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The rain that fell on California in recent weeks could have supplied the state’s water needs for 10 years — if it had been captured and stored. Unfortunately, most of the water is being left to drain to the Pacific Ocean. California received some 32 trillion gallons of water in three weeks of “atmospheric river” storms across the state, according to Fox News. In 2014, the state used 42 million acre feet, or about 1.4 trillion gallons, annually, according to the Desert Sun, citing the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). (A more recent figure from USGS suggests the state withdraws up...

The same media figure who led the leftist news outfit that peddled and pushed the Steele Dossier cast shade on Twitter owner Elon Musk’s warnings about the dystopian elitism that undergirds the World Economic Forum (WEF). Semafor Editor-In-Chief and gaslighting savant Ben Smith pooh-poohed Musk “whipping” “up” right-wing ire on Twitter about the WEF, an organization that promoted an Orwellian proposal to microchip children. He mocked conservatives with well founded concerns, smugly calling them “people who think that the CEOs here are gathering to make you take vaccines and to eat bugs,” on the Jan. 19 edition of CNBC’s Squawk...

rdent ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin and Deputy chairman of Russia’s Security Council Dmitry Medvedev on Thursday warned NATO allies that a defeat for Russia in Ukraine could provoke a nuclear war. "The loss of a nuclear power in a conventional war can provoke the beginning of a nuclear war," he said in a Telegram post as Western officials convene for another meeting with the Ukraine Defense Contact Group at Ramstein Air Base in Germany. "Nuclear powers have [never] lost major conflicts on which their fate depends," the Kremlin official added.

Mike Pompeo: Trump told me ‘shut the hell up’ about China COVID secrecy WASHINGTON — Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo alleges in an explosive new memoir that former President Donald Trump told him to “shut the hell up for a while” about China hiding early COVID-19 pandemic information — after Chinese President Xi Jinping said it was a sore topic. Pompeo writes that Xi was furious about the top US diplomat’s criticism of Beijing’s non-transparency at a March 25, 2020, State Department press conference and asked Trump during a March 26 call to silence him. Xi told Trump that...

ALERT! International Medical Billing Codes Used by the U.S. Government and Private Insurance Now Track Your COVID-19 Vaccination Status Leo Hohmann has just published a special report about how the International Classification of Disease (ICD) codes used by the medical industry for billing purposes under Medicare-Medicaid and the private insurance companies, now include a code for COVID-19 “vaccination status.” This means that if you visit a medical doctor, or are admitted to a hospital, they will ask you whether or not you are up-to-date on your COVID shots, and enter that into your medical records. Hohmann’s report confirms that this...

BALTIMORE -- Chelsea Clinton made an amusing footwear blunder at Gov. Wes Moore's inauguration ceremony Wednesday, she said, but another star guest of the ceremony thought it might have been a newfangled trend. Clinton, the only child of former U.S. President Bill Clinton and former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, said she grabbed two black heels on the way out, but didn't realize they were mismatched. The writer posted a picture of her left foot in a rounded black heel with a peep toe, and a pointed black heel on her right. Clinton said she didn't even notice the...

President Joe Biden’s troubled son Hunter was pictured behind the wheel of his father’s Corvette just outside the Biden home in Delaware, where classified documents were stored in the garage where the president’s prized sports car would be parked. The photographs, taken in July 2017 and found on Hunter Biden’s abandoned laptop, provide further evidence that the now-president’s son likely had access to the garage where classified records had apparently been improperly stored since the end of Joe Biden’s term as vice president in early 2017. Biden’s lawyers have admitted Obama-era records with classified markings on them were found in...

NHL star Ivan Provorov declined to participate in the Philadelphia Flyers' Pride Night or wear a rainbow-colored jersey, saying if he wanted to support the gay agenda he would have played soccer instead of hockey. "Listen, man, I got nothing against the gays," said Provorov to a crowd of outraged sports writers as the rest of his team pranced across the ice gracefully in their colorful outfits. "But I ain't wearing that thing. Let's leave all that gay stuff in soccer where it belongs. Also, I believe in God and stuff, and I don't want to disobey him, so there's...

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Thursday announced that it has been unable to identify the person who leaked an unpublished draft of an opinion indicating the court was poised to roll back abortion rights. In an unsigned statement, the court said that all leads had been followed up and forensic analysis performed, but "the team has to date been unable to identify a person responsible by a preponderance of the evidence." But the attached report suggested the court was not watertight, with some employees admitting they had talked to spouses about the draft opinion and how the justices had...

4:48 MIN YOUTUBEToday, from the early morning information has been received that Russian troops have taken complete control of the strategically important settlement of ''Kleshcheevka'', which has been bitterly fought over for several days. At the same time, it is worth paying attention to one rather interesting fact. In particular, many war correspondents announced the capture of ''Klescheevka'' by Russian troops 5 days ago. However, back then the billionaire, a close associate of President Putin and the founder of the PMC ''Wagner Group'', Yevgeny Prigozhin, asked war correspondents not to make such statements.

[Catholic Caucus] German bishop announces new guidelines forcing priests to accept homosexuality, transgenderismMathias von Gersdorff, head of the German office of the traditional Catholic organization TFP, wrote on Twitter that '(Bishop Georg) Bätzing breaks definitively with Catholic morals and FORCES also pastors, diocesan institutions to do it.'LIMBURG, Germany (LifeSiteNews) — The head of the German bishops’ Conference (DBK) introduced binding guidelines on sexual education for all parishes in his diocese that force them to accept and promote homosexuality and transgenderism.According to these 10 guidelines, “there is diversity in sexual identity and orientation.” The guidelines furthermore state the following:The appreciative handling...

A study published in Scientific Reports has uncovered the genes that likely enabled whales to grow to enormous sizes compared to their ancestors. The research has identified four genes that appear to enhance large body size while also reducing the associated negative consequences such as increased cancer risk. New research reveals the genes that likely allowed whales to grow to giant sizes compared to their ancestors, reports a study published today (January 19) in the journal Scientific Reports. The findings highlight the role of four genes (called GHSR, IGFBP7, NCAPG, and PLAG1), and suggest that they promote large body sizes...

Pfizer and the VaticanSources say Pope Francis met privately twice last year with Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla The Register has learned that Pope Francis privately held undisclosed meetings with the CEO of Pfizer last year as questions arise over the efficacy of the vaccines in preventing transmission, which are now being mandated for all Vatican staff and visitors.According to Vatican sources, the Holy Father twice met Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla at the Vatican, although the precise details are not known. Unlike most papal private audiences, these meetings were not announced by the Holy See Press Office, which did not...

The extrajudicial execution of Denis Kireev in March 2022 was due to a lack of coordination between security services, the top aide to Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky said on Thursday. Mikhail Podoliak was responding to a Wall Street Journal feature describing the 45-year-old banker as an asset of Ukrainian military intelligence, who supposedly helped save Kiev from Russian attack.

The oddest court case 13 Investigates uncovered last year is moving forward after the wheels of justice ground to a temporary halt. It's the case of a Las Vegas landlord who required his tenant to sign a sex contract along with all the other paperwork associated with leasing a house. That tenant is suing landlord Allan Rothstein in federal court for civil rights and fair housing act violations. The trial was nearly over when Rothstein filed an eleventh-hour bankruptcy, which automatically put it on pause. But a judge cleared the path for the civil case to continue, and a status...

Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) said Wednesday that attacks from House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) are inspiring death threats against him. Swalwell told MSNBC’s Nicole Wallace on “Deadline: White House” that McCarthy plans to remove him from his committee assignments for “political vengeance.” Swalwell has emerged as a particularly controversial individual among House Republicans over his connection to a suspected Chinese spy during his 2014 reelection campaign, which became public in 2020. Swalwell ended his ties with the Chinese national when the FBI informed him of her identity, but Republicans have called for him to be removed from sensitive committee assignments...

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I watched Biden’s Press Secretary Karine Jean Pierre giving Biden credit for the lowest unemployment rate in US history thanks to his economic policies. And Biden mentioned that he inherited a terrible economy from Trump. Hmmm. Let’s let the data talk. Covid was horrific (I almost died from it), but it was the government response to Covid there was disastorous. Government shutdowns (and the masking of the populace) killed off numerous small businesses and sent jobless claims soaring in 2020 (white line) and U-3 unemployment rate rose to the highest level since The Great Depression. The response from The Federal...

Most Californians would be banned from purchasing or taking possession of body armor, such as a bullet-proof vest, under a bill now being considered by state lawmakers.Assembly Bill 92, introduced by Assemblyman Damon Connolly, D-San Rafael, comes as a response to many high-profile mass shootings where the shooter wore body armor. That includes the 2015 massacre in San Bernardino, where two people wearing tactical gear killed 14 people at a holiday gathering.State and federal law already prohibit people convicted of a violent felony from possessing body armor. AB 92 would make it a misdemeanor for anyone outside of a specified...

Vladimir Putin has deployed air defence systems around Moscow, suggesting the despot fears an attack from Ukraine. He has deployed lethal S-400 defence missiles to two locations in the capital, designed to destroy aircraft, cruise and ballistic missiles, including medium-range missiles. Local residents say the deployments are new to the Russian capital. The tyrant's latest move comes after two drone strikes on Russian two air bases in Saratov and Ryazan in December, both suspected to be from Ukrainian forces. One S-400 air defence system has been deployed in fields belonging to the Russian State Agricultural University in the northwest of...