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Tony Bobulinski, one of Hunter Biden’s former business associates, is worried that former elite FBI agent Timothy Thibault may have helped hide information he provided the bureau about his relationship with the Biden family, directly familiar sources told The Washington Free Beacon. Except that wasn’t supposed to happen: “Someone please remind Democrats that according to the precedent established during Alexander Vindman, nobody gets to question the veracity, the motives and the integrity of great Patriot and naval veteran Tony Bobulinski while giving testimony to the Senate tomorrow. Check and mate.” Bobulinski was brave enough to give his story to the...

New York’s appointed Governor Kathy Hochul continues to provide hard-left anti-gun “leadership” to the Empire State. Her latest directive to the NYPD: Assume that anyone carrying a firearm is carrying unlawfully. Because New York City is such a bastion of safety, civility and security thanks to generations of strict gun control.Project Veritas uncovered the latest memo from NYPD to its beat cops. GOA shared it via Twitter . . .But after the Bruen decision, Governor Kathy Hochul intends to treat everyone with a gun as a criminal. Because setting up confrontations between cops and good guys and depriving them of...

On Monday, the judge handling the case of the FBI’s Mar-a-Lago raid made an official decision to appoint a special master to review the documents seized. That came after she dropped a preliminary notice that she intended to do so at the end of August.The DOJ’s subsequent arguments apparently weren’t very convincing, and now they will be forced to cease their investigation as the process plays out. The judge found numerous instances of privileged material making it through the government’s filter team, and revelations that medical records and tax returns were taken only provided more reason to move ahead with...

On the evening of this date* in 1707, Pierre Fatio was secretly shot by arquebusers in a Geneva prison. This Swiss Gracchus — classically-minded contemporaries could hardly fail to draw the parallel — was a magistrate and a rising member of the patrician oligarchy that ran nominally democratic Geneva. But despising the side his class bread was buttered, Fatio (English Wikipedia page | French) took up the standard of the masses … or at least the masses of the bourgeoisie, whose universal-propertied-male suffrage was belied by the power exercised by Geneva’s magnates club, the “Petit Conseil” of 25 who actually...

...Yet the evidence to date suggests rising suicide rates have not occurred in most countries. ...The exception to this trend is Japan where suicide rates initially declined by around 14% but then began to rise.3 Suicide rates now appear to be higher in Japan than they were pre-pandemic for many age and sex groups...youth suicide rates began increasing in April 2020 until a peak in September, and then declined. Rates remained slightly elevated between January and April 2021 (when the study ended). Other analyses presented in the study suggest an increase in suicides of between 50% and 86% between August...

One of the best parts of the growing tiny house trend is that designers in all parts of the world are encouraged to find the most sustainable building solutions, without sacrificing modern comfort. The Freeland House is a great example of that. The Freeland House is really tiny, but an example of sustainability and beautiful design There are a few things that make the times we’re living in particularly interesting. One of them is the possibility of having a home shipped to you, no matter where you live. The concept of prefab (prefabricated) homes isn’t new, but their current availability...

On why she exclusively wore Pant Suits: I was sitting on a couch, and the press was let in. There were a bunch of them shooting up,” Clinton said. “And then I also begin to have the experience of having photographers all the time — I’d be on stage, I’d be climbing stairs and they’d be below me.”

Finally, some good news.In very, very good news for seahorses, Sydney Harbour, and Sydneysiders, for the first time in recorded history, scientists have discovered an endangered seahorse species living quietly beneath the Opera House. In 2019, the Opera House installed a series of artificial modular reefs on the underside of their building, with scientists hoping to increase marine biodiversity across the entirety of Sydney Harbour. In early August, marine scientists inspected the living artificial reefs for the first time in a year, and happened across a pretty remarkable discovery: an endangered White’s Seahorse, a tiny species that generally lives closer...

Twitchy US NEWS MEDIA ENTERTAINMENT CARTOONS Premium Content My Account × Search twitchy.com.... WOW, a whole new LOW! Another day, another Biden poll that spells BAD news for both him AND his party (hellooo midterms!) Posted at 9:13 am on September 5, 2022 by Sam Janney Full transparency, when we first saw this poll we thought it had to be after Biden’s ‘MAGA REPUBLICANS ARE DESTROYING THE COUNTRY REEE’ speech because woof, this is really really really low for Independents. But nope, this was before Biden did his best Hitler impression on primetime television. We’re willing to bet it dropped...

Britain's next prime minister Liz Truss had a smaller margin of victory on Monday (Sept 6) than any of her predecessors, suggesting she might have to work hard to heal a governing party deeply divided and lagging in opinion polls. After a bitter contest, Truss won 57 per cent of the votes from Conservative Party members compared to 43per cent for her rival, former finance minister Rishi Sunak, a margin that although comfortable was not as overwhelming as some polls suggested. It was the narrowest victory since Conservative members were given a say on who to elect as their party...

Shoji Morimoto has what some would see as a dream job: he gets paid to do pretty much nothing. The 38-year-old Tokyo resident charges 10,000 yen ($99.83) an hour to accompany clients and simply exist as a companion. "Basically, I rent myself out. My job is to be wherever my clients want me to be and to do nothing in particular," Morimoto told Reuters, adding that he had handled some 4,000 sessions in the past four years.

On a peaceful Saturday in Perth, 12,000 miles from the clamour and bombast at Flushing Meadows, Margaret Court has just seen Serena Williams thwarted in a final tilt at equalling her place among the tennis immortals. While “greatest of all time” messages flash up on the electronic tickers inside Arthur Ashe Stadium, the statistical greatest, the woman with 24 grand slam singles titles to the departing Williams’ 23, is at the end of this long-distance telephone call. It is a distinction that now looks destined to last another generation at least. And yet the realisation brings a complex swirl of...

You might be surprised to hear this from the president of a Democratic organization, but it’s true: At this moment, we need Rep. Lee Zeldin, Republican candidate for governor. [cut] Lee will work with Democrats, as he did in the state Senate, to provide reasonable solutions for our most pressing issues. Lee will investigate the COVID nursing-home failures so we are not doomed to repeat the mistakes of the past. NED’s appeal to Democrats and independents is this: The race is about New York and its future, regardless of party affiliations and national politics. Public safety has been compromised, and...

At least seven people were killed after a strong earthquake hit southwestern China on Monday, triggering landslides and shaking residents in a major city that was under lo

Russia slapped Hollywood stars Ben Stiller and Sean Penn with sanctions on Monday in response to their public criticism of Moscow's war on Ukraine. Putin's foreign ministry included the actors on a new list of 25 US citizens banned from the country. Those affected are mainly politicians, trade officials and industrial executives. The sanctions bar them from entering Russia. Stiller and Penn have been vocal supporters of Ukraine in the conflict and have met Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky in high-profile shows of support. In a televised meeting in Kyiv in June, Stiller, star of Zoolander, Meet the Parents and Dodgeball,...

Teenagers in a Maryland county blighted by violence are to be banned from the streets between 10pm and 5am during the week, it was announced on Monday, in a bid to bring rocketing juvenile crime rates down. Angela Alsobrooks, executive for Prince George's County - which encompasses eastern Washington DC and the surrounding suburbs - said that parents could be fined up to $250 for repeated violations and children could be turned over to the Department of Social Services. 'I'm just going to put it very bluntly: Somebody has got to take responsibility for these armed and dangerous children. And...

New York (CNN)Cloudflare, a major American internet services company, pulled its support for Kiwi Farms, a controversial online message board, Saturday evening citing "imminent threats to human life." The move temporarily forced Kiwi Farms offline. Cloudflare's decision came as Kiwi Farms was linked to a campaign of harassment and violent threats targeting Clara Sorrenti, a Canadian trans woman who is a streamer on Twitch, a platform popular among video gamers. Sorrenti, better known by her online name "Keffals," launched a campaign calling on Cloudflare to stop providing services to the site. Fearing for her safety after her personal details were...

Alaska Politics the Democrat turned Republican Nick Begich refusing a request by Sarah Palin to drop out of the race for the US House seat in Alaska in the Ranked Choice Voting system. The results of the recent Primary and Special Election showed Palin beating Begich in the first votes cast. As it stands now Begich and Palin will end up splitting votes and support in the face of Democrat Mary Peltola who won the Special Election and led in Primary voting results. In Canada one of the brothers-suspects in the mass murder stabbing attacks is dead... The OPEC+ group...

At his rally in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, on Saturday, former President Trump tore into John Fetterman.

On 30 Aug, a large coronal mass ejection shot from the Sun in the direction of Venus. Not long later, the storm arrived at the second planet from the Sun. As the data continues to come in from Solar Orbiter, this strike reveals why ‘in situ’ monitoring of space weather and its effects on the bodies, and spacecraft, of the Solar System are so important. Fortunately, there were no negative effects on the spacecraft as the ESA-NASA solar observatory is designed to withstand and in fact measure violent outbursts from our star – although Venus doesn’t always get off so...