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Facebook has reported its first-ever revenue miss and continued poor earnings, with forecasts expecting a second straight quarter of declining sales. The social media Masters of the Universe missed analysts’ estimates for both revenue and earnings. CNBC reports that Facebook (now known as Meta) recently reported a worse-than-expected drop in revenue, missed on earnings, and gave a weak forecast for the future. Further poor performance could see a second consecutive decline in year-over-year sales. Facebook shares fell by 5.65 percent in intraday trading on Thursday.

“Sickening evil” video footage shows a bound and gagged Ukrainian prisoner of war being castrated by Russian soldiers — before he is shot dead and dragged through the street on a rope. The barbaric footage — confirmed Friday by a Ukrainian politician and journalist — shows camouflaged soldiers allegedly led by Vitaly Aroshanov kicking the distressed soldier in the head as he lies bound by ropes on the floor. With his mouth gagged, the tortured prisoner moans in desperation as the troops rip his pants to expose his backside. As he squirms and moans, they use a box cutter to...

Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) said on Thursday that Senate Republicans got tricked into passing a semiconductor bill after believing that a Democrat reconciliation bill was dead. (snip) The same day that the Senate passed the CHIPS bill, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) announced a deal on the Inflation Reduction Act, a bill that would aim to reduce the deficit, raise taxes, and boost climate change and Obamacare spending. Announcing the deal immediately after Senate Republicans backed the CHIPS bill left many GOP lawmakers with egg on their faces. We got our ass kicked. It’s...

More than 18 months after describing Hunter Biden’s laptop as a “Breitbart rabbit hole,” far-left CNN has begun to report on it. Yes, when you absolutely, positively need your news more than a year later, you can always count on CNNLOL. Here’s the former, disgraced, and then-CNN chief Jeff Zucker in late 2020 explaining why his fake news network refused to cover and outright buried a legitimate and explosive story about the Biden family’s jaw-dropping corruption: "I do think, on the Breitbart, New York Post, Fox News rabbit hole of Hunter Biden which I don’t think anybody outside of that...

The Food and Drug Administration's top tobacco scientist has accepted a job at tobacco giant Philip Morris International, just weeks after he signed off on the company's latest vape product. Matt Holman, chief of the office of science in the agency's Center for Tobacco Products (CTP), announced his departure from the FDA on Tuesday, effective immediately, after having served at the agency for more than 20 years. His departure adds to ongoing trouble within the FDA's tobacco control division, which is currently under review by agency commissioner Robert Califf. It also follows the division's loss of Mitch Zeller, who retired...

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A bipartisan group of senators has announced two new proposals to change federal election law regarding the Electoral College count.The two bills are called the Electoral Count Reform and Presidential Transition Improvement Act and the Enhanced Election Security and Protection Act.These bills are meant to end the ability for future Presidents to use the avenues Trump and his team attempted to use.From NBC(Bias Warning):After months of negotiating, a group of senators announced two proposals Wednesday designed to close gaps in federal law and prevent future candidates from stealing elections.The measures — called the Electoral Count Reform and Presidential Transition Improvement...

The Allentown PA school board voted unanimously Thursday night to fire a Raub Middle School teacher who was suspended after posting pictures of himself on social media at Donald Trump’s “Stop the Steal” rally near the White House on January 6, 2021. Jason Moorehead was suspended the next day, pending an investigation into his conduct. Moorehead, who had been a social studies teacher with the school district for 18 years, said he attended the rally to hear speeches but did not participate in any riots or violence. Allentown school district solicitor John Freund said Moorehead was asked to return to...

VIDEOSteve Bannon referenced one of my favorite endings to a movie, in this case "The Fall Of The Roman Empire."

Facebook fact-checker PolitiFact played the role of the village idiot by fact-checking an Instagram post that dared to slam the Biden White House for redefining the word “recession.” PolitiFact ran one of its so-called “fact-checks” July 27 with a headline that blared: “No, the White House didn’t change the definition of ‘recession.’” PolitiFact senior correspondent Louis Jacobson chose to attack an Instagram post that used Siri to define the meaning of a recession. “The White House is now trying to protect Joe Biden by changing the definition of the word recession,” said Dear America podcast host Graham Allen. Allen then...

Vladimir Putin and his friends are making preparations to flee Russia should his army be defeated in Ukraine, according to a Telegram channel that claims to come from inside the Kremlin. With his Donbas offensive stalling, Ukraine preparing to re-capture Kherson and his economy crumbling, the Russian dictator is 'aware of the possibility of a sharp change of mood in the country.' Last week, the General SVR channel reported that the 69-year-old had suffered from 'severe nausea' overnight, with doctors at his bedside for around three hours. Following on from that report, they claim that 'Putin himself and his entourage...

Twenty-eight female inmates at an Indiana jail are suing a Clark County jail guard for selling the keys to their cells to male inmates, resulting in a “night of terror,” . ... at least 12 women were raped, harassed, groped, and threatened after a guard, David Lowe, 29, sold the keys to their cells to male inmates for $1,000. Male inmates allegedly wore towels over their heads to hide their identities from cameras as they entered the female prisoner section. “The men repeatedly threatened to sexually assault the women,” according to one lawsuit. The male inmates also allegedly threatened the...

Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm violated the Hatch Act during a 2021 Instagram Live interview with "Marie Claire" magazine, according to a report by the U.S. Office of Special Counsel. The federal law bars some federal government employees from using their official authority or influence to impact the results of an election. During the interview in October 2021, Granholm was asked: "How do we get involved in this moment to make sure we pass these things?" The interviewer was discussing policies that she said were "of particular interest to women, and for which women had 'marched' in the past, and how...

Is Pope Francis Catholic?Professing the faith is a requirement of being a member of the Church, a Catholic.(LifeSiteNews) — Everyone knows that this phrase is a common rhetorical question, the answer of which is supposed to be, “of course!”1. The earliest record of this phrase is in 1959, when boxer Max Baer Jr was asked whether his opponent hit hard. He answered, “is the Pope Catholic?”In our current situation, this question has become more serious – causing a crisis of faith for Catholics and an obstacle for the many looking to Christ as things have got progressively worse over COVID.Many...

Rep. Jim Jordan said it is time "put in place the right kind of leadership at the Justice Department who will actually rein that institution in, get rid of the politics and focus on equal treatment under the law." Two senior Republicans likely to chair House investigative committees next year if the GOP wins control of Congress say they are prepared to compel testimony from Hunter and James Biden about their overseas business deals and to use the power of the purse to force the FBI to address long-simmering questions about its integrity. Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.) told the "Just...

Aging occurs in all sensory organs, and cellular senescence plays an important role in this process. Premature senescence of auditory cells can be induced by oxidative stress and can result in hearing loss. Mitochondrial dysfunction is one of the hallmarks of aging and is associated with the development of age-related neurodegenerative diseases. Mitochondria generate ATP in cells and are important for energy supply. They are also critical for neurotransmission in the auditory system. Autophagy is a homeostatic process by which damaged or dysfunctional cellular components are removed. Mitochondrial selective autophagy, termed mitophagy, specifically degrades dysfunctional or damaged mitochondria and maintains...

The fifth GTA (Greater Toronto Area) doctor to die in July “radiated positivity” and “lived a vibrant and active life.” But what the world lost in the sudden and tragic death of Dr. Candace Nayman was a woman who had dedicated her life to the health of children. The 27-year-old, who was a resident doctor at McMaster Children Hospital in Hamilton, collapsed while swimming as she competed in a triathlon on Sunday. She subsequently died on Thursday. Friends kept an around-the-clock prayer vigil for the much-loved Nayman who lost her fight and, at her request, had her organs donated to...

In violation of Delaware’s mandatory reporting law for child sexual abuse, the Biden laptop reveals how the Biden family, a disgraced business partner, and the first son’s former psychiatrist failed to report Hallie Biden’s allegations that Hunter was “sexually inappropriate” with his 14-year-old niece. While the Biden family’s shady Chinese business deals collapsed with the ‘disappearance’ and ‘arrest’ of Hunter’s CEFC China Energy partners, Joe Biden, Jill Biden, Jimmy Biden, Ashley Biden, Naomi Biden, Liz Secundy, Devon Archer, and Keith Ablow all ignored Hallie’s jarring allegations that Hunter was “gettin off sexually” with his deceased brother’s daughter. All of Hunter...

VIDEO AT LINK..... Joe Biden launched into another incoherent rant about the economy Thursday, mumbling for 90 seconds about “checks, the middle class, raises, and the Rescue Plan.” “One of the things that I find is… I look at… I take it very seriously… The American people and the economy… I started thinking about it… You know, we were able to with the Rescue Plan, we sent them a check… I mean a check. One beyond that. It helped save a lot of people,” said Biden. “I started thinking about it. Somebody’s who’s raising a middle-class kid, one year, even...

At least forty Ukrainian prisoners of war have been killed in a Russian detention camp. Ukraine said Putin's men carried out 'targeted artillery shelling' to both accuse Ukraine of war crimes and hide any evidence of torture and mass executions in the prison. A total of 193 people were held in the jail at the time of the strike, Pushilin said in comments broadcast on Russian state television. Ukrainian authorities in the Donetsk region also said that Russia has pressed on with the shelling of civilian targets in Ukrainian-held areas. Scores of Ukrainian soldiers were taken to prisons in Russian-controlled...