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Jada Pinkett Smith confessed that she “really didn’t want to get married” to Will Smith. In fact, the “Matrix” actress — now on the roasting spit of Smith’s infamous Oscars smack-down of Chris Rock and the Academy’s decision Friday to ban him from the ceremony for 10 years — admitted to “crying down the freaking aisle” before tying the knot with the “Fresh Prince of Bel-Air” star on New Year’s Eve in 1997. “I was under so much pressure, you know, being a young actress, being young, and I was just, like, pregnant and I just didn’t know what to...

To wage war, you need weapons. Tanks, airplanes, missiles, ammunition… that must be maintained and renewed regularly to stay on top of technology. France has a very important military-industrial complex which is the third largest arms exporter in the world behind the United States and Russia. With a turnover of 15 billion euros, the arms industry is made up of a dozen major groups (Thales, Naval Group, Safran, Dassault Aviation, the CEA and Nexter, manufacturer of the Leclerc tank in particular, as well as Airbus, the world’s 7th largest arms manufacturer, and MBDA, a European group). To this must be...

A liberal advocacy group is broadening its legal effort to disqualify Republican lawmakers from running for reelection because of their support of the events surrounding the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. Free Speech For People filed lawsuits on behalf of voters in Arizona’s Maricopa County that challenge the eligibility for the office of GOP Reps. Paul Gosar and Andy Biggs, and state Rep. Mark Finchem. Mr. Gosar and Mr. Biggs are running for reelection in November. Mr. Finchem is running for secretary of state with former President Donald Trump’s endorsement. ‌ The suits say the lawmakers should be...

Neocons/EU push to prolong conflict to achieve Putin regime change goal [45:50] April 8, 2022 - @ 1:00pm EDThttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Phu1Caw-gbYAlex Christoforou - 2 updates today.Nuland ends EastMed gas. Elensky tour hits Cyprus. Russia out of UN Human Rights Council. Update 1 [27:15]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3E6_XCfxVg on Odysee:https://odysee.com/@alexchristoforou:7/nuland-ends-eastmed-gas.-elensky-tour:7Kremlin Spokesman Peskov gives strange interview to Sky News. Update 2 [23:28]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNzbcIx7ll8 on Odysee:https://odysee.com/@alexchristoforou:7/kremlin-spokesman-peskov-gives-strange:1Alexander Mercouris - 1 update today.Ukraine Asks NATO for Western Weapons as Donbass Military Crisis Deepens [33:43]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPipLZsvdl8 on Odysee:https://odysee.com/@AlexanderMercouris:a/ukraine-asks-nato-for-western-weapons-as:e

Christian and conservative organizations raised alarms this week about a potential new pro-abortion mandate from the Biden administration that could shut down Christian health care throughout the U.S. Catholic News Service reports conservative leaders discovered the plans for the radical new regulation buried in a legal memorandum from the pro-abortion Leadership Conference and a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announcement. Crafted to be an anti-sex discrimination provision under the Affordable Care Act, the anticipated regulation likely would force Catholic and Christian hospitals, doctors, other medical workers and insurance companies to provide abortions, transgender surgeries and other procedures with...

MSNBC host Al Sharpton said Friday on MSNBC’s “Deadline” that Republican senators did not have the “humanity” to say judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Senate confirmation vote was “historic.” Sharpton said, “As great as it is today, for black women, for women, and for black people, we all couldn’t celebrate that together. They didn’t even have enough humanity to say this is historic. I think that that is very telling. and she comes on the bench in a divided time, giving hope to people that’s going to have to fight those divisions.”

It was a day for the record books, indeed. With great fanfare from the Democratic Party's house organs, once known as the mainstream media, a "historic" vote was held at the U.S. Capitol, on Thursday, April 7, A.D. 2022: By a majority vote of 53 to 47, the U.S. Senate voted to confirm the first publicly pro-convict Associate Justice to be added to the Supreme Court of the United States. Every single Democrat, from freshman to senior, from red state to blue - including alleged moderates like Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona and Joe Manchin of West Virginia - voted to...

Put simply, an API is a component of a drug that impacts health -- for example, suppressing a disease or its symptoms. APIs are the result of integrating substances known as key starting materials, or KSMs, and intermediates. Few pharmaceutical companies handle the whole process, from KSM to finished drug. Most import at least some materials, especially generic drug makers. And most roads lead to China. ... The U.K.’s Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency estimated in 2017 that China alone was producing about 40% of all APIs. Its actual influence may reach even farther. This reporter experienced the Chinese...

MSNBC anchor Nicolle Wallace said Friday on her show “Deadline” that “there was so much shame” that only Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) clapped for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation vote to the U.S. Supreme Court. Wallace said, “For me, with my baggage as an ex-Republican, there’s so much shame, and she’s so qualified. I mean, this is someone who has impeccable qualifications, the temperament, everything that people in both parties used to talk about. And for me, the searing image was the lone Mitt Romney applauding her while the rest of them raced out to get to their MAGA zooms...

The Chinese people are rising up because of the CCP's draconian covid lockdown policy like never before. 13 minutes you won't soon forget. Steel cages are going up, forced quarantine, forced daily testing. Doors welded shut, motion detectors installed, people climbing down the sides of huge apartment buildings in search of food. First half has paid sponsor and stock footage. Last half shows real street scenes, real poor people with nothing but garbage and big rats to eat. Last message is terrifying as to what could soon happen in China.

A judge recently ruled that a UCLA professor who had been suspended after refusing to grade black students more leniently may continue with his lawsuit against the school. According to Inside Higher Ed, a group of students initially emailed UCLA accounting professor Gordon Klein, shortly after George Floyd's death, and requested that Klein institute a "no-harm" final exam that would include extending the timeline for other final assignments and projects. The students sought these accommodations, according to a Daily Wire report, due to recent "traumas ... we have been placed in a position where we [must] choose between actively supporting...

A self-described 'villain coach' is teaching women how to 'traumatize men' who harass them on the street by scaring them off with off-putting remarks, creepy threats, and bizarre overshares. Kitti, 26, says that nearly every day, a man she doesn't know will approach her out in public and catcall her, hit on her, or make other unwelcome advances — and she knows that many other women have similar experiences. She also knows that a police 'no' often does nothing to fend off these men, who can be persistent and demanding. So now Kitti gives them a reason to back off...

The US should send Ukraine all the weapons it asks for as Russia’s invasion reaches a pivotal moment that could change the outcome of the war, some policy analysts and lawmakers said Friday. Ukrainians have mounted a fiercer resistance to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invading forces than expected — and the West could sway the war decisively in Ukraine’s favor by supplying its fighters with heavy-duty weapons now, according to experts.

Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie joined "Fox & Friends" to discuss former President Barack Obama's words that Democrats have got a "story to tell" ahead of November's midterms. Christie urged Democrats to follow Obama's advice, listing "runaway inflation," "critical race theory," and a "porous border" as parts of the left's story that need to be mentioned.

On Ukraine, the neo-isolationists of the right are fighting the last war. [cut] It is certainly true that Bush administration foreign policy became much too idealistic, bordering on otherworldly, over time. That doesn’t mean that, in reaction, we need to jettison all moral discernment in foreign affairs. Yes, Ukraine is a corrupt and ramshackle democracy, but there can be no doubt about its superiority to Vladimir Putin’s venal dictatorship, or about Russia’s culpability for launching a hideous war of aggression. To say otherwise is to ignore all the relevant distinctions in this conflict — between who is the aggressor and...

*** Even setting aside their recently revealed support for destroying human happiness through sexual chaos, Disney’s products push a lifestyle that doesn’t reflect my goals for family life. I don’t want my kids taught to be whiny brats whose biggest lesson to learn is that all authority figures are dumb or evil. That’s a main message of almost every major Disney property, and it’s very bad for kids. Other destructive and pervasive Disney messages include that men (especially dads) are stupid and bad, women can do no wrong, women need to validate themselves by beating people up more fiercely than...

Nice work here by Meduza to corroborate the satellite imagery published by the New York Times a few days ago. Russia claims that the now-famous scene of corpses lying out in the open on Yablonska Street in Bucha is Ukraine’s handiwork, a false-flag murder spree by Ukrainian forces after the Russians withdrew on March 30. Not so. Many of those bodies were there and visible from the sky before March 30. The Times used satellite footage but Meduza got hold of drone footage from late March. (snip) Now that Bucha’s survivors are free to speak to reporters, stories are emerging...

Special counsel John Durham’s team on April 6 asked a federal judge to force Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign and two other parties to hand over documents they claim are protected by attorney–client privilege.John Durham speaks at a conference in New Haven, Conn., on Sept. 20, 2018. (Courtesy of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Connecticut),/B>The campaign, the Democratic National Committee (DNC), and research and intelligence firm Fusion GPS appear to be withholding documents that aren’t actually protected by the privilege, Durham’s team said in the filing, entered in the case against ex-Clinton lawyer Michael Sussmann. Of the withheld...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Ninth grader Harleigh Walker, 15, spends her time after school like many girls her age: doing homework, listening to Taylor Swift, collecting records and hanging out with friends. But this year, her spring break also included trying to persuade members of the state House and Senate to reject legislation banning gender-affirming medications for transgender kids like her under 19. She was unsuccessful. On Thursday, Alabama lawmakers passed the measure, and Gov. Kay Ivey signed it into law on Friday, meaning Harleigh’s doctor would face prison time if she continued to prescribe her testosterone-blocking drugs. “Honestly, I’m...

Since the prior weekly report: New Cases UP 4.9% (reversing a downward trend since mid-January) New Hospitalizations down 10.3% Deaths down 22.1% Variants: About 100% Omicron, BA.2 is projected to be 72.2% of that. Test Positivity up to 3.1% (second week of rise)