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PENTAGON VIDEO WARNS OF “UNAVOIDABLE” DYSTOPIAN FUTURE FOR WORLD’S BIGGEST CITIES The video, used by the Joint Special Operations University, states that megacities will be breeding grounds for "adversaries and hybrid threats," and that the U.S. Army is unprepared.

If anyone thought Donald Trump's legals woes would eat into his public support in red state America then no one thought to tell the people of Pickens, South Carolina. Its population of 3,300 was swollen by thousands more who crammed into its main street to see the former president hold his first rally since being being charged with mishandling classified documents. Supporters behind him waved 'witch hunt' signs as he described how he had been charged under the Espionage Act. 'Me? the espionage act?' he said, describing how it was a an 'act for crimes so heinous' that the death...

TSMC, the world's largest contract chipmaker, and its suppliers are planning to dispatch more than 500 workers with expertise in setting up cutting-edge chip facilities to the U.S. from Taiwan. In this exclusive report, Nikkei Asia's Cheng Ting-Fang and Lauly Li describe how construction of the company's semiconductor factory in Phoenix, Arizona, is falling behind schedule, owing to a combination of factors including labor shortages and a lack of expertise. "There are not enough U.S. workers who have good first-hand experience specifically on building semiconductor manufacturing facilities, and many are not familiar with the requirements for chipmaking plants," one executive...

...On June 4, 2012 Arutz 7 reported "U.S. senator John McCain on the weekend accused President Barack Obama's administration of leaking the report of Obama's approval of cyber-attacks against Iran in a bid for pre-election glory. ...“Again we see these leaks to the media about ongoing operations, which is incredibly disturbing. Doesn't this give some benefit to our adversaries?” " ...He was responding to a New York Times report from Friday which said that Obama ordered the Stuxnet virus attack on Iran... ...“We know the leaks have to come from the administration. And so we're at the point where perhaps...

The Oregon Department of Human Services has attracted criticism for stating the preferred pronouns, rather than sex, of three missing children. The brothers Brantley Hinson, 7, Logan Hinson, 4, and River Hinson, two, went missing on June 17 and authorities said they had reason to believe they were at risk, KTVL reported. The ODHS' Child Welfare Division appealed for public help to find the missing children who they speculated could be in Oregon, Idaho, or Alaska, and provided descriptions of the children. In the identifying descriptions the division included 'he/him' pronouns alongside other descriptions such as age and hair color,...

The Supreme Court has scarcely filled its docket for the 2023-24 term, but it is already shaping up to a major term for administrative law. Among the cases accepted for next term with potentially significant implications for administrative law are the following: Consumer Financial Protection Bureau v. Community Financial Services Association of America—Whether the court of appeals erred in holding that the statute providing funding to the CFPB violates the appropriations clause in Article I, Section 9 of the Constitution, and in vacating a regulation promulgated at a time when the Bureau was receiving such funding. (I wrote about the...

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French police have declared they are 'at war' with 'savage hordes of vermin' amid widespread rioting and looting that saw a bus stolen and a car smashed into a supermarket front. Two police unions threatened a revolt unless Emmanuel Macron's government restored order amid protests sparked by the killing of a French-Algerian teenager by police on Tuesday - also causing the French president to cancel his trip to Germany. 'Today the police are in combat because we are at war,' a report from the unions said. 'Tomorrow we will enter resistance and the government should be aware of this.' It...

@KimDotcom “I don’t think we’ll ever get to the 2024 election. Things will implode in Washington before that.” — Colonel Douglas Macgregor

Beer lovers from across the globe have taken part in the world wife-carrying championships in Finland to win their partner's weight in beer. Husbands were pictured purple in the face as they struggled to lug their wives around a sand obstacle course and deep water pool in the middle summer. Contestants headed to the small town of Sonkajärvi, Finland, armed with only a helmet and belt this weekend to win their wife's weight in beer. They have to be aged at least 17 and have to weigh at least 49kg, meaning the winning prize will secure their husbands at least...

Josh Timonen was one of Richard Dawkins’ closest companions from 2006-2010. He was even working for Richard Dawkins when Dawkins was publicly shaming Ray Comfort for videos that appeared as if Ray was saying that bananas prove the existence of God—which eventually culminated in Ray being known as The Banana Man. Yet by the grace of God, over a decade later, Josh ended up coming to Christ! Here’s his story.

Megyn Kelly is joined by Glenn Greenwald, host of Rumble’s System Update, to discuss the raunchy nudity at this year’s Pride parades, the LGBTQ activist community’s push related to children, and more.

A shooting in Baltimore, Maryland, early Sunday morning left dozens of people wounded and multiple fatalities. The incident happened during a gathering overnight in the Brooklyn Homes section of South Baltimore, according to Fox 45 Baltimore. Police officers and medical personnel responded to the scene in the 800 block of Gretna Avenue, Baltimore Police said. Witnesses told Fox 45 Baltimore they heard 20 to 30 shots fired.

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The first black socialist woman elected to Boston City Council crashed her car while driving through the city in an unregistered, uninsured car, while her license was revoked.Kendra Lara, 33, totaled the gray 2019 Honda Civic when it crashed through a metal fence, ran over bushes, and slammed into the left side of a home in the Jamaica Plains district. Her seven-year-old son Zaire was in the car, but was not in a booster seat.He was taken to Boston Children's Hospital where he received 'several stitches' and is expected to make a full recovery. According to the police report, obtained...

@COVIDSelect Explosive emails from Dr. David Morens — Senior Scientific Advisor @NIAIDNews & Dr. Fauci ally — reveal a potential violation of federal record keeping laws. Get your popcorn ready folks... Dr. Morens intentionally used his personal email to avoid FOIA and evade transparency to the American people: ▪️ "I try to always communicate on gmail because my NIH email is FOIA'd constantly." ▪️ "I will delete anything I don't want to see in the New York Times" Dr. Morens used his official capacity @NIAIDNews to disparage reporters and belittle his fellow scientists: ▪️ "Do not rule out suing these...

The music wow Kelly Willard with a song I first heard in the summer of 1981 in my car as the legendary WGCB Radio in Red Lion (The First Amendment, "Red Lion" Case Involving The Fairness Doctrine) experimented with Contemporary Christian Music... Donald Trump Had It Right As President He Unleashed America's Economic Potential I posted something on Free Republic the other day in a thread concerning the comments of Liz Cheney about "idiots" being elected to office nowadays... Senators like Lindsey Graham who have kissed up to powerful people as US Senators enriching themselves becoming Fellatio Alger's deserve this...

Some student loan borrowers encouraged others to default on their loans "en masse" following the decision by the U.S. Supreme Court to cancel President Joe Biden's student loan debt forgiveness plan, but one expert told Newsweek why that may not be a good idea. "Okay, thing I can actually talk about: Mass default on student loan debt would be a really effective message and f*** you to this country from the folks most impacted by our constant slide backwards. Just don't pay it. Hit the bricks. En masse," Twitter user Derek Van Dyke wrote. On Friday, the Supreme Court reached...

A California mother has claimed she was told to terminate her surrogate pregnancy at 24 weeks by the child's prospective fathers after she was diagnosed with breast cancer. Brittney Pearson, 37, from Sacramento told DailyMail.com that she was diagnosed with breast cancer in May at 22 weeks. She says that after a full body MRI revealed the extent of the disease, the gay couple who were paying her to carry their child used legal threats to pressure her into terminating the pregnancy. Initially, Pearson claims, doctors at Sutter Health Medical Centre in Sacramento, believed she would be able to have...

A “Rally for Life” took place in Dublin city center today to ask the Government to address what it describes as “spiraling” abortion rates and the need to retain the three-day wait before an abortion can take place. Around 3,000 people attended the Rally for Life event, which began at the Garden of Remembrance at 1 pm. It then traveled down O’Connell Street before speeches took place on the quays. […] “We now know that the abortion numbers jumped 22% last year,” Rally for Life spokesperson Megan Ní Scealláin said. “There were 8,156 abortions in 2022 — up from an...