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Police in Olympia arrested one person Saturday afternoon following a shooting at a violent protest between two heavily armed groups near the Capital building. The Thurston County sheriff’s office confirmed the arrest but didn’t immediately release details. The Olympia Police Department said the person who was shot was taken to a hospital by other civilians. That person’s injuries are unknown. Police said they are aware of several videos involving the shooting. Prior to the shooting, the police fail to protect the protesters who were there to support President Trump. In the video below you will see Antifa attacking Trump supporters...

After being locked out of Church services during the Paschal season, the Orthodox faithful of Cyprus will not be able to celebrate the Great Feast of the Nativity of Our Lord Jesus Christ in church either, as new, stricter anti-COVID measures were adopted at a recent extraordinary session of the Council of Ministers under the chairmanship of President Nikos Anastasiadis, reports Romfea. In particular, among other things, the Council decided that religious services will be held without the presence of the faithful. The new measures will go into effect tomorrow and continue until December 31, meaning the faithful will not...

The book, "The Persecution of George Pell" by Keith Windschuttle, was launched in Sydney Dec. 10, 2020 Australia has entered a new phase that could see any Australian consigned to imprisonment without any evidence for crimes they have not committed, warned the author of a new book on the trial and imprisonment of Cardinal George Pell. Keith Windschuttle, a former Australian Broadcasting Corp. board member who is also the editor of Quadrant magazine, warned that "within the ideological imperatives that prevail today, any one of us could become a George Pell." "It was as if Kafka's 'The Trial' had moved...

Country music legend Charley Pride has reportedly died from complications from COVID-19. The pioneering black country music star was a legend in the country music industry with over two dozen number one hits. Born in Mississippi in the 1930s, Pride picked cotton before playing baseball in the then-segregated leagues. Pride served in the U.S. Army and worked in a Montana smelting plant before breaking out as Nashville's first black superstar, Rolling Stone reported. While accepting a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2008, Pride addressed his experience as a black singer in the country music industry. "My older sister one time said,...

ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico — An attorney for the Archdiocese of Santa Fe has claimed that alleged victims of clergy sexual abuse and their lawyers are seeking to eliminate the archdiocese in New Mexico by asking about the church’s holdings. Tom Walker, the archdiocese’s lawyer, made the claim during a court hearing Monday about three lawsuits alleging the archdiocese illegally transferred about $245 million to parishes and their trusts before the archdiocese filed for bankruptcy. A lawyer for some victims, James Stang, called the accusations unconstructive and untrue.

California Attorney General Xavier Becerra is no stranger to controversyPresident-elect Biden has chosen a secretary of Health and Human Services who sued to block a policy that would have exempted nuns from Obamacare's contraception mandate, provoking even more scrutiny over how Biden's Catholic faith influences his political agenda. California Attorney General Xavier Becerra sued the Little Sisters of the Poor, a religious order that runs homes for the elderly poor, as they tried to defend the exemption. The case -- State of California v. Little Sisters of the Poor -- made it to the Ninth Circuit but the Supreme Court...

It’s ultimately about the fact that for a country to hold together there need to be a lot of shared values. If half the country believes in the values that made America successful in the first place while the other half of the country is demanding to live in some sort of atheistic socialist utopia that hates everything those other people believe in and stand for, we have what is known in a marriage as irreconcilable differences. Once our value systems are that far apart, there is no such thing as a win/win situation. This is why the standard political...

Iranian dissident journalist Ruhollah Zam, who was convicted of fomenting violence during anti-government protests in 2017, was executed on Saturday, Iran’s state television reported. France reacted with anger to the hanging of the Paris-based journalist, which it called “barbaric and unacceptable” and said ran counter to Iran’s international obligations. Iran said on Tuesday its Supreme Court had upheld the death sentence against Zam, who was captured in 2019 after years of living in exile in France. His Amadnews feed had more than 1 million followers.

The YouTube Ban Is Un-American, Wrong, and Will Backfire Silicon Valley couldn't have designed a better way to further radicalize Trump voters

Leadership of the Democrat National fraud party Title Officer State Chairman Tom Perez Washington, D.C.U.S. Senate leader Chuck Schumer New York U.S. House leader Nancy Pelosi California U.S. House leader Nancy Pelosi California Vice chairman Michael Blake New York Treasurer Bill Derrough New York Vice chairwoman Maria Elena Durazo California National Finance chairman Christopher Korge Florida Vice chairman, president of the Association of State Democratic Chairs Ken Martin Minnesota Vice chairwoman Grace Meng New York Vice chairwoman of civic engagement and voter participation Karen Carter Perterson Louisiana Secretary Jason Rae Wisconsin Associate chairman and senior counselor Jaime R. Harrison South...

You may be familiar with the name, Jovan Hutton Pulitzer, or you may not be, but he’s an author, actor, producer, writer, podcaster, an inventor and more. I first became aware of his name during the testimony of Col. Phil Waldron during the Michigan State House hearing on Election Integrity very recently. Col. Waldron briefly mentioned that Pulitzer was the inventor of the QR code and that using his invention, there was a way to determine whether a ballot was fraudulent or not and that piqued my interest. We’ll be discussing his life, career and his invention tonight on the...

New York State Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) has come under fire for various Wuhan coronavirus decisions, the biggest one being his mandate for assisted living facilities and nursing homes to take in COVID positive patients and his decision to close indoor dining. Fox News meteorologist Janice Dean has been outspoken about how the governor's nursing home policies personally impacted her family, resulting in the death of her mother and father-in-law. Once again, she's calling out the rewards Cuomo is receiving despite his less-than-stellar job. Janice Dean @JaniceDean · 23h I guess you can destroy lives and livelihoods, make money off...

Snake and eggs? Floridians could soon eat invasive pythons Python Bowl kicks off Friday in Florida Everglades Python Bowl kicks off Friday in Florida Everglades FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – Donna Kalil estimates she’s eaten a dozen pythons in the last three years or so. That’s not including the python jerky, says Kalil, a python hunter for the South Florida Water Management District. “I eat that several times a week because I take it out with me on python hunts and I eat it out there.” State officials would like to see more people like Kalil putting pythons on the menu...

THE REAL MEANING OF PEACE There once was a King who offered a prize to the artist who would paint the best picture of peace. Many artists tried. The King looked at all the pictures, but there were only two he really liked and he had to choose between them. One picture was of a calm lake. The lake was a perfect mirror for the peaceful towering mountains all around. Overhead was a blue sky with fluffy white clouds. All who saw this picture thought that it was a perfect picture of peace. The other picture had mountains too....

It could've just been a large rock, but something told Narit Suwansang that he had found something more. It's not gold, but it might as well have been. According to Thai news outlet Thairath, the plain yellow-beige rock which Suwansang found lying innocently along a beach in Nakhon Si Thammarat on Nov 26 turned out to be whale vomit. And before anyone starts gagging, that stuff's pricey. Ambergris, or whale puke really, is formed when a sperm whale throws up and its bile floats along the ocean till it washes up on shore as a hardened chunk. It's used mainly...

It's Hard Times in the Basement.We steal Donald's votes, I steal the election I've stolen everything but my big fat wife It's hard times in the basement my love Hard times in the basement

A subpoena seeking documents from Hunter Biden asked for information related to more than two dozen entities, including Ukraine gas company Burisma, according to a person familiar with a Justice Department tax investigation of President-elect Joe Biden's son. The breadth of the subpoena, issued Tuesday, underscores the wide-angle lens prosecutors are taking as they examine the younger Biden’s finances and international business ventures. Hunter Biden's ties to Burisma in particular have long dogged the policy work and political aspirations of his father, Joe Biden, now the president-elect of the United States. It's unclear whether Hunter Biden's work at the Ukrainian...

BREAKING: Hunter Subpoenaed – Now Under FOUR Investigations Hunter Biden has been subpoenaed by federal investigators over his involvement with at least two dozen entities – including Ukrainian gas company Burisma, according to the Associated Press, citing a ‘person familiar with a Justice Department tax investigation.” News of the subpoena follows a joint announcement from Hunter and his father Joe Biden’s campaign last week which acknowledged that he was under investigation for tax fraud, with the Washington Post noting that Hunter had yet to be interviewed by the FBI or served with subpoenas. The subpoena, issued Tuesday, covers a wide...

Cardinal sues Democrat DC mayor over “discriminatory” COVID-19 restrictions‘Under both the First Amendment and the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, the District’s arbitrary, unscientific, and discriminatory treatment of religious worship is illegal,’ the lawsuit stated.WASHINGTON, D.C., December 12, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — With Christmas less than two weeks away, Cardinal Wilton Gregory is suing Democrat Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser and the District of Columbia over their coronavirus restrictions, alleging these are “arbitrary” and “discriminatory” to churches and will cause “imminent and irreparable harm.”The Catholic Archdiocese of Washington is represented by the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, which filed the suit Friday evening...

In the midst of scratching their heads over Governor Mike DeWine’s (R) Dec. 7 extension of his bizarre, unconstitutional “curfew” to guard against a virus that, evidently, becomes more deadly after 10 pm and before 5 am, Ohio residents might have missed the bizarre “high school sports” edict issued on Dec. 4… That’s the command that high school wrestlers are “permitted” to wrestle, but before and after the match, participants are... ...forbidden from shaking hands. Then there’s the added genius of this rule: Wrestlers are also required to wear facial coverings off the mat when not actively competing or warming...