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Hunter Biden storms out of the House Oversight Committee hearing

The US Navy shot down 21 Houthi missiles and drones launched from Yemen, according to a statement from US Central Command, in one of the largest Houthi attacks to take place in the Red Sea in recent months. The military called it a “complex attack” carried out by the Iranian-backed militants. The barrage, launched at about 9:15 p.m. Tuesday in Yemen, included 18 one-way attack drones, two anti-ship cruise missiles and one anti-ship ballistic missile, Central Command said. Two US destroyers, as well as F-18 fighter jets from the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower aircraft carrier, participated in the combined effort...

Nobody manipulates markets like The Federal Reserve! Nobody but The Fed. Here we sit with core inflation rate BELOW the current Fed Funds Target Rate (upper bound). So is it time to start withdrawing its more than ample monetary stimulus. Like the Bank Term Funding Program. The Federal Reserve is likely to retire the Bank Term Funding Program in March. This would entail an additional ongoing headwind for reserves, and thus liquidity, through 2024. At the margin, this adds weight to the case for the Fed cutting interest rates sooner in the year. The BTFP was created in the wake...

Native born Americans will only use 95% of the benefits they pay into social security, leaving a small but healthy surplus for the future of the program. While foreign born workers will collect 120% of the benefits they pay in (www.fairus.org/issue/publications-resources/mass-immigration-wont-save-social-security), representing a major deficit for the program.

Fox News anchor Bret Baier worked hard to convince former President Trump to participate in a town hall in Iowa, slated to take place Wednesday and compete directly with the fifth Republican primary debate on CNN. “It’s not easy,” Baier told the New York Times this week about his efforts to encourage the former president to sit for “tough but fair” questions in a live setting. “This is getting to the playoffs,” Baier said. “This is a time when voters need to see him live, in person, when it happens.”

Hunter Biden showed up on Capitol Hill at the start of a markup to hold him in contempt of Congress. His unexpected appearance at the House Oversight Committee shocked the GOP lawmakers in attendance. The top Democrat on the committee Jamie Raskin appeared to be aware that the president's son was going to disturb proceedings with his shock entry. Who bribed Hunter Biden to be here today?' asked Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C. 'I think Hunter Biden should be arrested right here and right now,' Mace continued.

Hunter Biden just showed up to the hill looking high as hell 👀 pic.twitter.com/41tHwEA4JK— johnny maga (@_johnnymaga) January 10, 2024

WASHINGTON, Thursday, Jan. 7. The removal of all the rebel prisoners confined at various points throughout the loyal States to within the limits of Gen. BUTLER's department is to commence immediately. The rebel officers at Johnson's Island will probably be removed to Fort Delaware. Senator WILSON hopes to push his Conscription bill to a vote to-morrow. There is some disposition to dodge the clause abolishing commutation. The chances of the bill passing the House with the commutation out are not promising. Advices from Chattanooga to the close of the year represent matters in that vicinity as exceedingly quiet, and not...

Apart from potentially preventing a particular disease, vaccines may cause persistent nonspecific effects that can affect a person’s lifetime survival. In a review published on Dec. 26 in Vaccine, researchers found that non-live vaccines like influenza, COVID-19, hepatitis B, and diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis (DTaP) tend to cause adverse nonspecific effects (NSE), increasing a person’s risks of all-cause mortality and the potential risk of infections from diseases they are meant to protect against. A live vaccine contains a weakened form of the pathogen, which is less virulent but capable of replicating in the body, thus mimicking the actual disease progression. Non-live vaccines use...

Police in Poland have stormed the nation’s presidential palace, still occupied by conservative Andrzej Duda. Cops took two ministers from the former Law and Justice (PiS) government to prison this week, despite the fact they had been awarded presidential pardons. New globalist Prime Minister Donald Tusk, alongside the new Marshal (Speaker) of the Sejm (Legislature) Szymon Hołownia, have moved swiftly to persecute members of the former, right-wing government in moves similar to the Biden pursuit of Donald Trump.

Earlier, our own Brett T. did a post focusing on to the story of how the Department of Justice’s Civil Right Division filed a ‘statement of interest’ claiming that Gender Dysphoria was covered by the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). The reactions to that post talked in detail about how deep of a philosophical contradiction it is to call it a disability and that is valid. But I wanted to take a moment in a VIP post to dive deep into how utterly outrageous it was … and to talk about the actual legal implications that the actual text of...

Gov. Kathy Hochul inserted herself into a culture clash Tuesday, saying she’s considering banishing artwork of Native Americans in the state Capitol building that is deemed offensive to tribal people. Hochul’s push to remove negative depictions of Native Americans in artwork comes amid the ongoing campaign to remove statues of explorer Christopher Columbus from the public square or government buildings over his treatment of indigenous people. New York education officials in 2022 ordered school districts to ditch Native American mascots deemed racist. There’s a big bust of Columbus — a revered figure among many Italian Americans — chiseled into the...

A U.S. Navy sailor was sentenced to 27 months in jail on Monday for accepting nearly $15,000 in bribes from a Chinese intelligence officer in exchange for photos of unclassified private U.S. military information.

This list only includes destroyed vehicles and equipment of which photo or videographic evidence is available. Therefore, the amount of equipment destroyed is significantly higher than recorded here. Loitering munitions, drones used as unmanned bait, civilian vehicles and derelict equipment are not included in this list. All possible effort has gone into avoiding duplicate entries and discerning the status of equipment between captured or abandoned. Many of the entries listed as 'abandoned' will likely end up captured or destroyed. Similarly, some of the captured equipment might be destroyed if it can't be recovered. When a vehicle is captured and then...

Sixty heads of state and government are packing their bags and readying to fly into the luxury Swiss mountain resort of Davos ahead of the next World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting that begins Monday. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, French President Emmanuel Macron, Chinese Premier Li Qiang, and U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres are among the self-styled global luminaries set to alight from their private jet transports for a week of meetings, cocktails, and back slapping. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky, and U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan will also take part...

The basic impossibility of Kiev achieving anything wrt Crimea and why all of their wretched schemes are doomed.

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Soros-funded Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis has been subpoenaed to testify in the divorce proceedings of Nathan Wade, the special prosecutor she appointed to go after former President Donald Trump and his associates. According to a court filing obtained by The Wall Street Journal, Willis was served a subpoena at her Atlanta office for her testimony in the divorce case of Nathan Wade and his wife, Joycelyn Wade. The nature of the questions Willis may face in the deposition remains undisclosed in the subpoena document. According to WSJ, a spokesman for Willis declined to comment regarding the subpoena. However,...

If the speed of light is constant, and the "Big Bang"(according to Google) happened 13.8 billion years ago, then how is the size of the known universe (according to Google) 93 billion light years across? Shouldn't it at most be about 28 billion light years across?

DES MOINES, Iowa – With six days to go until Iowa's caucuses kick off the Republican presidential nominating calendar, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis no longer predicts victory and instead vows that "we're going to do well here." DeSantis, at a Fox News town hall on Tuesday in Iowa's capital and largest city, emphasized that the battle for the GOP nomination "is a long process" and pledged that he's "in it for the long haul." [cut] "We’re going to win Iowa. We’ve got the organization in place," the governor declared in a Fox News Digital interview in Bettendorf, Iowa a week...