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Feeling a little blue? Admitted “basic Chinese dictatorship” admirer Justin Trudeau, Canada’s sitting PM, has a solution for the suffering peasants: just kill yourself, stupid! Less carbon emissions for the rest of us! According to reporting from PJ Media’a Lincoln Brown, the Canadian government killed 10,000 people in 2021 alone through its MAID program. Official numbers for 2022 are not in yet, but we can safely assume they will climb.Even Canadian veterans have reportedly been offered MAID as a “final solution” of sorts by Veterans Affairs Canada (VAC), the Canadian equivalent of the VA in the US.The government is even...

Investigative journalist James O’Keefe III broke his first major investigation in March since the launch of O’Keefe Media Group.The legendary journalist released video from his investigation of the Democrat’s VAST NETWORK of donation harvesters. (snip)It turns out that millions in donations were sent to candidates like Raphael Warnock from “money mules” around the country. Warnock was the top beneficiary of all 2022 Democrat candidates of this money distribution scheme. In April 2022, engineer Chris Gleason began working on his first data project involving elections. The project was tied to the 2022 midterm election. This was unique for Chris because he...

Russian authorities have ordered residents of nine villages in the Belgorod region bordering Ukraine to evacuate their homes after anti-Putin rebel groups began capturing territory on Russian soil. The Kremlin's order comes hours after a pair of explosions rang out in the city of Belgorod overnight amid drone attacks on the FSB security service building and Interior Ministry offices.Regional governor Vyacheslav Gladkov confirmed the aerial bombing raid had caused fires at government buildings and urged citizens to take shelter amid the rebel attacks....snip...Russian authorities on Tuesday afternoon said its armed forces had beaten back the insurgency.'In the course of the...

It seems like just yesterday that the country was shaken to its core after Bubba Wallace discovered a rope attached to his NASCAR garage door and declared it to be a racist noose and the FBI immediately came out to investigate. Where were you when you learned of it? You'll never forget. The United States lost its innocence that day. And now, on this day — this fateful day — we have lost our innocence once again: OVER THE WEEKEND, the team radio channel for, Bubba Wallace, the only Black driver in NASCAR's top racing series, was apparently hijacked by...

If Biden were to be hit by lightning tomorrow while Kamala was eaten by wolves and Newsom was abducted by aliens with poor taste, the one person who absolutely would not become the Democrat nominee is Hillary. It doesn’t matter if Jeffrey Epstein passed down to her his entire library of the entire DNC molesting young boys, the party would still fall on a grenade to keep her from being the nominee. Still, a gal can dream. Former Secretary of State and First Lady Hillary Clinton said even though President Biden has a “good record” as president, “people still have...

Former President Trump accused Fox News host Laura Ingraham of running a “hit piece” on him for airing a segment focusing on his poll numbers compared to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who is expected to announce a White House bid in the coming days. Trump, minutes after the segment aired on Monday evening, took to his Truth Social website to blast the longtime conservative commentator, who has been largely supportive of him in recent years.

An interview with author Mark Cook to discuss his 2022 published book on the decipherment of Linear A.Rewriting History : The decipherment of Linear A and a history of Egypto-Cretan relations | 33:44Mark Cook | 5 subscribers | 258 views | April 27, 2023

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Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) signed red flag legislation into law Monday despite ongoing questions about whether it will enforced or, if enforced, how such enforcement would occur. The Associated Press reported, “Over half of the state’s counties have passed resolutions declaring themselves Second Amendment sanctuaries,” and through those resolutions have made clear there will be no enforcement of laws that infringe on Second Amendment rights. Additionally, a number of local sheriffs told the AP “that they won’t enforce the law if they don’t believe it’s constitutional.”

The debt trap is ensnaring many of China's cities. While Americans properly worry about the ballooning federal debt, China is already beginning to experience a crisis due to debts incurred by local governments. Bloomberg has a long article focusing on the city of Hegang, in the northeast province of Heilongjiang. Hegang, with a population of nearly a million, is in decline along with its coal industry and experiencing brutal spending cuts in order to keep up with its interest payments.Hegang's residents are now feeling the brunt of the fiscal clampdown. During a recent visit to the city, locals complained about...

I have about six months to get a lawyer operating on my case. (statute of limitations an' all that.Has anyone done this and won ?

There are many pixels being spent to make it appear that Florida and Governor DeSantis are being unfair to Disney and, as a result, have lost an investment opportunity. Neither assertion is true. None of the claims by politicians will make them true. It's understandable that Democrats make these claims. It's neither understandable nor forgivable that Republicans like Pence, Haley, and Trump join in. To understand the situation, it's best to start at the beginning. In the 1960s Florida granted Disney local government control over 27,000 acres of land that straddles Orange and Osceola counties. The area was called the...

The 13-year-old boy shot in a possible targeted attack at a Staten Island playground has died of his injuries, police said Tuesday — as law enforcement sources revealed that an older teen shooter was nabbed in connection to the deadly violence. The younger teen, identified by the NYPD as Jamoure Harrell, was shot in the head by two masked gunmen just before 4 p.m. Friday inside Reverend Doctor Maggie Howard Playground, near NYCHA’s Stapleton Houses, according to cops. Jamoure was rushed to Richmond University Medical Center, where he was initially listed in critical condition and succumbed to his injuries Monday,...

Without unrestricted immigration, nations like the United States cannot survive unless women have about 2.1 children each (the .1 reflects women who do not have children). The bad news is that the U.S. is falling short in reproducing itself. Occasional exceptions such as the Baby Boom aside, U.S. fertility rates have dropped over the last two centuries and show no sign of rising to the 2.1 replacement level. We are currently at 1.6.The baby shortfall has huge consequences beyond potentially filling the nation with immigrants. An aging population brings higher healthcare costs, budgets devoured by pensions, shrinking tax bases, labor...

Remember when former Fed Chair and current Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said that inflation was transitory? As usual, Yellen was wrong. Look at April’s new home sales. Up 4.1% since March even through M2 Money growth has collapsed. The Taylor Rule, based on Core CPI of 5.25% (persistent, not transitory inflation Janet) suggest a Fed target rate of 11.78%. The Fed is at 5.25% and likely to pause rate hikes and maybe even lower rates again.

Numerous Chicago police stations are serving as makeshift shelters for migrants and are dealing with bed bugs, illnesses, food and basic healthcare shortages.

Chief Washington Examiner political correspondent Byron York charted a hypothetical path to the Republican nomination for newly announced 2024 presidential candidate Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC). "This is the kind of candidacy that's not just going to burst on the polls and all of a sudden he’ll be in second place next week," York said Monday on Fox News. "It’s the kind of candidacy that you visit Iowa a lot, and good news, good word starts spreading around you. "They say good things about you and, after a while, you just start rising in the most important first contest," he continued.

A Manhattan college professor flipped out on a group of students who set up an information table opposing abortion inside the school building — cursing and tossing their pamphlets, video of the interaction shows. Shellyne Rodriguez, an adjunct professor, told the pro-life students they were “triggering” her students by tabling inside Hunter College in Manhattan earlier this month. The footage was posted to Twitter by Students for Life of America. “You’re not educating s–t. This is f–king propaganda,” the art professor told the students tabling on May 2. “What are you going to do like anti-trans next?” Rodriguez claimed their...

Russian authorities have ordered residents of nine villages in the Belgorod region bordering Ukraine to evacuate their homes after anti-Putin rebel groups began capturing territory on Russian soil. The Kremlin's order comes hours after a pair of explosions rang out in the city of Belgorod overnight amid drone attacks on the FSB security service building and Interior Ministry offices. Regional governor Vyacheslav Gladkov confirmed the aerial bombing raid had caused fires at government buildings and urged citizens to take shelter amid the rebel attacks. Ukrainian military intelligence said two armed Russian opposition groups, the Freedom of Russia Legion and the...