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Photos appearing to show Chinese vendors offering beverage discounts in celebration of former Japanese Prime Minister Abe Shinzo’s assassination began to crop up on Chinese social media platforms. “Celebrating Abe’s death Milktea buy 1 get 1 free for 3 days straight,” read a Chinese language-printed banners. “Celebrating Abe’s death, Buy 1 get 1 free,” read another promotion. “Celebration Abe’s assassination, all beer buy 1 get 1 free,” read a poster. The social media posts advertising free drinks in honor of Abe’s death on Friday are indicative of a general wave of anti-Abe sentiment that has washed over Chinese social media...

A retired three-star Army general was suspended from a high paying mentoring job for mocking a recent tweet Jill Biden made regarding the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe vs. Wade. 'Glad to see you finally know what a woman is,' was the response Lieutenant General Gary Volesky tweeted on Friday. The tweet, which appeared to reference ongoing arguments over transgender rights and gender-neutral language, has since been removed. The offensive remark may have cost the retired army general his cushy $92 hour mentoring role as the Army conducts its own internal investigation. Volesky posted his snarky comment less than...

U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was criticized for mocking the alleged harassment from pro-choice protesters that caused Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh to flee a D.C. steakhouse. Kavanaugh, who previously faced an assassination attempt, was having dinner at the Morton's restaurant on Wednesday when activists showed up and told the manager to kick him out, two weeks after he was in the majority that overturned Roe v. Wade, Politco reported. Poking fun at the situation, the New York Democrat tweeted on Friday: 'Poor guy. He left before his soufflé because he decided half the country should risk death if they have...

"Don’t worry,” we were told in school, around the turn of the millennium. “They’re more afraid of you than you are of them.” A useful reassurance if you’re talking about spiders, but the subject in question here? Lesbians. This well-intentioned but clumsy incident fits into a broader pattern of regressive messaging in schools at the time. In other girls’ schools, you might have a piece of Sellotape pressed against various arms, then held up once it lost its adhesive power. The sullied piece of tape was a reminder to ‘save yourself’ for (heterosexual) marriage. Cut to the 2020s, with Progress...

Chinese social media reportedly blew up Friday with posts gleefully celebrating the assassination of former Japanese Prime Minister Abe Shinzo, who annoyed the tyrants of Beijing with his staunch support for Taiwan. The Chinese dissident artist who works under the name Badiucao collected some ugly examples of China’s nationalist “Little Pinks” praising Abe’s assassin as a “hero,” proposing various ways to celebrate Abe’s death with food and drink, and offering rewards to the killer: India Today harvested more vicious comments from Chinese social media, including “Lots of laughter,” “I will feel happy if he is not okay,” “I hope he...

National Public Radio characterized former Japanese Prime Minister Abe Shinzo as a “divisive arch-conservative” a mere hours after a gunman assassinated him . Abe served as Japan’s prime minister from 2006 to 2007 and, more recently, from 2012 to 2020. NPR posted the following tweet after Abe’s assassination: "Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, a divisive arch-conservative and one of his nation’s most powerful and influential figures, has died after being shot during a campaign speech Friday in western Japan." NPR has since deleted its tweet after social media users were outraged. “NPR referring to Japan’s most popular PM, who...

Yesterday the sponsors of IP 17 turned in signatures for an overtly racist ballot measure. On the same day, a newly appointed Yamhill County Judge invalidated a local ordinance protecting gun owners. Out-of-state, paid signature gatherers were reportedly telling signers that the ballot measure was about “background checks.” IP 17 will ban modern firearm’s magazines, outlaw most modern shotguns, and create a “permitting” system designed to prevent low income minorities from purchasing firearms. With crime skyrocketing in Portland and the poorest residents most at risk, “Lift Every Voice Oregon” is pushing a permit system that will require anyone trying to...

A Fresno woman is seeking monetary damages after a doctor removed her spleen instead of a diseased kidney, a mistake that left a pathologist “astonished,” according to a lawsuit. The woman, Sarajane Parfitt, must undergo another operation to take out the kidney, and the removal of the spleen leaves her vulnerable to serious infections, according to medical experts. The lawsuit, filed in Fresno County Superior Court in June, contends the mistake has caused Parfitt “severe emotional distress.” Paul Pimentel, Parfitt’s attorney, called the surgical error “insane...I’ve never heard of this in this community.” Named in the lawsuit are Dr. Narayana...

An Ohio Democrat has proposed legislation that would allow people to sue someone who impregnated them. The bill has been proposed as Ohio bans abortion after six weeks of pregnancy in light of Roe v. Wade's repeal. Aaron Baer, President of the Center for Christian Virtue, says it will tackle "hook-up culture" and hold "deadbeat dads" to account. An Ohio Democrat has proposed legislation allowing pregnant people to sue the person who impregnated them, regardless of whether the sex in question was consensual or not. Senator Tina Maharath has proposed the bill in light of the US Supreme Court repealing...

Safety officials have opened a 37th probe into a Tesla crash after a couple's car slammed into the back of a Walmart truck, shearing its roof off. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is investigating the wreck, which happened at the Paynes Prairie Rest Stop just south of Gainesville, Florida, on Wednesday. Its female driver, aged 66, and her 67 year-old male passenger were killed. The pair were visiting from Lompoc in California, and neither their age nor their relationship to one another has been disclosed, in accordance with Florida state laws. The Tesla - a 2015 S model...

The people openly calling for the harassment and killing of Supreme Court Justices are politically LEFT wing, communists, and socialists – democrats. The mass shootings in America perpetrated by non-jihadis are primarily done by politically LEFT wing, communists, and socialists – democrats.Yet, despite all of the evidence and facts on the table, Joe Biden, Attorney General Merrick Garland and other government officials publicly state white supremacists and “MAGA” people are the greatest threat to America.As examples, watch UTT’s video of Joe Biden’s statements HERE, and read and article of AG Garlands statements HERE.Other solid examples include: Congressman Nadler stating the...

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Monticello is going woke — and trashing Thomas Jefferson’s good name in the process. The Charlottesville, Virginia, home of the Founding Father and America’s third president is one of our best-known national monuments, familiar from its appearance on the nickel since 1938. But the hilltop mansion designed by Jefferson himself, once preserved as a tribute to the author of the Declaration of Independence, now offers visitors a harangue on the horrors of slavery. “The whole thing has the feel of propaganda and manipulation,” Jeffrey Tucker, founder of the libertarian Brownstone Institute and a recent visitor, told The Post. “People on...

U.S. Rep. Steve Womack’s (R-AR Dist. 3) son was arrested in Rogers on July 6 for possession of meth. According to an affidavit, police were asked to assist with a probation home visit on E. Woodridge Lane in Rogers. When police arrived, they found James Womack, 34, in a downstairs bedroom of the home. The affidavit report says Womack tried to sit on a zipper-style glasses case when police met with him. The case contained an orange cylinder shape container and suspected methamphetamine inside the container. Inside the glasses case, police found multiple syringes, a small glass vile with suspected...

WASHINGTON (AP) — It would have been something never quite before seen in America — a defeated president, Donald Trump, standing at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, with a mob of supporters, some armed, contesting the election outcome. Trump intended to go there that day. His allies had been planning for the moment, envisioning the president delivering a speech outside the building or even entering the House chamber amid objections to Congress certifying the 2020 election results for Democrat Joe Biden. “He’s going to look powerful,” mused Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani to a young White House aide four days...

Four people at a renowned Shanghai hospital were wounded by a knife-wielding assailant on Saturday (Jul 9), in the second reported stabbing incident after a COVID-19 lockdown of the financial hub was lifted early in June. Officers raced to the more than 100-year-old Ruijin Hospital on Saturday morning after receiving calls about an attack, police said. Videos on social media showed chaos as visitors clambered under turnstiles to get out of the hospital while doctors were seen running out with their patients, some in wheelchairs and one on a mobile bed.

He just endorsed Kelly Tshibaka (opponent of Murkowski) for the Senate election in Alaska.

Three former Disney World employees are suing the company for religious discrimination after allegedly being terminated for refusing to comply with its Covid-19 policies. According to the suit, filed June 30 in a Florida court, Barbara Andreas, Stephen J. Cribb and Adam Pajer sought and were denied religious exemption from wearing masks and getting the vaccine. "When Plaintiffs each objected respectfully and consistently to Disney's unlawful discrimination against them, Disney failed to remediate its actions contrary to law," the complaint states. "Instead, Disney suspended and terminated Plaintiffs for 'Speaking Up' in accordance with law and Disney's own company policy."

The Germans aren’t laughing now. In fact, gas prices are so high in Germany today that wood-burning stoves and firewood have become scarce nationwide. German citizens are loading up on wood to heat their homes next year — just like they did in the Middle Ages.

When Boris Johnson finally announced he would step down as UK Prime Minister on Thursday, after desperately trying to cling onto power despite a historic government rebellion, his decision sparked a sense of relief across Westminster. In Kyiv, it was met with despair. Johnson has been one of the most vocal supporters of Ukraine as it tries to defend itself against Russia's unprovoked assault, and his departure stirred up fears that the UK's support for the country -- worth £3.8 billion ($4.6 billion) so far this year -- might start to dwindle. With the whole Western world united behind it,...