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Many people are rabid fans of Yacht Rock but the one drawback was that the core playlist of the Yacht Rock genre was maybe 250-300 songs. As great as those songs are, there are only so many times you can hear "Sailing" by Christopher Cross or "What A Fool Believes" by the Doobie Brothers before aficionados of smooth, polished, studio-perfect soft rock end up flipping over to Margaritaville, The Bridge or that No Shoes station run by Kenny Chesney so as to introduce a little Jimmy Buffet, Roberta Flack, Gordon Lightfoot or Little River Band into their ears. Let's face...

Western leaders undervalued the size and global reach of the Russian economy Headlines concerning the collapse of the Russian economy under sanctions have been many and varied, although more recently observations have been made that sanctions imposed by the West aren’t working to the extent intended. Writing this from Moscow, I can observe that supermarkets are full, there are no shortages, and gasoline is US$3.1 a gallon. That compares with Washington at US$4.99, London at US$8.16, Berlin at US$6.73 and Rome at US$7.31. Why has the effect of sanctions upon Russia been so widely misunderstood? It’s a complicated question yet...

A lighting bolt sparked a massive fire and four explosions at a Cuban oil storage facility Friday, leaving 121 people injured and 17 firefighters unaccounted for, and 1 person dead. The inferno broke out when lighting hit a tank at the Matanzas Supertanker Base and started a fire that spread to a second tank, according to state media. Billowing smoke could be seen in Havana, 65 miles away The oil in the tanks is used to fuel electricity generating plants. The blaze comes as Cuba continues to grapple with an oil shortage

Free trade and open markets are great ideals. These principles, over the last few centuries, but especially since World War II, have created tremendous wealth, particularly in the developing world. But free markets were made for human society, not the other way around. Many thinkers on the right, however, have embraced a form of free-market fundamentalism that’s as ideologically brittle, entrenched, and impervious to critique as any Leftist vision of social utopia. These doctrinaire free-marketers believe that if China seeks to capture a huge industry like telecommunications through subsidies and protect their market, that will benefit us all. “Huawei’s a...

Introduction to this well-researched book, now over 55 years old but still relevant: AS A very young college graduate, searching for literary employment in the New York City of the middle nineteen-twenties, the author of this book happened to discover a colony called Turtle Bay. It included about a dozen remodeled town houses on East Forty-eighth and Forty-ninth Streets, arranged for gracious living before the phrase was current. One of the first modem restorations in the Forties and Fifties near the East River, it bloomed unexpectedly in a neighborhood of tenements and abandoned breweries. Evidently its builders were versed in...

Joseph McBride's 1982 collection of interviews with Howard Hawks, the director says that he wanted to get the rights to Ian Fleming's Bond series, but that he was scooped by Cubby Broccoli, his former assistant director. When I read that, I spent twenty giddy minutes trying to imagine the alternate universe where Howard Hawks produced or even directed From Russia With Love, Goldfinger and On Her Majesty's Secret Service. I'm still not sure if it would have been a better place, but the closest we ever got to seeing that world is his 1939 adventure film Only Angels Have Wings....

The Humble Heart. According to the Scriptures, Lucifer was an angel of beauty, he became enamored of himself and no longer wanted to be the choir master to worship God, but wanted to be equal to the Lord God Almighty. God judged him and cast him out of heaven to the earth and he became Satan, the accuser, and the first created being who sinned. In contrast, Jesus, as the Son of God, loved his Father and humbled himself. In the beginning of creation, God said “let us make man in our own image” and He created them male and...

Arizona Republicans are nominating an entire cast of characters who argue not only that Donald Trump won the election in 2020, but also that the state’s results should be decertified—a process for which there is no legal basis. These Trump-endorsed candidates—Kari Lake for governor, Mark Finchem for secretary of state, Abraham Hamadeh for attorney general, Blake Masters for senator—all won their respective primaries this week and are now one election away from political power. “Stop the Steal” candidates are running—and winning—all over the country. But Arizona concentrates a lot of them within a single geographic area—like an ant farm of...

A former Colorado police officer who did not stop another officer from being rough with a 73-year-old woman with dementia was sentenced Friday to 45 days in jail and three years of probation. Daria Jalali earlier pleaded guilty in the arrest of Karen Garner in Loveland, about 50 miles (80 kilometers) north of Denver, in 2020. She had faced up to 60 days in jail for failing to intervene, a crime created by lawmakers as part of a police reform bill passed during protests over racial injustice and police brutality in 2020.

BREAKING: The Ukrainian government’s Ministry of Digital Transformation is conducting mass-reporting raids that were responsible for my multiple suspensions & permanent demonetization on YouTube. Here is one of their trolls boasting upon learning that their raid was successful.

We need to end the Fed not audit the FED. The federal reserve has usurped its power. We don't need a federal reserve owned by the fat cats on Wall Street but one owned by the American people. It's the biggest scam they have.

i24 News – A coordinator from Israel’s security service Shin Bet spoke with a Palestinian resident of the Gaza Strip ahead of an Israeli strike on a Palestinian Islamic Jihad ammunition warehouse, according to a statement released on Sunday. During the conversation, the Shin Bet coordinator urged the Palestinian to make sure the area around the building was clear: “We don’t want anyone getting hurt.” The coordinator first demanded the full attention of his interlocutor. “Listen please, please. You know how we act, and I don’t want anyone to get hurt. I see people going back to their homes. Is...

"The pandemic had begun and the panicked populace demanded a vaccine. But it wasn’t really a vaccine they received as it was designed to reduce the population from approximately 8 BILLION people down to just 500 million. Covid? Probably, but I’m referring to the (predictive programming?) TV series ‘Utopia’ (2013) from Channel 4 in the UK, and to the inferior but still worth a watch Amazon remake from…early 2020…which features Dwight from ‘The Office’ and that guy whose work went downhill after he was the lead character in the superb ‘Better Off Dead’ (1985). Wow, talk about a predictive title!...

s there evidence of in-class transmission of SARS-CoV-2 on a university campus that has mandated vaccination and masking? The answer is no. "Going back to full-occupancy, in-person teaching at Boston University (BU) did not lead to SARS-CoV-2 transmission in-class," said corresponding author John Connor, Ph.D., associate professor of microbiology at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM). SARS-CoV-2, the causative agent of COVID-19, has displayed person-to person transmission in a variety of indoor situations. This potential for robust transmission has posed significant challenges to day-to day activities of colleges and universities, where indoor learning is a focus, with concerns of transmission...

Ukraine accused Russian forces on Sunday of firing rockets that landed on the grounds of a nuclear power plant that Russia has seized in the south of the country, further raising the risk of an accident at a complex where the United Nations’ nuclear agency has said that the principles of nuclear safety have been violated. A pro-Russian regional official blamed Ukrainian forces for the attack. The rockets fired Saturday evening landed near a dry spent fuel storage facility, where 174 casks are stored, each containing 24 assemblies of spent nuclear fuel, according to Enerhoatom, Ukraine’s nuclear energy company. One...

In Las Vegas, Nevada, it's come to this: climate change has helped make water ever more scarce, so under a new Nevada law, the grass has got to go. "When we look at outdoor water use in Southern Nevada, landscaping far and away is the largest water user, and of that, it's grass," said Bronson Mack of the Las Vegas Water Authority. The city's already pulled up about four million square feet of grass on public property so far this year, because thirsty green parkways are something they just can't afford anymore. "The grass that you see behind me is...

Bill Maher, host of HBO’s “Real Time with Bill Maher,” slammed the media and society in general for effectively celebrating people for being fat, warning that the trend is a legitimate national security concern for the United States as the U.S. Military is having a harder and harder time finding candidates who can meet the physical requirements to serve. “There’s a disturbing trend going on in America these days, rewriting science to fit ideology or just to fit what you want reality to be,” Maher said. “We’ve gone from fat acceptance to fat celebration. That’s new. That is new. To...

Judith Durham, the lead singer of The Seekers whose song "Georgy Girl" was an international hit, has died. The Seekers were a huge hit in the '60s, racking up big hits like "I'll Never Find Another You," and "A World of Our Own." But, "Georgy Girl" was a monster ... the title song to the movie with the same name that also became a blockbuster. Universal Music Australia announced her death, saying she had a brief stay in a hospital and ultimately died from a chronic lung disease. The company said in tribute, “Our lives are changed forever losing our...

VIDEO (both speak English well, but there are subtitles) This hour and a half interview covers everything from the SARS CoV-2 virus, to the VAERS system and the victims of the Pfizer, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson's injections. These are the chapters:00:00:00 - Recap 00:02:00 - introduction by Avi Barak 00:05:05 - introducing Dr. Rose and her Background 00:09:30 - About the SARS-CoV-2 virus 00:18:05 - About the mRNA technology 00:29:02 - The data from the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System 00:48:38 - How the CDC is ignoring its own data 00:51:01 - Pregnancy, Embryo-genesis and Reverse transcription 00:57:10 -...

Los Angeles voters to decide if hotels must house homeless as crisis continues President of the Northeast Los Angeles Hotel Owners Association Ray Patel joined 'Fox & Friends Weekend' to discuss safety concerns surrounding the policy. NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Los Angeles voters will cast their ballot on a proposal that could force hotels to house the homeless, a policy that has many hotel owners concerned about how it will impact public safety. President of the Northeast Los Angeles Hotel Owners Association Ray Patel joined "Fox & Friends Weekend," Sunday, to discuss why the policy is...