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Podcast host Joe Rogan this week threw cold water on speculation of a pending indictment of former President Trump. “They’re talking about arresting him for paying a girl to stop talking about them having sex. I thought that was a good deal. I thought it’s a good deal,” Rogan said on an episode of his podcast this week. “You pay someone … Didn’t Clinton do that? Didn’t … John Edwards got in trouble for doing that, but he didn’t go to jail. I don’t believe he went to jail.” An AP fact check earlier this week found comparisons circulating on...

Iran-backed fighters fired three missiles at US military base at Al-Omar oil field US killed 11 militants in strikes after Iranian drone strike killed American *********************************************************** The Iran-backed groups targeted the US base at the Al-Omar oil field in Syria's northeast with a missile attack at around 11am on Friday morning. Two missiles fell in the oil field, without causing damage, while the third landed on a civilian house nearby, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. It was unclear whether the strikes had caused any casualties. The militants launched the strikes just hours after President Biden ordered the U.S....

This list only includes destroyed vehicles and equipment of which photo or videographic evidence is available. Therefore, the amount of equipment destroyed is significantly higher than recorded here. Small arms, ATGMs, MANPADS, loitering munitions, drones used as unmanned bait, civilian vehicles, trailers and derelict equipment are not included in this list. All possible effort has gone into avoiding duplicate entries and discerning the status of equipment between captured or abandoned. Many of the entries listed as 'abandoned' will likely end up captured or destroyed. Similarly, some of the captured equipment might be destroyed if it can't be recovered. When the...

Elated Senate Republicans believe they are on the cusp of landing their highest-profile recruit of the 2024 campaign: West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice. Justice, a Democrat-turned-Republican with sky-high approval ratings, is increasingly expected to launch a bid for Sen. Joe Manchin’s (D-W.Va.) seat after consulting with top party officials in Washington this month, according to a half-dozen GOP senators and aides. A Justice candidacy would notch two big wins for Republicans, breaking their losing streak in recruiting popular governors and reshaping next year’s battleground map. Republicans privately predict Justice may wait to enter the race until at least next month...

Accusations and criticism have increased in Canadian politics recently that the Chinese Communist Party and the Chinese government are influencing the outcome of Canadian elections and the actions of Canadian politicians. The National Security and Intelligence Review Agency (NSIRA) and the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians (NSICOP) are reviewing foreign interference in the last two federal elections, held in 2019 and 2021. There are allegations organizations acting as a front for the Chinese government have been involved with election campaigns and finances. -excerpt- At the provincial level, Vincent Ke, a Progressive Conservative (PC) member of the Ontario legislature,...

The suspect who allegedly wounded a King County Sheriff’s deputy after opening fire while they were serving an eviction notice in Seattle on Monday has been identified as a transgender member of the Democratic Socialists of America. .....

New York lawmakers have inched closer to banning gas stoves and fossil fuel appliances in most buildings and also single-family homes. The proposal in the Democrat-controlled state will move forward with the state budget at the end of March and Democrats in both chambers of the state legislature have “endorsed proposals to prohibit fossil fuel furnaces, water heaters, clothes dryers and gas stoves in most new construction,” according to POLITICO. New York would be the first to take this step through legislative action; California and Washington have done so through building codes. An agreement has not been finalized to ensure...

A U.S. base in Syria’s Al Omar region came under attack Friday after the U.S. conducted retaliatory airstrikes on an Iran-backed group, Reuters reported, citing a security source and local media. The Department of Defense (DOD) confirmed late Thursday that U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) conducted precision airstrikes against facilities in Syria used by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), Iran’s paramilitary group. It remains unclear whether Friday’s attack was related to the retaliatory U.S. strike or conducted by the same group or incurred any casualties, according to Reuters. The attack Friday took place at 11 a.m., a security source told...

(Daily readings from the USCCB)Jesus moved about within Galilee; he did not wish to travel in Judea, because the Jews were trying to kill him. But the Jewish feast of Tabernacles was near. But when his brothers had gone up to the feast, he himself also went up, not openly but as it were in secret. John 7:1–2; 10The Jewish Feast of Tabernacles was one of three great feasts during which the people made a pilgrimage to the Temple in Jerusalem to commemorate God’s saving action in their lives. This particular feast was to commemorate the 40 years that the...

A new white paper from payroll services group Playroll, in partnership with tech and developer jobs marketplace OfferZen and executive recruitment firm Aims International, shows that South Africa’s skills crisis runs deeper than industry-specific shortages portray. The group’s research found that close to 80% of all business leaders it surveyed consider the emigration of skills one of the critical risk factors facing their organisations. This comes at a time when emigration appears to be accelerating, it said. ... The UK has the most migrant stock from South Africa, with almost a quarter of a million residents listing RSA as their...

VIDEO AT LINK........... Few occupations represent the dramatic state of American decline more than the generals who serve in our nation’s armed forces. We’ve gone from heroic, even legendary figures such as Patton and Doug Macarthur to sub-literate squealing gimps such as Gen Miley, whose brain struggles in his big, dumb, square head to understand the roots of “white rage.” A recent exchange between America First congressman Matt Gaetz and General Michael Langley represents a dramatic and embarrassing new low in the decline of our once great generals. General Langley is not just any general, he is one of the...

OLYMPIA — Washington’s first auction of greenhouse gas pollution allowances generated $300 million. Now, state senators are proposing to invest millions from the program in electrifying ports, schools and homes, conserving old forests, and helping relocate Indigenous communities who are vulnerable to climate change. Some $75 million of the climate dollars included in the senators’ proposal could go to low-income families looking to switch from oil or gas furnaces to electric heat pumps. And $80 million could support the state Department of Natural Resources’ “carbon sequestration” projects. An additional $40 million is budgeted to help electrify some of the state’s...

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Health providers at U.S. military bases, some of whom are involved in treating military-connected minors, blasted the idea of waiting before injecting kids diagnosed with gender dysphoria with puberty blockers and hormones. The DoD providers said in the March edition of the American Journal of Public Health that the only pathway for children of military members who present with gender dysphoria symptoms is to immediately move towards "gender-affirming health care, such as puberty suppression and affirming hormones." The doctors said that on the basis of "human rights," "youths… have an inherent ability and right to consent to gender-affirming therapy." They...

24 March 2023 Friday of the 4th week of Lent Church of the Holy Eucharist, Lviv, Ukraine Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Violet. Year: A(I).First readingWisdom 2:1,12-22 ©Let us lie in wait for the virtuous man and condemn him to a shameful deathThe godless say to themselves, with their misguided reasoning:‘Our life is short and dreary,nor is there any relief when man’s end comes,nor is anyone known who can give release from Hades.Let us lie in wait for the virtuous man, since he annoys usand opposes our way of life,reproaches us for our breaches of the lawand accuses us of playing...

Game over, man. The Trump Grand Jury proceedings have been suspended for the week. Karma has caught Alvin Bragg, who is giving Joe Biden a run for the personal history embellishment award. Manhattan's new District Attorney Alvin Bragg regularly gives speeches about his childhood, recalling that cops and civilians pointed guns at him a half dozen times, and says it's his hardships growing up in Harlem that make him the right man for the moment.But critics familiar with his upbringing tell DailyMail.com that he actually enjoyed quite a cushy existence and should stop distorting his past to justify reforms that...

Like too many young Chicagoans, Kevin McMurtry dropped out of high school and then spent years struggling to find his way. He racked up three felony convictions between 2006 and 2012 for non-violent crimes. In 2020, as a new father at the age of 34, he decided to get on track. He joined the anti-violence program Chicago CRED and earned his GED. After raising his now 3-year-old daughter alone, he recently married. Everything seemed to be going the right way. He had a “success story so moving it was featured on ABC News,” his defense attorney said Thursday after prosecutors...

Chicago — A Chicago man who allegedly robbed a Red Line passenger of their phone so he could watch porn, just two days after being arrested for pleasuring himself while watching schoolchildren arrive for class, has been sentenced to six years. Nick George, 51, pleaded guilty to robbery, attempted armed robbery, and burglary before Judge James Obbish, according to court records. Obbish sentenced him to six years on each count, to be served concurrently. George also pleaded guilty to misdemeanor public indecency, which was reduced from felony public indecency on school grounds. For that, Obbish gave him a 364-day sentence,...

President Joe Biden is reportedly frustrated at Vice President Kamala Harris for not "rising to the occasion" as his second-in-command, according to a recent report from Reuters. The bombshell story from Reuters included comments from high-ranking officials in the Biden administration who revealed some of president's candid opinions about Harris. "If he did not think she was capable, he would not have picked her," one former Biden official told Reuters. "But it is a question of consistently rising to the occasion," the official said. A second former official highlighted a "point of tension" between Biden and Harris. "I don't think...

“We now know that the extra cleaning was unlikely to have helped limit the spread of Covid-19,” reports the far-left New York Times. Yes, we can now add disinfecting to the growing list of things we were told would stop the spread of the China Virus and did not… Also on that list… Lockdowns School closings Masks Vaccine Let’s start another list… Those who profited mightily from all these establishment lies… Big pharma Big box stores Big tech Amazon Netflix Chemical companies that make cleaning supplies Teachers who got all that time off What a disgrace the media, government, and...