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Hitler smiles in the photo, leans slightly forward and returns the handshake on both sides of the car. Over this photo was a text in Arabic (at Hitler's chest level), which Samir and Hassan translated for me as follows: "Hitler said in his book (Mein Kampf): It was in my power to kill all the Jews in the world, but I have..." The picture seems to be relatively common, I found it later after a short internet search on other sites than Samir's closed forum; if you entered "Hitler" in Arabic letters in the Google image search, it was among...

The Walt Disney Co. appears to be taking Star Wars in an overtly left-wing direction, with an actress from Disney+’s Andor revealing the upcoming series will portray a “Trumpian” world where “people’s rights are disappearing.”Acclaimed actress Fiona Shaw explained show creator Tony Gilroy’s approach to the new series in an interview with Empire magazine.“Tony has written a great, scurrilous [take] on the Trumpian world,” she said. “Our world is exploding in different places right now, people’s rights are disappearing, and Andor reflects that. [In the show] the Empire is taking over, and it feels like the same thing is happening...

"Okay the S isn’t really in the site name, but I’m not promoting those jackholes at all, so go find it at your own risk. As a further hint fairly recently they took down their comment section because they are gutless punks. I just happened to see a headline there this morning. Where? Nice try. And after doing a quick search found that the left are using terms like “election-denier” and “unfounded claims” and say that it is a “conspiracy theory” every time we catch them with their hands in the b̶a̶l̶l̶o̶t̶ ̶b̶o̶x̶ cookie jar. Then I saw War Room:...

Citing freedom of speech, U.S. District Court Judge James Browning issued a ruling barring New Mexico from prosecuting the Voter Reference Foundation (VoteRef.com) for publishing a searchable database of voter registration records. The database includes names, addresses, and when people voted in past elections. "These are public records," Browning said. "There is no valid reason for concealing them from the public." Foundation director Doug Truax said "our database is an aid to ensuring election integrity. Voter rolls in many states are replete with duplicate registrations for the same person and addresses that turn out to be empty lots. Election officials...

In a grim reminder of the disaster, several grain silos that were left heavily damaged by the blast collapsed on Thursday afternoon, only hundreds of metres away from where crowds were gathering at the city's waterfront. The concrete silos cracked and fell, sending a cloud of smoke into the sky. Protesters covered their mouths in disbelief. The protesters, wearing t-shirts stamped with blood-red handprints, were marching from Lebanon's justice ministry to the city's waterfront and then to parliament in the centre of Beirut. The blast flattened swathes of the city on Aug 4, 2020, killing at least 220 people. One...

It’s been 20 years since the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation was first held. Another summit is planned for September 2021 in Dakar, Senegal. Meanwhile, Chinese and African officials are reviewing and reflecting on their two-decade relationship. China’s growing engagement with Africa has had a positive, albeit uneven, effect on Africa’s economic growth, economic diversification, job creation and connectivity. China-Africa relations are mostly organised via government to government relations. But the perceptions and wellbeing of ordinary people also need to be better considered. In 2016 the pan-African research institute Afrobarometer published its first study on what Africans think of their governments’...

<p>INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Police have changed their description of the crash that killed Indiana Republican U.S. Rep. Jackie Walorski, saying Thursday that it was the SUV in which she was a passenger that crossed a state highway’s centerline and caused the head-on crash.</p>

A crisis pregnancy center in St. Paul was vandalized this week, marking the fourth attack on a pro-life group in Minnesota this summer. Abria Pregnancy Resource Center in St. Paul was vandalized in the early morning hours Aug. 1, its executive director announced in an email to supporters. She said the main entry was smashed with a rock and the words “if abortions aren’t safe, neither are you” were spray-painted across the windows. She said nothing was stolen and no staff or clients were injured. “Clearly, this was an act of violence done against the mission of Abria,” said Executive...

Giving people with bladder cancer chemotherapy and radiotherapy at the same time helps stop cancer from coming back. The findings demonstrate the benefit of combining chemotherapy and radiotherapy to reduce the risk of the disease returning is maintained over 10 years. Treating bladder cancer often involves surgery to remove the bladder—known as a cystectomy. However, patients are often too unwell to undergo surgery and it can lead to serious side effects, usually resulting in patients wearing a drainage bag to collect urine. Combining radiotherapy and chemotherapy is an alternative treatment, cutting the risk of recurrence and sparing patients from invasive...

Dirty FBI Director Chris Wray spoke before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday morning in Washington DC. During questioning Chris Wray was asked why he had not arrested more Trump supporters on January 6. Wray told the committee, “There were a certain number of people who concealed themselves more effectively. So part of it is a little more challenging to get those people identified. That’s part of it… I have to be little bit careful what I say here. But we are continuing to develop some of the more complicated parts of the investigation in terms of conspiracy charges and...

A massive volcano erupting close to a global travel hub, Iceland’s Keflavik Airport, led to close monitoring by officials and sparked fascination from people who ventured near the bright orange lava flows despite warnings. The Fagradalsfjall volcano in southwest Iceland erupted Wednesday at 1:18 p.m. local time, according to the Icelandic Meteorological Office, which urged people to stay away from the sparsely populated area on the Reykjanes peninsula — though some still went up close to snap photographs with their children and fly drones. The eruption, classified as a volcanic fissure, is occurring about 10 miles from Keflavik International Airport...

According to Patrick Basham, there are such things as “non-polling metrics” -- things like comparative party registrations, turnouts in the primary elections, social media followings, attendance at campaign rallies and other measures that had, prior to the 2020 presidential election, predicted the outcome of presidential elections with 100% accuracy. In 2020, all these measures pointed to a Trump victory. In attendance at campaign rallies, for example, Trump’s average attendance exceeded Biden’s by a average ratio of 343 to 1. And yet Biden won. There were other anomalies: “…Biden could win only one of the 19 battleground counties around the U.S.,...

Austin, Texas radio host Alex Jones is currently on the hook for $150 million, which would bankrupt all but the top 1% of the top 1% elite. The theory of the current batch of civil lawsuits against Alex Jones and InfoWars goes like this: he claimed on multiple occasions that the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting didn’t happen. He also posited the alternative theory that it did happen, but was a false flag. To be sure, there were lots of strange goings-on surrounding the case and the shooter. Here are just a handful: - Even mainstream outlets reported that the...

Four police officers were charged with federal crimes related to the death of Breonna Taylor. US Attorney General Merrick Garland on Thursday announced the Justice Department is charging four current and former Louisville police officers in connection with the raid that killed Breonna Taylor. The FBI arrested four police officers on Thursday – including a detective who was already cleared by a jury! Taylor was killed during a knock and announce drug raid on March 13, 2020 during which her boyfriend shot at police and they returned fire. LMPD Sgt. Jon Mattingly was shot during the exchange and has now...

LAS VEGAS (KSNV) — A perfect economic storm of inflation, soaring gas prices and the unintended consequences of the federal pandemic relief programs is closing in on many car owners. “We’re talking, on average, 15,000 repos a day nationwide,” said Mark Zane, owner of a repossession company and president of the Nevada Association of Licensed Repossessors. Zane says repossessions were all but non-existent during the pandemic because banks were working with car owners to defer payments or help them get caught up. Those days are ending, however, and banks are taking the necessary steps to start the repossession process on...

Lt. Gov. John Fetterman's blue-collar image is questioned by Republican opponent Dr. Mehmet Oz, who cites Fetterman's comfortable upbringing and reports of being financially supported by his parents until his mid-40s. Fetterman has confirmed the financial backing from his parents during his time as mayor of Braddock, Pennsylvania, and said that it allowed him to work full-time in the position for several years. According to OpenSecrets, Fetterman's father, Karl Fetterman, gave more than $100,000 to The 15104, the single-candidate super PAC that was backing his son's campaign in 2016.

WASHINGTON — Lever Alejos arrived in the nation’s capital last week on a bus with dozens of fellow Venezuelans who had journeyed more than 1,300 miles from their broken country to the United States. After being processed by U.S. border authorities, the migrants were released into South Texas, free to go where they wanted. Alejos, 28, said he was offered two options: a $50 bus ride to San Antonio or a free bus ride to Washington, D.C., paid for by the state of Texas. “I wanted San Antonio, but I had run out of money,” said Alejos. Since April, Texas...

In a sign of just how desperate Democrats are to rid themselves of the Biden millstone around their necks, yet another Democrat Member of Congress has refused to say Joe Biden should run for re-election in 2024—even adding that she spoke for "a lot of us" within the Dem party! On Morning Joe, Mika Brzezinski pressed Dem Rep. Elissa Slotkin to say she would want Biden to run again. Said Mika: "President Biden speaks really eloquently about [abortion and other issues] . . . You would think that the Democratic party would be quite proud of his accomplishments." But Slotkin...

Grim surveillance footage captured the moment a handcuffed Connecticut man broke his neck in the back of a police van after the driver braked suddenly, causing him to smash his head. Randy Cox, 36, was left paralyzed from the waist down when he was being taken to a police station in New Haven to be processed on a weapons charge on June 19, his family said. The driver of the van, Officer Oscar Diaz, said he was forced to brake hard in order to avoid a collision, police said. Diaz continued driving to the station — despite an injured Cox...

The Justice Department on Tuesday filed a lawsuit that challenges Idaho’s restrictive abortion law, arguing that it conflicts with a federal law requiring doctors to provide pregnant women medically necessary treatment that could include abortion. The announcement is the first major action by the Justice Department challenging a state trigger law since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June. The court’s decision has led some states to enact restrictive abortion laws and is likely to lead to abortion bans in roughly half the states in the U.S. The Justice Department brought the suit because federal prosecutors believe Idaho’s...