Remember growing up and there was maybe one kid in the entire school who had a peanut allergy? And no one had ever even heard of “gluten allergies”? Flash forward to 2025 and peanuts are more banned from schools than sex offenders.  I think you get arrested if you even come within 1,000 feet of a school with Reeses Pieces in your pocket. And almost everyone you know now has an allergy to gluten. Oh and then there’s this fun added wrinkle….many people who have severe gluten allergies report traveling to places like Italy, eating pasta and pizza for breakfast, lunch and dinner and feeling perfectly fine! Why is that? What happened? What changed? At this point, we all know our food has been severely compromised in America, and in multiple ways. But RFK Jr just explained one particular reason that he believes has directly led to the gluten allergies. Watch here: RFK Jr: Why did “gluten allergies” go up so much in 2006? “we discovered that Roundup was a desiccant. And what that means, if you spray it on a crop, it will actually dry out the crop. And one of the big enemies of the farmer is that if there’s rain around the time of harvest,… pic.twitter.com/Bn2BxiVD0n — Wall Street Mav (@WallStreetMav) December 20, 2025 TRANSCRIPT: In 2006, they discovered that Roundup was a desiccant, so that and what that means, if you spray it on a crop, it will actually dry out the crop. And one of the big enemies to the farmer is that if there’s rain around the time of harvest, their crops can get wet, and then they get moldy and it ruins the entire silo.12   And so what Monsanto did is they began telling farmers, “Spray this on the crop, on your wheat, right before harvest or at the time of harvest.” And it was so popular that a3bout 85% 4of the Roundup that has been used in history has been used since 2006.   And a large part of that is as a desiccant. And what that meant, Mark, is for the first time, they’re spraying it on food right at harvest. And for the first time—not early in the season when it may have a chance to wash off, but actually just before you’re gonna eat it. And they’re spraying it for the first time on wheat because there was no such thing as Roundup Ready wheat. They started spraying it on wheat as a desiccant. And so 2006 marks the date when suddenly, these gluten allergies began exploding. The celiac disease and all these kind of wheat problems that we started seeing in this country, if you measure back and say, “When did it start?” You can look and draw a red line, and it’s 2006. And it’s the year that they began spraying it on wheat. Makes perfect sense to me! STOP THIS!!

By most accounts, AmFest 2025 was a bit of a disaster this year. Full of infighting and calls for “deplatforming” and basically all the things Charlie Kirk stood against, it was not great.  But honestly, if you drill down just one more layer below the surface, I think most speakers were aligned, and one (Ben Shapiro) stood markedly opposed to the rest. Ironic that Ben Shapiro is the one calling for everyone else to be “deplatformed” but I would venture to guess he would lead the voting if people got to select one speaker to NOT come back next year. But I have actually avoided covering all of that because it’s just not interesting to me. I don’t want to give extra attention to all the infighting. I’m so much more interested in this instead….check out Russell Brand kicking off AmFest with prayer and preaching the Christian Gospel message. No fighting. No calls for deplatforming. Just truth and humility. So instead of covering the divisive and angry Ben Shapiro and the, quote, “midget horse he rode in on”, I would much prefer to cover this instead. Watch here: TRANSCRIPT: Heavenly Father, would You guide my mouth? Would You guard my lips? Oh, Lord, I bend my knee and my tongue will serve You, Heavenly Father, and no other. Thank You, Lord, for Your Son, Jesus Christ, who died that we may know eternal life but may we know eternity here in this moment, Lord. There is no statue of limitations on “Love thy neighbor.” The whole world is our neighbor. We were intended to be one family, Heavenly Father. You gave Your life, You gave Your blood, and may the covenant of Your blood cover us all. I pray, Father, for the eternal soul of Charlie Kirk. I thank You for his sacrifice and I thank You, Lord, that we have this opportunity to be here in unity. The opportunity for true unity. The opportunity for community. The opportunity to be different, Lord. I thank You, Heavenly Father, for Erica Kirk’s boldness and her bravery and for her example of forgiveness. And surely, if she can forgive the people or the man responsible, Lord, for the murder of her husband, surely this principle of forgiveness is something that we can all extend. Lord, may we know Your grace, may we live in Your grace, and particularly when it’s expensive to us, when it costs us something, may we enter into Your kingdom, a kingdom of love. May we put aside petty squabbles and disputes, Lord, and may we move into a new era of grace in Your glory. I pray for the kingdoms to merge, I pray for Your return, I pray that we participate in making straight the paths. In the holy name of Jesus Christ, I pray. Amen. Backup here if needed: Russell Brand opens his AmFest speech with prayer, proclaiming the Gospel in front of a massive crowd “Thank you for your Son, Jesus Christ, who died so that we may know eternal life.” Jesus is Lord pic.twitter.com/f3OPqOWzy9 — Anna Lulis (@annamlulis) December 19, 2025 Well done Russell! And I don’t know if you caught it or not, but at the beginning of his prayer, he paraphrases Psalm 51:15: “O Lord, open my lips,and my mouth will declare your praise.” Which immediately reminded me of that moment during the U2 Super Bowl Halftime Show. Do you remember this? It’s kind of hard to hear, but as the iconic guitar rift from “Where The Streets Have No Name” starts playing and the names of all the victims on 9/11 rise up on massive screens behind him, Bono walks out and into the microphone he quotes Psalm 51:15.  Twice. You can see it at about the 0:50 second mark here: U2 performs and pays tribute to 9/11 victims at Super bowl XXXVI (2002) pic.twitter.com/dw61FPdl0y — Rock History (@historyrock_) February 10, 2025 Such an iconic song.  Such an iconic Halftime Show.  Such an iconic moment. A bit hard to look back on now 25 years later after most of us have been red-pilled and 9/11 looks different than it used to, but still a powerful moment.

In 2020, tabulator tapes on 315,000 votes in Georgia did not have three signatures as required by law. They were uncertified. This is a big deal. The votes were in violation of the rules. The admission came during a Dec. 9 hearing before the Georgia State Election Board (SEB) stemming from a challenge filed by David Cross, […] The post Georgia 2020: 315,000 Votes Were Uncertified, a Serious Violation appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

Jim O’Neill, Deputy Secretary of HHS, sent out a letter demanding repayment from sponsors of migrants who have accessed taxpayer-funded benefits. If they signed an affidavit of support (Form I-864), they must repay the benefits. Biden never followed the law. It is a pre-existing law that was not enforced during the Biden Administration. O’Neill announced […] The post Deputy Sec. of HHS Demands Sponsors Repay Migrants’ Benefits appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

The United States is interdicting and seizing a vessel off the coast of Venezuela in international waters, three U.S. officials told Reuters on Saturday, a move that comes just days after U.S. President Donald Trump announced a “blockade” of all sanctioned oil tankers entering and leaving Venezuela. This would mark the second time in recent weeks that the United States has seized a tanker near Venezuela and comes amid a large U.S. military build-up in the region. The officials, who were speaking on the condition of anonymity, did not say where the operation was taking place but added the Coast Guard was in the lead. The Coast Guard and Pentagon referred questions to the White House, which did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Venezuela’s oil ministry and state oil company PDVSA did not immediately reply to requests for comment. “I am ordering A TOTAL AND COMPLETE BLOCKADE OF ALL SANCTIONED OIL TANKERS going into, and out of, Venezuela,” Trump said on Tuesday. In the days since U.S. forces seized a sanctioned oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela last week, there has been an effective embargo in place, with loaded vessels carrying millions of barrels of oil staying in Venezuelan waters rather than risk seizure. Since the first seizure, Venezuelan crude exports have fallen sharply. While many vessels picking up oil in Venezuela are under sanctions, others transporting the country’s oil and crude from Iran and Russia have not been sanctioned, and some companies, particularly the U.S.’ Chevron, transport Venezuelan oil in their own authorized ships. China is the biggest buyer of Venezuelan crude, which accounts for roughly 4% of its imports, with shipments in December on track to average more than 600,000 barrels per day, analysts have said. For now, the oil market is well supplied and there are millions of barrels of oil on tankers off the coast of China waiting to offload. If the embargo stays in place for some time, then the loss of nearly a million barrels a day of crude supply is likely to push oil prices higher. Since the U.S. imposed energy sanctions on Venezuela in 2019, traders and refiners buying Venezuelan oil have resorted to a “shadow fleet” of tankers that disguise their location and to vessels sanctioned for transporting Iranian or Russian oil. The dark or shadow fleet is considered exposed to possible punitive measures from the U.S., shipping analysts have said. Christmas Sale – Get 40% off New DailyWire+ Annual Memberships As of this week, of more than 70 oil tankers in Venezuelan waters that are part of the shadow fleet, around 38 are under sanctions by the U.S. Treasury, according to data from TankerTrackers.com. Of those, at least 15 are loaded with crude and fuel, it added. Trump’s pressure campaign on Maduro has included a ramped-up military presence in the region and more than two dozen military strikes on vessels in the Pacific Ocean and Caribbean Sea near Venezuela, which have killed at least 100 people. Trump has also said that U.S. land strikes on the South American country will soon start. Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro has alleged that the U.S. military build-up is aimed at overthrowing him and gaining control of the OPEC nation’s oil resources, which are the world’s largest crude reserves. (Reporting by Idrees Ali, Phil Stewart and Marianna Parraga; Editing by Alison Williams, Sergio Non and Franklin Paul)

The conservative movement’s most prominent youth gathering just became a battlefield where former allies now wage ideological warfare from the same stage. When Conservative Icons Collide at Youth Rally Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest 2025 in Phoenix was supposed to showcase conservative unity. Instead, it became the venue for an unprecedented public fracturing between movement heavyweights. Ben Shapiro delivered a scathing attack on fellow conference speakers, specifically targeting Tucker Carlson for “platforming controversial people” and condemning broader populist trends within conservative media. The Daily Wire co-founder’s speech represented more than typical political disagreement—it exposed fundamental philosophical divides about America’s future direction. The choice of venue made this confrontation particularly striking. AmericaFest targets high school and college conservatives, positioning itself as the premier networking and ideological training ground for young activists. Shapiro’s decision to launch his attack from this platform suggests he views the battle for conservative youth as critically important to the movement’s long-term trajectory. The Language That Sparked Additional Controversy Shapiro’s use of “that is retarded” while denouncing populist positions created a secondary controversy beyond the ideological clash. The phrase immediately drew criticism from disability rights advocates and sparked debate within conservative circles about rhetorical standards. Some viewed it as unnecessarily inflammatory language that damages the movement’s broader appeal, while others defended it as a rejection of progressive speech policing. This linguistic choice reflects deeper tensions within conservatism about maintaining traditional discourse versus adopting more provocative communication styles. The incident highlights how language itself has become a battleground for defining what acceptable conservative rhetoric looks like in the post-Trump era. Roots of a Two-Year Ideological War The AmericaFest confrontation represents the latest escalation in a conflict that began during the Israel-Hamas war in October 2023. Candace Owens, then a Daily Wire host alongside Shapiro, made comments critical of Israel’s Gaza response that Shapiro characterized as antisemitic. Their public disagreement quickly spiraled into accusations about loyalty, truth-telling, and the proper conservative position on foreign conflicts. Owens subsequently left The Daily Wire, though the exact circumstances remain disputed. Since then, both figures have built separate media empires while occasionally trading barbs. The AmericaFest incident suggests their professional divorce has only deepened their ideological differences rather than providing space for reconciliation. The Broader Stakes for Conservative Movement Direction Shapiro’s critique extends beyond personal grievances to fundamental questions about conservative foreign policy and alliance-making. His attack on “Trump-over-everything” mentality challenges the personality-driven politics that have dominated right-wing media since 2016. By condemning those who platform pro-authoritarian voices, Shapiro positions himself as defending traditional conservative principles against populist drift toward conspiracy theories and strongman sympathy. The fact that Turning Point USA continues to book all these figures suggests that organizational leaders prefer managing factional tensions rather than choosing sides. This approach treats ideological combat as content that energizes the base, even if it undermines movement cohesion. Whether this strategy ultimately strengthens or fractures conservative youth organizing remains an open question that will likely determine which faction emerges dominant. Sources: Post-Gazette: Turning Point USA Conference Coverage Fox News: Ben Shapiro Denounces Tucker Carlson at AmericaFest

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