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Five Senate Democrats could retire ahead of the 2024 elections in America, relinquishing their seats to fresh faces as Republicans seek to gain control of the upper chamber. Following the retirement announcements of two prominent Senate Democrats earlier this year, the question remains over which other senators will step aside and forgo what could be a potentially bruising round of elections for the party as Democrats seek to defend a majority of the seats up for grabs next cycle. Last month, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., became the latest senator to announce she would not seek re-election in 2024, following in...

Newsdump Alert: Tens Of Thousands Rally At Dutch Farmers Protest In The Hague Against Climate Change Cow Gas Rules... El Rushbo America's Anchorman and I remember El Rushbo with these posts and the blog as a whole channels the past when serious news was presented by anchormen... Let's briefly touch on a major business-news story that hit us at the end of the week Pink Floyd with the "Bank Failure Update"... Later this year House Speaker Republican Kevin McCarthy will drop his pants and fornicate with Joe Biden and Chuck Schumer and so on to raise the debt ceiling.., No...

Thousands of farmers are expected to drive tractors to The Hague, Netherlands, on Saturday morning to oppose the government’s plan to shut down 3,000 farms. The government made the move to comply with global warming goals despite a heavy vehicle ban the day before. It can be recalled that the Dutch government is planning to “buy and close down up to 3,000 farms near environmentally sensitive areas to be in compliance with EU environmental rules” of the nitrate emission reduction plan. Thousands of farmers and the climate activist group Extinction Rebellion will hold a rally in The Hague, Netherlands on...

Silicon Valley Bank was closed by the FDIC due to the bank losing over 60% of its value after the company disclosed major losses from security sales. Many political pundits and investors have called for lawmakers to bailout out the failed bank. Those advocating for bailouts have shied away from telling the public that SVB employees and affiliates voted in the leaders responsible for the current economic crisis. Open Secret’s data reveals in the 2020 election cycle Silicon Valley Bank employees and affiliates donated over $188,000 dollars to political candidates. Over 90% of the donations which amounted to $173,434 went...

While claiming his family still needs protection due to death threats two months after he quit In a new interview, Fauci lashed out at those calling for his prosecution Speaking on CNN, the elderly doctor asked: 'Prosecute me for what?' On Friday, the House voted unanimously to declassify intelligence info about the origins of COVID-19 Dr. Anthony Fauci has hit back against those wishing to see him prosecuted over his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic. The now retired Fauci, 82, called his accusers 'insane,' during an interview with CNN's Jim Acosta Saturday. He said he and his family are still...

God could be referred to in non-gendered terms during Church of England services as bishops in the UK launch a major project on gendered language in the spring, thereby breaking with centuries of tradition. If successful, priests could stop using the male pronouns ‘He’ and ‘Him’ when referring to God in prayers. They would also be able to remove ‘our Father’ from the commencement of the Lord’s Prayer. The Liturgical Commission – the body which prepares forms of service – has been considering this on a regular basis for the past eight years, having asked the Faith and Order Commission...

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When Jorge Bergoglio of Argentina became Pope Francis, much of his home country celebrated as if it had just won a soccer World Cup championship. A decade later, the first Latin American leader of the Catholic Church generates divided opinions and much less fervor. Francis, who still likes to listen to tango, left Argentina in February 2013 to attend the conclave that elected him as the successor to Benedict XVI on March 13. He never returned. “It’s clear, there are people who are angry at him,” said Argentine journalist Sergio Rubin, who recently co-wrote a book about Francis, “El Pastor,”...

Roi kais • روعي كايس • רועי קייס @kaisos1987: The facts: the negotiations between Saudi Arabia and Iran began more than two years ago and began a few months after Biden entered the White House. Mar 10, 2023 [*] כאן חדשות@kann_news @kaisos1987: The renewal of relations between Iran and Saudi Arabia is of great concern to Israel - but the really big story is the Chinese mediation and the shaky relations between the Saudi royal house and the Biden administration @kaisos1987 [*]

In a speech Saturday night, former vice president Mike Pence delivered what amounted to his strongest rebuke of Donald Trump, criticizing the former president for his role in the lead-up to the Jan. 6 attack on the United States Capitol as well as attempts to rewrite the history of that day. “President Trump was wrong,” Pence said. “I had no right to overturn the election. And his reckless words endangered my family and everyone at the Capitol that day. And I know that history will hold Donald Trump accountable.” The former vice president was speaking at the Gridiron dinner, a...

The Superman character emerged in a time of innocence in the United States when there was a genuine belief that the “American Way” was understood as a commitment to truth, equal justice under the law and fighting for the little guy. Boy, were we naive.We are now living in an age where lies are presented as “truth” and anyone who dares to speak out against those lies is accused of being either a racist or transphobic or pro-Putin. In short, a conspiracy theorist. I started thinking about this in depth in the wake of Tucker Carlson’s revelations this week about...

The feds’ political persecution of the Proud Boys took a wild turn after unintentionally leaked chat logs from FBI Special Agent Nicole Miller revealed she said she was ordered by her boss to “destroy” “338 items of evidence.”The leaked chats also suggest Miller failed to reveal relevant communications to the defense, potentially spied on privileged attorney-client communications and was asked by another agent to “edit out that I was present” during a meeting with a Confidential Human Source Informant.Concealing evidence. Doctoring evidence. Destroying evidence. Violating attorney-client privilege. What's sad is this will be ignored even by conservative media and Congress...

Jacob Chansley, the January 6th protester cast by the media as a 'violent insurrectionist' and sentenced to nearly four years in federal prison, has been vindicated in the eyes of many, after new footage emerged last week which refutes the entire narrative surrounding the events of that day.After reviewing footage withheld from the public by the January 6th Committee, Fox News host Tucker Carlson revealed that Chansley (given the moniker "QAnon Shaman"), was calmly escorted throughout the Capitol complex by Capitol Police, who even helped him find open doors.“The tapes show the Capitol police never stopped Jacob Chansley," said Carlson....

More than $250 billion in Covid-19 relief funds were lost to “fraud” and “waste,” the directors of three US government agencies testified before the House Oversight and Accountability subcommittee on Thursday. Compounding what Deputy Inspector General Sheldon Shoemaker of the Small Business Administration (SBA) called “the biggest fraud in a generation,” the officials stressed that the figures they gave represented an extremely conservative estimate of the total amount lost as they did not include the amount defrauded from the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance program. According to a statement submitted by Shoemaker ahead of the hearing, the SBA has already uncovered $190.7...

In an encouraging sign of our times, there have been hints of progress recently in terms of actual misinformation that keeps showing up in the press. (As opposed to the “misinformation” claims made by liberal activists.) We’ve seen increasing admissions regarding topics ranging from the reality of Hunter Biden’s laptop and the efficacy of the COVID vaccines to the origins of the virus itself. But one area where the legacy media remains firmly entrenched in fantasyland is the subject of transgender “medical treatment” and the prevalence of people seeking detransition care. The Associated Press came out just last week with...

It was 2022 when the activist pair were indicted on 18 counts in connection to alleged schemes to scam Violence in Boston, its donors, the Massachusetts Department of Unemployment Assistance, and a Chicago mortgage lending business. A prominent Boston Black Lives Matter organizer has been slapped with additional fraud charges, this time in relation to alleged schemes to defraud the city out of Covid relief and rental assistance funds, federal officials said. As WCVB reported, Monica Cannon-Grant, 42, and her husband Clark Grant, 39, were charged on Thursday with three counts of wire fraud conspiracy, 17 counts of wire fraud,...

Joe Biden just can’t stop lying about his policies that have crushed the American people.How long has he been telling us that he only wants to go after the “rich” people with his phalanx of thousands of new IRS agents? A long time it seems. Anyone who knows Joe Biden knows what malarkey his claim truly is and we’ve pointed out some of the lies surrounding this claim in the past. But Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen finally admitted under grilling on Friday by Rep. Adrian Smith (R-NE), the Chairman of the House Ways and Means Trade Subcommittee, that 90 percent...

I regret to inform you that Glenn Youngkin has finally made a mistake. The Republican golden boy has been riding high since his surprise elevation to the governorship in Virginia some years ago, and to that effect, he’s enjoyed broad approval across the different factions of the GOP. But there will always be bumps in the road, and Youngkin’s recent CNN-hosted town hall with Jake Tapper was a big one.Before we get to Youngkin’s answers, many of which left much to be desired, I think it’s important to deal with the elephant in the room first.Why in the world is...

A second atmospheric river is on its way to California, just as the state contends with a levee breach, evacuations and other damage from this week's winter storm. The next atmospheric river — a long, narrow band of moisture drawn from the tropics — is forecast for Monday, and could be more powerful than the last. California has been inundated by the latest front. In Oroville, north of Sacramento, a swift water rescue team helped two people stranded on an island in the Feather River get to safety. In the Central Coast, river flooding in Atascadero and Paso Robles was...

A Minnesota father slaughtered a 77-year-old convicted sex offender using a moose antler and shovel after he accused the victim of stalking his young daughter. Levi Axtell, 27, walked into at the sheriff's office covered in blood and with his head in his hands as he admitted killing Lawrence Scully - who was jailed for molesting a six-year-old girl in 1979. Axtell, from Cook County, Minnesota, had long been suspicious of Scully parking his vehicle at locations where children were present. In 2018 Axtell filed an order of protection against the elderly man which was initially granted but later dropped....