News and Views: January 12, 2025

Oil and Gas Analyst Warns L.A. Pipelines Are ‘At Risk‘ During Wildfires Several oil and gas pipelines in the Los Angeles, California, area are “at risk” as multiple large fires rage on across the city, industry analysts are warning.

   While none of the five refineries in the area are in the direct line of the wildfires so far, Andy Lipow, president of the Texas-based consultant firm Lipow Oil Associates, told Fox Business that several pipelines are within the vicinity, and that some have already been shut down.

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In LA fire horror, California elites face the consequences of blue misrule  An astounding 343,000 more people left the Golden State than moved to it in 2022, the highest net loss of any state, and 2023 was almost as bad, with a net loss of 268,100. 

   But the wealthy of California largely stayed put.

   It was mostly the lower and middle classes, walloped by notoriously high taxes, mismanagement at every level of government and crumbling infrastructure, who made a run for the door.

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Nearly 10K Nigerian Christians slaughtered in 2 years; thousands abducted or assaulted: report 

While Nigeria led the way with 9,311 recorded abductions and assaults, Mexico was second with 138 verified Christian disappearances in lawless regions. Amid the rise of organized crime and gangs, Haiti saw 101 reported incidents, which include busjackings and kidnapping of pastors from parishes and homes. Cameroon saw 83 incidents, including one incident in which 15 people were kidnapped and held for ransom while on the way to worship. 

   Across the globe, the report warns that Christian persecution has grown globally since 2014, driven by various influences, including Islamic extremism, Hindu nationalism, authoritarian regimes and government corruption. Image

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Why America Is in So Much Trouble 

There aren't too many problems in America that can't be traced back to the growth of big and incompetent government.

       It is notable that the two big bursts of inflation during modern times both occurred when government spending exploded. The first was the gigantic expansion of the Lyndon B. Johnson "war on poverty" welfare state in the 1970s with prices nearly doubling. Second was the post-COVID-19 spending blitz in the last year of Donald Trump's first term, followed by the Biden $6 trillion spending spree, with the Consumer Price Index sprinting from 1.5% to 9.1%.

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For more than a decade, the media, Democrats, and Hollywood have told us that Western civilization in general and the United States in particular are white supremacist, genocidal, and unsustainable. The founding of America occurred not in 1776 but rather in 1619 with the… pic.twitter.com/jD4f0Mq3oo

— Michael Shellenberger (@shellenberger) January 10, 2025

Victory in Jesus (Christ Won the Victory)

 

Victory in Jesus (Christ Won the Victory) 

 Keith and Kristyn Getty, Matt Boswell 

Chorus

Oh victory in Jesus

My Savior forever

He sought me and bought me

With His redeeming blood

He loved me ere I knew Him

And all my love is due Him

He plunged me to victory

Beneath the cleansing flood

Verse 1

I heard an old, old story

How a Savior came from glory

How He gave His life on Calvary

To save a wretch like me

I heard about His groaning

Of His precious blood's atoning

Then I repented of my sin,

Christ won the victory!

Verse 2

I heard about His healing

All His miracles revealing 

That He alone can save a soul

And set the captive free

I’m happy in His promise 

How soon He’s coming for us 

And home with Him I’ll sing again: 

Christ won the victory!

Verse 3

I’ll tell the old, old story

Till my Savior comes from glory

I’ll tell of all the Lord has done

To set this sinner free

That all who will believe Him 

By Faith can still receive Him

And share in that redemption song:

Christ won the victory!

News and Views: January 11, 2025

New photo essay on Palisade fire   

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We Were Right About Immigration   

Immigration is now being discussed. Whether this is enough to change the legal immigration influx, and reverse America’s drift to demographic destruction—and whether President Trump will be true to his deportation promises—remains to be seen.

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In LA fire horror, California elites face the consequences of blue misrule The vivid, heartbreaking images from this week’s Los Angeles wildfires called urgent attention to California’s longtime decline.

   But this time, those affected by its bad policies and bad governance include a demographic rarely touched by them: the rich.

LA water chief 'was aware of broken hydrants' months before fires  On Mayor Karen Bass's orders, the city maxed out its budget to 'attract private-sector talent', hiring Department of Water and Power (LADWP) CEO Janisse Quiñones on a $750,000 salary in May – almost double that of her predecessor.

  Now, Quiñones is being blamed by LA Fire Department (LAFD) insiders for leaving a nearby reservoir disconnected and fire hydrants broken for months, DailyMail.com can reveal, leading to firefighters running out of water as they battled the devastating Palisades Fire this week.

Gov. Newsom cut fire budget by $100M months before lethal California fires  The budget, signed in June and covering the 2024-25 fiscal year, eliminated $101 million from seven "wildfire and forest resilience" programs, according to a report from Newsweek.

   The California fires, responsible for destroying more than 10,000 buildings in the Los Angeles area, are still not contained.

LA Descends Into Chaos as Looters Exploit Wildfires  

Los Angeles city leaders called in the National Guard to help control the havoc wreaked by the fires as looting and possible civil unrest loom in the distance. LA District Attorney Nathan Hochman warned residents of looters and vowed to hold them accountable. Looters have reportedly tried taking advantage of the increasingly fragile environment, which is said to have cost the city $150 million in damage and economic loss. 

   “While the community rallies to support one another, we are also aware of the individuals who are targeting vulnerable victims to preying on this misfortune, seeking to exploit the vulnerability of those who have already endured so much,” Hochman said. “Let it be clearly known that those who seek to illegally profit from the pain and suffering of others—whether through looting, fraud, theft, burglary, or any other form of criminal activity—will not go unpunished.”

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Chicago Dems Push to Undo Sanctuary Law, Aid Trump in Deporting Criminals  In a surprising shift, two Chicago Democrats have introduced new legislation aimed at rolling back the city’s sanctuary policies, signaling a growing willingness to cooperate with federal immigration enforcement under the incoming Trump Administration. The proposed changes would allow local authorities to assist in the deportation of illegal immigrants, particularly those with criminal records, reversing years of resistance to federal immigration laws. This move, though controversial within the city's progressive circles, reflects mounting pressure to address public safety concerns and curb the increasing number of violent crimes linked to illegal immigration in Chicago.

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Minnesota may deny licenses if teachers don’t affirm LGBT identities  Minnesota’s new “Standards of Effective Practice” require teachers to “[foster] an environment that ensures student identities,” including “sexual orientation,” are “historically and socially contextualized, affirmed, and incorporated into a learning environment where students are empowered to learn and contribute as their whole selves.”

   The standards, supported by the state’s Democrat Gov. Tim Walz, have drawn religious liberty concerns from a leading Supreme Court litigation group.

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The Week in Pictures: Gulf of America Edition! 

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News and Views: January 10, 2025

‘Colossal Win For Women And Girls’: Federal Court Strikes Down Biden Title IX Rewrite Nationwide  The Biden administration’s attempt to rewrite Title IX to allow men in women’s sports, locker rooms, and bathrooms, has been struck down nationwide by a federal court.

   Twenty-six states sued to stop the regulations from going into effect, and the Supreme Court in August provided a temporary stay of the rules. But now a federal court has blocked the regulations from going into effect for all states – even those that didn’t sue to block the regulations.

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Major US Banks Exit ‘Net Zero’ Alliance Ahead of Trump Inauguration  The six largest banks in the United States have abandoned a climate change “alliance” just ahead of the inauguration of President-elect Donald J. Trump. In early December, JP Morgan joined Citigroup, Bank of America, Morgan Stanley, Wells Fargo, and Goldman Sachs in distancing themselves from the United Nations-supported Net Zero Banking Alliance (NZBA).

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Conspiracies Too Awful to Imagine? The corrupt war on Trump that eroded our republic. Over the decade of Donald Trump’s political career, the left—as exemplified by Democratic politicos, the media, academics, the Washington military hierarchy, and the permeant bureaucratic state—illustrated a level of furor, venom, and near madness unprecedented in modern American history.

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L.A. Hit with Hydrant Crime Wave Prior to Current Fires  “Between January 2023 and May 2024, more than 300 fire hydrants were stolen from L.A. County streets, according to data from the Golden State Water Company, which manages the fire hydrants. That's led to a $1.2 million loss for the company.”

Los Angeles Fire Chief Warned That Mayor Karen Bass’s Budget Cuts Limited Wildfire Response: 'At Risk of Reduced Effectiveness' 

Bass cut $7 million from overtime, then allocated $5 million for electric fire vehicles

Gay Choirs, Trans Cafes And Social Justice Art: What LA Spent Money On While Cutting Its Fire Budget 

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The Grooming Gangs Of The United Kingdom: An Explainer  For decades, children, specifically poor white girls in various towns in northern England, were targeted and groomed by Pakistani-heritage men, while—as later investigations, court cases, and reporters revealed—local officials turned a blind eye to the abuse due to fears of being labeled racist or destabilizing community relations.

But it took decades to come to light.

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With the Trump Sentencing, the Verdict is in...for the New York Legal System With the sentencing of Donald Trump Friday, the final verdict on the New York criminal trial of the president-elect is in. The verdict is not the one that led to no jail or probation for the incoming president. Acting Justice Juan Merchan has brought down the gavel on the New York legal system as a whole.

   Once considered the premier legal system in the country, figures like New York Attorney General Letitia James, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, Justices Arthur F. Engoron and Juan Merchan have caused the system to be weaponized for political purposes. Trump will walk away from this trial and into the White House in less than two weeks, but the New York system will walk into infamy after this day.

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Islamic Terror Group Banned In Most Arab Nations And Vowing To 'Defeat' US To Hold Annual Meeting In Canada    The controversial Hizb ut-Tahrir, aiming to establish a global Muslim state under Sharia Law, is designated as a terrorist group in numerous countries, including the UK, Germany, India, and Russia.

   A Facebook post promoting its upcoming conference featured a video depicting a Muslim conquest. The event's location remains undisclosed, with details provided only to those registered via Eventbrite. The group is banned in most Arab and Central Asian nations, along with Indonesia, Pakistan, and several others.

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It Literally Looks Like A Nuke Went Off – We Are Witnessing The Costliest Fire Disaster In U.S. History By A Very Wide Margin   The blazes — which are ripping through some of the nation’s priciest real estate — are likely to cause between $52 billion and $57 billion in damages and economic loss, according to a preliminary AccuWeather estimate.
🚨NEW: VDH weighs in on the LA fires: “It's something like a DEI Green New Deal hydrogen bomb — the alarming symptoms of a society gone mad."

An incisive, two-minute breakdown of the political and ideological issues that led to this disaster:

“It was a total systems collapse… pic.twitter.com/QVyUFvcV2R

— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) January 10, 2025

News and Views: January 9, 2025

Inferno Chaos: LA Fire Spreads To Hollywood Hills, 2,000 Buildings Destroyed, Over 130,000 Evacuated    The most destructive wildfire in Los Angeles history has burned over 17,000 acres with zero containment, scorching the seaside area between Malibu and Santa Monica. The inferno has destroyed at least 2,000 building structures (damage estimates in the tens of billions of dollars) and forced 130,000 residents to evacuate their homes. Meanwhile, a new fire ignited overnight in the Hollywood Hills area.

Reminder: Hundreds of LA firefighters were suspended and terminated for refusing the jab… 

What Started L.A.'s Firestorm? Hint: It's Not 'Climate Change.' 

It's hard to ignore the record. 

Fire officials say that homeless camp wildfires doubled from 2020 to 2023 to 13,909. There were 24 "homeless related" fires in LA County responded to every day of 2021. 

According to NBC 4 in L.A., some of the homeless campfires started from campers illegally hooking up to underground electricity outlets. That's what caused a fire in Hollywood. 

Lessons, Painful At Times, Are Only Lessons If They're Eventually Learned  The incompetence of Democratic leadership, from the very top at the national level with Joe Biden's addled administration, down to L.A. County and city governance, has failed Angelinos, and the cost of that failure won't be fully realized for a long time to come.

Years before LA inferno, California’s fire and water management policies raised fears of catastrophe  The state of California has had a long history of not properly preparing for wildfires, according to multiple audits and reports.

Prepare to Be Shocked: Los Angeles' Fire Chief Is a DEI-Obsessed 'LGBTQ' Woman Who Wasted Millions  Based on Crowley's comments, she'd prefer an all-female department. Does anyone want to guess how that would work out? DEI is a scourge on society, and right now, Los Angeles is currently facing unspeakable loss while its fire department is being led by someone who was more worried about diversity quotas than doing her job. This can't continue.

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'Shut up,' they said; British MP's vote against gangrape inquiry  So, British MPs have voted against making a national inquiry into grooming gangs, in a 364-111 vote. Image

Federal Benefactors of Islam 

How the FBI shields terrorists and fails to protect Americans.

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Is Artificial Intelligence Behind Our Unexplained Digital Encounters?  If you’re anything like me, you’ve experienced an unexplained digital encounters (UDE) — an interaction with your phone, smart speaker, laptop, or other device that leaves you scratching your head and wondering how the damn thing read your mind.

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Canadian Doctors Suggest Harvesting Organs From Euthanasia Patients Before They’re Dead  Canada is the top country for organ donations via euthanasia. Still, its national health system had an organ shortage in December 2022, with more than 3,700 patients awaiting a transplant. Health officials could be trying to close gaps like these by killing patients to harvest their organs, anti-euthanasia advocates told The Federalist.

Disabled whistleblower Roger Foley, who says he has been pressured to accept euthanasia four times, told The Federalist Sibbald’s speech appears to suggest doctors might harvest organs from live patients.

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Top Doctor Sounds Alarm Over ‘Self-Amplifying mRNA Vaccines’: ‘Next-Level Dangerous’  The Bill Gates-promoted “self-amplifying” mRNA shots contain the equipment needed to make more of itself once it enters cells.

    The injections have been dubbed “replicon” vaccines because they are able to replicate inside the human body to produce more mRNA over time.

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News and Views: January 8, 2025

"Unprecedented Fires" Scorch 3,000 Acres In Los Angeles Area, Forcing 49,000 To Evacuate 

LA Fire Summary: Fast-moving, wind-driven fires are sweeping through the Los Angeles area, forcing mandatory evacuations for over 49,000 residents. The fires remain 0% contained.

-The Palisades Fire (caused unknown) has burned nearly 15,000 acres, while the Eaton Fire has scorched 10,600 acres. 

-AccuWeather Estimates $52 billion to $57 billion in preliminary damage and economic losses

-Gov. Gavin Newsom deployed 1,400 firefighters & declared a state of emergency.

-Nearly 300,000 residential and/or commercial customers are without power in the LA region.

-NWS: Worst fire conditions (high winds) will peak Wednesday morning. 

-Malibu residents warned about potential evacuation.

-Fires ZERO PERCENT CONTAINED

LA’s Fire Department Embraced DEI. And the City Burned

Some people have noticed that Los Angeles is on fire. And it’s true, but more importantly it’s really breaking all sorts of ceilings. And not just with fire, but also with diversity.

   Los Angeles Fire Department Chief Kristin Crowley is used to shattering glass ceilings. She isn’t just the first LGBTQ+ person to the lead the department, but also the first woman.

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Yes, I'm about to go off on those islands some of my ancestors got the hell out of  The grooming and serial rape of thousands of English girls by men of mostly Pakistani Muslim background over several decades is the biggest peacetime crime in the history of modern Europe. It went on for many years. It is still going on. And there has been no justice for the vast majority of the victims.

     Social workers were intimidated into silence. Local police ignored, excused, and even abetted pedophile rapists across dozens of cities. Senior police and Home Office officials deliberately avoided action in the name of maintaining what they called “community relations.” Local councilors and Members of Parliament rejected pleas for help from the parents of raped children. Charities, NGOs, and Labour MPs accused those who discussed the scandal of racism and Islamophobia. The media mostly ignored or downplayed the biggest story of their lifetimes. Zealous in their incuriosity, much of Britain’s media elite remained barnacled to the bubble of Westminster politics and its self-serving priorities.

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It’s Time to End Debanking...The incoming Trump administration and Republican Congress can protect Americans from government overreach  Customers are debanked for various reasons, including suspicion of money laundering, being a terror-finance risk, or posing risks to the “safety and soundness” of the financial institution. Of course, banks sometimes have legitimate reasons for ending a customer relationship: a depositor may indeed be a fraudster or terror financier.

    But law-abiding Americans too often lose access to financial services. While the exact number of people affected is unknown, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has reportedly received more than 15,000 complaints of Americans being debanked since 2016.

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George Soros, a messiah without morals: Part 1 Part II here

Last week Joe Biden awarded George Soros the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honour in the United States. It was for ‘his lifelong commitment to advancing more just societies and promoting human rights around the world’. Biden’s encomium followed: ‘His inspiring generosity reminds us all of our capacity and our obligation to stand up to the abuse of power and to be guardians of democracy and all people yearning to be free.’

Well, no, it does not remind us of that at all. Image 

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Little flying squirrel

📹 masatohokkaido
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— Science girl (@gunsnrosesgirl3) January 2, 2025

News and Views: January 7, 2025

The Laken Riley Act Is Back Before the 119th Congress 

“The Laken Riley Act gives our law enforcement the tools they need to protect their communities and ensure that no more innocent lives are lost to a broken immigration and criminal justice system,” said Collins. “I am proud that the House was able to come together and pass this bill. If the Senate will do its job, President Trump will make it law.” Youtube screenshot

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It's Happening Here Too - Biden Admin Lost Track of 320,000 Immigrant Children Tara Rodas, who was recruited as a federal government employee to help the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) with an influx of migrant kids in 2021, believed she would be doing noble work. However, she told The Post she was shocked to find she was handing those children to “traffickers, members of transnational criminal organizations, bad actors, bad, bad, bad people.”

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The Christian Case for Deportation...The Bible, the ballot, the border  This vision of political theology does not require mass deportations. It does, however, dispense with the objection that aggressive immigration enforcement is somehow un-Christian. People of goodwill can disagree on the ideal immigration system, but the current anarchy is unacceptable.

    Individual charity demands that you help those in need. Political charity demands that you (in your role as partial magistrate) maintain order and punish wrongdoing.

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Efforts To Sentence Trump In Sham NY Criminal Case Confirm Democrats’ Crazy Lawfare While New York liberals may be cheering on Judge Merchan, after Trump’s crushing defeat of Harris, there are likely many Democrats hoping the appellate court puts an end to the farce as their lawfare has only helped Trump politically. And with Trump set to reenter the White House with a mandate, and with Republicans in charge of Congress, Democrats cannot afford any further backlash. Youtube screenshot

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Wow, Democrats Lost the Capitol Riot Narrative Big Time 

The bottom line? January 6 has become a historical footnote for most Americans, far from the game-changing issue Democrats envisioned. While they may have bet big on the riot defining Trump’s legacy, voters seem to have made up their minds: it’s time to move on.

Here Are The Top 10 Lies Of Liz Cheney And The January 6th Committee 

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Ability To Read, Write, Or Do Math Is No Longer Required To Teach In New Jersey   New Jersey Democratic Governor Phil Murphy passed Act 1669 as part of the state’s 2025 budget in June to address a teacher shortage, Read Lion reports. The law went into effect on Jan. 1, 2025. Individuals seeking an instructional certificate will no longer need to pass the Praxis Core Test, a basic skills test for reading, writing, and math that is administered by the state’s Commissioner of Education.

   “We need more teachers,” Democratic Sen. Jim Beach, who sponsored the bill, said in May 2024 when the chamber cleared the bill in a 34-2 vote. “This is the best way to get them.”

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New York is seeing the hidden toll of legal weed: violence, psychosis and mayhem  Marijuana legalization in New York has coincided with a rise in overdose deaths from stronger drugs. In 2019, the city saw 20.7 overdose deaths per 100,000 residents; by 2023, that number had more than doubled, to 44 per 100,000 — an increase that far outpaces the national rise during the same period.

   The data suggest that marijuana legalization may condition people to view the use of harder drugs as more acceptable and “safer.” In this sense, pot may act as a societal “gateway drug.”

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Study of 9 Million Exposes 'Devastating' Neurological Damage Surge Among Covid-Vaxxed  An explosive new study involving almost 9 million participants has exposed a devasted surge in deadly neurological and psychiatric damage among those who received Covid mRNA “vaccines.”

   According to the peer-reviewed study, just one dose of an mRNA injection puts recipients at risk of suffering several severe neurological diseases.

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Freezing of a soap bubble.. 🫧pic.twitter.com/ovCvvVcHe2

— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden) January 6, 2025

News and Views: January 6, 2025

Election is officially Certified!
Trump is the President with 312 Votes!
His opponent, Kamala, had to read the results!!

SWEET JUSTICE!!! pic.twitter.com/ImjbwYcGCH

— Santa Surfing (@SantaSurfing) January 6, 2025

It’s Official: The 2024 Election Has Been Certified  

While Jan. 6, 2021, remains a controversial date in American history, patriotic Americans have cause to rejoice this Jan. 6. A new administration is coming into office and we have a chance to rebuild this great nation of ours. How appropriate that today for many Christians is the celebration of the visit of the Magi to Christ, a festive holiday close to the 12 days of Christmas. This year, we certainly have a political victory to celebrate.

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From Covid Fascism To Mass Migration, Justin Trudeau Leaves Behind A Legacy Of Ruin The announcement comes amid Trudeau and the Liberal Party’s cratering favorability among Canadians ahead of the country’s October general contest. According to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, recent polling data has indicated the opposition Conservative Party is on track to win majority control of the federal government, while the Liberal Party is projected to lose a significant number of seats and its hold on power.

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Conspiracies Too Awful to Imagine? VD Hanson 

Over the decade of Donald Trump’s political career, the left—as exemplified by Democratic politicos, the media, academics, the Washington military hierarchy, and the permeant bureaucratic state—illustrated a level of furor, venom, and near madness unprecedented in modern American history.

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Ohio teacher who refused to use students’ preferred pronouns awarded $450K in settlement  An Ohio teacher who refused to use students preferred pronouns will take home $450,000 in a legal settlement with the local school district.

    Vivian Geraghty brought the suit against the Jackson Local School District, about 20 miles south of Akron, in 2022 after she was told to resign from a middle school language arts position over her stance on the matter.

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🔴 The child victims of rape were denied justice and protection from the state to preserve the image of a successful multicultural society.

This is how the grooming gangs scandal was covered up ⬇️https://t.co/ah1cv27Jm9 pic.twitter.com/qdSO1iE48X

— The Telegraph (@Telegraph) January 4, 2025

SCANDAL: Damning Telegraph Story Highlights How U.K. Authorities Covered Up Grooming Gangs In short, the U.K. authorities who could have put a stop to the gangs of Muslim migrants who systematically abused, raped, and groomed thousands of British girls didn't, because they didn't want to be seen as 'racist' and 'Islamophobic.'