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Aside of fries with a burger is a staple. But countries like Japan depend on American growers for most of the frozen potatoes that are processed into fries and sold at major chains — and a dwindling stock of potatoes has put fast-food chains in a pickle. Japanese restaurant swaps fries for ramen noodles amid french fry shortage Unmute 0 Burger King, which operates over 150 restaurants in Japan, found a way around the shortage. Until new supplies finally arrive, customers are being asked to swap out fries for something Japan has no shortage of: ramen noodles. Burger King calls...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has the edge over Donald Trump to score the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, according to the latest odds in the betting market PredictIt.

A Disney World employee was among 12 men nabbed by Florida law enforcement for allegedly soliciting children for sex online, officials said. The suspects, between the ages of 20 and 67, are facing a total of 49 felony charges following a two-week-long undercover investigation dubbed “Operation Child Protector II,” the Polk County Sheriff’s Office announced Friday. Among those arrested is 30-year-old Zachary Hudson, who was employed as a bus driver at Disney World, cops said. Between June 4 and 5, Hudson allegedly exchanged online messages with an undercover detective posing as a 15-year-old girl. The detective asked Hudson if he...

At least seven staffers who work for CBS News' "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" were arrested after allegedly entering a U.S. House of Representatives building, specifically the Longworth House Building, where they were not legally permitted to be, according to Fox News. They had been escorted out from January 6 select committee hearing because they did not have the proper press credentials, which is investigating the actions of people who were also not where they were legally allowed to be. Despite being escorted out, the seven people re-appeared that night after the Capitol complex was closed to the public....

Last month, when a leaked Supreme Court draft opinion indicated that judges were preparing to overturn Roe v. Wade and the Biden administration started weighing its options, New York writer April Salazar was one person watching the news very closely. That's because the right to abortion had been vital to her not so long ago. Salazar and her husband, back in 2013, had made the decision to have an abortion when she was far along in her pregnancy — 21 weeks gestation — after doctors discovered their in-utero son had a lethal birth defect. “It was very surprising to find...

Public unaware...Screenshot from the online survey given to teachers at Massachusetts middle schools. As we described earlier, the teaching profession has been overwhelmed by dysfunctional people and committed radicals....Last month, a middle school teacher in Saugus, Massachusetts shared with MassResistance a disturbing survey that the teachers at her school were being asked to fill out. It was also given to teachers at another middle school nearby, and likely others. The survey was written by the Everett LGBTQ+ Youth Space and Resource Center (ELYSRC), a slick “local” LGBT organization which clearly appears to be organized and funded by outside forces. The...

A 66-year-old male blood donor turned away from the clinic after refusing to answer a question about whether he was pregnant as part of a pre-donation questionnaire. Male donor denied admission after he refused to tell if she was pregnant For nearly 50 years, Leslie Sinclair has transfused an impressive 125 pints of blood. After complaining, he said the staff told him they couldn’t accept his blood donation. For nearly 50 years, Leslie Sinclair has transfused an impressive 125 pints of blood. But his last trip was turned down after he refused to answer a question about whether he was...

Think about the relationship between faith and abortion, at least in the United States, and you might conjure up images of prayer circles at the March for Life, or protesters outside clinics, or a priest giving a sermon on the sanctity of life. Religion is often associated with an anti-abortion stance in the American popular imagination—and white Evangelicals have been encouraging that connection for decades. Now those efforts are culminating in the most disastrous year for abortion access since Roe v. Wade was decided 49 years ago, and in the Supreme Court’s likely reversal of Roe. But many of us...

DYI Mini Split Heat Pump, I did it! And it works very well! My existing Trane AC sadly died an early death at a very young 27 years.; RIP. I did have the need R-290(Not the old Texas R-1bbq refrigerant, real R290, no water vapor) to revive it, but then the fan solenoid gave out. And we said our goodbyes. Our daughter and HVAC guy S.I.L. put on an addition and went with a Mitsubishi/Trane mini split system, the Cadillac of heat pumps $$$. They love it! And last year my brother an MIS, installed his own Pioneer mini split...

Changing your idea of what robots can do – that’s the slogan of Boston Dynamics. Founded in 1992 by Marc Raibert as a spin-off company from MIT, its early days were spent making training videos for the navy. Only later did the company begin delving into the world of robots – amassing a level of expertise unsurpassed throughout the industry.In fact, Boston Dynamics’s achievements look like the opening montage from a science fiction movie. Starting with the cumbersome BigDog – a quadruped robot designed for the military – the company has seen each new generation of robots surpass the last...

Astronomers have detected the brightest and fastest-growing black hole to have existed in the last 9 billion years. The enormous cosmic entity is 3 billion times more massive than the sun and swallows up an Earth-size chunk of matter every second. The new supermassive black hole, known as J1144, is around 500 times as Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way, which was recently photographed for the first time. A ring of superhot plasma around the enormous void also emits around 7,000 times more light than our entire galaxy. Australian astronomers discovered the cosmic...

A new poll released Wednesday showed Pennsylvania's Democratic Lt. Gov. John Fetterman with a lead over Republican nominee Mehmet Oz in the race to be the state's next U.S. senator. The poll, conducted June 10-13 by Suffolk University, also showed Pennsylvania voters overwhelmingly disapproved of President Biden's job performance, while only 15% rated the state of the U.S. economy as "good." Fetterman and Oz are running to succeed retiring GOP Sen. Pat Toomey in the key general election battleground state. The race is one of a handful across the country that will likely determine if the Republicans win back the...

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Mike Billington with Executive Intelligence Review interviews Col. Richard Black (ret.). BILLINGTON: Hi, this is this is Mike Billington with Executive Intelligence Review and the Schiller Institute. I am here today with Col. Richard Black, Sen. Richard Black, who, after serving 31 years in the Marines and in the Army, then served in the Virginia House of Delegates from 1998 to 2006, and in the Virginia Senate from 2012 to 2020. I’ll also allow Colonel Black to describe his military service himself. So, Colonel Black, welcome. With the with the U.S. and U.K. and NATO surrogate war with Russia, which...

GENEVA—This week, a panel of Bible scholars issued a joint statement clarifying that the Mark of the Beast is actually “$6.66”—the price of gas at the end of latter days. “Deeper study has revealed that we were misreading this passage—it’s not 666 or 616, it’s $6.66 for your basic Unleaded Petroleum Gasoline!” French Bible scholar Pierre LeGault spoke for the panel of academics that had gathered at Geneva to redress and correct the historic interpretation of the mysterious number in Revelation 13. “Numerology is tough and we’ll be the first to admit we botched this one—but we’re here to make...

Here’s yet another news article about the “struggles” of a “low income,” “single mom,” where the article makes exactly zero mention of the father of the childrenInsider just published this article about the “struggles” of a “low income” “single mom.” The article makes exactly zero mention of the father of the children.The mainstream media has been doing everything it can to try to normalize the idea that children don’t need a father. I’ve previously written about this kind of thing here, here, here, here, here, and here.In this particular case, the mother wants the government to give her $187,000 in...

Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) last week at a Christian conference joked that Jesus didn’t have enough AR-15 rifles to “keep his government from killing him.” “On Twitter, a lot of the little Twitter trolls, they like to say, ‘Oh, Jesus didn’t need an AR-15, how many AR-15s do you think Jesus would’ve had?” Boebert said. She continued: “Well, he didn’t have enough to keep his government from killing him.” The Christian New Testament teaches that Jesus willingly died on a cross to take the penalty for the sins of those who follow him and that he dissuaded his followers from...

REHOBOTH BEACH, Del. (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden took a spill from his bike on Saturday as he stopped to greet supporters during a weekend trip to Rehoboth Beach, Delaware. He appeared to be uninjured after standing back up immediately. "I’m good," Biden, 79, said after the tumble, which occurred in front of the press pool. "I got my foot caught up," he said.

Is our education system totally dead? I always knew it was filled with liberals, biased, and in dire need of help. That education gap has only increased with the COVID lockdowns. It won’t shock me if this gap is too big to bridge given all the political forces in play. But I’m talking about all these freaks we have as teachers. The ones doling out puberty blockers to kids. The ones telling students not to tell their parents about their sexually explicit lessons and homework. These aren’t high schoolers. They’re pre-teens. They’re kindergartens—and these woke teachers want to make them...

President Donald Trump will headline a rally in central Illinois next weekend to help drum up support for his candidate in a GOP House race where two incumbent Republicans are locked in a showdown, thanks to redistricting. Ahead of June 28's primary, Trump's "Save America" rally is scheduled for June 25 at the Adams County Fairgrounds in Mendon, Illinois. Parking will be available starting at 8 a.m., with doors opening and the entertainment beginning at 2 p.m. Speakers will begin taking the stage at 4 p.m., and Trump will deliver his remarks at 7 p.m. Tickets are available on Trump's...