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When Joe Biden made his power grab in 2020, he didn’t waste time pretending to be a unifier. As a matter of fact, one of the very first things his weaponized DOJ did, just two days after Inauguration Day, was launch a political hit job on Douglass Mackey, a young conservative mover and shaker who dared to mock Hillary Clinton with a satirical meme back in 2016.. Many believe that move was a test run, a little judicial experiment to see if the regime could jail someone for speech. Could they twist a funny meme into a federal crime? Could...

How quickly things change. It was only two years ago, in 2023, that I was writing posts compiling long lists of quotes from climate activists warning that all assets used for production of coal, oil and gas were about to become obsolete and “stranded.” After all, wind and solar were (supposedly) cheaper and cleaner for generating electricity, which could then power anything and everything. Therefore anyone stupid enough to make further investments in producing fossil fuels would lose everything. Here is one such post from June 2023, and another from February 2023. If you look today, you can still find...

When you are accused, criticized, or attacked, what is your first instinct? To defend yourself. To explain your intentions. To set the record straight. But Niccolò Machiavelli, the master strategist of power, would tell you this is a fatal error. Every word you spend on defense is a word that solidifies your position as the weak one, the one on trial. You are playing their game, on their terms, and you have already lost. In this brutally effective video, “NEVER Defend Yourself - Machiavelli’s Trick to Flip the Power Instantly,” we break down one of the most potent psychological tactics...

WASHINGTON — Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg failed to replace outdated air-traffic-control systems while in office — with his agency instead shelling out tens of billions of dollars on a DEI agenda, according to federal spending records and airline-industry insiders. What his department was really interested in was handing out hundreds of diversity, equity and inclusion grants totaling more than $80 billion over four years — at least half of the DOT’s entire budget for a typical fiscal year, records show.

legislators passed a series of bills last week aimed at targeting cryptocurrencies– the CBDC Anti-Surveillance State Act, the GENIUS Act, and the CLARITY Act. I explained the GENIUS Act in another post. Some believe that the CBDC Anti-Surveillance State Act and the CLARITY Act are the safeguards that will ensure the USD is never digitized. The CLARITY Act determines who will regulate digital assets and what is considered an asset vs a security. The CFTC was tasked with overseeing digital commodities, while the SEC will oversee restricted digital assets whose value is intrinsically linked to blockchain technology. A token sold...

Donald Trump has demanded a high profile Democrat be sent to prison in the latest escalation in their long-running feud. California Senator Adam Schiff is at the center of a Justice Department investigation for a 'sustained pattern of possible mortgage fraud' involving misrepresenting which home he used as his primary residence, Trump said. 'Adam 'Shifty' Schiff is in BIG TROUBLE,' Trump said in a Truth Social post on Sunday night. 'He falsified loan documents.' Trump also went on to slam Schiff for orchestrating an 'American Tragedy' by investigating his son Donald Trump Jr.'s phone records in 2019 amid concerns about...

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When the summer heats up, many of us try to stay indoors as much as possible. But there are times when you need to be outside for work, events and activities. Excessive heat can lead to dehydration, heat exhaustion and heat stroke. We explain the different symptoms you should look for and ways to help prevent and treat each one. DEHYDRATION Dehydration happens when you aren't getting enough fluids. This can lead to your body not functioning properly. It is a cause of both heat exhaustion and heat stroke. It doesn't just happen during excessive heat. Dehydration can also be...

You’ve been handed a bona fide intelligence brief about an extensive terrorist plot to attack America. That’s the essence of the book, AL-QAEDA 2.0 – The Upcoming Attack on The United States and Europe Unveiled (Understanding Global Jihad). Unfortunately, this is not a Brad Thor or Jack Carr action thriller, it’s a thorough briefing written by William Archer and a think tank of former intelligence analysts and operatives from the Transatlantic Intelligence Consortium (TIC). AL-QAEDA 2.0 is a sober and in-depth expert assessment of the conditions that have spurred this threat, the convergence of Islamic players that formulated the plan,...

🇺🇸Pray For The Peace of Jerusalem 🇮🇱(7/21/25)[Prayer]Water, Rivers, and Streams in the BiblePsalm 105:32He turned their rain into hail, with lightning throughout their land;Holy Bible, New International Version®, NIV® Copyright ©1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.® Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.________________________

21 July 2025 Monday of week 16 in Ordinary Time St Lawrence Parish, Shelton, CT Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: C(I).First readingExodus 14:5-18Pharaoh sets out in pursuit of the sons of IsraelWhen Pharaoh, king of Egypt, was told that the Israelites had made their escape, he and his courtiers changed their minds about the people. ‘What have we done,’ they said ‘allowing Israel to leave our service?’ So Pharaoh had his chariot harnessed and gathered his troops about him, taking six hundred of the best chariots and all the other chariots in Egypt, each manned by a picked...

The Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk, the world’s first operational stealth aircraft, was a revolutionary bomber deceptively designated as a “fighter” to attract the Air Force’s best pilots. Born from the top-secret “Have Blue” program, the “Wobblin’ Goblin” proved its worth during the 1991 Gulf War, where it struck heavily defended targets in Baghdad with impunity on the opening night of the air campaign.

Watching leftists endlessly promote the same catastrophic policies is tiresome. Some quotations come to mind: - "“It isn't so much that liberals are ignorant. It's just that they know so many things that aren't so.” -- Ronald Reagan - “There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.” -- Soren Kierkegaard Since so many of the worst cities in America are run by Democrats, one would think that their voters would eventually catch on. Those who do and are able, move away. Some take their...

Demonstrators chant ‘send them home’ and ‘save our kids’ as bottles and flares thrown at police blocking entranceFive people have been arrested after more than 1,000 demonstrators gathered outside a hotel in Essex believed to be housing asylum seekers, police said. Demonstrators, some of whom appeared to be drinking alcohol, chanted “send them home” and “save our kids” as bottles and smoke flares were thrown towards police vans blocking the entrance to the Bell hotel in Epping on Sunday evening. Police escorted a counter-protester, an elderly woman, out of the area surrounding the hotel, as a group of masked protesters...

Boat carrying 48 passengers, including 20 children, tipped over during a sudden thunderstorm. A tourist boat has capsized in Vietnam’s Ha Long Bay, killing at least 37 people and leaving five others missing, according to Vietnamese state media. The Wonder Sea Boat, carrying 48 passengers and five crew, tipped over during a sudden thunderstorm on Saturday afternoon, according to the reports. More than 20 children were among the passengers. The official Vietnam News Agency said rescue teams had found 10 survivors by Saturday evening and recovered 37 bodies by Sunday morning. Four of the victims have yet to be identified....

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard set off fireworks on Friday when she accused former president Barack Obama of organizing a coup d’état against his successor. Summarizing the damning evidence in her possession, Gabbard concluded, “These documents detail a treasonous conspiracy by officials at the highest levels of the Obama White House to subvert the will of the American people.” ... Gabbard just dropped the “Mother of All Bombs” on Obama’s White House syndicate... General Michael Flynn, President Trump’s short-lived National Security Advisor, assessed the situation succinctly: “This is surreal.” As a target of the Deep State’s treacherous lawfare operations,...

On July 20, Russian state media aired new footage of a large-scale drone production facility in Yelabuga, Tatarstan, which manufactures Iranian-designed Shahed-136 drones under the Russian designation “Geran-2.” The video, released by the Ministry of Defense’s “Zvezda” TV channel offers a rare inside look at one of Russia’s key drone assembly centers used to supply its ongoing attacks on Ukraine. According to Timur Shagivaleev, CEO of the Alabuga Special Economic Zone, the facility is the largest drone factory in the world. Located approximately 1,700 kilometers from Ukraine’s border, the site reportedly houses dozens of assembly lines and hundreds of drones...

Chemotherapy can be a life-saving though sometimes toxic effort to eliminate lethal cancer cells before they kill the patient. As such, it can serve as a bitter metaphor for the often-controversial efforts of the Trump administration to undo the metastasizing damage caused by the Biden administration. The left and the media, however, wish to convince America that the remedy for four years of either catastrophe is worse than the catastrophe itself. Take the border. It was literally destroyed over the last four years. After welcoming in some three million illegal aliens per year—none with legal permission, health audits, or criminal...

@RupertLowe10 If it’s true and @JDVance is planning to holiday in the Cotswolds, then I hope he knows that he and his family are incredibly welcome. Please ignore the pro-Palestine lunatics who glue themselves to the concrete. These freaks do not represent Britain. You’re all very welcome.

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