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A near-week of threats hasn’t had the hoped-for impact for Sir Keir Starmer, who on Monday announced a change of tack with the establishment of a “standing army” to crush riots where they appeared. The Prime Minister, a seasoned lawyer with a usually assured and slick style seemed unsure of his words at times and lacked his normal energy as he spoke to journalists on Monday after he stepped out of a government crisis meeting. Speaking at his official residence and office Downing Street, where it appears a certain degree of bunker mentality has set in — the husband of...

In May, my husband and I embarked on a second honeymoon. It was almost the only trip we've taken together since our first honeymoon 34 years ago. Because we've owned livestock for most of our married life, we haven't traveled together in over three decades. We rented a car and embarked on a leisurely, planless trip around the Southwest. We visited parts of Idaho, Oregon, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, Colorado, Wyoming and Montana before returning, tired but happy, to our snug North Idaho homestead. We avoided cities and instead focused on exploring the vast beauty of the West's wide-open spaces and...

California’s Alameda Unified School District ethnic studies curriculum required students to assess their own level of privilege as they were taught Critical Race Theory and extreme gender theory. Students were given handouts including “My Relationship with Privilege and Oppression,” which asks students “whether you are privileged or oppressed.” White, male, Christian students without a criminal record are singled out as the epitome of privilege. The document lists 29 different identities and characteristics—including race, ethnicity, nationality, sex, religion and education level—that are used to determine one’s alleged level of privilege or marginalization. “Who am I as an intersectional human being,” it...

Former President Donald Trump reacted to stock markets plunging on Monday, presenting voters with a clear choice in November. “STOCK MARKETS ARE CRASHING, JOBS NUMBERS ARE TERRIBLE, WE ARE HEADING TO WORLD WAR lll, AND WE HAVE TWO OF THE MOST INCOMPETENT “LEADERS” IN HISTORY. THIS IS NOT GOOD!!!” he posted on Truth Social. He later added: “VOTERS HAVE A CHOICE — TRUMP PROSPERITY, OR THE KAMALA CRASH & GREAT DEPRESSION OF 2024, NOT TO MENTION THE PROBABILITY OF WORLD WAR lll IF THESE VERY STUPID PEOPLE REMAIN IN OFFICE. REMEMBER, TRUMP WAS RIGHT ABOUT EVERYTHING!!!” He also weighed in...

Kamala Harris, the presumptive Democratic Party nominee has a track record of pushing for illegal aliens to practice law in California. According to a report by John Binder for Breitbart News, Harris was a leading advocate for allowing illegal alien invaders to become licensed lawyers in the state of California. It should be noted California is affectively sanctuary state illegal aliens are allowed to reside and move across the state with virtual impunity Vice President Kamala Harris, now running for the Democratic nomination for president, was once a top champion for allowing illegal aliens to become licensed attorneys in the...

Bitcoin (BTCUSD-8.10%)’s price was tumbling on Monday, mirroring a global selloff in stocks after a weaker-than-expected jobs report on Friday. The largest and oldest token edged lower for much of the weekend before dropping sharply late Sunday. Over the past 24 hours, it was down 15% to $50,186. Ether, another popular digital asset, crashed 25% to $2,197. Friday’s nonfarm payrolls report showed that the U.S. added just 114,000 jobs in July, which fell short of consensus estimates. The soft data sparked worries that the Federal Reserve might not cut interest rates fast enough to prevent a recession. That sparked a...

We compose many top 10 song lists here at ClassicRockHistory.com. Some are more fun to write than others. Our Rickie Lee Jones songs list ranks as one of the most enjoyable we have ever done. There are rock artists, and then there are “rock artists. In our opinion, Rickie Lee Jones is up there with the greats like Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Carole King, and Billie Holiday. We are not the only ones who feel that way. Rickie Lee Jones is a musician’s musician. Just one look at the stellar lineups of musicians on her studio albums defines the...

Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance is calling out Vice President Kamala Harris for her silence on Monday after major U.S. stock indexes saw sharp falloffs. “This moment could set off a real economic calamity around the globe. It requires steady leadership–the kind President Trump delivered for four years,” Vance wrote in a post on x. “Kamala Harris is too afraid to answer media questions and cannot lead us in these troubled times.” This moment could set off a real economic calamity around the globe. It requires steady leadership–the kind President Trump delivered for four years. Kamala Harris is too...

Joe Biden’s senior economic advisor Gene Sperling resigned on Monday after stocks tumbled around the world. Japan’s Nikkei lost 4,451 points on Monday, its biggest single day loss since 1987. The ‘Magnificent Seven’ will shed $1 trillion in value, Reuters reported. Apple and Nvidia led the sell-off. The DOW tumbled more than 1,000 points on Monday. Gene Sperling stepped down as Biden’s senior econ advisor to go work for the Harris campaign. “Under Gene’s leadership, the American Rescue Plan has delivered economic relief to cities and counties across the country, protected millions of union pensions, made the largest-ever federal investment...

"It's not easy to stay here—more for my life and my safety; I can't try over and over again with the same result." Mohammed Idris, who owns Bash café, in south Belfast, says he will not reopen after his business was set alight during violent protests. Disorder broke out after an anti-immigration protest in the city on Saturday. Mr Idris has told BBC News NI his businesses have been targeted before, saying his shop on Sandy Row was targeted last year. "My computer shop was completely damaged just like this café. This café was a hope, a place for a...

British singer-songwriter Rod Stewart poked fun at former President Trump for questioning Vice President Harris’s race and ethnicity, saying he never knew Trump “was Orange” until the GOP presidential nominee suddenly “became an Orange person.” “I didn’t know he was Orange until a number of years ago, when he happened to turn Orange,” Stewart wrote in his post, which featured four headshots of Trump, side by side, appearing to show Trump’s skin tone appearing progressively more orange. “I respect either one, but he obviously doesn’t because all of a sudden he made a turn and he went — he became...

An anti-Israel group that scorned Joe Biden's reelection bid over the president's response to the Jewish state's war on Hamas is now embracing Vice President Kamala Harris, saying she is more likely to push for a permanent ceasefire that would embolden Hamas.The Black Muslim Leadership Council Fund endorsed Harris on Thursday, according to NBC News, making it the first Muslim group to back Harris that previously declared itself "uncommitted" toward Biden...The Black Muslim Leadership Council Fund's endorsement comes as anti-Israel radicals express hope that Harris will adopt more hardline policies toward the Jewish state. Activists who resigned their government posts...

Since the end of 2023 Berkshire has sold 505 million Apple shares — 115 million in the first quarter and another 390 million in the second quarter. As of June 30, that represents a 55.8% reduction in Berkshire’s Apple holdings since the beginning of the year, Reuters noted.

Former Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle and others in top agency leadership positions wanted to destroy the cocaine discovered in the White House last summer, but the Secret Service Forensics Services Division and the Uniformed Division stood firm and rejected the push to dispose of the evidence, according to three sources in the Secret Service community. Multiple heated confrontations and disagreements over how best to handle the cocaine ensued after a Secret Services Uniformed Division officer found the bag on July 2, 2023, a quiet Sunday while President Biden and his family were at Camp David in Maryland, the sources...

JD Vance has repeatedly said that Americans aren’t having enough children. Other right-wing figures agree with him. Elon Musk, broadening the complaint, has said that “population collapse due to low birthrates is a much bigger risk to civilization than global warming.” Because population decline is widely seen as a conservative issue, many progressives don’t seem to worry about it. But they should. If left unchecked, population decline could worsen many of the problems that progressives care about, including economic inequality and the vulnerability of marginalized social groups. This doesn’t mean adopting the conservative case wholesale. Progressives need to develop their...

University of Colorado confirms graphene oxide is in dental anesthetics. - Karen Kingston.. Dr Lundstrom, a family dentist, who formerly had contacted me to provide Darkfield Microscopy testing on dental anesthetics, was able to get analysis done at the University of Boulder Colorado - and they confirmed Graphene. He has been posting the results of his endeavors to get answers on his website. Dr McKernan also did analysis, as did Clifford Carnicom and myself. You can find these results here: Dental Anesthetics analysis Dr Lundstrom They explain: We began the process of getting answers on the safety of dental anesthetic...

Vatican II: For Better or For WorseWhen Pope John XXIII should have been calling Catholics to repentance, prayer, and sacrifice, he decided to call a Council to do the impossible.When the bishops and their theological advisers met in Rome for the Second Vatican Council, journalists divided the participants into two main groups: Progressives and Conservatives. It was a gross exaggeration because within each group there were many different schools of thought. But, for the sake of the point that I want to make, let the names of these two main opposing groups stand, for in all caricatures there is always...

I checked; the CDC really does have this 'TSG' Progam in play. CDC webpage content below the X.com post.https://x.com/TexasTamieK/status/1819530303431389508TexasTamie @TexasTamieK·Aug 2https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel/page/travel-genomic-surveillanceTraveler-based Genomic Surveillance for Early Detection of New SARS-CoV-2 VariantsProgram ImpactHow It WorksThe Traveler-based Genomic Surveillance program (TGS), led by CDC’s Travelers’ Health Branch, is a public-private partnership that plays an important role in U.S. national biosecurity through its two major goals:early detection of new SARS-CoV-2 variants and other pathogens andfilling in gaps in global biosurveillance. OverviewU.S. airports are visited by more than 1 billion travelers each year.Travelers are an important population to consider when tracking new and emerging infectious...

We have to hope that the Federal Reserve realizes that today’s stock market weakness is unlikely to be a passing fad given the poor underlying world economic and political fundamentals. Maybe then the Fed will do the right thing and start cutting interest rates aggressively to provide long-overdue support to a weakening U.S. economy.

If Donald Trump is elected in November (not a foregone conclusion) would he attempt to plug the anchor baby loophole? That’s the insane policy by which babies born to illegal alien mothers on U.S. soil receive automatic birthright citizenship. Thus, American nationality policy is taken from U.S. lawmakers and turned over to foreign lawbreakers.