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Would be most appreciative for any advice. Need to add accessories like crash bars, skid plates, tank and top bag, windshield extender, etc. If youse guys have experience, your thoughts would be most welcome. I considered a KLR 650 (too heavy and still needed doo-hickey and thermobob) and several other small "adventure" bikes but finally settled on this. Love it so far.Have about 300 miles so far, mostly practicing riding in sand and standing.Several years ago, I owned a cruiser but have never done any off-road motorcycling so still need a lot of practice.That said, I do ride a mountain...

Russian President Vladimir Putin recently told Russian lawmakers that the war in Ukraine has signaled the end of the U.S.-led international order."They should have realized that they have already lost from the very beginning of our special military operation," Putin said on July 7, using the official Russian term for the war in Ukraine. "Its beginning also means the beginning of a radical breakdown of the American world order."Putin said that "this is the beginning of the transition from liberal-globalist American egocentrism to a truly multipolar world" and that this process "can no longer be stopped."

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With the examples of Sri Lanka and Ghana already before us, Tucker spells out exactly where the Biden administration’s policies are taking us. When Congress—the people’s representatives—had the chance to vote on the Green New Deal, it emphatically said “no.” Were we still a functioning representative democracy, that would be the end of the Green New Deal until such time as We the People elect (God forbid) a majority of Senators and House members who want that legislation. The unconstitutional leftist model since FDR, though, has been for the executive branch to do what Congress refuses to do and, sadly,...

The first version of the war is the Russian one. Moscow lost politically because it thought the invasion of Ukraine would be a stroll in the park. It would have put the Kyiv government under Moscow’s control, split the European Union, and politically distanced the United States from Europe. None of these goals has been realized. The advance into Ukraine was a massacre and therefore failed. The attempt to encircle Ukrainian forces in the country’s east also failed. Today the Russians have reverted to World War I tactics. They bombard, razing a target to the ground. When the target has...

Taiwan has started sea trials of its first indigenously built Landing Platform Dock (LPD), known as the Yu Shan, with the ship expected to be commissioned this September, Taiwan News reported. The Yu Shan was constructed by Taiwanese shipbuilder China Shipbuilding Corporation (CSBC) and will be tasked with carrying out amphibious combat operations supporting Taiwan’s outer islands and disaster relief missions. The vessel can also reportedly serve as a floating hospital. It is also being viewed as an essential step in the Taiwanese government’s national shipbuilding program, with four additional units planned for the Taiwanese Navy, Naval News reported. According...

Proxy advisors are the hidden force behind the rise of the ESG movement and its morph into a large-scale grift where American companies and investors are the victims. This little-known industry, dominated by Institutional Shareholder Services ("ISS") and its smaller competitor Glass Lewis, has fundamentally changed ESG. What began as a public relations and marketing effort for corporations to show employees and customers they are responsible actors now functions as a corporate credit score where those who refuse to play the game are denied access to investor capital. Publicly traded companies have often been slow to fully understand the power...

BMW is now selling subscriptions for heated seats in a number of countries — the latest example of the company’s adoption of microtransactions for high-end car features. A monthly subscription to heat your BMW’s front seats costs roughly $18, with options to subscribe for a year ($180), three years ($300), or pay for “unlimited” access for $415. It’s not clear exactly when BMW started offering this feature as a subscription, or in which countries, but a number of outlets this week reported spotted its launch in South Korea. BMW has slowly been putting features behind subscriptions since 2020, and heated...

The wheels are coming off the Democrats’ wagon, and not just in Washington either. They’re losing it here in Massachusetts too, even though most of the attention is focused on the unprecedented catastrophe that is the Brandon administration. On Monday, for instance, Dementia Joe Biden said that the Parkland High shootings occurred, not in 2018, but in 1918. He didn’t even correct himself. On the same day, his wife Dr. Jill compared Hispanics to “breakfast tacos” and mispronounced bodegas as “bogodas.” And then there’s the vice president, who when asked by an interviewer about why the Democrats did nothing legislatively...

That the left has chosen to die on this hill is insane. It has become a form of mass psychosis. How to explain the Democrat party’s obsession with transgenderism, with shoving it down the throats of every American, from ages five and up? It’s inexplicable. Does every registered Democrat support confusing small children with gender identity indoctrination? That can’t be true. But school districts across the country are using books about all manner of sexual issues, including pornography, topics way beyond the grasp of small children. And they are using those books without parents’ knowledge. When parents discover these books...

Rep. Bennie Thompson, the January 6th Commission Chairman, threw his support behind a secessionist group called the Republic of New Afrika (RNA), an unearthed video has revealed. According to Just The News, Thompson uttered support for the guerilla warfare secessionist group who attempted to take control of several U.S. states in exchange for peace with law enforcement throughout the 20th century. Thompson’s advocacy on behalf of the RNA has been well documented in newspaper clippings, video footage, FBI and local law-enforcement archives. From this evidence, Thompson has been found to blame law enforcement for instigating violence that led to the...

I've noticed that when media represent so-called "transgender" men and highly effeminate males, they are often black. Perhaps far too many people are desensitized to the pollution in our mass media to notice the disproportionate number of high-profile effeminate black men showcased in high rotation in all mass communication media. These "gender-fluid" celebrities all display a common exaggerated and dramatically "flaming" exhibitionistic effeminate behavior. It is my simple observation that whenever the secular humanist liberal class desires to impose non-traditional values into the public square, they often employ compromised black individuals or assume "black causes" to advance their self-serving agenda....

Afather has garnered support online after admitting to holding his son's college fund "hostage" upon discovering the son no longer wanted to attend. The 48-year-old man, under the handle of u/Night_Owl63, took to Reddit's "Am I the A**hole" forum where users head to gain insight into their own personal dilemmas. He shared that he started the college fund with his wife as soon as they found out she was pregnant and added that they have so far raised around $400,000..... However, the son has decided since graduating high school this year that he does not want to attend college. The...

It's time to give "working with" Democrats a rest. The people want something different. As our nation descends into a recession and Americans worry about how to pay their bills and feed their families, leaders in the Republican Party have decided to keep quiet. Their strategy is to let the political party in power, the Democrats, self-destruct. Without question, Democrats have done a horrible job leading the nation. SNIP Democrats showed no qualms about trying to annihilate President Trump using phony charges. In contrast, Republicans have tangible evidence to present regarding Biden, and, largely, there is silence from GOP officials....

Stock futures rose slightly Wednesday as investors awaited a key inflation report that is expected to show a fresh high. Futures tied to the Dow Jones Industrial Average advanced 61 points, or 0.2%. S&P 500 futures climbed 0.2%, and Nasdaq 100 futures gained 0.3%. The consumer price index, slated for release at 8:30 a.m. ET, is expected to climb by 8.8% in June on a year-over-year basis, according to Dow Jones' survey of economists. That would be even higher than May's 8.6% reading, which was the biggest increase since 1981. "The market is anticipating that June will be the new...

LOL! Just noticed that feeble pedophile Joe is getting aboard Air Force One through the cargo bay now to avoid that long climb up the normal stairs!

Asking whether only women can become pregnant could get you accused of being transphobic, as Sen. Josh Hawley can attest. At a Tuesday hearing, University of California Berkeley School of Law professor Khiara M. Bridges accused the Missouri Republican of engaging in “transphobic” questioning after he asked her what she meant by “people with a capacity for pregnancy.” “The Democrats say what they really think: men can get pregnant and if you disagree, you are ‘transphobic’ and responsible for violence,” Mr. Hawley tweeted afterward. “For today’s left, disagreement with them = violence. So you must not disagree.” Mr. Hawley touched...

<p>Speaking at a rally meeting, Ge Heping, Party chief of the Chinese Flight Test Establishment under the state-owned Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC), asked “all personnel involved in the development of the aircraft to fully realize the extreme importance of completing this mission,” Global Times, a Chinese state-owned media group, reported.</p>

Mexico on Tuesday agreed to contribute $1.5 billion to a joint initiative with the U.S. to improve infrastructure along the U.S.-Mexico border, according to a person familiar with the commitment. The agreement came on the same day President Joe Biden hosted his Mexican counterpart, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, for a meeting in the Oval Office. Part of their discussions were expected to include a commitment from the two countries to carry out "a multi-year, joint, U.S.-Mexico border infrastructure modernization effort for projects along the 2,000 mile border," a senior Biden administration official told reporters on Monday ahead of the meeting....

Russia is surveilling the families of soldiers killed while fighting Vladimir Putin's war, in case they voice public opposition to the ongoing conflict, according to Ukrainian military intelligence. In a report published on Sunday, Ukraine's military intelligence directorate said Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) for the western Kostroma region put in a request to monitor certain individuals who may be "prone to committing crimes" under stringent new laws that crack down on dissent. The FSB, Kremlin's principal security agency, asked the head of the Vohomsk municipal district to provide background information on persons who may violate laws on "public dissemination...