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"These undercover journalists in England (well, YouTube citizen journalists) decided it was time for normal people to take their sweet, sweet revenge."

RUSH researchers recently discovered that a muscle-building supplement called beta-hydroxy beta-methylbutyrate, also called HMB, may help protect memory, reduce plaques and ultimately help prevent the progression of Alzheimer's disease. HMB is not a prescription drug or a steroid, but an over-the-counter supplement that is available in sports and fitness stores. Bodybuilders regularly use HMB to increase exercise-induced gains in muscle size and strength while improving exercise performance. HMB is considered safe even after long-term use, with no known side effects. "This may be one of the safest and the easiest approaches to halt disease progression and protect memory in Alzheimer's...

Elon Musk unveiled perhaps his most vigorous shakeup of Twitter so far on Monday: rebranding the social media platform and the famous blue bird with X. After buying the platform for $44 billion last year, Musk announced a number of changes, including limiting the number of tweets users can see and installing a subscription system for blue ticks that saw the verification taken away from notable profiles. The changes have alienated some users and turned off advertisers, leaving the microblogging site vulnerable to new threats, including rival Meta's new text-based app Threads that directly targets Twitter users. Despite this, Musk...

On Friday, we analyzed a just-released FBI 'FD-1023' document, in which a trusted FBI informant asserted that executives from Burisma -- the Ukrainian energy company that famously employed then-Vice President Joe Biden's son, despite his dearth of relevant expertise, while the elder Biden was running point on Ukraine policy in the Obama administration -- had described a multimillion-dollar bribery scheme that enriched both of the aforementioned Bidens. The Bureau's confidential human source (CHS) told investigators that the Burisma leaders held a dim view of Hunter Biden's personal value and intellect, but kept the generous payments flowing to him because Hunter...

The federal government this month is set to launch FedNow, a “safe and efficient” instant payments service which will allow the Federal Reserve to facilitate payments between bank customers and receive their transaction data.With FedNow, the Federal Reserve will act as a middleman in transactions between banks and credit unions. Currently, transactions pass through a financial institution called a clearing house, which facilitates the payments. But at the end of this month, the clearing house will instead be the Federal Reserve for many banks. For example, if John Doe wishes to pay a bill, he would initiate the transaction as...

FBI agents told the Delaware U.S. attorney’s office they had already corroborated multiple details in the FD-1023, a source told The Federalist.When the Pittsburgh FBI office briefed the Delaware U.S. attorney’s office on evidence implicating Hunter and Joe Biden in a bribery scheme, the agents also told the Delaware team they had already corroborated several aspects of the confidential human source’s claims, an individual familiar with the briefing told The Federalist. On Thursday, Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, released the FD-1023 summary of a confidential human source’s reporting that the Ukrainian oil and gas company Burisma paid Hunter and Joe Biden...

It’s hilarious to see woke Millennials praising Barbie as a feminist icon. For the entirety of my Gen X lifespan, feminists have hated Barbie with the burning intensity of a thousand suns. Her figure was unrealistic! Mattel’s attempts to make her a career woman were patronizing! She was too blond and pretty! But now, all of sudden, Barbie is a feminist icon. The new “Barbie” movie is a stylized fantasy in which the patriarchy is alive and well, and Barbie must smash it by ditching her childish dream world and embracing the feminist ideal lifestyle: spinsterhood. We’ve reached the point...

David Friedman, the former US ambassador to Israel, commented on Sunday on the push to pass legislation to repeal the use of the reasonableness standard tweeting: "Given the striking parallels between Israel’s current internal rift and the infighting that caused the destruction of the Second Temple 2000 years ago, why would the Israeli government proceed with its Judicial Reform bill on the eve of Tisha B’Av? Very bad timing." Friedman, who is Jewish, was appointed to serve as the UN ambassador to Israel by former US President Donald Trump - and served in the position between May 2017 and January...

Israel’s parliament, or Knesset, passed the first of several judicial reforms proposed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government on Monday, defying protests and pressure from the White House. The new law prevents courts from using their own idea of “reasonableness” in blocking government policies. Critics had long argued that the “reasonableness” doctrine allowed the left-leaning judiciary to abuse its power, and that it tended to do so more often against Israel’s conservative governments. Netanyahu came out of hospital on Monday morning, where he had been fitted with a pacemaker over the weekend, to attend the vote. Hundreds of thousands of...

SOUND OF FREEDOM carrying on well. Now let's see which movies have more staying power.

Several days ago, RFK Jr. was alleged to have made statements with a distinctly antisemitic feel when he opined about the way in which COVID was engineered to attack different races. It turns out that he wasn’t being racist, which is good. However, facts, including accidentally revealed information from China about its death rates over the past three-and-a-half-years, show just how foolish his theory was. The New York Post published an article claiming that RFK Jr. said that COVID was ethnically targeted to spare Jews and Asians. It did so by selectively quoting what RFK Jr. actually said. In fact,...

Singer Miranda Lambert was seemingly unfazed following backlash she received for reprimanding fans for taking selfies during her performance. In a video clip posted to TikTok, Lambert, 39, noticed someone in the audience during a concert at her Velvet Rodeo residency in Las Vegas, wearing a T-shirt that read “Shoot Tequila, Not Selfies.” Lambert loved the reference, telling the fan, “That’s bada**.” She then proceeded to take a shot out of a small bottle of tequila with one of her bandmates. This was the first time she spoke out about the incident that occurred at her concert on July 15,...

Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s (R) approval rating reached a record high amid speculation about his political ambitions, according to a new poll released on Monday. Fifty-seven percent of Virginia voters said they approved of Youngkin’s job performance, according to a Morning Consult survey. The poll also showed Youngkin’s disapproval rating at 32 percent. The latest polling shows a steady improvement for the Virginia governor, who had a 56 percent approval rating and a 32 percent disapproval rating in April. In December, Youngkin held a 55 percent approval rating and a 32 percent disapproval rating, while in April of last year...

While Elon Musk busies himself rebranding Twitter to X, Mark Zuckerberg is getting to work on the jiu-jitsu mat ahead of a potential mega-fight against his billionaire social media rival. The Meta boss, 39, posted images to his own Instagram platform over the weekend showing off his new jiu-jitsu blue belt, as he was presented with a certificate by his colleagues. Zuck is in great shape and regularly shares workout images from his mixed martial arts training, leading to many jabbing Musk that he will have no chance if and when the pair finally meet to do battle. Writing on...

Covid injections affect our ability to think, promote cancer, possibly cause seizures and brain bleeds in young people and are the cause of many cases of “died suddenly.” Vaccinated animals in zoos are also dying suddenly. Last week a tranche of documents relating to Moderna covid injection trials was released which, similar to Pfizer’s trial documents, raise several questions about the safety and liability of Moderna’s “vaccine.” Yet, without investigating any of these harms and offences, the push for vaccines for anthrax and RSV begins. If we are to understand the genesis of the bioweapon kill-off done in the name...

[Catholic Caucus] Was Pope Benedict the Katechon for the Antichrist?Above: Benedict XVI’s personal secretary Archbishop Georg Gänswein kisses the former pope’s closed coffin during a private ceremony in St. Peter’s Basilica on Jan. 4, 2023. Vatican Media. Last week a number of interesting commentaries appeared from unexpected quarters. Two in particular noted the speed with which His Holiness seems to be practically skipping down the merry ole #SchismaticWay with the most recent appointments, especially Tucho “Heal me with your Mouth” Fernández and Slim Jim “Bridge to Hell” Martin.The KatechonThese two commentaries both made mention of the infamous Greek term katechon,...

Democrat candidate for president Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. went farther on Sunday than he has previously in criticizing President Joe Biden for the latter's (alleged) corruption. During live in-studio interview with FOX News host Maria Bartiromo on Sunday Morning Futures at 10:30 A.M. E.T. (video and article here), Kennedy, when first asked about how he feels about Biden, said as he has on other occasions that "I have avoided criticizing the president because I'm trying to bring people together."After Bartiromo said, "But corruption is corruption," Kennedy commented without hesitation, "But you're right. And I think that the issues that are...

We aren't pulling your leg: This is a real headline. VIDEO AT LINK.......... Here's what the story says: The Florida man who allegedly murdered his pregnant boyfriend and stole the life of the victim's unborn child has a lengthy history of terrorizing the people in his life, as indicated in court documents. Riley John Groover, 26, shot and killed himself after carrying out the homicide, the Polk County Sheriff's Office in Florida said. You're probably a bit confused right now if you still have a toddler's grasp on reality. A "pregnant boyfriend"? Here, let some actual journalists clear it up:...

Conservative public interest advocacy group Defending the Republic (DTR) has obtained almost 15,000 pages of Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine clinical trial data, claiming the data show an “utter lack of thoroughness” of the trials and calls the vaccine’s safety into “serious doubt.” As a result of successful Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) litigation against the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the group recently announced it had obtained—and is releasing—nearly 15,000 pages of documents relating to testing and adverse events associated with “Spikevax,” Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine. Since 2022, the group has been involved in litigation against the FDA relating to the...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) claimed Sunday that there have been over 400 “mass shootings” in the United States thus far in 2023. His claim was based on Gun Violence Archive’s misleading “mass shooting” data, as reported by ABC News. (Breitbart News pointed out that Forbes used the same misleading data, claiming over 400 “mass shootings” in the United States at this point in 2023 as well.) Newsom tweeted: This weekend marked the 400th mass shooting in the US this year. Absolutely insane. Everyone deserves the Right to Safety. Time for a Constitutional amendment to end these tragedies. https://t.co/9MQlm24XBZ —...