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Morton's says it has been swamped with fake reservations after it defended Brett Kavanaugh's "right" to "eat dinner."Kavanaugh was dining at a DC location when demonstrators gathered outside to protest the overturn of Roe v. Wade.The justice left out a back door, with Morton's later saying the demonstration was "void of decency."A steakhouse chain is being flooded with phone calls and fake reservations over its defense of Associate Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh's "right" to "eat dinner" at one of its restaurants, where demonstrators gathered outside to protest his support of overturning Roe v. Wade.Morton's this week sent a memo...

Sri Lanka’s prime minister said late last month that the island nation’s debt-laden economy had “collapsed” as it runs out of money to pay for food and fuel. Short of cash to pay for imports of such necessities and already defaulting on its debt, it is seeking help from neighboring India and China and from the International Monetary Fund. Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, who took office in May, was emphasizing the monumental task he faced in turning around an economy he said was heading for “rock bottom.” On Saturday both he and President Gotabaya Rajapaksa agreed to resign amid mounting...

BIXBY, Okla. (AP) — A Black business leader and community activist who joined Tulsa civic leaders in fighting then-President Donald Trump's plan to hold a campaign rally on Juneteenth in a city known as the site of one of the nation's deadliest white-on-Black mob attacks has been killed in what police describe as a domestic incident at her home. Investigators were trying Thursday to develop a timeline that led to Sherry Gamble Smith and her husband, Martin Everett Smith, being fatally wounded in their home in the Tulsa suburb of Bixby, Oklahoma. Police dispatched on a call about a reported...

Scientists can use various clues to figure out what's under Earth's surface without actually having to do any digging – including firing super-fine lasers thinner than a human hair at minerals found in beach sand...The edge of the ancient piece of crust appears to define an important crustal boundary controlling where economically important minerals are found...

For some reason, the RSBN link is not available. Sinister forces preventing us from seeing the Alaska rally? Watch it here!

A 3,200-year-old Mycenaean statuette has been found in the ongoing excavations at Ayasuluk Hill in western Izmir province's Selçuk district. The statuette, which reveals a possible connection between Hittites and Mycenaean civilizations in the Ephesus region, could change the perspective on the history of civilization in Western Anatolia during the Bronze Age...During the excavations carried out under the direction of associate professor Sinan Mimaroğlu of Hatay Mustafa Kemal University Art History Department, a Mycenaean figurine with a height and width of about 5 centimeters (1.97 inches), whose head and feet could not be found, was unearthed, as well as ceramics...

Vanity: Public source. Old government informational reel. Surprisingly accurate for today.

STRIVING FOR BALANCE In a university commencement address several years ago, Brian Dyson, CEO of Coca Cola Enterprises, spoke of the relation of work to one's other commitments: "Imagine life as a game in which you are juggling some five balls in the air. You name them - work, family, health, friends and spirit - and you're keeping all of these in the air. You will soon understand that work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. But the other four balls - family, health, friends and spirit - are made of glass. If...

LAS VEGAS, Nevada — Former President Donald Trump told Breitbart News exclusively that he knew Elon Musk would not actually acquire Twitter, despite the hype. “I knew that Twitter had a lot of the fake accounts because I read, like everyone else does,” Trump told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview Friday night. “I knew they had a lot of the fake accounts like the bots and everything else that they had. I thought that the price was exorbitant; the price he was paying for it was exorbitant.” Trump pointed out correctly, too, that he “called it early” that Musk...

CBS “Mornings” on Friday remembered former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe following his assassination while on the campaign trail at the age of 67. According to CBS reporter Elizabeth Palmer, Abe was a “polarizing figure,” “a right-wing nationalist and conservative.” She advised that although Abe’s “political opinions were controversial,” the country was “united in shock and sympathy at the news of his death.” “It would be hard to overstate just how much of a shock this is in the normally nonviolent Japan,” Palmer stated. People are really feeling traumatized.” “Abe was Japan’s longest-serving prime minister when he left office in...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s president submitted a bill Tuesday to end daylight saving time, putting an end to the practice of changing clocks twice a year. Health Secretary Jorge Alcocer said Mexico should return to “God’s clock,” or standard time, arguing that setting clocks back or forward damages people’s health. That would mean darkness falling an hour earlier on summer afternoons. “The recommendable thing is to return to standard time, which is when the solar clock coincides with the people’s clock, the clock of God,” Alcocer argued. Mexicans set their clocks ahead this year on April 3, and are...

Certain elitists and the United Nations believe the world is overpopulated, and so population growth needs to be reduced. However, population control programs in many countries often use forcible methods, said Steven Mosher, President of the Population Research Institute. In the view of billionaires, such as Bill Gates, with the exception of Elon Musk, the world is overpopulated; notably they believe there are too many poor people, Mosher said on EpochTV’s “Crossroads” program. However, since the 1990s the phenomenon of population collapse is seen in the industrialized nations in Europe, the Far East, North America, Australia, and New Zealand, which...

Abortion rights protesters gathered outside the White House on Saturday to call on President Joe Biden to do more to protect access. The action, organized by the Women's March, is part of a "Summer of Rage" in response to the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. Since the June 24 ruling ending nationwide abortion access, several states have already moved to limit or outright ban the procedure. "We're putting our bodies on the line at the White House RIGHT NOW," the group wrote on Twitter. "Let's show President Biden there are millions more who want him to declare...

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...