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By now you have heard of the Dutch farmers’ controversy.The government of The Netherlands is buying out thousands of farms to meet idiotic climate change goals–under the theory that growing food is an unacceptable pollutant–and forcing the most productive farmers in the world to quit feeding people.Understandably the farmers are upset and have been flexing their political muscle, but it all came to naught when talks between the government and the farmers collapsed. Plans to forcibly close the farms are moving forward. 3000 farms will go “poof” and somehow the climate will be saved.🇳🇱 Now that the totalitarian Dutch government...

DARRYL DYCKAs liberals across the country continue to push for the legalization or at least decriminalization of pretty much everything short of murder, you might find yourself wondering where all of this is heading. Predicting the future remains tricky, but we are probably seeing a hint of things to come in the Canadian province of British Columbia. Last year, the province decriminalized nearly all drugs, including some of the hardest and most dangerous, not wanting to simply incarcerate lots of people or infringe on their rights. (Bless their hearts.) So how is that working out? As Fox News reports this...

A black college graduate ripped the microphone out of a white administrator's hand after she cut her off during her commencement speech and footage of the incident has sparked strong reaction online. Kadia Iman was seen in a TikTok video wrestling a microphone out of white lecturer's hand while graduates stood in line to receive their diplomas at an unidentified school. 'I want the mic,' Iman can be heard yelling at the educator as she aggressively tugged the electronic from her. 'Let go. You didn't let me get my moment.' Each student was given the opportunity to say their name,...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – Multnomah County is blaming some of the largest oil companies in the world for the 2021 heat dome that killed dozens of people. On Thursday, it filed a lawsuit against the companies, saying it plans to hold them accountable for the damages. The lawsuit names Exxon Mobil, Shell, Chevron, BP, ConocoPhillips, Motiva, Occidental Petroleum, Anadarko Petroleum, Space Age Fuel, Valero Energy, Total Specialties USA, Marathon Petroleum, Peabody Energy, Koch Industries, American Petroleum Institute, Western States Petroleum Association, and McKinsey & Company.

The sixth installment of Tucker on Twitter dropped Thursday evening amidst a day full of blockbuster news. (The CliffsNotes version in case you’ve spent all day at the pool or ziplining through a remote jungle: Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and Lauren Boebert (R-CO) are in a tiff over who wore their impeachment articles better, the House Ways & Means Committee released bombshell testimony by two IRS whistleblowers which showed the Department of Justice interfered with the investigation into Hunter Biden, the FBI authenticated Hunter’s laptop back in 2019, and Hunter claimed Joe Biden was in the room with him while...

OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush, one of five passengers killed on a fatal mission to the Titanic wreckage this week, once admitted on camera to "breaking some rules" to build the tourist submersible. In comments to Mexican travel vlogger Alan Estrada in 2021, Rush evoked General MacArthur saying, "You’re remembered for the rules you break." "I’ve broken some rules to make this. I think I’ve broken them with logic and good engineering behind me," Rush said. He conceded that deep-sea submersibles "as a rule" should not be made with carbon fiber and titanium, but he did anyway.

The European Union calling on the government in Kosovo to suspend police operations in Serbian areas... Air defenses operating at least twice in western Russia's Kursk Region tonight... Ukrainian shelling attacks continue in the southwestern Russian region of Belgorod... The first day of hearings in Brazil's electoral court aimed at former President Jair Bolsonaro... The US Coast Guard now says that all five people on board the tourist mini-sub that went missing during a trip to the Titanic wreckage in the North Atlantic are dead... "The slandering of China's top leader by the United States seriously contradicts basic facts, violates...

Back in the 1920s, researchers discovered that cancer patients had sweet-smelling urine. First, the doctors were puzzled, but they soon realized that it was a result of elevated blood sugar levels. "In cancer patients, the cells do not respond well to the hormone insulin. It therefore takes more insulin to create the same effect in cancer patients. If you suffer from insulin resistance, your body has to produce more insulin than usual to be able to regulate the blood sugar," says Lykke Sylow. The body's ability to respond to insulin is impaired in both cancer patients and people with type...

...The following 23 players were called into the United States squad for the 2023 Women's World Cup in Australia and New Zealand... ...FWD Megan Rapinoe 37...

Federal regulators have sued Amazon, alleging the company for years "tricked" people into buying Prime memberships that were purposefully hard to cancel. The Federal Trade Commission, in a legal complaint filed on Wednesday, says Amazon illegally used "manipulative, coercive, or deceptive" designs to enroll shoppers into auto-renewing Prime subscriptions. Regulators also accuse Amazon of purposefully building a convoluted, multi-step cancellation process to discourage people from quitting. "Amazon tricked and trapped people into recurring subscriptions without their consent, not only frustrating users but also costing them significant money," FTC Chair Lina Khan said in a statement. The Prime membership costs $139...

The CUNY law school graduate student who gave a 'hate-filled' commencement speech has doubled down on her attacks on 'facist police' and military - and says given the chance she would say it all again even louder

A supposed 'clerical' error led to charges being withdrawn against pro-abortion Adora Nwofor for protesting near St. Thomas Aquinas School in Calgary.CALGARY, Alberta (LifeSiteNews) — Anti-Catholic hate-crime charges leveled against a pro-abortion activist leader of a Canadian Black Lives Matter (BLM) city chapter, who was said to have blocked access to a Catholic school, have been dropped by the Crown due to a supposed “clerical” error. Alberta Crown prosecutor Will Tran notified Judge Indra Maharaj that charges placed against Calgary BLM president Adora Nwofor, 47, will be withdrawn. As reported by LifeSiteNews last Tuesday, Nwofor received a hate crime mischief...

Low-level laser therapy and associated photobiomodulation is the most effective of the known treatments for tinnitus, according to a study comparing the main therapies in current use. Often described as ringing or hissing in the ears, it is considered a symptom rather than a disease, but is unpleasant and in some cases incapacitating. Its known causes can range from a buildup of earwax and insufficient peripheral irrigation in the inner ear to brain damage and bruxism. Panhóca and his team tested alternative and complementary treatments for idiopathic (with no apparent cause) and refractory tinnitus on more than 100 men and...

Boston, Mass., Jun 22, 2023 / 12:25 pm A Catholic parish in New York City that planned to have a “Pride Mass” on Thursday at a federal monument with sculptures of two same-sex couples and groups of gay and transgender pride flags has announced a change of location. The Church of St. Paul the Apostle said in a Wednesday email to parishioners that the National Parks Service informed it that the Stonewall National Monument, which commemorates a June 1969 LGBT uprising against a police raid, “will not be open to the public tomorrow due to concerns over the security of...

Below is my column in The Hill on Attorney General Merrick Garland at the midpoint of his tenure at the Justice Department. For an Attorney General who said that he wanted to restore the trust of the public in his department, Garland has manifestly failed to achieve his goal. It appears that the Justice Department and FBI are now trusted less than under his predecessor, Bill Barr. A new poll shows that 55 percent of the public view the Trump indictment as “politically motivated” and 56% believe that it constitutes election interference. A similar majority wanted Trump pardoned if convicted....

Hallelu: Jaffa Arabs defined on Google Maps that a park in Jaffa will be called the Hitler Memorial 14.06.23 'Hallelu' Z. organizations exposed Nazi activity by the Arabs of Jaffa. When you search Google Maps for the Midron Yaffo Park [in Jaffa], the answer you get in Arabic is the Hitler Monument. This shows active support from the residents of the area because the maps app requires permission from people in the area to confirm the existence of the place.

The British university student who was killed in the tragic Titanic submarine 'implosion' was 'terrified' about the trip and only joined the crew to please his dad for Father's Day, his heartbroken aunt has revealed. Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood and his son Suleman, 19, were two of the five victims killed instantly when the OceanGate submersible suffered a 'catastrophic implosion' just 1,600ft from the bow of the Titanic, according to the US Coast Guard. The other victims were OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush, French Navy veteran Paul-Henri (PH) Nargeolet and British billionaire Hamish Harding. They had been missing since the Titan...

Patriarch Bartholomew believes that actions against the Koran are an attack on the religious sphere as a whole.On June 18, 2023, during a sermon at a liturgy in the Tallinn Church of Sts Simeon and Anna, Patriarch Bartholomew spoke about the importance of an ecumenical dialogue, reports fosfanariou. He recalled that "for more than a century, the Ecumenical Patriarchate has advocated ecumenical relations with other Christian communities and confessions." According to Patriarch Bartholomew, the ecumenical dialogue “is not really limited to the inter-Christian sphere, but goes beyond it, to the inter-confessional level”, where Phanar became a pioneer in communication “with...

Left-wing “fact-checking” site Snopes tried to place some of the blame for the loss of the ill-fated Titan submersible on Elon Musk, but a little thing called “facts” got in the way of its partisan hackery. The site initially tried to tar Elon Musk’s Starlink Internet services with vague links to the company that launched the submersible that went missing Sunday in the Atlantic Ocean somewhere off the coast of Newfoundland. Authorities announced Thursday that they had found debris from the submersible and that the occupants are believed deceased. In its June 20 “fact-check” piece, entitled “Was the Missing Titanic...

Bishop Pain said that he decided to become a Catholic when reflecting on his future following his retirement A sixth former Anglican bishop has announced his decision to become a Catholic in just the last four years. Bishop Richard Pain, who retired as bishop of Monmouth in 2019, is the first Anglican bishop from Wales to join the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham. He will be received into the full communion at the church of St. Basil and St. Gwladys, Rogerstone Newport, Wales, on July 2, by Msgr. Keith Newton, the leader of the Ordinariate. Msgr. Newton said:...