia's invasion. "Six days ago, Russia’s Vladimir Putin sought to shake the very foundations of the free world, thinking he could make it bend to his menacing ways. But...

Former Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman, who led an audit of the 2020 election in his state, testified that the election was so corrupt that the state legislature should “take a very hard look at the option of decertification of the 2020” presidential election.“It is clear that the Wisconsin Legislature could lawfully take steps to decertify electors in any Presidential election, for example in light of violations of state election law that did or likely could have affected the outcome of the election,” Gableman’s report reads. However, it said that doing so would not impact the results of the...