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Marjorie Tayler Greene says 'national divorce' is necessary because 'the left has no respect for the right anymore'

Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene
On Monday, Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene suggested that the United States would benefit from a "national divorce," wherein the country would be separated between blue states and red states.

Greene's comments were met with mixed reactions, with many questioning the feasibility of the proposal, so on Tuesday she sat down with Turning Point USA's Charlie Kirk to explain exactly what she meant.

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Nicola Bulley: Missing mother fell in river, police believe UPDATE

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© police handoutNicola Bulley vanished walking her dog in the village of St. Michael's on Wyre
Police investigating the disappearance of mother-of-two Nicola Bulley believe she fell into a river.

The 45-year-old was last seen next to the River Wyre in St Michael's on Wyre, Lancashire, on a dog walk a week ago. A major search for Ms Bulley continues, but no trace of her has been found.

Lancashire Police said its "main working hypothesis" was that she fell into the River Wyre and this was "not suspicious but a tragic case of a missing person".

Ms Bulley, a mortgage adviser from Inskip, Lancashire, vanished while walking her dog after dropping off her daughters, aged six and nine, at school on 27 January.

Supt Sally Riley said the last confirmed sighting of Ms Bulley was at 09:10 GMT when she was seen on the upper field. Officers were alerted to her disappearance when her spaniel, Willow, was found running loose off Garstang Road about 25 minutes after she was last seen by another dog walker.

At 09:20 police believe her phone was on a bench while connected to a work Teams meeting, which ended 10 minutes later. Detectives believe Ms Bulley vanished in that 10-minute window.

Comment: February 20, 2023 Update:
A body found in the River Wyre has been formally identified as that of Nicola Bulley. The mother-of-two was found on Sunday a mile from where she was last seen, walking her dog in St Michael's on Wyre, Lancashire, three weeks ago.

Her death is still being treated as 'unexplained' while post-mortem examinations continue. The find concludes a major search of the area which saw specialists comb a large stretch of the river for days on end. Nicola's body is understood to have been found among reeds, making it difficult for experts to find her. 'The way the tide comes and goes...it is possible that the body could have flowed in and flowed out and has eventually been given up by the water. It's believed an inquest will soon be launched to establish the exact circumstances of Nicola's death.



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Tucker Carslon: The climate cult has grown stronger

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Tucker roasts leftists for worshiping environmentalism.

You may remember a writer called Michael Crichton. He was a force in American entertainment. He was a novelist. He was a movie producer. Turned out a ton of top films and bestselling books: "The Andromeda Strain," "Jurassic Park," etc., but he was also — and this is less remembered — a political philosopher and a very wise one. Twenty years ago, before he died, Michael Crichton delivered a talk in San Francisco about the climate crisis and he described climate activism in that speech as the religion — not a political movement, a religion — for urban atheists, for people who rejected every aspect of Judaism and Christianity.

Climate activists had, without saying so out loud, created a religion, all the features you would recognize in any conventional religion. They had their Eden, which would be the world before the settlers arrived. They would have their original sin because every religion has that. In their case, it would be the Industrial Revolution and because of that original sin, they believed a rapture was coming, an end of times, and in their telling, the end of times was climate catastrophe.

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The glorious rise of the superhero anti-vaxxer

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© Alamy/Walt Disney StudiosEvangeline Lilly in Marvel Studios’ Ant-Man and the Wasp, 2018.
What happens when big-name actors veer off-script? Sit back and enjoy the chaos.

Marvel is releasing its latest extravaganza, Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, this weekend. Although early reviews have been largely negative and suggest the film is overwrought, it will inevitably make a huge amount of money and begin Marvel's so-called "Phase 5" in high-profile fashion.

Which is why it's crucial for the publicity machine that its star Evangeline Lilly's views on the anti-vaxxing debate do not overshadow the film's more straightforward themes of good, evil and quantumania. Unfortunately, real-world issues are more complex than Marvel might like them to be.

Comment: Hollywood celebs actually do a service to the public by stating their 'off-script' opinions that line up with the truth. As banal as their produced entertainment may be, if they can inspire one person to stand up, they've justified their existence.

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Top CNN anchor taken off air after Nikki Haley comment - media

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© Michael TRAN / AFPUS television journalist Don Lemon.
Don Lemon claimed that 51-year-old US presidential candidate "isn't in her prime".

Veteran CNN anchor Don Lemon has been temporarily taken off-air following his controversial jibe against US presidential candidate Nikki Haley, several US media outlets reported on Sunday, citing sources.

The scandal broke out on Thursday when Lemon declared that the 51-year-old Republican, who'd just announced she is running for US president in 2024, "isn't in her prime" based on her age.

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Four-day week: 'major breakthrough' as most UK firms in trial extend changes - 70% of those involved have undergraduate degree

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© Gary Calton/The ObserverDavid Alatorre (left) and David Mason of Rivelin Robotics, which said it wanted to put wellbeing first.
Of the 61 companies that entered the six-month trial, 56 have extended the four-day week, including 18 who have made it permanent.

The findings will be presented to MPs on Tuesday as part of a push urging politicians to give all workers in Britain a 32-hour week.

Joe Ryle, the director of the 4 Day Week Campaign, called the trial a "major breakthrough moment", adding: "Across a wide variety of sectors, wellbeing has improved dramatically for staff; and business productivity has either been maintained or improved in nearly every case.

Comment: For a great many people working for mega corporations and their subsidiaries, who themselves work in league with increasingly draconian governments, it would not be unreasonable to suspect that any shift to such a working pattern is unlikely to be in the staff's best interest. One outcome might be that businesses slowly shift to technological solutions, putting certain departments out of work entirely; such as using AI to replace administrative staff. Similar concerns have been voiced about universal basic income proposals.



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A dictatorship of low achievers: Annalena Baerbock - A symbol of the decline of Europe?

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In 2007, Vladimir Putin uttered a phrase that made the whole world talk: "After the death of Mahatma Gandhi, there is no one to talk to". Many people back then thought that the Russian leader had set his sights too high.

Did the Russian leader foresee the future?

But the big, as is known, is seen from a distance. After a decade and a half, even those who are not sympathetic to Vladimir Vladimirovich have to admit that there are not so many politicians of his level left in the world.

That answer to a Spiegel journalist generally looks like an omen of the present times:
"Am I a pure democrat? Of course, I am an absolute and pure democrat. But you know what the trouble is? It doesn't even matter, the tragedy is real. The fact that I'm the only one like this, there are simply no others like this in the world. Let's see what is happening in North America - the horror is the same: torture, homeless people, Guantanamo, detention without trial. Look at what is happening in Europe: the mistreatment of demonstrators, the use of rubber bullets, tear gas in one capital after another, the killing of demonstrators in the streets. Not to mention the post-Soviet space. There was only one hope for the guys from Ukraine, but even they just completely discredited themselves, there it's just a matter of complete tyranny. Complete violation of the Constitution, all laws, and so on. After Mahatma Gandhi's death, there is no one to talk to."
As we can see, the Russian leader considered the Ukrainian path long before the Euromaidan upheavals. As for European figures, the German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock confirmed Putin's correctness yesterday.

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UK businesses could see energy costs spike by 80% as government support set to be slashed in April

Pylons stand in front of the cooling towers of the Grafenrheinfeld nuclear power station in northern Bavaria
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The UK government's support to businesses to cope with the jump in energy bills is set to be slashed significantly from April, which will raise energy costs for industries by around 80% and put British businesses at an even greater disadvantage to compete internationally.

The support — in the form of discounts on wholesale gas and electricity prices for businesses — will not be not nearly as generous starting in April as it is now, because the government amended in January the energy bill relief scheme with the purpose of "limiting taxpayers' exposure to volatile energy markets."


Comment: This further reveals just how costly the West's sanctions against Russia are, because without the (taxpayer funded) subsidies, energy bills would be at least 70% higher than they already are.


Businesses and energy-intensive industries are struggling as-is, and a significant cut to support for energy bills would be another heavy blow to the UK manufacturing, heavy industry, and hospitality sectors, as well as small businesses, associations warn.

Comment: Despite the more 'generous' assistance provided by other European nations, businesses there, too, are facing a bleak future; in tandem with the collapse in living standards, unprecedented protest and strike movements are emerging:


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Disgraced CNN anchor glorifies Ukrainian use of child soldiers

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© AFP/Gints IvuskansWeapons prepared to be fired at a military training ground.
Former CNN star Chris Cuomo, who now works for NewsNation network, has visited an academy in Ukraine where he says teens are being prepared to go to the front and fight Russian forces.

The report by Cuomo emerged last week coinciding with speculation by some media outlets that Ukraine has been resorting to recruiting children and people with disabilities during its latest mobilization drive.

The "kids" of 15, 16 and 17 years of age "have made the decision... to put away their dreams and have only the single purpose of defending their country," the American journalist explained of what he saw at the academy.

The report featured footage of the teenagers in camouflaged fatigues learning to fire assault rifles via a computer simulation as well as training in a gym, while sporting black track suits with what looks to be a Ukrainian military insignia.

Comment: It's a scripted commercial for gullible Western consumption.
According to Wikipedia: On October 3, 2022, former CNN anchor Chris Cuomo, who was terminated for advising his brother New York Governor Andrew Cuomo about how to deal with various scandals, joined the network with an evening program called Cuomo to replace NewsNation Prime, thus fully converting evening programming to personality-driven opinion and analysis shows.



Syringe

New Idaho bill to charge those who administer mRNA vaccines with misdemeanor

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A new bill has been introduced in Idaho that would make the administration of experimental mRNA COVID-19 vaccines illegal.

Representative Judy Boyle (R-Midvale) and Senator Tammy Nichols (R-Middleton) sponsored House Bill 154.

Sen. Nichols introduced the new bill on the 15th of February before the House Health and Welfare Committee, according to KTVB.

According to the bill text:
"A person may not provide or administer a vaccine developed using messenger ribonucleic acid technology for use in an individual or any other mammal in this state."
A person who violates the bill will be guilty of a misdemeanor. The new legislation, if passed, would go into effect on July 1, 2023.

Comment: A misdemeanor? Seriously?