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Jared Kushner, former President Trump’s son-in-law and ex-senior adviser, claims in a forthcoming memoir that former Trump adviser Stephen Bannon told him “I will break you in half” if Kushner crossed him, according to CNN, which obtained an early copy of the book. “Steve, you gotta stop leaking on Gary,” Kushner says he told Bannon in his forthcoming book, “Breaking History: A White House Memoir,” referring to senior economic adviser Gary Cohn, who he says had told him that Bannon was leaking about him. “We’re trying to build a team here,” he added. Kushner says Bannon in response said, “Cohn’s...

A US draft act seeking to increase the amount of domestically made semiconductors moved one step closer to being signed into law on Thursday after it was passed by the US House of Representatives, but it is unlikely to challenge Taiwan’s critical role as a major global chip supplier, the Ministry of Economic Affairs said. Instead, it could help Taiwanese chipmakers by financing manufacturing projects in the US, the ministry said in a statement on Friday. Taiwan serves as a global semiconductor manufacturing hub and local manufacturers continue to invest in advanced processes to upgrade technologies, which has made the...

I arrived at the address and honked the horn. After waiting a few minutes I honked again. Since this was going to be my last ride of my shift I thought about just driving away, But instead I put the car in park and walked up to the door and knocked... 'Just a minute', answered a frail, elderly voice. I could hear something being dragged across the floor. After a long pause, the door opened. A small woman in her 90's stood before me. She was wearing a print dress and a pillbox hat with a veil pinned on it,...

Is this Irish bank collapsing also? At least 2 banks in China are collapsing as well as they lock down all depositor funds and protests escalate. Maybe we need another topic here just for "Collapse".

Israel's Law on Reducing the Use of Cash came into force in 2019 and next week, on August 1, the threshold for cash transactions is set to drop from NIS 11,000 to just NIS 6,000.The best way to boil a frog is to do it slowly. The frogs will never know what happened.

Nothing to see here. No voterfraud here, not at all. You can totally trust us. Just like in the last election.

Doug Mastriano the first of three good candidates I take note of in this post... Drunks Come From Everywhere In My Experience... Day 865 of The Dictatorship of COVID-19, Day 865 of America and the World Held Hostage to COVID Shots, Runaway Inflation and the Implosion of the Economy... "I'm Unvaccinated I Vote" And it remains sad to live in a nation where the unvaccinated are told not to report to work when someone else tests positive for COVID in a workplace. The employee told to stay at home and to not make a living because they are unvaccinated that...

SINGAPORE - A United States congressional delegation led by Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi will visit Singapore from Monday (Aug 1) to Tuesday. The delegation will call on President Halimah Yacob and Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, and meet a number of Cabinet ministers, a spokesman for Singapore's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Sunday (July 31). Ms Pelosi's office announced on Sunday that she is leading a six-member congressional delegation to the Indo-Pacific region, including visits to Singapore, Malaysia, South Korea and Japan. Ms Pelosi said the visit seeks "to reaffirm America's strong and unshakeable commitment...

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**SNIP** Officials say the vehicle belonged to Amy Word, who was in the passenger seat. Detectives say during the stop they noticed a strong smell of weed coming from the vehicle. Clark was in possession of weed and cocaine for which he was arrested. Word was arrested and charged with maintaining a common nuisance. Word is the owner of Lamasco Bar and Grill, Amy’s on Franklin, as well as a member of the EVSC school board. Officials with the Evansville Police Department say during the course of the investigation, detectives developed information that Holman was trafficking large amounts of illegal...

Sky News host Cory Bernardi says “everything we are told” about the Russia-Ukraine conflict should be taken “with a huge dose of salt”. “I think the President of the Ukraine is not all that he’s portrayed as by the Western media,” Mr Bernardi said. ...

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The press won't show you things that don't fit the narrative. Click link to watch a very short video.

“It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine; nor for princes strong drink” (Proverbs 31:4).

Executive Director of the Ron Paul Institute Daniel McAdams argues that it is time to abandon foreign policy altogether. Some quotes: "[Ukraine] ..;. is a massive money laundering scheme ... " "We have basically bought the entire country ... " "Victoria Newland was Dick Cheney's former aide before she became Obama's top aide... This is the Neocon world it doesn't matter who is elected ... " "I've come to the conclusion that a responsible foreign policy is no foreign policy." "There are 50,000 people who work at the State Department. Do they do anything any of us want?" Video... [20...

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Facebook placed a 'fact-checking' label on a post written by a top economist stating that the United States is now in a recession - a move he termed 'Orwellian'. Two consecutive quarters of negative growth is the standard definition of a recession, and Phillip Magness, the research and education director at the American Institute for Economic Research, posted on Facebook a commentary about the country now being in a recession. The post - which is no longer visible - was marked by Facebook's fact checkers as being misleading.

The Gospel today is not merely a warning against greed, it is an instruction on income and wealth given by Jesus to help us root out greed. As the Gospel opens the problem of greed is presented, and then a prescribed perspective about wealth is offered. Lets take a look at both parts of this gospel.I. The Problem that is Portrayed – The text begins: Someone in the crowd said to Jesus, “Teacher, tell my brother to share the inheritance with me.” He replied to him, “Friend, who appointed me as your judge and arbitrator?” Then he said to the...

July 31 2022 Sunday of week 18 in Ordinary time Church of the Blessed Sacrament, Birmingham, Alabama Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green First readingEcclesiastes 1:2,2:21-23 ©Vanity of vanities; all is vanityVanity of vanities, the Preacher says. Vanity of vanities. All is vanity! For so it is that a man who has laboured wisely, skilfully and successfully must leave what is his own to someone who has not toiled for it at all. This, too, is vanity and great injustice; for what does he gain for all the toil and strain that he has undergone under the sun? What of all...

The New York Times reported Friday that Fox News has not had Donald Trump on its network in over 100 days, which the paper said was part of a larger strategy to eliminate the former president as a major GOP player. The decision to shun Trump has been made at "the highest levels" of Fox's parent company, and is backed by its billionaire chairman, Rupert Murdoch, and his son, company CEO Lachlan Murdoch. Both are Republicans, but are said to have to developed a strong distaste for Trump. Earlier this month, the Murdoch-owned newspapers the New York Post and The...