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Pizza Hut is facing backlash — and a potential boycott — after some photos shared on the Pizza Hut Israel Instagram account appeared to show the company providing free pizzas to Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) soldiers in the country. The post, a now-expired Instagram Story, was screenshot and shared across social media in the following days. Since then, #BoycottPizzaHut has trended on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, and similar posts have cropped up on Instagram and TikTok. Pizza Hut joins the likes of McDonald’s and Starbucks — both companies faced backlash and boycotts last year for their perceived...

Ukraine is desperate. It cannot win on the battlefield, and Victoria Nuland’s sister-in-law, who runs the Institute for the Study of War (ISW), is the source of all the propaganda that keeps painting Russia as weak to get the West to attack it. Ukraine is now using drones and long-range missiles, violating the air space of NATO with no concern, and attacking an oil refinery in Finland. Now, they attacked a refinery in southern Russia. It was the Ukrainians that destroyed Nord Stream. The hardliners in Russia say they are correct and they should have nuked Kyiv. They are now...

The DOJ Quietly Prosecutes the Covid ResistanceMidwives in New York and plastic surgeons in Utah didn’t close schools, shutter businesses, or add trillions of dollars to the national debt, yet they are the primary targets of the Biden DOJ’s Covid prosecution. Court documents reveal how the Department of Justice has dedicated hundreds of thousands of dollars in resources to prosecuting Americans who forged Covid vaccination statuses, according to a new report from David Zweig. The feds have used undercover agents to take down midwives and local doctors who forged vaccine cards. Many of the “criminals” had no profit motive; they...

2024 Pennsylvania GE: Biden 47% (+8) Trump 39% A new poll from Susquehanna Polling and Research suggests an eight-point edge to President Joe Biden (47%) over likely Republican challenger Donald Trump (39%).

VIDEOA few days ago I posted a video which showed British pianist Brendan Kavanaugh in a dispute with Communist Chinese who demanded he remove the video showing them even though he was playing a piano in a public space. At the time it seemed that Kavanaugh, whose story was publicized worldwide, had triumphed in his support for freedom as opposed to CCP thuggery. However, as you can see, this apparent victory for freedom came DESPITE one of the cops who tried to get Kavanaugh to cave to the Communist Chinese. At one point you can see a look of smug...

A trucker convoy is preparing to head to several locations along the U.S.-Mexico border next week to draw more attention to President Joe Biden’s lax immigration enforcement policies Republicans have blamed for millions of illegal crossings. The issue is really coming to a head in Texas, where Gov. Greg Abbott (R) appears to be defying the administration and the U.S. Supreme Court by ordering his National Guard to erect razor wire barriers along a section of border near Eagle Pass to staunch the flow of migrants. “There will be a ‘Take Our Border Back’ multi-day trucker convoy from January 29th...

Image of Uranus from Webb It seems crazy that Uranus was discovered in 1781 yet here we are, in 2024 and we have only sent one spacecraft to explore Uranus. Voyager 2 is the only spacecraft to have given us close-up images of Uranus (and Neptune) but since their visit in 1986, we have not returned. There have of course been great images from the Hubble Space Telescope and from the James Webb Space Telescope but we still have lots to learn about them. The discovery of Uranus was accidental! British astronomer William Herschel was surveying stars that were too...

Stand with Texas

Charles Barkley shares his thoughts about a moment during Donald Trump's New Hampshire primary victory speech when Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) said he "loved" and showed his support for the former president despite being appointed to the Senate in 2012 by Trump's rival Nikki Haley.

The United States military confirmed Tuesday that it conducted airstrikes in Somalia over the weekend, resulting in the deaths of three Al-Qaeda-affiliated Al-Shabab militants. The U.S. Africa Command, based in Stuttgart, Germany, stated that the strikes were carried out at the request of Somalia's government in a remote area approximately 35 kilometres northeast of the port city of Kismayo on Sunday. The statement did not disclose the identities of the targeted individuals, and no civilian casualties were reported. Al-Shabab, the largest and most active al-Qaida network globally, has consistently posed a threat to U.S. forces and Washington's security interests. The...

Joe Biden is losing the support of Black voters in Georgia ahead of the 2024 presidential election. Georgia is a key swing state that could decide who wins November's race. In 2020, Biden flipped the state from Donald Trump by 11,779 votes, or 0.24 percent of the 5 million ballots cast, making Trump the first Republican to lose the state in decades. But since then, polls have suggested Trump may flip the state back as support for Biden wanes. Key to Biden's potential endurance in the state is the Black vote. In 2020, he won 88 percent of this demographic,...

Gov. Kathy Hochul has proposed legislation for New York to recreate a new waterfront commission to fight the kind of Mafia corruption made famous in Marlon Brando’s 1954 flick “On The Waterfront.” But the union representing dock workers in the Empire State said Hochul is living in the past and urged lawmakers to sink the measure. Hochul proposed the new waterfront unit for New York’s side of the harbor to replace the prior Waterfront Commission of New York Harbor, a bi-state agency founded in 1953 by a Congressionally authorized compact between New York and New Jersey.

The city of Boston has begun housing hundreds of illegal border crossers at Logan International Airport, even in the face of Massport’s Interim CEO’s claims that the airport was “not an appropriate place” to house migrants. On Mon., Mass. Dem. Gov. Maura Healey demanded that President Joe Biden loosen the federal purse strings, as more illegals began filling up the corridors around Logan.

The nation’s top public health agency did not send an alert on COVID-19 vaccines and heart inflammation because officials were concerned they would cause panic, according to an email obtained by The Epoch Times. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in 2021 drafted an alert for heart inflammation, or myocarditis, and the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines. Officials prepared to release it to the public, taking steps including having the agency’s director review the language, internal documents show. “The pros and cons of an official HAN are what the main discussion are right now,” Dr. Sara Oliver,...

Sweet home ANYWHERE is getting more difficult under Biden’s vision for the economy. On the heels of the worst year ever for existing home sales, new home sales were expected to rebound 10.0% MoM in December after plunging back to reality in November (-12.2%) as mortgage rates tumbled. New home sales disappointed in December, rising just 8% MoM (vs 10% exp) but that is still the biggest MoM jump since last December. Source: Bloomberg Of course, having pointed out the dramatic series of downward revisions to this data series this year, November’s 12.2% plunge was revised up to a 8.0%...

NASA recently revealed that a laser beam was fired from its Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) at a spacecraft on the Moon’s surface, in a technological first that could pave the path toward new methods of precision target location. The American space agency says a laser beam was transmitted from the LRO’s laser altimeter instrument at a tiny device on the Indian Space Research Organization’s (ISRO) Vikram lander on December 12, 2023. The transmission occurred while the LRO was more than 60 miles away as it passed over the lunar South Pole when it fired a series of laser pulses at...

When you have a terrible sales pitch, it’s best to eliminate the materials. Except this wasn’t a sales pitch—it was an official act of Congress that required evidence to be collected, cataloged, and preserved. People were sworn under oath to make the case that Donald Trump was Augusto Pinochet reincarnated, who tried to overthrow the government on January 6, 2021. Then-Reps. Liz Cheney (R-WY) and Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) staked their political careers on this Democratic hit job and lost. Cheney got blown out in a primary challenge, while Kinzinger opted not to seek reelection. After months of this select committee,...

A Fulton County resident vented anger at District Attorney Fani Willis for her politically motivated prosecution of former president Donald Trump. During an address to the County Board of Commissioners, resident Derrick Blassingame unloaded on Willis, accusing her of “mismanagement” of taxpayer dollars and interference in the election. “I’m done with Fulton County fumbling our elections,” Blassingame said. “I’m done with the gross mismanagement of our taxpayer dollars by the Fulton County Democrats on this body.” Blassingame also brought up Willis’ alleged affair with Nathan Wade, saying he was “disgusted.” Willis hired Wade as the special prosecutor for Trump’s election...

FBI Overstepped in Search of Hundreds of Safe Deposit Boxes, Court RulesThe 9th Circuit compared the searches to the “abuses of power” that “led to adoption of the Fourth Amendment in the first place.”The FBI overstepped its constitutional authority when agents searched hundreds of safe deposit boxes without warrants in 2021, a federal appeals court ruled. The court compared the FBI’s tactics to the kind of indiscriminate searches that led to the enactment of the Bill of Rights in the first place.In March 2021, the FBI raided U.S. Private Vaults, a safe deposit box company in Beverly Hills, California. The...

The judge presiding over former President Donald Trump's "election conspiracy" case in Georgia has scheduled a hearing for Thursday to consider a request for discovery from one of Trump's alleged "co-conspirators," who is seeking access to any records that potentially catch Fulton County prosecutors conspiring with President Joe Biden's White House. Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee issued a one-page order on January 17 summoning attorneys for ex-Trump DOJ official Jeffrey B. Clark and Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis to appear in his Atlanta courtroom at 2 p.m. Thursday. Clark's motion to compel—dated January 12—asked the court to...