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For many years now I have been pointing out that there is a false public perception of the relationship between governments and corporations. In the past the belief has been that government is supposed to keep private business in check while private business is supposed to limit government intrusion through the assertion of property rights. But when it comes to major corporations there is no such game of balance.In reality, international conglomerates like Disney generally do whatever they please because they are PARTNERS with government.For whatever reason, certain companies are afforded special treatment by state and federal institutions and what...

Tempeh has won recognition and begun a unique evolution in Japan, assisted by the country’s rising health consciousness and expanding supply channels. Tamaki Abe is one of a growing number of Japanese who recently fell in love with tempeh, the fermented soy-based Indonesian dish. It did not register much when she first savored it for the first time years ago, but she came to like it in the past several months as she started to be aware how it matches with spices that are popular with Japanese culinary fans, especially curry. “It tastes so delicious in teriyaki sauce”, the Kyoto-based...

Steve Bannon and Boris Epshteyn covered the scandal on Friday’s War Room. Steve Bannon, the former Trump strategist, delivered this warning to Kevin McCarthy. Steve Bannon: Ther’s two choices. McCarthy’s got two choices. He either heaves to on a full MAGA agenda. FULL MAGA. That means he’s gotta stop this nonsense… As President Trump says, “No games!” None of the Nancy Mace crap down in South Carolina. None of the stuff against Joe Kemp. No going against MAGA candidates. So he’s either got to heave to 100% or he’s gone.” Via GETTR:

'Real Chicagoans are asking me how could you possibly even consider running for re-election' Her approval rating is below 30%, according to a Chicago Sun Times poll, but she apparently intends to run for re-election, although she has not made an official announcement.

Former President Trump stumped for Ohio Republican Senate candidate J.D. Vance on Saturday, while acknowledging during his rally that Vance has “said some bad sh– about me.” “He’s a guy that said some bad sh– about me, he did,” Trump said. “But, you know what? Every one of the others did also.” “[In] fact, I went by that standard, I don’t think I would have ever endorsed anybody in the country … They all said bad, but they all came back,” the former president continued. “But I will tell you he was tough … but the others were tough and...

Christina Bobb went in front of the Jan 6 Committee on Thursday and spent six hours answering questions about her actions on Jan 6. One key topic the Jan 6 Committee focussed on was why she tweeted out a picture of Mel Gibson on that day. Christina Bobb was interviewed on The Joe Hoft Show Friday on the Real Talk Radio Network. Christina on Thursday spent six hours in front of the Jan 6 committee. ______________________ Christina shared some of what she recalled about the interview with the Jan 6 Committee. She recalled calling their efforts an “inquisition,” and telling...

The Utah Democratic Party saw no shortage of drama during its state convention on Saturday — and their decision to not put forth a Democratic candidate to face off with Republican Sen. Mike Lee has big implications for Utah's U.S. Senate race. It injects significant momentum into a more moderate, independent movement in Utah politics — and signals Utah Democrats are so eager to up the chances of beating Lee, they're willing to ditch their own candidate. At least for now.

Now that Joe Biden’s approval rating has fallen—it’s hovering in the low 40s, and it can’t get up—the Main Stream Media have come up with a new line of defense for their man. Okay, goes this new line, Biden isn’t doing so well, but that’s to be expected—because no president can do well. That is, the problems are just too tough, the job is just too hard, the country is just too polarized, yada yada yada.

@CaliforniaPanda @JDVance1 is tough. He’s smart. He’s a former Marine. He’s a Yale educated lawyer. A fearless MAGA fighter. He fights like crazy and he loves Ohio and quite frankly a great Buckeye.” - President Trump Clip...

[…]I’m posting this to establish a public record that they were informed and offered the evidence and took no action.This is extremely important evidence that has been in the public domain for a while that they have been willfully ignoring.I don’t expect a reply anytime soon because every time they have indicated that they aren’t interested in evidence showing they are killing people. They don’t want to see it.I don’t expect a reply because the videos and tissue samples would be impossible to explain. All of this information has been known for months (since at least Feb. 4 when Hirschman...

"And no man in heaven, nor in earth, neither under the earth, was able to open the book, neither to look thereon." "And when he had taken the book, the four beasts and four and twenty elders fell down before the Lamb, having every one of them harps, and golden vials full of odours, which are the prayers of saints. "And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and...

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If you ask Paul Looney, a Houston defense attorney, about the Twin Peaks biker case, he’ll tell you there’s one person who knows more about it than anyone else alive: his trial-preparation specialist, Roxanne Avery. An entire wall of her home office in Norman, Okla., is covered with wallet-size mug shots of the nearly 200 bikers arrested, as well as photographs of the nine men who died that day, seven years ago, after a violent brawl in a Waco parking lot. Each picture is layered with Post-it Notes and details about the subjects: ages, road names (Cheech, Chain, Drama, Sidetrack,...

An FBI agent on Queens stakeout clapped handcuffs on the wrong man — a uniformed city traffic enforcement agent who wrote him up for parking illegally, the traffic agent and law enforcement sources told the Daily News. Traffic agent Dipankar Dipu said he was still nursing an injured shoulder four days after his Sunnyside clash with fuming fed Kenneth Diu, who was parked between a metered spot and a bus stop. “I can’t say what made him react so unprofessionally,” Dipu told The News on Saturday. “I was just doing my job. Why he assaulted me and humiliated me in...

This coming Sunday is the Second Sunday of the Octave of Easter, also known as “Divine Mercy Sunday.” The theme of God’s mercy runs through the readings. 1. In the First Reading, we see an outpouring of God’s mercy through the hands of the Apostles, who are given a gift of God’s power for the healing of physical illnesses and those plagued by evil spirits: Reading 1: Acts 5:12-16Many signs and wonders were done among the people at the hands of the apostles. They were all together in Solomon’s portico. None of the others dared to join them, but the...

The FBI's Cyber Division published a notice this past week warning about increased cyber-attack threats on agricultural cooperatives, which comes at a time when a curious string of fires and explosions damage major food processing plants across the country. "Ransomware actors may be more likely to attack agricultural cooperatives during critical planting and harvest seasons, disrupting operations, causing financial loss, and negatively impacting the food supply chain," the notice read, adding 2021 and early 2022 ransomware attacks on farming co-ops could affect the current planting season "by disrupting the supply of seeds and fertilizer." The agency warned, "A significant disruption...

An American Airlines pilot who suffered cardiac arrest six minutes after landing an Airbus A321 jetliner with 200 people aboard at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport blames the COVID-19 shot his company required employees to get.Proving the cause is difficult, but Captain Robert Snow's case does fit a pattern, said Dr. Peter McCullough, a world-renowned cardiologist and critic of the COVID vaccines who practices in Dallas. McCullough was one of the physicians who attended the pilot at the Baylor Scott and White Health Center in Dallas after the April 9 incident.After Snow's heart stopped and he became unconscious while parked at...

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WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio — An Air Force major general in Ohio has been convicted by a military judge of one of three specifications of abusive sexual contact in the first-ever military trial of an Air Force general. The charge faced by Maj. Gen. William Cooley during the weeklong court-martial at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio had three specifications, one alleging a forcible kiss and two alleging forcible touching in 2018. Cooley was convicted Saturday of the forcible kissing specification but acquitted of the other two. Officials said the verdict marks the first court-martial trial and conviction of...

During the 2022 sowing season, Ukraine sowed 3.02 million hectares of land with the main agricultural crops, which is 20.1% of the 14.4 million hectares planned for the current season, the data on which were adjusted the day before to increase by 7.1% (from 13.44 million hectares previously announced), the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food said on Friday. According to data published on its website, over the past week from April 15 to April 21, the area under crops increased by 56%, from 1.94 million hectares to 3.02 million hectares. It is clarified that by now the total area...