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Forget WW3, it’s WWW or World War Woke now. "I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones," Einstein famously observed. Much as with quantum theory, the famous physicist was wrong. Whatever world war we're currently on is going to be fought by disinviting Russian cats from the International Cat Federation and removing digital images of Russian soccer players from video games, even as Putin’s tanks and infantry keep advancing across Ukraine. Putin might threaten to go nuclear, but the Lego company already pushed the red...

"And I say unto you, Make to yourselves friends of the mammon of unrighteousness; that, when ye fail, they may receive you into everlasting habitations. He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much: and he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much. If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches?" "No servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council scheduled a meeting Friday at Russia’s request to discuss what Moscow claims are “the military biological activities of the U.S. on the territory of Ukraine,” allegations vehemently denied by the Biden administration.

If you're not first, you're last. That mindset of getting it done first, but not right, has destroyed the media over the past half-decade or so. I'm not saying they were batting 1.000, but post-2016—it collapsed completely. The Russian collusion delusion saw endless streams of nonsensical "bombshells" that turned out to be entertaining nothing burgers. ABC News tanked the markets with their shoddy report that Michael Flynn traveled to Russia during the 2016 election, except that he didn't. It was after Trump had won, he was president-elect and tapped his soon-to-be-national security adviser to contact the Russians, which happens with...

Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson's membership in a Harvard University student group that once invited a controversial anti-Semitic speaker to campus has surfaced ahead of her confirmation hearings later this month. In 1992, Jackson was a member of the Harvard Black Students Association when they invited Leonard Jeffries, a professor known for making anti-Semitic remarks, to speak at the university, Fox News reports. According to the Anti-Defamation League, Jeffries first gained public attention in 1991, “when the New York Post published an account of a vitriolic anti-Semitic and racist speech he made on July 20 at the Empire...

In the wake of President Trump’s loss, the federal cybersecurity agency declared the vote to be perfectly secure. In the following months, federal prosecutors revealed that Iranian nationals had hacked into the state’s database and stolen 100,000 voter identities.In Wisconsin, Gov. Tony Evers called the idea of investigating the state’s 2020 election “outrageous.” But now, a pair of courts have ruled that state election officials altered rules illegally, allowing tens of thousands of voters to vote illegally.And that investigation Evers so stubbornly resisted just provided evidence that nursing home residents were exploited in fraudulent vote-collecting operations.Similarly, Georgia’s elections chief still...

Trump added that Vice President Kamala Harris embarrassed the United States during her junket to Warsaw this week, remarking that she "laughed [like] a mad woman" when discussing the Ukraine war with President Andrzej Duda. "We have people in there that are grossly incompetent. And you know it, and so does everybody else."

The government of the United States has intervened militarily in other countries for decades, against the council of founders like George Washington who advised America should “observe good faith and justice towards all nations; cultivate peace and harmony with all.”But the U.S. doesn’t only project power across the globe through its massive military. It also weaponizes the U.S. dollar, using its economic dominance and its privilege as the issuer of the reserve currency as a carrot-stick tool of foreign policy. The U.S. government showers billions of dollars in foreign aid to “friends.” On the other hand, “enemies” can find themselves...

The U.S. aims to cut its greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2030 as part of its commitment to tackling climate change, but might be lacking the critical minerals needed to achieve its goals.The American green economy will rely on renewable sources of energy like wind and solar, along with the electrification of transportation. However, local production of the raw materials necessary to produce these technologies, including solar panels, wind turbines, and electric vehicles, is lacking. Understandably, this has raised concerns in Washington.In the graphic below, based on data from the U.S. Geological Survey, Visual Capitalist's Bruno Venditti lists all...

The Biden administration confirmed Thursday that North Korea recently conducted two tests of a relatively new intercontinental ballistic missile system, ratcheting up tensions between leader Kim Jong Un and the U.S. at a precarious time in world politics. A senior administration official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity in order to share details of the government’s threat assessment, said the tests were carried out in February and March. North Korea conducted its last ICBM test in November 2017. World leaders first learned of this particular ICBM system, which can carry nuclear weapons, during North Korea’s Workers’ Party parade, which...

To write off the cost of driving for work, you can apply the IRS per-mile write-off to the number of miles you put in. The alternative is to deduct part of your actual driving expenses. That would cover not only gas but also a percentage of maintenance, repairs and new tires - the whole shebang. It takes more record keeping, but it might give you a greater deduction.Do You Have a Choice?The IRS usually gives you the option to choose whichever method works best for you. In some cases, the rules won't let you take the per-mile deduction. For example,...

[H/T Jane Long]Posted on 6:51 PM · Mar 10th, 2022 Begin Transcript:Edward Dowd: This is the CDC’s own data, that they aggregated into all ages. The bottom line is my insurance agency expert, former South side Wall Street analyst, went into the CDC data. We were looking for other things but what we found was pretty shocking.He took the data, and it took some time and effort; he did a lot of work. He broke it down by age and he created baselines for each age group, to come up with excess mortality, and the money chart, is really Chart...

<p>UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council scheduled a meeting Friday at Russia’s request to discuss what Moscow claims are “the military biological activities of the U.S. on the territory of Ukraine,” allegations vehemently denied by the Biden administration.</p>

Goldman Sachs, the giant New York investment bank, is cashing in on the war in Ukraine by selling Russian debt to U.S. hedge funds — and using a legal loophole in the Biden administration’s sanctions to do it. As the Western world scrambles to defend Ukraine by locking down Russian money, the company is acting as a broker between Moscow’s creditors and U.S. investors, pitching clients on the opportunity to take advantage of Russia’s war-crippled economy by buying its debt securities low now and selling them high later, according to four financial world sources familiar with the strategy. Goldman’s effort...

Starting from next Monday, March 14, the trucking companies will suspend their services nationwide 'due to force majeure' "and that is the explosion of fuel costs. Transportunito reports this and specifies that it is not a strike or a specific claim, but an initiative aimed at coordinating the demonstrations on the state of extreme need in the sector. "The suspension of services has become inevitable - underlines a letter sent by Trasportiunito to the Prime Minister, the Minister and Deputy Minister of Sustainable Infrastructures and Mobility and the President of the Guarantee Commission in Strikes - also to protect companies...

[Catholic Caucus] A Tale of Two BishopsBishop Zanchetta (for you and me: Zangaytta) has just been convicted to more than 4 years for various failings connected, all of them, to him being a homo. I have written just a short time ago about all the ways the Evil Clown promoted this guy, and even protected him after he had to officially fall from grace. Zanchetta is a wonderful example of the thuggish way of the not so holy “father”; and, for the record, by such a stubborn protection of a guy who has no business being a priest in the...

Rep. Madison Cawthorn labeled Volodymyr Zelensky a “thug” and his government “incredibly evil” amid Russia’s blood-soaked invasion of Ukraine. The Republican from North Carolina was caught on tape at a campaign rally over the weekend attacking the Ukrainian president — who, according to his aide, has survived more than a dozen assassination attempts in the first two weeks of the war. “Remember that Zelensky is a thug,” Cawthorn said, according to a video obtained by North Carolina’s WRAL. “Remember that the Ukrainian government is incredibly corrupt, and it is incredibly evil, and it has been pushing ‘woke’ ideologies.” Cawthorn’s comments...