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The Biden administration made two virtue-signaling proclamations at last week’s COP28 conference in Dubai that it says will help save the planet from climate change. The policies aren’t likely to change the planet’s temperature by even one-tenth of a degree, but they might just destroy the 21st-century American industrial economy as we know it. First, Team Biden announced it will stop production of all new coal plants in the United States. This comes on the heels of President Biden’s Environmental Protection Agency saying this year it would impose new power plant emission regulations that are virtually impossible for coal plants...

For at least half a century the Left has been luring this nation into a deadly dance. Like the sirens of Greek myth, their music hits all the right notes: true equality, fairness, justice for all, health, and peace, etc. Because the music is so beautiful, and the steps to the dance so familiar, again and again we’ve accepted their invitation and blindly followed their lead. This simple political dance can be done to many types of “music,” for it has only three steps. We have seen its familiar choreography in efforts against racism and crime, in steps to preserve...

Governments have agreed for the first time ever to "transition away" from fossil fuels to avert the worst effects of climate change, in an "historic" agreement from the COP28 climate summit. The UN's climate body, UNFCCC, published the draft text of the deal early on Wednesday morning after negotiations had run well into the small hours in Dubai. Host nation the United Arab Emirates then quickly rushed it through a closing plenary session, facing no objections. "Let us finish what we have started," said COP28 President Sultan al-Jaber, as the room erupted in applause. "We have language on fossil fuels...

Houthi rebels using a drone hit a Norwegian tanker ship for the second time in the Red Sea on Monday, December 11. The ship had first been hit on Sunday by a Houthi cruise missile, most likely a Quds-1, a copy of the Iranian Soumar cruise missile or the Russian Kh-55. The first attack was reported by the UK Marine Trade Operations (UKMTO) office which reported the attack took place at 2100 UTC (or midnight local time) in the vicinity of the Bab El Mandeb strait, about 15 nautical miles west of port Mocha, Yemen. The French FREMM frigate Languedoc...

Members of the organization "Last Generation" attack Christmas trees with paint in Berlin, Oldenburg, Kiel, Leipzig, Rostock, Nuremberg, and Munich The groups twitter is full of climate change gibberish

Abigail Martinez, a mother who lost her daughter to suicide, is seeking justice and protection for families facing similar situations. First Liberty Institute has submitted a brief to the Supreme Court on her behalf, urging the court to uphold parental rights in a case involving the removal of a child from Christian parents due to their religious beliefs about sexuality. Abigail’s daughter, Yaeli, struggled with depression and sexuality, and was ultimately taken from her home and given gender-transition treatments without parental consent. (Trending: Top Democrat Loses In Historic Landslide) “My child was a number in the system. I don’t want...

On the debate stage and on the campaign trail, former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has loudly urged other Republicans to focus their attention not on their own internal squabbling but on Donald Trump’s comeback bid. During an interview Tuesday on “Politically Georgia,” Christie also repeatedly brought up another GOP figure: Gov. Brian Kemp, a longtime ally who defeated a Trump-backed candidate last year and hasn’t yet taken sides in the 2024 race. "I’m proud to be a Brian Kemp Republican. I was with Brian Kemp in 2018 when he ran the first time. I was with him in the...

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Update from Ukraine | Ukraine Put the Flag on Ruzzian Positions | Hard battle was won https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fR9X8O0a3Mg Militaryland news The summary of the situation of Russian re-invasion to Ukraine covering the recent developments on the battlefield, as of 9th December 2023 – 22:00 (Kyiv time). https://militaryland.net/news/invasion-day-654-summary/ [NOTE: two summaries per week, released on Wednesday and Sunday] *** Great interactive maps with viewer controlled Map magnification tool to use for each Front! https://militaryland.net/maps/

Former South Carolina governor and 2024 GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley was endorsed Tuesday New Hampshire Republican Governor Chris Sununu, The New York Times reports. The Times notes Sununu said during an interview last month that "he was looking for someone who could beat" Donald Trump "and who could connect with voters on 'a very retail level.'" He added, "You always want a fighter — you always want someone who is going to put passion and energy behind it." With that, the GOP leader announced during a Manchester, New Hampshire campaign event, "We are all in for Nikki Haley." Per...

The gun sales and National Instant Background Check System (NICS) checks continue the trend in 2023 of the third or fourth highest month on record and the ongoing trend of over a million guns sold during the month. The National Shooting Sports Foundation has reported gun sales, as estimated by NICS, have been over 1 million a month for 52 months. Gun sales during November 2023 were about 1.56 million firearms. NICS checks for the month were about 2.65 million, making them the third-highest gun sales for November and the fourth-highest NICS checks.Gun sales in November of 2021 were 1.51...

In a shocking development, Elon Musk and Chris Pavloski are gearing up for legal action against an alleged fraud scheme, mirroring tactics used on Twitter, now deployed on Rumble. The controversial Media Matters/X playbook is said to involve manipulating algorithms and orchestrating fake ad placements to pressure advertisers into abandoning the platform. The narrative, described as “evil,” underscores Musk’s role as a key player in dismantling what is portrayed as a censorship-industrial complex. This complex, comprising government agencies, think tanks, private media, and activist organizations, is accused of censoring, controlling, and financially crippling free speech platforms under the guise of...

A man accused of robbing an armored car at gunpoint earlier this year had previously served 26 years in federal prison and was granted “compassionate release” by the state of California, which is typically reserved for inmates diagnosed with terminal diseases or other debilitating illnesses. Markham David Bond, 60, of Inglewood was arrested in November for allegedly robbing a Brinks courier at gunpoint in a Chase bank parking lot on South Sepulveda Boulevard in Westchester on Aug. 18. Bond allegedly pointed a gun at a Brinks employee who was carrying a blue duffel bag full of cash, ordered him to...

Ten Israeli soldiers, including a high-ranking official, were killed while fighting Hamas forces in the Gaza strip yesterday. Lieutenant Colonel Tomer Grinberg, 35, Major Roei Meldasi, 23, Major Moshe Avram Bar-On, 23, Sergeant Achia Daskal, 19, Captain Liel Hayo, 22, Major Ben Shelly, 26, Major Rom Hecht, 20, Sergeant Oriya Yaakov, 19, Eran Aloni, 19, and Itzhak Ben Basat, 24, died amid battles in Gaza City's Shajaiya neighbourhood. Several of the servicemen were killed by an explosive device, while the remaining soldiers were gunned down by Hamas fighters after being cut off from the rest of their troop, according to...

Chicago Residents VOW to disrupt Democrat Convention, this is going to be good.All over our country black Americans have been throwing their support over to Trump. Now finally, Chicago’s black Americans vow to stage a revolution against the Dem Party and disrupt the Dem convention.

@BasedMikeLee Tomorrow the Senate has the chance to remove FISA 702 from the NDAA. The Senate rules can make this happen if just 41 senators agree. FISA should be reviewed on its own merits—not the NDAA’s. If you agree, please share & tell your senators to remove FISA from the NDAA!

The newest video shows the migrants crossing the border near Eagle Pass through multiple locations after getting past the Rio Grande. In the first part of the video, the migrants, lined up in droves next to a long, chain-link fence appearing ready to be processed. The second half of the clip sees several physically swimming their way across the Rio Grande before piling past a barbed wire fence and in some cases, making camp on the shores to dry their clothes. A border patrol agent told Fox News that 'the TCOs (Transnational Criminal Orgs) know what they’re doing.' Transnational Criminal...

Rabbi David Wolpe is stepping down from the antisemitism advisory committee at Harvard University, citing “events on campus and the painfully inadequate testimony” of the university’s president, Claudine Gay, during a congressional hearing this week on campus antisemitism. “Without rehashing all of the obvious reasons that have been endlessly adumbrated online, and with great respect for the members of the committee, the short explanation is that both events on campus and the painfully inadequate testimony reinforced the idea that I cannot make the sort of difference I had hoped,” Wolpe wrote Thursday on X, formerly Twitter. .....

In an interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper on Sunday, Secretary of State Anthony Blinken criticized the delay in the United Nation’s response to reports of Hamas’ sexual violence on October 7th and said the atrocities were “beyond anything I’ve ever seen.” He told Tapper, “The atrocities that we saw on Oct. 7 are almost beyond description or beyond our capacity to digest.” .....

CEO of IBM Arvind Krishna admits to using coercion to fire people and take away their bonuses unless they discriminate in the hiring process. “You got to move both forward by a percentage that leads to a plus on your bonus," Krishna said about hiring Hispanics, "and by the way if you lose, you lose part of your bonus.” After pulling ads from X for 'racism,' IBM chief Arvind Krishna says he will fire, demote or strip bonuses from execs who don't hire enough blacks, Hispanics — or hire too many Asians "Asians are not an underrepresented minority in tech...