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Biden, Kamala, and Pelosi are incompetent and unpopular. A recent White House event showed Obama getting all the attention and respect from top Dems, while Biden got none. Biden likely won't finish his term. Even Dems have a hard time visualizing the cackling Kamala ascending to the Presidency. So What will they do? The Dems could make Obama the Speaker of House before the midterms, while they still have control. There is no requirement for the Speaker to be a member of congress. Obama could then be promptly made President, by having Biden and Kamala step aside with behind the...

US intelligence officials have evidence that UFO sightings have lead to adverse health effects like radiation burns, paralysis and even brain damage, according to a newly released report from a shadowy Pentagon program that closed in 2012. The study classifies different types of encounters with unidentified objects, including ones accompanied by sightings of ghosts, yetis or spirits and others that result in injury, death and even 'permanent healing.' It also includes a summary of UFO-induced effects that was compiled by a private nonprofit in 1996, ranging from the most common one - abduction - to paralysis, eye injuries, electrical shocks...

Before our effete Washington "warriors" drag us into a war that most Americans do not seek, should we not at least have a "national conversation" on the matter? Great change is afoot. People can feel it. The post-WWII global order is cracking. At a minimum, a renewed Cold War mindset is driving a permanent wedge between the U.S.-E.U. Atlantic Bloc and strategic competitors in Russia and China unwilling to yield their national sovereignties to "rules-based systems" run from office suites in Brussels; Washington, D.C.; New York City; and the City of London. As with any zero-sum struggle between competing systems,...

Last month, Uncommon Knowledge with Peter Robinson asked Princeton Professor and Hoover Institution Senior Fellow Stephen Kotkin 5 questions, all in the foreign policy and history realm. Since then, the world has changed in ways that were unimaginable just 3 weeks ago. So we asked Professor Kotkin to come back for a second round of questions, this time all dedicated to one topic: the Russian invasion of Ukraine. And as usual, his answers are concise, incisive, and analytic. If you want to understand this crisis and some possible outcomes, don’t miss this conversation.

The FBI said Tuesday that an Edgewater man secretly recorded children in three YMCA facilities’ shower and locker room areas between 2006 and 2020, potentially victimizing more than 100 kids. The agency is now trying to identify the victims who were recorded at the High Ridge YMCA in West Ridge, Leaning Tower YMCA in Niles, and South Shore YMCA in Woodlawn. Investigators apparently discovered the recordings in the man’s apartment while executing a search warrant during a separate child pornography investigation in December 2020. ...

It’s hard to decide which part of this story is more remarkable: that a Magnificent Mile department store now hires dogs to sniff customers for guns? That the guy who got busted by the canines this week was arrested seven months ago for having a pistol in another store nearby? Or that he was on electronic monitoring for allegedly attacking a security guard at yet another Mag Mile department store in January? We’ll let you decide. Prosecutors say one of the gun-detecting dogs was on duty Monday afternoon when Derrick Latham, 23, walked into Neiman Marcus, 737 North Michigan. The...

WASHINGTON -- U.S. Rep. Adam Schiff, D-California, announced Tuesday that he has tested positive for the coronavirus. “I’m feeling fine, and grateful to be vaccinated and boosted," the 61-year-old Schiff tweeted. “In the coming days, I will quarantine and follow CDC guidelines. And remember, please get vaccinated!" Schiff chairs the House Intelligence Committee and represents the 28th Congressional District. Schiff didn't indicate where he might have contracted the infection or whether it involved a new COVID-19 subvariant, BA.2, that has provided worrying upticks in caseloads overseas and is spreading in the United States.

The countries neighboring the Russian Federation have to defend themselves not so much from the very Russian language, but from everything that is attached to it. In the fall of 2019, Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke about the attempts to ‘blatantly reduce the Russian language [and culture] space in the world’. He put the blame on the ‘primeval nationalists’ and the governmental policy of individual countries. Well, that’s where one has to agree with the Russian president. The Kremlin policy indeed does not serve the cause of the Russian language. Unlike English, the Russian language is deprived by Moscow of...

**SNIP** Joe Biden is now the most unpopular person in virtually any room he enters. If you doubt it, watch the scene at the White House today. You've never seen anything like it. It's the president United States in his own house, shunned. Nobody would talk to him. So Biden wandered off, looking vacant as a crowd formed around a former president, Barack Obama, who was obviously deeply grateful for the attention. And then it got worse. It got much more poignant than that. Biden tried to horn in on the conversation swirling around Obama. Everyone involved in that conversation,...

From the words of former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with reference to the political drama in the Knesset: On Passover we celebrate the Exodus of Israel from Egypt to the Land of Israel, the Promised Land. Today we are happy for a similar reason, and congratulate MK Idit Silman for making the right decision. We all receive her with a warm embrace and open arms. Idit returned home - to the right, to the national camp. There is a weak and limping government in Israel today. Its days are few. I hereby call on other members of the coalition whose...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Tuesday post-war Ukraine will likely be modeled as a “big Israel” in terms of security with self-protection, and will no longer be a “liberal European” city. “Ukraine will definitely not be what we wanted it to be from the beginning. It is impossible. Absolutely liberal, European – it will not be like that. It [Ukraine] will definitely come from the strength of every house, every building, every person,” Zelensky said at a press briefing. “We will become a ‘big Israel’ with its own face. We will not be surprised if we have representatives of...

KIDS, it's Possible to Be LIKE ME! (Epic SJW Cringe) Hey, Kids, it's Possible to Be LIKE ME. (Non-Biologist).

April 5, 2022, at United Nations headquarters. (AP Photo/John Minchillo) BUCHA, Ukraine — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told the UN Security Council on Tuesday that the Russian military must be brought to justice immediately for war crimes, accusing the Kremlin’s troops of the worst atrocities since World War II. Zelensky urged the council to “act immediately” on Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of his country, calling for Russia to be expelled from the Security Council. Zelensky called on the 15-member council, which aims to ensure international peace and security, to “remove Russia as an aggressor and a source of war,...

Zelensky speech: Visibly emotional leader speaks to press on streets of Bucha: A visibly emotional Volodymyr Zelensky today stood motionless as he surveyed the scene of utter devastation he encountered in the town of Bucha, with dozens of bodies shot at close range laying on the empty streets. The Ukrainian President appeared overwhelmed at seeing the carnage in the town, admitting he finds 'it very difficult to talk when you see what they've done here'. On the streets of Bucha, northwest of Kyiv, the bodies of civilians have laid scattered, many with bound hands, close-range gunshot wounds and signs of...

I WILL Talk about MY Sexually in CLASS It makes me very angry when people don’t want to talk about gender and sexuality in classrooms Not everyone who menstruates is a woman. You are a birthing person! - video is only 8 minutes

President Joe Biden found himself relegated to the sidelines on Tuesday as his Democratic predecessor Barack Obama stole the limelight during his first visit to the White House in five years.

The future of Kazakhstan’s relationship with its closest ally, Russia, is on the minds of many Kazakhs – and their Facebook pages – these days. Watching Russia’s indiscriminate attack on Ukraine, Kazakhs are asking: Will we be next? How much will our economic ties with Russia hurt us? Will we too be punished by Western sanctions for belonging to the Moscow-led Eurasian Economic Union, the EAEU? Others argue in support of Russia, some even marking their cars with the letter “Z”, the symbol invading Russian troops have painted on their armored vehicles. Facebook is where Kazakhs go to discuss and...

Five kilometers from the front in Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region, the danger from Russian targeted strikes is so high that ambulances prefer to wait for the cover of night to evacuate casualties, and to travel without lights when they do so. “There was a Jeep that drove by us with its lights on. About five minutes after passing us, the Russians shelled it,” said Michael Ratinsky, 56, a Kfar Saba resident and father of three. For the past month, he has served as a medic in the Ukrainian army, despite having only limited medical training connected to lifeguard certifications and...

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich called out the "hypocrisy" in the Biden White House and told Sean Hannity several actions America can take to further disable Putin. NEWT GINGRICH: There's such total hypocrisy in the Biden White House where they say strong things about Putin. You know, he's a war criminal. He's a murderer. He ought to be tried for war crimes. But at the same time, the number one person negotiating with Iran is a Russian, and their goal is to get us to agree to give up all of the sanctions as it relates to Iran. And if...

Have you ever met a transgender kid? That’s the question The GenderCool Project asks in a national campaign by Swissa Creative. The high-energy 30 second spot features 11 transgender and non-binary kids ages 13 through 17 playing the team sports they love while talking about how participating in sports makes them feel. Known as the GenderCool “Champions”, these young people are at the core of GenderCool, a youth-led, youth-inspired organization with a simple mission: help replace misinformed opinions with positive, powerful experiences meeting transgender and non-binary youth who are thriving