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Paris (AFP) – Dozens of electric buses will be taken off the streets of Paris temporarily "as a precaution" after two of the vehicles caught fire, public transport operator RATP said Friday. Following a second blaze on Friday morning, in which no one was hurt, "RATP has taken the decision to suspend use of 149 electric buses" of manufacturer Bollore's Bluebus 5SE model, the state-owned company said. The number 71 bus that caught fire in southeast Paris early Friday released thick clouds of black smoke and a strong smell of burning plastic, according to an AFP journalist on the scene....

On April 25, local collaborator Pavlo Sharogradsky disappeared in the temporarily occupied town of Novoaydar (Luhansk region). The traitor was soon found shot in the head and wounded in the body. Pavlo Sharogradsky was a "professional public figure" before the Russian invasion. For some time he was the director of the Novoaydarsky settlement center "Sports for All" and the founder of the NGO "Novoaydarsky Sich". He had no business or high-income jobs, but he presented himself as a well-to-do man. After the occupation, Novoaydar offered his services to the new "owners". He provided the enemy with information about patriots, members...

Watch the Senate majority leader and Silicon Valley’s top man in Washington in the days, weeks, and months ahead. Monday’s news that Twitter’s board of directors accepted Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s $44 billion offer to buy the social media platform sent shockwaves through leftist circles. The very prospect of unfettered—or somewhat less fettered—freedom of speech caused widespread freakouts among the purple-haired set and their more polished but equally vapid counterparts in the corporate media. But let’s take a moment to indulge in a bit of schadenfreude at the expense of Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), who has colluded with...

Researchers in Japan have developed a new method for making 5-cm (2-in) wafers of diamond that could be used for quantum memory. The ultra-high purity of the diamond allows it to store a staggering amount of data – the equivalent of one billion Blu-Ray discs. Diamond is one of the most promising materials for practical quantum computing systems, including memory. A particular defect in the crystal, known as a nitrogen-vacancy center, can be used to store data in the form of superconducting quantum bits (qubits), but too much nitrogen in the diamond disrupts its quantum storage capabilities.

HBO Max is currently producing a new comedy series based on the life of former gang member-turned-Hasidic-rapper Nissim Black.Black, who lives in Israel, announced the upcoming show on Twitter on Monday, writing that he hopes “this series brings Joy, and dispells [sic] a lot of the misinformation going on out there.” He will co-produce the show with comedian and veteran TV writer Moshe Kasher, who frequently references his Jewish identity in his work. It’s unclear if Black will star as himself in the show, according to a Deadline report. “Motherland Bounce,” the name of the series and the name...

Everyone knows that our "objective" news media treats any journalism on the subject of Hunter Biden as automatically "disinformation." It still sounds like an impeachable offense. The entire topic seemed forbidden, except when he was making the rounds touting his addiction memoir. Publishers Weekly celebrated it as a "courageous self-assessment." Biden's business affairs have been under investigation at the Justice Department for years, but we were all in the dark for most of that time. Even now, the media treatment feels like the absolute opposite of the way CNN pounded away daily on the Robert Mueller probe -- now supplanted...

When it comes to January 6, there are no coincidences. A dirty little secret about January 6—one of many—is that Democrats and establishment Republicans, not Trump supporters, wanted to shut down the official proceedings of that day. Just as the first wave of protesters breached the building shortly after 2 p.m., congressional Republicans were poised to present evidence of rampant voting fraud in the 2020 presidential election. Ten incumbent and four newly-elected Republican senators planned to work with their House colleagues to demand the formation of an audit commission to investigate election “irregularities” in the 2020 election. Absent an audit,...

The change would represent a significant departure from Japan’s post-World War II constitution which renounced war and allows for only a limited measure of “defensive” capabilities. Japan is considering modifying its constitution to enable “enemy base strike capabilities,” new language which would expand the country’s ability to conduct military attacks into a wider range of contingencies. The change would represent a significant departure from Japan’s post-World War II constitution which renounced war and allowed for only a limited measure of “defensive” capabilities. Japanese society and security alike have significantly changed since then. For example, in light of the growing threat...

I confess to alternating between fear and scornful laughter when it comes to the newly announced Disinformation Governance Board that DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas announced April 27 in a Senate hearing. The blatant violation of the First Amendment, the lack of Congressional authorization, the blatant choice of topics of focus (immigration and Russia in Spanish Language media) right before an election and the utter ridiculousness of the woman named to head, it all make it hard for me to take this Orwellian state organ seriously. Yet, Joe Biden sits on the Oval Office and commands the federal bureaucracy, which is...

Below is the text of a letter to American Greatness by Ethan Nordean, who has been incarcerated awaiting trial for more than a year. Nordean committed no violent crime on January 6; surveillance video shows Nordean walking into the building with hundreds of others as Capitol police stood by. Judge Timothy Kelly, appointed to the D.C. District Court by Donald Trump, refuses to release Nordean and his other nonviolent co-defendants while at the same time delaying their trial, which is now set for August 2022. As it stands the American government has placed more value on a particular narrative than...

Get woke, go broke. Netflix began layoffs on Thursday, just days after its stock plummeted. Netflix shares cratered more than 20% last Tuesday after the company reported a loss of 200,000 subscribers in the first quarter. Netflix began laying off people at Tudum, a website that promotes shows on the streaming service just a few months after it launched. Protocol reported: The belt tightening appears to have started at Netflix: A number of journalists working for the company’s entertainment site Tudum have been laid off, according to tweets by those affected. A Netflix spokesperson told Protocol Thursday that there were...

On January 6, 2021, in the chamber of the U.S. House of Representatives, Vice President Mike Pence, in his role as presiding officer of a joint session, counted the electoral college votes for President, just as his predecessors had done for every presidential election since the founding of the republic. Sounds routine enough, doesn’t it? Not quite. For that act, Mike Pence became the most hated man in America among Trump supporters. Millions of Americans were left fuming at Pence for squandering the golden opportunity to flip what they were certain was a Democrat-rigged election. Trump supporters with a grain...

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In case you were wondering why all views contrary to the Official Narrative have been canceled, it's because of the Asch Conformity Experiment. We have just gone through a nationwide, and actually a worldwide, Asch Conformity Experiment. As implied, the goal of the experiment was not to get to the truth. It was to get conformity. Only conformity is allowed. Asch showed that people will actually believe things that they know to be false if they think everybody else believes those things. That is the point of the COVID nightmare experiment we just lived though. You must believe: -COVID is...

"Don't doubt me," he would say. Rush often said he could read the stitches on a fast ball. He was the most politically prescient person in public life for 33 years before he died more than a year ago. American conservatives mourned his passing because he was almost always right, 99.7% of the time according to an unbiased opinion auditing firm. We relied on Rush for our daily briefing of leftist outrages and how to combat them. The trust Rush had built up among his audience was so massive, so devoted, and so unparalleled in modern communications, that his radio...

Central Michigan University President Bob Davies held a press conference at CMU on Thursday to address the allegations of racial discrimination regarding the elimination of men's track and field. Men's track and field has been the first sport eliminated in one to two decades, according to Davies. Since the elimination of men's track and field, CMU has added men's golf. Competitive men's track and field costs the university $1 million, competitive golf is half of that, according to Davies..... Davies went on to list the races of the 30 track and field students, three black, three multiracial, two international, and...

Around 8,000 British Army troops and dozens of tanks will take part in exercises across eastern Europe to combat Russian aggression in one of the largest deployments since the Cold War. Tens of thousands of Nato troops will join the British forces that will be deployed to countries ranging from Finland to North Macedonia this summer under plans that have been enhanced since the invasion of Ukraine. The Joint Expeditionary Force alliance, which includes Finland and Sweden, will also be taking part. The Ministry of Defence (MoD) said the purpose behind the exercises is to demonstrate how the British Army...

The Independent Women's Voice posted online the results of a poll that show 67% of Americans say Joe Biden should be impeached if Hunter Biden's corruption is proven. A full 60% of the respondents said what Hunter Biden was doing, in fact, was selling access to Joe Biden. “A whopping 67% of registered voters said they believe Hunter Biden selling access to his father is an impeachable offense for President Biden, according to new polling by Harvard University’s Center for American Political Studies (CAPS) and Harris, a firm run by Democrat Mark Penn," the report explained.

M2 Money Velocity (GDP/M2 Money) peaked in Q3 1997, but after several bouts of Fed money printing, M2 Money Velocity is near the all-time low at 1.1216 In Q1 2022. And M2 Money stock is still growing at a torrid pace of 9.9% YoY. But the massive overreaction of The Federal Reserve in response to the Covid outbreak has led to near zero money velocity. Now with The Federal Reserve considering removing the monetary stimulus, what will happen to US GDP left to survive on its own? An example of how The Fed’s expected tightening of monetary policy can be...

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