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Barack’s wife has decided to make herself an authority on white flight. The problem is that she’s utterly misinformed about it. SNIP Of Michelle’s many hypocrisies — Gilbert documents them all — none struck me as viscerally as her self-appointed role as the Torquemada of so-called “white flight.” In her 2018 bestseller, Becoming, and on the arena tour that followed, Michelle laid out her version of “white flight.” Although largely progressive boilerplate, Michelle added her own angry edge. At a 2019 Obama Foundation Summit, Michelle was at her finger-wagging best. “As families like ours, upstanding families like ours, who were...

Photojournalists covering Oct. 7 attacks raise ‘ethical questions,’ watchdog says HonestReporting: “When international news agencies decide to pay for material that has been captured under such problematic circumstances, their standards may be questioned, and their audience deserves to know about it.” David Swindle (November 8, 2023 / JNS) The placement of freelance photographers, who captured some of the attacks perpetrated by Hamas terrorists in southern Israel on Oct. 7 for AP and Reuters, raises questions about how much and when they knew about the attacks in which more than 1,400 people were killed, according to a new analysis from HonestReporting....

U.S. News & World Report released its 2024 “Best Colleges” ranking in September. Marketed as a guide for students in their college-selection process, the list is, in reality, a reputational ranking that rewards rich and selective institutions while saying little about the educational product they offer. As such, not much has changed in this year’s rankings. The new list looks more like the shuffling of a feudal hierarchy than an actual competition between organizations working to be the best. Because of the cost and time commitments involved in getting a degree from a higher-ed institution, the decision to attend college...

At last nights RNC debates...this was almost as much fun to watch as when the audience spontaneously broke out in a Trump chant.

Steven Zeng at Deutsche Bank notes the stunning (but hardly surprising) reality that Treasury borrowing is "now on par with levels during the 2020-2021 pandemic". "Both weaker fiscal positions and Fed QT are contributing factors. With a growing view that the Fed may lengthen (https://t.me/marketfeed/427665) the duration of QT, and annual deficits projected at around $1.7-$1.8 trillion (https://home.treasury.gov/system/files/221/TreasuryPresentationToTBACQ42023.pdf) over the next few years, these issues are unlikely to go away soon." "At the same time, a widening mismatch between supply and demand for USTs could exacerbate the issue through increased debt interest expenses." This will continue as the Treasury repays...

Victims of VITT - a new condition identified by specialists - question the Government's monitoring of the vaccine's rollout and its efficacyThe Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine has been branded “defective” in a multi-million pound landmark legal action that will suggest claims over its efficacy were “vastly overstated”. The pharmaceutical giant is being sued in the High Court in a test case by Jamie Scott, a father-of-two who suffered a significant permanent brain injury that has left him unable to work as a result of a blood clot after receiving the jab in April 2021. A second claim is being brought by...

The IDF reportedly discovered "means of warfare unknown to the security system," including new rockets found by IDF engineering forces in Gaza laboratories... It was also revealed that during a recent raid on a Hamas training post, tunnels were reportedly discovered beneath the post. After exposing them, soldiers destroyed the shafts—which they believe had housed countless Hamas militants who prepared for extended stays underground based on extra water and oxygen supplies found there. They tend to stay underground because they lack the means to fight in surface combat... On Wednesday, the Channel TV news network in Israel reported that the...

Watch DeSantis trying to walk in his heels 👠 https://t.co/513Nsp9mEI— Shane Nicholson (@ofvoid) November 9, 2023The candidates chat during a commercial break at the third Republican presidential debate. https://t.co/pAYR1Yalon pic.twitter.com/pGR3OxAZpT— NBC News (@NBCNews) November 9, 2023

REPORT: Activists are upset at YouTuber Mr. Beast for building 100 wells across Africa that provided clean drinking water to its citizens Although the wells provide clean water to half a million Africans, activists are upset with Mr. Beast because they're annoyed a white male was the one who solved the problem. "I’ve been doing this for 15 years, but we’ve been struggling to continue the work because funding, awareness, and advocacy all take work," said founder of FACE Africa Saran Kaba Jones. "Overnight, this person comes along, who happens to be a white male figure with a huge platform,...

John Gizzi of Newsmax, the best conservative political reporter in the United States today, has rendered the verdict – Virginia’s Republican Governor Glenn Youngkin is finished as a presidential candidate. The problem isn’t the Republican National Committee chairwoman, Ronna McDaniel. It is Youngkin’s brand of conservatism. And that sends a message to Republicans around the nation. So-called “compromise” on the hot button issues will not win elections.Virginia’s elections were such a defeat for Youngkin that a Democratic Party porn star, whose “sex work” had been featured on-line, almost won her race. She lost by less than 1000 votes to a...

A Babylonian tablet fragment found at Nippur, an ancient Babylonian site in the same general location that Abraham came from. The area outlined in black is a record about the Flood. There are more than 300 known records of the Flood world-wide, with about 30 of them in writing. Some are remarkably close in their details to the original—the biblical account.Creationists are often accused of believing that the whole Bible should be taken literally. This is not so! Rather, the key to a correct understanding of any part of the Bible is to ascertain the intention of the author of...

Join with fellow FREEPERS to pray for AMERICA: For those in Authority in Government, Family, Military, Business, Agri-Business; End to Sex Slavery; Healthcare, Education, Churches, and the Media. This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. (1 John 5:14)Forum threads labeled [Prayer] are closed to debate of any kind.

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"And when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man which had not on a wedding garment: "And he saith unto him, Friend, how camest thou in hither not having a wedding garment? And he was speechless." "But as touching the resurrection of the dead, have ye not read that which was spoken unto you by God, saying, I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living." ☰ Matthew 22 1 And Jesus answered and spake...

Video of firing a 4 Bore rifle. It hurts just watching it.

There’s no place like a Trump rally! MASSIVE CROWD tonight in Hialeah, Florida, while the jokers and primary non-challengers kiss the asses of globalist donors and other America last losers at the low ratings debate.Trump 2024! pic.twitter.com/iWgIpIyAoE— Alex Bruesewitz 🇺🇸 (@alexbruesewitz) November 8, 2023

On this date in 2011, China’s “land granny” was executed for plundering 145 million yuan ($23 million) from China’s swelling bubble in real estate. Luo Yaping was head of a land sub-bureau in a district of Fushun, a city in northeast China — not an especially high position — and yet she was able to use her power over land development and compensation to accumulate a fortune in bribes and embezzled compensation,” according to Reuters. Though anti-corruption investigators tarred her racket as “the lowest in class, biggest in sum and evilest in tactics,” neither the person nor her boodle were...

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***[T]he ESG movement, which pushed big investors and money management firms to consider progressive environmental responsibility, social justice issues and corporate governance policies when making investments and voting shares at stockholder meetings. This is a legitimate, if not necessarily successful, investment strategy for the individual investor. Still, it creates conflicts for large asset managers such as BlackRock, Vanguard and State Street which — until the onset of the Biden administration, at least — the law and convention dictated should consider only the need to generate the maximum return on investment possible for their clients when making investment decisions. *** Eventually,...