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Glenn has been one of the most outspoken critics of the use of ESG by globalist elites to force businesses to comply with their woke agenda. It turns out, not only is ESG bad political practice—it's bad for your wallet too. Global Investments in ESG Funds PLUNGED 76 percent globally in 2022 from $157.3 billion to $649.1 billion in 2021, with a 20 percent decrease in the U.S. ALONE. This marked the lowest annual net inflow for ESG funds since $69 billion in 2018. The downturn in ESG investment is largely due to the concerted effort led against ESG led...

Explosions have been heard in the Russian-held city of Mariupol in southeastern Ukraine with reports of loud blasts coming from the area of a nearby airport. Based on unconfirmed reports from local sources, there have been up to four missile strikes on Mariupol which was taken by Russian forces in 2022 following a three-month-long siege. According to a correspondent from Ukrinform, a statement was made using the messaging service Telegram by Petro Andriushchenko, an advisor to the mayor of Mariupol confirming the explosions. A video of an explosion near the recently built Nevsky housing complex, which was constructed by Russian...

A San Francisco restaurant found itself the target of angry online comments after hosting a fundraising event for the local Republican Party that reportedly featured speakers who criticized the transgender community.

San Francisco's proposed reparation payments to eligible Black residents could cost the city over $100 billion dollars, the New York Times reported Friday. San Francisco's African American Reparations Advisory Committee unveiled its recommendation in January, arguing that the city owed millions of dollars in compensation to Black residents for decades of discrimination. "The $5 million payments could top $100 billion — many times the $14 billion annual budget in San Francisco — and London Breed, the city’s mayor, has not committed to cash reparations," the Times said.

As Russian President Vladimir Putin’s “special military operation” continues its downward spiral in Ukraine, the future of Russian-occupied or dominated territories is becoming a subject of interest, beginning with Kaliningrad. ...Moldova took what could be the first step on May 15, when Igor Grosu, President of the Parliament of the Republic of Moldova, announced Moldova was formally withdrawing from the Commonwealth of Independent States interparliamentary assembly — the Russian equivalent of the British Commonwealth ...In a worst-case scenario, if you were to overlay the domino theory of U.S. Cold War policy, substituting “getting out from underneath Russian oppression” for “the...

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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’ office has responded to news that The Walt Disney Company will no longer build a headquarters for its theme park business in Florida. The news comes as Disney is in two legal battles over DeSantis’ actions to take over an Independent Special District that governs over Disney World property. Here’s the statement (via Scott Gustin):Disney announced the possibility of a Lake Nona campus nearly two years ago. Nothing ever came of the project, and the state was unsure whether it would come to fruition.Given the company’s financial straits, falling market cap and declining stock price, it...

The attorney for the white New York City hospital worker who was accused of trying to take a rental bicycle from a Black man in a viral video says that the woman paid for the bike herself — and has the receipts to prove it. A receipt shared with Insider shows payment for a Citi Bike on the app on the evening of May 12 in Manhattan; the bicycle was relocked to its dock a minute later with no charge logged. The Citi Bike identification number in the viral video is the same as the one on the receipt, and...

Why do all the commercials on Newsmax play 2, 3 and 4 times during the same commercial break. It is so annoying. If I hear another Kia commercial or Booking.com commercial play 3 times in a row I am going to scream.

Agency used foreign spying law to gather intelligence in what one lawmaker called ‘shocking abuses’ WASHINGTON—The Federal Bureau of Investigation improperly searched a trove of intelligence gathered through a foreign spying law for information on people suspected of participating in the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol and the George Floyd protests, a court opinion released Friday showed. Despite a lack of evidence, the FBI performed more than a dozen searches of raw foreign intelligence data related to people believed to be involved in the Capitol riot to hunt for foreign ties, the court said. Separately, three Jan....

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"After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands." "For they themselves shew of us what manner of entering in we had unto you, and how ye turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God; "And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come." Revelation, Chapter 7 1 And after...

Russia said on Friday that Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu visited a command post in Ukraine’s southern region of Zaporizhzhia and inspected troops there. The Russian defense ministry did not say when Shoigu made the visit but the statement was released as Ukrainian troops prepare for an offensive and have stepped up their activity along the front line. “Sergei Shoigu inspected the forward command post of one of the formations of the Vostok group of troops in the Zaporizhzhia direction,” the Russian defense ministry said in a statement. In a video released by the ministry Shoigu, who wore military fatigues, was...

Postoperative delirium—a sudden, fluctuating and typically reversible disturbance of mental status in patients that occurs after anesthetized surgery—is a common postoperative complication. The causes, progression and biological signatures are largely unknown, however. Now researchers have conducted a first-of-its-kind study that shows an association between gut microbiota and postoperative delirium. Early studies in elderly mice found that anesthesia/surgery induced an age-dependent changes in postoperative gut microbiota and postoperative behavior, including postoperative delirium-like behavior. In their current work, a clinical observational study conducted between 2016 and 2020 at Mass General, a research team led by Yiying (Laura) Zhang, MD, Ph.D., collected fecal...

Cruz returns to the viral internet meme that gained popularity in 2016Sen. Ted Cruz this week leaned into a long-running joke that paints him as a possible suspect behind the infamous Zodiac Killer murders in the late 1960s. It was reported on Wednesday evening that the FBI had confirmed the identity of the serial killer to be Air Force Veteran Gary Francis Poste, who died in 2018. "[T]his is absolutely true," Cruz quipped on Twitter while linking one of the news articles about the development.

Alison Lundergan Grimes must pay $10,000 in fines for improperly ordering the downloading and distribution of voter registration data from her public office while she was Kentucky’s secretary of state, the Executive Branch Ethics Commission announced Friday. The ethics commission long has been investigating Grimes, once a rising star in the Kentucky Democratic Party who served in Frankfort from 2011 to 2019. In early 2019, the Herald-Leader and ProPublica published a series of stories on Grimes’ conduct as a two-term secretary of state and 2014 Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate. The stories reported on Grimes’ improper use of the...

Silver remains below its all-time high while gold is trading near its record levels. If the gold/silver ratio drops below 78, it could give silver a sustainable bullish trend and potentially push it towards multi-year highs.-Silver gained strong upside momentum in recent months but remains cheap compared to gold. -Demand for precious metals is rising as traders search for safe-haven assets amid a banking crisis in the U.S. -If gold/silver ratio settles below the 78 level, silver may gain strong upside momentum. Unlike Gold, Silver Settled Well Below Its All-Time High Levels Silver enjoyed strong support in recent months...

The hikers, who were lost on a Southern California trail for about three hours Friday night before they were rescued, lacked proper hiking clothing, water and lighting equipment, a Ventura County sheriff’s deputy said. \ Ten teenage hikers who spent their Friday night lost on the trails of a Southern California canyon before a search and rescue team found them with the help of an iPhone feature "were not prepared" for their climb, officials said. Members of the group — who are all 16 to 18 years old — spent about three hours Friday stuck on the trails of Santa...

SEATTLE, May 19, 2023--(BUSINESS WIRE)--(NASDAQ: RDFN) — There are just four major U.S. metropolitan areas where it would be cheaper to buy than rent the typical home—that is, the typical home has an estimated monthly mortgage cost lower than its estimated monthly rental cost. That’s according to a new report from Redfin (redfin.com), the technology-powered real estate brokerage.In Detroit, the typical home is 24% less expensive to buy than rent—the largest discount in percentage terms among the 50 most populous metros. The median estimated monthly mortgage payment for Detroit homebuyers is $1,296, compared with an estimated monthly rent of $1,697....

SIXTH WEEK OF EASTER John 16:20-23 Friends, in today’s Gospel, Jesus exhorts us to pray with expectant faith: “Amen, amen, I say to you, whatever you ask the Father in my name he will give you.” Invoking the name of Jesus is an effective way to monitor the quality and shape the content of our prayer.When we pray “through Christ our Lord,” we are assuming the stance and attitude of Jesus, aligning ourselves to him, compelling ourselves to desire what he desires. Accordingly, it is altogether consistent to pray in the name of Jesus for peace, justice, the forgiveness of...