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From Liverpool comes the story of a son who decided to donate the inheritance of his mother to make his city a better place. When David Clarke lost his mother in a cycling accident, he was devastated. He inherited roughly $125,000 from her, but she transferred something else to him as well: a sense of […] The post Stranger Who Gave $125,000 Inheritance to Neighbors, Left Impact That Is ‘Out of this world’ appeared first on Good News Network.

It’s almost time to start writing a new date – but before we move on to 2025, let’s take a quick look at the top ten articles posted on The OP during 2024.  There was a wide variety of topics in this year’s winners, with no clear trend like we’ve seen in other years. Only two topics captured more than a single place on the top ten list. Without further ado… 10) Eleven Manual Kitchen Tools Every Prepper Needs Do you keep manual kitchen tools on hand so that you can cook from scratch, even when the lights go out? Every prepper’s kitchen could potentially benefit from these. Some of them are like the ones our great-grandmothers used, while others are more closely related to a manual version of modern items. Read it here. 9) Who Had “Haitian Coup by Cannibals” on Their 2024 SHTF Bingo Card? If ever you wondered what the SHTF was really like, look no further than events that took place in Haiti last March. According to multiple sources, the capital city of Port Au Prince has devolved into stunning violence, and gangs have taken over, demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Ariel Henry in a Haitian coup. Read it here. 8) Selco: If You Want to See the Future SHTF, Look at Haiti Do you want a glimpse of what a real-life SHTF event looks like? Selco says that if we want to prepare by seeing the future SHTF, we must stop thinking we’re “different” and look at the events in Haiti. Read it here. 7) Here’s What a Prepper Learned Surviving a Flood of Biblical Proportions When a flood of biblical proportions hit his state, a prepper spoke to one of our writers to share what he’s learned. His observations could be very helpful when preparing for our own disasters. Read it Here. 6) Early Warning Signs of a Total Economic and Social Collapse A total economic and social collapse is a catastrophic event characterized by the widespread dysfunction of critical systems, including government, economy, infrastructure, and basic services. While such a scenario is extreme, recognizing early warning signs can be crucial. Here are the early warning signs to watch out for. Read it here. 5) The SHTF in Western NC. The Govt. Is Making Everything Worse. There are scenarios we all try to prepare for, like long-term power outages, terrible storms, or other disastrous events. But as Western North Carolina demonstrates, there are some things so wildly unexpected that you just can’t prep for them. This was written two months after the original disaster. Instead of helping, the government agencies we pay taxes to who are supposed to aid disaster victims made everything worse. Almost all of the housing has been provided by volunteers, donors, and charities. Read it here. 4) SELCO: “The Majority Will Die in SHTF Trying to Record It on Their Phones” After the (first) attempted assassination of President Donald Trump, many of us were stunned to see how many people tried to record the event on their phones instead of rushing for cover. In this article, Selco writes of the phenomenon. Read it here. 3) What Do All the Billionaires Know That Has Them Prepping for Doomsday?    NDAs, massive construction projects, and dramatic relocations. That’s what we saw in the early parts of the year from the ultra-rich like Mark Zuckerberg, Peter Thiel, and even President Joe Biden. Of course, people like this are always in the know before the rest of us. But what are they getting ready for? Read it here. 2) Helene VIDEOS: The Government Will Not Save You There’s a horrible humanitarian crisis afoot in Western North Carolina and Eastern Tennessee, places that aren’t generally greatly affected by hurricanes. And the federal government, again, was late to the game. The event in WNC was unprecedented – a once-in-a-thousand-year storm. We still have no idea of the death toll – current estimates are quite low from what is expected. People were caught in landslides, floods, their homes and cars washed away, and they’ve been stranded for more than a week. This article was written a week after the disaster, and since then, things have not improved much. Read it here. 1) Threats of Violence Against Trump Voters SURGE (WARNING: GRAPHIC) We’ve talked before about the mental health effects suffered by some Harris supporters after mainstream media convinced them that there was no way Trump could win. As the truth settled in that he, in fact, will be the 47th president, threats of violence against Trump voters dramatically surged. The internet became a hotbed of violent rhetoric and extremism. Read it here. Do any of these surprise you? I know that I’m certainly happy to see the past year in my rearview mirror, and I look forward to what 2025 brings with a new administration that seems determined to make real changes. What topics did you expect to see on the list that weren’t here? Did you find these topics of interest to you this year? Let’s discuss 2024 in the comments section. The post The OP’s Top 10 Articles of 2024 appeared first on The Organic Prepper.

It’s almost time to start writing a new date – but before we move on to 2025, let’s take a quick look at the top ten articles posted on The OP during 2024.  There was a wide variety of topics in this year’s winners, with no clear trend like we’ve seen in other years. Only two topics captured more than a single place on the top ten list. Without further ado… 10) Eleven Manual Kitchen Tools Every Prepper Needs Do you keep manual kitchen tools on hand so that you can cook from scratch, even when the lights go out? Every prepper’s kitchen could potentially benefit from these. Some of them are like the ones our great-grandmothers used, while others are more closely related to a manual version of modern items. Read it here. 9) Who Had “Haitian Coup by Cannibals” on Their 2024 SHTF Bingo Card? If ever you wondered what the SHTF was really like, look no further than events that took place in Haiti last March. According to multiple sources, the capital city of Port Au Prince has devolved into stunning violence, and gangs have taken over, demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Ariel Henry in a Haitian coup. Read it here. 8) Selco: If You Want to See the Future SHTF, Look at Haiti Do you want a glimpse of what a real-life SHTF event looks like? Selco says that if we want to prepare by seeing the future SHTF, we must stop thinking we’re “different” and look at the events in Haiti. Read it here. 7) Here’s What a Prepper Learned Surviving a Flood of Biblical Proportions When a flood of biblical proportions hit his state, a prepper spoke to one of our writers to share what he’s learned. His observations could be very helpful when preparing for our own disasters. Read it Here. 6) Early Warning Signs of a Total Economic and Social Collapse A total economic and social collapse is a catastrophic event characterized by the widespread dysfunction of critical systems, including government, economy, infrastructure, and basic services. While such a scenario is extreme, recognizing early warning signs can be crucial. Here are the early warning signs to watch out for. Read it here. 5) The SHTF in Western NC. The Govt. Is Making Everything Worse. There are scenarios we all try to prepare for, like long-term power outages, terrible storms, or other disastrous events. But as Western North Carolina demonstrates, there are some things so wildly unexpected that you just can’t prep for them. This was written two months after the original disaster. Instead of helping, the government agencies we pay taxes to who are supposed to aid disaster victims made everything worse. Almost all of the housing has been provided by volunteers, donors, and charities. Read it here. 4) SELCO: “The Majority Will Die in SHTF Trying to Record It on Their Phones” After the (first) attempted assassination of President Donald Trump, many of us were stunned to see how many people tried to record the event on their phones instead of rushing for cover. In this article, Selco writes of the phenomenon. Read it here. 3) What Do All the Billionaires Know That Has Them Prepping for Doomsday?    NDAs, massive construction projects, and dramatic relocations. That’s what we saw in the early parts of the year from the ultra-rich like Mark Zuckerberg, Peter Thiel, and even President Joe Biden. Of course, people like this are always in the know before the rest of us. But what are they getting ready for? Read it here. 2) Helene VIDEOS: The Government Will Not Save You There’s a horrible humanitarian crisis afoot in Western North Carolina and Eastern Tennessee, places that aren’t generally greatly affected by hurricanes. And the federal government, again, was late to the game. The event in WNC was unprecedented – a once-in-a-thousand-year storm. We still have no idea of the death toll – current estimates are quite low from what is expected. People were caught in landslides, floods, their homes and cars washed away, and they’ve been stranded for more than a week. This article was written a week after the disaster, and since then, things have not improved much. Read it here. 1) Threats of Violence Against Trump Voters SURGE (WARNING: GRAPHIC) We’ve talked before about the mental health effects suffered by some Harris supporters after mainstream media convinced them that there was no way Trump could win. As the truth settled in that he, in fact, will be the 47th president, threats of violence against Trump voters dramatically surged. The internet became a hotbed of violent rhetoric and extremism. Read it here. Do any of these surprise you? I know that I’m certainly happy to see the past year in my rearview mirror, and I look forward to what 2025 brings with a new administration that seems determined to make real changes. What topics did you expect to see on the list that weren’t here? Did you find these topics of interest to you this year? Let’s discuss 2024 in the comments section. The post The OP’s Top 10 Articles of 2024 appeared first on The Organic Prepper.

Politico Wonders: What Happened to $50 Billion in Biden's 'Green New Deal'?

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It was a challenging task but an esteemed panel of NewsBusters editors led by MRC President L.Brent Bozell and MRC’s Vice President for Research and Publications Brent Baker boiled down all the biased outbursts from lefty hack hosts, anchors, reporters and pundits in 2024 and on December 18 announced The Brian Stelter Award for Quote of the Year.   Of course, every year there is way too much bias for just one category. So Baker led a panel of NewsBusters editors to break down the Worst of 2024 into eight additional categories (The Craziest Analysis Award; The Trashing Trump Award; The Damn Those Conservatives Award; The Joy of Hate Award for Joy Reid Rants; The Praising and Protecting Old Joe Award; Carrying Kamala’s Water Award for Helping Harris; The Cursing the Conservative Court Award and the Celebrity Freak-Outs Award).  Today we present the WORST OF 2024: The Cursing the Conservative Court Award.  Without further ado here is the winner (followed by the top runners-up):   WINNER “The Supreme Court has betrayed democracy. Its members including Jackson, Kagan and Sotomayor have proved themselves inept at reading comprehension. And collectively the ‘court’ has shown itself to be corrupt and illegitimate. It must be dissolved.”— March 4 X.com post by former MSNBC host Keith Olbermann.   RUNNERS-UP Host Joy Reid: “Expanding the Court is starting to catch on even with people who originally opposed it because these guys [Republicans] have a political agenda….Ending women’s rights to an abortion, ending civil rights, just basically rolling back the entire 20th century Supreme Court jurisprudence. They’re doing it so systematically that they’re not stoppable if you don’t expand the Court.”...The Nation’s justice correspondent Elie Mystal: “They are winning on the vibes and remaking the law back in their image of the 1950s and the 1850s.”— MSNBC’s The ReidOut, January 17.   “What they’re saying to the American people is that if ‘We get….our preferred president back, we’re going to encourage him to break the boundaries of the law….to feel free to even use violence, to use mass incarceration. Go ahead and do those camps.’...This is a clarion call to every American….Do not allow the person back into office who will use this power that he’s been given by this Court, this imperial Court, to implement that agenda….It doesn’t matter if Biden is old….What matters is that the other guy wants to be a king, and this Court has said ‘Yes, you are a king, and we are The King’s Hand. And together the seven of us will rule this country.’”— MSNBC host Joy Reid on MSNBC’s Trump Immunity Ruling Special, July 1.   “It’s an insult to Motown to call it the Supreme Court….Basically it’s a harem, okay? It’s a harem, it’s Trump’s harem….The Supreme Court passed that ruling, you know, where they said you’re not the president, you’re the king, which is what that ruling is, you can do whatever you want, you can never be held responsible, I thought Joe Biden is still president, no one seems to notice, but Biden should dissolve the Supreme Court.”— Author Fran Lebowitz on HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher, September 27.   Co-host Joy Behar: “The Supreme Court at the moment is so biased and so pro-theocracy….Somebody has to expose them because they are running around arrogant and they have the whole GOP on their side….They have no consequences whatsoever….They’re there for the rest of their lives.”Co-host Whoopi Goldberg: “Why can’t we sue them in a class action suit?”Behar: “I’m not sure you can do that. They’re the highest court.”Goldberg: “Yeah but I don’t know why? Listen, I don’t know why you can’t pull a class action suit that says, ‘Listen, you are no longer doing the job you’re supposed to be doing.’ I don’t understand.”— ABC’s The View, June 11.

When Jimmy Carter lost the White House in a landslide to Ronald Reagan in November 1980, there was no sugar-coating his failures. Domestically, the country reeled from high inflation, high interest rates, an early 1980 recession that cost more than one million jobs, an energy crisis, and a dispiriting sense that America’s best days were behind us. Internationally, from Nicaragua to Afghanistan, the U.S. seemed to be losing ground to the Soviet Union. The Islamic revolution in Iran was a massive strategic setback that still threatens us today, and the 444-day long hostage crisis was an abject humiliation that could not be reconciled with the image of the United States as a major superpower. The number of Americans who told Gallup they were “satisfied with the way things are going in the U.S.” fell to just 12 percent in July 1979, an historic low not reached again until the depths of the financial crisis in October 2008. Carter’s job approval fell to an abysmal 28% in the summer of 1979; the next year, his attempt at re-election marked the worst showing for an incumbent since Herbert Hoover in 1932. Yet liberal journalists were far more approving of Carter than the public he disappointed. The Media Elite surveys found that four out of five elite journalists said they had voted for Carter over Gerald Ford in 1976, an election Carter won by just two points. A different survey, of newspaper reporters, found that in 1980 journalists still preferred Carter over Reagan by a two-to-one margin, even as the public handed Reagan a 10-point landslide. So with a conservative Republican in the White House, it didn’t take long before the media began rehabilitating the public image of the unpopular and defeated 39th President. As memories of the 1970s dimmed, journalists talked about Carter as the country’s “best former President,” the “world’s foremost statesman,” and even a “jazzed superhero” performing good deeds around the globe. Instead of negative headlines about inflation and hostages, reporters treated the ex-President to softball questions such as “what is the secret, the magic of Jimmy Carter.” The decades-long good press has done its job — a late 2022 YouGov survey found nearly four times as many Americans now say they like Carter (58%) vs dislike him (15%). While the popular and successful Reagan and his legacy were denigrated by the media during his retirement, liberal journalists have spent decades lavishing praise on Carter. From the MRC’s archives, a flavor of the coverage of the past thirty years: ■ “Perhaps the Democrat who best personifies this republic of virtue is former President Jimmy Carter. His reputation burnished by the elevated tone of his retirement, Carter would actually bring to the task energy, integrity and his legendary distaste for congressional business as usual. He could even boast a made-to-order campaign slogan: ‘After the Wright stuff, why not the best?’”— Time Senior Writer and former Carter Administration official Margaret Carlson recommending Jimmy Carter follow the disgraced Jim Wright as next Speaker of the House, June 5, 1989 issue. ■ “While Reagan peddles his time and talents to the highest bidder and Gerald Ford perfects his putt and Richard Nixon struggles to gain a toehold in history, Carter, like some jazzed superhero, circles the globe at 30,000 ft., seeking opportunities to Do Good.”— Stanley Cloud, Time Washington Bureau Chief, September 11, 1989 issue. ■ “And finally President Carter, you are now considered one of the world’s foremost statesmen. You’ve been called the best ex-President this country has ever had. Your reputation has been bolstered tremendously since you left office. How does that make you feel?”— Today co-host Katie Couric to Jimmy Carter, November 13, 1991. ■ Anchor Brian Williams: “Is it fair to call him the best former President in, at minimum, modern American history, and perhaps, well, I guess, the last 200 years?”Historian Marshall Frady: “Which embraces all presidencies, I think. Absolutely.”— Exchange on CNBC’s The News with Brian Williams, Oct. 11, 2002. ■ “There is hardly a troubled place in the world he hasn’t visited, worked in, in a quest to bring peace and spread democratic values....In many places, dusty and difficult places, James Earl Carter has brought hope and dispelled, as well as anyone alive these days, the vision of the ugly American.”— Anchor Aaron Brown on CNN’s NewsNight, October 11, 2002. ■ “President Carter’s crowning achievement, of course, the Camp David Accords, designed to forge peace in the Middle East. Unfortunately, that seems like a distant memory, but it’s so nice to see former President Jimmy Carter honored this way....It’s a terrific honor for him for all the work he did while he was President and, of course, he is considered by many as one of the finest former Presidents this country has ever seen.”— NBC’s Katie Couric on the December 10, 2002 Today. ■ Host Chris Matthews: “It seems to me Carter was dead on, on the need for energy sufficiency and dealing with the energy conservation, putting on a sweater, lowering the thermostat. All of those things made sense. He was right about the problem of nuclear proliferation, of arms getting to countries like Iran. He’s way ahead of his time on that. And also his concern for human rights. Right? So he was right, but?”The New Yorker’s Hendrik Hertzberg: “Well he was, in this particular speech...he was sort of a prophet. He spoke as a prophet. And, and I mean by that, not as someone who is predicting the future, but as someone who is diagnosing, diagnosing the national soul.”— Segment marking the 30th anniversary of Jimmy Carter’s “malaise” speech, MSNBC’s Hardball, July 15, 2009. ■ Correspondent Lesley Stahl: “When all is said and done — and many will be surprised to hear this — Jimmy Carter got more of his programs passed than Reagan and Nixon, Ford, Bush 1, Clinton or Bush 2.”Former President Jimmy Carter: “I had the best batting average in the Congress in recent history of any President, except Lyndon Johnson.”...Stahl: “A lot of critics of yours, when you were President, say that you’ve been a fantastic ex-President. You hear that all the time.”Carter: “I don't mind that.”— CBS’s 60 Minutes, September 19, 2010. ■ “I love Jimmy Carter! Jimmy Carter is so honest and out there. You know sometimes, I hear people say, ‘Oh, Obama, his term could become like Jimmy Carter’s.’ Yeah, I wish. You know, Jimmy Carter did some real bold things, like returning the Panama Canal. Can you see a president trying to do that today? Or, or getting on national television and telling the American people that they’re lazy and they’re using too much energy?...I think this country needs a lot more of that sort of forthright honesty.”— HBO Real Time host Bill Maher on MSNBC’s Hardball, September 21, 2010. ■ “I want to ask you about foreign policy, given all of your expertise....What advice would you give in dealing with Vladimir Putin?...I just wanted to ask finally. With all your energy, what keeps you going? What is the secret, the magic of Jimmy Carter?”— NBC’s Andrea Mitchell interviewing Carter on NBC’s Meet the Press, March 23, 2014. ■ “I think it does say something profoundly about who we are as a people that Carter’s decency and goodness was taken for weakness and had to be remedied with the sort of bluster of a Ronald Reagan and that the idea we needed a cowboy to replace what people viewed as a man who wasn’t cowboy enough to be president, that he was too nice.”— MSNBC’s Joy Reid on The Last Word, August 20, 2015. For more examples from our flashback series, which we call the NewsBusters Time Machine, go here.

Athletes were once deemed on their way out of professional sports when they hit their early 30s. By 35, they were supposed to be ready for the retirement home. This has changed in the last decade; there are more 40-year-old professional athletes than there ever have been, by a long shot. Those who remain in their respective leagues are among the most accomplished in their sports and have one thing in common: unfinished business. It's easy to criticize a flailing athlete who is putting off retirement for money or who wants to complain about an alleged grave injustice facing the millionaire class. However, players like Aaron Rodgers are putting their reputations on the line. While it seemed ridiculous at age 41 for Rodgers to have any aspirations beyond recovering from a 2023 Achilles tendon blowout, the quarterback has made no indication that he wants to retire and has shown no sign that he's going to stop voicing his opinions. With at least one year left on his contract, Rodgers' frequent podcast appearances have allowed him to continue his fight for honesty and truth in the media and government. His appearances on "The Joe Rogan Experience" have been used as launching pads to support political candidates like Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in the pursuit of national health, while simultaneously condemning the abuse of pharmaceuticals. During appearances on "The Pat McAfee Show," Rodgers has battled the media machine that has attempted to label him as wacky. Rodgers fended off attacks of being a conspiracy theorist by late-night hosts like Jimmy Kimmel and was criticized for his race by commentators like Stephen A. Smith. It is unlikely that Rodgers' words would be as effective in retirement as they are while he is an NFL star, and he seems to know that. As long as he is on the field, Rodgers is willing and able to use his notoriety to call out mainstream media, and for that we should be thankful. Aaron Rodgers carries the American flag onto the field on September 11, 2023, at MetLife Stadium.Photo by Ryan Kang/Getty Images When Tom Brady retired at 45, it seemed most thought him the oldest professional athlete in major sports; most would have been wrong. Enter NHL legend Jaromir Jagr, who, at age 50, came out of retirement seemingly to play one more game. Jagr is majority owner of the Rytiri Kladno in the Czech Republic's Extraliga, one of the top hockey leagues in the world behind the NHL. In late 2022, more than half of Jagr's team became ill, whittling their lineup down to 12 men. Unwilling to let his team suffer a forfeit, Jagr put on his skates and came out of retirement to ensure that his team didn't incur the loss. The act was doubly unselfish given that it was later revealed that Jagr's participation in the game meant forgoing his eligibility for the Hockey Hall of Fame, which he likely would have been inducted into just a few months later. This selflessness sparked something in Jagr, who is still playing at 52 years old for his club. Jagr has used his notoriety and the fanfare around his storied career to bring added attention to the Czech Extraliga and take a retirement tour that included his first NHL team, the Pittsburgh Penguins. In March, the veteran player was at the center of a DHS/FBI investigation after a truckload of bobbleheads with his likeness was hijacked from a warehouse. Along with promoting a new charitable cause or event on his Instagram page seemingly every day, Jagr is followed by stories whereever he goes. In September, he even won an Emmy. Jagr is also an adversary to cancel culture and should be credited as an early adopter of the current counterculture, too. In 2018, an 18-year-old model tried to blackmail Jagr by demanding 50,000 Czech koruna using the threat of publishing a picture of him in bed following an encounter. Jagr reportedly responded by saying, "I don't care," and the sleeping photo of the athlete was published without any money changing hands. Jaromir Jagr, during his jersey retirement in Pittsburgh.Photo by Justin Berl/Getty Images 'I'm proud to be a great American champion; I'm proud to be a Christian American champion.' UFC heavyweight champion and 37-year-old Jon Jones has had several stints away from the sport, which has made his career seem even longer than it already has been. With multiple public arrests over the years resulting in four-year and one-year layoffs, Jones seemingly has had no reason to continue fighting and instead might focus on his well-being. However, despite calls from fans for him to retire while he is still considered undefeated, Jones has fought twice at heavyweight to win, then defend his title. Following his November win, Jones explained that he's still not done. Typically, Jones would call out another fighter or egg on the crowd, but this time he took an entirely different approach. The New Mexico fighter said that not only is he going to keep fighting for the fans, but he explicitly said he wants to represent Christianity and American patriotism moving forward. "You know what? While I got the moment, while everybody's cheering and so happy, I want to acknowledge Jesus Christ," Jones said in the Octagon. "I'm proud to be a great American champion; I'm proud to be a Christian American champion," he continued. "I also want to say a big, big thank-you to President Donald Trump for being here tonight." Jones started the U-S-A chant, handed his belt to President Trump, and affirmed that he wasn't going anywhere. Along with several NFL and MLB players who are doing the same, Jones is pushing a new wave of proud, American, and often Christian conservative athletes who have been unapologetic in their belief in conserving the republic. Sports fans not only should be thankful for this shift in energy, but they should be proudly supporting these rare instances when an athlete has more to say than vague claims of oppression and hate. Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!