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New details on Mar-a-Lago raid come to light As reported earlier today — President Trump declassified a binder on January 19th, 2021 that contains hundreds of pages about the Crossfire Hurricane scandal. It contains damaging information about the corrupt actors involved with our government. Two different DOJ Attorney General’s have defied President Trump’s direct lawful order to publish the binder in the Federal Register. It’s been 19 months as the DOJ defies the order, and every FOIA request to make it public. Can we now raid the homes of acting AG Monty Wilkinson, and Merrick Garland? The DOJ had already...

Protocol is to not remark on an ongoing investigation. But Trump is not a typical figure of a federal case. And the official silence has allowed the former president to fill the void. The legal walls are starting to close in on team Trump, after federal agents searched former President Donald Trump's Florida home Monday and investigations advance in New York and Georgia. But it's the embattled former president and his loyalists who are the only ones doing the talking, giving Trump a platform to express his grievances and raise money from rank-and-file Republicans who claim their favored political leader...

A woman who was born with one arm and half her legs has revealed how her mother told her the disabilities were due to an attempted abortion when the parent was a teenager. Charlie Rousseau, 25, from Rouyn-Noranda, in Quebec, Canada, said she grew up feeling like a 'normal child' and 'didn't realise she was disabled' until she was a teenager. However when she was in her teens, her mother told her that the reason she was born with her disabilities is because the parent had tried to have an abortion and claimed it went wrong. The radio host told...

The entire Japanese government has resigned, Suptnik reported quoting a Kyodo news agency report. A special meeting of the cabinet started at 11.30am local time (02.30am GMT). The new Japanese government led by Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is expected to be announced soon. Originally, the government reshuffle was supposed to be carried out in early September, but now due to the mention to accelerate the promotion of his economic concept of “new capitalism”, the need to take action due to rising food and fuel prices, and in order to prepare in advance for the session of parliament, the prime minister...

Eli Lilly and Company, which employs more than 10,000 people in the Hoosier state, says it'll 'be forced to plan for more employment growth outside of our home state.' The Indiana-based pharmaceutical giant made the revelation in a statement on Saturday following the passing of a near-total ban on abortion in the state. Eli Lilly is the manufacturer of drugs such as Prozac and Cymbalta. On Friday, Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb signed Senate Bill 1 into law making his state the first to institute an abortion ban since the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. The ban, which...

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — U.S. officials won’t approve a natural gas pipeline from Idaho to Wyoming until additional environmental studies are completed. Wyoming-based Lower Valley Energy wants to build the pipeline that would start near Montpelier, Idaho, and run to Afton, Wyoming. But the Alliance for the Wild Rockies and Yellowstone to Uintas Connection say it will harm protected grizzly bears and other wildlife. “The ruling is a huge victory for the climate as well as free-roaming endangered species like grizzly bears, wolverines, and lynx,” said Mike Garrity, executive director of the Alliance for the Wild Rockies.

Explanation: Stars can create huge and intricate dust sculptures from the dense and dark molecular clouds from which they are born. The tools the stars use to carve their detailed works are high energy light and fast stellar winds. The heat they generate evaporates the dark molecular dust as well as causing ambient hydrogen gas to disperse and glow red. Pictured here, a new open cluster of stars designated IC 1590 is nearing completion around the intricate interstellar dust structures in the emission nebula NGC 281, dubbed the Pac-man Nebula because of its overall shape. The dust cloud on the...

The drugged-out truck driver who crossed the center line of a northern New Hampshire road, killing seven people on motorcycles, was found not guilty by a jury - a verdict that sparked 'shock' 'outrage' and 'anger' by the state's governor. Volodymyr Zhukovskyy, 26, a Ukrainian national who now faces deportation, was acquitted on Tuesday by a jury of seven counts of negligent homicide and reckless conduct after less than three hours of deliberation following a two-week trial. The grateful and relieved truck driver wiped away tears, kissed his finger and pointed to the sky after he was cleared. He's been...

Target, one of former first lady Michelle Obama’s favorite stores, is facing a boycott over its post-Roe v. Wade move to pay the travel costs of employees seeking abortions. Concerned Women for America, the 500,000-strong conservative women’s policy network, said Target’s plan is a “slap in the face” to pro-life customers and an unnecessary policy to prove it’s a “woke” corporation. Penny Nance, the CEO and president of CWA, who is leading the group’s “Toss Target” campaign, also said Target does not provide help to pregnant employees who decide to have their children. “Companies who fund travel to another state...

BLOOMDADDY DISCUSSES THE RAID ON DONALD TRUMP'S FLORIDA HOME AMONG OTHER TOPICS with Jim Jordan. Approximate listen time: 11 minutes

In the coming weeks, Amazon plans to expand its “Amazon One” palm reading biometric payment system to 65 Whole Foods Markets throughout California, starting with locations in Malibu, Montana Avenue, and Santa Monica. The expansion, first reported on by The Verge, marks the biggest step forward yet in Amazon’s effort to normalize biometric payments. Amazon One works by linking a customers’ credit card to their unique palm signature. Users then hover their hand over a palm reader to pay, in this case for their overpriced groceries. Prior to the recent expansion effort, One palm readers were limited to seven Whole...

A gunman shot at a Denver-area Catholic church in separate early morning incidents Saturday and Monday. No one was hurt, but one estimate suggests the gunshots caused tens of thousands of dollars in damage. Parish staff stressed the need to pray for the perpetrator and emphasized that they are taking the utmost security precautions. “We are praying for the conversion of whoever did this,” Deacon Derrick Johnson of Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Catholic Church told CNA Aug 8. “If there’s any opportunity to speak to that person, we’d be happy to speak with them and have a dialogue.”...

An Arizona abortion nurse whose facility aborts viable, second-trimester unborn babies recently admitted that she tells patients their unborn babies are just “pieces of goo.” What’s more, nurse Rose Lopez-McKinnon, 63, said she tells pregnant mothers that their unborn babies have more rights than they do – while in the same breath urging them to exercise their right to vote. Lopez-McKinnon made the ridiculous comments in a new interview with the Los Angeles Times. She works at Camelback Family Planning in Phoenix, Arizona, the only abortion facility in Arizona that still is aborting unborn babies up to 24 weeks of...

Again, there’s that long-running joke that we don’t have a secret police force or an American version of the Schutzstaffel because the Internal Revenue Service exists. Of all agencies in the government, this one probably has the most accurate and up-to-date files on every taxpayer, which is no surprise. It was seen as the most hated agency in America for legitimate purposes, though the FBI and DOJ might have supplanted them given the recent raid on Trump’s Mar-a-Lago. Still, the IRS becoming secret police might no longer be a joke. The page was taken down for problematic copy regarding the...

In sum, of the 14 RCTs that have tested the effectiveness of masks in preventing the transmission of respiratory viruses, three suggest, but do not provide any statistically significant evidence in intention-to-treat analysis, that masks might be useful. The other eleven suggest that masks are either useless—whether compared with no masks or because they appear not to add to good hand hygiene alone—or actually counterproductive. Of the three studies that provided statistically significant evidence in intention-to-treat analysis that was not contradicted within the same study, one found that the combination of surgical masks and hand hygiene was less effective than...

We've talked about some of the problems associated with modern lithium ion battery powered vehicles in the past, but I don't think the possibility of incinerating your family as they sleep, or kids as they ride to school is something that can be taken too seriously. Think before you park one of these potential Hiroshima specials in your garage.

A naked Florida man threw a machete at another man and tried to rob him of his clothes on Monday, authorities said. Deputies responded to an area near the Volusia County Fairgrounds shortly before 10 a.m. after a surveyor reported that a naked man approached him with a large machete-style knife, the Volusia County Sheriff's Office said. The victim told deputies that the suspect was picking palmetto berries in the woods and ran out of the brush brandishing the machete and demanding his clothes, wallet and phone. He said he began to give the items over to the suspect when...

Nebraska Senator John McCollister, who is pro-abortion, wants to mandate vasectomies for men He’s being facetious — making the absurd claim that somehow abortion bans take control over women’s bodies, ergo government should take control over men’s bodies. “I am supporting legislation to MANDATE vasectomies for all Nebraska males. Cash rewards will be offered to people who TURN IN men who refuse to comply. If we are going to control women’s bodies, we may as well go all the way with the authoritarianism,” McCollister tweeted on Monday. “(Obviously, I am not serious. This would be ludicrous, but this is JUST...

Lady Gaga told fans Monday that she prays more Americans will speak up in support of the killing of unborn babies in abortions. The 36-year-old pop singer has defended abortion for years, backing campaigns for the billion-dollar abortion chain Planned Parenthood and using her massive influence to sway fans on the issue. During a stop on her new Chromatica Ball tour Monday in Washington, D.C., Lady Gaga brought up abortion again, Billboard magazine reports. “I would like to dedicate this song to every woman in America,” she said before playing a piano rendition of her 2011 song “The Edge of...

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