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Ohio has become a Trump-friendly state over the last eight years, and the political evolution of newly minted Republican Senate candidate Bernie Moreno is an illustration of MAGA being the new normal for the GOP. Moreno, a Cleveland businessman who briefly ran for an open Senate seat in Ohio last election cycle, said on Tuesday that he will challenge Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) in one of the most pivotal Senate races for Republicans on the battleground map. Moreno’s announcement effectively cements his ideological conversion from an establishment GOP donor to a full-blown MAGA Republican who is now strongly positioned to...

Some parts of South Florida were dealing with major gas supply issues after a storm last week brought torrential rain and flooding to the region, causing fuel delivery delays. A staggering 59% of all gas stations in the Miami and Fort Lauderdale area were out of fuel at one point Tuesday, along with another 21% of gas stations in West Palm Beach, according to fuel tracker GasBuddy.com. Some of those shortages were the result of a "panic buying spree, which overwhelmed the system," said Patrick De Haan, head of Gasbuddy's petroleum analysis. He said that there were still "millions of...

Eighty years ago, Jews imprisoned in Poland's Warsaw Ghetto rose up against the German occupiers. It was the largest act of Jewish resistance to the Nazis. ... The desperate resistance of the Jews Members of the ZOB joined with the Jewish Military Union (ZZW) and other resistance groups to rise up against the German occupiers. Their motto was that it was better to die fighting than be burned to ashes in the crematorium of an extermination camp. After the deportation of some 300,000 Jews to the Treblinka extermination camp northeast of Warsaw in the summer of 1942, there were only...

The rate of inflation has eased slightly but still remains above 10%, according to official figures showing food and drink costs at a 45-year high. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said the consumer prices index (CPI) measure slowed to 10.1% in March from 10.4% the previous month. Economists had largely expected a figure of 9.8%. However, upwards pressure remained from household gas and electricity and food, including essentials such as bread, milk and eggs. Food and non-alcoholic drink inflation was measured at 19.1% by the ONS - the highest level since August 1977. High commodity and production costs are...

The US is beginning to be out of time for agreeing on a debt limit increase. But you don’t need a fortune teller to tell you that Biden and McCarthy will eventually agree to increase the US debt limit because everyone in Washington DC love to borrow and spend money. Regardless, we are seeing the 1-year US Credit Default Swap (SR, EUR) rise above 100, higher than during the 2008/2009 financial crisis. This is occuring as the US Treasury 10Y-2Y yield curve remains inverted and M2 Money growth has crashed. But never fear! The Evil Hobbitt (aka, Janet Yellen) is...

CTH will keep repeating the words, WATCH MEXICO. Ever since Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez-Obrador confronted Joe Biden in the oval office about energy policy, things have increasingly escalated. {Direct Rumble Link} There is going to be a U.S-Mexico confrontation soon.Mexico (AMLO), along with Hungary (Orban), is a target of the Biden administration for a color revolution, a manipulated uprising to overthrow the government. It is absolutely not coincidental that Victor Orban and Lopez-Obrador, both spoke out publicly against the President Trump criminal prosecution. In the geopolitical world the nationalist leaders see exactly what is happening.

Republicans in the North Carolina House introduced a bill Tuesday that would ban drag performances in public places or in the presence of a minor. House Bill 673 classifies “male or female impersonators who provide entertainment that appeals to a prurient interest” as adult entertainers in the same legal category as strippers. The bill does not define what constitutes “prurient interest,” nor does it say what constitutes a “male or female impersonator.” Any drag performance done in a public space or at a venue with minors present would result in a misdemeanor on first offense and a felony for subsequent...

The new “legal principles” document starts with another introduction from Edwin Cameron, a retired South African judge who notes how his experience as a “gay man” helped inform his work on this project.“From long years in the law, and as a proudly gay man, I know profoundly how criminal law signals which groups are deemed worthy of protection – and which of condemnation and ostracism,” he wrote. “In this way, the criminal law performs an expressive function – and it has dramatic consequences on people’s lives. It sometimes entails a harshly discriminatory impact on groups identified with the disapproved or...

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The culprits behind a long-term plan devised specifically to de-Christianize America and create a dehumanizing climate polluted by raw sex, sodomy, and violence, is a global and national criminal elite, a parasitic confederacy of global demoniacs and their managerial class.

But some senators agreed that they need more information before acting Several Republican senators are suggesting they are open to discussing how Congress can step in to regulate artificial intelligence systems after Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., announced he wants to put guardrails on the rapidly advancing sector.

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Jayne Mansfield was born on April 19, 90 years ago today, and became a super-hot sex symbol. She was proud of it. That was in the fifties and sixties. ........ Her daughter Mariska went on to star in and produce one of the most successful television dramas of all time, playing a detective passionate about catching and punishing men who assault women. ....... Times have changed.

Mayor Adams Commits to Reducing City’s Food-Based Emissions by 33 Percent by 2030 After Releasing new Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventory Incorporating Emissions From Food April 17, 2023 Video available at: https://youtu.be/wQLTqu311Oo New Inventory Shows That Buildings, Transportation, and Food Represent New York City’s Top Three Sources of Greenhouse Gas Emissions City Also Launches Corporate Challenge to Reduce Private Sector Food Emissions by 25 Percent NEW YORK – New York City Mayor Eric Adams and Chief Climate Officer and New York City Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) Commissioner Rohit T. Aggarwala today released the city's first integrated greenhouse gas inventory, which...

What is a cult? What isn't a cult? Reverend Jim Jones and his Marxist-Leninist People's Temple at the intersection of Jesus and Lenin one example. Jones fancying himself a bit of both seemed to fit the description once the "Kool Aid was passed" and innocent people were gunned down in Guyana back in 1978. In the Conservative Christian subculture I experienced a doctrinal clarity that meant questioning other religious groups from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints to the Seventh Day Adventists not to mention Buddhists, Hindus and Muslims. Then there was the Unification Church of Reverend Moon...

Two Russian former convicts who claim they served as commanders for the Wagner mercenary group have apparently confessed to murdering hundreds of civilians, including children, in Ukraine. Both of the men gave interviews to an exiled human rights activist who runs the website Gulagu.net, which reports on corruption and torture in Russia. The former convicts -- Azamat Uldarov and Alexey Savichev -- were pardoned by Russian presidential decrees last year, according to Gulagu.net. In an hour-long confession, the men describe their actions in Ukraine since Russia invaded in February 2022, including executing 60 wounded prisoners, some of whom were Russian...

April 19 was the death date in 1012, and the feast date in perpetuity, of Archbishop of Canterbury and Christian saint Aelfheah (also known as Alfege or Alphege). When harrying Danish invaders under Thorkell the Tall put Canterbury cathedral to the sack in 1011, they seized this Anglo-Saxon cleric too in expectation of adding a VIP’s ransom to their sacrilegious pillage of candelabras and jeweled chalices. Aelfheah turned out not to be the render-unto-Caesar type — or at least, not unto Ragnar — and stubbornly refused to raise his own ransom or to permit one to be paid for him....

Another "goodwill" gesture from the Russian troops can be expected in the near future. Russians are preparing to withdraw from the remaining territories of the Kherson region, said the head of the Joint Press Center of the Ukrainian Defense Forces South, Natalia Humeniuk. Earlier, the Ukrainian Armed Forces reported that collaborators in the Kherson region had already begun to flee. They were taken to Crimea by military trucks. Only hand luggage was allowed to be taken with them. At the same time, mass desertion began among the Russian troops. As Humeniuk explained, Russian soldiers are literally sitting on their suitcases,...

On April 18, 2023, the German government published an updated document detailing the list of military equipment provided to Ukraine. This release confirmed that the first German Patriot air defense missile system has been successfully delivered to Ukraine. On January 5, 2023, a joint statement was released by the United States and Germany announcing that Germany will supply Ukraine with armored personnel carriers and a Patriot missile battery. Citing information from the German Federal Foreign Office, Since the outbreak of the war, the German Government has made available more than 14.2 billion euros in bilateral support for Ukraine; this aid...

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