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"Sustainability" investments became popular a few years back. So-called experts said companies shouldn't just focus on profit. They should put more effort into being "nice." Funds pushing ESG (environmental, social and governance) were all the rage. Giant investment firms like BlackRock pressured companies to hire more women and minorities. CEO Larry Fink announced, "All investments are going to be looked through sustainability." But "sustainability" is a mostly meaningless word. Parnassus claimed it helped meet UN sustainability goals of "nutrition" and "sanitation" by investing in U.S. Foods and Clorox. Starbucks phased out plastic straws while adding lids that used more plastic....

NATIONAL CHOCOLATE CAKE DAY National Chocolate Cake Day celebrates the cake more people favor. And more often than not, we celebrate our special occasions like anniversaries, birthdays and weddings with cake. Why not enjoy chocolate cake on January 27th every year? Q) What is better than eating chocolate cake all day? A) Listening to National Day Radio! Just hit play... #ChocolateCakeDay In America, chocolate was consumed primarily as a beverage until the 1830s or 40s. Chocolate cakes, as we think of them today, mostly did not exist then. According to the Dover Post, the chocolate cake was born in 1765...

The election of 2024 was devastating for the Democrat Party, losing the White House and the U.S. Senate. Democrats were also unable to take back control of the U.S. House, leaving the party in the political wilderness. In addition, most states, 27, have Republican Governors, compared to only 23 who are led by Democrats. Despite a war chest of $2.5 billion and the support of the mainstream news media, Hollywood stars, special interest groups, and the Deep State bureaucracy, former Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democrat Party’s presidential candidate, lost an electoral vote landslide, as well as the popular vote,...

WASHINGTON, Thursday, Jan. 26. The Navy Department to-day received the following report from Admiral POSTER: NORTH ATLANTIC SQUADRON, UNITED STATES FLAGSHIP MALVERN, OFF SMITHVILLE, N.C., Jan. 20, 1865. SIR: In my last I informed you that Fort Caswell had been blown up and evacuated, in consequence of the fall of Fort Fisher. I sent Lieut. W.B. CUSHING around in the Monticello to the western bar to ascertain what had taken place, and to obtain aid from the officers in command of the Nyack and Vicksburgh, and to take advantage of the occasion. Lieut. CUSHING did not obtain the aid he...

New video evidence appears to show the devastating Eaton Fire, which destroyed most of Altadena and parts of northern Pasadena, may have originated with Southern California Edison (SCE) transmission towers in the San Gabriel Mountains. The Eaton Fire destroyed nearly 9,500 structures, displacing thousands of people, causing an estimated $10 billion in loses while severely damaging the local economy. Since the fire erupted on January 7, lawsuits have been filed against SCE in an attempt hold the company liable for allegedly failing to shut off the power grid despite heavy winds approaching 100mph. While SCE maintains it followed procedure, residents...

Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller announced the Trump administration’s plans to investigate widespread child trafficking crimes occurring across the United States, with a particular emphasis on the U.S.-Mexico border. Miller vowed to hold accountable anyone involved in these heinous activities, including Democratic officials. “This administration is committed to investigating every instance of child trafficking, labor trafficking, sex trafficking, child smuggling, and all related crimes,” Miller declared.

This is the latest interview in a ' UFO/ET reveal' series conducted by Ross Coulthart discussing retired special ops operator Bales' experience as a UFO crash retrieval member on Jake Barber's crash recovery team. More interesting information provided on the renaissance man, Jake Barber.

A groundbreaking reanalysis of the M87 galaxy’s supermassive black hole, M87*, unveils intriguing new insights into the structure and behavior of its plasma environment. Credit: EHT collaboration First Step on the Way to a Video of the Black Hole In 2019, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration made history by releasing the first-ever image of a black hole—M87*, located at the center of the galaxy M87. This groundbreaking image was based on data collected in 2017. Now, the EHT team has analyzed additional data from their 2018 observations, revealing new findings. The latest analysis shows that the brightest part of...

Alarming footage shows a trigger-happy football fan brazenly firing a gun into the air as chaos erupted on the streets of Philadelphia after the Eagles playoff game Sunday night. The video, which quickly went viral on social media, captured an unidentified man raising their arm in the air and firing off three gunshots while a huge crowd of Eagles supporters celebrated in the streets — with three people also getting injured as a car struck them. “I believe that was a gun. That was definitely a gun!” one man could be heard saying after the NFC championship game at Lincoln...

Newly released J6 prisoner Jake Lang is happy to be free after four years in inhumane imprisonment without trial, but he also hopes Americans don’t forget the Jan. 6 prisoners pardoned by Donald Trump but not yet released. The infamous D.C. jail known as the Gulag was reportedly the only jail in America that refused to release some dozen of its prisoners right after Trump’s inauguration and J6 pardons, and it has since been reported that some of them have been moved to other jails as authorities allege state charges or other spurious reasons to postpone releasing them ... Lang...

In 2018, the UK’s bipartisan All-Party Parliamentary Group on British Muslims (APPG) produced a report claiming that the official definition of ’Islamophobia’ included calling Mohammed a pedophile and discussing the “issue of ‘grooming gangs’ which was a dangerous “trope” that increased the “vulnerability of Muslims to hate crimes”. The APPG brought together Labour and Conservative Party members, and currently includes 25 parliamentarians. Its treasurer is ‘Baroness’ Sayeeda Warsi, a Pakistani Muslim former Conservative party chair and a minister in the Cameron government.

Speaking to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, President Trump blasted Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan and JP Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon for cancelling the accounts of conservatives and Christian activists. Bank of America (BoA)’s Moynihan has denied the president’s allegations of de-banking and says that they “welcome conservatives” and “have no political litmus test” for their customers. However, JP Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon offered a more convoluted defense of the practice maintaining that “we’re not allowed to tell you why we de-banked you” but that if they don’t do it, the bank could face big...

Netanyahu: ‘Hamas are the new Nazis’. "The core of new antisemitism is the attempt to ... undermine [Israel's] right to self-defense," Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar said. JNS Staff. (Jan. 27, 2025 / JNS). Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday called on the “civilized” world to up its effort to combat Jew-hatred, while labeling the Hamas terror group the “new Nazis.” “On International Holocaust Remembrance Day, I call on all civilized nations to confront antisemitism wherever it appears—on college campuses, city streets or international forums like the [International Criminal Court],” Netanyahu tweeted. “Founded in the shadow of the Holocaust, the...

Pray For The Peace of Jerusalem (1/27/25)[Prayer]Names and Titles of God the Holy Spirit (Gift) 1 John 14:1313 Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit.King James Version________________________God Bless America.ML/LTOS

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping discussed on Tuesday how to build ties with Donald Trump, prospects for a peace deal to end the war in Ukraine and Moscow’s firm support for Beijing’s position on Taiwan. Xi and Putin, who spoke for an hour and 35 minutes by video call after Trump was sworn in as US President, proposed a further deepening of the strategic partnership between their countries which worries the West.

In an address to the World Economic Forum, President Trump criticized Europe's regulatory and environmental policies, advocating for U.S.-led free-market capitalism to enhance Western prosperity. President Trump recently gave a video talk to the World Economic Forum (WEF) assemblage in Davos. He expressed fondness for Europe. He praised many for their attendance—and then tore into the evils of hyperregulation, high taxes, radical environmentalism, and the DEI/ESG commissariat of both the prior Biden administration and indeed the European Union. One might have thought the attendees’ heads would have exploded when Trump referred to oil as “liquid gold.” And he topped that...

President Trump on Sunday night backed off a threat he had made earlier in the day to impose 25% tariffs and economic sanctions on Colombia, which the White House said had met its demands to repatriate migrants into the South American country....The U.S. had been deporting migrants to Colombia and other Latin American countries under the Biden administration, usually using commercial flights, the senior State Department official said. So far in January, there have been 90 deportation flights, with 48 to Guatemala and Honduras, 14 to Mexico and eight to Colombia, said Witness at the Border, a U.S. immigration advocacy...

27 January 2025 Monday of week 3 in Ordinary Time Saint Angela Merici Catholic Church, Florissant, MissouriReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: C(I).First readingHebrews 9:15,24-28Christ offers himself only once to take on the faults of manyChrist brings a new covenant, as the mediator, only so that the people who were called to an eternal inheritance may actually receive what was promised: his death took place to cancel the sins that infringed the earlier covenant. It is not as though Christ had entered a man-made sanctuary which was only modelled on the real one; but it was heaven itself, so...

President Trump is expected to sign two executive orders Monday prohibiting transgender service members and eliminating Diversity, Equity and Inclusion programs from the military, The Post has learned. Trump had signed an order on his first day in office revoking the Biden administration’s 2021 directive that allowed trans people to serve openly in the military, but the incoming EOs will go further. They lay out military standards on pronouns and gender identity and directly prohibit thousands of transgender service members from the military, citing issues with mental and physical readiness. “Unit cohesion requires high levels of integrity and stability among...

Along with all the changes we’ve seen across the country in the early throws of 2025, consumers have been warned to expect some record-high egg prices in the United States. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) price outlook, egg prices are predicted to increase by 20.3 percent by the end of 2025. This isn’t necessarily a surprise, since retail egg prices were up by 8.4 percent in December. The elevated egg prices come after the 2022 outbreak of bird flu, which led to more than 20 million egg-laying chickens dying in the U.S. during the last quarter of...