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@zerohedge *WHITE HOUSE ASKS CONGRESS FOR $37.7 BILLION IN UKRAINE AID

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris will visit the Philippine islands of Palawan in the South China Sea, a senior administration official said on Tuesday, in a move that may be interpreted by Beijing as a sharp rebuke. The visit, scheduled for next Tuesday, will make Harris the highest-ranking American official to visit the island chain adjacent to the Spratly Islands. China has dredged the sea floor to build harbors and airstrips on the Spratlys, parts of which are also claimed by Brunei, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan and Vietnam. Beijing claims some territories in the waters off Palawan...

HUTCHINSON ISLAND, Fla. — The bones stuck out of the sand. Dakota Brady, 30, said he was with some friends at Chastain Beach in southeast Florida in the aftermath of Hurricane Nicole when they discovered human remains. “It was just surreal. Just to think that this is something that we walk on on a daily basis and nobody knows. Everybody’s oblivious to it," Brady said. Authorities learned of the remains soon after. Investigators are examining what they said are likely human remains of the indigenous Ais tribe on Hutchinson Island, a barrier island along the Atlantic about 50 miles north...

Anthony Fauci says he’s not breathing a sigh of relief that Republicans — who vowed to investigate him if they retook the Senate — didn’t win the majority in the upper chamber, because he has “no problem at all” testifying before Congress. “I have nothing to hide at all, despite the accusations that I’m hiding something,” Fauci, the nation’s leading infectious diseases expert and President Biden’s chief medical adviser, told ITK at a gala in Washington over the weekend. “I have nothing that I could not explain clearly to the country and justify,” Fauci said. Sen. Rand Paul said earlier...

Schooled by DeSantisThe Florida governor shows conservatives how to break the teachers’ union stranglehold on local school boards.Woody Allen once observed that 80 percent of success in life comes down to showing up. For decades, conservatives failed to heed this advice in education politics, letting unions monopolize the school boards that govern American K–12 education. That ended on November 8, as Florida governor Ron DeSantis helped conservatives defeat a record number of union-backed school board candidates.Despite conservatives’ faith in the virtue of local control, the Right’s failure to engineer consistent conservative school board victories has long given progressives in the...

Poetic Justice may be in the nation’s future, as the name of Republican Kari Lake emerges in discussions about potential running mates for President Donald J. Trump to be on the presidential ticket for the 2024 general election. Trump is a Populist-Nationalist and the definitive leader of the America First movement; he faces a bold Globalist agenda that has its grasp on power and wealth and are unafraid of showing its corrupt dominance over the ‘free’ people of the nation. So he will need a fearless and bold partner to stand with him.

Two people have been killed in Poland after explosions hit a farm near the border with Ukraine in what is thought to be a botched Russian missile attack. Twin explosions rang out this afternoon in Przewodów, a rural village located less than ten miles from the Ukrainian border in south western Poland. A senior US intelligence official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the fatal blasts were caused by a pair of wayward Russian missiles.

Democratic Rep. Henry Cuellar (Texas) on Tuesday revealed more details about the GOP effort to have him jump parties, saying a handful of Republicans — including a sitting member of Congress — were part of the pressure campaign to have him join the GOP following his easy victory in last week’s midterm elections. They did not offer him anything specific, such as a committee chairmanship, Cuellar said, but instead extended him an open-ended enticement. “They just said, ‘Name your price,'” Cuellar told reporters in the Capitol. His response was simple. “No, thank you,” he said. Cuellar is among the most...

Police in Idaho said Tuesday they believe an "edged weapon" such as a knife was used in a "targeted attack" on four college students, shedding light on a case that has left a local community shocked and grappling with unanswered questions. Police in the city of Moscow said they have not recovered a weapon but came to the conclusion based on preliminary information. The victims — three women and one man, all students at the University of Idaho — were found dead before noon Sunday at a private home about a half-block from campus... "Investigators believe this was an isolated,...

On Monday The Daily Beast announced that NBC reporter Miquil Almaguer was suspended following his report on Paul Pelosi. NBC News pulled their bombshell report in early November by Miguel Almaguer on the attack on Paul Pelosi that included details that contradicted the narrative in the federal charging papers against accused attacker David DePape. The video of a report that aired on the Today Show was pulled across several platforms after The Gateway Pundit reported the contradictions-which was not noted by NBC in their report. A report by NBC on a third person in the Pelosi home at the time...

Lately, Trump has been calling Elaine Chao “Coco Chow.” I have no idea why he thinks that's insulting. Has he ever given a reference for what it means? I'm guessing maybe Coco Chanel but even then, why is that an insult? No one knows who she was nowadays.

CNN — House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy has won his party’s nomination for speaker, beating conservative challenger Rep. Andy Biggs in a 188-31 vote, according to multiple sources in the room. It was a secret ballot, and McCarthy only needed a simple majority.

Paul Nguyen, 27, died Thursday in Medellín in what his sister, Amy Nguyen, described as “a cruel and senseless crime” in a GoFundMe created to help the family bring Paul’s body home. According to a report in Peruvian newspaper El Comercio, Nguyen had met a woman on the dating app Tinder and joined her at a nightclub. He then went missing, Amy Nguyen said, and “just a few hours later,” his body was found next to some garbage receptacles, El Comercio reported. On Reddit, Amy Nguyen said the family believes “that he was going out with this girl and was...

President Joe Biden just gave his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, a propaganda victory. The two met Monday on the sidelines of the Group of 20 summit in Bali, Indonesia, their first in-person meeting of Biden’s presidency. While it’s positive that the two leaders are communicating, the optics of the meeting might have done more harm than good. If Biden wants to set the U.S.-China relationship on a more favorable track, he must engage Beijing from a position of strength. That’s not what happened Monday. The timing of the summit couldn’t have been worse. Xi arrived in Bali fresh from the...

KEY POINTS * Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav spoke Tuesday at RBC’s 2022 Global TIMT Conference in New York. * Zaslav said the advertising market was weaker than at any point during 2020′s coronavirus pandemic. * Zaslav said Discovery’s merger with WarnerMedia has been “messier” than expected. ******************************************************* The advertising market is currently weaker than at any point during the coronavirus pandemic slowdown of 2020, Warner Bros. Discovery Chief Executive David Zaslav said at an investment conference Tuesday. If the ad market doesn’t improve next year, “it’s going to be hard” to hit the company’s $12 billion earnings forecast...

Russia pounded Ukraine’s energy facilities Tuesday with its biggest barrage of missiles yet, striking targets across the country and causing widespread blackouts, and a U.S. official said missiles crossed into NATO member Poland, where two people were killed. A defiant Ukrainian President Volodymr Zelenskyy shook his fist and declared: “We will survive everything.” Polish government spokesman Piotr Mueller did not immediately confirm the information from a senior U.S. intelligence official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitive nature of the situation. But Mueller said top leaders were holding an emergency meeting due to a “crisis situation.” Polish...

The Nevada Supreme Court on Nov. 14 turned down a request to halt hand counting of ballots in a rural county. The hand count, which is taking place after all ballots cast in the midterms were tabulated with machines, is essentially a recount or an audit, neither of which are allowed under state law, the Brennan Center for Justice said in an emergency motion on Monday.“Unless enjoined by this Court, this hand count will set a dangerous precedent for future elections by encouraging local officials to make up and implement their own vote counting processes that violate voters’ constitutional right...

This is Count Vlad's tribute to Led Zeppelin and the Middle-Eastern sound of the late 60s. To hang out in Marrakesh and Morocco was groovy – almost as groovy as in India with the Beatles. If you like the music please subscribe.

The FBI and Department of Homeland Security do not agree on the security of the U.S. southern border, judging by testimony before the House Committee on Homeland Security. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas seemed to conflict with FBI Director Christopher Wray on Tuesday when asked whether the border is secure. "Secretary Mayorkas, do you continue to maintain that the border is secure?" North Carolina Rep. Dan Bishop asked, referencing a claim Mayorkas made before the Judiciary Committee this summer. "Yes, and we are working day in and day out to enhance security, congressman," Mayorkas responded.

Republican politicians and associated committees are sending out desperate fundraising emails begging the GOP faithful to help save America by getting behind Herschel Walker in his Dec. 6 runoff against Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock in Georgia. But what’s not immediately clear to recipients is how little of that money is going to Walker's campaign: just a dime for every dollar given by small donors. Walker’s campaign, which has trailed Warnock’s in fundraising throughout the election, is asking fellow Republicans to stop their fundraising practices — or at least to start sharing more with the candidate. "We need everyone focused on...