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The Big Banking, Big Business, Big Government forces are trying to manage this world they see themselves as the "Moderate" forces of "Stability"... When Stevie Wonder made that song back in the 1970's "Sir Duke" about those jazzy Big Band Era music stars I was a few notes short... I was a Religious Drunk when I was a teenager by that I mean my ego had me going with the notion that my "sinners prayer" cleaned me up while every one else was dirty... "Love Thy Neighbor" That means wanting what's best for someone else not wanting to use their...

Several things about the George Floyd's death have bothered me,

While the eyes of the nation are on San Francisco’s proposal to pay every black person $5 million in reparations for an estimated total cost of $175 billion, Motor City won’t be left behind. Last year, 80% of Detroit voters in a 78% black city cast their ballots in support of a reparations commission. That was much higher than 63% poll numbers but local election results tend to outperform the polls due to the civic work of the Wayne County Cemetery Voters Association. Chairwoman Lauren Hood of the Detroit City Planning Commission said that she didn’t know who the 20%...

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A communist hack named Deb Haalan who works for fake president Joe Biden as his Secretary of the Interior believes that depriving Americans of job opportunities and plunging the country into poverty and economic collapse is a good thing because it aligns with the Biden regime’s climate change goals.Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) recently grilled Haalan on the matter, probing her for some kind of logical answer as to why the Biden regime is killing off the American economy and how this can possibly be good for the American people, the vast majority of whom did notvote for this kind of...

Since Biden is little more than a front man for a highly motivated team of political operatives led by former President Barack Obama or the diabolic WEF Klaus Schwab or some equally malevolent dark political entity, the country has been seized by the totalitarian clique as his administration targets the First Amendment as if free speech is tyrannical permitting government to criminalize political dissent. At the same time, the Biden Administration has allowed an invasion of titanic proportions at the southern border as UN-funded NGO’s threaten US sovereignty with an expected infiltration of up to one million illegal immigrants awaiting...

Though our so-called enlightened society would like to deny it, the evil intentions of a sinful heart and soul are responsible for wicked behavior. “From their callous hearts comes iniquity” (Psalm 73:7). Since the fall of mankind in the garden, sin has plagued the human race, every person of every generation. We are born separated and alienated from a holy God who hates every form of evil. We are sinners who have fallen far short of the glory of God.

Oops! Did Someone Forget to Save a Seat for Jill Biden at King Charles' Coronation? Well, well, well, looks like First Lady Jill Biden had a bit of a giggle-inducing seating arrangement at King Charles' coronation on May 6. While her hubby, President Joe Biden, couldn't make it for reasons unknown, Jill headed to Westminster Abbey to witness the royal affair. However, it seems like the organizers weren't exactly rolling out the red carpet for her as they stuck her all the way in the back. Oh boy, you can just feel the love and respect pouring in, can't you?...

The agents have been inside talking to his family. They have also asked for a translator.

Acute radiation dermatitis (ARD)—characterized by red, sore, itchy or peeling skin—affects up to 95% of people undergoing radiation treatment for cancer. Researchers have found that many cases of ARD involve a common skin bacterium and that a simple, low-cost treatment can prevent severe cases. "Until now, ARD was assumed to result simply from the skin being burned by the radiation," said Beth N. McLellan, M.D. Staphylococcus aureus (SA) bacteria, often shortened to "staph," typically live harmlessly on the skin. But they can cause infections if the skin is broken by a cut. Courses of radiation therapy increase the risk for...

A corruption-tainted London mansion that the President Muhammadu Buhari administration had targeted for confiscation now belongs to Nigeria's president-elect Bola Tinubu's son through an offshore shell company, which is also linked to the politician's surrogates. The property was being investigated by the Nigerian government as part of a corruption probe involving its former owner, Kolawole Aluko, who was accused of evading an oil-trading debt worth over U.S.$1.5 billion. Bloomberg reported that Oluwaseyi Tinubu is listed as the main shareholder of the company that purchased the property. Tinubu uses the property for his stay in London and photos from there became...

Rick is an interesting study - if you know anything about him. Ace pitcher that threw 5 WP's in an inning in a playoff game. Never recovered - as a pitcher. Reinvented himself as an outfielder and returned to the ML's to make throws like this. He also hit some prodigious HR's - even in playoff situations.

On this date in 1795, the attorney who had engineered the Terror was guillotined for engineering the Terror. Antoine Quentin Fouquier de Tinville (English Wikipedia page | French), or just plain Fouquier-Tinville, had emerged during the Revolution from penurious obscurity to wrangle a jury foreman’s position courtesy of his connection to Camille Desmoulins. When Desmoulins ally Georges Danton spearheaded creation of a Revolutionary Tribunal (French link), Fouquier-Tinville drew the choice gig of Public Prosecutor. From that perch, he would supply the arbitrary exercises of the Committee of Public Safety their (increasingly scanty) scaffolding of formal legality in Paris’s greatest show...

Aliko Dangote is the richest man in Africa and the richest Black man in the whole wide world. Born in Kano, Nigeria on the 10th day of April in the year 1997 to Mohammed Dangote and Mariya Sanusi Dantata, you can say Aliko Dangote was born and raised in money considering the fact that he is the great-grandson of a one-time richest man in west Africa, Alhaji Alhassan Dantata who traded in kola and ground nuts. Unfortunately, Aliko’s father died when Aliko was eight years old. I Just Can’t Wait To Be King The Richest reports he was nurtured and...

The whole world is commenting on and speculating about the abrupt departure of former Fox commentator Tucker Carlson from that network. Addressing the current moment is not my intent. I have no idea what the “inside story” is on the events related to Fox’s or Carlson’s decisions. Mr. Carlson is wisely being deliberative regarding his physical presence and his messaging, and by next week the news cycle will have no doubt shifted in relation to this sudden exile, or self-exile; so there is little point in adding my own theories to the events of the present. I suspect, however, that...

The mass murdering, anti-freedom Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has infiltrated almost every country in the world, and America needs to counter the “evil” CCP, Heritage Foundation president Kevin Roberts told EpochTV. ”The CCP has infiltrated nearly every country in the world,” and the U.S. is heavily dependent on CCP pharma products and minerals (including rare earths to make electronics), Roberts told EpochTV’s Jan Jekielek during an April 29 interview. “Let’s hope that on January 20, 2025, we replace the very CCP-friendly president of the United States with a man or a woman who knows what time it is, and that...

Researchers who recently published their work in the Journal of Sexual Medicine examined the prevalence and efficacy of “gender-affirming” mental healthcare provided to trans-identified children.Method-wise, using a retrospective cohort design, the researchers “used military healthcare data from 2010-2018 to identify mental healthcare diagnoses and visits, and psychotropic medication prescriptions among TGD [transgender and gender diverse] youth who received care for gender dysphoria before age 18, and their siblings.”In layman’s terms (I wish medical journals would use more accessible language in their public-facing publications), they looked at the rate at which “transgender” kids sought mental health counseling and how often they...

“Beer, whiskey, concerts… and monsters!” That’s what visitors can find at Thompson’s Point in Portland. Many are likely familiar with the concert venue and the drinks. That last part — maybe not so much. Tucked between Stroudwater Distilling and Bissell Brothers at 4 Thompson’s Point Road is the International Cryptozoology Museum. Cryptozoology, the study of unknown or undiscovered animals, has just one museum dedicated to the genre in the world, and it’s right here in Portland — for the time being. The International Cryptozoology Museum, a Portland institution founded by Loren Coleman, will be on the move when the lease...

Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI), the governing body for cycling, may revise its transgender athlete policy days after it defended the regulations when a male-bodied athlete won a women’s race.Townhall covered this week how UCI issued a statement defending its policy allowing male athletes to compete against women. This came after Austin Killips, 27-year-old a biological male, took home the overall win in the Tour of the Gila race in New Mexico this week.Breaking News:MAN wins WOMENS Prize 🏆 pic.twitter.com/0Kp6J5GvRe— Oli London (@OliLondonTV) May 1, 2023“The UCI acknowledges that transgender athletes may wish to compete in accordance with their gender identity,”...

In recent years, debates about the fairness of allowing men to compete against women in sports and the morality of chemically and surgically castrating youth suffering from gender dysphoria have emerged as contentious topics in the United States. While trans activists maintain that allowing men to compete in women's sports and body mutilating surgeries are necessary "gender-affirming healthcare," more Americans are pushing back against the idea that the solution to this social contagion among the nation's youth is sterilization by way of puberty blockers, opposite-sex hormones and body disfiguring surgeries. Specifically, critics of policies allowing men to compete on women’s...