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As we reported Wednesday, Democratic Pennsylvania Senate nominee John Fetterman has finally agreed to a debate with GOP nominee Mehmet Oz ahead of November’s midterm elections after backing out of a proposed debate that would have taken place last week. Fetterman was vague on specifics outside of stating it would “be sometime in the middle to end of October” provided there was a way to have the “auditory processing problems” Fetterman is said to have had since his May stroke addressed perhaps via a closed-captioning monitor.Fetterman’s suggestion that the debate take place in mid to late October sparked criticism from...

<p>More FBI whistleblowers have come to Congress and accused senior bureau officials of smuggling unauthorized smartphones into top-secret facilities, a security breach that can expose classified documents.</p><p>The alleged security breaches occurred at a Sensitive Compartmented Information Center or SCIF set up for the executive offices on the 7th floor of the FBI’s J. Edgar Hoover Building, according to the whistleblower.</p>

My grandmother's death is not an opportunity to deliver your sales pitch.In case you didn't know, a multilevel marketing company (aka an MLM) is a company that emphasizes both direct sales and recruiting other people to join the company and work under you, so you can receive a percentage of profit from the inventory they buy and sell. MLM's have been around for decades. One of the most well-known MLM's is LulaRoe, a leggings company that has had a ton of scandals in recent years and ultimately had to pay over $4 million to settle a lawsuit that claimed it...

UKRAINSKA PRAVDA — MONDAY, 12 SEPTEMBER 2022, 10:50 Over the last few days, it has been impossible to buy petrol at gas stations in the Russian-occupied part of Donetsk Oblast. Some gas stations sell petrol for coupons there. Source: pro-Russian Telegram-channel ‘Typical Donetsk’; Petro Andriushchenko, advisor to Mayor of Mariupol on Telegram Details: Occupiers report that there is no petrol on gas stations for several days now, and the gas price has increased. Some gas stations that still have petrol are selling it for coupons. Petro Andriushchenko, the advisor to the mayor of Mariupol, reports that there are problems with...

Fans of the royal family might remember that when Platinum Jubilee celebrations took place for Queen Elizabeth II earlier this year, a special concert held in front of Buckingham Palace in her honor kicked off with a video of the queen and a special guest for tea — Paddington Bear — which both stunned and delighted both Prince George and Princess Charlotte, per Independent. The video had the queen reveal that, like Paddington, she kept marmalade sandwiches hidden in her signature Launer handbags "for later," per YouTube. The clip, as well as a previous revelation that the late monarch enjoyed...

ransomnote: see post #1 for potential impacts on crude oil shipmentsA paralyzing railroad strike that has been brewing since January 2020 may unfold this week. Even if it does not come to pass, railroads had already begun preparations Monday by curtailing some shipments.More than 90,000 rail workers from 13 unions around the United States might strike Friday if the unions that represent them can’t reach a contract agreement with the National Railway Labor Conference, which represents the rail companies. The railroads reached an agreement with the leaders of 11 of the 13 unions, but those unions do not include the...

Launch YouTube, Facebook, or a search engine in Illinois these days - or worse, make the mistake of turning on the television - and you will likely be deluged with television commercials about the so-called "Workers' Rights Amendment," which will appear on our ballot across Illinois next month. Depending on the commercial, this amendment could be presented as being about anything from patients in a hospital being viewed as dollar bills, or dangers in a workplace, or a threat to a worker's right to unionize. Talk about a proposed law being “all things to all people!” In truth, this state...

Jack Posobiec 🇺🇸 @JackPosobiec Ashli Babbitt’s Shooter Admitted He Didn’t Know If She Was Threat, But Was Cleared Without Criminal Investigation

STUDY IN ‘SCIENTIFIC REPORTS’ INDICATES 75% TO 86% OF GPGP PLASTIC ATTRIBUTABLE TO OFFSHORE FISHING AND AQUACULTURE ACTIVITIES MAJORITY OF GPGP FISHING GEAR ORIGINATES FROM THE U.S., CHINA, JAPAN AND THE KOREAN PENINSULA RESULTS EMPHASIZE THE ESSENTIAL ROLE OF THE FISHING INDUSTRY AND MAJOR FISHING NATIONS IN OCEAN CLEANING PLASTIC EMISSIONS FROM RIVERS REMAIN BY FAR LARGEST SOURCE OF PLASTIC POLLUTION INTO GLOBAL OCEAN (Rotterdam — September 1, 2022) The Ocean Cleanup has today published new research in the journal Scientific Reports showing that the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP) is largely composed of fishing-related plastic waste, with 75% to...

Explanation: What are those red filaments in the sky? They are a rarely seen form of lightning confirmed only about 35 years ago: red sprites. Research has shown that following a powerful positive cloud-to-ground lightning strike, red sprites may start as 100-meter balls of ionized air that shoot down from about 80-km high at 10 percent the speed of light. They are quickly followed by a group of upward streaking ionized balls. The featured image was taken late last month from the Jeseniky Mountains in northern Moravia in the Czech Republic. The distance to the red sprites is about 200...

former FDA commissioner Dr. Stephen Hahn believed statements by candidate Biden such as “If and when the vaccine comes, it’s not likely to go through all the tests that need to be done” and by candidate Harris that she wouldn’t take a vaccine promoted by Trump, unfairly cast doubt on the FDA. The Biden/Harris campaign website explicitly maligned Hahn and the FDA. Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer also questioned the safety of the vaccines then in development and the FDA’s integrity, claiming the agency was succumbing to Trump administration pressure. He was joined by then New York Governor and media...

Republicans are accusing Gov. Kathy Hochul supporters of “dirty tricks” for sending voters pre-filled applications for absentee ballots — with COVID-19 already checked as the reason for voting remotely — in what appears to be a tightening race against Rep. Lee Zeldin ahead of the Nov. 8 election. “No one should fill out that box, but the voter who’s requesting,” GOP state Chair Nick Langworthy said Monday about the voter outreach. “It’s unconscionable and at the height of dishonesty and hypocrisy that Democrats are using the guise of COVID while we gather at concerts,” he added about what he called...

Coal is re-emerging as a key source of energy for European countries racing to replace increasingly scarce natural gas as Moscow shuts off key pipeline flows. Europe is caught in a worsening energy crisis as Russia uses its energy exports to retaliate against sanctions. So countries like Germany are turning to coal to secure energy supplies before winter hits. Power generation using coal has shot up over 20% in France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Spain and the UK together since last year, Rystad Energy data shows. European countries have increased coal consumption this year. "Coal is definitely making a comeback, with...

A few verses to consider: "In those days came John the Baptist, preaching in the wilderness of Judaea, And saying, Repent ye: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. For this is he that was spoken of by the prophet Esaias, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight." Matthew 3:1-3 "After these things the Lord appointed seventy others also, and sent them two by two before His face into every city and place where He Himself was about to go." Luke 10:1 "And if I go...

GENEVA (AP) — The acting U.N. human rights chief on Monday urged European Union member states to avoid “backtracking” on their efforts to develop renewables and energy-efficiency projects at a time when soaring energy prices have prompted some to ramp up use of and searches for fossil fuels. Nada al-Nashif, the acting U.N. high commissioner for human rights, laid out rights concerns about more than 30 countries, regions and territories including Ethiopia, Ukraine, Myanmar and Haiti in an opening speech to the latest session of the Human Rights Council in Geneva. Beyond expressing concerns about the direct impact of Russia’s...

> Pure fraud! For a company that routinely publishes articles excoriating others both for disseminating misinformation and for engaging in heinous acts of censorship, The New York Times should be ashamed > They are an advocacy organization, not a news organization The Great Reset: And the War for the World, by Alex Jones, outsold the #1 New York Times bestseller for hardcover non-fiction this week. And yet it was excluded from their bestseller list. Total consumer preorders from 8/10 to 8/30 were 24,739 copies from Amazon alone, with 11,297 copies ordered during the publication week, for a total of 36,036...

"And one of the elders saith unto me, Weep not: behold, the Lion of the tribe of Juda, the Root of David, hath prevailed to open the book, and to loose the seven seals thereof. "And I beheld, and, lo, in the midst of the throne and of the four beasts, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth." "And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when...

DEL RIO, TX — Vice President and Border Czar Kamala Harris announced this week that the southern border is "completely secure." According to sources, she made the announcement while crowd-surfing on a massive caravan of migrants. "First of all, I would like to say there is nothing to worry about down here. HA HA HA HA HA HA HAAAAAAAAA!" said Kamala with her trademark warm laughter. "It's time to do the job we have been doing, which is the job that we will do, and in the present, we are doing, which is to completely secure the border and keep...

WASHINGTON — After weeks of unsuccessfully stoking Trump supporters towards violent action, the FBI has changed course, beginning internal discussions for executing a MAGA-style attack using FBI resources. "We are already at Defense Readiness Condition 3 – this means that if the extreme MAGA wing doesn't act, we will bypass the plainclothes agent phase to DefCon 1, bringing out our biggest weapon: Ray Epps." FBI Director Christopher Wray addressed a round table of defense ministers, eliciting scattered gasps when he invoked Ray Epps, the famous FBI asset with expertise in starting insurrections. The attempts to get "MAGA Republicans" to commit...

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas told MSNBC on Sunday the "threat landscape" has evolved in the 21 years since the 9/11 attacks from concerns about foreign terrorists to domestic extremists. What he's saying: "Back when 9/11 occurred, in those years we were very focused on the foreign terrorist, the individual who sought to do a severe harm to enter the United States and do us harm," Mayorkas said in his interview with MSNBC's Jonathan Capehart. "It's then evolved, we began to be more and more concerned about the individuals already resident in the United States radicalized by a...