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The Brazilian Agriculture Minister’s praise of Russia for saving his country’s crop this year through its latest export of fertilizer discredits the Mainstream Media’s claims that Moscow is behind the global food crisis since it’s really doing everything in its power to resolve it. Most of the US-led Western Mainstream Media (MSM) is conspicuously ignoring Brazilian Agriculture Minister Marcos Montes’ praise of Russia last week for saving his country’s crop this year through its latest export of fertilizer to the South American giant. Moscow is Brasilia’s largest supplier of this resource, which in turn enabled that country to become a...

The first United States mail from New-Orleans, since the capture of that city, and its restoration to National rule, reached us last night, and we give below such extracts from our exchanges as we can find room for this morning. THIRTY-ONE DAYS IN NEW-ORLEANS From the Sunday Delta, June 1. On the 1st day of May the troops of the United States marched into this city and took up quarters in the Custom-house. They passed through streets deserted, the shops and places of business closed, the few persons seen scowling hats at the procession -- not a cheer for the...

What does the US president hope to accomplish in his diplomatic trip to the Middle East? WASHINGTON – Despite Israeli media reports on Sunday night that US President Joe Biden’s planned visit to Israel and the Middle East had been rescheduled to July 14, there has been no confirmation from Washington. According to Reuters, citing a source familiar with the planning, the White House is planning to announce the trip this week. On Sunday, Biden didn’t mention Israel but said that he hasn’t decided yet if he’ll travel to Saudi Arabia next month. Speaking to reporters before Air Force One...

SAN LORENZO, Calif. (KGO) -- The Alameda County Sheriff's Office says it has identified and interviewed several members of the far-right, white-nationalist group, the Proud Boys, who took part in disrupting a reading event at the San Lorenzo Library on Saturday. It happened during the Drag Queen Story Hour event, which are taking place across the county during Pride month.

Voters will head to the polls on Tuesday in a special election for Texas’ new 34th congressional district in the Rio Grande Valley, where illegal immigration is front and center. Longtime Rio Grande Valley Democratic Rep. Filemon Vela Jr., resigned earlier this year, leaving the 34th district seat open. The special election will decide who represents the district for the remainder of Vela’s term, which ends in January. November’s regular election will determine who serves the district beginning in January for the next two years. Early voting, which began May 31, ends Friday. In a race where two Republicans and...

Last week was more than just the end of Howard Johnson's. It marked one more place in our culture that lost touch with its customers because the owners had little in common with them. HOLLIDAYSBURG, Pennsylvania—In truth, the last Howard Johnson’s restaurant closed long before the one in Lake George, New York, did last week. The only thing that particular location had in common with the fried clams and 28 flavors of ice cream the restaurant was famous for was maintaining the iconic orange roof that signaled to families for generations you were pulling up to a place you could...

The Bible In Paintings 2 ENCOURAGEMENT FOR APPRECIATING AND APPLYING GOD'S MESSAGE QUEEN OF SHEBA ORCHID, genus Thelymitra1st KINGS CHAPTER 10 When the queen of Sheba heard about the fame of Solomon and his relation to the name of the LORD, she came to test him with hard questions. Arriving at Jerusalem with a very great caravan—with camels carrying spices, large quantities of gold, and precious stones—she came to Solomon and talked with him about all that she had on her mind. Solomon answered all her questions; nothing was too hard for the king to explain to her. When...

The lid blew off the Ukraine echo chamber this week as Russian artillery pulverized Ukrainian forces in Donbas. Ukraine has lost 10,000 dead, 40,000 to 50,000 wounded, and 8,000 captured. It is running out of Soviet-era ammunition for its limited artillery. A month ago the whole American body politic, from progressive left to neo-conservatives, drank the victory Kool-Aid. Remember when Russia’s incompetent, corrupt army was about to be swept from the field? As is their wont, the Russians blundered around and took losses for a few weeks before figuring out how to wage an old-fashioned, World War II-style artillery campaign....

JESSE WATTERS: Just moments ago the Napa County D.A. was forced to release Paul Pelosi’s mugshot from the night Nancy was out of town when he got popped for drunk driving. Today was the deadline for our FOIA request and voilà! There it is. Pretty close to the sketch we commissioned. Pretty close. Crooked politicians and political appointees in California spent more than two weeks trying to keep this photo from going public. Why? Was it really that bad? Pretty handsome for a drunk 82-year-old.

Independent U.S. Senate candidate Evan McMullin called on Sen. Mike Lee to “break from partisan extremes” and get behind the bipartisan gun safety proposal unveiled in the Senate this week. McMullin said in a brief news conference via Zoom on Monday that he supports the proposal as a common-sense plan to protect children, families and gun rights.

The Supreme Court Monday again prolonged the wait for its opinion which is expected to overturn the federal right to an abortion. Last month, Politico published a leaked draft opinion which indicated the Supreme Court is set to overturn Roe v. Wade, the 1973 case that established a federal right to an abortion. The justices released a handful of decisions Monday, including two immigration-related opinions, but not in the case Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization. A ruling is expected to come by either late June or early July. The decisions issued Monday included: ZF Automotive U. S., Inc. v....

SAN DIEGO -- The notification that San Diego State was cutting its women's rowing program was delivered, like most bad news in 2020, in a Zoom meeting. Madison Fisk sat at a desk in her bedroom in the off-campus house she shared with several teammates in November 2020 and listened to her coach explain that their scholarships -- if they had them -- would still be honored, but there would be no team for her senior season. There would be no races or regattas, no team bus rides, no 5 a.m. sunrise workouts

You didn’t think you could just walk away from Covid hysteria, did you? You didn’t think it would just end, right? In fact, “Phase II” is about to begin. And I’m not talking about more masks ’n’ jabs. I’m talking about a new iteration, a mutation. Not a viral one, but a metamorphosis in terms of what Covid represents to the left. A transition from disease to identity. ... A few weeks ago a Florida school principal and dedicated foe of Ron DeSantis died from unspecified causes. The principal, who’d spent the past two years demanding the masking of Florida...

Inflation wasn’t transitory. And inflation hasn’t peaked. It’s more like peak inflation was transitory.The May Consumer Price Index (CPI) came in higher than expected. The headline year-on-year price increase was 8.6%. The projection was for the CPI to hold steady at the same level as last month — 8.3%. Instead, we got the biggest jump in prices during this inflationary cycle and the highest CPI print since 1981. On a month-to-month basis, the CPI rose by 1%. This was above the 0.7% projection. Another spike in fuel and energy costs primarily drove the monthly increase. Energy costs rose 3.9% during...

Loudoun County commonwealth's attorney Buta Biberaj misled court in order to 'sell' plea bargain, judge saysA Virginia judge has kicked a George Soros-funded prosecutor off a case involving potentially a dozen burglaries in multiple counties, saying the prosecutor’s office had concealed criminal records to “sell” a plea bargain.Loudoun County circuit court judge James Plowman said the office of Commonwealth’s Attorney Buta Biberaj (D.) was “deliberately misleading the Court and the public” about “a possible 12 burglary crime spree spanning 4 counties over 10 days.” In a plea agreement, Biberaj’s office failed to note the offender had recently pleaded guilty to...

As we sit around waiting for Gropey Joe Biden to denounce the assassination attempt of Justice Kavanaugh, it becomes obvious why he hasn’t. He and the bolshie Democrats seem to want a conservative justice from the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) to die or retire. That would make the commie takeover almost complete. And what better way to make that happen than to make it easy to do?FAST FACTS:- A SCOTUS memo about kicking the abortion debate back to the states was leaked earlier this year. Protestors began to march outside the homes of various conservative justices. -...

Foreign Minister Yair Lapid (Yesh Atid) and Justice Minister Gideon Sa'ar (New Hope) have requested that Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett remove his veto of an anti-Netanyahu bill, and allow them to attempt to pass it. The bill would prevent anyone charged with criminal offenses from serving as prime minister. A senior coalition official told Israel National News - Arutz Sheva that the bill could pass within a week, and that thanks to the Joint Arab List, there is a majority in the Knesset which supports it, even if Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked (Yamina) vetoes it. According to the report,...

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f you refused to buy into the official narrative about the COVID shots, you likely found yourself on the receiving end of hateful attacks and rejection. Some of those zealots may now realize they were wrong, but few want to talk about it. How are you choosing to move forward? Fomenting hatred is a tool of tyrants, and over the past two years, political leaders, agency heads, academics, medical professionals and media personalities alike have publicly encouraged hatred and violence and wished painful death upon anyone who didn’t want to be part of the medical experiment that is the COVID...