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Friday mornings are usually the cheeriest time of the week, just hours away from the weekend. Alas for pro-life advocate Mark Houck and his family, last Friday was anything but joyous. At 7 A.M., the father of seven was awakened by a SWAT team of heavily armed FBI agents. Mark's wife, Ryan-Marie, said she pleaded with the FBI agents to be calm, owing to the presence of the couple's seven young children. The "kids were screaming. It was all just very scary and traumatic." Alas, those pleas fell on deaf ears. Ryan-Marie recounts the raid as follows:A "SWAT team of...

There was an incident on the Russian Baltic Sea pipeline, as confirmed by the Danish shipping authority. The operator Gascade speaks of a sharp drop in pressure in the tube. An accident is considered unlikely. The timing of the accident suggests sabotage.

Social media across China and the rest of Asia continues to be in overdrive today as persistent rumours that president Xi Jinping has been removed in a coup refuse to die down. Chinese army general Li Qiaoming (left) and President Xi Jinping (Source: PA) © Provided by City AM Local and regional media speculate China’s long-standing leader was removed when he was away in Samarkand while attending the recent SCO summit, on 14 September. Xi Jinping has reportedly not been seen in public since then although any rumours have been widely debunked in the last 24 hours. Nevertheless, according to...

At the end of August, we exclusively revealed that official mortality figures for Europe showed a shocking 691% increase in excess deaths among children up to week 33 of 2022 since the European Medicines Agency extended the emergency use authorisation of the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine for use in children aged 12 to 15 in May 2021. Our investigation has since forced the European Union’s official statistics department to begin a Europe-wide investigation into why there has been a significant increase in excess deaths among children aged 0 to 14. However, upon announcing the investigation, EuroMOMO, the organisation that published the...

Russian troops have been deployed near the border with Georgia today even as the Kremlin tries to stamp out rumours that Putin is about to introduce martial law and ban people from leaving in order to avoid being conscripted into the army. Footage geolocated to the small town of Chmi, on the main highway from Russia into Georgia's South Ossetia region, shows at least six soldiers sitting on top of an armoured vehicle passing a queue of cars in the direction of the crossing. Troops arrived to set up a checkpoint, sources told the Russia's RBC network, with the FSB...

Russia sends troops to Georgian border to 'set up checkpoint' as Kremlin denies plan to impose martial law and stop people from leaving after 260,000 fled Putin's draft in five days Russian troops were filmed arriving at border with Georgia Monday afternoon FSB said they were there to stop men storming the crossing amid huge queue But it comes amid rumours Putin is preparing to declare martial law and ban fighting-age men from leaving after 260,000 fled in just five days Kremlin denied that any conversations about closing border had taken place Russian troops have been deployed near the border...

A new viral video is bound to drive a stake through the heart of every Ferrarista out there, if not every car enthusiast: an early 1994 classic perished in a spontaneous fire on a French highway, and there was nothing left to salvage from it. The potential buyer mentioned above, as well as the current owner, were both inside the car when the blaze started. These days, a unit retails for anything between $90,000 and $200,000, or in rare cases as much as $400,000, depending on condition.

Politicians often pander to their local base by invoking sports teams. Whether they’re actual fans of a team or not, they’ll often mention them because they want to latch onto the goodwill from the community. Democrat John Fetterman, who is running for U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania despite having a stroke that has clearly diminished his ability to think and speak properly, tried to invoke the Philadelphia Eagles during a recent campaign event. He was so excited about it, he invoked them twice in the same sentence. Watch: VIDEO AT LINK................. There is no way this guy should get more than...

Listen to the speech given by Giorgia Meloni. The whole show is worth listening to. Her brief speech begins at about the 20 minute mark. I hope Trump and DeSantis hears this and starts using it. It's time for the republicans to stop being just the "controlled opposition" and become the uncontrolled and uncontrollable opposition. Stop condemning, stop apologizing, for anyone on our side.

Europe's largest economy is sending recession signals. Germany's key future indicator, the IFO survey of business confidence, pointed down for the fourth month in a row as high inflation fed by astronomical natural gas prices undermines consumer pricing power and imposes heavy costs on businesses. ... High energy and commodity prices are weighing on demand and putting pressure on profit margins, said Carsten Brzeski, chief eurozone economist at ING bank. Companies can no longer pass through higher costs to consumers as easily as in the first months of the year. Company order books are shrinking, while businesses that use a...

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This week, FBI Special Agent Steve Friend, a respected 12-year veteran of the FBI, was suspended, his badge and firearm confiscated, and was escorted out of the building after he complained about some of the Agency's actions. His complaint to DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz cited multiple violations of FBI policy including the falsification of data, use of excessive force against non-violent subjects accused of misdemeanor offenses, and political bias against conservatives. "I didn't like the idea of sending heavily-armed SWAT teams on dawn raids of persons suspected of what, at best, would be misdemeanor offenses," Friend explained. "I suggested...

The United States is inching closer to issuing their own Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC). The term FedCoin has been used for a shorthand reference to the US version of a CBDC. It would follow on the heels of several other governments around the world which have already launched their own CBDC, perhaps most notably the People’s Bank of China (PBOC). In addition to the White House’s Executive Order 14067 and the resulting Fact Sheet, most recently detailing several plans of action. This comes as several other nations have either piloted or officially released their own Central Bank Digital Currencies...

President Vladimir Putin on Monday granted Russian citizenship to former U.S. intelligence contractor Edward Snowden, nine years after he exposed the scale of secret surveillance operations by the National Security Agency (NSA).

It was a little over a week ago that Iranian drones first began appearing in the skies over Ukraine. Andriana Arekhta, a junior sergeant with the Ukrainian Armed Forces, said the drones flew from Crimea to attack her special forces unit fighting near the southern city of Kherson. The drones evaded the soldiers’ defenses and dropped bombs on their position, destroying two tanks with their crews inside. “It’s very difficult to see these drones on radars,” said Arekhta, who traveled to Washington, D.C., last week as part of a delegation of female Ukrainian soldiers. “It’s a huge problem.” Over the...

Phoenix police detectives seized approximately one million fentanyl pills in a suburban home. Detectives arrested two suspected drug traffickers and seized a handgun in what they call the largest one-time seizure of fentanyl pills in the department’s history. Phoenix police officials tweeted photos of fentanyl pills seized while executing a search warrant on a suburban home. The photos show what police described as 950,000 fentanyl pills. Detectives arrested Francisco Delgado, age 26, and Jose Molina-Quinonez, age 21, during the search of their Avondale, Arizona, home, News12 NBC in Phoenix reported. Phoenix Police Department Sgt. Brian Bower told KTAR News there...

1.What kind of exercise do lazy people do? Diddly-squats. 2.What do you call a pony with a cough? A little horse! 3.What is Forrest Gump's password? 1Forrest1. 4.Why did the M&M go to school? He wanted to be a Smartie. 6.What did one traffic light say to the other? Stop looking at me, I'm changing! 7.What do you call bears with no ears? B. 8,What's a foot long and slippery? A slipper! 9.Why do French people eat snails? They don't like fast food! 10.What's red and moves up and down? A tomato in an elevator! 11.I invented a new word...

Staying out of handicapped parking spaces is for little people, apparently. Staying out of handicapped parking spaces is for little people, apparently. While you or I would face a fine of $250 to $1,000 in California for parking in a handicapped spot in front of a fancy restaurant while we spent two hours inside, if we didn't have the necessary documentation, the rules are different for Barack Obama. The U.K. Daily Mail reports: Former President Barack Obama's Secret Service SUV was spotted parked in a handicapped spot for two hours as he dined at a swanky West Los Angeles sushi...

The Museum of Science & History in Memphis, Tennessee, is apologizing to guests after canceling a planned drag show Friday evening “due to the presence of armed protesters.” The MoSH, known to many in Memphis as the Pink Palace Museum, was set to host the Memphis Proud drag show and dance party Friday. The museum has several exhibits focused on LGBTQ history this month, including an exhibit on the historic Stonewall Inn police raid and subsequent protests. The Friday drag event was billed on flyers as family-friendly.

STANFORD, Calif. — Leaving your electric car charging overnight to have it ready in the morning seems like a good idea in theory. But in reality, research suggests doing so does more harm in the long run. Stanford scientists say that it’s more costly to charge your electric car at night and it could stress out your local electric grid. Instead, researchers suggest drivers should switch to charging their vehicle at work or in public charging stations. Another added benefit to charging in the daytime at a public station is that it reduces greenhouse gas emissions. With the effects of...