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Michael Flynn has been cleared, pardoned, set free, and given a clean slate, and still the federal government won’t take its jackboot off the neck of the retired general and short-lived Trump National Security Adviser. A newly discovered document uncovered by Just the News shows that Flynn could have had his reputation back a lot earlier, if Robert Mueller had released an affidavit confirming the story behind the retired general’s 2015 Moscow dinner speech for Russia Today (RT) News. At the event, Flynn sat next to Russian leader Vladimir Putin. The dinner became the key piece of “evidence” used by...

At first, President Joe Biden tried to play off rising inflation as something merely transitory. But the inflation kept rising until it wasn't transitory anymore, so he needed a better excuse. Biden then tried to scapegoat the meat industry for raising prices arbitrarily. Remember that? Nobody believed it. But when President Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine, that gave Biden an off-ramp from such an implausible explanation, so he chose to blame Russia. The problem this time was that inflation had been running wild for so many months before Russia invaded Ukraine in late February. Now, judging by his speech on May...

Senior Democratic Party politicians are the chief "ideologists" of America's illegal operations in biolabs operating throughout Ukraine, and have involved major multinational biotech companies in their activities, Igor Kirillov, the head of Russia's Radiation, Chemical and Biological Defence Troops, has indicated. Citing an MoD analysis of seized documents, the RCB Troops chief said the profits politicians earn for the US private biotech sector helps to pay for their reelection via campaign donations. According to Kirillov, the US executive branch has also worked to create a "legislative framework to finance military biological research directly from the federal budget," with "funds of...

VIDEO AT LINK........................ A passenger with no flying experience safely landed a light aircraft at an airport in Florida after his pilot fell unconscious, in what has been described as “nothing short of a miracle.” Remarkable audio from the cockpit showed the man telling air traffic control: “I’ve got a serious situation here. My pilot has gone incoherent and I have no idea how to fly the airplane.” The man, who has not been identified, was a passenger on a Cessna 208 Caravan and was flying home to Florida from the Bahamas to see his pregnant wife. However, just off...

The Michigan State Police has expanded its investigation into whether post-2020 election breaches of voting equipment took place. Last Friday, state police seized a voting machine tabulator in Irving Township, Barry County Clerk Pamela Palmer told CNN. The state probe is aimed at determining whether anyone who should not have been allowed to access voting machine data was able to breach election protocols. “As we found out more information we’ve expanded our area to see if any other places were compromised,” said Carroll, declining to comment on Irving specifically, according to Reuters. “We have gone to other regions.” “The Michigan...

Russian forces have riddled Ukrainian fields with mines and destroyed equipment in areas they once occupied, in what returning farmers and the Kyiv government allege is a campaign by Moscow to hobble the country’s agricultural industry. Russia’s invasion already has decimated shipments of corn, wheat and sunflower oil from what was until recently one of the world’s biggest food exporters. Prices have soared, adding to global food-price inflation and heaping misery on developing countries that had been dependent on imports from the region. The extent of damage to some farms, together with port disruption and a shortage of fertilizer, demonstrates...

President Joe Biden’s handlers sent him out Tuesday to declare that fighting inflation is now his “top domestic priority.” But even if his “plan” weren’t a joke, why would anyone believe him, when his vow came packaged in a host of lazy lies? Inflation, he insisted, is being driven by the pandemic (which largely ended over a year ago) and “Putin’s price hike.” For the record, it was April 14 last year that the White House insisted the already-developing inflation would be “transitory”; Biden & Co. kept that up through November, before switching to blaming it on corporate greed and...

Nine years ago, on June 14, 2013, the late Rush Limbaugh explained why the legalization of abortion "has caused all kinds of horrible problems that nobody knows how to fix." "I just want to tell you something," Limbaugh told his listeners: "I really think that abortion is at the root — you could do a flowchart — I think abortion is at the root of so much that has and is going wrong in this country. I think that the number of abortions themselves, but what in toto it all means, culturally, in terms of the sanctity of life, how...

Inflation eased in April, but still surged 8.3% year-over-year, a pace far above historic levels, according to a Department of Labor report released Wednesday. “Now what we’re starting to see is that pressure is no longer emanating from the supply side — it’s emanating from the labor-market side. And that’s less likely to go away on its own,” Aneta Markowska, the chief financial economist at investment firm Jefferies, told The Wall Street Journal. “So the Fed will have to work that much harder to get us back to 2% inflation.” “The main point that I can’t stress enough is that...

Sri Lanka is facing agricultural collapse, which is a disaster in a nation that has only recently raised itself out of poverty...thanks to its agricultural growth. The cause is the outgoing government's decision to follow the environmentalist path and use only natural fertilizer. Meanwhile, here in America, Samantha Power, who is the administrator of the United States Agency for International Development, is pleased that the War in Ukraine is stopping the flow of fertilizer from Russia, allowing the world to go organic. The news out of Sri Lanka is grim. (Hat tip: Power Line.)What turned Sri Lanka's economic situation from...

The WHO is making a power grab over our health sovereignty by changing the International Health Regulations In May 2022, World Health Organization (WHO) intends to amend the International Health Regulations to give greater control to itself and Tedros Ghebreyesus, Director-General of WHO. This pushes our world towards a centralized governance model of worldwide health surveillance, reporting, and management, where the people have no say. Background The International Health Regulations (IHR) was adopted by 194 member states of the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2005. They enable the WHO to declare a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) if...

A top California lawmaker is proposing to spend $10 billion to help families buy homes in the state with some of America’s highest housing prices. Democratic State Senate Leader Toni Atkins on Wednesday unveiled details of a proposal she’s pushing to create a revolving fund that would provide interest-free loans for up to 30% of the purchase price of a home for low- and middle-income households. [snip] The median price for single family homes in California last year was $786,000, according to the California Association of Realtors, more than twice the nationwide average. [snip] Under the proposal, California would spend...

MOSCOW. May 11 (Interfax) - Russia has always been committed to its gas contracts with Europe and will continue to be so, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said. "Russia has always fulfilled its contractual obligations in a reliable manner and intends to continue to do so. It is committed to its contractual obligations. The Ukrainian side has reported a certain force majeure situation. You and I have heard a statement from Gazprom, which said there had been no force majeure notices and explanations," Peskov said at a press briefing on Wednesday. Journalists asked Peskov whether Russia was planning to search for...

Two interesting developments in the Russo-Ukrainian War have been the large number of both Russian generals who have been relieved, and senior Russian officers who have been killed by hostile fire. Recent reports indicate that 12 general officers have been killed during the two-month campaign, an astounding figure for such a short period of time. By way of comparison, just six U.S. generals died from hostile fire during all of the Vietnam War. The two developments are related and both can be at least partially explained via something I wrote for American Greatness not too long ago. It appears that...

On Wednesday, MSNBC “Morning Joe” host Joe Scarborough reacted to President Joe Biden’s speech about solving inflation the day before. Many from GOP deemed Biden’s speech, in which he referred to Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) as being from Wisconsin, “confusing” since it offered no real solutions to solve the crisis created during his time in the Oval Office.

COLUMBUS, Miss. (WCBI) – Area residents have a chance to help Ukrainian parents.Columbus Family Pharmacies have been taking donations of baby formula to be sent to families in Ukraine.

With Republican primaries in West Virginia and Nebraska underway, Michael Steele, Chuck Todd, Kimberly Atkins Stohr, Mark Murray, and Vaughn Hillyard join Andrea Mitchell to discuss this latest test of Trump’s influence over the Republican Party through his endorsements. “It doesn't matter whether they win or lose. He doesn't like the stain of a loss, but even a loss is a win for him,” says Steele. “He's got these candidates groveling to him. You know, Mooney crosses state lines just to be on the stage with Donald Trump in Pennsylvania,” Steele explains. “The establishment still has no clue what to...

More Americans died from drug overdoses in 2021 than any previous year, a grim milestone in an epidemic that has now claimed 1 million lives in the 21st century, according to federal data released Wednesday. More than 100,000 Americans died of drug overdoses in 2021, up 15 percent from the previous year, according to figures released Wednesday by the National Center for Health Statistics. The sobering tally reflects challenges exacerbated by the pandemic: lost access to treatment, social isolation and a more potent drug supply.

Plato is the most well-known student of Greek philosopher Socrates, who lived and taught in the fourth century B.C. In his famous treatise The Republic, Plato presents the concept of a “noble lie” as a myth that “would have a good effect, making [the people] more inclined to care for the state and one another.” In other words, the “noble lie” was one that served the purpose of the “greater good.” It still was a lie, but considered acceptable because the intentions of its purveyor were noble. Socrates and Plato were philosophers, not scientists, but their notion of the “noble...

A few weeks ago, I was at a prayer meeting at church. One of the ladies sitting nearby commented on the speech that the president of Ukraine gave to the American congress. She was fairly gushing over what a wonderful speech it was. I was quite taken aback by it, and it brought to mind that even “the elect” can quickly be drawn in by carefully crafted words and facial expressions. Since she directed her comments at me, I was prompted to remind her that the man is essentially an actor. Perhaps he is a very good one; perhaps he...