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Former President Donald Trump has reportedly said he wants to be hauled into court in handcuffs if he’s slapped with unprecedented charges in the “hush money” case involving porn star Stormy Daniels. Trump, 76, told advisers of his plan, saying that if he has to go through the ordeal of getting arrested and arraigned, he’d prefer making it a “spectacle,” The Guardian said Wednesday, citing unidentified sources close to him. The ex-president — who’s seeking the Republican nomination for a third White House bid in 2024 — also wants to avoid any special treatment that could make him look weak,...

Fabricated images of former President Trump being arrested are circulating social media as the country prepares for his possible indictment this week. The images, created using artificial intelligence software (AI), show what appears to be the a large group of New York City Police Department officers arresting the former president as he resists be detained. Some of the images that were posted on Twitter even depict Trump being forced to the ground, while another image shows him running away from the police officers. The text in the images, like on the police officers’ uniform, is garbled — an indicator that...

A 23-year-old pilot who suffered chest pains following her Covid injection says she has been diagnosed with two heart ailments and is no longer able to fly solo. Sierra Lund, a recreational pilot and top-conditioned athlete, told The Epoch Times that, just 18 hours after getting the jab, she felt intense pain in her chest. She was having trouble breathing. “Walking was a struggle,” she said. As a competitive athlete, Lund was in top condition when she received the injection. Neither she nor her relatives had any history of heart issues. “So Lund tried to shrug off her symptoms. They...

As expected, The Federal Reserve raised their target rate (upper bound) to 5%, up 25 basis points. At the same time, Fed Reverse Repo useage soared to $2.28 trillion as banks hide from inflation. Here is today’s Fed FOMC decision. The Fed’s DOTs project looks like a ski slope with rates lower over the next few years (return of QE??) Treasury Secretary Janet “The BIG Statist” Yellen loves Modern Monetary Theory (MMT).

The University of Helsinki in Finland has announced its list of honorary doctorates to be given in 2023 and making the list is everyone's favorite Swedish high school dropout and climate cult leader, Greta Thunberg. She's receiving a doctorate in THEOLOGY for her work as an activist. Well, we told you, climate worship IS a religion. And Greta Thunberg is the High Priestess of Gaia – a saint goddess who represents Mother Earth – so this all makes a lot of sense if you look at it through those lenses. She's as venerated a figure among the climate church as...

NEW YORK (AP) — As former President Donald Trump braces for a potential indictment related to hush money payments made on his behalf during his 2016 campaign, Republicans blasting the case as politically motivated are blaming a frequent target: George Soros. The 92-year-old billionaire investor and philanthropist — who has been falsely accused of everything from hiring violent rioters to committing election crimes — doesn’t know and didn’t donate directly to the New York prosecutor steering the probe. But that hasn’t stopped Trump and other high-profile Republicans from accusing Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, who convened the grand jury investigating...

A student shot two staff members at Denver’s East High School Wednesday morning then fled the scene before police could apprehend him. CBS News reported that the staff members survived being shot and one is in stable condition and the second is in critical. ALERT: #DPD is responding to a shooting at East High School. Unknown number of victims at this time. Investigators are working to gather information, expect large police presence in the area. Updates will be posted to this thread as they are made available. #Denver pic.twitter.com/YkosOOOjmS — Denver Police Dept. (@DenverPolice) March 22, 2023

DETROIT – Ford Motor is about to tell investors what they’ve long wondered: How much is the transition to electric vehicles costing? The automaker on Thursday plans to begin reporting its financial results by business unit, instead of by region, ushering in the new reporting structure with a “teach-in” for analysts and media. Deutsche Bank analyst Emmanuel Rosner believes Ford could be incurring gross losses of about $9,000 per EV sold. The analyst expects Ford to reveal Thursday Model e operating losses of $6 billion for 2022. That’s after accounting for significant research and development investments — roughly 65% of...

A new study released Wednesday said brains rewire to crave fatty, sugary foods after eating them. File Photo by Bill Greenblatt/UPI | License Photo March 22 (UPI) -- The reason why we love french fries, crisps and chocolate bars so much has less to do with a lack of willpower and more to do with the brain learning to prefer such high-fat, sugary foods, according to a new study by German and U.S. researchers. Results of the study, conducted by researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Metabolism Research in Cologne, Germany, and Yale University, was published Wednesday in the...

Joe Biden's 2021 executive order about expanding voter registrations through federal agencies laid the blueprint. Back in March 2021, Joe Biden issued Executive Order 14019 that instructed all 600 federal agencies to “consider ways to expand citizens’ opportunities to register to vote and to obtain information about, and participate in, the electoral process.” The executive order didn’t receive much coverage from the mainstream media, which functions as the P.R. wing for the Democrats. Even most conservative media overlooked this story, except for a few very astute pundits. The order did incur the displeasure of some such as the Texas Attorney...

The Daily Caller piece claims The Red Cross is passing out “pamphlets” to migrants in Mexico, who are making their way over illegally..... ....The American Red Cross sits on the board of the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) Food and Shelter Program and is tasked with allocating funding to nongovernmental groups supporting the illegal migrants. The FEMA program received $350 million from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in February; the American Red Cross is tasked, along with other NGOs, with allocating some of those funds to support migrants after they’ve crossed the southern border and are processed with a...

VIDEOA few days ago I uploaded a rather low resolution video featuring a J6 fedsurrectionist. Unfortunately that low resolution makes it difficult to identify him. However, the GOOD NEWS is that I found a much better resolution video (and much longer) of the same scene from a different angle. In fact, the improved resolution and longer length made it possible to easily identify MORE fedsurrectionists. At least THREE and probably FOUR fedsurrectionists were identified. Oh, and if you thought from the first video that the blonde woman standing by the window was a mere bystander, you can see in this...

JERUSALEM (AP) — One of the oldest surviving biblical manuscripts, a nearly complete 1,100-year-old Hebrew Bible, could soon be yours — for a cool $30 million. The Codex Sassoon, a leather-bound, handwritten parchment tome containing almost the entirety of the Hebrew Bible, is set to go on the block at Sotheby’s in New York in May. Its anticipated sale speaks to the still bullish market for art, antiquities and ancient manuscripts even in a worldwide bear economy. Sotheby’s is drumming up interest in hopes of enticing institutions and collectors to bite. It has put the price tag at an eye-watering...

The EU is sending one million artillery shells to Ukraine at the eye-watering price of two billion Euros, meanwhile the United Kingdom has confirmed it would be sending depleted uranium anti-tank rounds along with the main battle tanks it is donating to the country. A long-anticipated arms procurement deal by EU members-plus-Norway through the European Defence Agency to procure and send one million 155mm artillery rounds [pictured, above] to Ukraine has been agreed, ending months of discussion. The €2 billion ($2.15 billion) price tag will be divided in two tranches, the EU said, with the first billion used to compensate...

Jupiter, Mercury, Venus, Uranus and Mars are expected to align March 28.. A spectacular celestial sight is on the horizon and you won't want to miss it. Planets Jupiter, Mercury, Venus, Uranus and Mars are expected to align in the night sky on March 28. Planetary alignments occur when the orbit of several planets coincide with each other and they appear to be lined up in the sky. Alignments typically only include two or three planets and are fairly brief, making a 5-planet alignment fairly noteworthy. This rare planetary parade will first become visible in the western sky just after...

National Security Council (NSC) Coordinator for Strategic Communications John Kirby told reporters in White House briefings on Monday and Tuesday that China could play a “constructive role” in the Russian invasion of Ukraine by reaching out to the latter nation’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, and “press[ing] Russia to pull its troops out of Ukraine.” Kirby emphasized that if Zelensky “can get behind” a path to peace, even one promoted by China, “he’ll find no better friend in that effort than the United States.” The Chinese Communist Party began mounting a full-scale publicity effort in February to insert itself in the Ukraine...

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's office has "canceled" the grand jury meeting that was scheduled to take place Wednesday as part of the investigation into former President Trump, amid speculation of a possible indictment, two sources familiar told Fox News. The grand jury was slated to meet Wednesday and was expected to hear from at least one additional witness, but Fox News has learned that Bragg's office "canceled" the proceedings. The grand jury was notified Wednesday morning, and was placed "on standby" for Thursday, a source told Fox News. Two sources familiar told Fox News Digital on Wednesday that the...

Flight LogFlight 48 Sol 741 Date March 21, 2023 Horizontal Distance 398 m ~1,306 ft Max. Altitude 12 m ~39 ft Max. Groundspeed 4.65 m/s ~10.4 mph Duration 149.9 seconds Route of Flight from Airfield Iota to Airfield KappaFlights 48 (as of 3/21/23)Distance Flown 10,942 meters (~35,901 ft)Highest Altitude 14 meters (~46 ft)Fastest Ground Speed 6 m/s (13.4 mph)Flight Time ~84.4 minutes (5,061 seconds)

Republican Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul grilled Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel on Wednesday over whether the shot is safe for teen boys, citing an increased risk of myocarditis. Bancel testified before the Senate on raising the cost of COVID-19 vaccines. “Is there a higher incidence of myocarditis among adolescent males ages 16-24 after taking your vaccine?” Paul asked. “We care deeply about safety and we’re working closely with the CDC to –” “Pretty much a yes or no,” Paul interjected. “Is there a higher incidence of myocarditis among boys 16-24 after they take your vaccine?” “The data … has shown there’s...

A lawyer who formerly advised Michael Cohen alleges that in 2018 the ex-Trump adviser claimed to know nothing about the former president committing wrongdoing, including on hush money to women. **************************************************************** An attorney who advised disgraced Trump organization lawyer Michael Cohen provided Manhattan prosecutors with voluminous documentation, including contemporaneous emails and memos, purporting to show that in 2018 Cohen wanted Donald Trump to help cover his legal bills and repeatedly claimed he had no evidence incriminating the former president in a hush money deal with porn actress Stormy Daniels. "Cohen said he had no information against Trump," one memo summarizing...