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On Feb 7 2020, I published a montage of images from the 2020 State Of The Union Address. You can see it by clicking on the micro-movie in the link in red above. In that speech POTUS 45 said the following things: "Our agenda is relentlessly pro-worker, pro-family, pro-growth, and, most of all, pro-American. ....... The unemployment rate is the lowest in over half a century. ....... Under the last administration, more than 10 million people were added to the food stamp rolls. Under my administration, seven million Americans have come off food stamps, and 10 million people have been...

Disney has nixed an episode of "The Simpsons" from their streaming service in Hong Kong which references "forced labor camps" in China.The episode, "One Angry Lisa," which originally aired in Ocober, was inaccessible from the Disney+ platform in Hong Kong, according to the Financial Times.In the episode, Marge Simpson is taking a virtual bike class with the Great Wall of China in the background. Her instructor says "Behold the wonders of China. Bitcoin mines, forced labor camps where children make smartphones."Disney+ removed an episode of Simpson (again) in Hong Kong due to reference of China’s forced labor camp. This is...

“The western territories of Ukraine will be safe if they temporarily come under the protectorate of the Polish state.” Polish Prime Minister Matteusz Morawiecki.

Somehow I missed this story, but my colleague-by-extension Madeline Leesman at Townhall picked it up.A Professor at SUNY-Fredonia has been arguing–for decades now–that pedophilia should be legalized and that it isn’t immoral at all. It’s like playing kickball or other sports, and if kids consent to the sex there is no clear moral reason that it is wrong or should be prohibited.Yikes!🚨🚨🚨 Professor says an adult wanting to have sex with a kid is accepted as being wrong but “it’s not obvious to me that it is in fact wrong” pic.twitter.com/ygC5nuHDNa— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) February 2, 2022The video was...

Chicago’s next mayoral election is quickly approaching, scheduled for the 28th of this month. Most of the polls indicate that the incumbent mayor, Lori Lightfoot, is not doing well and she might not be given another term. That wouldn’t be a terribly surprising result, given the soaring crime rates and the generally decrepit state of the Windy City these days. If that’s the case, who will replace her? Interestingly enough, one of the current frontrunners is a man named Paul Vallas. What makes him unique among Chicago Democrats is his history of being opposed to abortion and his promises to...

Trans activists occupy the Oklahoma Capitol Building to protest the protection of minors from "gender-affirming" surgeries (2/6/23). (Credit: Jack Pobosiec/Twitter) I’ve got some news. Storming government buildings is good again, at least if you are a purple-haired trans activist stumping for the cultivation of children.The scene happened on Monday in Oklahoma after a large group of “Trans Lives Matter” protesters occupied the state’s Capitol Building. Videos of the incident went viral, showing the chanting horde demanding that lawmakers not do things like mandate schools notify parents when children “transition” their gender.Militant #trans activists occupied Oklahoma Capitol on Monday to...

It’s a tool and like any other tool it can be misused Hollywood has long speculated about the impact artificial intelligence (AI) will have on the future of human civilisation. Increasingly, scientists and philosophers have been forced to interrogate this topic themselves. Will people be put out of a job? Could AI ever become sentient? Will the human race survive? The latest popular addition to the world of AI is ChatGPT — a text generator so smart it can explain its own existence to you. No joke. I asked ChatGPT to give me a brief summary of ChatGPT and it...

Sailors of EOD Group 2 retrieve wreckage of Chinese spy balloon. Public Domain image. CREDIT EOD GRU 2 Facebook — https://www.facebook.com/EODGRU2/. Tuesday, sailors from the US Navy’s Explosive Ordnance Disposal Group 2, based a Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek-Fort Story and working from aboard the dock landing ship USS Carter Page, started recovery operations at the site of the downing of a Chinese spy balloon about six miles off the coast of Myrtle Beach, SC in less than 50-feet of water.It was brought down by a flight of F-22 Raptors, using the callsigns FRANK01 and FRANK02 in honor of...

Last year, before the 2022 midterm elections, California Governor Gavin Newsom decided that taxpayers should receive a Gas Tax refund payment. In his infinite wisdom, His Hairfulness decided that instead of listening to the demands to suspend the excessive gas taxes in the state to alleviate people’s pain at the pump, he’d give away money that the state really didn’t have in a one-time, temporary measure.A one-time check that taxpayers didn’t ask for, in an amount and time that did little to alleviate the pain—what could go wrong?Well, the state Franchise Tax Board won’t require taxes be paid on the...

Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), who serves on House Foreign Affairs Committee, was, to say the least, unimpressed by the Biden administration’s classified briefing on the China spy balloon and blasted the briefing as “unspecific, insufficient, and backward-looking.” Senior administration officials conducted the briefing in a sensitive compartmented information facility (SCIF). Not only did the briefing fail to provide adequate information on the spy balloon that was shot down, but no evidence of Chinese spy balloons taking place during the Trump administration was presented. “What I took away from this briefing confirmed that this administration and not the previous one had...

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Ireland is to use its annual St Patrick’s Day celebrations to promote “diversity” and drag queens, an official announcement has revealed. Ireland’s progressive-leaning Arts Minister, Catherine Martin, declared on Monday alongside a number of drag queens that this year’s St Patrick’s Day festival in Ireland will be about celebrating “diversity” and “inclusivity”. She also took the opportunity to denounce the growing anti-mass migration protests taking place across the country, with many Irish people taking to the streets over their government’s open borders approach towards the current migrant crisis. According to a report by the Irish Independent, the line-up for the...

CNA Newsroom, Feb 1, 2023 / 14:00 pm A Belgian television station has rediscovered a 20-minute video in which Father Georges Lemaitre, considered the father of the Big Bang theory, explains what the origin of the universe may have been like. Lemaitre was a Belgian astrophysicist known for being the first academic to propose the theory of the expansion of the universe from a massive explosion of what he called a “primordial atom” or “cosmic egg.” Until now, only photographs of Lemaitre were preserved, the most popular being the one where he appears alongside Albert Einstein. However, the VRT television...

Spiritual support and health of the troops is a priority for the ROC.The Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) is hoping to boost the number of priests acting as chaplains in the special military zone, and has petitioned the government for the "regularization" of the status of military priests, establishing the subordination of military priests to their hierarchy, (right now the priest is fully accountable to the commander of his military unit) and introducing social benefits and guarantees for chaplains, similar to those that already apply to contract servicemen. Vakhtang Kipshidze, Deputy Head of the Synodal Department for Church, Society, and Media...

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The liberal media immediately seized on the pope's latest comments.(LifeSiteNews) – With leaders of two Protestant denominations standing at his side, Pope Francis has again delivered a confusing, problematic message about homosexuality, demonstrating that he and others remain unwilling to truly pastor those who identify as “gay” or “lesbian” while also demonstrating hesitation, if not cowardice, when it comes to addressing LGBTQ+ as a cultural movement and still-burgeoning political power. As LifeSiteNews’ John-Henry Westen quickly noted in response to the recent airborne papal press conference, Pope Francis conflated same-sex attraction and the practice of sodomy: While the laws criminalize behaviors...

Rapid advances in AI technology mean that computers can now write stories, create art, compose music, and even pass the bar. And while this has led to much media hand-wringing over the end of mankind, there is an even more immediate threat: the rise of deepfake AI, which can project anyone’s likeness into a hyperrealistic video without their knowledge or permission. It can even turn a person into an unwitting porn star. Just last week, this happened to a 28-year-old woman who appears on Twitch and YouTube under the handle QTCinderella. In this piece, which originally appeared in Pirate Wires,...

We need some serious Mystery Theatre commentary for tonight's State of the Union.

GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (GA) suggested she will bring a white balloon to Tuesday night’s State of the Union Address to troll Joe Biden. Joe Biden will deliver his State of the Union Address Tuesday evening at the US Capitol amid multiple scandals. Biden is under a special counsel investigation after his lawyers ‘found’ stolen classified documents at his private office and Wilmington home. Joe Biden is also facing a separate investigation for allowing a China spy balloon to traverse across the United States and gather intelligence on military bases. Biden waited until Saturday – 7 full days –...

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