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After a warning from the head of three power companies, France’s government has announced that it will restart a coal-fired plant this winter. A coal-fueled power plant in the north-east of France is due to be restarted by the country’s government this winter in order to better combat energy insecurity resulting in part due to ongoing hostilities with Russia. The announcement that the Saint-Avold will be brought back online comes shortly after the heads of three major energy companies in France warned that the general public must “immediately” cut back on energy use to better enable officials to better handle...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) showcased highly misleading data about the risk of COVID-19 to kids when its expert vaccine advisers voted to recommend vaccines for children under five years old. The agency featured a pre-print study ranking causes of death in children when it presented data to its Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) earlier this month, after which the committee voted to recommend kids aged six months through four years get vaccinated for COVID-19. The study claimed to show that COVID-19 was a leading cause of death for children in the United States during the...

More than 20 million Californians can expect a new round of direct payments to hit their bank accounts this year, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Sunday. The state is issuing payments up to $1,050 in what the governor called a new “middle class tax rebate.” The direct payments are part of an “inflation relief package” in California’s budget agreement, the governor and California’s legislative leaders said in a joint statement. The amount you’ll get depends on your household income and how many dependents you have

FIERCE COLD SWEEPS ANTARCTICA, DRIVES THE CONTINENT 4.4C BELOW 1979-2000 AVERAGE.. Not that the MSM cares, but Antarctica has suffered a fiercely cold last 18-or-so months — cold that is refusing to abate. According to the official data, yet contrary to the mainstream’s ‘heat induced catastrophe’ narrative, between April and September 2021, the South Pole’s temperature averaged a penguin-hugging -61.1C (-78F). Simply put, this was the locale’s coldest six month spell ever recorded, one that comfortably usurped the South Pole’s previous coldest ‘coreless winter‘ on record, the -60.6C (-77F) from 1976 (solar minimum of weak cycle 20). ... Also worth...

There were multiple reports on Monday about the death of Michael Stenger, the Senate sergeant-at-arms who was responsible for security in the Senate during the Capitol riot. According to Fox News’ Chad Pergram, Stenger died Monday morning. https://i0.wp.com/truthpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Untitled-1-297.jpg The Washington Examiner also reported on it, saying that the cause of his death was “not immediately clear.” Stenger stepped down in the wake of the Jan. 6 riot, after then-Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell asked for his resignation. He had been the Sergeant-at-Arms for the Senate between 2018 and 2021. Previously, he had served in the Secret Service. Ultimately, it took...

Boy Scout troops were heading home to Wisconsin after intense week-long New Mexico backpacking trip Two Boy Scout troops who were on a Chicago-bound Amtrak train that derailed after hitting a dump truck in Missouri, assisted fellow passengers in getting them to safety and provided first aid, Fox News has learned. In the immediate aftermath of the derailing, the two groups of Scouts broke windows and helped pull people out of train cars. They also used their advanced first-aid training to help injured passengers before first responders arrived at the crash site. One of the Scouts, a 15-year-old boy, located...

Russian-born academic Svetlana Lokhova alleges FBI confidential human source Stefan Halper defamed her, injured her business opportunities. Halper denies it, seeks dismissal. A federal appeals court has breathed new life into a lawsuit brought by a London-based academic against one of the FBI's confidential informants during the Russia collusion probe, litigation that is likely to focus new attention on the quality of evidence that led the bureau to investigate former President Donald Trump and his cohorts during the 2016 election. There has been a flurry of new legal activity this month in Svetlana Lokhova's lawsuit in federal court in Virginia...

ohn Carpenter’s The Thing is a cult classic forty years after its initial release, and the discussion for it hasn’t died down as a new fan theory has come along to explain an oddity from the film and its prequel/sequel. Throughout both the 1982 “original” and its 2011 follow-up, The Thing as an organism is incapable of communication outside of its human host. It’ll kill them mercilessly, feasting on paranoia as much as it does the flesh itself. This fan theory from /u/Outrageous-Career-91 explains why it doesn’t communicate with humans. (snip) Essentially, the disgust and mistrust it has for mankind...

A similar ruling was issued Monday in Louisiana, another state with an abortion "trigger law." udge in Utah has granted a restraining order that will block for 14 days the state's abortion "trigger law." Judge Andrew Stone of the 3rd District granted Planned Parenthood and the American Civil Liberties Union of Utah's request for a temporary injunction following an emergency hearing Monday. Utah's abortion trigger law was passed in 2020 and was contingent upon Roe v. Wade being overturned by the Supreme Court, which the court did Friday. The law bans abortions in the state with exceptions for rape or...

Russia and China are developing a new reserve currency with other BRICS countries, President Vladimir Putin said. The basket currency would rival a US-dominated IMF alternative and let Russia widen its influence. The dollar's dominance is already eroding as central banks diversify into the Chinese yuan and smaller currencies. "The matter of creating the international reserve currency based on the basket of currencies of our countries is under review," Putin told the BRICS Business Forum on Wednesday, according to a TASS report. "We are ready to openly work with all fair partners." While it's not a reserve currency, the SDR...

President Joe Biden apparently unwittingly financed his son’s participation in an escort ring tied to Russia, records from a copy of Hunter Biden's abandoned laptop show. Hunter Biden spent over $30,000 on escorts, many of whom were linked to ".ru" Russian email addresses and worked with an “exclusive model agency" called UberGFE during a 3 1/2 month period between November 2018 and March 2019. He managed to do so thanks in part to Joe Biden committing to wiring him a total of $100,000 to help pay his bills from December 2018 through January 2019. In one instance, Joe Biden wired...

Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov said on Sunday that he would be sending more troops to aid the Russians in their fight against Ukraine. Kadyrov announced the move in a Telegram post, stating that four battalions featuring an "impressive number" of soldiers would be formed to aid Russia. "The military contingent will include only Chechen guys," Kadyrov wrote. "They will replenish the composition of the troops of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation." He said the four battalions would be named "North-Akhmat", "South-Akhmat", "West-Akhmat," and "Vostok-Akhmat," and would be deployed from the Chechen Republic. "The desire to form new...

A former teacher at Oldham County High School received a sentence on Thursday for having sex with a minor pupil in 2018, According to the office of the Commonwealth’s Attorney, LaGrange resident Haley Reed was given a sentence for one count of rape and illegal dealing with a child. Reed, who oversaw the high school choir, previously confessed to having sex with a minor on the school grounds several times between April and June 2018. The teacher was charged with multiple counts of rape and sodomy as well as an unlawful transaction with a minor. She is reportedly married and...

(Translation) A delegation from the United States government arrived in Venezuela to deal with several items of a bilateral agenda and continue talks that began in March with Caracas, President Nicolás Maduro announced. According to the information, National Assembly President Jorge Rodríguez welcomed "an important delegation from the government of the United States that has arrived in Venezuela" and works "to give continuity to relations, to the bilateral agenda," Maduro announced on the state-run VTV [television] channel.

A New York man dubbed the 'duck sauce killer' after allegedly killing his Chinese food delivery man has been released from jail Monday after he posted $500,000 bail.

Fifty people on the terror watch list have been apprehended at the Southern border so far this year, and there is no telling how many got across without being caught. And now Old Joe Biden’s handlers have opened up a new way for terrorists to get into the United States: Iran International English reported late Friday that “the Biden admin has decided to lift a controversial ban on the entry into US of Iranian men who’d been conscripted into IRGC, a Foreign Terrorist Organization, as part of their compulsory military service, as they don’t ‘pose a national security or public...

Last Friday, in a 6-3 ruling, the Supreme Court struck down the ruling Roe v Wade via its decision on Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization. Across the country, understandably, frightened and angry young women are protesting; screaming and weeping. The organized, institutional, heavily funded US feminist movement, which for fifty years has predicated American feminist ideology, and its own donor appeals, on the foundation of defending Roe, is calling this ruling a travesty. I am going to argue that the defeat of Roe is not in fact a defeat of women but a necessary evolution in the law, in...

A singer was allegedly shot dead by her elderly husband in a restaurant after trying to divorce him for months. Yrma Lydya, 21, was gunned down by Jesus Hernandez, 79, inside a private room at a Japanese restaurant in Mexico City, cops say. Folk artist Lydya was eating at the venue in the Benito Juarez neighborhood when she was killed last Thursday. The couple became embroiled in a row in the private room and Hernandez shot his young wife three times in the chest, it’s alleged. It’s also claimed he and his bodyguard, Benjamin Hernandez, then attempted to flee in...

Pro-abortion protesters grab a Bible and play soccer with it.

Republican pundits and conservative activists are debating whether they can win in 2024 with the successful Trump agenda, but without the controversial former President Donald Trump as their nominee. The Democrats have a similar, but far more serious dilemma with President Joe Biden as the Democratic Party's nominee in 2024. Unlike the Trump Administration's successful four years, Biden's tenure has been an utter disaster. There are no policy offsets to the personal liabilities and unpopularity of Biden himself. Biden's liabilities transcend his physical infirmities, his advanced age, and his seeming geometric rather than arithmetic rate of mental decline. Biden, moreover,...