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"We will win by creating a parallel economy and that's exactly what PublicSq is doing. PublicSq is on a mission to identify millions of small businesses across America that share our patriotic values," Trump Jr. said.Public Square, an anti-woke digital marketplace, is set to merge with Colombier Acquisition Group in a $200 million deal that will also see the company go public. The San Diego-based company hosts over 50,000 individual vendors. According to the Daily Mail, the site has gained the attention of Donald Trump Jr., who advises the company, and former Arizona Senate candidate Blake Masters. "People need to...

A week after Nikki Haley jumped into the 2024 Republican presidential primary race, she remains behind Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis for second and is getting crushed by former President Donald Trump.In one of the first surveys to size up the coming GOP fight, Trump has the support of 52% of Republicans. DeSantis landed second in the Rasmussen Reports survey at 24% and Haley at 15%.But where she scored big is with Democrats, and that has helped her in a potential head-to-head with President Joe Biden. She is seen as a good alternative by enough Democrats that she is leading Biden...

If you've ever wondered if Greta Thunberg is an environmentalist or a Marxist, I think her most recent stunt will give you your answers. The infamous climate warrior is in the news once again, but not for fighting fossil fuels this time. Nope, this time she's protesting green energy, particularly against the use of wind turbines in Norway. She and a group of 10 people were removed from government grounds in Oslo for protesting for the removal of a wind farm. The wind turbines in question were built on the reindeer grazing lands of the Sámi people, the only indigenous...

They're single but they're not mingling. New data from the Pew Research Center has shown that 63% of men under 30 are single – up from 51% in 2019. COVID isolation and women’s high expectations for something serious are the main reasons they’re avoiding going out and coupling up, young guys say. “Dates feel more like job interviews now. Much more like ‘What can you do for me and where is this going?'” said Ian Breslow, a 28-year-old high school teacher who lives in Astoria. “The ‘getting to know you’ period is gone and that doesn’t feel so great after...

The U.S. Air Force has contracted Boeing to build the first two of potentially 26 E-7A Wedgetail radar planes. Boeing is to kick off work on the U.S. Air Force’s new airborne early warning and control (AEW&C) aircraft, with a contract to develop a version of the E-7 Wedgetail radar plane for the service. The Air Force will use the E-7 to replace at least some of its 31 remaining 707-based E-3 Sentry Airborne Warning And Control System, or AWACS, aircraft, which have been struggling with poor mission-capable rates — the Air Force’s metric that reflects levels of operational readiness....

So sorry, but the lifestyle of low-cost credit and all the goodies it could buy is permanently out of stock.In focusing on geopolitics, we lose sight of the dependence of every economy on a functioning global economy of low-cost goods, services, materials, shipping, transport, capital, labor and financial instruments, all flowing freely across borders and around the world.Russia, China, the U.S., and indeed every economy are equally dependent on access to a functioning global economy to obtain essential goods, services and capital and sell surplus production.The irony here is the "poor" subsistence villagers with very limited access to global markets...

Finally, President Donald Trump chose to lob a verbal grenade in the general direction of his old VP Mike Pence last Sunday night — regarding Pence’s ability to formally contest the results of the stolen 2020 election. This was, for many Trump supporters, long overdue. Here is Trump’s statement on the matter:

Usually, when we talk about cashless bail, we're talking about suspects who go on to commit murders after they're released — not the ones already accused of killing one innocent bystander and shooting six other people (including a child) in the downtown area of a major city during rush hour. But not in Seattle, where it looks like the judges let everyone out . Note that this is one case where the prosecutor at least tried to keep the accused perp in jail, which is more than you can say for a lot of jurisdictions nowadays : A King County...

A pair of Republican senators on Wednesday night declared the U.S. Senate had unanimously passed their bill requiring the Biden administration to declassify intelligence related to the origins of COVID-19.The bill, known as the COVID-19 Origin Act of 2023, specifically aims to investigate the possibility that the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which causes COVID-19, leaked from a lab in Wuhan, China.Republican Sens. Mike Braun and Josh Hawley reintroduced the bill on Monday after the Department of Energy (DOE) provided a classified intelligence report to the White House and certain members of Congress, which concluded that the COVID-19 pandemic most likely arose from...

The Airbus A330 reported severe turbulence at an altitude of 37,000 feet (about 11,300 meters) while flying over Tennessee, the Federal Aviation Administration said in a statement. The agency is investigating. Passenger Susan Zimmerman, 34, of Austin, Texas, said one of the pilots told the cabin that the plane had fallen about 1,000 feet (about 305 meters) during the episode, which came on suddenly. “It felt like the bottom just dropped out from underneath,” she said in a phone interview. “Everything was floating up. For a moment, you are weightless.” The brief but severe turbulence occurred about 90 minutes after...

Maybe a jury will decide Fox News really is responsible for tarnishing the reputation of a vote-tabulating tech firm. I don’t care. But if not, maybe CNN viewers and New York Times readers should get ready to sue those two for lying about the details of the lawsuit.As gleefully told by CNN and the Times, new legal documents prove that prominent Fox executives and primetime hosts knew that allegations from Donald Trump’s 2020 campaign advisers about machines manufactured by Dominion Voting Systems corrupting the 2020 election were false, but repeated them to the Fox audience as true anyway. That would...

The Left is enjoying the moment, chuckling as residents near East Palestine, Ohio, are gripped with fear after the toxic train crash. To liberal America, these people deserve to live in fear, and without a doubt—some hope a few die. ‘This is what they voted for’ is the mantra which explains the woefully inadequate response from the Biden administration, which dithered for nearly three weeks before releasing federal resources to the area. It’s no coincidence that Biden authorizing the Federal Emergency Management Agency to deploy to the site came from Donald Trump’s announcement that he’d visit the town. East Palestine...

The heads of a dozen US railroad unions said Wednesday that workers are getting sick at the site of the toxic Ohio train derailment. The meeting comes after labor leaders claimed that workers at the site of the Norfolk Southern derailment have fallen ill with “migraines and nausea.” “I have received reports that [Norfolk Southern] neither offered nor provided these workers with appropriate personal protective equipment, such as respirators that are designed to permit safely working around vinyl chloride, eye protection and protective clothing such as chemical retrain suits,” the American Rail System Federation wrote in a letter to Buttigieg...

March 1 (UPI) -- The amount of helium in underground geological formations could satisfy thousands of years of global demand, researchers said in an article published Wednesday in the journal Nature. Like other essential commodities, there are supply-side concerns for helium as a result of Russia's invasion of Ukraine last year. Sanctions and other restrictions mean supplies from Russia's Amur plant, expected to satisfy about 35% of global demand, are no longer available. Researchers from Oxford University, Durham University and the University of Toronto estimate helium is a $6 billion market. The element is used in everything from fiber optics...

Last night, Putin's health deteriorated, he refused to eat because of severe nausea and headache. Doctors on duty were called to the president, who, after staying with Putin for about half an hour, left him to rest. We have already told you that starting from March 5, the head of state is waiting for a mandatory course of therapy and in this regard, the bravado of the presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov about Putin's tight schedule for the whole of March is incomprehensible. Peskov, of course, is not completely aware, but still he is aware of the current health problems...

Johns Hopkins University professor Dr. Marty Makary blasted the federal government during the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic’s first hearing on Tuesday, accusing it of being “the greatest perpetrator of misinformation.” In a powerful opening statement, Makary rattled off multiple examples to support his claim. Misinformation that Covid was spread through surface transmission; that vaccinated immunity was far greater than natural immunity; That masks were effective. Now we have the definitive Cochrane review. What do you do with that review? Cochrane is the most authoritative evidence body in all of medicine and has been for decades. Do you...

Despite Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen claiming that inflation was only transitory and likely to disappear, we are seeing continued inflation. Now we see that Unit Labor Costs are up 3.2% QoQ for Q4 2022. Even worse, US unit labor costs rose 6.5% on a year-over-year (YoY) basis, the WORST since 1982. And yes, Q4 2022 unit labor costs are up 2x the expectations. In normal times, The Federal Reserve would raise rates to cool down the economy. The Taylor Rule suggests a Fed target rate of 10.59% versus the current Fed rate of 4.75%. A long way to go!! Damn...

VIDEOIt's on! The North American battle of the Liberal Meltdown Challenge. On the U.S. side of the border we have teachers union president Randi Weingarten in an epic meltdown over the possibility that cancellation of student debt won't be permitted. North of the border Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has a bizarre meltdown over even the slightest dissent from fully supporting a seemingly endless and expensive war in Ukraine that could lead to World War III. Both are obviously putting great effort into their respective liberal meltdowns. However, only one can come out the winner in the North American Division...

A senior Russian diplomat warned Thursday that increasing Western support for Ukraine could trigger an open conflict between nuclear powers. Speaking at the U.N. conference on disarmament, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov denounced the U.S. and its allies for openly declaring the goal of defeating Russia in a “hybrid” war, arguing that it violates their obligations under international agreements and is fraught with the war in Ukraine spilling out of control. Ryabkov warned that “the U.S. and NATO policy of fueling the conflict in Ukraine” and their ”increasing involvement in the military confrontation is fraught with a direct military...

As many churches have now reopened their doors in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic only a minority of them still view in-person worship services as the church model of the future. A majority see a hybrid model utilizing various online technologies as the new normal according to a new study from Pushpay.In their 2023 State of Church Technology report, Pushpay, the leading payments and engagement solutions provider for faith-based and non-profit sectors, the company said when their researchers asked church leaders what the future of their church will look like in 12 months only 28% of respondents indicated in-person...