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NEW YORK (AP) — The foundation started by organizers of the Black Lives Matter movement is still worth tens of millions of dollars, after spending more than $37 million on grants, real estate, consultants, and other expenses, according to tax documents filed with the IRS. In a new, 63-page Form 990 shared exclusively with The Associated Press, the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation Inc. reports that it invested $32 million in stocks from the $90 million it received as donations amid racial justice protests in 2020. That investment is expected to become an endowment to ensure the foundation’s work...

New footage of Vladimir Putin bizarrely twisting his foot and seemingly struggling with jerky leg movements has further stoked rumours the Russian President may be experiencing a sharp decline in health. The clip, taken yesterday as Putin met with his counterpart from Tajikistan, Emomali Rahmon, showed the Russian leader's left foot repeatedly raising and lowering as his knee collapsed inward. Putin later adjusted his position in the chair and settled his foot firmly on the ground as he spoke with Rahmon about the development of relations between Russia and Tajikistan, but his leg appeared to go on twitching. The strange...

President Joe Biden struggled Monday with the correct pronunciation of the name of Aaron Salter Jr., a heroic ex-cop and security guard who died Saturday confronting the Buffalo mass shooting suspect. “We pay tribute to all law enforcement officers and their families who understand what it takes, what’s at risk, to save and protect all of us,” Biden said. “That includes paying tribute to the Buffalo police officer Aaron Salder — Slater, excuse me — who gave his life trying to save others.” Biden spoke about Salter during a Public Safety Officer Medals of Valor ceremony at the White House...

Without citing a source, Musk claimed in a tweet that Twitter is “20% fake/spam accounts” and suggested Twitter’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission were misleading. The company has said that less than 5% of its daily active users are spam accounts.

How Science Fueled the White Supremacist Mass Murderer in Buffalo, NYOver the weekend, a teenage male shooter perpetrated a horrific mass murder in a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, where 13 people were shot, and 10 died. All but two of the victims were black.Journalists and commentators have rushed to report that the shooter is a white supremacist who hates blacks, Jews, and immigrants and subscribes to the racist theory known as “The Great Replacement.” The description is true as far as it goes. But it is also woefully inadequate. It doesn’t tell us anything about the roots of the...

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Breakdown for the Ukraine aid package: — $17 billion for U.S. military operations, including the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative; — $1.8 billion in U.S. military equipment for Ukraine; — $414 million for “research, development, test and evaluation” related to the Ukraine war; — $15 million for U.S. troop pay related to the war; — $13.9 million for the Defense Health Program. Roughly $20 billion for Ukraine, the State Department, international organizations, and other agencies, including: — $8.77 billion in economic assistance for Ukraine; — $4.35 billion in humanitarian aid for Ukraine; — $4 billion for foreign military financing program (run...

Pete Buttigieg said the baby formula shortage is affecting him and his husband Chasten as they have had to 'root around' and talk to friends out of state to get food for their nine-month old twins. The transportation secretary said their twins - Penelope Rose and Joseph August Buttigieg - are 'completely reliant' on formula.

A whole town celebrated in 2020 when, early in the coronavirus pandemic, Thomasville Regional Medical Center opened, offering state-of-the-art medicine that was previously unavailable in a poor, isolated part of Alabama. Now deep in the red two years into the pandemic, the 29-bed, $40 million hospital is among three medical centers are so new they lack full financial statements from before the crisis to prove how much it cost them.“No hospital can sustain itself without getting the CARES Act money that everybody else got,” James said.

Horowitz: Mysterious gynecological ailments reported as stillbirths rise in some countries. Coincidence?"The effects of the COVID-19 vaccine on sperm, a pregnancy, a fetus, or a nursing child are not known." ~Pfizer’s informed consent documentThere’s a reason why we don’t offer novel therapeutics, especially those with numerous side effects already confirmed, to pregnant women. To this day, there is no effort on the part of our government to study the consequences of the menstrual irregularities being experienced ubiquitously among women who took the COVID shots. Will the latest study, on a rare condition of uterine lining shedding self-reported by women who...

Last week I discussed propaganda from a theoretical standpoint. This week I wish to outline one prominent example, narrowing my focus to propaganda used for political ends. Those ends are essentially two: to upset the existing order, or to enforce conformity to the new order. To review, five factors must be present in effective propaganda. First, some kernel of truth must be present. Objective facts, albeit highly selective, must be asserted. Second, some level of discontent must be present. Third, the propaganda must fall on fertile soil. Seeds do not sprout otherwise. Fourth, the propagandists must continuously use all means...

As my colleague Jennifer Oliver O’Connell reported earlier, the media hasn’t been paying the same kind of attention to the Laguna Woods shooting in California as they have to the shooting in Buffalo, New York. Perhaps because it doesn’t serve the narrative that they want to make about who mass shooters are. In this case, authorities are saying that it was a politically motivated hate attack by a Chinese immigrant who had a political grievance against people from Taiwan

Just days after a gunman opened fire in a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, President Joe Biden is planning to visit the area to grieve with the community. But his quick response to travel to New York in the wake of the racist rampage has left some wondering why the president never bothered to visit Waukesha, Wisconsin, after a driver plowed his S.U.V. into a Christmas parade in Nov. 2021. Fox News’ Peter Doocy asked White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, “How come the President is visiting Buffalo after a senseless tragedy there, but he couldn’t visit Waukesha after six...

Our daughters deserve to be treated authentically; they should not become fodder for political spats.As the 1987 film “The Princess Bride” nears its satisfying conclusion, a distraught Princess Buttercup, thinking her Westley is lost to her, picks up a dagger and presses it to her chest. As she contemplates life without her Westley, Westley, reclining nearby, admonishes her with, “There’s a shortage of perfect breasts in this world. It would be a pity to damage yours.” Lately, headlines have been hyper-focused on female anatomy. Due to the leak of Justice Alito’s draft addressing Dobbs, a challenge to Roe, and the...

Assuming the gunman who shot up the Buffalo, New York, grocery store really was motivated by anti-black racism, let’s do what the media do when faced with an Islamic terrorist who goes on a killing spree in America and just refer to him as a “lone wolf,” a mentally unstable individual who in no way reflects any broader phenomenon or trend. Except, unlike with violent Muslim extremism, that characterization in this case would be true. Despite what the media, Democrats, leftists, and, of course, the permanent Washington bureaucracy say (over, and over, and over again), there is no imminent, large-scale...

The New York man who shot up a Buffalo supermarket Saturday kept no secrets about how and why he planned to murder "as many blacks as possible." From his racist radicalization on the internet due to the coronavirus lockdowns to his specific choice of a black neighborhood with few guns — "NY has cucked gun laws," wrote the shooter, who made clear he intended to survive the massacre — the Buffalo shooter is no enigma. Hence, a seemingly concerted effort from the corporate media accusing the Buffalo barbarian of being some sort of Tucker Carlson acolyte would be baffling if...

Gavin Newsom is bi-polar. He wants to get us into all electric homes and cars. At the same time he is limiting and destroying energy sources—causing brownouts and blackouts. If we had 8 million more EV cars and 2 million all electric homes, we would have to ration electricity to a few hours a days and maybe one charge of your EV each week. Newsom is providing the foundation of the collapse of the California economy. ““Our state is on the frontlines of extreme weather, and we’re taking aggressive steps to protect Californians from the costs of climate change —...

Last fall, Attorney General Merrick Garland testified before the House Judiciary Committee that the Federal Bureau of Investigation was not using counterterrorism statutes to investigate parents who were exercising their First Amendment rights at local school board meetings. Last week, the House Judiciary Committee produced evidence that Garland's FBI was doing just that. “Like you, I can’t imagine any circumstance in which the PATRIOT Act would be used in the circumstances of parents complaining about their children, nor can I imagine a circumstance where they would be labeled as domestic terrorism,” Garland told the committee last October. Now, ranking member...

Thomson Reuters/CoreCommodity CRB Index is calculated using arithmetic average of commodity futures prices with monthly rebalancing. The index consists of 19 commodities: Aluminum, Cocoa, Coffee, Copper, Corn, Cotton, Crude Oil, Gold, Heating Oil, Lean Hogs, Live Cattle, Natural Gas, Nickel, Orange Juice, RBOB Gasoline, Silver, Soybeans, Sugar and Wheat. Those commodities are sorted into 4 groups, with different weightings: Energy: 39%, Agriculture: 41%, Precious Metals: 7%, Base/Industrial Metals: 13%.