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President Joe Biden made headlines again this week after a video went viral that led to some social media users calling it “elder abuse.” Before the 81-year-old commander-in-chief lifted the microphone off the table at the formation of a task force focused on reducing costs for American families, he began uttering the well-known but perplexing …
Haiti ‘will go hungry soon’, it has been warned, as looting sparks a food shortage in the Caribbean country where out-gunned police are battling rampaging gangs. Despite Haiti’s government on Thursday extending a state of emergency and nighttime curfew by a month to try and curb the violent gang attacks, US government officials fear that …
“A major factor behind the skyrocketing demand is the rapid innovation in artificial intelligence, which is driving the construction of large warehouses of computing infrastructure that require exponentially more power than traditional data centers. AI is also part of a huge scale-up of cloud computing. Tech firms like Amazon, Apple, Google, Meta and Microsoft are …
Saudi Arabia's first male robot appears to inappropriately touch a female reporter pic.twitter.com/Ph08JStNYC — Historic Vids (@historyinmemes) March 8, 2024
THEY WENT WOKE AND YOU KNOW THE REST: Victoria’s Secret Falls Most Ever in Faltering Turnaround. Underscoring the retailer’s struggle to gain relevance with customers, the company said Wednesday it expects net sales of $6 billion this year, weaker than last year. Thursday’s share decline is Victoria’s Secret’s largest since its July 2021 initial public offering, …
2024 Nissan Ariya Electric SUV Trim Prices Slashed by Thousands. The 2023 Nissan Ariya electric SUV had a starting price of $44,555 for the Engage front-wheel-drive trim. During our review we found that price to too high for the straightforward driving experience and middling range that the EV was offering up. It looks like the …
DEI’S NEW WEAPON: ‘CULTURAL TAXATION.’ DEI ideology demands members of minorities act in their capacity of members of the group instead of individuals. This results in more work for those people, which DEI labels “cultural taxation” without pointing out that the DEI pushers are the tax collectors. DEI pushers’ solution: everyone else should compensate the victims for …
After drag performer RuPaul announced the creation of a “no censorship” Allstora bookstore, censorship was back with a vengeance after many on the left learned that free speech meant that opposing views might be sold at the site. While the sentiment was appealing, it became intolerable when activists noted that a “no censorship” store would …
The source of the bond is the Federal Insurance Company, a corporation authorized to transact business in New York that’s a subsidiary of the Chubb Insurance Company. Posting it allowed Trump to appeal the verdict, which his lawyers did Friday. “Due to the numerous prejudicial errors made at the lower level, we are highly confident …
by Ed Driscoll THE JOURNOLIST IS HOPPING: A 1-Word Talking Point for Biden’s SOTU Has Gone Out and the Media’s RUNNING With It. And how. This is the current result for typing those words into Google News: At least the optics weren’t as bad as September 2022, when his handlers inexplicably decided to go full Riefenstahl: …
🚨BREAKING: Lara Trump unanimously voted in as new RNC Co-Chair pic.twitter.com/0rcgS7I3Qm — Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) March 8, 2024 TRUMP is the RNC Co-Chair! We took over baby!!!! #MAGA pic.twitter.com/9BCDgFmigr — TrumpTriggersLiberals (@Trump__Triggers) March 8, 2024 h/t Flying Elvii
At least five people were killed and 10 others injured when airdropped aid packages fell on them in the Al Shati camp west of Gaza City, according to a journalist on the scene. Khader Al Zaanoun told CNN he witnessed the aid packages falling from planes over the Al Shati camp on Friday but cannot …
A mega-yacht seized by U.S. authorities from a Russian oligarch is costing the government nearly $1 million a month to maintain, according to new court filings. The Justice Department is seeking permission to sell Amadea, which it seized in 2022, alleging that it was owned by sanctioned Russian billionaire Suleiman Kerimov. Attorneys for Eduard Khudainatov, …
Rand Paul for Senate leader https://t.co/PSWuL7q7Xr pic.twitter.com/qIflF6yZzJ — Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) March 8, 2024 🚨🗳️VOTE NOW 🗳️ 🚨 Who would you like to be the next Senate leader? — Rand Paul (@RandPaul) March 8, 2024
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The third-party presidential movement No Labels decided Friday to field a presidential candidate in the 2024 election after months of weighing the launch of a so-called “unity ticket” and discussions with several prospects. Delegates voted in favor of moving forward during an online convention of 800 of them from every state, said Mike …
Authored by Charles Hugh-Smith via oftwominds, The sole remaining reservoirs of trust in American life are personal networks, local enterprises and local institutions. It’s not exactly news that social trust has declined significantly in the United States. Surveys find that public trust in institutions and the professional classes that dominate those institutions has cratered. (see chart …
CNBC, Released on 3/6/24 Mohamed El-Erian, Allianz chief economic advisor and president of Queens’ College, Cambridge, joins ‘Squawk Box’ to discuss the state of the economy, the Fed’s interest rate path outlook, latest market trends, and more.
Sky Net is brought to light and discussed starting at 19:40 (the rest of the video is also worth a watch and is equally as scary but incredibly long): h/t seasnake
'Avoid large gatherings over the next 48 hours' The US and UK are warning of an imminent terrorist attack in Moscow, urging the public to avoid large gatherings in the city. The warning comes after Moscow police says it also thwarted a planned Islamist attack on a synagogue. pic.twitter.com/rRAdHBlwPG — GB News (@GBNEWS) March 8, …
Here’s how many Americans are having sex to save on heating bills amid surging utility costs. “Though electricity costs dropped more than 20% in 2023, according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Consumer Price Index, they’re still up 29% from January 2020. Northeastern households that use natural gas were expected to spend about $760 on …
Can you believe it? Bill Clinton — yes, ol’ Slick Willie himself — has spoken in support of getting rid of the President. Although he did not name names, his comments can only be regarded as support for Donald Trump. Who could’ve seen this coming? Doubt me? Here is a verbatim transcript [with one minor …
“The University of Virginia (UVA) has at least 235 employees under its ‘diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI)’ banner — including 82 students — whose total cost of employment is estimated at $20 million. That’s $15 million in cash compensation plus an additional 30-percent for the annual cost of their benefits.” https://openthebooks.substack.com/p/university-of-virginia-spends-20 That’s $1,000/year/student. Soon adds …
Donald Trump on Thursday lost a bid to delay paying an $83.3 million civil defamation judgment to writer E. Jean Carroll. The denial of Trump’s request by Manhattan federal court Judge Lewis Kaplan means the former president by Monday must either pay that amount to Carroll, or put up a bond or assets to cover the value …
Nigeria plans to apply for membership in the BRICS group of emerging countries after the necessary domestic arrangements are complete, Foreign Minister Yusuf Tuggar has said. The diplomat is in Moscow this week on a three-day working visit from March 5-7. On Wednesday, Tuggar met with his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov to discuss bilateral relations, …
I heard a story about an ancient Native American ruin that was located across a massive stone bridge, and surrounded by hundred foot cliffs. A real life “Island in the Sky.” It almost sounded too fantastic to be real. This story, and a picture on the internet, lead me down a rabbit hole and many …
The Southeastern United States finds itself at the mercy of a formidable storm system, unleashing significant rainfall with potential repercussions for the Northeast in the coming weekend. As the atmospheric drama unfolds, regions like Columbus, GA, face the brunt with an anticipated 5-7 inches of rainfall. The sprawling metropolitan expanse around Atlanta is not spared, …
The father of a Marine killed during the disasterous Afgansistan withdrawal is mad at Biden and showed up at the SOTU to heckle him in front of Almighty God and the whole world. —– Gold Star dad arrested after heckling Biden during State of the Union By Josh Christenson | March 8, 2024 (nypost.com) – The …
