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we’re getting very close to peak hostage puppy. you can tell by how hysterical and badly framed the ejaculations of outrage have become and the hilariously wobbly foundations upon which they are being erected. the whole of this enterprise seems to have become one massive sleight of hand rooted in passing off bad logic and worse equivalences. let’s look: if one is seeking misbegotten regime hysteria, richard hanania is always a good place to start, and this one is a doozie even by his august standards: ooh, “levels of nihilism i didn’t think were possible!” catchy, but it’s pure projection....

More files related to the 1963 John F. Kennedy Assassination released by the National Archives... In Jerusalem late tonight police clashing with demonstrators as the cabinet met to fire the chief of domestic intelligence. Windows of cars being used by demonstrators smashed by police... Universities in Maine saying they will not discriminate against female athletes by allowing biological males...message given to US Department of Agriculture... Judge James Boasberg is doing everything in his power to usurp the Power of the Presidency" That is some of the messaging from President Trump... President Trump signing an executive order... Israeli air strikes late...

In Israel late tonight an attack by Jewish residents on a Palestinian village... Hundreds of illegal immigrants held at the US military base in Guantanamo Bay Cuba returned to the United States... Armenia and Azerbaijan agreeing on the text of a peace treaty... Senate Minority Leader Democrat Chuck Schumer of New York supporting the "Continuing Resolution" to continue to spend money and increase the national debt... A federal judge in California ordering reinstatement of probationary employees... New York's Columbia University expelling and suspending students over protests in support... An Israeli airstrike on a target in northeastern Lebanon... British Prime Minister...

This week a US State Department spokesperson echoing the message of impeached South Korean... The new FBI Director Kash Patel out tonight... defending... US Secretary of State Marco Rubio telling CNN European countries want to keep the Ukraine War going...Rubio also saying...Zelensky needs to apologize... "Zelensky cannot make peace with Moscow he would be removed within days...opinion of British journalist... A group of nations will meet in London on Sunday...Zelensky will be there... Ukraine, The Washington Post reports the US may stop shipments of military... The FBI returning property seized from President Trump... In New Mexico the Santa Fe County...

Israeli Chief of Staff...apologizing to female soldiers taken captive...wrong to have ignored their warnings... Ongoing fighting in northern Syria involving... In Beirut a UN peacekeeping force vehicle torched during a protest by supporters of the Hezbollah... There's a new report from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons...Ukraine... Ukraine revising a deal offered by the Trump Administration... President Trump signing an executive order barring federal funds... The firing of probationary employees at US government departments... The crew of the US Army helicopter that collided with an airliner...may have missed... Nine days before Germany's election US Vice-President JD Vance meeting...

"Because of the tender mercy of our God, by which the rising sun will come to us from heaven, to shine on those living in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the path of peace" Luke 1:78-79 NIV Bible The first song today is from Sir Cliff Richard... Russia-Ukraine the warmup for the main event and how will Donald Trump impact the trajectory... 1. I get the impression that Luigi Mangione may beat all these charges... 2. The United States is pushing, prodding and provoking nations... A brief China Update we are moving from...

The US Central Command reporting two Houthi radar sites destroyed... A senior Hezbollah commander killed in an Israeli strike... Security at some US military bases in Europe adjusted after the raised level of alert in recent days... The Commandant of the United States Marine Corps General Eric Smith says the Marines aim to shut down the sea lanes coming out of China... Two injured, one missing in an explosion at a munitions factory in Camden, Arkansas... Plenty of talk this afternoon about Joe Biden and whether her will continue to run for re-election... The British Election tomorrow a poll...Reform leader...

US Central Command reporting destruction of a drone in the Red Sea launched from Yemen... "The Real Debate" independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. joins the Joe Biden-Donald Trump debate... Also, from tonight's debate the remarks of Joe Biden regarding rapes... In Oklahoma the elected Superintendent of Public Instruction Ryan Walters directing...all classrooms in the state have a Bible...school curriculum include teaching from the Bible... Ursula von der Leyen selected for a second term as European Commission President... Fires and power outages reported in the northern Israeli city of Safed following a rocket barrage from Lebanon... An attack on a...

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken arriving in Ukraine... Tonight, more towns taken by Russian forces advancing in the Kharkiv Region northeast of the city of Kharkiv... US Central Command downing a missile and two drones launched by Houthi... Israel downing a drone entering Israeli airspace from the east... A curfew decreed in the French South Pacific territory of New Caledonia. All public gatherings banned... Armenia's opposition leader Archbishop Bagrat Galstanyan calling for more protests against the government tomorrow... At least 12 killed dozens of other injured when a billboard collapsed in Mumbai, India... US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen saying...

Its early Friday morning in the UK results beginning to come in for the local government elections... Turkey (Türkiye) halting all trade with Israel... Eight Syrian soldiers wounded in an Israeli attack tonight in a Damascus suburb... A massive fire tonight in Moscow.. In the Uk 45 people arrested resisting efforts to detain illegal immigrants for transfer to Rwanda... Swedish authorities granting permission for a Quran burning rally on May 10th in Malmo... "If the Russians were to break through the front line, if there were a Ukrainian request--which is not the case today--we would legitimately have to ask ourselves...

Plans for the 2024 Paris Olympics 100 years after Paris Olympics of 1924 involved an elaborate opening ceremony along the Seine River but now security concerns and fear of terrorism are putting those plans into question... This week National Rally leaders Jordan Bardella and Marine Le Pen in the National Assembly saying defeat for the government in the European Parliament elections on June 9th should lead to dissolution of the Assembly and new elections in France... This week the leader of France's main Leftist party (LFI) Jean-Luc Melenchon was banned from speaking in a room at the University of Lille......

I read this on a "Spring Valley" vitamin bottle at Walmart the other day... Sobriety Check Update lets play the song... Does that song make you angry or did it make you angry when you first heard it... Getting back to "DEI" I didn't say it wasn't a problem or isn't a problem I would be denying my own experience. I worked in television news and right before I was drummed out as a drunk in 1990 I could see corporate efforts to bring in "Minority" hires. Marxist-Leninist thinking was in the heart of one of those hires she did...

The tight band of security for the Paris Olympics includes major portions of the city center and areas around Olympic venues turning into special "Anti-Terrorist Zones"... This protest one by motorcyclists against government laws regarding motorcycles. Protests called across France today to oppose government requirements for inspection... But there was indeed a Yellow Vests protest today this long-form video shows today's demonstration...

An Israeli warship firing missiles destroying an unidentified aerial target... Joe Biden given the lead in a head-to-head contest with President Trump...In a multi-candidate field Trump and Biden at 38 percent each... A week ahead of a trial in New York brought by Democrat prosecutors, President Donald Trump... A wanted terrorism suspect from Tajikistan arrested in Rome... Hamas reported rejecting a Gaza ceasefire deal from US CIA Director William Burns... Canada unveiling a new defense strategy today...But in the end defense spending will top off at 1.76 percent of GDP short of the 2 percent expectation... Israel says it struck...

In Haiti today violence on the streets at last one person killed... A ship claiming to be from Yemen trying to hail a merchant vessel... President Trump posting a 175 million dollar bond... Israel says it is urgently probing the deaths of five aid workers... "We urgently call on the Israeli leadership to abandon the practice of provocative military operations in Syria and other neighboring countries" That statement from Russia's foreign ministry tonight... North Korea firing a ballistic missile eastwards into the Sea of Japan (East Sea)... UK politics 20 Labor Party local council members in Lancashire resigning from Labor...

Welcome here we are on what is considered a Holy Week culminating on Easter Sunday the Resurrection Of Christ and lets bring in Russell Brand... One can say the name of "the Lord" proclaim it loudly but in the end one must do what Jesus would do act like "the Lord"... "As soon as we begin to implement these destructive thoughts about the fact that everyone else is strangers here, we will ruin the country, and the main victims will the Russian people..."... "The well-being of the people of both countries, as well as the future and destiny of humanity,...

The Centrist Liberal Capitalist movement of President Emmanuel Macron trying to contain taxes and inflation for the moment. The Macron faction hoping to maintain a plurality of support from the French electorate in the upcoming June 7th European Parliament elections. Social issues emphasized to suck in voters further to the Left as the Right in France solidifies behind notions ranging from peace in Ukraine to limits on immigration and an end to disintegration of French culture and tradition... ...a unanimous vote in France's National Assembly this week for legislation to pay reparations to 10,000 gay people discriminated against by laws...

Well the Dow closed 39,131.53 and the NASDAQ 15,996.82 for this week. Accounting for inflation caused by federal spending on COVID we are a long way... Japanese and South Korean companies benefit we had a Uniparty junket to those countries Mike Crapo Republican US Senator from Idaho ranking on the Finance Committee joined... And the Democrat Update I think the Democrats are going crazy so we need Napoleon the 14th from 1966... Are you scared into voting Democrat yet? Well to help you sone uniformed individuals have been touring State Capitol buildings across the United States... There are folks out...

The US Army in Europe and Africa is spending its budget to train Ukrainian soldiers... In Stockholm, Sweden a gas smell incident at the headquarters of the Swedish Security Service... Russian authorities report a fire at metallurgical plant...may have been caused by a drone... ...balloon tracked over the Western United States... Two Mississippi National Guard members killed in a helicopter crash... A New York jury finding the National Rifle Association and its longtime CEO Wayne LaPierre liable for lavish spending... President Trump calling for 'immediate action" in Alabama to reverse...Supreme Court decision affirming the humanity... An investigator for President Donald...

Support Free Republic... What was that on Thursday evening was it the "Putin-Biden Debate"... I think there's some football game this weekend a lot of churches having events related to it I notice so let's go with a "Football Update"... The Joe Biden Update bring out the Benny Hill music... Why not an actual Benny Hill "Yakety Sax" show close to intro Joe Biden... And in his own words the Physical Occupant Of The White House... Are they trying to create sympathy for Biden... Back in the 1970's as a teenager I read all three volumes of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's "Gulag...