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Well, “Wreck-It” Biden and his minions struck again. In a moronic move, the American hating, National Anthem kneeling, Brittney Griner was released from a Russian prison in trade for a....wait for it...a convicted arms dealer nicknamed the “merchant of death.” Britney will be back in the good old US of A just in time for Christmas to open her presents. Soon she will appear on The View and vomit hatred for all things American. Britney will probably write a book blaming TRUMP, TRUMP, and TRUMP for her incarceration, thank Mother Russia for her release and be revered as a hero...

All non-critical infrastructure in Ukraine's southern port city of Odesa was without power after Russia used Iranian-made drones to hit two energy facilities, officials said on Saturday, with much of the surrounding region also affected....A statement posted by the city administration on the Telegram app said that Russian strikes hit key transmission lines and equipment in Odesa region in the early hours of Saturday....Since October, Moscow has been targeting Ukraine's energy infrastructure with large waves of missile and drone strikes, with Kyiv acknowledging on Friday that every single thermal and hydro-electric power plant in the country had been damaged.

“‘The one on whom seed was sown on the rocky places, this is the man who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy; yet he has no firm root in himself, but is only temporary, and when affliction or persecution arises because of the word, immediately he falls away’” (Matthew 13:20–21). Shallow acceptance of the gospel can be encouraged by shallow evangelism that promises blessings of salvation but ignores the costs of discipleship. If people just “make a decision” for Jesus Christ without accepting all His claims on their lives, they can become insulated from genuine salvation. When...

God’s prophet wrote, “Many people shall come and say, ‘Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob; he will teach us his ways, and we shall walk in his paths.’…” (Isaiah 2:3, NKJV), and “Even them I will bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer…” (Isaiah 56:7). The message of the Holy Spirit today to all God’s people is “Get back to the mount. Get back into his holy presence.” Many are now hearing that call and making time for prayer...

Unless you are having trouble sleeping, I do not recommend trying to read Dr. Anthony Fauci’s 363-page testimony in a federal lawsuit about how U.S. government officials colluded with Big Tech to censor online speech about COVID. It is positively soporific to parse Fauci saying, “I don’t recall” over and over again in response to questions ranging from the research he was funding at the Wuhan lab to whether his inspiration for lockdowns came from China. In all, President Biden’s Chief Medical Advisor drew a blank on a couple hundred occasions during his late-November deposition detailing crucial government efforts during...

SAN FRANCISCO – While millions of California families struggled financially in 2021 due to the coronavirus pandemic, Pacific Gas & Electric’s CEO made over $50 million for leading the reviled utility with a history of bad investments and punitive energy bills. the same time that CEO Patricia Poppe was raking in the money through direct compensation, the monopoly power company triggered the second largest wildfire in California history, estimated to cost more than $ 1 billion in damages, much of it from homes and entire communities burned to the ground Documents filed Thursday with the Securities and Exchange Commission show...

Amazon built a computer vision algorithm from scratch to identify products without barcodes to help robots ship products to you faster. Robots may be the future, but robotic arms are apparently no good at using an old and steadfast form of technology: the barcode. Barcodes can be hard to find and might be affixed to oddly shaped products, Amazon said in a press release Friday, something robots can't troubleshoot very well. As a result, the company says it has a plan to kill the barcode. Using pictures of items in Amazon warehouses and training a computer model, the e-commerce giant...

Twitter executives bent over backward to try to suppress tweets from high-profile conservatives leading up to the 2020 election – but found ways to justify keeping up posts from users that espoused liberal political views, the latest “Twitter Files” reveal. In one shocking instance, when workers at the social media giant didn’t have a “firm policy basis” for censoring ...James Woods, they vowed to “hit him hard on future [violations]...” Taibbi also found that Roth moved to strip a warning label off former Obama administration Attorney General Eric Holder who tweeted in October of 2020 that “It’s too late to...

Ann Collier, a member of Twitter’s “Trust and Safety Council” announced that she and two of her colleagues just resigned in protest over Elon Musk’s handling of Twitter safety, even though Elon says “hate speech,” if there is such a thing, has declined though the month of November. Ann tagged the two other members who resigned in her tweet, and as a result, she inadvertently revealed a dirty little secret…

"Your new company @Twitter has many ex FBI/CIA agents in high ranks. Should probably do a little housecleaning."

Joe Biden in office is an unmitigated catastrophe for the country in one way after another. Elon Musk was true to his word, as far as we know, with regard to his promise to release Twitter documents, first by Matt Taibbi then by Bari Weiss. Thus far, he has exposed that social media site’s calculated censorship of any and all information that might silence conservative voices, including President Trump as well as reflect badly on the Biden family, Dr. Anthony Fauci, lockdowns, and vaccines. He has done exactly that, probably not to the fullest extent, but he’s released enough to...

Wahl’s agent, Tim Scanlan, told the New York Times that Wahl had been in the press tribune in the closing minutes of the quarterfinal game when he went into acute distress. Scanlan said that he is believed to have died at a hospital or while he was being taken to one after feeling unwell. “He wasn’t sleeping well, and I asked him if he tried melatonin or anything like,” Scanlan said. “He said, ‘I just need to like relax for a bit.’” Eric believed foul play was involved after claiming his brother was receiving death threats over wearing a rainbow...

In a world where everyone craves “peace and safety,” they are looking everywhere else but where it is truly found – and so wind up with neither ...

The coin, the first of its type discovered in Israel, was minted by the Byzantine Emperor Theodosius II, whose edicts led to the abolishment of the Sanhedrin Council and to the large-scale emigration of Jews to the Diaspora.1,600 years after the edict of the Emperor Theodosius II led to the abolishment of the post of the 'Nasi,' the Head of the Sanhedrin, school pupils found a rare piece of evidence reflecting this dramatic moment in Jewish history.In February 2019, four ninth grade students from the Haemeq Hamaaravi High School in Kibbutz Yifat in the Jezreel valley were orienteering in the...

EXCERPTS OF THE ARTICLE:"A recent study by UC Berkeley revealed that over half of the residents of California are looking into moving."SNIP"To complicate the matter, state legislators in California are now discussing retroactive taxes as well as an exit tax for rich residents of the state who leave California for another state. AB2088 doesn’t only seek to create a wealth tax in California but also force rich old California residents to pay the tax for nearly 10 years after they’ve left. "SNIP"Others mentioned that they feel that their votes in California don’t count while others still complain that politicians focus...

This will be the last time (Fed rate hikes) as the US economy is forecast to either go into a recession in 2023 or slow down to an anemic 1.20% Real GDP YoY. Even the Fed is forecasting 3.10% core inflation in 2023, still higher than their target rate of 2%. Commercial mortgage bonds could get clobbered in the coming months, and investors are backing away from the securities. Some $34 billion of the bonds come due in 2023, and refinancing property loans is difficult now. Property prices could fall 10% to 15% next year, according to JPMorgan Chase &...

For years, Georgia has been a deep-red state. But after securing President Biden the White House in 2020 and electing two Democratic senators, a changing demographic shows the Peach State has become a critical battleground state. Coming out of the 2020 election, Georgia was thought to be a red state trending blue. But the recent reelection of Sen. Raphael Warnock (D), despite Republican Gov. Brian Kemp’s victory at the top of the ticket, underscores the extent to which the state has become unpredictable.

The COVID vaccine is actually mRNA gene editing technology, but ‘doctor’ Jill Biden wants you to take it anyway. Do it for ‘the Big Guy!’ Unless you’ve just arrived from Outer Space, by now you know that the COVID vaccine never was, is not now nor ever will be what you could call a vaccine. It does not function as a vaccine and was not created as a vaccine. According to the inventor of mRNA technology, Robert Malone, mRNA is gene editing technology, a view also backed up by people like Stefan Oelrich, the president of Bayer Pharmaceuticals in Germany....

This week brought out supreme competition for Twit of the Week. Twitter continues to disclose its malfeasance under previous ownership; Hollywood potentate James Cameron, director of “The Terminator” and “Alien,” blasts manliness (which can only mean the forthcoming “Avatar” sequels will be even worse than the original, which is hard to believe possible); Michael Avenatti, once the Democrats’—or at least the media’s—frontrunner for president, is back in the news, while (P)resident Biden. . . well, finish this sentence yourself. Let’s start here:

Walk through this part of central Brussels on a sunny morning and you could just as well be in Rabat or Tangiers. In this Moroccan neighbourhood in the heart of the Belgian capital...The atmosphere is undoubtedly Moroccan as you head down the main street towards Midi train station. Five million Moroccans live abroad, most of them in Europe. They make up large minorities in France, Spain, Belgium, Italy and the Netherlands. Here in Brussels and surrounding regions, they number 400,000. Morocco's victories showed celebrations turning ugly in several European cities. In places, celebrations turned to street battles involving young Morocco...