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A nephew of Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov has been appointed the new head of Russia's Danone subsidiary (DANO.PA) after the Kremlin ordered the state to take temporary control of the French yoghurt maker's business in Russia. Since Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, many Western companies have fled Russia and some assets have been put under state management, with close allies of President Vladimir Putin gaining day-to-day control. Many investors say a new generation of tycoons is being created in Russia. Loyalty to the Kremlin is rewarded with effective control over assets that garner significant cash-flow and have major growth potential.

Just months after a Biden-appointed regulator teased a ban on gas stoves, the administration is working to enact a rule that would prohibit the manufacturing of nearly all portable gas generators on the U.S. market. A proposed Consumer Product Safety Commission rule limits the amount of carbon monoxide a product can emit, with the commission admitting that 95 percent of portable gas generators on the market cannot comply with its new standard. As a result, industry leaders say, the rule will prompt widespread generator shortages, as manufacturers only have six months to design generators that meet the proposed regulation. That...

Russia unleashed intense drone and missile attacks overnight Wednesday, damaging critical port infrastructure in southern Ukraine, including grain and oil terminals, and wounding at least 12 people, officials said. The bombardment crippled significant parts of grain export facilities in Odesa and nearby Chornomorsk and destroyed 60,000 tons of grain, according to Ukraine’s Agriculture Ministry. It came days after President Vladimir Putin pulled Russia out of its participation in the Black Sea Grain Initiative, a wartime deal that enabled Ukraine’s exports to reach many countries facing the threat of hunger. It also followed a vow by Putin to retaliate against Kyiv...

Another case of locally contracted malaria has been detected in Florida, bringing the national tally to eight. Health officials said the patient was diagnosed last week in Sarasota County, southwest Florida, where the other cases in the state were also detected. It brings Florida's tally to seven — with five detected last month and one in May — alongside a case in Texas revealed in June in a 21-year-old National Guardsman. They mark the first cases of domestically-transmitted malaria spotted in the US for more than two decades, in a sign the disease may be gaining a foothold here. .....

Australian bishop welcomed to new diocese with pagan ‘smudging’ ritualOn July 11, Bishop Kenneth Howell participated in the indigenous pagan ceremony before the Cathedral of St. Patrick in Toowoomba, Queensland.TOOWOOMBA, Australia (LifeSiteNews) — An Australian bishop was welcomed into his new diocese with a pagan “smoking” or “smudging” ceremony performed at the steps of his cathedral. It was intended to “purify” him and the sacred place of “negative energies.” On July 11, Bishop Kenneth Howell participated in the indigenous pagan ceremony before the Cathedral of St. Patrick in Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia. The ceremony was conducted by Janine Mayer of the...

The anonymous whistleblower, according to his prepared testimony, will say that Hunter Biden "should have been charged with a tax felony, and not only the tax misdemeanor charge," and that communications and text messages reviewed by investigators "may be a contradiction to what President Biden was saying about not being involved in Hunter’s oversea business dealings." That whistleblower is also expected to testify on several instances in which prosecutors "did not follow the ordinary process, slow-walked the investigation, and put in place unnecessary approvals and roadblocks from effectively and efficiently investigating the case," including prosecutors blocking questioning and interviewing of...

A former Iowa football player and offensive lineman for the Iowa Buckeyes college football team died suddenly and unexpectedly at just 23 years old. The New York Post reported Cody Ince died “unexpectedly at his home near Grantsburg, Wisconsin,” according to his obituary. The cause of death is not yet known. The Daily Mail reported that Ince was an NFL hopeful and had a “legitimate NFL career” before injuries forced him to quit. Ince was forced to quit playing with one year of eligibility remaining. Ince started ten games for Iowa between 2018 and 2021 and racked up a total...

Team DeSantis is looking like 'Team DeSaster'Laura Loomer exposed Ron DeSantis for not having enough donors to qualify for the first RNC debate in August. FEC records show DeSantis is raising a lot of money from a small pool of globalist elite donors. DeSantis’ fundraising stats are just another item proving that the Florida Governor has very little support from actual GOP voters.Loomer tweeted, “The RNC said in order to debate in their first debate on August 23, candidates running for President are required to have a minimum of 40,000 donors.”“However, I was looking at the FEC reports that just...

New York Times blowhard economics writer Paul Krugman apparently didn’t sense the stupidity in pontificating to readers about the supposed need to “politicize” the weather. Yes, you read that right. Krugman took a pit stop from his usual Keynesian blather on economics to go on another ridiculous climate change rant in a July 17 op-ed headlined, “Why We Should Politicize the Weather.” The self-aggrandizing economist kicked up a stink over Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis’ recent statement that he “‘always rejected the politicization of the weather.’” But in Krugman’s pseudo-intellectual worldview, “we absolutely should politicize the weather.” In fact, he...

Speaking in South Carolina today, presidential candidate Ron DeSantis blamed President Trump for the events of January 6, 2021, in Washington DC saying, “I think it was shown how he was in the White House and didn’t do anything while things were going on. Should he have come out more forcefully? Of course.” However, DeSantis affirmed he does not believe Trump’s transgressions amounted to criminal conduct. “But to try to criminalize that, that’s a different issue entirely,” the Florida governor noted.Governor DeSantis then tacked to his preferred position that politicians should not be criminally targeted and promised if he was...

VIDEOListen to Nancy Pelosi's laughable over-the-top hype for Joe Biden versus the very sad reality of what Biden is really like as you see him bragging (and lying) about himself.

We all know that politicians are essentially actors. On any given day, they can play the calm and collected leader, the stern and ruthless foreign policy expert, or the caring and empathetic family member. They’re none of these things, of course, but as long as they play the part convincingly enough and give the audience what they want, they’re allowed to get away with their own special brand of ineptitude. But there are certain politicians who take this form of pandering to a whole other level by acting like a racial stereotype straight out of South Park to try and...

VIDEO AT LINK.............. A video shared to Twitter on Wednesday showed the moment a climate protester seemingly got what was coming for him after blocking a busy road. At least eight so-called climate protesters from the Just Stop Oil group lined what appears to be a busy street somewhere in Britain (judging by the double-decker bus in the background), as seen in the video shared on Twitter. Instead of working diligently to reshape the industries they hate from the inside, these glorified children thought that blocking a busy road was a better way of reaching their goal of stopping the...

Although the first person killed in the American Revolution was a black man with Native American blood – Crispus Attucks – the reality is every man who signed the Declaration of Independence and was involved with the crafting of the Constitution was white. Simply put, there would be no United States without white men. After almost 250 years, however, the life of the average American is not directly impacted by what those white men did in Philadelphia. Indirectly, however, we experience the world building upon their foundations every day… and most of that world was the result of the inventions...

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Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang said China is directing the 'full power' of its industries toward AI ... Chinese government is spending three times as much as the U.S. government is to become the world’s undisputed AI leader. "The country that is able to most rapidly and effectively integrate new technology into warfighting wins. If we don’t win on AI, we risk ceding global influence, technology leadership and democracy to strategic adversaries like China," Alexandr Wang, CEO of Scale AI, told members of the House Armed Services Committee on Tuesday. "The Chinese Communist Party deeply understands the potential for AI...

Here is my latest release, titled "Falling Sky." I sang and played bass and drums on it. Mixing and mastering was done in my studio in Sicily. The very talented Monster Mike Fitzgerald from Rhode Island played guitar on it. The tune is about the issue of "elites" instilling fear throughout the Western world as a method of softening us up for the implementation of their self-enriching and demonic agendas. To hell with all that I say. . . Buckle up, and thanks for watching and listening.Falling Sky

Bidenomics strikes! Or as Klaus Schwab and the World Economic Forum sing “I’m going to make (the US) mine!” Despite the open borders where millions of low wage workers and parasites pour across into the US, we still see 1-unit housing starts plunged -7.4% YoY in June as The Fed continues tightening. Multifamily starts actually fell worse than 1 unit starts. 5+ unit starts were down -11.56% MoM. Multfamily permits were down -13.52%. And it just isn’t little girls that Biden is creepy about (like the family member we all keep our kids away from), Biden is creepy towards adult...

U.S. special climate envoy John Kerry concluded his flying three-day trip to Beijing on Wednesday with his reported admission no agreement with China, the world’s single largest producer of greenhouse gases, has been reached on further actions to slash carbon pollution. Politico reports Kerry disclosed “it’s going to take a little bit more work to break new ground” in negotiations between the world’s two biggest greenhouse gas polluters, with more talks about further talks ahead.

Caviezel, who previously played Jesus Christ in Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ, is also drawing attention to the film in other ways. For years, he's been a prominent promoter of the false, violent QAnon conspiracy theory — specifically, the baseless claim that an international cabal of elites is abusing and killing children to extract a substance called adrenochrome. These wild claims have become deeply enmeshed with narratives about child trafficking in recent years, from the QAnon predecessor Pizzagate conspiracy theory, which falsely alleged a pizza parlor in Washington, D.C., was home to a child sex ring, to false...