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"Nasty Pelosi". LOL! This is commentary from Mark Dice. Love him or hate him...this one is pretty good.

STURGIS, South Dakota — A growing online political movement is trying to enlist Sturgis Motorcycle Rally attendees into pressuring Harley-Davidson to fire its chief executive for supporting climate change policies and diversity and inclusive programs. The movement is led by Robby Starbuck, a popular online conservative activist who targets companies over policies and practices he considers part of a diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) progressive agenda. “Bikers @SturgisRally are going to be spreading the word about this,” Starbuck posted on X (formerly Twitter) on Friday. “Harley is hoping this all blows over. Are y’all ready to give up or make...

Chicago Federal Reserve President Austan Goolsbee on Monday vowed that the central bank would react to signs of weakness in the economy and indicated that interest rates could be too restrictive now. “The Fed’s job is very straightforward, maximize employment, stabilize prices and maintain financial stability. That’s what we’re going to do,” the central bank official said during an interview on CNBC’s “Squawk Box” program. “We’re forward-looking about it. So if the conditions collectively start coming in like that on the through line, there’s deterioration on any of those parts, we’re going to fix it.”

Vladimir Putin suffered a devastating loss as Ukraine reported destroying a $38 million Russian bomber in its latest attack on the enemy. The Ukrainian Main Intelligence Directorate claimed Kyiv's forces struck an SU-34 aircraft during a strike on the Morozovsk Airfield in Rostov Oblast, southwestern Russia. The Ukrainians said several buildings at the airbase were damaged in the bombing as it also struck ammunition deposits.

Stock markets around the world are crashing right now, but why?The answer to this question is the Yen carry trade, a term you'll probably hear many times this week.So what exactly is the Yen carry trade and why did it cause a market downturn?It all started after the Bank of Japan (BOJ) decided to raise rates at their most recent meeting. The BOJ raised rates to ~0.25% in their second rate hike since 2007, effectively ending negative rate policy. For years, traders took advantage of these ultra low rates.The Yen Carry trade explained:For years, investors would borrow Yen at ultra...

This week marks the 60th anniversary of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution that committed the United States to fighting and then losing the Vietnam War. On Aug. 2, 1964, the destroyer USS Maddox was attacked by North Vietnamese PT boats that wrongfully believed Maddox was part of a South Vietnamese strike group delivering a hit-and-run raid on the north. Two days later, the Maddox and USS Turner Joy were ordered back on patrol off the North Vietnamese coast. Both reported being attacked by North Vietnamese PT boats. But those attacks never took place. President Lyndon B. Johnson, however, used the...

According to @CryptoMichNL, the Federal Reserve (FED) is holding an emergency meeting today following a historic correction in Japan's stock markets. This significant market event could potentially impact global financial markets, including the cryptocurrency sector. (Source)

ROME — The Vatican said this weekend it was “saddened” by the drag queen parody of the Last Supper on display during the July 26 opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics, after critics complained loudly over the Vatican’s prolonged silence on the matter. “The Holy See is saddened by some scenes of the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympic Games and cannot but join the voices that have been raised in recent days to deplore the offense done to many Christians and believers of other religions,” it said in a statement. “In a prestigious event where the whole world comes...

Democrats have been going after Ohio Republican Sen. J.D. Vance ever since he was picked as former President Donald Trump's running mate.However, a new report charges that some of the attacks are coming from former Trump White House advisor 2016 campaign manager Kellyanne Conway. Conway denies that she is trying to undermine VanceThat's according to Marc A. Caputo, who is a contributor for the anti-Trump website The Bulwark. He wrote in an article published this past week that Conway is "at the center of the friction" concerning Vance.

The Nikkei plunged 12%, the most since 1987. Stock futures traded sharply lower and investors sheltered in the safety of bonds. A global stock-market selloff intensified Monday, led by a more than 12% drop in Japan’s Nikkei 225. Tech-focused Nasdaq-100 futures were down more than 6%, while contracts tied to the S&P lost more than 4%. The declines extended what has been a dizzying few days on Wall Street during which this year’s most popular trades have been aggressively unwound. A selloff in tech shares continued premarket Monday, with Nvidia, Meta and Apple each losing 9% or more. (The iPhone...

Mmm dd, 2024 Monday of week 18 in Ordinary Time St. Ulrich and Afra, Augsburg, BayernReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: B(II).First readingJeremiah 28:1-17Jeremiah and the lying prophet HananiahAt the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah in the fifth month of the fourth year, the prophet Hananiah son of Azzur, a Gibeonite, spoke as follows to Jeremiah in the Temple of the Lord in the presence of the priests and of all the people. ‘The Lord, the God of Israel, says this, “I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon. In two years’ time...

Pray For The Peace of Jerusalem (8/5/24)[Prayer]Names and Titles of God (The Ransom) Mark 10:4545 For even the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.King James Version________________________God Bless America.ML/LTOS

True to form, the left is back to employing criminal vandalism to censor the views of others. My husband and I live in a Long Island suburb. As we near Election Day, Trump 2024 flags are appearing on our block. Last week, the flag on a house directly across the street, as well as a flag hanging on the home of a recent widow were defaced, ripped totally in half, and pulled down. My “God Bless Trump 2024” flag remained intact. The person doing the vandalism probably didn’t see ours hanging from a pole. That was until last night. This...

Novak Djokovic, a devout Orthodox Christian, gets down on his hands and knees to thank God after his victory at the Paris Olympics. ✝️🥇The Serbian tennis champion, has won his first Olympic gold medal, after competing in 5 separate Olympic Games. https://x.com/OliLondonTV/status/1820187851071615110

Robert Kennedy Jr. has finally admitted he was involved in the shocking discovery of a bear found dead in Central Park a decade ago. The bear was found in the New York park in October 2014 by a dog walker who then notified a Central Park Conservancy worker who contacted police. An investigation by the Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) concluded that the six-month-old bear was run over and killed by a vehicle, but they could not figure out how it ended up in the park.

BREAKING: In the coming days the AMNC will be blowing the whistle on how TSA/FAMS have initiated armed government surveillance on high level conservative politicians. What we have will horrify and sicken you as Americans. You won’t believe it. And we can 100% prove it. The weaponization of our government must stop.

Moving forward, Donald Trump needs to focus his attack on the disastrous Biden governance of the last four years. Make Harris own it. And contrast it with 2017-21 and what will follow in 2025. The Good NewsThe good news for the Trump campaign is that the sure Democratic nominee Kamala Harris is a lifelong California hard leftist at a time when the state is emblematic of progressive nihilism. Her extremist advocacies as a San Francisco county and city attorney, state Attorney General, and senator are on record. And they are consistent with what has virtually destroyed the state. Harris was...

“For we have brought nothing into the world, so we cannot take anything out of it either” (1 Timothy 6:7). Temporal concerns must not crowd out the believer’s focus on eternal things. In Charles Dickens’s memorable story A Christmas Carol, Ebenezer Scrooge learns through a series of dreams that life consists of far more important values than his selfish preoccupation with business and finance. In essence, Scrooge learns a lesson that reminds us of Jesus’ sobering question, “For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world, and forfeit his soul?” (Mark 8:36). Dickens’s story also dovetails well...

Ukraine destroyed a Russian submarine in Crimea on Friday, Kyiv's military has said, appearing to mark the latest blow to the Black Sea Fleet based around the peninsula to the south of mainland Ukraine. Ukraine "successfully struck" Russia's Rostov-on-Don submarine in the southern Crimean port city of Sevastopol, Kyiv's military said on Saturday. Kyiv also targeted four launchers belonging to Moscow's advanced S-400 air-defense systems on the Crimean peninsula, Ukraine's general staff said... "As a result of the hit, the boat sank on the spot," Ukraine's armed forces said. It had an estimated cost of around $300 million, according to...

Iran has issued a NOTAM (flight operations notice) for the center, west, and northwest of the country, advising aircraft to change their routes.