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Searching for allies against Ukraine, Russia now presents itself as the leader of a global culture war against moral depravity. It’s not working. ... “What is happening in the West is a suicide of civilization,” said Mr. Bout, who was traded this month for detained American basketball star Brittney Griner. “Can you imagine, in American schools they teach first-graders that there are 72 genders! Not just gays and normal people, but 72!” ... Mr. Putin’s new stress on social conservatism has already paid dividends in the U.S., where a small but outspoken minority of the Republican Party bases its opposition...

Actor Faizon Love has lashed out at the notion that black people in California will be given $223,000 in reparations, saying that the money will only be used to purchase luxury cars. Love, 54, made the eye-opening response in an interview with YouTube channel Vlad TV as the debate over reparations for slavery in the Golden State continues. The Meteor Man star said: 'F*** that. That's another trick man, because that money's gonna go right back to Cadillac and right back to [Mercedes] Benz.' The chair of the task force handling the reparations issue, Kamilah V. Moore, said in an...

As of March of next year, the Polish government will be looking to charge Ukrainian refugees for beds in accommodation centres as the country faces economic difficulties in housing over a million people who have fled the conflict with Russia. Poland will be charging Ukrainian refugees around 10 euros per day, or 40 Polish zloty, for beds in gymnasiums and other facilities that are being used as refugee accommodation.

Time for a little laughter ... You need to think around "old people". 😅 .. "An old woman walked up and tied her old mule to the hitching post. As she stood there, brushing some of the dust from her face and clothes, a young gunslinger stepped out of the saloon with a gun in one hand and a bottle of whiskey in the other. He looked at the woman and laughed, "Hey old woman, have you ever danced?" The woman looked up at the gunslinger and said, "No ... I never did dance ... Never really wanted to" A...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - The body of a California Highway Patrol captain was found just days after a man was arrested in the shooting death of her husband in Kentucky, investigators said. Julie V. Harding, 49, a commander with the highway patrol, was found dead Saturday at a home in Celina, Tennessee, according to the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation. A statement from TBI did not say how she died, but authorities believe no foul play was involved. The only platform connecting data and doers with Everyday AI Dataiku | Sponsored Police have not said whether there is a connection between Julie...

Texans could have a dark, cold Christmas if an Arctic blast headed east continues its path. Texas suffered a massive power grid failure in February 2021 after three severe winter storms and frigid temperatures stressed the grid. The grid's failure resulted in millions of Texans losing power, leading to a lack of food, water and warmth. The failure proved fatal, and hundreds died because of the outage. The failure dealt a blow to the economy as well, resulting in a loss of at least $195 billion. Since the 2021 power grid failure, other uncharacteristic storms have hit the Lone Star...

@RepMTG@Walmart many of your customers in my district are reaching out to me about sex toys being sold in your Dalton store. They’re extremely upset and absolutely horrified that sex toys are being sold openly right next to children’s toothbrushes! This is grooming. Selling sex toys openly where children are exposed to them is wrong, inappropriate, immoral, indecent, perverted, shameful, and incredibly harmful to children. Why is Walmart participating in the grooming and sexualization of children? I don’t care how big your corporation, how much money you have, how powerful your lobby is, how big and powerful your political influence...

This is an important interview with Tom Hughes and Mike Adams. Mike is a Rapture skeptic, but Tom stood firm on the preTrib Rapture. It’s a good program covering many areas.

The Australian government should be urgently investigating the “incredibly high” 13% excess death rate in 2022, the country’s peak actuarial body says. An extra 15,400 people died in the first eight months of the year, according to a new analysis of Australian Bureau of Statistics (“ABS”) data by the Actuaries Institute, with around one-third of those having no link to Covid. Karen Cutter, an actuary of more than 25 years and spokeswoman for the institute’s Covid-19 Mortality Working Group, said 13% was an “incredibly high number for mortality” and that it was “not clear” what was driving the increase. “Mortality...

As Israel approaches a turning point in its journey from internal strife to ultimate, divinely-ordained destiny. Much of the news here in Israel and beyond is bad. Yet the outlook still looks good. What!? Well, according to these three Israeli indicators (IDF, economy and prophecy), the prognosis for Israel is actually quite good. 1. Reliable Prophecies On the one hand we see unceasing threats against Israel – militarily and otherwise. On the other hand we see repeated miraculous protection in war after war; and in the meta picture, Jeremiah prophesied that no matter what, God would not allow Israel to...

The Twitter accounts of CNN's Donie O'Sullivan, The New York Times' Ryan Mac, The Washington Post's Drew Harwell and others were abruptly suspended by Elon Musk this week. "To be thrown off the platform with no warning or explanation is the worst kind of censorship," O'Sullivan complained. "This never would have happened under the previous ownership." Musk challenged the assertion that the suspensions were unfair and unexplained. "The reason these individuals had their accounts temporarily suspended is that they were using Twitter to dox me," Musk tweeted. "Any account doxxing real-time location info of anyone will be suspended because it...

Let me take you back to the evening of October 18, 2019, to a gathering entitled ‘Event 201’, something Johns Hopkins calls a ‘global pandemic exercise’. Of course, it was invitation only, and held behind closed doors. The financing for this event came from none other than the Bill Gates Foundation. What was the result of this New World Order, closed-door soirée? Only the global COVID plannedemic and lockdown that shook the foundations of the whole world, that’s all. You better buckle up because Bill Gates and his buddies are doing it again. Welcome to Catastrophic Contagion, the sequel to...

Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán says the massive corruption scandal in the European Union should be used as an opportunity to “drain the swamp” in Brussels. An ongoing corruption scandal at the heart of the European Union has seen a Vice President of the European Parliament arrested, among others, and the offices of two human rights organisations shuttered, as Belgian law enforcement probe officials possibly being paid off as part of an influence operation by the sharia-governed State of Qatar, which is hosting the still-ongoing World Cup. Evidence pictures shared with the Associated Press by Belgium’s Federal Judicial Police show...

A new left-wing dark money outfit that will investigate House Republicans has added two former Hillary Clinton staffers to its roster, as the pop-up group aims to exert influence and push back on the expected slew of GOP-led investigations next Congress. Facts First USA is a 501(c)(4) nonprofit group that will spend millions on a “SWAT team to counter Republican congressional investigations," according to an October memo by longtime Democratic political operative David Brock, the group's president. Now, Facts First USA has hired Jessica McIntosh and Ali Rubin, two Democratic consultants who have served various roles in Clintonworld. "We are...

US Sends Infantry Unit To Base Just Miles Away From Russian Border In Estonia Last week the US Embassy in Lithuania announced the Pentagon plans to step up troop deployments in the Baltic states, taking what was previously categorized as "episodic" troop deployments and…

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Albert Collins said it best about the US economy under Joe Biden: “Lights Are On But Nobody’s Home”. The Federal Reserve forecast for the US economy is a dismal 0.50% YoY. Do I detect a trend? The FOMC forecast for 2023 and 2024. Core PCE YoY (inflation) is forecast to drop to 3.50%, still considerably higher than The Fed’s target rate of inflation of 2%. And unemployment is forecast to be 4.60%. To cope with Bidenflation, US personal savings rate as of October is -67.9% YoY. The “good” news is that rents YoY are crashing. But food prices under Inflation...

Fatal stabbings and slashings are up an alarming 37% in the Big Apple this year. The NYPD has logged 96 blade-involved killings so far in 2022, compared with 70 for the same period in 2021, according to department stats obtained by The Post. Stabbings and slashings overall are up 10% in 2022, with 4,344 compared to 3,954 last year, the stats show.

The Washington Post is crediting President Donald Trump’s 2020 migration cuts for rising wages and improving workplace technology in 2022.But the credit for raising wages is portrayed as blame for creating a “shortage of immigrants”:The slowdown in legal immigration began well before the pandemic, [and] the covid-19 crisis intensified the process as the Trump administration effectively halted the flow of foreign-born workers into the United StatesThe list of supposed problems caused by the “shortage of migrants” includes wage gains for ordinary Americans, according to the December 15 article:“It’s been three years of trying absolutely everything,” said [Kansas hotel manager Alonzo]...

A pair of beleaguered Brooklyn landlords whose properties were allegedly taken over by a convicted sex abuser facing an attempted murder charge have finally gotten their buildings back. The NYPD and a city marshal arrived Friday to oust 10 people who had been living illegally in the trio of rundown Neptune Avenue homes owned by Mohammed Choudary and Boysin Lorick, who had struggled for years to boot the squatters. When the pair bought the homes in 2019 for $1.3 million, Peter Fonseca, 45, was living behind one of the garage’s and refused to leave, according to court papers.