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The effort to mandate an all-electric vehicle (EV) fleet is founded on the idea that eliminating tailpipe emissions of CO2 will be beneficial to the environment. The fact that most of the electricity needed to charge EVs is generated by burning fossil fuels has been largely ignored. A lesser known toxic consequence is the increased wear-and-tear on vehicle tires due to the heavier weight of EVs. Nearly 2,000 times more particle pollution is produced by tire wear than tailpipe emissions. According to the Goodyear tire manufacturer, EVs run through tires 50% faster than gasoline-powered cars. Tires contain some highly toxic...

Leader of the Oath Keepers Stewart Rhodes gets sentenced to 18-years for his involvement in January 6th. Starting at 22 minutes 33 seconds is the account of the statement made by Rhodes followed by the statement of the "judge". Prior to that is the statement by Rhode's lawyer which is also worth listening to. Following the statement there is coverage of the FBI being subpoenaed to turn over documents, and about the "pipe bomber".

A man in Seattle was hospitalized after drinking an entire bottle of NOS Octane Booster Racing Formula, confusing it for the NOS energy drink. Octane booster is basically high-octane gas. But there's also a NOS energy drink, with very similar packaging, that's meant to give people a caffeine boost. But how bad do energy drinks have to taste for you to drink an entire bottle of octane booster and not realize it? This took place back in 2020 but was recently published in the American Medical Journal. The man went to the hospital after suffering a seizure and then stayed...

Two Georgia women — including an assistant manager — are blasting Lululemon for sacking them from their jobs after they called the police while three masked men pillaged the store. Shocking video shows the brazen thieves burst into the Peachtree Corners store in metro Atlanta earlier this month to grab as many fistfuls of athletic clothing as possible. The women follow the group outside and watch as they pile into their getaway car, but notably do not try to physically stop the thieves — which has caused workers to lose their jobs or face charges in the past. Instead, they...

San Bernardino County is being sued over its treatment of foster children. A 68-page class action lawsuit was filed on Thursday, May 25, in U.S. District Court in Riverside, on behalf of more than 5,800 children who are or will likely end up in foster care. The suit was filed against the California Department of Social Services, CDSS Director Kim Johnson, Gov. Gavin Newsom, San Bernardino County, the county Board of Supervisors and Department of Children and Family Services and CFS Director Jeany Zepeda. A second class of plaintiffs consists of hundreds of children with disabilities in the foster care...

As we've warned time and again on ANP over the last several years, with the globalists getting away with launching the COVID bioweapon attack upon America and the world that allowed them to steal the 2020 U.S. election and impose medical tyranny upon most of the planet, we should be completely prepared for the next 'attack' to come along, and with the NY Post reporting in this May 23rd story that the head of the World Health Organization just announced "the next pandemic, 'even deadlier’ than COVID, is coming," we can see the next 'psyop' unfolding before our eyes. As...

The blind trajectory set by Joe Biden’s autopilot just barreled on through, unhindered. Has something finally intervened to change the 2024 calculus?>p> “Inertia” is an interesting word. It comes from the Latin iners, which means, first of all, “without skill,” “incompetent” (in, not + ars, art, skill). But it also means “sluggish,” “weak,” “inactive,” “motionless.” In common speech, “inertia” generally suggests something torpid, sleepy, without spunk or initiative. “Joe wanted to go to the race but was overcome by inertia and stayed home.” But there is another, more potent sense of “inertia” in common usage. It is implicit in the...

After Bud Light and Target, The North Face has become the latest American brand to face a boycott for promoting Pride. The company's Summer of Pride ad was released yesterday on its Instagram page and has already drawn ire from conservative consumers. The commercial features drag queen 'Pattie Gonia' telling consumers to 'come out... in nature with us!' and declaring themselves a 'real life homosexual!' 'Hi it's me Patti Gonia - a real life homosexual. Today I'm here with the North Face and we are here to invite you to come out... in nature with us!' Pattie - who lists...

We live in a bizarre time. Ukrainian and U.S. officials continue to issue public warnings/threats of a looming Ukrainian offensive intended to push Russia out of its recently acquired territories in the Donbass, Zaporozhye and Kherson. I cannot recall a single historical event when a military force was being steadily pushed back and decimated and the leaders and enablers of that army publicly announced what they were going to do.If you have not read the latest contribution from Simplicius do yourself a favor and click on this link. It is not behind a paywall and is another superb piece. With...

A Long Island man was arrested and charged with manslaughter in the fatal stabbing of a man whom he caught stealing the wheels off his car this week, cops said. Jacob Alvarenga Mejia, 28, was at his home on Jericho Turnpike in Bellerose Village around 1:30 a.m. May 13, when he spotted three men trying to steal the wheel rims and tires from his parked 2023 Toyota Highlander, Nassau County Police said. Mejia walked outside with a large kitchen knife and stabbed one of the men, Luis Pena, 22, of the Bronx, multiple times in the upper torso, authorities said....

JERUSALEM, ISRAEL – The Jews that founded the modern State of Israel were overwhelmingly secular. Most Jews who founded the country, in fact, were socialists, atheists and agnostics. They had abandoned faith in the God of the Hebrew Scriptures in Western Europe, or had lived in the communist bloc countries of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe and were prevented from believing in the God of Israel and having access to the Bible. Most religious Jews in Europe believed it was forbidden for sinful men and women to rebuild the State of Israel. They believed only the Messiah could do...

They went to eight open houses on a single Sunday in May, he said, and those summed up the state of the New Jersey housing market where, as Fortune previously reported, “everyone’s fighting over crumbs” in a market that “sucks” for buyers right now. For instance, Hughes said they pulled up to Church Rd. in Mount Laurel to see a four-bedroom, three-bath home and it was filled with parked cars and a line out the door, like someone was having a party.

Nerve cells that make up the gray matter in our brain allow us to perform different tasks. They are interconnected millions of times by nerve fibers running deeper in the brain, called axons. Many of these axons are wrapped by a cellular "insulating tape." The insulating cover is made of myelin, a lipid-rich substance that coats axons in up to 150 layers. Together, axons and myelin form what is known as white matter. When a signal is transmitted from one cell to the other by means of an electrical nerve impulse, it literally jumps from one node to the next....

Arizona voters are currently in a situation where Democrats are fighting against efforts to allow lawful votes from being counted in what has turned out to be the closest statewide race in Arizona history, the Attorney General race between Republican Abe Hamadeh and Democrat Kris Mayes. Sometimes when voters go to the polls, they are required to use a “provisional” ballot but are promised by law that their vote will still count. Shockingly, there are currently over 9,000 provisional ballots that were never counted in the Attorney General race. This race is separated by just 280 votes out of 2.5...

The shooting occurred on May 18 on a Charlotte Area Transit System (CATS) bus, after the passenger asked the driver to get off between stops near the Steele Creek Premium Outlet Mall, the transportation agency said. During an approximately two-minute exchange, the passenger, identified by authorities as 22-year-old Omarri Shariff Tobias -- can be heard saying, "I dare you. I dare you to touch me. I'm going to pop your a--," in the footage, released Friday by CATS. Tobias then walks away and can be seen pulling a firearm out of his jacket pocket, as two other passengers are visible...

...and what are we letting slip through our hands today? FREEDOM!!! What freedom? Freedom from unjust and illegal government coercion, EXACTLY what our Founders fought and died for and what our Constitution, the Supreme law of the Land protects.

At my age death of contemporary friends is not an surprising occurrence. But with some it is a shot deep to the Soul. Sharon was an incredibly beautiful woman. She looked 20-30 years younger than her mid 70s. A powerful Christian warrior who never mentioned the Christian ministries she provided to many. She was a talented artist. Various media but oils were throughout her gorgeous home. She and her husband Mike Marsalis had a fascinating life including living in Paris where they both went to culinary school and studied under Julia Child . I met them via politics: GOP/Free Republic/theRight...

Socialist Spain is leading the way in attempts to ban private messaging technology in the European Union, according to a leaked survey of member state opinions on encryption.A leaked document from the European Council, originally obtained by the tech magazine Wired, which surveyed EU member states on the proposed law that would force messaging companies, like WhatsApp and Signal, to break their encryption and scan the content of private messages to supposedly stop the spread of child pornography.The proposed legislation has been criticised by privacy rights campaigners as well as by tech experts, who say that it is not possible...

Several other Republican attorneys general joined Paxton in bashing the Biden administration, largely over previous policy decisions they disagreed with. ... Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton .. attacked the Biden administration in a federal court brief as part of a case involving the seizure of records from former President Donald Trump’s home in Florida. Paxton, a Trump ally who has joined the former president in falsely claiming the 2020 election was marred by widespread voter fraud, filed a friend of the court brief in the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. He argued the government under Joe Biden cannot be...

With just a few words and a slickly produced piece of military propaganda, the commander in chief of Ukraine’s armed forces ratcheted up speculation that a long-awaited counteroffensive by Kyiv against Russia’s occupying forces could be imminent. “The time has come to take back what is ours,” said the official, Gen. Valerii Zaluzhyni. The minute-long video features Ukrainian troops marching, training and apparently preparing for battle. Some are seen using German tanks and American artillery and rocket launchers – the type of armaments Kyiv would use in a potential operation to push Russian forces out of Ukrainian territory.