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The FBI knew about Joe Biden’s Ukraine business dealings before the “Laptop from Hell” reporting, according to an FBI informant document released by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA). The FD-1023 form is dated June 20, 2020, but the source reporting was from June 26, 2020. The form alleges that Joe Biden and Hunter Biden both received $5 million from the founder of Burisma Holdings, Mykola Zlochev after Joe Biden threatened to withhold aid to Ukraine until President Petro Poroshenko fired a prosecutor investigating Burisma. As Brietbart reported: The FBI’s informant document said that Hunter and Joe Biden allegedly “coerced” the Burisma...

AUSTIN, Texas — The Biden administration is planning to sue Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) in the coming days over the state's placement of a 1,000-foot-long barrier of floating buoys in the river at the U.S.-Mexico border, according to multiple reports Friday morning. The Justice Department sent the three-term Republican governor a letter on Thursday alerting the state of its forthcoming lawsuit over its floating wall in Eagle Pass, Texas, according to CNN, which obtained a copy of the letter. Courtesy image: Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) “The State of Texas’s actions violate federal law, raise humanitarian concerns, present serious risks to...

Even though the S&P 500 Index has jumped double digits, Disney’s stock is almost at its 5-Year Low. Market opening on Friday, July 21st, saw Disney’s stock at 86.54, nearing its 5-year low of 84.07.This stock price decline is believed to have erased around $16 billion from the company’s market value. Now, there’s speculation that Iger is thinking about selling the company to Apple or at least selling the noncore pieces of the business.

A majority of Americans believe neither President Biden nor former President Donald Trump are “fit to serve another term” in the Oval Office — and almost half might back a third-party candidate next year if the two are their party’s nominees, according to two recent polls. A Yahoo News/YouGov survey found 55% of US adults believe Biden is unfit for the presidency, and 53% say the same of Trump. When asked their reasoning, 20% of Americans say Biden, 80, is “incompetent,” 12% say he is “too old,” 10% say he is “corrupt,” 9% say he is “doing a bad job,”...

No, this isn’t a John Kerry/Greta Thunberg hysterical warning about climate change. But a storm created by 1) Biden/Congress spending splurge and 2) excessive monetary stimulypto by The Federal (Feral) Reserve. Now that The Fed is withdrawing the excess stimulus, we are seeing a world of pain for commercial real estate. A financial climate change! Days after Barry Sternlicht’s Starwood Capital Group defaulted on a $212.4 million mortgage backed by an Atlanta office tower, Bloomberg released an eye-opening interview with the billionaire investor about mounting distress in US commercial real estate. “We’re in a Category 5 hurricane,” Sternlicht said in...

The prosecution has requested a sentence for Alexei Navalny in his latest criminal case: 20 years in the Russian version of the supermax prison, usually reserved for murderers with life sentences. The politician is accused under six articles of the Russian Criminal Code: establishing “an extremist community” (the Anti-Corruption Foundation) that was “infringing citizens’ rights” (calling for 2021 rallies), “inciting” and “financing” extremism (the ACF), “involving minors in dangerous acts”(rallies), and even “rehabilitating Nazism” (anti-Putin statements by his chief of staff). The court sessions are being held in the penal colony, with journalists not allowed to attend. Here’s Navalny’s final...

After seeing anti-human trafficking film Sound of Freedom earlier this week, President Trump has vowed to institute the death penalty for human traffickers if he earns a second term in the White House. Trump held the screening in Bedminster, New Jersey, and spoke with filmmaker Eduardo Verástegui and starring actor Jim Caviezel, who plays federal agent Tim Ballard who made it his mission to investigate human trafficking and rescue children. Verástegui was appointed as member of President Trump’s Advisory Commission on Hispanic Prosperity. He emphasized the importance of coming together as a society to address this pernicious evil and eradicate...

Insiders have revealed to Blaze Media that Fox will subsidize some of the very activist groups that despise and seek the ruin of the network's viewers, evidencing a "complete disregard and hatred" for its core audience. "Fox Giving" is an app in the company portal that facilitates charitable donations via the Canadian-based donation management platform Benevity. Fox will apparently match donations up to $1,000 to various organizations that satisfy the company's criteria. While on its face, this appears to be little more than an attempt at corporate beneficence, the company is willing to match donations to the Satanic Temple, the...

Whether it is pure coincidence or an act of arson, two possible explanations, Senator Rand Paul’s office was burned in a fire that broke out in Bowling Green, Kentucky on early Friday morning. The fire follows one day after the Kentucky senator referred Dr. Anthony Fauci, former Director of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases, for prosecution to the Department of Justice. As the sun rose in Bowling Green, its rays trickled though grey smoke billowing from the rooftop of the building that contains Paul’s office, Kerrick Bachert’s law office, and Dezign Tees. The emergency services got to...

RINCON, Ga. — A Georgia Lowe’s store employee has been fired after trying to stop thieves from stealing thousands of dollars worth of stuff. Police said three people came into the store in Rincon and loaded up their shopping cart with about $2,100 worth of merchandise. As they were trying to leave the store without paying, employee Donna Hansbrough, 68, grabbed the cart, trying to stop them, police said. [snip] As for Hansbrough, she was fired from Lowe’s for violating the store’s policy, police said. She had been employed at the store for 13 years.

An ancient Maya relief sculpture that was identified in a German antique shop has been returned to Mexico via the Mexican consulate in Frankfurt on Tuesday. It’s believed that the artifact was looted from Mexico. The relief carving depicts a profile of a skull. Experts believe the block relief would have been part of a wall, where similarly stacked carvings were intended to recall a Tzompantli (skull rack). Mesoamerican palisades were part of a ritual display of skulls belonging to sacrificial victims and prisoners of war. The artifact is thought to have been created during the Late Classic or Postclassical...

...It’s a complicated question, one that touches on the film’s unorthodox funding methods, its faith-based marketing, and its blend of traditional filmmaking with messaging that relentlessly tells its fans that the mere act of paying to see it is a virtuous and valorous act.... . . Variety’s Owen Gleiberman described it as a “solid thriller,” emphasizing that the film’s base appeal works even without the huge amounts of baggage that have been attached to it by its supporters and star... . . AMC was fielding a variety of rumors, including accusations of canceling showings, sabotaging sound systems, and even screwing...

Screenshot in case the ATF deletes it: Do you see it? Anyone who says, "Well, it could be unloaded" isn't worth the argument. You ALWAYS treat a gun as if it is loaded and you NEVER point it at anything you don't wish to destroy. Everyone standing behind the barrel of those guns is in danger. THESE ARE THE PEOPLE WHO WANT TO TAKE AWAY YOUR BLASTERS! You'll note that the ATF gets to have all the illegal toys, including machine guns: And "switches" that allow semi-autos to fire full-auto: Don't forget the "ghost gun" with the 3D printed lower!...

A British man who killed his seriously ill wife at their home in Cyprus has been cleared of her murder. David Hunter, 76, was instead convicted of manslaughter after suffocating 74-year-old Janice Hunter at the property near Paphos in December 2021. The retired miner from Ashington, Northumberland, maintained her death was assisted suicide and his wife, who had blood cancer, had begged him to end her misery. He will be sentenced on 27 July. Hunter's lawyer argued the death was assisted suicide because Mrs Hunter was suffering and she asked him to do it. His trial heard he had attempted...

A plant-based diet yields one-fourth as much heat-trapping gas as a diet rich in meat, according to an exhaustive new analysis. For the study, researchers analyzed the eating habits of more than 55,000 Britons, drawing on data from more than 38,000 farms in 119 countries to gauge the environmental impact of their diets. The analysis found that plant-based diets produce 75 percent less heat-trapping gas, generate 75 percent less water pollution, and use 75 percent less land than meat-rich diets — those that include at least 100 grams of meat daily, the equivalent of one steak around the size of...

Smoking ceremonies are not ‘inculturation’Smoking ceremonies are not ‘inculturation’ … and it is irresponsible to suggest otherwise. A July 13 article from Pillar Catholic, which was presented as an ‘explainer’ of indigenous smoking ceremonies, completely missed the mark by failing to look behind the sympathetic facade to see the real harms being perpetrated by the use of pagan rituals. Particularly disappointing was the manner in which commentary from the emeritus Archbishop of Philadelphia, Archbishop Chaput, was used to sanction anti-Catholic ‘inculturation’. The Pillar article looked at the recent installation of Bishop Ken Howell at his new diocese of Toowoomba, in...

WASHINGTON — In a summer of extreme weather events, NASA is emphasizing its role in studying the climate, efforts that face both fiscal headwinds and partisan divides. In a July 20 media briefing, NASA leadership highlighted the agency’s work in studying the climate and addressing climate change, efforts that range from Earth science missions to aeronautics research into sustainable aviation. “You think of NASA as a space agency. You think of NASA as an aeronautical research agency. NASA is also a climate agency,” NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said at the briefing. Officials discussed the various activities at the agency related...

Revelations About Biden’s $10 Million Ukraine Bribery Scheme Warrant ImpeachmentAt no time since the 1868 impeachment of President Andrew Johnson has an impeachment been more warranted than it is now.On Thursday, we finally got to see the document the FBI had been withholding from Congress about an alleged $10 million Ukraine bribery scheme involving Hunter Biden and then-Vice President Joe Biden, whom Burisma paid to get rid of a Ukrainian prosecutor investigating the energy firm. The document is damning. If there wasn’t enough evidence for the GOP-controlled House to open impeachment proceedings against Biden before, there certainly is now. Recall...

Former Gov. Larry Hogan (R-MD) said Friday on “CNN This Morning” that 50% of Republican primary voters did not want former President Donald Trump to win the GOP nomination. Anchor Abby Phillip said, “I want to ask you about Ron DeSantis, who is running second in the Republican primary for that nomination. You had said recently that DeSantis’ campaign was dropping like a rock and close to over. There has been a lot of talk about a potential reset there. Where do you think he stands now? Do you think he can turn things around?” Hogan said, “He, obviously, got...

Convicted killer Jemaine Cannon, 51, received a lethal injection at 10:01 a.m. Thursday and was pronounced dead 12 minutes later at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester. It was the second execution in Oklahoma this year and the ninth since the state resumed lethal injections in 2021. Cannon was convicted of killing 20-year-old Sharonda Clark, a mother of two with whom Cannon had been living at an apartment in Tulsa after his escape weeks earlier from a prison work center in southwest Oklahoma. Cannon had been serving a 15-year sentence for the violent assault of another woman who suffered permanent...