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At least one person has died in violent unrest and riots in Papua New Guinea's capital of Port Moresby. Local media are reporting that the death toll from the unrest could be up to five at this stage, but ABC has only confirmed that one person has died. Paramedics responded to multiple call-outs last night involving severed burns and gunshot wounds, with St. John Ambulance describing it as a "significant emergency situation". Local security services described the rioting overnight as total anarchy. Videos of the unrest showed warehouses engulfed in flames and large crowds of people engaging in looting and...

Vivek Ramaswamy, a candidate for Republican nominee for US president in 2024, inspired accusations of taking the rightwing talking point about “draining the swamp” too literally when his microphone appeared to broadcast himself urinating during an X Space conversation with Elon Musk, Alex Jones, Andrew Tate, Matt Gaetz and others. On the same day that Musk welcomed Jones – the notorious conspiracy theorist – back to X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter that banned Jones in 2018 for abusive behavior, Musk invited him to speak with a constellation of far-right media figures and politicians. The conversation reportedly...

MSNBC political analyst Claire McCaskill said Tuesday on “Deadline” that she believed it was “amazing how stupid” former President Donald Trump was. At a CNN town hall, Trump said, “I had every right to under the Presidential Records Act. I was there and I took what I took and it gets declassified.” Anchor Nicolle Wallace said, “It’s the classified documents version of when you’re famous they let you do it. It’s ludicrous.”

These indictments represent a coup d'etat of national proportions. Under the circumstances exile is a completely understandable response. I am--as I am sure you are--concerned regarding Trump's physical safety and that of his family while remaining in the United States. And if he is convicted, does he lose Secret Service protection?

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) has updated his Twitter handle ahead of his widely anticipated 2024 launch for president, dropping the nod to his home state.DeSantis dropped “FL” from his Twitter this week, just days before he is expected to officially announce a bid for president. He changed the handle on his personal campaign Twitter account from “@RonDeSantisFL” to “@RonDeSantis,” while his team also dropped their Florida connection from their “@TeamRonDeSantis” account this week. After months of speculation, DeSantis is set to enter the 2024 GOP presidential primary this week after months of trips to early primary states, media appearances...

His wife, Casey, also removed "Florida" from her handle.

Governor Ron DeSantis (R-FL) has come under fire after making changes to his personal Twitter account in preparation for a reported presidential bid announcement this week. Previously known on Twitter as @GovRonDeSantisFL, the governor’s new handle now reads @GovRonDeSantis. The decision to drop the “FL” from his handle has been interpreted by some as an act of distancing himself from the state that propelled him into the national spotlight. Critics argue that by removing the “FL,” DeSantis is effectively signaling that he views Florida as a means to an end and has little intention of continuing his service as governor...

WOW @GovRonDeSantis just changed his Twitter handle to drop the FL part of his handle. He’s done with Florida. He used Floridians as a stepping stone and never wanted to be Governor for a second term. https://t.co/V3qh4YtLje— Laura Loomer (@LauraLoomer) May 22, 2023Ron Destablishment just removed the Florida association from his personal account Congrats, Florida. You got played. pic.twitter.com/r9WHdjEm8q— johnny maga (@_johnnymaga) May 22, 2023

The biggest, bloodiest, cruelest terror against Christians in history.Millions upon millions of martyrs; a concrete number is hard to ascertain. Indeed, it is beyond staggering the multitude of lives that were lost to the new world of Secular-Humanistic Marxist dialectic materialism, not only in the former Soviet territories (such as Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Latvia, and so forth) but around the world.

A common trope from supporters of the likely presidential run of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is that he stopped COVID lockdowns in his state during the height of the pandemic while President Donald Trump was pushing them from the White House.But the record shows that this is not what occurred. DeSantis used his authority as governor to enforce lockdowns, shuttering businesses, and use the power of the state to punish noncompliance with his edicts.Video from June 2020 shows DeSantis threatening bars with revoking their liquor licenses unless they abided by his arbitrary restrictions enacted supposedly in the name of science:For...

[In 1992 at the Direction of Dick Cheney, Paul Wolfowitz, with the assistance of Scooter Libby and Zalmay Khalilzad, among others, drafted the March 6 1992 version of the Defense Planning Guidance. This guidance became known as the Wolfowitz Doctrine, and was leaked to the NY Times who published March 8, 1992: U.S. STRATEGY PLAN CALLS FOR INSURING NO RIVALS DEVELOP. The outrage caused the resulting 1994 Defense Plan to be significantly rewritten with substantial changes in an , The GWU's National Security Archives have published a history of the redactions and twists and turns in the formulation of this...

Officers with the Eufaula Police Department in Alabama responded to a home to remove a gray rat snake from the resident's toilet. Photo courtesy of the Eufaula Police Department/Facebook Sept. 19 (UPI) -- Police in Alabama responded to a residence to deal with an unusual situation when the homeowner found a snake in their toilet. The Eufaula Police Department said officers with the day shift responded to help a homeowner who found a snake in their toilet bowl. "We never know from one day to the next what kind of call we will receive during our shift," the department said...

<p>New York in the summer is a noisy place, especially if you don’t have money. The rich run off to the Hamptons or Maine. The bourgeoisie are safely shielded by the hum of their central air, their petite cousins by the roar of their window units. But for the broke—the have-littles and have-nots—summer means an open window, through which the clatter of the city becomes the soundtrack to life: motorcycles revving, buses braking, couples squabbling, children summoning one another out to play, and music. Ceaseless music.</p>

Another senseless death thanks most likely to Fauci.

Despite Donald Trump's own followers booing and calling Republican House leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) a “RINO,” the ex-president sent out a statement late Saturday night endorsing McCarthy in his quest for 2022 re-election. “Congressman Kevin McCarthy is an outstanding Representative,” Trump wrote, calling the GOP House leader “strong” and “fearless.” However, after posting the endorsement to his Truth Social platform, Trump's followers expressed disappointment in the comment section.

A woman was lost alone in dense Hawaii foliage for hours with a dying cellphone battery, officials told news outlets. The 27-year-old wandered off trail Saturday, Nov. 6, and couldn’t find her way back, the Honolulu Fire Department told the Star-Advertiser. The hiker called 911 after she was lost for hours alone in “thick, dense foliage,” KITV4 reported. She only had 25% battery life left on her cellphone when she called for help. The woman began her hike at about 1 p.m., and firefighters arrived three hours later, according to KHON2. Rescuers hoisted the woman to safety in a helicopter,...

My sister in laws favorite tune from ABB!

I do not know how many people are killed by lockdowns in the leftist police state of Victoria in Australia. But I know that lockdowns are causing deaths. Lockdowns rob people of freedom and social connection thus causing despair. I know two young people in Victoria with friends who have suicided because of this despair. I know of one octogenarian and a nonagenarian who stopped eating out of grief when the people they knew and who loved them were no longer able to visit. Both died. A senior health professional has told me that these are not isolated incidents. Lockdown...

Our country is broken -- it's coming apart at the seams -- and it is not going to fix itself. Repairing it will take effort from all of us. It may require consideration of some big national changes. Too many of us are just sitting back and watching America's decline. It's time to consider any idea that holds some promise for national renewal, any idea that could universally bring us all together and teach us a shared cause. Perhaps even mandatory national service. Mandatory service would require every 18-year-old to serve for a year or more. It is not a...

Is the party almost over? Volatility has returned to Wall Street in a major way, and certain investors are getting absolutely crushed. On Wednesday, a trillion dollars in paper wealth had been wiped out during the trading session at one point, but those losses were later pared back as cryptocurrencies rallied. On social media, there has been a lot of weeping and wailing due to the huge financial losses that some people have experienced this week. But if you think that these losses are bad, just wait until you see what is coming later. In the old days, investors would...