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It’s that time of the year again: the illuminations have gone up and the first Christmas bucket orders are being placed at KFC. Wait, what? Yes, you read that correctly: Christmas and KFC are completely intertwined in Japan. Around December 25, families gather around the table to eat a bucket of fried chicken for the occasion – something that would be all but incomprehensible in countries with Christian foundations, where Christmas is generally, uh, fast food-free. Orders for buckets of deep-fried drumsticks and breast can be placed from early November, and even then you’ll have to wait in the...

If European nations allow Ukraine into NATO, WWIII will break outAlex Jones breaks down the growing support to include Ukraine in NATO, pushing WW3 to the edge of Russia’s border.

The roller coaster of this year’s United Nations Climate Conference (COP28) has ended with a historic new agreement: For the first time, world governments have said countries should transition away from fossil fuels. The deal comes after days of tense negotiations, especially over the fossil fuel language, which caused the Dubai conference to stretch into overtime. Climate advocates have praised it as a step forward, but also raised concerns about potential loopholes in its language and criticized it for not going further as the climate crisis deepens — and fossil fuel production continues to increase.

According to multiple reports, Hamas leaders who have been living in luxury in five-star hotels in Qatar are reportedly on the run, fleeing Qatar, The Jerusalem Post is reporting that several of the leaders fled their locations, "turning off their phones and not accepting calls, KAN's Arabic language channel reported citing sources in Doha on Tuesday evening."KAN News also reported that Saleh al-Arouri, a senior member of Hamas, left his usual residence in Beirut for Turkey.According to the Israeli War Room account, the leaders have fled to Algeria because their "safety can no longer be guaranteed" in Qatar.#BREAKING: Initial reports...

"FBI agents abused America's surveillance apparatus to open a groundless counter-intelligence campaign against a Republican presidential candidate. Despite the abuses, years of calls for reform, the Senate is presented w/ NDAA that continues the status-quo.""Since the FBI demonstrated a willingness to evade the rules to spy on an aid to a presidential candidate, we should not be surprised that Carter Page was far from the only victim of FISA authorities." "The Senate will sweep this under the rug. We will have no reform. They have known for five years that this is coming up, and they are not going to...

Here’s one case where no one can deny that corporate DEI was a scam. A former head of DEI programs for Facebook has pleaded guilty to swindling the company out of $4 million, not including whatever money they were spending on her actual salary.Barbara Furlow-Smiles, who served as lead strategist and global head of employee resource groups and diversity engagement at Facebook, used the stolen funds to live an extravagant lifestyle that spanned from California to Georgia, prosecutors said.From approximately January 2017 to September 2021, Furlow-Smiles led Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programs at Facebook and was responsible for developing...

[Catholic Caucus] Australian archbishop ousts rector of thriving Latin Mass church after years-long conflictRepeating his own recent words in support of Traditionis Custodes, Archbishop Costelloe ordered the diocese to accept the papal restrictions on the traditional Mass, since 'it is now time for all in the Archdiocese to accept the Pope’s decisions and abide by them as they are set out in our diocesan regulations.'The Archbishop of Perth has removed a much-loved priest from the thriving traditional community he was running, and banned him from saying the traditional Mass, in the latest implementation of Pope Francis’s 2021 restrictions on the...

Is the FBI Abetting the Globalist Hate Crimes Against Traditional Catholics?“Now, for any one to say that they believe in God—I doubt very much whether there is any one who really does believe, or understand what it means—but for any one even to say so is the very worst crime conceivable: it is high treason. But there is going to be no violence; it will all be quite quiet and merciful. Why, you have always approved of Euthanasia, as we all do. Well, it is that that will be used . . .” (Mr. Brand, from Monsignor Robert Hugh Benson’s...

Concerns regarding the DeSantis campaign’s coordination with the pro-DeSantis Super PAC Never Back Down–which has come under scrutiny in recent months as DeSantis fails to make a dent in former President Donald Trump’s lead in the Republican primary race–are increasing.There have been reports of infighting within Never Back Down and tensions between the PAC, which has spent $43 million on ads this year, and the campaign as DeSantis has failed to make any dent at all in Trump’s lead since the governor’s May launch.A September post in Vanity Fair details how Never Back Down’s chief Jeff Roe and the DeSantis...

One of two Florida burglary grand theft suspects with a long criminal history bragged that he would be out of jail shortly after his arrest before he realized he was taken into custody in a county where the law is enforced by a no-nonsense sheriff with a tough-on-crime platform. Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said his deputies spotted a stolen Dodge Ram just after 1 a.m. Wednesday. The driver, identified as Tamari Lucas, 24, a Tampa resident, and a passenger eventually stopped the truck and fled on foot, authorities said. [snip] Judd said. Upon his arrest, Lucas allegedly told the...

Cheese pizza, anyone? A viral online rumor is spreading like wildfire, claiming that Etsy is unwittingly being used as a hub for child porn and child trafficking. It’s a very serious accusation, so we want to share the information with you and allow you to draw your own conclusions. The author, Liz Crokin, provided a lot of detailed information on the topic. Here’s what she had to say: IS CHILD TRAFFICKING TAKING PLACE ON ETSY? There are a lot of suspicious listings on Etsy that have people wondering if child porn or children are for sale for sex on the...

‼️🚨 Tell your Senators to OPPOSE today’s motion to waive the Rule 28 point of order. 🚨‼️ Let's get FISA 702 spying off the NDAA @RandPaul Senators should do themselves the honor of standing by their oath to the Constitution. How can they look their constituents in the eyes and justify a vote to empower government at the expense of Americans’ individual rights? It's high time we quit letting fear overrun our constitutional duty. We must strip this extension of domestic spying authority out of the NDAA. 🚨CALL YOUR SENATORS🚨

@BasedMikeLee The Senate just voted to waive the point of order against the NDAA. 35 of us opposed the motion to waive. We needed only 41 to prevent this outcome, and to remove FISA 702 from the NDAA. This is not good. The House should #StopTheNDAA.

Wednesday has been an eventful day on Capitol Hill, but not for the reasons Republicans would have hoped. Hunter Biden was supposed to show up for a subpoenaed deposition. Instead, he held a surprise press conference and then thumbed his nose at Congress. .. Rep. James Comer, who heads the investigating House Oversight Committee, promised immediate retribution, including a vote on holding the president's on in contempt of Congress. That would be consistent with how Democrats treated witnesses like Steve Bannon for ignoring congressional subpoenas. Unfortunately, the GOP caucus has caved, deciding to instead try to renegotiate an appearance by...

@JohnCornyn One of the biggest responsibilities Congress has each year is to provide for the common defense, ensuring our military has the tools & resources it needs to keep Americans safe. Today, the Senate passed the FY24 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky visited Washington on Tuesday in yet another attempt to extract billions upon billions of dollars in aid for his nation's war with Russia. What began as a sit-down in the Oval Office ended with Joe Biden giving a presser trashing the very people he needs to try to bring on board. Namely, Republican House and Senate members who do not want to send more money overseas to Ukraine without first addressing America's historic border crisis. Biden took the podium not to persuade but to rant, and it perfectly exposed the kindergarten level of logic he operates...

What was it that Obama Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said about Joe Biden? That he's been wrong about foreign policy for 40 years? Well, all we have to do is amend that to 50 years, as, unfortunately, he's still predictably wrong on everything. When it comes to the Israel-Hamas war, it was predictable that Biden would get weaker in his support as the war progressed and the left screamed louder about the "genocide" in Gaza. That was easy to foresee. Now, here it is officially. The guy who claimed he was 100 percent with Israel told donors at a...

As we discussed yesterday, state and local officials have come up with a new plan to revive the city of Portland. One of the top items on their agenda is to reign in open-air drug use, something the voters of Oregon decriminalized back in 2020. But we may have a ways to go before Portland can be rescued from the poor decision making of its own elected officials, at least we do if this story is any guide. Portland-area law enforcement officials made one of the biggest fentanyl busts in state history last Thursday. At the time it seemed like...

The word is that New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu will endorse Nikki Haley today. Sununu is not running for re-election. He has been auditioning Ron DeSantis, Haley, and Chris Christie by campaigning with the individual candidates across the state. Sununu will make his endorsement at a town hall event for Haley in Manchester. The New Hampshire governor was contemplating a run in the Republican primary himself but decided against it. Sununu is only 49 years old. He has plenty of time to run later if he wants to do so. He spent the summer and fall with the GOP candidates...

Law enforcement characterized the crimes as “swatting,” efforts to provoke unwarranted SWAT team responses. Someone emailed threats of bombings and shootings to schools and Jewish communities across Minnesota. On Wednesday, police received word of the intimidation at such Jewish organizations as Rochester’s B’nai Israel Synagogue, ultimately finding no evidence of danger. So far at least nine Jewish groups and 25 schools received threats. Investigators say they used almost identical language and characterized them as “swatting” wherein someone seeks to harm their target by triggering an unnecessary deployment of a SWAT team. The Minnesota jurisdictions affected by the crimes include Aitkin,...