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Former New York Times executive editor Jill Abramson blasted journalists in Washington, D.C. for failing to “hold power accountable” — and participating in a “massive cover-up” with the White House to shield President Biden’s “decline.” “It is our duty to poke through White House smoke screens and find out the truth,” Abramson told Semafor. “The Biden White House clearly succeeded in a massive cover-up of the degree of the President’s feebleness and his serious physical decline, which may be simply the result of old age. “Shame on the White House press corps for not to have [sic] pierced the veil...

Former U.N. ambassador and South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley emerged as the only Republican presidential candidate who can decisively beat Joe Biden in 2024, a new poll shows. Results: Haley, 51, struck a commanding 49% against Biden’s 43%, according to the CNN/SSRS poll released today. This is the only result to exceed the margin of error. Meanwhile, former President Donald Trump received 47% to Biden’s 46%; former Vice President Mike Pence and Sen. Tim Scott both received 46% to Biden’s 44% and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie received 44% to Biden’s 42%. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis tied with Biden at...

Update from Ukraine | Wagner started the military coup in Ruzzia | Prygozhyn is going to Moscow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMtjavd5Sug The summary of the situation of Russian re-invasion to Ukraine covering the last 48 hours, as of 22nd June 2023 – 22:00 (Kyiv time). https://militaryland.net/news/invasion-day-484-summary/ *** Great interactive map with viewer controlled Map magnification tool to use for each Front! https://militaryland.net/maps/

Michigan State Senators Lana Theis, Ed McBroom, Joe Bellino, Dan Lauwers, and Kevin Daley announced on Tuesday that they are investigating Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s deal with Gotion after it was revealed that the battery manufacturing company has close ties with the Taliban and the Chinese Communist Party. Whitmer’s deal with the company says the State of Michigan will provide Gotion with state taxpayer dollars in exchange for Gotion to build a plant in Michigan. In a statement released on Tuesday, Michigan State Senators Lana Theis, Ed McBroom, Joe Bellino, Dan Lauwers, and Kevin Daley asked federal lawmakers for help...

Most of the world is focused on the war in Ukraine, which has created political unrest in most western countries. Although it feels as though Russia is under a microscope, there is a lot of Russian politics that the media has not discussed. One of these things is that there are rivals to Putin, one of whom is Mikhail Khodorkovsky. The Munich Security Conference took place two weeks ago. Although Russian officials are usually invited, this year that changed. Due to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, organizers decided to invite Russian politicians pushing to replace Putin. Those guests included multiple Russian...

In order to put an end to the deaths and destruction of Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin simply has to order an end to the war and the withdrawal of Russian troops from Ukrainian territory. The statement issued by the EU during a meeting of the OSCE Permanent Council in Vienna says, according to Censor.NEТ citing Ukrinform. "At four o'clock on February 24, the largest war of aggression in Europe since World War II began, which brought untold suffering to the people of Ukraine. The world knows who the aggressor is. With its deliberate, unprovoked and unjustified attack, Russia has...

With record inflation and out-of-control government spending, the notion of a fiscally responsible government seems like an afterthought. Both parties have not provided even the slightest hint at curbing expenditures in any way. The more members from both parties speak, the more money they seemingly want to spend. Fortunately, our country has at least one member of Congress concerned with our national debt: Sen. Rand Paul. On Monday, Paul introduced his "Six Penny Plan," which he says will balance the federal budget within five years. With numerous financial troubles on the horizon, his plan is the legitimate solution our country...

Boris Epshteyn, the Strategic Advisor on the Trump 2020 Campaign, joined Dr. Gina Loudon on Real America’s Voice on Monday. During their discussion, Epstheyn weighed in on the current audit in Arizona and potential outcome after several state election audits expose massive fraud in the 2020 election. Epshteyn responded that the US Constitution does not prohibit Trump reinstatement, the matter has never been ruled upon.

Europe’s top diplomat on Saturday called for a Palestinian state sharing Jerusalem as its capital with Israel, hours after the police killing of an Arab-Israeli further fanned tensions. The appeal by the European Union’s Federica Mogherini followed the dawn killing of the man by police in northern Israel, with his family saying he was killed “in cold blood” and a video showing he was shot in the back. “I think Jerusalem can be and should be the capital of two states,” the new EU foreign policy chief told reporters in the Israeli-occupied West Bank city of Ramallah. …

Move over, Chris Matthews; there’s a new flip-flopping liberal “journalist” in town and his name is Piers Morgan. Morgan has had a revelation: Maybe, just maybe, government can become tyrannical after all. In a conversation with Penn Jillette, CNN’s anti-gun zealot – who has spent the last six months deriding the suggestion that the American government can’t be trusted when it comes to gun control – has had a change of heart after watching the IRS and DOJ/APP scandals unfold. Yep, Morgan went all Chris Matthews (the flip-flopping one) on Jillette when he came to the

Gay rights campaigners have urged mosque leaders in east London to ban homophobic clerics from using their premises, following a 21% rise in gay hate crime in the area. Activists, including journalist Julie Bindel and Pride trustee Colm Howard-Lloyd, said some preachers at the East London Mosque and the London Muslim Centre had "created an atmosphere in which hate is socially acceptable; they have spread a message in which maiming and violence is the most dutiful, honourable, devout thing to do". Their concerns follow the £100 fine given to Mohammed Hasnath, who put up "Gay-Free Zone" stickers in the area;

Arnold Schwarzenegger began his last State of the State address Wednesday by describing how two pets, a pony and a pig, jointly filch dog food from a sealed container. "So one lesson to draw from the pig and pony story is what we can accomplish when we work together," he told state lawmakers, describing 2009 as "a pig and pony year." Schwarzenegger quickly followed that upbeat metaphor, however, with a litany of California's ills, ranging from a recession-wracked economy to continuing budget deficits, and laid out an agenda of reforms whose enactment is about as likely as his pet porker's...

LEWISTON, Maine --An Islamic civil liberties group is decrying an episode in Lewiston in which a man tossed a pig's head into a mosque during prayers. Brent Matthews, 33, of Lewiston, was charged with the misdemeanor crime of desecrating a church, officials said. The Lewiston Police Department referred the case to the Androscoggin County district attorney as well as the state attorney general. The Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations, which learned of the incident, notified the FBI and U.S. Justice Department as well, said spokesman Ibrahim Hooper. "All Americans should be able to offer prayers in their houses of worship...

<p>Convicted Sept. 11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui says he lied on the witness stand about being involved in the plot and wants to withdraw his guilty plea because he now believes he can get a fair trial.</p> <p>In a motion filed Friday but released today, Moussaoui said he testified March 27 he was supposed to hijack a fifth plane on Sept. 11, 2001, and fly it into the White House "even though I knew that was a complete fabrication."</p>

New car to run on iron filings The Daily Telegraph October 21, 2005 THE green car of the future could run on a tankful of iron filings, it was claimed yesterday. US scientist Dave Beach believes such a car would produce almost no pollution and be more fuel-efficient. Given a high enough temperature, powdered iron ignite, releasing energy. Rockets already use metal power. Aluminium is sprinkled into the space shuttle's solid rockets to give them an extra boost. But to kick off combustion in most metals requires temperatures of at least 2000C, which would melt the average engine. Dr Beach...

Excerpt - REDMOND, Wash. -- Jim Allchin, a senior Microsoft Corp. executive, walked into Bill Gates's office here one day in July last year to deliver a bombshell about the next generation of Microsoft Windows. "It's not going to work," Mr. Allchin says he told the Microsoft chairman. The new version, code-named Longhorn, was so complex its writers would never be able to make it run properly. The news got even worse: Longhorn was irredeemable because Microsoft engineers were building it just as they had always built software. Throughout its history, Microsoft had let thousands of programmers each produce their...

Guinea Pig Parachute Won't Lead To Cruelty Charges 19-Year-Old Already Paid Civil Fine POSTED: 12:22 pm EDT May 25, 2005 BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- An Indiana University student is cleared of animal cruelty charges after a December skydiving stunt involving a parachute and a guinea pig. Nineteen-year-old David Feldscott was accused of taping a parachute to the rodent and sending it out an eighth-floor dorm window. He and some friends told police they were planning to retrieve the guinea pig when it reached the ground, but that plan failed when the animal got stuck in a tree. It was rescued and...

Fury at ‘Tory pig’ poster Flying into a storm ... Labour poster showing Howard and Letwin as pigs       By GEORGE PASCOE-WATSON A LABOUR poster showing Michael Howard and Oliver Letwin as pigs was condemned as deeply offensive last night. Mr Howard and Mr Letwin are Jewish. Jews do not eat pork, and critics accused Labour of deliberately using their faces on images of pigs to cause offence. Just 24 hours earlier, Mr Blair had led solemn tributes to the memories of Jews murdered by the Nazis. Yesterday, Labour unveiled its new “pig” poster of the Tory leader...

It seems as if single men are discovering what single women have known since ancient Egyptian times: Cats are worthy of worship. At least unmarried British men say so, in a recent survey conducted by Cats Protection, a leading animal welfare society in the United Kingdom. And judging by the delirious worship that single men I know lavish on their kitties, I'd like to think American men -- those brave enough to stand up and be counted -- feel the same way.

US Treasury Secretary John Snow said all options remained open for a bipartisan panel that will examine potentially far-reaching reforms to the American tax code. "The president will ask the panel and ask me to give him the very best thinking across the board on how to produce broad-based reform of the tax system. So everything is on the table," Snow said. The panel, which President George W. Bush has yet to appoint, will make its recommendations as soon as possible in 2005, and proposals could go to lawmakers before the end of next year, Snow told the "Fox News...