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(CNN) - Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg told reporters on Monday that he plans to visit East Palestine, Ohio, “when the time is right” and announced new efforts by his agency to improve rail safety in the wake of a train derailment that has left local residents questioning the safety of their soil, air and water. “I am very interested in getting to know the residents of East Palestine, hearing from them about how they’ve been impacted and communicating with them about the steps that we’re taking,” Buttigieg said on a Monday call, adding that he had referred to past common...

Is there no end to the supply of ostensible Republicans who do nothing but echo the Left’s talking points and fall into line as Leftists set the nation’s political and cultural agenda? Abe Lincoln once observed that “God must love the common man, He made so many of them,” and He must love controlled opposition RINOs even more because the nation is positively inundated with them. One of the latest claimants to be chief rhino, er, RINO, is former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, who actually seems to believe that he has a chance to be the Republican nominee for president...

The skit is set in a Planned Parenthood. Garrison, a biological man who has had gender reassignment surgery, is called into the doctor's office. 'Hello doctor, looks like I need an abortion,' she says. 'An abortion?' the doctor replies. 'Yeah I've got one growing inside me. Now, are you going to scramble its brains or just vacuum it out?' Garrison asks, in a not-so-subtle rebuke of abortion by the South Park writers. The doctor sighs and says: 'Mr. Garrison,' to which she replies: 'Mrs Garrison!' The doctor perseveres. 'Mrs. Garrison, you can't have an abortion.' 'Don't you tell me what...

A spokesperson with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 5 told The Ohio Star on Monday that the Fire Chief of the East Palestine Fire Department was the individual who ordered the controlled burn following the catastrophic train derailment on February 3rd.“EPA did not order the controlled burn. The local fire chief was the incident commander who made the decision in consultation with Norfolk Southern, local law enforcement, and response officials from Ohio,” the EPA spokesperson told The Star.

President Biden on Tuesday declared that Ukraine will never be a victory for Russia in a speech from Warsaw in which he marked one year since the start of the war. “Autocrats only understand one word: no, no. no. No you will not take my country, no you will not take my freedom, no you will not take my future,” Biden said in his remarks. “Ukraine will never be a victory for Russia, never.” Biden’s speech came a day after he made a surprise visit to Ukraine in which he made a historic stop into the war-torn capital city of...

ransomnote: It looks like the Ukrainians may be preparing a radioactive false flag to blame on Russia (See the two boxed FR posts below). Why else would the Ukraine receive 'containers of radioactive materials' and train their own troops near the Chernobyl exclusion zone?Zelensky went on record calling for 'pre-emptive' nuclear strikes on Russia back in October of 2022, and as NATO is losing the proxy war, they want to justify nuke strikes now more than ever.Ukraine Frantically Tries to Walk Back Zelensky Call for ‘Preemptive Strikes’ on Russia 10/07/2022 7:55:14 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 125 replies Breitbart...

Flight LogFlight 44 Sol 711 Date Feb. 19, 2023 Horizontal Distance 334 m ~1,096 ft Max. Altitude 12 m ~39 ft Max. Groundspeed 3.50 m/s ~7.8mph Duration 141.3 seconds Route of Flight from Airfield Epsilon to Airfield Zeta*** Flights 44 (as of 2/19/23)Distance Flown 9,163 meters (~30,064 ft)Highest Altitude 14 meters (~46 ft)Fastest Ground Speed 5.50 m/s (12.3 mph)Flight Time ~74.7 minutes (4,485 seconds)*** Also:STATUS UPDATES | February 21, 2023Flight 45 Preview – By the Numbers

A new chill settled over Norway on Tuesday, after the president of neighbouring Russia made it clear that his war on Ukraine won’t be ending any time soon. That raises ongoing concerns about Norway’s own defense, even as it’s sending weapons to Ukraine, and it may lead to participation in a new Arctic air force. Norway recently wrapped up deployment of four of its new F35 fighter jets to Iceland. NATO reported that the deployment was aimed at securing Iceland’s airspace, with the Norwegian F35s on standby and ready to be scrambled if unidentified aircraft came too close. It was...

A new Florida bill would make it illegal to let a dog be in a driver’s lap or stick its head out of the window of a moving car. Senate Bill 932, filed by Democratic state Sen. Lauren Book of Broward County, includes other restrictions for pets in vehicles and would also ban the declawing of cats. It would make it illegal to have a dog transported “on the running board, fender, hood, or roof of a motor vehicle” as well as in a trunk or enclosed cargo space. Dogs also could not be transported in a car that is...

The social media requirement in New York’s concealed carry law imposes an unjustified burden on applicants while giving the state arbitrary and unbounded discretion that violates the First Amendment, experts told the Daily Caller News Foundation. The law requires that applicants show they are of “good moral character” to receive a concealed carry permit, but First Amendment experts have argued that the social media requirement within the “good moral character” portion of the law is unconstitutional. New York’s concealed carry law requires that applicants show they are of “good moral character” to receive a concealed carry permit, but First Amendment...

“Pandemic treaty” likely to be signed this month. Last year, conservative media ran reports about a “pandemic treaty” — it was a binding agreement between the World Health Organization and its member states, including these United States. It seemingly died (although it was only delayed), but now it’s been resurrected and reports suggest Biden is expected to unilaterally enter our country into the treaty which would subject American citizens to a global, medical police state. From an Epoch Times article via JD Rucker at America First Report: Written under the banner of ‘the world together equitably,’ the zero draft grants...

A recent survey has found that 34% of its white respondents admitted to lying about being part of a racial minority to boost their chances of getting accepted into college. Taking advantage: The survey, which questioned 1,250 white college applicants aged 16 and up, discovered that 34% of them lied in their applications, according to Intelligent. Forty-eight percent of them falsely claimed to be of Native American descent, and about 9% of them lied about being Asian American or Pacific Islander. Around 81% of the students who lied said they did it to increase their chances of getting admitted to...

Fox News executives vetoed Trump from going on air Jan. 6, 2021, when hundreds of his supporters invaded the U.S. Capitol., court papers show. The information comes from evidence unveiled this week in documents filed in Dominion’s $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News. The documents also revealed that Fox Corp Chairman Rupert Murdoch told CEO Suzanne Scott its on-air personalities should tell viewers the night before Jan. 6 that Joe Biden won the election. -snip- The documents allege that the former president dialed into on-air personality Lou Dobbs’ show the afternoon of Jan. 6, but that executives shut down...

Even though Africa largely failed to embrace the orthodox anti-covid strategies of lockdowns, masks, social distancing, and vaccines that world health authorities were successful in foisting on so many other parts of the globe, they also avoided most of the illness and harm experienced by those who did embrace the recommended strategies. In Africa, Ivermectin is a drug in wide use for ailments common to that continent. Doctors in the US and Europe who viewed this drug as potentially useful in treating covid were harassed and censored for advocating this drug or treating patients with it. Africa's success in fending...

Speaking at a Club 45 rally in Palm Beach, Florida on George Washington’s Birthday, President Donald Trump explained what he would do to put an end to the war in Ukraine if he were reelected: “I would literally start calling, not from the day I took over, but from the night I won. And I’ll call two people… Putin… and Zelensky. And I’ll say we’re going to meet. I guarantee I could work that out. I’ll tell one guy this, and I’ll tell one guy that… We would have a deal made in 24 hours,” Trump said.Trump said that “continuing...

Support for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis becoming the Republican Party’s presidential nominee is waning, according to a new poll.Approval for Mr. DeSantis slipped by 5 percentage points compared to former President Donald Trump in the latest Harvard CAPS/Harris Poll released exclusively to The Hill on Friday. Mr. DeSantis now trails Mr. Trump — 23% to 46%. He previously trailed Mr. Trump by 20 percentage points in January’s poll.Mr. Trump also comes out on top in a hypothetical head-to-head matchup with Mr. DeSantis, 56% to 44%, according to the latest poll.Another sign that Mr. DeSantis is losing ground with voters emerges...

A massive storm is set to bring a wintry mix of snow, rain and strong winds to more than 20 states across the country this week. Millions of residents in 22 states from coast-to-coast are under winter weather alerts, with at six of those states also under blizzard warnings. The storm — named Winter Storm Olive — may also bring record-high levels of snowfall to the upper midwest, where “this event could very well break top five snowfalls in the Twin Cities dating back to 1884,” according to the local National Weather Service. The Twin Cities region may see up...

Blah blah blah. Vladimir Putin showed no sign of coming off message in his address on the anniversary of the invasion of Ukraine. He also showed no sign of remorse or even original thought. In a speech clearly intended to resonate with the Russians’ cultural mix of imperialism and paranoia, Putin insisted that the West have been the aggressors and that Putin’s invasion was in fact a defense of the motherland. “We aren’t fighting the Ukrainian people,” Putin said while spending the past year volleying missiles at their cities:(snip) One has to wonder whether the Russians can see through these...

VIDEOIn this video, YouTube Files #3, I explore how the DUmmie FUnnies channel was probably censored via demonetization by the CIA. As you can see, this demonetization occurred just four days after I posted a video about CIA Congresswoman Elissa Slotkin, "CIA Rep Wants Those With 'Unacceptable Views' Deprogrammed and Censored." You can watch the full video below which most likely angered Slotkin to the extent that the CIA officer either directly or indirectly (via CIA contacts) demanded that YouTube punish my channel."CIA Rep Wants Those With 'Unacceptable Views' Deprogrammed and Censored"

The Washington Post’s in-house cry-bully Taylor Lorenz made a hysterical attempt to blame capitalism and climate change for child depression. The Post columnist tried to wokescold the Twitterverse with her theory on the supposed true cause behind child depression. “People are like ‘why are kids so depressed it must be their PHONES!’ But never mention the fact that we’re living in a late stage capitalist hellscape during an ongoing deadly pandemic w record wealth inequality, 0 social safety net/job security, as climate change cooks the world,” she said. Lorenz lectured that “u have to be delusional to look at life...