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Federal funds fuel non-governmental organizations (NGOs) advocating for open-border policies and facilitating the housing and transportation of illegal immigrants across the country...These NGOs have become financially dependent on government grants and contracts, which now far exceed private donations, creating a loop of influence and profit.

Nov. 20 (UPI) -- An overturned truck on an Arizona highway committed a massive party foul when it overturned and spilled thousands of White Claw cans onto the road. Rural Metro Fire West County said the 16-wheel dumpster-style truck overturned on the Loop 303 freeway, at the Northern Avenue interchange, about 11:30 a.m. Tuesday. The truck rolled over onto the driver's side, and its load of empty hard seltzer cans spilled out across lanes of traffic. Rural Metro Fire shared photos showing thousands of empty cans littering the freeway. Officials said the truck is believed to have been hauling the...

Vladimir Putin's hypersonic missile carried a simple message to the West over Ukraine: back off, and if you don't, Russia reserves the right to hit U.S. and British military facilities. -snip- "Putin is saying to the West stop - halt - back off," Sergei Markov, a former Kremlin adviser, told Reuters. "The signal Putin is sending to the world is that we consider these strikes as the direct entry of the United States and Britain into a war against Russia," he said. "But we are not responding with all our might right now because these strikes against Russia will not...

Pat King, one of the most prominent figures of the 2022 Freedom Convoy in Ottawa, has been found guilty on five counts including mischief and disobeying a court order. A judge in an Ottawa courtroom Friday said the Crown proved beyond a reasonable doubt that King was guilty on one count each of mischief, counselling others to commit mischief and counselling others to obstruct police. He was also found guilty of two counts of disobeying a court order. The Alberta resident was found not guilty on three counts of intimidation and one count of obstructing police himself. King could be...

A second Australian teenager who fell critically ill after drinking tainted alcohol in Laos has died in a hospital in Bangkok, her family said Friday, bringing the death toll in the mass poisoning of foreign tourists to six. Holly Bowles, 19, had been in critical condition on life support following the poisoning in Laos more than a week ago. "We are so sad to say that our beautiful girl Holly is now at peace," her family said in a statement sent to Australian Network 10 and other Australian media. "We find comfort and solace in knowing that Holly brought so...

Explanation: Braided and serpentine filaments of glowing gas suggest this nebula's popular name, The Medusa Nebula. Also known as Abell 21, this Medusa is an old planetary nebula some 1,500 light-years away in the constellation Gemini. Like its mythological namesake, the nebula is associated with a dramatic transformation. The planetary nebula phase represents a final stage in the evolution of low mass stars like the sun as they transform themselves from red giants to hot white dwarf stars and in the process shrug off their outer layers. Ultraviolet radiation from the hot star powers the nebular glow. The Medusa's transforming...

Prominent Hitler apologist and despiser of all things non-white, Corey J. Mahler, is about to be yet again condemned by his former denomination, with the Iowa District East of the LCMS voting on a resolution to condemn him and his podcast in the upcoming year. Mahler is a two-bit “theologian” with a few thousand Twitter followers who occasionally gets noticed after one of his particularly offensive tweets goes viral, as well as the co-host of the openly racist podcast Stone Choir. When he’s not posting memes crushing on his beloved Führer, Mahler is giving folks ample evidence of why he’s...

Oh look, it’s the congressional Republicans ... Bison throws the young member of its herd to the wolves to escape. ... Utah voters. ... corrupt establishment vs. the populists. And the populists got rolled, HARD, yesterday. ... It takes just as much effort to trample your adversaries as to betray your friends. So a deliberate choice was made in both cases. ... You don’t have to be faster than the wolves…just faster than your “buddy!”

WASHINGTON — Former Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., said Friday that he doesn't plan to rejoin Congress after he withdrew his name from consideration to be President-elect Donald Trump's attorney general amid sexual misconduct allegations. "I'm still going to be in the fight, but it's going to be from a new perch. I do not intend to join the 119th Congress," Gaetz said in an interview with conservative commentator Charlie Kirk. “There are a number of fantastic Floridians who stepped up to run for my seat, people who have inspired with their heroism, with their public service. And I’m actually excited...

SSPX superior: The Synod is a ‘diabolical reversal of the Gospel’, continuation of Vatican IISSPX head Fr. Davide Pagliarani issued a message today reiterating Archbishop Lefebvre's 1974 rebuke of the 'neo-Modernist and neo-Protestant' reforms of Vatican II, warning the current Synod is an extension of the council.The head of the SSPX has renewed the traditionalist founder’s criticism of the Second Vatican Council, describing the Synod on Synodality as a continuation of the Council and a “diabolical reversal of the Gospel itself.”Today, Father Davide Pagliarani, the Superior General of the Society of St. Pius X, together with his two General Assistants,...

The Who are an English rock band formed in 1964. Their classic line-up consisted of lead singer Roger Daltrey, guitarist and singer Pete Townshend, bass guitarist John Entwistle, and drummer Keith Moon. They are considered one of the most influential rock bands of the 20th century, selling over 100 million records worldwide and holding a reputation for their live shows and studio work

Perhaps the Ukrainian ‘Iron General’ is right, and kinetic World War III really has begun. Perhaps it’s just his wishful thinking as his country loses the war. In the last few days, the escalations in the war have come fast and furious: Ukraine shot US-authorized ATACMS and British-authorized Storm Shadows at targets inside Russian territory. Russia then retaliated with Oreshnik (Hazel), a hypersonic ballistic missile, leveling an industrial zone in Dnipropetrovsk. All this happens while Russian Federation forces have quickened the pace of their territorial conquests all across the frontline. Now, it arises that Ukraine’s former military Commander-in-Chief – and...

Vladimir Putin has said he will fire more of Russia's new hypersonic missiles at targets in Ukraine. The Russian president added that his country has already begun mass production of the nuclear-capable weapon. Putin also said that Moscow would carry out more tests of the hypersonic Oreshnik ballistic missile in 'combat conditions,' a day after firing one on Ukraine. 'We will continue these tests, including in combat conditions, depending on the situation and character of the security threats posted to Russia,' he said in a televised meeting with military chiefs. Putin said that while it isn't an intercontinental missile, it's...

The QuenchSea 3.0 is presently on Kickstarter QuenchSea It's ironic that even when surrounded by water, sailors who are lost at sea can still die of thirst. The QuenchSea 3.0 portable desalinator is designed to keep that from happening, and it requires no power source other than its user's arm muscles. Currently the subject of a Kickstarter campaign, the QuenchSea 3.0 is made by British company Hydro Wind Energy. The firm debuted the original human-powered QuenchSea device back in 2020, followed by the smaller deep-sea-pressure-powered QuenchSea Reel in 2023. On the original model, users arm-pumped a lever that forced seawater...

“The discredited, scandal-ridden smear factory known as the SPLC is about to publish a hit piece doxxing several of our “Not the Bee” writers who wished to remain anonymous so they could speak freely, without fear” according to owner Seth Dillon, who shared the email sent to one of their writers: Not the Bee, a humor-based news, opinion, and entertainment site that has featured our content on a few occasions garbed in the most click-batiest of titles, is basically what you’d get when you combine a baptized front page of Reddit with Buzzfeed. It’s a mood, and it’s great, and...

A Mississippi teacher is “no longer employed” after serving dog treats that she apparently thought was beef jerky to students, leading to at least one child getting sent to the hospital. The teacher gave eight high school students at least one bite of the canine treats during a class birthday party on Wednesday, Calhoun County School District superintendent Dr. Lisa Langford told WTVA. While the school district did not identify the faculty member in question, they did state that the teacher is “no longer employed,” local anchor Wayne Hereford said:

Now that Hillary Clinton’s democratic nomination for president is all but a done deal, it’s an apt time to reflect on what it could mean to have her husband, Bill Clinton, back in the White House. To be sure, over the past decade there’s been a sea change regarding public accusations of sexual misconduct against high profile men. Now that we find ourselves in a moment where the media, police, and lawmakers are encouraged to believe victims first, what are we to make of the charges against Bill Clinton? Further, in several incidents, Hillary Clinton not only sprang to her...

[Catholic Caucus] Bishop Zanchetta Already in Rome with Friend FrancisMonsignor Gustavo Zanchetta, a close friend of Francis and a convicted homosexual abuser, is in Rome.According to MetroNoticias.com.ar (20 November), he is being treated in the Italian capital "because his trusted doctors are there".Zanchetta has heart problems and high blood pressure. It is likely that the first of these two conditions is the reason for his medical trip.On 4 March 2022, the former Bishop of Oran was sentenced to four years and six months in prison for simple homosexual abuse, aggravated by the fact that it was committed by a recognised...

Casper — For the past 14 years they have loomed over the landscape of northeastern Casper, once the symbol of the county’s first step into green energy. Now some say they are just an eyesore. The blades of the 11 240-feet high, 450,000-pound turbines haven’t caught the wind for a few years. Casper resident Terry Wingerter said he was one of the Natrona County commissioners who approved the initial project in 2009. He wishes now he would have voted differently on the wind farm. “They were the first towers in this area, and we had several neighborhood meetings out there,”...

The boss of Jaguar has defended the carmaker’s controversial rebrand and said criticism of its marketing campaign had featured “vile hatred and intolerance”. Rawdon Glover, the managing director of Jaguar, said the campaign message had been lost in “a blaze of intolerance”, adding that the carmaker must move away from “traditional automotive stereotypes”.