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The man suspected of killing a suburban Chicago family — including two young kids and their three dogs — was a gun-toting security guard whose step-daughter called him a “very dangerous man.” Nathaniel Huey Jr. — who appears to have killed himself in a blazing car to evade capture for the shocking slaughter — owned a private security firm called Black Bear Security. The 32-year-old suspect was pictured on Black Bear Security’s Facebook page with guns, ammunition and body armor, with one post reading: “I can and I will.” One photo even showed him holding an assault rifle with what...

212-216: six Republicans voted no on the rule. Major blow for McCarthy who had promised it would pass this time.

Chaya Raichik, the creator behind the Twitter account Libs of TikTok, had been anonymous until she was doxed by Taylor Lorenz.But Lorenz’s attempts to silence Raichik backfired spectacularly and Libs of TikTok has grown to over 2.5 million on X.Raichik’s page chronicles radical leftists by reposting videos that Liberals publish themselves on social media, often chronicling public school teachers indoctrination of children to a radical leftist agenda.In an interview with Tucker Carlson, Raichik promised to become even more involved in s fighting the culture war against the types of leftists she regularly exposes with her account.Recently, a parent in Cherry...

Civilizations are mortal. We know of entire worlds disappearing, of empires collapsing. It is happening again. Op-ed. Imagine a ship. You start by changing the bow, then the rudder, the hull, the mast, the sail and finally all the constituent parts as they erode. At the end of this transformation, will it still be the same ship? Plutarch's image in the “Life of Theseus” offers some help for a reflection on identity. Let's imagine that the boat is our civilization. Would we still be faced with the same civilization? With the wave of mass migration towards Europe we are faced...

Former President Donald Trump on Wednesday promised to carry out “the largest domestic deportation operation in American history” in the pattern of the Eisenhower model, making the vow during a speech in Dubuque, Iowa.Trump delivered remarks on securing the border and stopping illegal immigration in the country.“One of the most important issues in this campaign is ending the nation-wrecking catastrophe on our southern border,” Trump’s prepared remarks read.“Under my leadership, we had the most secure border in U.S. history. Now, we have the worst border in the history of the world,” they continue, deeming the current immigration crisis as an...

#Ukrainian forces are for the first time confirmed to be operating armored vehicles (Stryker & Marder infantry fighting vehicles) beyond the Russian anti-tank ditch and dragon’s teeth obstacles near #Verbove. We are not yet prepared to say that Ukraine has broken through this portion of the Russian line since these vehicles have not yet penetrated the last visible prepared defensive positions in the area. But the ability to bring armored vehicles to and through the most formidable Russian defenses intended to stop them and to operate them near prepared Russian defensive positions is an important sign of progress in the...

In a string of remarkable coincidences, President Joe Biden’s Department of Justice has taken a keen interest in all things Elon Musk. The US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York is reportedly pursuing criminal charges against Musk, scrutinizing whether the Tesla CEO failed to disclose personal benefits he received from his car company. The Wall Street Journal reports that the new inquiry centers around Tesla’s “Project 42,” an alleged plan for a weird glass home and structure that Musk talked about constructing in Texas but never built. It is quite the happenstance that only last month, the...

The app, SafeStop, allows members of the public to video chat with Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department deputies before the in-person traffic stop, which the app developers said will “de-escalate traffic stops and transform police-motorist interactions.” With traffic stops carrying potential life-and-death stakes, a pilot program using SafeStop intends to lower the temperature, allowing drivers and officers to communicate virtually before meeting face-to-face. “When pulled over, users are provided with information and instructions on how to facilitate dialogue during their traffic stop and then can immediately make video contact with police officers while they are being stopped,” the company said...

[snip] I mention all this because my interview last night with Edward Dowd, formerly a hedge fund manager at BlackRock, now founder of Phinance Technologies and author of Cause Unknown: The Epidemic of Sudden Deaths in 2021 and 2022, presented me with a couple of moments in which what he was telling me was so horrific and so unimaginable that I stumbled a few times, and visibly lost my usual composure. The interview is linked above, at the top of this essay. Here is the report: https://phinancetechnologies.com/HumanityProjects/UK%20Cause%20of%20Death/Report%20V-Damage%20Analysis%20-%20Cardiovascular%2015-44%20-%20V3.pdf [snip] Using standard methodologies, Dowd and his colleagues have found, in a new...

The U.S. Marshals Service apprehended 4,455 violent fugitives during the latest phase of Operation North Star III (ONS III), a high-impact fugitive apprehension initiative. ONS III targeted violent offenders in 20 cities and cleared 2,818 violent warrants, including homicide, forcible sexual assault, robbery, aggravated assault, and firearms violations. Investigators also seized 555 firearms, more than $1 million in US currency, and 85 kilograms of illegal narcotics during this three-month enforcement effort. “Together with our law enforcement partners across the country, the Justice Department is zeroing in on the violent fugitives responsible for the greatest crime in our communities. The U.S....

New report from industry researchers finds that 95 percent of the once-hyped crypto assets have hit rock-bottom valuation NFTs, or non-fungible tokens, once vaunted as a revolution in crypto and digital art, are largely worthless. Upon analysis of 73,257 NFT collections, the authors found that 69,795 have a market cap of zero Ether (ETH) The study estimates that some 23 million investors own these tokens of no practical use or value. What’s more, supply vastly outstripped demand for NFTs. Just 21 percent of the collections included in the study can claim full ownership, meaning around four out of every five...

Half a million years ago, earlier than was previously thought possible, humans were building structures made of wood, according to new research by a team from the University of Liverpool and Aberystwyth University. The research, published in the journal Nature, reports on the excavation of well-preserved wood at the archaeological site of Kalambo Falls, Zambia, dating back at least 476,000 years and predating the evolution of our own species, Homo sapiens. The excavation team uncovering the wooden wedge Expert analysis of stone tool cut-marks on the wood show that these early humans shaped and joined two large logs to make...

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Ukraine has carried out a large-scale drone attack across the Black Sea and Crimea that comes after Kyiv claimed success in hitting a Russian military headquarters on the occupied peninsula. Ukraine intends to recapture Crimea, which Russia illegally annexed in 2014, and the peninsula hosts many military installations that have come under increasing attack as Kyiv seeks to degrade Russian logistics and equipment. The Russian defense ministry said on Thursday that it had shot down 19 drones and that explosions were heard in the Crimean settlements of Novofedorivka, Saky, Yevpatoriya, Dzhankoi and Balaklava... Russian social media channels painted a different...

Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina took a harsher stance toward striking autoworkers Monday than many of his fellow Republican presidential candidates, saying it did not make sense for workers to want higher pay for shorter workweeks and noting approvingly that President Ronald Reagan had fired federal employees for striking. “I think Ronald Reagan gave us a great example when federal employees decided they were going to strike,” Scott said at a campaign event in Iowa, in response to a voter who had asked whether he would “insert” himself into the United Auto Workers talks as president. “He said, ‘You...

McDonald’s is being sued over a hot coffee spill, again. This time, a San Francisco location is being accused of serving a “scalding” cup of coffee with an improperly attached lid, which allegedly resulted in the coffee pouring out on plaintiff Mable Childress’ body and causing “severe burns” after she tried drinking it. The lawsuit, filed last week, alleged that the elderly woman is suffering from “physical pains, emotional distress and other damages.” The restaurant’s negligence was a “substantial factor” for her injuries, it alleged. Childress also said in the lawsuit that the restaurant employees “refused” to help her, a...

VIDEOOMG Productions presents... "CHARIOTS OF IRE" starring JAMES O'KEEFE. Filmed entirely in scenic Williamson County.Co-Starring Josh Brown as the Mute Pfizer Vice-President. Dan Cash as the incredibly cranky school board member. And Angela Durham as the Know Nothing School Board Chair.Appearing soon at a School Board near you.Audio: "Chariots of Fire" by Massimo Bossco (No Copyright Music) "Chariots of Fire" de Massimo Bosco está posteada bajo una licencia Creative Commons."WATCH: OMG questions Josh Brown, Pfizer National VP, Govt. Relations at Williamson Co. School board" https://youtu.be/4ODmSZGoPDU?si=2RySmU8rblEVjC3G

Ron DeSantis' long slide continues. The Florida governor, once seen as the top rival to former President Donald Trump in the 2024 GOP primary, sits in fifth place in New Hampshire, according to a CNN poll released Wednesday. He hasn't visited the state, which holds the nation's second contest, in more than a month. A Washington Post/Monmouth Survey of South Carolina voters earlier this month found him in only slightly better stead — fourth place — trailing Trump and a pair of home-state candidates, Nikki Haley and Tim Scott. Earlier this week, he held a fundraiser for his leadership PAC...

Seven months after James O'Keefe announced he'd been ousted from Project Veritas, the company he founded in 2010 has imploded. Former Veritas employee and investigative reporter Bobby Harr announced that Project Veritas has suspended all operations effective immediately, which The Post Millennial later confirmed. "BREAKING: Project Veritas suspends all operations effective immediately," Harr wrote on Wednesday. "CEO @HannahMGiles and Jen Kiyak of Human Resources cite financial ruin as reason for additional layoffs on 9/20/23 leaving merely a handful of employees left. All investigations halted as of today."

When the head of a nation at war comes to town, it’s serious business. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, having just been in New York at the United Nations General Assembly meeting, is taking a detour to Washington, D.C., before returning home to Kyiv to make one more plea for continued U.S. assistance in his continued battle to control his country from the grasp of Russian President Vladimir Putin. We need to hear him out. In New York, Zelensky warned us. He told the world that “mass destruction is gaining momentum,” and that “the aggressor is weaponizing many other things and...