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Four seats held by progressives were won by candidates running on an anti-crime platform. Two others are still up for grabs, with another vacancy to be filled next year by the next City Council. Including Councillor-at-large Sara Nelson, who wasn’t up for a vote this year, moderates will now hold at least five of nine seats on what was arguably the most progressive City Council in America before this vote. Joy Hollingsworth campaigned on hiring more police and beat progressive Alex Hudson 53% to 47%. The seat was formerly held by radical socialist Kshama Sawant. Rob Saka campaigned on “bringing...

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in an interview published on Friday that he hoped President Vladimir Putin would run in the March election for another term as Russian president, a move that would keep Putin in power until at least 2030. -snip- Asked by the student television channel of Moscow State Institute for International Relations (MGIMO) what the next president after Putin should be like, Peskov said: "The same." "Or different but the same," Peskov told MGIMO 360 with a smile. "Putin has not yet announced his intention to run but I sincerely want to believe that he will do...

The thrill has gone from all the BIG spending bills from Biden. After its surprising bounce last month (on a seasonally-adjusted basis, because it crashed NSA), US Industrial Production was expected to decline 0.3% MoM in October. It was worse – down 0.6% MoM from a downwardly revised September print (from +0.3% to +0.1%). October’s decline is the worst since Dec 2022 and the YoY drop of 0.8% is the worst since the COVID lockdowns. AND Federal stimulypto is wearing off (M2 Money growth surge peaked in February 2021, but has slowed into negative growth starting in August 2022. Notably,...

On Saturday, 18 November, the city of Houston will host a gun buyback event. The event will be held at Westchase Park and Ride, 11050 Harwin Drive, Houston, from 8 a.m. to Noon. No questions will be asked of people turning in guns for gift cards. The event is funded with American Rescue Plan money, part of the 1.6 trillion dollar Biden Administration spending, which is driving inflation. $50 will be offered for guns that do not work$100 for working rifles or shotguns$150 for working handguns$200 for semi-automatic riflesNo “Ghost Guns” or pellet guns will be accepted.Houston has already had...

When Fox News anchor Laura Ingraham suggested he go one-on-one in a debate with 2024 rival Nikki Haley, Florida Gov. Ron Desantis replied, “Count me in!” “I’d like to see Ron DeSantis versus Nikki Haley. ‘The Angle’ volunteers our show as a platform,” Ingraham said Wednesday. “And the two of them, I think, need to debate it out, Haley in recent weeks has emerged as a growing threat to DeSantis, “He [DeSantis] will debate Nikki Haley. He is set to debate Gavin Newsom. And if Trump finds the courage, Ron DeSantis will debate him too,” Griffin continued. The Hill reached...

U.S. energy experts are warning of the economic and national security implications of President Biden's pact with China this week to move towards shutting down fossil fuel production in favor of green energy.

We are currently in a fiscal inferno under Biden/Yellen. And US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is just a girl who can’t say no … to big government spending. In fact, Congress and the Biden (mis) Administration are spending like the proverbial drunk sailors in port. US national debt is up to $33.7 TRILLION. That transates to $259,103 per taxpayer. With US debt to GDP of 138%! Now, HERE IS THE REAL BAD NEWS! Unfunded promises that politicians made to Americans (Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, etc.) now stands at $211.6 TRILLION. That equates to $629,000 per citizen. Maybe that should be...

"Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. "For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting. "And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not." ☰ Mark 2 1 And again he entered into Capernaum after some days; and it was noised that he was in the house. 2 And straightway many were gathered together, insomuch that there was no room...

General Motors (GM) faces an unprecedented EV crisis as CEO Mary Barra unexpectedly halts EV production and scraps most electric plans. This abrupt move has reverberated across the automotive landscape. The primary reason? A significant lack of demand. Dealerships are overwhelmed with nearly 92,000 unsold EVs, posing a daunting challenge.

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The global elite, imperiously ecstatic about their oppressive reign over humanity during the COVID-19 pandemic, continue with more attempts to control the world. Often listed among the best-funded synthetic biology companies, in 2018, Apeel’s founder and CEO, James Rogers, remarked that his company would soon use synbio instead of extracting its ingredients from agricultural byproducts (grape seed leftover from juice, wine, etc.). Within months, Rogers was announced as a WEF Young Global Leader in 2020.The Organic Consumers Association (OCA) has serious concerns about Rogers’ products being sprayed on vegetables and fruits sold in certain stores across America and other countries.

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One Million Moms, a watchdog group protecting the innocence of children, has launched a petition condemning Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade for potentially exposing “tens of millions of viewers at home to the liberal LGBTQ agenda.”.......“The non-binary and transgender extravaganza on display this Thanksgiving will be brought to you by Macy’s during their annually sponsored Thanksgiving Day Parade,” the petition begins. “Unless they are forewarned about it, this year’s holiday parade will potentially expose tens of millions of viewers at home to the liberal LGBTQ agenda.”

I’ll admit it, and regular readers of this column have already seen dribs and drabs of this, but I simply can’t stand Nikki Haley. She represents so many awful and insufficient things about the pre-Trump Republican Party that they might not fit in a single entry in this space. So I won’t even try. I’ll forego the discussion of Haley’s idiotic and cowardly participation in the Taliban-at-Bamiyan bowdlerization of South Carolina’s historical landmarks following the Dylann Roof mass murders at a black church. I’ll leave off talking about her non-stop neocon warmongering. I’ll leave her post–Jan. 6 disavowals of Donald...

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An NHS Trust is offering 12 months of paid leave to male staff affected by the conditionMARKED by signature hot flashes and brain fog, menopause has taken a prime spot in the media spotlight in recent years. From battling HRT shortages to battles with bosses in the workplace, women have worked tirelessly to be taken seriously. Shaun Ryder has spoken out about his experiences, and said hormone replacement therapy 'changed his life' But women are not the only ones to experience it. Robbie Williams is the most recent in a string of fellas to open up about their struggles with...

A Ryanair passenger has been caught on camera delivering a profanity-laced tirade in the direction of fellow travelers and cabin crew, before storming off the aircraft in the middle of the boarding process. Video of the disturbing incident was shared to X on Thursday, where it quickly took off, clocking 450,000 views, with many left stunned by the brunette’s brutish behavior. “– you and – off,” the troubled traveler screams at a passenger, before appearing to redirect her anger toward several flight attendants. A separate video posted on the same thread shows the bothered brunette blasting the cabin crew as...

It would be intriguing enough that Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong are introducing a high-grade collectible vodka in partnership with UBlendIt of Scotts Valley. But it gets better from there. The Judge’s Water—named for the courtroom scene in cult hit Up In Smoke where Chong’s character Anthony Stoner discovers the magistrate’s water is actually vodka—comes with a kit to convert the bottle into a water pipe. Like Stoner tells Pedro de Pacas (Marin) in the 1978 movie, “You better fasten your seatbelt, man.” On top of that, a portion of proceeds will support those imprisoned unfairly for cannabis-related crimes. UBlendIt...

(Excerpt) Thus we arrived at a convolution situation where, despite Russia’s many obvious advantages (which in the end come down to a superior indigenous capacity to mobilize men, industrial output, and technology), it became “propaganda” to argue that Russia was going to achieve some sort of victory in Ukraine - that Ukraine would end the war having failed to re-attain its 1991 borders (Zelensky’s stated victory condition) and with the country in a wrecked state of demographic hollowing and material destruction.... As the autumn began to drag on without battlefield results materializing for Ukraine, the process of finger pointing began...

A BuzzFeed feature story from 2018 about a journalist who told a group of schoolchildren that he was gay was taken down just a day after it was announced that he had been brought up on child pornography charges. Slade Sohmer, 44, the former editor-in-chief of the left-leaning video-driven news site The Recount, was freed on $100,000 bail on Monday after he was charged in Massachusetts court with possessing and disseminating “hundreds of child pornography images and videos.” He has pleaded not guilty to two counts of possession of child pornography and two counts of dissemination of child pornography. In...