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A growing number of countries are coming forward to join BRICS and accept the new currency for global trade. The South African ambassador Anil Sooklal hinted that the alliance could expand this year becoming BRICS+. The move could add pressure on the U.S. dollar as developing nations would end their reliance on the greenback. The global financial order could tilt from the West to the East creating a new multipolar economy. According to the latest report, the BRICS alliance has formally received applications from 25 countries to join the bloc. The 25 nations that expressed their interest to join are...

Speaking today, US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said that there should be an expectation of a slow decline in the US dollar as a reserve currency. Moreover, the statements arrive amidst international de-dollarization efforts employed by a host of countries, including the BRICS economic bloc. Yellen had previously stated her expectation that the US dollar would remain unchallenged as the global reserve currency. However, it appears as though recent developments have shifted her stance on the matter. The global reserve currency status of the US dollar has been a constant headline over the past several months. Indeed, as international trade...

We are going to need a new industry that simply spends its time fact-checking the so-called “fact-checkers.” That’s the story after a new landmark study published in The Lancet offered vindication to everyone who touted natural immunity to COVID-19 as an alternative to vaccination. For years, the powers that be, including Dr. Anthony Fauci, the White House, and the press, dismissed the idea of taking natural immunity into account when debating vaccine mandates and vaccine passports. They were wrong, so much so that even the mainstream media are having to admit it. ... This study also puts to rest another...

The Air Force last week successfully tested a hypersonic AGM-183A missile off the coast of southern California -- striking a target after reaching more than five times the speed of sound -- in a sign that U.S. weapons are catching up to similar Chinese and Russian capabilities.

It's worth 4 minutes and 16 seconds. I enjoyed it. Reality - Weekend at Joe's.

Now a four-day old video. Still, it shows how Biden (like Obama) doesn't care about American jobs or Americans paying higher gas prices.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1227355093797765120 That was the chance you all were waiting for. For the President (Q+) to disavow the LARPY, koo-koo bird conspiracy theory. He chose not to. Instead; President Trump acknowledged that Qanon exists. Change my mind. #ToldYa #HowYouLikeMeNow

What we had in the two downed airplanes was a textbook failure of airmanship. In broad daylight, these pilots couldn’t decipher a variant of a simple runaway trim, and they ended up flying too fast at low altitude, neglecting to throttle back and leading their passengers over an aerodynamic edge into oblivion. [Extreme length]

Talk radio and The Blaze host Glenn Beck mocked the National Enquirer‘s story claiming Ted Cruz had an affair with five different women, opening his Monday show by jokingly claiming that everyone on the show had been raped by Cruz. “I have to tell you, it’s been a hard Monday morning. We were all raped by Ted Cruz,” he opened as his co-hosts held back laughter in the background. “Ted was in the room. He’s got that Cuban fire to him,”Beck continued. “The other thing is you can’t rape the willing, and we were all willing,” co-host Pat Gray joked....

Conservative TV personality Glenn Beck had a funny way of defending his main squeeze Ted Cruz on his program Monday morning. He burst out laughing and said, “I have to tell you, it’s been a hard Monday morning. We were all been raped by Ted Cruz.” Beck was referring to himself and his male colleagues. Realizing that starting out the show with a fake rape scene was probably in poor taste, he promised viewers they’d clean themselves up and try to do a show without “all the Latin lovin’.” But first Beck needs a post-coital smoke. “I need a cigarette,”...

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal refused to back down on the existence of Muslim "no-go zones" following a speech in London Monday where he called them "startling." Fox News apologized for similar on-air claims following the attacks on the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, stating there was "no credible information to support" that "no-go zones," or areas where non-Muslims were not welcome, existed at all in London. In his speech before the Henry Jackson Society, a British think tank, Jindal said it was "startling to think that any country would allow, even unofficially, for a so-called no-go zone. The idea that...

<p>Fullerton resident Jennifer Harris thought she had a great deal, paying $98 a month for an individual plan through Health Net Inc. She got a rude surprise this month when the company said it would cancel her policy at the end of this year. Her current plan does not conform with the new federal rules, which require more generous levels of coverage.</p>

.................In a June 1978 letter, the first presidency of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints proclaimed that “all worthy male members of the Church may be ordained to the priesthood without regard for race or color.” Men of African descent could now hold the priesthood....The revelation may have lifted the ban, but it neither repudiated it nor apologized for it. “It doesn’t make a particle of difference,” proclaimed the Mormon apostle Bruce R. McConkie a few months later, “what anybody ever said about the Negro matter before the first day of June of this year, 1978.” McConkie...

Boehner is getting some bad advice from somebody -- i.e. the Old Republican Guard senators. He needs to start acting like a statesman instead of an old school politician. Telling people to get their asses in line is no way to compromise. That kind of rhetoric usually accomplishes just the opposite: it usually makes people dig their heels in even deeper. What’s Boehner going do – take their appropriations away? Take their access to special interest campaign funding away? Boehner needs to recognize that in this new era, old school appropriations and campaign funding buy-offs will not work. It is...

Here's some hope and change for you...Barack Obama will require students to partake in 50 of community service in middle and high school and 100 hours in college:Click to EnlargeVia LGF Quick Links.Don't think for a minute that this won't include some kind of indoctrination: Obama will call on citizens of all ages to serve America, by developing a plan to require 50 hours of community service in middle school and high school and 100 hours of community service in college every year. At one time in our history church groups would volunteer to assist their community.Now, we have...

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said Monday that his proposal for reforming California's health care system will not include new taxes, but he did not rule out considering legislative proposals that do. "I'm not telling you now what I would or would not consider," the governor said during a media availability at a Los Angeles hospital when he was asked whether he would approve a solution that included a tax increase.

April 11, 2006 A MAN accused of being part of a Sydney terror cell kept a library of extremist material on his computer that included videos of beheadings and footage of the bombing of the Australian embassy in Jakarta. Mirsad Mulahalilovic, 29, allegedly kept on his computer "hundreds" of images and documents justifying violent jihad and detailing acts of violence against Western interests in Iraq, Afghanistan and Saudi Arabia. The extremist Islamic literature included material praising al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and speeches by Iraqi terrorist leader Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi. Mr Mulahalilovic made a second unsuccessful application for bail yesterday...

New York Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) has long been rumored as desperately seeking the democratic nomination for president in 2008. And while many political observers fully expect the power hungry former First Lady to hit the campaign trail within only a few months of being re-elected as a US Senator in 2006, US News & World report claims to have a confirmation of sorts. From USNews.Com's Washington Whispers: Hillary's in… You don't have to take it from us about Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton 's desire to run for president. Her brothers, Hugh and Tony Rodham, say it's true. Friends...

November 2001 plane crash (A A flight 587) Queens, NY was AL QAIDA operation Stewart Bell National Post ( CANADA) August 27, 2004 A captured al-Qaeda operative has told Canadian intelligence investigators that a Montreal man who trained in Afghanistan alongside the 9/11 hijackers was responsible for the crash of an American Airlines flight in New York three years ago. Canadian Security Intelligence Service agents were told during five days of interviews with the source that Abderraouf Jdey, a Canadian citizen also known as Farouk the Tunisian, had downed the plane with explosives on Nov. 12, 2001. The source claimed...

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - Democratic presidential candidate Joe Lieberman said events of the past few days have vindicated his consistent hard-line stance in favor of a U.S.-led war against Iraq and the toppling of Saddam Hussein. Lieberman is among the most hawkish of the nine candidates seeking the Democratic nomination, and those views have occasionally frustrated party activists in key states, even drawing boos in California. In an interview with The Associated Press Thursday, Lieberman said the collapse of Iraqi forces and the specter of crowds in Baghdad cheering U.S. soldiers brought him satisfaction. ``It was a thrill to...