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If not Kevin McCarthy for US House Speaker, then who else?

Republican leader Kevin McCarthy has failed to be elected Speaker of the US House of Representatives – but if not him, who else could fill the role?

After three consecutive rounds of voting on Tuesday, the first day of a new Congress, Mr McCarthy fell short of the 218 votes he needed to clinch the job.

Until the House has its presiding officer in place, the body is not swearing in its new members or moving on with its legislative business.

The voting will continue on Wednesday and the California congressman insists he can eventually win over his detractors.

by Blazingcatfur•January 4, 2023January 4, 2023•0•USA

America Has Become the Greatest Exporter of Destructive Ideas

At the present time, China is the greatest threat to world stability, Russia is the world’s premier aggressor-nation and Islamist groups are the primary exporters of terror and (religious) totalitarianism.

And, for the first time in history, America is the world’s major exporter of destructive ideas.

This is hard for me to write. One of my books is titled “Still the Best Hope: Why the World Needs American Values to Triumph.” It contrasts American values with leftist values and makes the case that the American value system is the finest ever devised. I define American values — what I call the “American Trinity” — as “Liberty,” “In God We Trust” and “E Pluribus Unum,” (Latin for “From many, one”), the three American mottoes found on American coins and banknotes.

by Blazingcatfur•January 4, 2023January 3, 2023•0•USA

House adjourns with no speaker after Kevin McCarthy falls short

WASHINGTON — Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy failed to attain the required votes to become House speaker on the first three ballots Tuesday — leaving millions of Americans wondering how long the power struggle will last.

McCarthy (R-Calif.) could only lose four Republican votes in his bid to replace former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), but watched as 19 GOPers balked on the first and second ballots and were joined by a 20th defector on the third.

The House adjourned Tuesday evening without a resolution, scheduling a fourth round of voting to begin around noon Wednesday.

by Blazingcatfur•January 3, 2023January 3, 2023•0•USA

‘We’re in a space race’: Nasa sounds alarm at Chinese designs on moon

The US is locked in a space race with China and the country needs to “watch out” that its rival does not gain a foothold and try to dominate lunar resources, Nasa’s top official has warned.

The assessment came from the Nasa administrator, Bill Nelson, a former astronaut and Florida senator, who went on to warn that China could eventually claim to “own” the moon’s resource-rich areas.

The contest between the US and China, he added, was intensifying and the next two years could determine which country achieves an advantage.

by Blazingcatfur•January 3, 2023January 3, 2023•0•"China - Communist Slave State", USA

Virgin Islands AG Fired Days After Suing Chase over Epstein Abuse

United States Virgin Islands Attorney General Denise George was fired by Gov. Albert Bryan (D) just days after announcing a lawsuit that accused banking giant J.P. Morgan Chase of turning “a blind eye” to evidence of Jeffrey Epstein’s alleged sex trafficking operation.

h/t Mauser

by Blazingcatfur•January 3, 2023January 3, 2023•0•USA, WTF?

Former US Marine held in Australia received more than $100,000 to train Chinese pilots, indictment alleges

The US government has accused the former marine pilot Daniel Duggan of receiving more than $100,000 to teach Chinese aviators how to land on aircraft carriers.

An unsealed indictment, filed in the US District of Colombia, alleges the naturalised Australian received 12 payments of either $9,900 or $9,500, with receipts often citing “personal development training”.

It says the payments were made by an unnamed China-based business that, according to the US government, “acquired military equipment and technical data for the PRC government and military”.

by Blazingcatfur•January 3, 2023January 2, 2023•0•"China - Communist Slave State", USA

Times Square idiot convert ‘jihadi’, 19, was arrested with chilling manifesto

The alleged Islamic extremist who stabbed a rookie NYPD cop with a machete near Times Square on New Year’s Eve and was on an FBI ‘watchlist’ wrote a chilling manifesto where he urged his family to ‘repent to Allah.’

Trevor Bickford, 19, from Wells, Maine, who officials believe became radicalized and vowed to fight in Afghanistan, addressed a letter to his family where he urged his loved ones to convert so they ‘may be taken out of the hellfire.’

According to police sources who spoke with one outlet, the Maine resident had a handwritten note and collection of religious materials in his backpack while visiting Manhattan to carry out the attack.

by Blazingcatfur•January 2, 2023January 2, 2023•0•"Islamophobia", Idiot Converts To Islam, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, USA

The five ultra-woke economists who’ll decide Californian reparations

The five economists who will determine just how much the state will pay black Californians for historic injustices include a professor who has called for nationwide reparations of up to $14trillion.

Other members of the expert panel advising California’s Reparations Task Force on what they believe would be a fair amount repaid to the descendants of racial discrimination have said there is no such thing as a black middle class and argued the plight of Native Americans is ‘irrelevant.’

Woke professors William Spriggs, Thomas Craemer, Kaycea Campbell, William A ‘Sandy’ Darity Jr and his wife, lecturer Kirstin Mullen, are charged with quantifying the past economic injustices African Americans faced and determining how much compensation black Californians should receive for those crimes.

by Blazingcatfur•January 2, 2023January 1, 2023•0•Reparations, USA, WTF?

Rookie cop attacked by alleged Muslim with machete near Times Square

A rookie NYPD police officer on his first day on the job was attacked with a machete on New Year’s Eve just blocks Times Square — and police are probing whether the suspect is a recently radicalized Islamic extremist, according to police sources.

The officer — who graduated Friday and was assigned to a Staten Island precinct but was working the New Year’s Eve detail for the night — was stationed at West 52nd Street and 8th Avenue when the machete-wielding madman approached him and two other officers around 9:30 p.m., NYPD sources told The Post.

by Blazingcatfur•January 1, 2023January 1, 2023•0•"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, USA

Boosted Worse Off Than Vaccinated in Many States, Data Show

People in the United States who have received COVID-19 boosters in many states are more likely than those who have gotten just a primary series to get infected, receive hospital care, and die, according to an Epoch Times investigation.

Cases, hospitalizations, and deaths among the boosted have been increasing since the booster shots were first introduced in 2021. The boosters were promoted as bolstering protection against adverse outcomes. But, compared to the vaccinated who have not received any boosters, boosted people are testing positive, being hospitalized, and dying at higher levels in many states, according to the review, which went over data in the first two quarters of 2022.

by Blazingcatfur•January 1, 2023December 31, 2022•0•"China eats weird animals disease", USA

Minn. professor reportedly fired after Muslim students complain he showed historic depiction of Prophet Muhammad

When it comes to denigrating Christianity in America there are few guardrails, but there continues to be a whole other standard when it comes to the Muslim faith.

The latest example of this can be seen in Minnesota, where a liberal arts professor at Hamline University in St. Paul was reportedly fired after Muslim students complained that he showed historic depictions of Muhammad on a Powerpoint display while discussing Islamic art.

The unidentified professor “shared two depictions of the Prophet Muhammad in class, the Hamline Oracle reported — one being a 14th century depiction of the Prophet and the other was a 16th century depiction of the Prophet with veil and halo.

by Blazingcatfur•January 1, 2023December 31, 2022•0•"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, USA

Now Ray Epps Admits He ‘Orchestrated’ Jan. 6 ‘Insurrection’

Ray Epps is the fellow who was caught on video multiple times telling pro-Trump protesters that they were going to have to storm the Capitol. Yet despite this clear evidence that he was a singular ringleader and instigator of what Democrats insist was an “insurrection” that threatened the very survival of our free republic, Epps has never been charged with insurrection or anything else, or even been arrested. Meanwhile, people who never told anyone to storm the Capitol have languished in prison without trial for nearly two years now, in shocking conditions. All this has given rise to the widespread and lingering suspicion that Ray Epps is a fed, a suspicion that Epps himself has just reinforced by telling his nephew that he “orchestrated” the events of that fateful day. Of course he did.

by Blazingcatfur•December 31, 2022December 31, 2022•0•USA, WTF?

Death toll: What were the biggest US causes of death in 2022?

Heart disease is on track to remain the leading cause of death in the United States this year, accounting for the largest number of deaths since 1950.

As of September, behind heart disease, cancer and COVID-19 were the second- and third-highest, respectively, underlying causes of deaths in the country, as the pandemic continued to take a toll, according to an analysis of the total death sum by the Peterson Center on Healthcare and the Kaiser Family Foundation published in November.

by Blazingcatfur•December 31, 2022December 31, 2022•0•USA

Obama’s Weakness Comes Home to Roost on the Battlefield in Ukraine, Again

Iranian drones powered by American technology are killing Ukrainian civilians

Buried in the 19th paragraph of a New York Times report on the Biden administration’s efforts to stop Iran from providing stealth drones to the Russians is, well, news you can use.

The Iranian drones now killing Ukrainians, described as “unmanned ‘kamikaze’ aircraft,” were developed with the help of lessons learned from a captured American drone. The same model had been used to surveil Osama bin Laden’s Pakistani compound, and the technology that powered it had been a highly guarded intelligence secret until a decade ago.

by Blazingcatfur•December 31, 2022December 31, 2022•0•"Ukraine - Russia", Iran, Obama, USA

Moorish Americans facing gun charges create disarray in Md. courtroom

LA PLATA, Md. — At 8 a.m. Friday, nine sheriff’s deputies were bunched behind the security desk at the entrance to the Charles County Circuit Court.

Two Moorish Americans — who claim to be sovereign citizens of a fictitious North African empire — were scheduled to make their first appearance in front of Judge Monise Brown for several gun-related charges.

Lamont Butler and George Neal-Bey were arrested after a confrontation with Charles County sheriff’s deputies during a traffic stop last month. Both men were armed at the time. Butler was also charged with resisting arrest.

by Blazingcatfur•December 31, 2022December 30, 2022•0•USA, WTF?