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The Florida Democratic Party’s annual leadership conference is sponsored by Big Pharma giant and COVID-19 vaccine pusher Pfizer, The National Pulse can reveal. Taking place July 15th through 17th, the event and gala count Pfizer as one of its lead corporate sponsors in addition to Democratic campaign and lobby groups. ActBlue – the prominent payment processor for Democrats and Black Lives Matter – is also a sponsor, in addition to the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO). The “Leadership Blue” event, hosted in Tampa, convenes Democratic candidates for office and Florida Democratic Party (FDP) officials from...

Former Olympic champion Mo Farah revealed in an article published on Monday (Jul 11) that he was brought to Britain illegally under the name of another child to work as a domestic servant. Farah told the BBC that he was given the name Mohamed Farah by a woman who flew him to the UK from east African country Djibouti aged nine. The 39-year-old, whose father was killed in Somalia when he was four, said his real name is Hussein Abdi Kahin and claimed he was made to look after another family's children in Britain.

On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks argued that even a ban on future purchases of guns would not reduce the number of guns in America and that reducing the number of guns in America would require something akin to an Australia-style gun buyback program. And that he has never understood why a gun buyback like Australia’s “is an affront to anybody.” Because it’s a choice whether to sell your gun back or not. Brooks began by saying that the chance of the federal government taking further action on guns “Seems remote.” He added, “I’ve never understood...

The mother of the man arrested for the killing of former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe is a member of the Unification Church, the church's Japan head said on Monday (Jul 11). A police investigation into the assassination of former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe prompted the head of the country's branch of the Unification Church to confirm on Monday that the mother of the suspect in the killing is a member. Tetsuya Yamagami, an unemployed 41-year-old, has been identified by police as the suspect who approached Abe and opened fire during a campaign speech on Friday, an attack that...

The rest of the world has moved on from Covid-19, National Party leader Christopher Luxon says, having just arrived back from overseas. "They've got a different set of circumstances. I have to be honest, the rest of the world's moving on and is operating - there wasn't a single Covid conversation I had while I was in Ireland with any political leader or official or any organisation that I met with," While in London, Luxon gave a speech...about how hard it was for businesspeople in New Zealand under the Labour government. "You hear a lot of businesses that are really...

“Coming out of my transition was like leaving the twilight zone, but the rest of society is still in it.” After living nearly a decade of his life as a transgender woman named Brianna, Brian Wagoner ultimately came to realize his transition had been a mistake. In February, the 31-year-old made the decision to detransition back to his biological gender and live once again as a man. “It was basically like medical professionals cheering on a girl with bulimia for puking up her lunch when her ribs are already poking out,” he said of the estrogen treatment he was put...

[Catholic Caucus] A bishop reflects on the Australian Plenary CouncilIn a conclave they bundle the cardinals into the Sistine Chapel and with the cry of “extra omnes” shut the doors. Whilst not quite as dramatic, the Church in Australia celebrated an opening Mass with 277 delegates in attendance at the chapel dedicated to Saint Mary of the Cross Mackillop.What was special about a week-long deliberation in the school hall of St. Mary’s Cathedral College by men and women gathered as the Fifth Plenary Council of Australia? At the last one in 1937 only bishops attended, and they published decrees declaring...

The Thomas Jefferson Foundation has drawn criticism for transforming Thomas Jefferson’s Charlottesville, Virginia, home into an exhibit on slavery. The foundation manages Monticello — the primary plantation and residence of the founding father and third president of the United States. Monticello was once a tribute to a man who helped draft the Declaration of Independence — the founding document of the U.S. Now, the plantation’s management has transformed it into a site that emphasizes the fact that Jefferson enslaved people. Monticello “offers visitors a harangue on the horrors of slavery.” According to Monticello’s website, one of the ticketed tours on...

The White House on Monday cited some of its past successes as it played down a new New York Times/Siena College poll showing President Joe Biden's approval rating almost scraping 30% -- and Democrats pushing, at this point some two years out, for a different candidate in the 2024 race. White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters that the administration remains focused on the issues at hand despite the latest survey, which showed only 33% of respondents approve of the job Biden is doing and 64% of Democratic voters saying they want someone else to be the party nominee...

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Lunar Glass and Mars Glass...are massive spinning cones that will use centrifugal force to simulate the effects of Earth’s gravity. These spinning cones will have an approximate radius of 328 feet (100 meters) and height of 1,312 feet (400 meters), and will complete one rotation every 20 seconds, creating a 1g experience for those inside (1g being the gravity on Earth). The researchers are targeting the back half of the 21st century for the construction of Lunar Glass, which seems unreasonably optimistic given the apparent technological expertise required to pull this off. The second element of the plan is the...

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.