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he historic Perth Mint is facing a potential $9 billion recall of gold bars after selling diluted or "doped" bullion to China and then covering it up, according to a leaked internal report. Four Corners has uncovered documents charting the WA government-owned mint's decision to begin "doping" its gold in 2018, and then how it withheld evidence from its largest client in an effort to protect its reputation. While the gold remained above broader industry standards, the report estimated up to 100 tonnes of gold sent to Shanghai Gold Exchange (SGE) potentially did not comply with Shanghai's strict purity standards...

Just days after Tesla executives announced plans to improve affordability of their electric cars, Tesla has marked down prices on two of its top end models. Reuters reported that the most recent price cuts are Tesla’s fifth time adjusting pricing since the start of the year, with the price drops ranging from 4 percent on the performance version of the Model S vehicle to 9 percent on the Model X vehicle. Reuters reported that Tesla dropped prices of both versions of the Model S by $5,000. According to Tesla’s website, the basic version of the Model S now costs $89,990...

NATO @NATO 🗣️ Ukraine is hosting one of the great epics of this century❝We are Harry Potter and William Wallace, the Na’vi and Han Solo. We’re escaping from Shawshank and blowing up the Death Star. We are fighting with the Harkonnens and challenging Thanos.❞ 4:27 AM · Feb 23, 2023 ·

VIDEOHave you wondered what Brian Williams is doing lately after first being tossed off the anchor seat at NBC Nightly News in disgrace for lying about his own "bravery" followed by years in the MSNBC wilderness going full TDS before finally being put out to pasture? Well, apparently he is now shilling shamelessly for cable movies. In this case you can see Blowhard Brian shilling for the horrible' Netflix remake of "All Quiet On the Western Front." There are many many ways in which this remake is horrible but let me just present the ABSURD ending in which with just...

Should American employees be forced to choose between making a living and freely exercising their religious beliefs? That is the question the Supreme Court is considering in Groff v. DeJoy.On Tuesday, a diverse group submitted amicus briefs urging the court to answer that question with a resounding “no.” More than 30 briefs were filed on behalf of Christians, Jews, Hindus, Mormons, Muslims, Seventh-day Adventists, Sikhs, Zionists, religious liberty and employment law scholars, medical professionals, nonprofit organizations, states, and members of Congress, among others.Groff involves United States Postal Service (USPS) mail carrier Gerald Groff, a Christian, who holds uncontested sincere religious...

Residents in Newburyport are demanding that the City Council replace the Massachusetts flag and seal, claiming that the imagery is problematic and helps promote the state’s racist history. According to the Newburyport Daily News, the Council received a resolution on Feb. 27 asking them to support the work of the Special Commission Relative to the Seal and Motto of the Commonwealth. The Commission, in part, recommended replacing the seal and flag to better reflect the diverse residents now living in Massachusetts. That same day, the resolution was referred to the General Government Committee in a 9-2 vote.

The Absolute Truth with @EmeraldRobinson @AbsoluteWithE · Follow It turns out @NICKIMINAJ was right! The MRNA jabs are causing adverse reactions for some men. Some men are suffering from penis injuries after getting the shot, according to the DailyClout. Dr. Naomi Wolf (@naomirwolf) joined @EmeraldRobinson to discuss. 🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨

Trump received 62 percent support in the poll completed by more than 2,000 CPAC attendees, bringing him 40 points higher than the second-place candidate.CPAC’s straw poll results were announced on Saturday just before Trump took the stage to address the conservative crowd at the Gaylord in Fort Washington, Maryland.Here is the CPAC straw poll:Trump at 62% followed by DeSantis at 20%.Somebody named Perry Johnson came in third. pic.twitter.com/EiSfiW0Imp— Greg Price (@greg_price11) March 4, 2023Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) came in second place, receiving 20 percent support in the straw poll. Although he has not officially launched a presidential bid, many...

Paul Manafort, the former chairman of Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign, has agreed to pay $3.15 million to settle a civil case filed by the Justice Department over undeclared foreign bank accounts. When the civil case was filed in April 2022, prosecutors alleged that Manafort had failed to disclose more than 20 offshore bank accounts he ordered opened in the United Kingdom, Cyprus, St. Vincent and the Grenadines. The government sought an order for Manafort to pay fines, penalties and interest, alleging he'd failed to file federal tax documents detailing the accounts and failed to disclose the money on his...

‘Bank of America, with no directive from the FBI, datamined its customer base,’ whistleblower George Hill told the House Judiciary Committee.An FBI whistleblower told congressional investigators that the D.C. field office pushed local offices to open criminal investigations into Americans based solely on financial transactions Bank of America tracked and voluntarily provided to the bureau, according to testimony reviewed by The Federalist.“Bank of America, with no directive from the FBI, datamined its customer base,” whistleblower and recently retired FBI supervisory intelligence analyst George Hill told investigators for the House Judiciary Committee, according to Hill’s testimony. Hill had identified himself last...

With all of the talk of a potential revival sweeping the nation right now, I think it’s a good time to discuss the difference between “the fire of spiritual revival” and “the whisper of daily obedience.”While we all want to see a spiritual awakening sweep the nation and the world, we must recognize that God’s normal work is in the steady obedience of his fully committed remnant.There’s nobody who knew this better than Elijah. He learned the lesson toward the end of his prophetic ministry, and the process of it was painful.The showdownWhen we catch his story in 1 Kings...

Attorney General Merrick Garland made a surprise visit to Ukraine where he reaffirmed the United States’ commitment to continue supporting Ukraine in pursuing war criminals. Garland made the trip after he was invited to join Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the “United for Justice Conference” by the Ukrainian prosecutor general. For security reasons, the trip had not been made public beforehand.

If you haven’t heard, ChatGPT is taking over the world. Just ask and it’ll tell you. Need to write a research paper but don’t know squat about your subject? ChatGPT can do it. What about troubleshooting bugs that somehow elude you in software code? ChatGPT will help find and squash them without breaking a sweat.ChatGPT stands for “Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer” and is a chatbot developed by a company called OpenAI. Launched in November 2022, it’s being hailed as a quantum leap forward in making artificial intelligence practically available to you and me.Of course, not everyone thinks it’s the bee’s...

This is a scandal of many of our best professional researchers lying to the American people We are living through the largest, deadliest scandal in American history, but the elite media refuses to connect the dots and analyze it. COVID-19, a disease no one disputes came from Wuhan, China, has killed more than 1.1 million Americans and more than 6.8 million people worldwide. It has left millions of others with chronic health problems. Because of the teachers’ unions and totally misguided, destructive public health policies, children who were under virtually no risk from COVID-19 have lost at least a year...

President Trump Crushes Ron DeSantis in Head-to-Head Poll, 67% -vs- 20% With Hispanic Voters The latest YouGov poll [raw data here] shows why FL Gov Ron DeSantis is about to make the biggest political mistake of his career by launching a challenge against Donald Trump. If you listen to the professional media pundits who give, and attempt to sway, opinion – and if you listen to the statements from the professional Republican class that wants to remove Donald Trump from the party, you will hear this general talking point: “The Republican Party needs to appeal to a younger, more ethnically...

Then-CNN president Jeff Zucker considered the lab-leak theory a 'Trump talking point,' according to an insider CNN has long referred to itself as "the most trusted name in news" and famously launched its "Facts First" campaign during the Trump era, but like many other outlets, that sentiment fell by the wayside when it came to the COVID lab-leak theory. In recent days, the theory that COVID originated from a lab leak at the Wuhan Institute of Virology has been embraced by FBI Director Christopher Wray and a bombshell report indicated that the U.S. Energy Department believes the virus likely started...

Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg and his advisers have taken 23 flights on government private aircraft since assuming office, but the Department of Transportation (DOT) is refusing to provide details about the taxpayer expenses of those flights, according to a report. “The DOT and the agency’s Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) office both declined to detail how much each flight cost taxpayers over the course of multiple months and in recent weeks,” Fox News Digital reports. “The stonewalling comes amid an ongoing inspector general audit of Buttigieg’s use of the planes, which are part of a small fleet managed by...

US officials are becoming increasingly concerned that Chinese-manufactured cranes operating at US ports across the nation, including at multiple runs by the military, could provide Beijing with a spying tool masked in plain sight. Some Pentagon and national security officials have reportedly compared ship-to-shore cranes made by a Chinese manufacturer, the ZPMC, to a Trojan horse. While relatively well made and inexpensive, they boast intelligent sensors that can easily register and track provenance and the destination of containers, prompting that China may be able to capture information regarding material being shipped in/out of the nation to facilitate US military operations...

Anthony Richardson is turning heads at the NFL combine and the oddsmakers have taken notice. The Florida quarterback posted two combine records for his position on Saturday with a 40.5-inch vertical jump and a 10-foot, 9-inch broad jump. He also ran a blistering 4.43 40-yard dash. At 6-foot-4 and 244 pounds, Richardson is an elite athlete. Anybody who watched him play in the SEC knows that. And now there are some rumblings that he is in consideration for the No. 1 pick in the upcoming NFL draft.

Two school districts are investigating reports of racism at a high school basketball game.... Video posted on social media shows several Swastikas and racial slurs traced in the dust of the visitor locker room. Additionally, parents recorded video of Muskego students wearing black face masks and tank tops – outfits they say depict black people in a racist light....