Macron says Europe should decrease reliance on US dollar, seek 'strategic autonomy'

Proud Boys defense claims law enforcement had at least 40 undercover agents at January 6 riot
In the filing, the defense says that the FBI, Homeland Security, and D.C. Metro Police were all embedded within the group, who are accused of being complicit in the initiation of the Capitol riot.

Ex-soldier with Jan. 6 ties gets 7 years in prison
Jeremy Brown, who was ensnared in a federal investigation of J6, received a sentence of seven years in federal prison for having two illegal guns, a set of hand grenades, and an alleged classified military document at his home.

Upcoming Supreme Court Case Could Impact Everything From Online Jokes To Religious Speech
An upcoming Supreme Court case considers to what degree a speaker’s intent must be taken into account before determining whether a statement is a “true threat” worthy of punishment.

New Mexico abortion center sets ‘starting goal’ of killing 75 babies per week
Whole Woman's Health in Albuquerque has a "starting goal" for murdering the unborn.

Family says teen with Down syndrome was intentionally killed by hospital staff
“As Grace slipped into acute respiratory failure and Grace’s sister begged for help, instead of starting CPR immediately, the nurses refused; Grace’s physician had independently designated her as a ‘Do Not Resuscitate,’” the family’s statement said.

IRS Is 48 Days Late To Issue Report Telling American Public How It'll Spend New $80 Billion
The agency’s new report tells us practically nothing of significance.

Abbott working to 'swiftly' pardon Army sergeant convicted of murder in Black Lives Matter riot
"I am working as swiftly as Texas law allows regarding the pardon of Sgt. Perry," the Texas Republican tweeted Saturday along with a statement on how his office will go about a pardon.

Soros-backed St. Louis prosecutor hit with new negligence, potential misconduct complaints
Gardner's office blamed law enforcement for issues in one of the cases.

Son of George Soros scoring easy White House access, records show
A son of far-left billionaire George Soros has quietly become a de-facto White House “ambassador,” making at least 14 visits since Biden took office.

A National Divorce Is an Opportunity for Peaceful Coexistence
A national divorce provides an opportunity for peace, a culling of America's global hegemony, a diversity in currency and return to sound money, economic and technological competition, happiness from cultural cohesion, and the avoidance of a massive violent conflict.

The Institutionalized Minds of Most Americans
We depend on the state for everything from government jobs and student loans to occupational licenses and the use of public resources. And we have the habits of mind to prove it.

Internal memos call into question National Archives narrative to Congress on Trump documents
NARA role with FBI continued well after February 2022 criminal referral, memos suggest.

Michigan Dem's job listing 'strongly' encourages everybody but straight white men to apply
Democrats have a long history of racism and segregation, and while the colors change, their core beliefs do not.

Taxpayer Dollars Must Not Fund the Government-Led Censorship Regime
If Republicans are committed to combating the ongoing assault against the core of our First Amendment — political speech — which could worsen as the 2024 election approaches, it is incumbent upon them to take a significantly more aggressive posture in defense of our liberties.

Machiavelli and the Globalists: Why the Elites Despise Independent Thought
The history of the development of modern governance is essentially a riff on this basic insight. It tells us almost everything we need to know about our current predicament.

DeSantis battle with Disney heats up as governor promises tolls for roads serving park
Gov. DeSantis punched back in his dispute with Disney by vowing to investigate the multibillion-dollar corporation's taxes on Disney hotels and imposing tolls on the roads that serve the theme parks.

AOC says Biden should ignore court rulings if the left doesn't like them
This has been recurring theme. Left is always first. First Colorado/WA started ignoring federal drug law. Logical next step is to ignore fed court rulings. Right never does this.

Probe widens into federal watchdog over missing Jan. 6 Secret Service texts
The lawsuit, an unusual broadside against the federal watchdog community by one of its own, accuses the panel of exceeding its authority and of “illegal interference” in the operations of one of the government’s largest oversight offices.

Victor Davis Hanson: ‘We are in the middle of a revolution that we don’t even know we’re in’
Called the prosecution of Trump "the worst example of third-world election tampering."

Ballot bounties? Wisconsin lawmaker flags payments used to mobilize voters for liberal judge
"Community mobilizers" could make as much as $270 by creating a list of 75 people and making sustained efforts to turn out 60 of them to vote in the Wisconsin Supreme Court election.

County Officials Skirted Georgia Law To Acquire Funds From Left-Wing Dark Money Elections Group
While Georgia Republicans passed a law in March 2021 banning the private funding of local election offices, DeKalb officials used a loophole in the statute to justify accepting the grant from the Alliance.

Macron Says Europe Should Reduce Dependence On US Dollar, Seek 'Strategic Autonomy'
Even our “friends” are running. De-dollarizing is the end of America as we know it.

China press: US dollar's influence seen eroding
The dollar's share of global foreign-exchange reserves dropped below 60 percent in the fourth quarter of 2022, according to the International Monetary Fund's Currency Composition of Official Foreign Exchange Reserves.

Russia and Iran conspire to weaken US dollar in joint meeting
Iranian media reported that Moscow expressed readiness to invest in Iran's steel, oil and petrochemical industries.

Is Gold Signaling De-Dollarization Looms? No.
The dollar is highly unlikely to lose its status as the world’s chief reserve currency, and even if it did, it wouldn’t decimate the U.S. economy or markets.

Billionaire Calls Trend of De-Dollarization a Huge Nothingburger
"... the first thing that you would know is that the yuan is pegged to the U.S. dollar.”

CBDC will be used for ‘control,’ ECB president admits
The ECB president admitted that “there will be control” in regards to a digital euro, much to the displeasure of the crypto community.

Small businesses concerned about labor market, new taxes
A survey of small businesses found that the labor market is their top concern, with 43% of small businesses saying they have job openings they cannot fill.

Central Banks Double Down On Gold Buying
Central banks, led by China, continue to buy gold with 11 straight months of net purchases.

US hit by ‘worst leak of secret documents since Edward Snowden’
More than 100 classified documents relating to Ukraine, China, the Middle East, the Pacific, and terrorism are now believed to be in the public domain after they were posted online. American officials said Russia or pro-Russian elements were likely behind the leak.

Pentagon Officials Are Realizing US Munitions Stockpiles Aren’t Nearly Big Enough To Take On China
“I’m concerned. I know the secretary is … we’ve got a ways to go to make sure our stockpiles are prepared for the real contingencies.”

Top House Republican Gallagher Warns: US Needs To Arm Taiwan Fast
Must beef up U.S. military presence to avoid war.

Russia's 'Merchant of Death' Warns Donald Trump His Life Is in Danger
Viktor Bout — an international arms dealer made infamous after his portrayal by Nicolas Cage in the 2005 film "Lord of War" — told a reporter he had sent a telegram to Trump warning him of an imminent threat to his life and urging him to flee to Russia for safety.

Russia's new mystery shortwave station
The Buzzer, also known as UVB-76 or UZB-76, has been a constant companion to anyone with a shortwave radio tuned to 4625 kHz.

Possible UFO spotted near Russian nuclear power plant
While the nature of the UFO is not clear, Russian military officials are reportedly certain that it wasn't a drone or an airplane.

Switzerland not recommending COVID-19 vaccine, including for high-risk individuals
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is still recommending for children as young as 6 months to "stay up to date with COVID-19 vaccines."

New Medical Codes for COVID-19 Vaccination Status Used to Track People, CDC Confirms
The CDC now says it does not have access to the data, but that health care systems do.

American Farmers to Begin Injecting Livestock With mRNA Shots This Month
Gene-editing is now officially in our meat industry. Lobbyists for the Cattlemen and Pork Associations in several states have confirmed that they will be using the mRNA COVID vaccines on their livestock.

Texas Department of Agriculture Commissioner Statement on mRNA Vaccines in Livestock
"... we have been working towards developing a fact and science-based assessment of the risks associated with this technology."

China outmaneuvering Biden with traditional European allies
Biden promised that he would bring back the "good old days" in international relations, but instead Europe and much of the world seem to be leaving America behind to move forward to the China days.

John Rich, Travis Tritt lead backlash against woke inroads in country music following CMT awards
"No need to comment on the country music industry at this point, I'm just glad they're finally showing all you fans what they are REALLY all about," Rich wrote on Twitter after drag performers were highlighted on recent awards show.

Poynter: Everything about Twitter is meaningless
Musk’s attempt this week to delegitimize NPR by labeling the public media’s primary Twitter account “US state-affiliated media” is an outright troll move that will further degrade Twitter’s value to its users and its advertisers.

The Great Awokening as a Global Phenomenon
The striking synchronicity with which Great Awokening terminology increased in news media worldwide.

Scottish Self-Driving Bus Only Needs Two Humans to Operate
While UK outlets like the BBC, The Guardian, and Sky News breathlessly lead their stories on the Scottish bus line with the moniker "self-driving," Jalopnik was the one to point out the curious caveat in its headline.

Mossad rejects claims it influenced Israeli judicial reform protests in Pentagon leak
High-ranking officials within the Mossad encouraged the nationwide protests against the government's judicial reform among the agency's spies and the Israeli public, leaked documents from the Pentagon obtained by the New York Times alleged.

Iran kickstarts multi-front Middle East war against Israel
The Islamic Republic's proxies and allies appear to have begun a multi-front conflict with Israel over the past week.

Muslim world must unite against Israel, Erdogan says to Iran's Raisi
The two world leaders also discussed the incidents at the al-Aqsa mosque and Iranian-Turkish relations.

In big climate move, EPA set to unveil tough limits on auto emissions
The proposal aims to speed the transition to electric vehicles, but could threaten to sour an alliance with U.S. automakers.

Earth's atmosphere can clean itself using a newfound mechanism
The atmosphere cleans itself by creating hydroxide through a previously unknown mechanism, according to a new, peer-reviewed study. Up until now, scientists thought that hydroxide was mainly formed by sunlight.

California's Attacks on Big Oil Will Only Drive More People Out of the State
At least until all the gasoline is gone.

Tennessee Will Use Eminent Domain To Evict Black Farmers for Ford EV Factory
The state promised Ford nearly $900 million in incentives, including new and upgraded roads. But it chose to run that new road through a number of black-owned farms.

E-bike batteries are exploding and killing people
A deadly fire in the basement of a New York apartment that claimed the life of a 9-year-old boy. Another blaze in Virginia that killed a man. An explosion that destroyed an apartment in Huntington Beach, Calif., displacing the building’s residents and neighbors.

Inside the woke scoring system guiding American companies
At stake is their Corporate Equality Index — or CEI — score, which is overseen by the Human Rights Campaign, the largest LGBTQ+ political lobbying group in the world.

Bud Light and Anheuser-Busch have not posted to social media since Dylan Mulvaney-gate
The last time either brand posted to Twitter, Instagram, or Facebook was April 1, which was the day Mulvaney-gate broke.

Court ruling: A school's transgender policy outweighs a teacher's right to exercise his religion
A school's policy on calling transgender students by their preferred names trumps a teacher's right to exercise his or her deeply held religious beliefs, according to a ruling in a U.S. appeals court Friday.

Riley Gaines Unloads On San Francisco State’s Response To Assault
“I’m sorry did this just say PEACEFUL…. I was assaulted. I was extorted and held for random [sic]. The protestors demanded I pay them if I wanted to make it home safely,” Gaines said in response to the letter.

Drag Queen In Prison For Child Sex Trafficking Laments “Fight For Gender-Affirming Care” Behind Bars
Lynch and his boyfriend were found to have run an exploitation ring in which they used social media to lure gay and transgender teenage boys for the purposes of forcing them into the sex trade.

Texas Senate passes parental rights, school choice bill
The bill now heads to the House, where its passage remains tenuous despite Gov. Greg Abbott making parental rights and school choice a legislative priority.

Scientific Evidence Revealed Behind The Shroud Of Turin Mystery
A study published in 2022 found evidence dating the Shroud of Turin to roughly 2000 years ago.

Devil in the City of Angels
Jesse Romero was a sheriff in Los Angeles for 20 years, dealing with drug lords and gang members who had consecrated themselves to Satan.

Biden's 'Buy American' Rules Are Getting in the Way of Biden's Rural Broadband Push
Industrial policy is never as simple as it seems.

Lie Detector Firm Lobbies CIA, DOD on Eye-Scanning Tech
Converus is pitching EyeDetect to defense and intelligence agencies. But experts say eye movements are not reliable indicators of deception.

Mark Zuckerberg Abandons Metaverse as Shiny New Toy Appears
"We certainly have a large research organization, hundreds of people." "We just created a new team, the generative AI team, a couple of months ago; they are very busy," he added.

Eerie ring of red light flashes like a massive UFO above Italy. What was it?
The bizarre disk appeared and disappeared within milliseconds, meaning most people likely missed the strange spectacle.