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Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley called out former President Trump for not participating in debates ahead of the Iowa caucuses, seeking to pressure the GOP front-runner to appear at an event hosted by CNN this month. Haley, the former United Nations ambassador and South Carolina governor, argued in a social media post Tuesday that it was getting “harder” for Trump to “hide,” given only three people qualified for the latest debate, the fewest so far. “With only three candidates qualifying for the CNN debate, it’s time for Donald Trump to show up,” Haley posted on X, formerly known as Twitter....

NATIONAL BUFFET DAY On January 2nd, National Buffet Day recognizes a popular dining destination for Americans. The buffet restaurant offers a variety of selections, making it possible for every member of the family to find what they want to eat. #NationalBuffetDay A buffet system serves several food choices in a central location. Patrons easily view and select the food to serve themselves. Buffets are useful for feeding large groups of individuals at one time. Consequently, hotels, restaurants, and conventions offer buffets as a convenient way of providing services to their customers and hosting events. Nevertheless, buffet lines work well in...

Black Swan. It is the favorite New World Order term. The NWO would have us believe that a Black Swan event is an unfortunate event created by the Russians, MAGA terrorists, or anonymous hackers. Not a looming premeditated war gamed genocidal treasonous act by an establishment fueled by the insanity of a totalitarian Eugenicist movement careening off the tracks. Like Event 201, the Globalists have already clearly telegraphed that they are behind an inevitable Black Swan event. And the rabbit hole is deep. Following the death of NWO Godfather Henry Kissinger, Kissinger’s loyal Nazi student Klaus Schwab fumbles with...

President Joe Biden said on New Year’s Eve his favorite memory of 2023 was the alleged improvement of the U.S. economy. Polling appears to show the economy did not improve under Biden’s leadership: WSJ: Only 23 percent of voters said Biden’s policies helped them. CNBC: A record high of 66 percent of Americans are “pessimistic” about the future of Biden’s economy. Lending Club: 62 percent of adults in December said they live paycheck to paycheck, up from 58 percent in March. “As you look back and reflect on 2023, what sort of memories, highlights, stand out for you?” New Year’s...

Harvard President Claudine Gay has resigned after a disastrous, brief tenure at as head of the prestigious university. In an email to colleagues today, she wrote that she was standing down after 'consultation' with the school's board, which has been under pressure to replace her after defending her congressional testimony about campus antisemitism. She failed to acknowledge where she went wrong - making no mention of her refusal to condemn antisemitism as harassment at a December 5 congressional hearing or the mounting claims of plagiarism against her - but said she had been the victim of racist threats. 'It has...

CEFC China Energy would eventually funnel millions of dollars to the Bidens, but Zang was never charged, and the Justice Department has yet to explain why. Court documents from the New York trial of Patrick Ho continue to shed light on who Hunter Biden was dealing with when he entered into business with CEFC, a Chinese energy conglomerate founded by Ye Jianming that would give millions to Hunter Biden and the Biden family. Transcripts from Ho’s trial show that Zang Jianjun, the person Ho described as the number two executive at CEFC China Energy was present when the company offered...

Not everything that looks like a duck is a duck and car accidents have been known to happen, but the gasoline can part of it raises a lot of red flags.Two people were killed and five others, including three pedestrians, were injured early Monday in a crash outside the Kodak Center following a New Year’s Eve concert.Police said a Ford Expedition traveling east on West Ridge Road struck a Mitsubishi Outlander that was pulling out of a parking lot around 12:50 a.m., killing two adult passengers in the Mitsubishi.So far not so strange. And then it gets strange.

[Catholic Caucus] Fiducia Supplicans: Its inevitable effect and true intentThe big buzz in Catholic circles these days concerns the new DDF Declaration, Fiducia Supplicans, allowing for “the possibility of blessing couples in irregular situations and same-sex couples.”Here, I will touch on those portions of the text that reveal its true intent. [HINT: It’s not what its authors are claiming.]In the preface, Cardinal Tucho “Mouth Healer” Fernández, Prefect of the DDF, immediately makes clear that the text of the declaration “was submitted to the Holy Father [sic] for his review, and he approved it with his signature.”He tells us that the...

President Joe Biden spent a week vacationing in the U.S. Virgin Islands, staying at the luxurious St. Croix villa of Bill and Connie Neville – tech and business moguls with interests in national media, foreign yacht sales, and venture capital investing. Online rental listings for their tropical villa indicate vacationers have paid between $700 and $900 a night to stay at the secluded beachfront property. The Biden family has vacationed there a number of times, dating back to Biden’s Vice Presidency. Last year, He spent last New Years at the island ‘free-of-charge’ too. The White House defended the gift, stating:...

Embattled Harvard University President Claudine Gay has resigned, she announced on Tuesday. "It is with a heavy heart but a deep love for Harvard that I write to share that I will be stepping down as president," she said in a lengthy letter to the school community. "This is not a decision I came to easily. Indeed, it has been difficult beyond words because I have looked forward to working with so many of you to advance the commitment to academic excellence that has propelled this great university across centuries." “But after consultation with members of the Corporation, it has...

Convicted ballot harvester, Gloria Torres, has been appointed as the new Vice Mayor of San Luis, Arizona. Torres, who was appointed during the regular city council meeting on December 13, pleaded guilty to ballot abuse in June 2023. Torres and Nadia Guadalupe Lizarraga-Mayorquin a/k/a Nadia Buchanan were indicted in October 2022, on two Class 6 felonies of conspiracy and ballot abuse stemming from a two-year long investigation by the Arizona Attorney General’s Office with assistance from the Yuma County Sheriff’s Office. The ballot harvesting activities were exposed by two Yuma County men, David Lara, and Gary Garcia Snyder, through hidden...

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu did not violate state discrimination laws by holding a 'no whites' holiday party because the event was not open to the public, Massachusetts Attorney General has ruled. Democrat Wu hosted the controversial event in December for 'electeds of color'. Her aides were only supposed to invite her six city council members 'of color' but they accidentally sent the event details to seven white members too.

The custody dispute between a German steakhouse heiress and her former husband took an unexpected turn over the weekend when their youngest children were abducted while celebrating New Year’s with their father in Denmark, local authorities said. Christina Block’s two children — 13-year-old Klara and Theodor, 10 — were watching fireworks with their father, Block’s ex-husband Stephan Hensel, at a cafe in Gravenstein around 12:15 a.m. Monday when a group of men attacked, Bild newspaper reported. The men knocked Hensel down and forced the children into a car before speeding away in two separate vehicles, the outlet said, citing Danish...

Donald Trump is making serious headway with a bloc of the GOP that’s among the most skeptical of his 2024 bid: Republican senators. In some cases, Trump is breaking through thanks to the sort of personal attention that he’s known to lavish on allies and supporters. Sen. John Hoeven (R-N.D.), for example, endorsed home-state Gov. Doug Burgum for president in June — but even before Burgum dropped out of the primary, Trump was already in Hoeven’s ear. Trump “called me before” to discuss an endorsement, Hoeven recalled in an interview. The Midwesterner said he told the former president Burgum is...

House Democrats fighting to flip control of the chamber next year will first have to overcome an expected bloodbath in North Carolina, where Republicans have secured a new map all but guaranteeing a red wave in November. GOP lawmakers in the state legislature approved a redistricting plan in October that sets the stage for Republicans to pick up at least three seats, and maybe four, in the 14-member delegation — a tally that, by itself, would double the GOP’s slender House majority on Capitol Hill.

More than half the people in the world live in countries that will hold national elections in 2024, an electoral calendar that could reshape global history and define relations between the world’s two largest economies – the United States and China's.The first major election of the year will take place Jan. 13 in Taiwan, where the outcome is sure to spark a response from neighboring China – either an increase or decrease in the defense posture.China President Xi Jinping in his New Year's address renewed his vow to reunify China and Taiwan, which has increasingly tried to become more democratic...

VIDEOOn January 2, 2024 Larry Sabato of the Univerisity of Virginia's Center for Politics kicked off the election year by poisoning the political well by declaring that "Trump engaged in insurrection" during an appearance on C-SPAN'S "Washington Journal." Even Jack Smith who suffers from extreme TDS did NOT charge President Donald Trump with insurrection yet Larry has decided that Trump is guilty of it based on what, we don't know. Certainly nothing legal. Of course, Sabato tried to act like he wasn't an extreme partisan by then going on to state that Trump should be allowed on the ballots despite...

A major Massachusetts healthcare system is kicking off the new year with mask mandates for some staffers in their facilities. As of January 2, 2024, healthcare staff that interacts directly with patients will now be required to mask up. According to an October 31 press release from Mass General Brigham, respiratory illness season officially starts when over 1.9 percent of patients “presenting to emergency departments or outpatient clinics have symptoms of respiratory illness.” However, when that percentage reaches 2.85 percent, certain mask mandates automatically go into place.

Last week, the Supreme Court rejected Special Counsel Jack Smith’s request that the high court fast-track an appeal by former President Donald Trump claiming immunity from the charges related to the violence at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. While the immunity questions will likely return to the Supreme Court after the D.C. Circuit weighs in on the issues, before then the justices will consider the validity of two of the four charges levied against the former president — and it is likely a majority of the Supreme Court will rule that the “crimes” the special counsel charged are not...

Introduction We are living in a time of grassroots demands to transform our built environment and our relationships with one another and the earth.2 To abolish prisons and police, rent, debt, borders, and billionaires.3 To decommodify housing and healthcare and to decolonize land.4 To exercise more collective ownership over our collectively generated wealth.5 Some of us are reimagining the state. Others are dreaming of moving beyond it.6 But these are more than dreams. These are demands for a democratic political economy. These demands increased in volume this year as the violence of policing continued, the fires burned in California and...