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The husband of a member of CNN's new interim leadership team is a Biden administration official who also served a key position in Hillary Clinton's State Department. Thomas Nides, the husband of CNN's executive vice president of editorial Virginia Moseley, was nominated by President Biden to be U.S. Ambassador to Israel in 2021, setting off concerns within CNN at the time of a possible conflict of interest. Moseley was named part of an interim leadership squad on Wednesday who hopes to bring stability to CNN after the firing of CEO Chris Licht, who lasted barely a year on the job....

Wallowa County became the 12th Oregon county to join the "Greater Idaho" movement when special election results on the measure were finalized Tuesday. The vote originally took place in May, with preliminary results showing support for the effort leading by only 21 votes. After all votes were finalized in June, the lead shrunk to only seven votes, narrowly avoiding the state requirement for a recount. The "Greater Idaho" effort originally began in 2020 as an idea for large swaths of rural eastern Oregon to secede and join the more conservative Idaho to get away from the western, progressive part of...

Virtually alone among major auto manufacturers, Toyota has been a skeptic about the conversion of vehicle fleets to battery-powered electric vehicles. For people incapable of thinking 2 or 3 steps ahead, EVs are “zero emission” and therefore “save the planet” from CO2 (presumed to control the earth’s temperature despite no statistical correlation). But this leaves out the environmental and CO2 cost of generating and transmitting electricity (mostly by burning coal in the US and many other countries), manufacturing (and recycling) the enormous batteries, and the energy and wear and tear cost of the much-heavier cars that result. Energy losses due...

STALINISTM in Biden's America: Persecution of Kulaks (white middle class small businesses), brainwashing in schools, Political repressions through widespread intimidation, arrests, and imprisonment By Ezequiel Doiny VictimsofCommunism.org reported "...Communist regimes put Marx’s principles into practice, starting with the first Marxist state. Between 1917 and 1921, the Soviet Union destroyed nearly 600 Russian Orthodox monasteries and convents. The leaders of the first communist country oversaw the killing of at least 300 Orthodox clergy. This bloodbath eventually became Soviet policy. The Eighth Party Congress decreed in 1920 that “the Party aims at the complete destruction of links between the exploiting classes and...

Beijing will pay Havana several billion dollars for eavesdropping facilityChina and Cuba have reached a secret agreement for China to establish an electronic eavesdropping facility on the island, in a brash new geopolitical challenge by Beijing to the U.S., according to U.S. officials familiar with highly classified intelligence. An eavesdropping facility in Cuba, roughly 100 miles from Florida, would allow Chinese intelligence services to scoop up electronic communications throughout the southeastern U.S., where many military bases are located, and monitor U.S. ship traffic. [Snip] “While I cannot speak to this specific report, we are well aware of—and have spoken many...

This is the FULL Summary / SITREP of Day 469's development in the Ukraine-Russia war as we start off the day in the afternoon (ukraine time) of Day 470 of Russian's "Special Military Operation" against Ukraine.

President Joe Biden is nominating former Congressman and Florida’s 44th Governor, Charlie Crist, as the next U.S. Ambassador to the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), a United Nations agency. If confirmed by the Senate, Crist would serve as America’s representative on the ICAO Council, a 36-member body composed of electees from the ICAO’s 193 member states. He’d replace famed pilot Chelsey “Sully” Sullenberger, whose “miracle” landing on the Hudson River in 2009 was dramatized in a feature film seven years later. Sullenberger has served as ICAO ambassador since December 2021. [Snip] In November 2021, the U.S. set a goal of...

Warfare requires deception. The federal government habitually lies to the American people. Consider that an admission that it sees itself at war with those it claims to serve. You might have noticed that the word "propaganda" has been somewhat retired from polite conversation. Occasionally, some State-allied news corporation will apply the term to a public statement coming from inside Russia, but otherwise, the idea that governments promote falsehoods cloaked as official truths has quietly disappeared. Instead, ordinary information enjoyed and shared among regular people is now targeted for classification. An alliance of national governments, international institutions, and propaganda engines disguised...

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BFM TV reported that the attack had happened in a park and that the assailant had been a Syrian asylum seeker. A Syrian national wounded four children and an adult in a knife attack in a French park on Thursday, police said, leaving some of the victims critically ill in hospital. The attack, which happened in the French alpine town of Annecy, was carried out by a Syrian national with legal refugee status in France, a police official told Reuters. ... Two children and one adult are in life-threatening condition, while two children were slightly hurt, police said. Witnesses said...

"Japan has expressed 'serious concerns' after Chinese and Russian long-range strategic bombers conducted joint patrols over the Sea of Japan as far as the East China Sea and western Pacific Ocean. Both South Korea and Japan scrambled fighter jets on Tuesday when the Chinese and Russian joint patrols got underway as part of their militaries' annual cooperation plan. Four Russian and four Chinese military aircraft entered South Korea's air defence zone in the south and east of the Korean peninsula. Japan's military said it had verified two Russian bombers had joined two Chinese bombers over the Sea of Japan and...

While blame around the dam rages, the war goes on. Details here.

More than half of Republican voters support issuing pardons to those convicted of offenses during the January 6 riot at the US Capitol, a DailyMail.com/TIPP poll shows. Fully 54 percent of GOP voters support nixing the convictions of those who breached the Capitol in early 2021 - a policy that's been floated by Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis as they joust for the party's presidential nomination. Across all respondents, however, only 34 percent supported pardons for those who rioted that day, while 57 percent oppose the idea, according to our survey of nearly 1,400 adults. As many as 2,000 people...

Wildfires raging across six of Canada's 13 provinces and territories have caused havoc nationwide for the last six weeks - forcing mass evacuations and burning through more than 3.3 million hectares of land, larger than the state of Maryland. With the smoke now billowing down to the East Coast of the United States, affecting 75 million Americans, the dire threat to Canada's forests has come into sharp focus. Some blame lax forest management, arguing that not enough controlled burns are being carried out thanks to campaigns by environmentalists. In 2020, four scientists wrote a paper published in Progress in Disaster...

Before the Woke Wars began in earnest, I once naïvely thought that men’s professional sports would remain a small redoubt from the insipid idiocy of “political correctness.” Stadiums where rowdy fans cheer on strong men engaging in physical acts of confrontation — and sometimes bloody violence — seemed like sturdy cultural ramparts capable of keeping leftist indoctrination at bay. Alas, owner-imposed ideology across leagues and organized intimidation campaigns against individual players have combined with enough force to crash through the gates.Now grown men who have spent their lives training for battle meekly embrace ever-changing Marxist planks before millions of spectators,...

GB Caird was Dean Ireland’s Professor of Exegesis of Holy Scripture at Oxford. In his book, “Principalities and Powers,” he expands upon the extent of the Powers hold over the hearts and actions of men:“There can be little doubt that ‘principalities and powers’ included powers of state…the Jewish religion, and…the whole natural order, under..demonic reign…”. Domination includes “the pagan world order…”. p. 16In our own time it is clear that evil Powers dominate the minds of Western and American Globalists and godless government leaders on the national level through the modern pagan world order that controls their hearts and actions.

Mark 12:18-27 Friends, in today’s Gospel, Jesus confronts the Sadducees, who did not believe in resurrection from the dead. They proposed a conundrum that they thought would disprove resurrection: If a woman married seven brothers, all of whom died, whose wife would she be in the resurrection?Notice how Jesus deals with this little conundrum: he brushes it aside. Jesus says to them, “When they rise from the dead, they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but they are like the angels in heaven.”What’s he saying here as he brushes aside this little bit of casuistry? What is heaven? Is...

SYDNEY: Australia said on Thursday (Jun 8) it would introduce laws to parliament next week banning public displays and sales of Nazi hate symbols, citing a rise in far-right activities at home. The swastika, one of the most recognisable symbols of Nazi propaganda, and the insignia of Schutzstaffel (SS), the paramilitary wing of the Nazi party, will be outlawed to be used as flags and armbands or printed on clothes. "We've seen, very sadly, a rise in people displaying these vile symbols, which are symbols that have no place in Australia, they should be repugnant," Federal Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus told...

@AsaHutchinson The @GOP should clarify that there is no pledge to support a nominee if they are found guilty of espionage or a serious felony. Donald Trump is the target of an ongoing criminal investigation and he should step aside & put the good of the country above his candidacy

Seaweed has long been collected around the Irish coast and utilized for fertilizer and sometimes food. Now, however, seaweed is no longer just collected; it is being grown and harvested by a new breed of farmer — seaweed farmers. Perched on the hillside above the Atlantic Ocean in Allihies on the Beara Peninsula in County Cork, Michael O’Neill’s premise looks just like a collection of farming sheds. Inside it is very different to any farm, because Mr. O’Neill is a seaweed farmer and the premises are a hatchery where he grows and propagates the marine plants. […] His company, Pure...