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‘ANEMIC, TEPID, UNEVEN, RISK AVERSE’: The Pentagon is describing Russia’s halting in Ukraine’s eastern Donbas provinces as making “minimal progress at best,” with “minor gains” east of the northern cities of Izyum and Popasna, only to give ground back in the face of fierce Ukrainian counterattacks. “What we saw there in Popasna is not unlike what we've seen in other hamlets in the Donbas. They'll move in and then declare victory, and then withdraw their troops, only to let the Ukrainians take it back,” a senior defense official told reporters yesterday. “So, very, very cautious, very tepid, very uneven...

Accelerating the growing push for Tucker and Fox News to be taken off the air. The taxpayer-funded national network PBS is pushing for less viewpoint diversity. No doubt intended to accelerate the growing push for Tucker and Fox News to be taken off the air. From the PBS Newshour, May 2, 2022 "Tucker Carlson’s influence and his increasingly extreme views" (Amna Nawaz interviews New York Times' Nick Confessore, who wrote the 4/30 "How Tucker Carlson Stoked White Fear to Conquer Cable" Excerpts [emphases added]: Nick Confessore: ... He's the highest rated cable show host in history.And it's also the most...

Last year Mollie Hemingway wrote a book about the 2020 election. Its title was Rigged, How the Media, Big Tech, and the Democrats Seized our Elections. It is a comprehensive story of the numerous ways the left orchestrated the Biden win. SNIP This week brings the release of Dinesh D’Souza’s film, 2000 Mules. This film exposes and explains how paid “mules” in numerous states stuffed those drop boxes that Zuckerberg paid for with many thousands of ballots faked or harvested. Using geo-tracking of cell phones, Catherine Engelbrecht of True the Vote and Gregg Harris uncovered two thousand people who were...

Global supply chain problems look to set to worsen, a new report published on Tuesday said, as China’s COVID-19 lockdowns, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and other strains cause even longer delays at ports and drive up costs. The study by analysts at Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) found that one-fifth of the global container ship fleet was currently stuck in congestion at various major ports. In China, ships awaiting berth at the Port of Shanghai now tally 344, a 34% increase over the past month, while shipping something from a warehouse in China to one in the United States currently...

On day 69 of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Russian military still hasn’t achieved a breakthrough in eastern Ukraine. Although the Ukrainian forces have given away territory in some areas, in others, they have been counterattacking and pushing the Russian forces back. Attacks and Counterattacks in the East The Ukrainian frontline in the area of the Joint Forces Operation in the Donbas still holds despite brutal artillery barrages from the Russian forces. In some places, the Ukrainians have had to give up territory under pressure from the artillery fire. But the Russian military has largely failed to take...

Did you know that in some states, if you miss one tax payment, local politicians will take your home, sell it and keep all the profits? Really. Tawanda Hall was behind on her taxes. She was on a payment plan but had missed $900. She didn't expect Southfield, Michigan, to take her entire house because of that. It was worth $286,000 more than what she owed. "I'm still in shock," says Tawanda Hall in my new video. "They took my whole house, my whole family's livelihood." John Bursch, a lawyer for the county, says while this practice may sound unfair...

Despite all the talk about a “strong economy,” nobody was expecting a blistering hot GDP for the first quarter. The consensus was for around a 1% gain. As it turned out, it was even worse than expected. GDP shrank in Q1, contracting by 1.4%. Despite the awful number, the mainstream spun it as a positive. Peter Schiff called it an outrageous positive spin on negative GDP and a great example of Orwellian doublespeak. A New York Times headline proclaimed, “GDP Report Shows US Economy Shrank, Masking a Broader Recovery” Basically, the NYT and others in the mainstream media are claiming...

There’s one, however, that should be immediately loaded onto a catapult and fired into the Potomac: A provision in the Senate’s bill that would order the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) to reinstate all of the exclusions to the Section 301 tariffs against Chinese imports that were originally granted during the Trump administration. No more reviews of these tariff exclusions, just an order: Remove the tariffs on these Chinese imports. Right now!

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When Russia declared its invasion of Ukraine in late February it termed it a “special military operation” that was supposed to “denazify” Ukraine. This simplistic propaganda was supposed to make it seem like there wasn’t a war, Moscow was merely getting rid of “Nazis.” Russia has continued to use accusations of fighting “Nazis” to justify its war. It has even gone further now, with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov claiming that Hitler had “Jewish blood.” This claim was in response to questions about how Russia could be fighting “Nazis” in Ukriane, if Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is descended from Jews....

As we all found out Monday night, Politico published the leaked opinion of Supreme Court justice Samuel Alito in Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health, which suggested that the Supreme Court will soon release a ruling overturning Roe v Wade, and give the power to legislate abortion back to the states. Senator Josh Hawley stated out loud what everybody living between Venus and Mars understands perfectly well, that this leak was “clearly meant to intimidate” the members of the court from overturning Roe. The result was predictable, almost boringly so. Pelosi and Schumer released a statement bleating that the Republican Party...

Twenty twenty was a bitter defeat for many of us, and the charges of fraud were not without merit. What wasn't true however were the tales of rigged voting machines swinging the election. As I wrote not long afterward, the truth emerged, and it was just the same illegal ballot-harvesting operation the leftist activists always run, but this time with hundreds of millions in Silicon Valley dollars and the connivance of some election officials. The new documentary out this week brilliantly documents how all this happened: D'Souza's 2000 Mules. For all the illegality, though, I think 2020 is going to...

Democratic lawmakers are furious that Republicans appear poised to win their nearly five-decade battle to overturn Roe v. Wade, a cause that Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) advanced by helping stock the Supreme Court with conservative justices. A leaked opinion written by Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito declaring the landmark abortion rights case “egregiously wrong” caps twenty years of combat between Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) and McConnell and other Republicans over the composition of the court. Republicans often accuse Schumer of sparking the Senate’s judicial confirmation wars in 2003 by leading Democratic opposition to then-President George W....

Denmark is set to discard as many as 1.1 million doses of Wuhan coronavirus vaccines after announcing last week that it would be halting its vaccination programme. Officials in Denmark have indicated that they may have to scarp the 1.1 million vaccine doses as they are set to expire soon and that while they have made attempts to donate the doses to other countries, they have not succeeded in their efforts.

The reasons for the Left's perverse sexualizing of very young children make sense only if you are sexually neurotic. None of it makes sense if you are a rational, healthy, sexually normal person. For example, what is to be gained by first graders learning about drag queens and transsexuality? How is a child's life improved, how is the culture improved when children whose brains are not physically equipped to process such information get exposed to it? If it is the hope of sexualizers that children will be more accepting of perversity, to what end? No government-schooled child of any age...

Now14: MK Distell is suing journalist Haim Levinson Roei Shusha, Nissan 30, 5782 (01/05/22) Galit Distel Atbrian in a harsh attack on Haaretz journalist Haim Levinson, according to Distel, the "fake" tweet posted on Twitter by Levinson led to an "unimaginable amount" of curses and insults against her, further saying she severely attacked the journalist and even said that Issued a letter of claim against him.Rotter: Galit Distel: "Haim Levinson faked tweet in my name. It led to an unimaginable amount of swearing, insults and slander. The lawsuit is on its way." May 2, 2022 It took me a while...

Comedian Dave Chappelle was attacked during a show in Los Angeles Tuesday night after a man reportedly jumped on stage. The alleged attacker was injured in the attack and was carried away in an ambulance, according to reports. Videos of the incident appear to show the man jumping onto the stage at the Hollywood Bowl, where Chappell was performing his standup routine for his Netflix Is A Joke tour, when he attempted to tackle the comedian. He was swiftly taken away by security and other individuals, who appeared to repeatedly hit the man just off-stage, videos appear to show. Immediately...

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Progressive Democrat Nina Turner teased a 2024 presidential bid during a concession speech on Tuesday after she was defeated in her bid to challenge Democratic Representative Shontel Brown. Brown defeated Turner with 66.3 percent of the vote to 33.7 percent in Ohio's 11th congressional district. Turner had read most of her concession speech from her phone but toward the end of her remarks, she said she would speak "extemporaneously" and stopped reading. "Sister Turner ain't going nowhere," Turner said and the crowed applauded and cheered. Turner made reference to the late former Representative Shirley Chisholm, the first Black woman ever...

Tuberculosis Makes Comeback in US Amid Misdiagnosis and Illegal Immigration One of the world’s leading killer infectious diseases—tuberculosis (TB)— is surging in the United States with cases rising more than 9 percent last year alone. At present, an estimated 13 million people are living in the United States with latent TB infections, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). TB kills upwards of 12 percent of its victims. Some of the underlying causes contributing to the recent spike in cases are misdiagnosis as COVID-19 by healthcare professionals and the ongoing migration crisis at the U.S. southern border....