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We predicted there would be a huge surge in EV sales as gas prices soar, and it appears to have already begun. Gas prices are spiking faster and higher than ever before, so it comes as no surprise people are quickly looking to buy a more fuel-efficient car. If history repeats itself, hybrid and electric car sales will almost certainly see an increase in adoption in the coming months. That said, it appears to already be happening. According to sources at Electrek, the US electric automaker is already experiencing a massive sales surge, which goes well beyond its already ridiculous...

Former German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder has long been a personal friend of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Now, he may be attempting to mediate to end the war in Ukraine. Vladimir Putin and Gerhard Schröder have been close friends for decades Gerhard Schröder, who was German Chancellor from 1998 to 2005, has had a close relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin for more than two decades. Now the news portal Politico and the German mass-circulation Bild newspaper report he has traveled to Moscow and met with the Russian president on Thursday evening. The trip was not coordinated with the German government,...

Ever since Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24, Republican politicians, conservative pundits and fossil fuel industry leaders have accused President Biden of weakening the U.S.’s economic power against Russia by reducing oil and gas production. Last week, for example, Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., said, “Joe Biden has given up the best defense we had against [Russian President Vladimir] Putin’s evil vision for the world — energy independence.” But a data dashboard unveiled Wednesday by the Center for Western Priorities shows that the opposite is true. The federal government has been issuing oil and gas drilling permits more willingly than it...

For the last three years, actor Jussie Smollett has been the martyring star of a long drawn-out, legal circus. But on Friday morning, the 39-year-old woke up as inmate #20220310140, one of 6,000 convicts and suspects in the Cook County Jail, serving the first day of a 150-day sentence for lying to police. Yesterday, Smollett - once a darling of the music and TV world for his success on the show Empire - was sentenced to 150 days in jail. The star was convicted last year of five, felony four counts of disorderly conduct for lying to police repeatedly in...

Anonymous has hacked into Russia's media censorship agency and released 340,000 files in the latest undermining of Putin's war propaganda campaign. The hacktivists broke into the Roskomnadzor federal agency to steal the classified documents which they then passed on to transparency organisation Distributed Denial of Secrets (DDoSecrets), who published them online. The trove of 820 gigabytes of emails and attachments, some of which are dated as late as March 5, show how the Kremlin is censoring anything referring to their brutal invasion of Ukraine, which Moscow is instead calling a 'special military operation'.

It’s important to note, as always, that Kaepernick is not a hero. The former 49ers QB wore pig socks, compared cops to slave catchers, claimed they can murder people with impunity and get paid leave, didn’t stand for the anthem and praised Fidel Castro.

WILTON MANORS — The six college students who overdosed on fentanyl-laced cocaine Thursday in Wilton Manors have been identified as students at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, the Sun Sentinel has learned. The football players were in town for Spring Break, renting a house in Wilton Manors that would become the scene of a desperate attempt to save lives. After using the drug, at least two students went immediately into cardiac arrest. Two students who hadn’t taken the drug tried to give their friend mouth-to-mouth and received enough fentanyl that way to suffer overdoses themselves. Fentanyl, commonly used...

Vladimir Putin has placed the head of the FSB's foreign service and his deputy under house arrest after blaming them for intelligence failings that saw his army handed a series of embarrassing defeats in Ukraine, it has been claimed. Andrey Soldatov, a respected author on the Russian secret services, said sources inside the FSB told him that Sergey Beseda, 68, head of the agency's foreign service, has been placed under arrest on Putin's orders. Also arrested is Anatoly Bolyukh, Beseda's deputy, according to Soldatov, who said Putin is 'truly unhappy' with the agency - which he ran before becoming president.

Gov. Gavin Newsom proposed pausing tax increase on gas sellers and Republican state lawmakers have pushed for suspending the tax entirely in the short term. Those plans would likely reduce the price of gas, but it’s not clear by how much. This week Newsom teased a possible rebate to deal with gas prices.

My great-grandfather, Nwaubani Ogogo Oriaku, was what I prefer to call a businessman, from the Igbo ethnic group of south-eastern Nigeria. He dealt in a number of goods, including tobacco and palm produce. He also sold human beings. "He had agents who captured slaves from different places and brought them to him," my father told me. Nwaubani Ogogo's slaves were sold through the ports of Calabar and Bonny in the south of what is today known as Nigeria. People from ethnic groups along the coast, such as the Efik and Ijaw, usually acted as stevedores for the white merchants and...

Breaking — EU Will Not Sanction Russian Oil and Gas…

Her argument is truly bizarre.

Arrests and deportations by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) plummeted in fiscal year 2021 as the agency entered a "new era" under the Biden administration, which directed officers to focus on detaining immigrants with serious criminal convictions, government figures released Friday show. ICE deportation officers arrested 74,082 immigrants in fiscal year 2021, which ended in October, a 28% drop from 2020, when arrests also decreased sharply because of the start of the coronavirus pandemic. The agency carried out 59,011 deportations in fiscal year 2021, an all-time low, according to historical ICE data. The previous low came in fiscal year...

VLADIMIR PUTIN has reportedly fired eight generals within the Russian military as his campaign in Ukraine hits waves of local resistance and slows towards Kyiv. Express.co.uk has explored Russia's military composition as the war continues. ...

1/ Today, we began blocking RT & Sputnik’s YouTube channels across Europe. Since Russia began its invasion in Ukraine, we’ve been focused on removing violative content & connecting people to trusted news & information. An overview of the steps we’ve taken the last few days 👇— YouTubeInsider (@YouTubeInsider) March 1, 2022

President Joe Biden complained Friday he was “sick” of Americans blaming him for inflation instead of the coronavirus pandemic or Russian President Vladimir Putin. “I’m sick of this stuff… The American people think the reason for inflation is the government spending more money,” Biden said angrily. “Simply. Not. True.”

Typical Arabic error by Arab-Nazi "Palestinians" in their swastika drawing. The Arab "Palestinian" "actvist" drew two swastikas. One on the red part if the flag and another on the white part. The latter has a typical Arabic error... Two thirds of Muslims in Puerto Rico are "Palestinian". (According to Ken Chitwood, University of Florida, on June 23, 2017, at The Conversation.) ______ StopAntisemitism.org (@StopAntisemites) Tweeted: DISGUSTING - a sign in the heavily Jewish populated area of Candado, Puerto Rico was changed from "Israel #1" to "Free Palestine F*ck Israel" with a swastika inside the Palestinian flag. Feb 13, 2021....

Evidence of Russian communications in Ukraine indicates that the modernisation of the Russian Armed Forces has been troubled, causing operational and tactical challenges. Russia’s war in Ukraine has been marked by its apparent lack of coordination and an ostensibly flawed plan. Russian forces have been observed moving deep into Ukraine, only to be cut off by a lack of fuel, vehicle breakdowns, and ultimately Ukrainian forces. Open-source intelligence and Ukrainian reports suggest that radio communications across the Russian forces are poor, leading to makeshift solutions including the use of unencrypted high frequency (HF) radio for long-range communications and mobile phones...

PHILADELPHIA — President Joe Biden told House Democrats gathered here on Friday that 2022 “may be the most important off-year election in modern history,” gave his party credit for an improving economy and rejected blame for rising gas prices. “Democrats didn’t cause this problem. Vladimir Putin did,” Biden said of the Russian president. “Putin’s gas tax has pushed prices higher.” Biden touted the $1.9 trillion Covid relief and economic stimulus package on the anniversary of its enactment. “We created 6.7 million jobs last year, more than any other time in American history,” he said. “We did it alone. Without one...

TOMS RIVER, NJ – The rift between the Ocean County GOP and former U.S. President Donald J. Trump has come to light after the party establishment elite voted in a closed-door session, behind armed police security to unanimously endorse Republican incumbent Chris Smith for Congress. Smith has been one of about a dozen Republican congresspeople targeted by the former President after voting in favor of the Democrat-sponsored infrastructure bill backed by Nancy Pelosi and President Joe Biden. The vote gave President Biden a much-needed political win at a time when the President’s agenda was stalling at all levels. The unanimous...