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At the G20 Summit, Klaus Schwab made it clear that he believes there should be a “great restructuring of our world”: Unelected Klaus Schwab at the G20 summit:Said we need a "deep systemic restructuring of our world…and the world will look differently after we have gone through this transition process"They aren't even hiding it anymore. It's The Great Reset.— PeterSweden (@PeterSweden7) November 17, 2022So far it appears that part of the “great restructuring” does not include super-rich “great reset” proponents not staying at five-star hotels, because Schwab was spotted at the DC Waldorf while definitely not planning to dine on...

The conservative apparel and lifestyle company behind last year’s viral “Let’s Go Brandon” wrapping paper is on target to double last year’s sales. The company behind the gift wrap, Freedom Speaks Up, has marketed the wrapping paper as a way to troll your liberal relatives over the holidays. In a press release about the massive sales, the owner of the company, Seth Weathers, said that he started making it on a whim in 2021 — but it resulted in over 500,000 sq.ft. of the novelty wrapping paper sold. “This year is going to be double what it was in 2021!”...

Deploying air marshals to border leaves US 'vulnerable to attack' during holiday travel season, official claims U.S. air marshals are reportedly staging a "mutiny" on the Biden administration over its immigration policies, as they plan to refuse mandatory deployment orders to the southern border and, therefore, face possible termination. Though refusing the order puts them at risk of termination, dozens of air marshals argue that abandoning their current assignments will leave American fliers more vulnerable to threats over the busy holiday travel season. Amid an influx of illegal immigrants held in custody, the Federal Air Marshal Service asked for volunteers...

TUESDAY, Nov. 29, 2022 (HealthDay News) — For health care workers providing care to patients with COVID-19, the risk for COVID-19 does not differ significantly with use of medical masks versus N95 respirators, according to a study published online Nov. 29 in the Annals of Internal Medicine. Mark Loeb, M.D., from McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, and colleagues examined whether medical masks are noninferior to N95 respirators for preventing COVID-19 in health care workers providing routine care in a multicenter trial. Data were included for 1,009 health care workers at 29 health care facilities who provided direct care to...

The New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected an appeal by the Biden administration to reinstate its debt relief program. The three-judge panel consisted of an appointee from each of the last three presidents, according to Politico. The Biden administration was appealing to overturn the Nov. 10 decision by Fort Worth, Texas-based U.S. District Judge Mark Pittman...

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Washington — The House Ways & Means Committee now has access to several years of former President Donald Trump's tax records, days after the Supreme Court declined to block their release. The Treasury Department said in a brief statement that it has "complied with last week's court decision." ... ...The dispute between Trump and the Ways and Means Committee arose from an April 2019 request from Chairman Richard Neal to the Internal Revenue Service for Trump's individual tax records and those of eight of his business entities for 2013 to 2018.... ...After the change in presidential administrations, and with the...

NEWS: John Thune, the No. 2 Senate GOP leader, says in interview Senate Repubs want to leverage the next US debt limit increase to force federal spending cuts and changes to Social Security and other entitlement programs. “There’s a set of solutions there that we really need to take on if we’re going to get serious about making these programs sustainable and getting this debt bomb at a manageable level before it’s too late,” Thune told Bloomberg editors and reporters in Washington.

Free Speech is perhaps the most important cornerstone of Western Civilization, and it is disappearing from the American landscape as our system of government takes the shape of the third world we have tried so hard – for generations- not to resemble. Americans are now betraying the dangerous work of trying to protect our historic civil liberties. And one man, Elon Musk, the CEO of Twitter says he wants to do something about that. “This is a Battle for the Future of Civilization,” Musk tweeted this week. “Elon Musk announced he will make internal files on Twitter’s suppression of free...

TWEET FROM ELON MUSK:Elon Musk @elonmusk · FollowGood conversation. Among other things, we resolved the misunderstanding about Twitter potentially being removed from the App Store. Tim was clear that Apple never considered doing so. Sounds like Tim Cook didn’t want a new smartphone competitor. 6:05 PM · Nov 30, 2022

Color me a bit surprised at this news, considering the context of our times. Twenty years ago, this result would have been utterly predictable, but critical race theory and ethnic determinism had not yet ingrained themselves into the educational, legal, and corporate establishments at that time.Maybe those radical concepts haven’t actually ingrained themselves as much as people think. At least that’s what the result of today’s Marquette Law poll on racial preferences suggests:The Marquette survey finds that the public is skeptical of the use of race in college admissions, with 41% in favor of a decision that would find a...

They really really REALLY are scared of Elon Musk.As I have written about before, the European Union has been making noises about Twitter’s compliance with its Digital Services Act, which among other things requires pretty aggressive censorship of speech, under the guise of preventing “misinformation.”More details on #Mastodon ⤵️ https://t.co/rNlULHh181— Thierry Breton (@ThierryBreton) November 30, 2022Today the EU went a step further, openly threaten to ban Twitter in Europe unless Musk buckles to their demands:The EU has threatened Elon Musk’s Twitter with a European ban unless the billionaire abides by its strict rules on content moderation, setting up a regulatory...

The U.S. Men’s National Soccer Team defeated the Iranian team on Tuesday in a must-win game. Now the American team moves on the playing The Netherlands on Saturday. There was a little extra sweetness in celebrating the U.S. victory this year because of the political protests going on in Iran now. Iranians in support of the protesters celebrated the U.S. victory in Iran. One woman spoke on the condition of remaining anonymous from her home in southern Iran. “Mahoora” said, “It’s not just some people in Iran, it is the majority of people in Iran that want the U.S. to...

Florida’s red wave is already wiping out school superintendents across the Sunshine State. Backed by Gov. Ron DeSantis and conservative activist groups, right-leaning candidates have gained control of many major district school boards and are purging prior leadership. “Parents woke up in the last few years,” a newly elected school board member backed by the conservative Moms for Liberty advocacy group told The Post. “They were exposed to the garbage that has gone on behind closed doors for so many years. That’s finished.” A trio of superintendents have been shown the campus door in GOP-leaning districts in November alone —...

In a shocking statement that has now been withdrawn, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen wrote that Ukraine has lost 100,000 soldiers and 20,000 civilians in the Ukraine war. This conforms to comments made by US Joint Chief of Staff head General Mark Milley, who in a speech at a conference hosted by New York’s Economic Club said that more than 100,000 Russian soldiers have been killed or wounded in the war and that the number of troop casualties is probably the “same” for Ukraine’s army. Ukraine’s heavy casualties are a signal that Washington’s de facto war with Russia...

On September 13, 2020, a little more than two years ago, President Trump announced the first of the Abraham Accords deals. The UAE agreed to recognize Israel, exchange diplomats, and begin economic cooperation. Over the next four months, Bahrain, Morocco, and Sudan were added to the list of countries making peace with the Jewish State, and we were told that other countries wanted to hop on the peace train. The Foggy Bottom rumor mill suggested that the big fish, Saudi Arabia was on the edge of joining the accords. But on January 20, 2021, the process ended as soon as...

Gun crime offenders and our court system’s anemic response As the “gun control” debate heats up again, it’s important to stay focused on what the real issue should be — holding gun crime offenders accountable. Conservatives know and should not waiver on the fact that legal gun owners are overwhelmingly responsible and law-abiding. If we are serious, our focus should be on issues that negatively impact our public safety. We should be able to agree that gun crime offenders belong at the top of our public safety concerns. Unfortunately, our liberal state criminal justice system has failed to hold gun...

Yesterday, the Wall Street Journal published an opinion piece by attorney Robin Keller describing how she lost her job at a large law firm after daring to speak up in favor of the Dobbs decision. This didn’t happen at a general staff meeting but on a conference call explicitly held to allow staffers to discuss the decision.After the Supreme Court issued its Dobbs decision overturning Roe v. Wade in June, global law firm Hogan Lovells organized an online conference call for female employees. As a retired equity partner still actively serving clients, I was invited to participate in what was...

The lawsuit, filed in January 2020, alleged that Epstein created a network of companies and conspired with others to help him carry out and conceal the alleged sex trafficking scheme. The estate of Jeffrey Epstein has agreed to pay the U.S. Virgin Islands more than $105 million to settle a lawsuit alleging that he used the territory as the base of an extensive sex trafficking operation. The suit is being settled nearly three years after Denise N. George, the attorney general of the U.S. territory, sued Epstein, a New York financier who died by suicide in 2019 as he was...