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An absolutely magnificent rendition of the the CCR classic. It’s the Piano Rock version. Something to get your mind off the Hunter and Bozo Joe Show. https://youtube.com/watch?v=sBQzt9Lz__o&feature=share

The expulsion of the Russian occupation forces from the Zmiinyi Island in the Black Sea made it possible to secure the passage of ships through the Bystre estuary of the ship passage of the Danube River. Already, eight cargo ships have entered the ports through it. The press center of the Naval Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported this. The military notes that the use of this channel became possible exclusively after Russian troops left the Zmiinyi Island captured in the first days of the war after repeated strikes from the Armed Forces of Ukraine. "The island is...

The United States will fail if liberals cannot overcome their contempt and hatred for President Donald Trump’s voters, says a liberal author in the Washington Post.“We know that if we don’t figure this out, we don’t have a country,” said Washington Post book reviewer Joe Klein.Klein described the liberals’ “primal scream” in a new book, titled, “Thank You for Your Servitude: Donald Trump’s Washington and the Price of Submission”. The book, by Mark Leibovitch, describes how establishment GOP leaders:could almost get away with destroying American democracy — because a significant percentage of the American people, the [Trump voting] folks that...

The U.S. economy is healthy and shows little sign of an imminent recession, and can withstand higher interest rates, St. Louis Federal Reserve president James Bullard said Monday. Financial markets are flashing signs that an economic downturn could arrive sometime next year, as Americans grapple with the highest inflation in four decades and the Federal Reserve pushes borrowing costs higher. But Bullard said in an interview with The Associated Press that the central bank wouldn't have to drive the economy into a recession or significantly raise unemployment to bring inflation down to its 2% target. “Now we have lots of...

A teacher at Robb Elementary who was injured in the mass shooting says he hasn't spoken to his cousin, Uvalde School District Police Chief Pete Arredondo, since the shooting. On May 24, a gunman killed 19 students and 2 teachers in Uvalde, Texas. Eleven of those students were in Arnulfo Reyes' 4th grade classroom. During the tragedy, Reyes was first shot in the arm. He played dead for an hour until the gunman shot him again in the back. Speaking with NPR, Reyes said his classroom's doorknob had been broken for at least two years. He said he can't understand...

President Trump’s massive Anchorage, Alaska Rally is full of pride, cheers, and roaring applause as he touts his legendary achievementsOn Saturday night, President Trump took the stage to a massive, applauding crowd in Anchorage, Alaska.At the time of him walking on stage, the RSBN Rumble stream had 200,000 concurrent viewers, making it one of the most televised Trump rallies in history.He began his speech by touting his administration’s many accomplishments, from energy independence to the economy and the Supreme Court, while also pointing out Biden’s many failures from Afghanistan and gas prices.President Trump emphasizes the violent crime brought on by...

An Amazon face was smiling on the Plenary CouncilPrior to the controversial 2019 Amazon Synod, Pope Francis called for a Church “with an Amazon face”, lauding that primitive culture for its wisdom and deep spirituality. As this author and others have written, the Pope chose to overlook the less savoury elements - the euthanasia, infanticide, cannibalism and sodomy - inherent in traditional South American cultures, just as he chose to ignore the pre-eminence of the Church he leads, the Church founded by Jesus Christ. Following the Pope’s lead, Australia’s Plenary organisers and the majority of her bishops chose to ignore...

The lower house of the Russian parliament will gather on July 15 for an extraordinary session, its council decided on Monday, just days after President Vladimir Putin warned that he had not even started to get serious in the war in Ukraine. Putin used a meeting with parliamentary leaders on Thursday to dare the United States and its allies to try to defeat Russia in Ukraine, which Russia invaded on Feb. 24. Parliamentary leaders all thanked Putin for his decisions.

India is set to become the world's most populous country next year, overtaking China with its 1.4bn people, according to UN figures. By this November, the planet will be home to 8bn. But population growth is not as rapid as it used to be. It is now at its slowest rate since 1950 and is set to peak, says the UN, around the 2080s at about 10.4bn though some demographers believe that could happen even sooner. But the population of the world is expanding unevenly.

In yet another report that illustrates the dangers pot poses to the young, developing brain, a new British study finds teenagers are much more likely than adults to develop an addiction to marijuana. "We found that teenagers are three and a half times more likely to have severe cannabis use disorder, which is essentially cannabis addiction," said lead researcher Will Lawn, a lecturer in addiction psychology with King's College London. "That's a very important harm which teenagers should be informed of." However, marijuana use did not appear to cause any other harms to the teenage brain, his team found. "Teenagers...

The Biden administration on Monday told hospitals that they "must" provide abortion services if the life of the mother is at risk, saying federal law on emergency treatment guidelines preempts state laws in jurisdictions that now ban the procedure without any exceptions following the Supreme Court's decision to end a constitutional right to abortion. The Department of Health and Human Services cited requirements on medical facilities in the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act... ...department said emergency conditions include "ectopic pregnancy, complications of pregnancy loss, or emergent hypertensive disorders, such as preeclampsia with severe features." ...The department says its guidance...

Florida deputies used a taser to stop a man who tried to avoid arrest by fleeing on a riding lawn mower on Saturday. The Okaloosa County sheriff’s office said it was trying to serve arrest warrants on the 40-year-old man and found him on the mower in a backyard. They shouted at him to stop and get on the ground when he tried to escape on the mower. Deputies chased him on foot before using the taser. When he was finally caught deputies found him with a revolver, a handcuff key and a pipe with methamphetamine residue

It became known about the liquidation of the Russian colonel, commander of the 810th Marine Brigade of the Russian Army Sergey Kens. As Censor.NET informs, Colonel Anatoliy Shtirlitz announced this on Twitter. -In Kherson direction, Armed Forces of Ukraine destroyed two command posts of Russian army, - OC "South" -Armed Forces liquidated commander of Russian 49th Anti-Aircraft Missile Brigade. PHOTO -Ukraine’s Armed Forces already eliminate 36,900 Russian invaders. INFOGRAPHICS. INFOGRAPHICS -Ukrainian soldiers liquidated Deputy Commander of 83rd Airborne Brigade of occupying Guards Lieutenant Colonel Slabtsov. PHOTO -Commander of 6th company of 57th motorized infantry brigade of Armed Forces of Russian...

The sham House January 6 Committee changed its anticipated schedule of “high-impact hearings” amid a series of maneuvers by potential witnesses and Steve Bannon’s indication he is willing to testify on his own terms. According to The Daily Mail the panel had planned to hold a Thursday hearing in prime time that would be its second televised evening event. But that all changed when Steve Bannon announced over the weekend that he would testify live and in person before the committee. The sham committee of Never Trump politicians have no interest in reporting the truth. And they know they can’t...

A visitor to a southern California beach captured video of beach-goers fleeing in a panic two sea lions appear to aggressively charge after them -- but one expert said the animals may not have been concerned with the humans at all. Charlianne Yeyna, who posted the now-viral video to TikTok, said the chase began when a woman attempted to take a photo of a sleeping sea lion at La Jolla Cove in San Diego. "The sea lions were sleeping and were just massive on the beach and I was just watching them and this woman got really close to them,...

Explanation: What is the oldest thing you can see? At 2.5 million light years distant, the answer for the unaided eye is the Andromeda galaxy, because its photons are 2.5 million years old when they reach you. Most other apparent denizens of the night sky -- stars, clusters, and nebulae -- appear as they were only a few hundred to a few thousand years ago, as they lie well within our own Milky Way Galaxy. Given its distance, light from Andromeda is likely also the farthest object that you can see. Also known as M31, the Andromeda Galaxy dominates the...

The war in Ukraine has exacerbated the issue, but American stockpiles were already down.Between COVID, war, bird flu, climate change, and maybe plain bad luck, everyone's become accustomed to shortages: In 2022 alone, we've covered supply issues with coffee cups, fertilizer, sunflower oil, Subway meats, popcorn, and, yes, even Huy Fong Sriracha. So what's next on the chopping block? Apparently, chickpea stockpiles are down significantly enough that America may need to be concerned with an increase in the price of hummus. Last week, Reuters reported that global chickpea supplies may drop as much as 20 percent this year, according...

Salt & Straw’s $65 edible perfume for ice cream is fun, but not worth it. Following in the footsteps of Van Leeuwen’s extremely viral Kraft Macaroni & Cheese ice cream, other brands are getting in on headline-grabbing, extremely bonkers flavors. There’s a Nathan’s Famous hot dog ice cream, which is laced with caramelized bits of the famous meat (yum?) that shatter like crispy bacon between your molars. And I will never understand why French’s turned its respectable tomato ketchup into an abominable popsicle. I know that none of these batty products are really meant to become household staples. Still, when...

Call them orange wines, or skin-contact whites, either way it’s a world you need to know.OK, first things first: There are no oranges in orange wine. And no tangerines, tangelos, mandarins, clementines, ponkans, blood oranges, Buddha's hands, or sumo citruses (citrii?) either. Not a one. Orange wine instead is the popular way of referring to what's more technically, albeit clumsily, called "skin-contact white wine." When it comes to most wine grapes, the flesh of the grape isn't pigmented; cut a Cabernet grape open next to a Chardonnay grape, and the insides of both look more or less the same (pale...

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