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The explosive claim was made in the latest bombshell report published on Sept. 21 by Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Seymour Hersh, who spoke with an official who has access to current intelligence about the conflict. “The war is over. Russia has won. There is no Ukrainian offensive anymore, but the White House and the American media have to keep the lie going,” the official said. According to Hersh’s report, the war is continuing because Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky insists that it must. Currently, there is no discussion at Zelensky’s headquarters or at the White House about a ceasefire and no...

President Slow Joe Biden is the Dead Man Walking. In spite of the daily dose of chemicals, blood transfusions and electro-shock treatment, Slow Joe is on an accelerated cognitive decline. Coupled with his and his criminal son's corruption, his political decline outpaces his cognitive decline. The only race Slow Joe will run in is to the morgue or old peoples home. But Progressives, all is not lost. In the bullpen we have the saving grace. We have commie Hillary "Benghazi" Clinton, fascist Gavin "The Jackal" Newsom and commie Moo "Mike" Obama. Will fan favorite Benghazi come out of retirement? She...

NEW DELHI — Not even a judge’s reprimand of police spared an impoverished pastor in India from being jailed on baseless claims of fraudulent conversion, one of the latest examples of how Hindu extremists misuse “anti-conversion” laws. Pastor Bajarang Rawat, a 47-year-old convert from Hinduism in Mohanlalganj, Lucknow District in Uttar Pradesh state, faces charges of converting people by “allurement” even though police could find no witnesses against him, and the only evidence they presented was his Bible, the pastor said. “Reprimanding the policemen, the magistrate told them that it was not a crime to possess a Bible and that...

In December 2005, five groups of Wall Street investors flew in private jets to Portland, Maine, where they took waiting limousines to a warren of metal buildings that resembled a midsize lumberyard. They had come to Bushmaster Firearms in pursuit of a highly profitable product whose market was growing faster than any other in America’s stagnant gun industry. The product was the AR-15, and red-hot Bushmaster, the nation’s leading manufacturer of the rifle, had decided to auction itself to the highest bidder. Bushmaster’s owner Dick Dyke had once feared that he could never sell the company because so many people...

Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) will step aside from his chairmanship of the powerful Senate Foreign Relations Committee after his indictment on bribery charges, Majority Leader Chuck Schumer announced Friday, as New Jersey’s governor called for the long-serving lawmaker’s resignation. “Bob Menendez has been a dedicated public servant and is always fighting hard for the people of New Jersey. He has a right to due process and a fair trial,” Schumer (D-NY) said in a statement. “Senator Menendez has rightly decided to step down temporarily from his position as Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee until the matter has been resolved.”...

We’ve reported in the past, numerous times, about cHurChEs being coopted by the LGBTQ mafia and turned into grinding hubs for drag queens. The phenomenon isn’t unexpected as historically, these perverts have always been pervasive in society. But what is stunning about it is that these places of odd sex worship continue to call themselves churches. Cathedral of Hope Church in Dallas, Texas recently held a “Drag Sunday” LGBTQ church service to bless the Satanic Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence Drag Queens. The ritual was replete with prayers of repentance toward these sanity sell-outs, as well as pledges of allyship. Weird,...

A sitting member of the Minnesota House of Representatives published a self-help book for Christian teens who are questioning their sexuality. Rep. Leigh Finke, DFL-St. Paul, a first-term legislator who is transgender and identifies as a woman, released a book in 2020 entitled, “Queerfully and Wonderfully Made: A Guide for LGBTQ+ Christian Teens.” “Queerfully and Wonderfully Made” contains almost no references to prayer and encourages teens to “limit contact” with adults who do not affirm their choices, including parents. “Please, if your parents are unsupportive, remember this: You are a separate human person from your parents (crazy, right?!). They don’t...

Ron DeSantis’s struggles on the campaign trail have eroded his influence back home in Florida, and even once-close allies are revolting against his control. DeSantis was crowned early on as the natural successor to Donald Trump: A demagogic culture warrior, but younger and more disciplined—he was a figure who could appeal, in theory, both to MAGA diehards and Trump skeptics. When he launched his campaign, he was fresh off a series of victories at home. The Republican-controlled Florida state legislature had helped him pass multiple draconian measures limiting LGBTQ rights, educational freedom, and abortion access. While candidates backed by Trump...

James O'Keefe has just been served a lawsuit by the now-defunct Project Veritas. When O'Keefe was booted from the company they still had millions of dollars to operate. What did they do with all that money?

ACNAtoo was founded in 2021 “in response to the pleas of survivors of sexual abuse and their advocates” winthin the 125,000-member Anglican Church in North America (ACNA.) They claim that while their “front-facing work consists of research, writing, publishing, and serving as an ACNA watchdog” their real passion and heart is found in”working confidentially behind the scenes with survivors who have not received support, accountability, or healing inside the ACNA.” Sounds noble, until you realize the organization has apostatized and is LGBTQ-affirming, contrary to the thelogical non-negotiables beliefs of the ACNA. Functioning as spite-filled grievance mongers rather than an official...

KYIV — Ukrainian forces on Friday fired a barrage of missiles at the headquarters of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet in Sevastopol, in occupied Crimea — striking a target thought to be heavily protected and demonstrating Kyiv’s growing ability to attack Russian military infrastructure throughout the peninsula. Are you on Telegram? Subscribe to our channel for the latest updates on Russia’s war in Ukraine. Ukraine’s air force posted a statement saying that “around 12:00, the Ukrainian defense forces successfully struck the command headquarters of the Black Sea Fleet in temporarily-occupied Sevastopol,” located on the southwest tip of Crimea, which Russia invaded...

While announcing the launch of an executive level gun control office–the Office of Gun Violence Prevention–President Joe Biden called again for a ban on “assault weapons” and said, “If you need 80 shots in a magazine you shouldn’t own a gun.” On September 19, 2023, Breitbart News reported Biden’s plans to launch the executive gun control office and, on September 21, 2023, noted that he had tapped Vice President Kamala Harris to lead it.

internal-combustion engine, any of a group of devices in which the reactants of combustion (oxidizer and fuel) and the products of combustion serve as the working fluids of the engine. Such an engine gains its energy from heat released during the combustion of the nonreacted working fluids, the oxidizer-fuel mixture. This process occurs within the engine and is part of the thermodynamic cycle of the device. Useful work generated by an internal-combustion (IC) engine results from the hot gaseous products of combustion acting on moving surfaces of the engine, such as the face of a piston, a turbine blade, or...

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Two firearms charges were dismissed Thursday amid preparations for a trial against an extended family arrested in a 2018 law enforcement raid on a ramshackle desert compound in northern New Mexico and the discovery of a young boy’s decomposed body. The changes narrow the case to terrorism and kidnapping charges against five defendants in a trial scheduled to begin Monday with jury selection at U.S. District Court in Albuquerque. Authorities had been searching for a sickly 3-year-old who had been reported missing by his mother in Clayton County when, in August 2018, they burst into...

A class-action lawsuit between Illinois and Instagram gives residents five days to file a claim and receive a portion of the state's $68 million settlement with the platform. Meta, the umbrella company of Facebook and Instagram, allegedly violated Illinois's Biometric Information Privacy Act by "collecting and storing biometric identifiers and/or biometric information," such as physical characteristics, that can be used to identify people. Those who used Instagram while in Illinois at any time between Aug. 10, 2015, and Aug. 16, 2023, are eligible for the settlement. The payout includes both minors and adults. Meta has denied the allegations but agreed...

My opinion, This is communist BS. NASA is working with china the muslim world to legitimize them. IMO this is what this is. Explanation: During the day, over 12,000 large mirrors reflect sunlight at the 100-megawatt, molten-salt, solar thermal power plant at the western edge of the Gobi desert near Dunhuang, Gansu Province, China. Individual mirror panels turn to track the sun like sunflowers. They conspire to act as a single super mirror reflecting the sunlight toward a fixed position, the power station's central tower. During the night the mirrors stand motionless though. They reflect the light of the countless...

The San Francisco 49ers were taking on the New York Giants when a group of the so-called “Niner Gang” turned on each other. The video posted by @T_Stephenson1 on X shows what appeared to be a fight between two women when a male bystander grabbed the hair of one of the combatants and pulled her down. Another man then tried to get involved in the fight and ended up getting punched and kicked by the bystanders.

NIRCam (the Near Infrared Camera) on NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope captured this picture of the surface of Jupiter’s moon Europa. Webb identified carbon dioxide on the icy surface of Europa that likely originated in the moon’s subsurface ocean. Photo courtesy of NASA Sept. 22 (UPI) -- Data from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope shows carbon dioxide on a region of Jupiter's moon Europa, suggesting it potentially could harbor conditions suitable for life. Astronomers found carbon dioxide on the icy surface of a region called Tara Regio, and analysis from two studies suggests it likely originated in the moon's subsurface...

58,000 pounds of ground beef products have been recalled due to possible E. coli contamination. “American Foods Group, LLC, doing business as Green Bay Dressed Beef, LCC, a Green Bay, Wis. establishment, is recalling approximately 58,281 pounds of ground beef products that may be contaminated with Shiga toxin-producing E. coli (STEC) O103,” the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced. Ground Beef Recall: 58K Pounds Recalled Due To Possible E. Coli Contamination https://t.co/rqUQflHnMt — Breaking911 (@Breaking911) September 20, 2023 “The products were produced on Aug. 14, 2023, and sent to Georgia, Michigan and Ohio wholesalers,” NBC...

While long-term COVID-19 can cause brain fog, erectile dysfunction and hair loss, experts say the coronavirus could also contribute to another health condition: deadly brain disease. Doctors from Mount Sinai Queens’ said it’s “highly likely” COVID contributed to a New York City man developing fatal prion disease. Two months before he was admitted to the hospital, the 62-year-old Queens local started to drool and move at a slower pace, the doctors wrote in an article published Thursday by the American Journal of Case Reports. The unidentified man was only taken to the medical facility after he was found at home...