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President Emmanuel Macron begins his three-day state visit to the US on Wednesday bolstered by shared bilateral visions on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and China’s assertiveness in the Indo-Pacific. But President Joe Biden’s latest Inflation Reduction Act has alarmed the EU, and the French leader will have to stake a firm position on US subsidies and protectionism. The official billing ahead of the first state visit of Joe Biden’s presidency was all roses, with the White House describing the guest, French President Emmanuel Macron, as the “dynamic leader” of America's oldest ally. ... But there’s a thorn in the Old...

... The traditional Chinese vaccines such as Sinovac proved not only far less effective against the original Covid variants, but nearly totally ineffective against omicron and incapable of mitigating infection severity. As omicron hit, China was left without defenses other than lockdown affecting hundreds of millions of people. So now what? With the specter of another Shanghai-type lockdown looming in several major cities and protests growing, all signs are that the new CPC leadership team around premier-designate Li Qiang has pushed for, and is determined to chart, a path to live with Covid – as most of the world has...

Let me explain. Here are charts graphing each of Pennsylvania’s daily Democratic Mail-In Ballot Applications and Returns for the 2022 Midterm. You can see all 67 counties here. (2/32) PA Mail In Ballot County Charts.pdf https://drive.google.com/file/d/1N9JygwKFPFCDrCTvPExmsukG_Anbp-68/view?usp=share_li This is what a Democratic Mail-In Ballot Application and Return cycle looks like for a typical Pennsylvania county. Almost every county, including Philadelphia and Allegheny, looks like this. Nearly 2/3’s of all Democratic Mail-In Ballot Applications happen in the Spring. That’s because counties are statutorily required to mail the prior year’s Mail-In Ballot Applicants if they wish to re-enroll for the current year. (4/32)...

Pray For The Peace of JerusalemMatthew 15 That Which Defiles 15 Then some Pharisees and teachers of the law came to Jesus from Jerusalem and asked, 2 “Why do your disciples break the tradition of the elders? They don’t wash their hands before they eat!” 3 Jesus replied, “And why do you break the command of God for the sake of your tradition? 4 For God said, ‘Honor your father and mother’[a] and ‘Anyone who curses their father or mother is to be put to death.’[b] 5 But you say that if anyone declares that what might have been used...

Pimped by Democrats, used by the news media, abandoned by Republicans, and disliked by the public, Cheney, like her father, might have managed to tick off almost everyone on her way out the door. It wasn’t supposed to end this way. After successfully winning the affection and approval of political enemies who, not so long ago, considered her father a war criminal, Representative Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) will leave Congress in about 30 days to much greener, so to speak, pastures. (Ironically—or not—Cheney’s effort to indict Trump related to the events of January 6 will continue under Special Counsel Jack Smith,...

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) said Monday on Newsmax TV’s “Spicer & Co.” that if Republican members “play games,” the Democrats may end up picking the next House speaker. Anchor Sean Spicer said, “We’ve had a couple of these folks that say that they won’t vote for you on the show. When we ask them what they want, they list a couple of rules, concessions that they want. And we say, well, if you get those concessions, will you vote for McCarthy, ‘Well, we’re not sure.’ Well, then, who do you want your candidate to be? ‘We don’t know...

Christian Brueckner is currently serving a seven-year prison sentence in Germany for a rape he also committed in Portugal in 2005 A new arrest warrant has been issued by authorities in Germany in separate cases for a man who is also suspected in the disappearance of Madeleine McCann. The suspect, identified by media as Christian Brueckner, is currently serving a seven-year prison sentence in Germany for a rape he also committed in Portugal in 2005. The term in prison is scheduled to end in September 2025. Prosecutors in Braunschweig announced last month that they had charged the 45-year-old in five...

761,609 views Nov 28, 2022 WARNING-Graphic footage: Fox News host Tucker Carlson rips the reaction from the Biden administration and the left to protests in China over the COVID-19 lockdowns on 'Tucker Carlson Tonight.' #FoxNews #tucker Subscribe to Fox News! https://bit.ly/2vaBUvAS Watch more Fox News Video: http://video.foxnews.com Watch Fox News Channel Live: http://www.foxnewsgo.com/ FOX News Channel (FNC) is a 24-hour all-encompassing news service delivering breaking news as well as political and business news. The number one network in cable, FNC has been the most-watched television news channel for 18 consecutive years. According to a 2020 Brand Keys Consumer Loyalty Engagement...

Kanye West was joined by Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes and white supremacist Milo Yiannopoulos on Monday’s episode of the Timcast IRL podcast. Earlier in the podcast, West also detailed his meeting with former president Donald Trump. West said that it had been planned for October but that after Trump announced his run for presidency, Trump pushed the meeting to November. West said that following his “Death Con” comment, Alex Jones’ producer introduced him to Yiannopoulos, who in turn suggested West “bring in” Fuentes. The artist said he was “impressed by Nick” and asked him to join the dinner, stating that...

There has been a large fall in the number of people who consider themselves as Christian, dropping below half the population of England and Wales for the first time. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has released its latest data taken from the 2021 Census, showing the changes since 2011. Some 46.2% said they were Christian, down from 59.3% in 2011. ONS data - main points: • Number of people using Romanian as their main language rose from 0.1% to 0.8% (68,000 to 472,000), which is 2nd to Polish in a list of languages used other than English and Welsh...

Dzhankoy, a rail and road hub in northern Crimea, 50 miles south of the Ukrainian mainland, was a critical node in Russia’s supply network before September, when Ukrainian forces launched a counteroffensive that ultimately liberated much of Russian-occupied southern Ukraine. Now, as Russian field armies reposition on the left bank of the Dnipro River, just south of the newly-liberated port city of Kherson, Dzhankoy is even more important to the Russian war effort. The Kremlin is reorganizing its supply network for the southern front. Dzhankoy is at the center of the new network. Ukrainian planners know this. So it should...

We’re in the middle of a coordinated attempt to alter human societies to elites’ liking. Stopping it requires creating a critical mass of social awareness of what’s being attempted. The World Economic Forum (WEF) elites who meet at Davos and have populated the world's climate change conferences are of one mentality: they believe they are better than others. They consider themselves the apex of humanity and entitled to determine the circumstances under which the bulk of humanity lives. We're in the midst of their focused, collective effort to accomplish that end, and to reduce humanity's number to a more manageable...

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HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE POTOMAC, Friday, Nov. 28. The railroad form Aquia Creek was completed yesterday, and a locomotive came down this morning. Supplies will be received by rail henceforward. The enemy are industriously engaged in extending and strengthening their earthworks in the rear, to the right and left of Fredericksburgh. Their operations are distinctly visible through glasses from our signal stations. No movement of importance has taken place for several days, but a reconnoissance is said to be in progress which promises important results.SPECIAL DISPATCH FROM WASHINGTON. WASHINGTON, Friday, Nov. 28. We learn from the TIMES special correspondent that...

If we are all responsible for each other, then no one is responsible for himself pretty well encapsulates the moral outlook of today’s liberal-progressive. The website of the American Psychiatric Association says: Psychological attempts to force a transgender person to be cisgender (sometimes referred to as gender identity conversion efforts or so-called “gender identity conversion therapy”) are considered unethical and have been linked to adverse mental health outcomes.The official position of the APA is that a man who thinks he is a woman is not necessarily deluded, and it would be unethical to treat him as if he were. It...

Do I hear Drums Along The Potomac or East River?? The hawkish drumbeat from central bankers is raising fears of a downturn, with global bonds joining US peers in signaling a recession, as a gauge measuring the worldwide yield curve inverted for the first time in at least two decades. The US Treasury 10Y-2Y yield curve, on the other hand, has been inverted for 107 straight months. And in Europe, 10-year sovereign yields are dropping like a paralyzed falcon. The world and US yield curves are pointing to trouble. And drums along the Potomac (DC) and East River (NYC).

Arab soccer fans attending the World Cup games in Doha, Qatar assaulted an Egyptian journalist, believing him to be an Israeli. In footage of the attack which circulated on social media, Arab soccer fans can be seen haranguing and shouting at the reporter before attacking him and forcing him to flee. The reporter tried to explain to the fans that he is Egyptian, not Israeli, but the fans refused to believe him...

...Some funds have offered to take a piece of the loan package at a discount as low as 60 cents on the dollar, which would be among the steepest markdowns in a decade. The banks have so far deemed those bids unattractive, according to people with knowledge of the discussions who asked not to be identified because the talks were private. The lukewarm investor reception shows just how big of an albatross the Twitter debt is becoming for a Morgan Stanley-led cohort that committed to finance Musk’s acquisition of the social-media firm back in April, before credit markets cratered. The...

On September 13, 2022, Brett Christian, the Firearms Policy Coalition, the Second Amendment Foundation, and others filed suit against the “emergency” measure pushed through the New York State legislature by Governor Hochul, in defiance of the long-awaited decision in NYSR&PA v Bruen. The Bruen decision clarified the Heller and McDonald decisions, partially restoring the right to bear arms. The right has been incrementally infringed on for more than a hundred years, primarily under the “Progressive” political philosophy, along with its ideological brethren, the “Jim Crow” laws and Black Codes.The Christian v. Nigrelli case, as it came to be known, pointed...

A fashion stylist connected to haute-couture fashion house Balenciaga broke her silence after being accused of posting images featuring graphic violence against children. Lotta Volkova worked hand-in-hand with Balenciaga’s creative director Demna Gvasalia until 2017 and was forced to set her Instagram account to ‘private’ after facing backlash over the images she posted to social media, according to Newsweek. Tweets directing attention to her photographs went viral as fans called out the label and its celebrity supporters, demanding answers and calling for Volkova to face consequences. The stylist’s social media pages came under scrutiny after Balenciaga shared a controversial ad...