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Buried in the release of the House Jan. 6 Select Committee transcripts is the interview with Ray Epps, the un-indicted man who was urging supporters of then-President Donald Trump to "go into the Capitol" the day before and the day of the protest. The unusual interview featured anti-Trump Reps. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., and Adam Schiff, D-Calif., tossing Epps with softball questions, if not treating him like they were his defense lawyers, according to some conservative critics on Twitter. It caught Trump's eye, too. "The Unselect Committee doesn't explain Ray Epps, Sullivan, or the 'other' ringleaders," Trump posted early Saturday morning...

This isn't an article, but a very plausible theory is going around that the Idaho alleged killer posted a 5-minute TikTok of himself talking about the murders. You can see a reflection in the computer screen of the video, and some people on Twitter have done comparisons and it certainly looks like him.The link I've posted take you to the users TikTok page. There are thirteen videos on the page. The video I am referencing is on the top left (it's the most recent video).The other twelve videos on this users page are mostly of Harry Styles (he's a very...

The West has been systematically deceiving Russia since the end of the Cold War in order to weaken it geopolitically, Leonid Slutsky, Chairman of the Russian State Duma Committee on Foreign Affairs, said, comme nting on former French President Francois Hollande's statement about the Minsk agreements being an attempt to buy Kiev some time. "Former French President Francois Hollande confirmed former German Chancellor Angela Merkel's words that the Minsk agreements were needed to give Kiev a break and prepare the Ukrainian army... He obviously forgot to add something about the next packages of sanctions, imposed on Russia for ‘failing’ to...

Former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows will not face prosecution in North Carolina over allegations that he may have committed voter fraud there. A New Yorker report from March of this year alleged that Meadows may have “potentially commit[ted] voter fraud” by listing on a voter registration form a North Carolina address at which he apparently did not live. In a statement on Friday, North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein said the state “conducted an extensive investigation into the fraud allegations against Mr. and Mrs. Meadows concerning their registration and voting in the 2020 elections.” “After a thorough...

Seattle witnessed over 23% more shooting deaths this year, up from 2021 fatality numbers.The latest shooting statistics from the Seattle Police Department crime dashboard shows that from January through Nov. 30, there were 38 shooting deaths in the city. There were 31 shooting deaths in all of 2021.Bitterlake, Northgate and the Chinatown International District were the areas with the highest number of shooting deaths. Chinatown had the highest number of cases this year with seven shooting deaths through November. Followed by Bitterlake and Northgate with five cases.All together there were 689 cases of shooting deaths, non-fatal shootings and reported shots...

A Missouri judge on Wednesday declined to return Mark McCloskey's firearms and paid fines despite his receipt of a pardon from Republican Gov. Mike Parson.The St. Louis lawyer and his wife, Patricia, came into the public spotlight in 2020 when the pair pointed firearms at demonstrators who had entered their neighborhood. There were no shots fired during the incident.As part of a July 2021 plea deal, the couple surrendered their AR-15 and .380-caliber pistol, according to The Hill."While the governor’s pardon does clear plaintiff’s record of the conviction, his guilt remains and the terms of an agreement that predicated said...

Former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows will not face prosecution in North Carolina over allegations that he may have committed voter fraud there.A New Yorker report from March of this year alleged that Meadows may have “potentially commit[ted] voter fraud” by listing on a voter registration form a North Carolina address at which he apparently did not live. In a statement on Friday, North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein said the state “conducted an extensive investigation into the fraud allegations against Mr. and Mrs. Meadows concerning their registration and voting in the 2020 elections.” “After a thorough review,...

"Democrats controlled the House, Senate, and White House and still couldn't get cannabis reform bills passed," Sen. Rand Paul (R–Ky.) complained on Twitter last week. "I would go much further and end the federal war on a plant entirely, but at LEAST let legal business operate as a legal business."Paul was alluding to the the SAFE Banking Act, which would make it easier for state-licensed marijuana businesses to access financial services by removing the threat of civil, criminal, and regulatory penalties against banks that serve them. The bill has broad, bipartisan support because it would simultaneously dial back the war...

@andrewbostom 1/ Reminder: Autopsy Data Confirm Deadly Heart Inflammation (Myopericarditis) From Covid Vaccines, But Not From Covid Infection (refs hyperlinked within)

If Lee Tamahori could change anything about his James Bond film Die Another Day it would be the film’s use of CGI in one infamous scene. “The only thing I’d do differently [with Die Another Day] would be the kitesurfing sequence,” director Tamahori tells Yahoo over the phone from New Zealand, where he's shooting his next film. “I don’t know how you’d do it differently. It was virtually impossible to do it for real as a real stunt: falling off the edge of a glacier, hastily concocting a kite-surfing rig, and kitesurfing your way out of danger. If you tried...

Details are continuing to emerge regarding the man accused of brutally stabbing four young Moscow, Idaho college students last month, with the suspect’s arrest this week leading to a flood of news reports on the alleged killer’s background.Bryan Kohberger was arrested at his parents’ house in Pennsylvania this week and charged with the murder of the four students, Kaylee Goncalves, Maddie Mogen, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin.News reports revealed that Kohberger, a criminology PhD student at the University of Washington, was allegedly linked to the crime scene via a DNA sample fed into a genetic genealogy database.Law enforcement reportedly tracked...

Russian Drone Strike in KyivPlease Follow us on Gab, Minds, Telegram, Rumble, Gab TV, Truth Social, GettrAccording to Ukrainian officials on Thursday, multiple cities, including Kyiv and Kharkiv, came under attack from a “massive” barrage of Russian missiles. Ukrainian presidential advisor Mykhailo Podolyak said that more than 120 missiles had been launched across the country and had been targeting civilians and civilian infrastructure.Two explosions were heard in the capital city of Kyiv, but it was unclear whether they were caused by missile strikes or air-defense systems. Additional blasts were heard in Kharkiv, Odes, Lviv, and Zhytomyr. The Mayor of Lviv...

The January 6 Committee has dropped its subpoena for former President Donald Trump —and he has some thoughts about it. The Donald hit TRUTH Social to react to the news.Advertisement“Was just advised that the Unselect Committee of political Thugs has withdrawn the Subpoena of me concerning the January 6th Protest of the CROOKED 2020 Presidential Election,” Trump shared on TRUTH. “They probably did so because they knew I did nothing wrong, or they were about to lose in Court. Perhaps the FBI’s involvement in RIGGING the Election played into their decision. In any event, the Subpoena is DEAD!”From Breitbart News:In...

POZ Poll: Are HIV ads featuring same-sex couples appropriate for prime-time viewing? Yes, these ads are fine. No, both HIV and same-sex couples are inappropriate subjects. No, because HIV is an inappropriate subject. No, because same-sex couples are an inappropriate subject. I don’t know.

Democrats with ambitions of broad gun control in the United States face a major stumbling block in their efforts to enact those policies: American voters themselves. Gun rights remain broadly popular in the United States, even after years of Democratic efforts to turn high-profile mass shootings into major gun control initiatives.A long history of gun ownership, coupled with robust constitutional protections for firearm ownership here, have led to one of the largest private gun stocks in the world.The enduring popularity of guns in the U.S. was underscored by a recent RMG Research poll conducted by Scott Rasmussen, one that earlier...

The promise of more lockdowns, more government handouts, and more control — the left can barely contain their excitement. Reports indicating that COVID-19 cases are surging in China are causing concern that a potentially deadly new virus variant could emerge, even as genetic sequencing to detect and catch such a threat is dwindling. Unfortunately, the rest of the world is relatively blind to what exactly is taking place in China because its government is no longer releasing detailed Covid data. But the apparent spread has medical experts and political leaders in the U.S. and elsewhere worried about the possibility that...

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The Propaganda State in the USA envelops government, institutions, and the mainstream media. What do they all have in common? Their funding and wealth derive directly or indirectly from government. Legislation created the broadcast industry that now allows six companies to own and control 90 percent of the media in America. The recent revelations of Twitter working with the FBI and other government departments and agencies to censor Americans is an extension of the Propaganda State becoming a police state. Like mushrooms sprouting in the dark, the police state has emerged in the Unites States without the mainstream media reporting...

HACKED RUSSIAN FILES REVEAL PROPAGANDA AGREEMENT WITH CHINA In 2021, government officials and media executives from Russia and China discussed the exchange of news and social content. Mara HvistendahlAlexey KovalevMara Hvistendahl, Alexey Kovalev December 30 2022, 7:27 a.m. RUSSIAN OFFICIALS PUSHED the lies first. Soon after Russia invaded Ukraine, a Russian defense ministry spokesperson resuscitated debunked claims about a U.S.-funded bioweapons program in the region, accusing Ukrainian labs of experimenting with bat coronaviruses in an attempt to spark “the covert spread of deadliest pathogens.” Disinformation is an old Russian government tactic. But this time Russia had help. Within days, Chinese...

A suburban Portland, Ore., teacher allegedly threatened with discipline if he kept bringing a Make America Great Again hat to teacher-training sessions can sue his former principal for First Amendment retaliation, a federal appeals court has ruled. The 9th Circuit partially reinstated Eric Dodge's lawsuit on Thursday, finding that former Wy'east Middle School Principal Caroline Garrett would not be protected by qualified immunity if a jury found her guilty of violating Dodge's First Amendment rights on the eve of the 2019-2020 school year.The three-judge panel cited "clearly established … long-standing precedent" that concerns about "the reaction to controversial or disfavored...