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You can call it a “road diet,” or “15 days to stop the spread,” or a “fifteen minute city,” or a “smart city,” a “central bank digital currency,” or just an EV that comes with a virtual leash attached in the form of limited range and limited recharging options. Or you can be more explicit and just call any one of these examples an assault on your mobility, i.e., a lockdown. Whatever you want to call them, they’ve arrived, and it’s just begun. Americans, along with their European brethren, are being turned into livestock, living in high-tech pens, where literally...

A Portland man who had previously had a prison sentence commuted by former president Barack Obama is going back to prison. The man received an extra 25-year prison sentence this week for various drug and gun crimes. Dontae Lamont Hunt, 42, received a 300-month federal prison sentence and five years of supervised release for “dealing counterfeit oxycodone pills containing fentanyl analog, money laundering, and unlawfully possessing firearms, all while on supervised release from his last federal conviction,” according to a press release from the United States Attorney for the District of Oregon. Hunt must also pay $60,000 to satisfy a...

Polish President Andrzej Duda reportedly cancelled a planned meeting with Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky at the United Nations in New York as relations between the two neighbouring countries have grown increasingly tense over the issue of grain. A meeting between the two presidents was scheduled to take place during the 78th session of the UN General Assembly in New York City, yet, President Duda called off the meeting, claiming that there was a scheduling conflict and that they may meet at another time, Rzeczpospolita reported.

The California legislature just passed a new bill to require all major fast-food chains throughout the state to pay their employees at least $20 per hour – and McDonald's, the world's largest fast-food chain with 40,100 stores worldwide, is really angry about it. The passage of Assembly Bill 1228, which is now on its way to Gov. Gavin Newsom's desk, "will result in a devastating financial blow to California McDonald's franchises at a projected annual cost of $250,000 per McDonald's restaurant," responded the National Owners Association to the bill's passage. According to the legislators behind AB 1228, the bill only...

Prosecutors say Calvin Ushery violently attacked the owner of Solid Gold Jewelers on September 15, 2022. All caught on video. After two days of deliberations, a mistrial was declared.

Buying ammunition used to be a relatively simple procedure in New York. You went into a gun store or other retailer, picked up what you wanted, paid for it, and walked out the door. Starting last week, however, all ammo sales must go through a background check conducted by the National Instant Check System with the New York State Police serving as a middleman between ammo sellers and the FBI’s background check system. The new law not only makes it more expensive to purchase a gun and ammunition in the state (new background check fees on gun purchases add an...

Nothing is so sacred as our Democracy™ — so goes the corporate state media mantra, repeated endlessly in print and on the airwaves of mainstream outlets. It’s the alpha and the omega — never mind what democratically elected politicians do once they’re in office. It’s much more of an end than a means. The obvious exception to the rule, as I and others have documented over the years, is when any candidate with a chance to win might threaten the technocratic ruling class. Related: Trump National Security Adviser: Deep State Will ‘for Sure’ Rig 2024 Election Robert Epstein (no relation...

Roughly $100 million dollars worth of duct tape is bought annually, more than enough to stretch to the moon, or circle the earth at the equator 12 times.

With the unconscionable persecution of the January 6th protesters, the unabashed government censorship of speech, the weaponization of federal intelligence and law enforcement agencies, and the egregious abuse of presidential executive orders and emergency declarations, the American police state is no longer a hypothetical possibility but an increasingly indisputable reality. While imperceptibly evolving over many decades, the emergence of the American police state was significantly accelerated with the overreaction to the September 11, 2001 terror attack. Even more important was the Covid 19 pandemic that dramatically increased the momentum toward a police state as once a people are terrorized it...

The United States Mail steamship Columbia, D.B. BARTON, Commander, from New-Orleans, Sept. 13, with mails and passengers to SPOFFORD, TILESTON & CO., and with a cargo of cotton and sugar, arrived last evening. The Columbia experienced heavy weather during the entire passage. On the 12th inst., the expedition against Texas under Gen. FRANKLIN, returned to New-Orleans, having failed to effect a landing at Sabine Pass, Texas. The gunboats Clifton and Sachem were both lost in the attempt to take the rebel batteries. We are again indebted to E. HENDERSON, Esq., purser of the Columbia, for prompt delivery of our dispatches....

I work at a state wide community college, but I am 100% sure that this crap is happening in all areas. Public and private.They want to teach me to be MORE accepting of what I may completely disagree with. Happy that for right now it's NOT MANDATORY.

Pray For The Peace of JerusalemJohn 1616 “All this I have told you so that you will not fall away. 2 They will put you out of the synagogue; in fact, the time is coming when anyone who kills you will think they are offering a service to God. 3 They will do such things because they have not known the Father or me. 4 I have told you this, so that when their time comes you will remember that I warned you about them. I did not tell you this from the beginning because I was with you, 5...

Most of former President Trump’s rivals for the Republican presidential nomination have given full-throated support for him in his current criminal travails, even saying they would pardon him if he is convicted of any – or all – of the 90-something charges. The notion that a president could be pardoned for criminal offenses would have been unthinkable at one time. But the precedent for doing so — which helps fuel the blessing given to a Trump pardon by his GOP opponents — occurred about a half century ago. On a September Sunday in 1974, President Gerald R. Ford issued a...

Few Presidents as unpopular as Joe Biden have ever sought re-election. In the modern history of polling, only Jimmy Carter and Donald Trump rival him with their disapproval ratings at this point in their respective presidencies. What’s more, “Bidenomics” is already making Trump look much better by comparison. This reality has many Democrats nervous, looking for some way to ditch their current standard bearer and replace him with (almost) anyone else. Biden’s loss of mental acuity has reached a point where it can no longer be denied or defended. Concerns about Biden’s age and sharpness are turning up in every...

The European Commission says it has a ten-point plan to fix this, but on some points will likely make it worse. No wonder the Italians are protesting. Supposedly, the European Union has gotten everything all patched up with Italy's Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, who vowed to dispatch the Italian navy to the Tunisian coast if nothing was being done about the huge crush of migrants flooding the Italian island of Lampedusa and now Sicily. European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen came to Lampedusa (give her credit for not being Kamala Harris) to present the Italians with the EC's supposedly...

Shocking video shows a coordinated gang of carjackers forcing a driver out of his Audi at gunpoint and leaving him lying in the middle of a Chicago road as other cars drive by. The newly revealed footage shows an Audi A4 pulled over on a four-lane road with its headlights on when two other vehicles approach from the other direction — turning to trap the Audi by blocking it at the front and rear. At first, the Audi rolls forward as the desperate 27-year-old driver tries to escape, but within seconds, at least three men leap from the surrounding vehicles...

During an interview aired on Tuesday’s broadcast of NewsNation’s “Cuomo,” California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) stated that while the media was slow to pick up the Hunter Biden story, “my God, the best they can do right now is a simple gun charge of a felony on a simple form” and that he has “absolute trust and faith in the system to advance the cause of justice.” Newsom said, “I’m for accountability wherever you find it, absolutely. And by the way, was the media quick on that story? They were not. And you’ve been very pointed about that and you’re...

In recent years, there’s been a significant increase in celibacy among young people, particularly young men aged 18 to 30. This is a stark contrast to the late 2000s when the numbers were much lower, closer to 10%. Several factors seem to be contributing to this shift: Unappealing Hookup Culture: Hollywood’s hookup culture has lost its appeal to many, leading young men to seek more meaningful connections. Dating App Dynamics: Dating apps often favor female selection, making it challenging for some men to find suitable partners. Rise of Pornography: Easy access to explicit content online has made pornography a readily...

The Biden family corruption scandal gets deeper with every passing day. Speaker Kevin McCarthy finally opened an impeachment investigation in the House last week, and now the first hearing in that investigation has been scheduled for September 28 before the House Oversight Committee. So what is the potential impeachable offense? You will undoubtedly recall, in the context of the two Trump impeachments, the endless semantic contortions that took place trying to shoe-horn Trump’s conduct into the vague constitutional catchall of “high crimes and misdemeanors” that might support an impeachment. Now, with Biden, the conduct at issue goes by various euphemisms...

One city transformed by leftist politics is Richmond, Va. This radicalism manifested as violent militancy where hundreds were arrested at #BLM-#Antifa riots. Come see me speak live in Richmond on Sept. 22. The far-left is trying everything to shut it down:https://eventbrite.com/e/virginia-forum-with-andy-ngo-tickets-694291282917