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As details emerge about Madonna’s recent health scare, some sources are saying the Queen of Pop was far worse off than was originally acknowledged and that she had a “brush with death.” A spokesman for the 64-year-old star announced last week that she had been hospitalized in the intensive care unit of a New York City hospital after she was discovered “unresponsive” on June 24. However, an exclusive report by RadarOnline claimed Madonna had to be “brought back from the dead” with a Narcan injection when she was found. Narcan is a brand name for a generic drug known as...

Livin’ la vida Biden! The Biden Administration has got a line on you! Unfortunately that line is choking America’s middle class and low wages workers with inflation and rising interest rates. Auto loan rates are now up to 7.65%, a gut-wrenching 166% increase under Bidenomics. Average monthly payments also reached a new record of $733. That compares with $730 in the first quarter and $678 in the second quarter of 2022. Buyers were financed with an average APR of around 7.1%, the highest since the fourth quarter of 2007. 2 out of every 3 consumers who agreed to a $1,000+...

Stone tools found in the Philippines show microscopic evidence of some of Southeast Asia’s oldest plant technology, dating back 33,000 to 39,000 years ago.Unlike stone tools, prehistoric technology that uses plant fibres (like textiles and woven baskets) rarely survive very long in the archaeological record before breaking down. This is especially true in the tropics.In Southeast Asia, the oldest artefacts known to date made from plant fibres are about 8,000 years old...Stone tools found in Tabon Cave on the Philippine island of Palawan, are nearly 40,000 years old. Etched onto their hard surfaces are the microscopic marks of damage produced...

I’m not saying Hunter Biden snorted cocaine at the White House but if he did, I would expect it to look exactly like this.

Long before the invention of agriculture, humans already knew how to process cereals and other wild plants into a flour suitable for food—and now there's new evidence they did so long before scientists was previously thought.Published in Quaternary Science Reviews, an Italian-led study of five ancient grindstones from around 39,000 to 43,000 years ago shows that milling for food dates back to the transitional period between Neanderthals and Homo sapiens...The Neanderthal-to-Homo sapiens period was characterized by the coexistence of the Late Mousterian (Neanderthal), Uluzzian and Protoaurignacian (H. sapiens) techno-complexes in the northwest and southwest of present-day Italy.The grindstones come from...

World's richest man pledges allegiance to socialism, alongside other billionaires Elon Musk, cisgender slur demarcator and world’s richest man, runs a little car company called Tesla. Tesla sells cars in China, where the EV market has seen months of constant price cuts as part of an ongoing war for sales numbers. But now, thanks to a letter from China’s government, that price war may be over — all in the name of socialism. Or, thanks to Musk, it may not be going anywhere. Earlier this week, Tesla signed on to a letter from the Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information...

The Chinese government propaganda outlet Global Times mocked the ongoing mystery of the discovery of cocaine in the West Wing of the White House in a column Thursday, calling America generally “drug-infested” and condemning reports that law enforcement may not be able to identify the cocaine’s owner as “ridiculous.” The state outlet also used the scandal as an attempt to absolve the Chinese Communist Party of its substantial role in global fentanyl trafficking and the ongoing opioid crisis in America. For years, law enforcement officials have accused China of selling precursor substances to Mexican drug cartels later used to make...

There’s absolutely ZERO chance anyone other than a family member brought that cocaine inside the White House complex. No chance that would make it past the mag/security checkpoints. Family bypasses those.

Crusius pleaded guilty in February after federal prosecutors took the death penalty off the table. But Texas prosecutors have said they will try to put Crusius on death row when he stands trial in state court. That trial date has not yet been set. Joe Spencer, Crusius’ attorney, told the judge before the sentencing that his client has a “broken brain.” “Patrick’s thinking is at odds with reality … resulting in delusional thinking,” Spencer said.

CNBC’s Mad Money host Jim Cramer just can’t seem to ever catch a break in his favor. He made yet another premature prediction that ended up crashing and burning just hours later. Cramer predicted during the July 6 edition of his show that “red-hot” numbers by the Bureau of Labor Statistics were set to drop following ADP Research Institute’s recent report suggesting 497,000 private sector jobs were added to the economy in June. The BLS numbers were supposedly going to be “more impactful than ever,” chimed Cramer. “I think we’re going to see a smoking hot [BLS] jobs number and...

Full title: Woke confectioners Ben & Jerry's on a losing streak after anti-American July 4 post: Parent company loses $2B, Indian chief demands land under its HQ The woke ice cream company Ben & Jerry's scorned the United States on July 4, telling Americans their country "exists on stolen Indigenous land" and to return it. Patriots and prospective customers did not take too kindly to the confectioners' latest anti-American outburst, with some committing to giving the company the "Bud Light" treatment.

<p>President Joe Biden, the Biden grifting conglomerate, the Department of Justice, and the FBI—under its fourth consecutive weaponized director—are in danger of subverting the American system of law.</p><p>They are in various ways undermining the tradition of self-reported income tax computation and voluntary compliance.</p>

International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) experts present at Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) have in recent days and weeks inspected parts of the facility – including some sections of the perimeter of the large cooling pond – and have also conducted regular walkdowns across the site, so far without observing any visible indications of mines or explosives, Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi said today. The IAEA experts have requested additional access that is necessary to confirm the absence of mines or explosives at the site, Director General Grossi said. In particular, access to the rooftops of reactor units 3...

Finding new drugs – called "drug discovery" – is an expensive and time-consuming task. But a type of artificial intelligence called machine learning can massively accelerate the process and do the job for a fraction of the price. My colleagues and I recently used this technology to find three promising candidates for senolytic drugs – drugs that slow ageing and prevent age-related diseases. Senolytics work by killing senescent cells. These are cells that are "alive" (metabolically active), but which can no longer replicate, hence their nickname: zombie cells. The inability to replicate is not necessarily a bad thing. These cells...

A lawyer changes her mind. Janine Steck Huffman has a child with Down’s syndrome. But years before she gave birth to her son Nash, she was partly responsible for the legal starvation death of Baby Doe, another child born with the same condition. Baby Doe was born in Bloomington, Indiana, in April 1982. Besides Down syndrome, he had esophageal atresia, which prevented him from eating. Without a simple operation, he would starve to death. When Baby Doe’s mother saw him for the first time, she reportedly said, “You look beautiful. You look different from my other two, but I love...

We first learned about cocaine being found in the White House on Monday. Where was the cocaine found? Well, it depends. We’ve heard three different stories, and when a story changes that much that quickly, it reeks of a cover-up, and in this case it’s not a very good one. “The initial dispatch call stated that the white, powdery substance was found in the residence’s library on the ground floor of the building,” the New York Post explained. That’s within the White House living quarters — a heavily restricted area. “However, officials familiar with the incident told The Post the...

Pope Francis picks notorious pro-LGBT clerics to participate in October Synod on SynodalityThe papal appointments for the October Synod on Synodality assembly include Cardinals McElroy of San Diego, Cupich of Chicago, and Gregory of Washington, D.C. and Father James Martin.Pope Francis with leading members of the Secretariat of the Synod of BishopsVATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews) — The list of participants for the October meeting of the Synod on Synodality has been released, with Pope Francis’ personal choices including Cardinals McElroy, Cupich, and Gregory and Father James Martin.Issued July 7, the several-hundred strong list of participants for the upcoming 16th General Assembly...

Democrats pose as the champions of democracy—except when democracy doesn’t go their way. After 84% of parents in a Virginia county rejected co-ed sex education and gender ideology in schools, the taxpayer-funded school board dismissively announced that “the majority doesn’t always dictate.” Fairfax County has been a hotspot of crazy LGBTQ ideology and persecution of concerned parents for quite a while now. Woke or authoritarian nonsense from Fairfax schools includes making false statements about a dress-wearing boy who raped a girl in a school bathroom (before trying to get the victim’s father jailed), pushing pornographic books to kids, and suspending...

Pastor Michael Todd leads Transformation Church. He is known for his wild Easter service, preaching some good old-fashioned Modalism, giving the world perhaps the grossest illustration in church after he snorted and then hocked a loogie full of spit and snot into his hand and rubbed it in another man’s face, (twice) claiming his church had 75k salvations in the last 18 months even though none of them stuck around, had a service where ballet dancers with bare butts danced around the stage, preached in a shirt featuring his wife in in a bathing suit, and claimed that Jesus never...

The service is returning to its roots as an island-hopping tornado to face off against Russia and China. The U.S. Marine Corps is in the process of reinventing itself to deal with future threats . . . and future budgets. The service is concentrating on island and littoral missions, and going lighter and more mobile as a result. The plan, Force Design 2030, aims to make the Corps an indispensable tool in America’s toolbox. The U.S. Marine Corps is undergoing its biggest reorganization in decades, slimming down and chopping weapon systems, such as tanks and howitzers, in an effort to...