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The first documented executions of heretics in medieval Europe occurred on this date in 1022 in Orleans, when 13 or so were burned at Orleans. The French king at this time was Robert II, known to history as “Robert the Pious” because he was so violent with the sub-orthodox.* In addition to this date’s burnings, he’s noted for inciting anti-Jewish persecutions that in some places drove local Jewry to drown themselves fleeing pogroms. For those within Christianity, starting now, Robert’s Piety meant much tighter scrutiny of potentially deviant doctrines. Now, these were not the first-ever Christian-on-Christian heresy executions in the...

Well, the votes are in, and the U.S. House of Representatives has voted to override President Donald Trump’s veto of the defense policy bill. Now, the proposed legislation will go to the Senate, where it is expected to be passed due to a collaboration between Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and Senate Minority leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY).Trump had previously argued against the bill because it would rename military bases named after Confederate officers and make it harder for a president to bring troops home. He also indicated that he would refuse to sign the bill unless it included a...

Humanity should sacrifice “personal freedom” just as many nations did during the Covid-19 pandemic in order to successfully fight climate change, a German MP has said, adding that there will “never” be a vaccine against CO2. Germany had barely started its coronavirus vaccination campaign when a Social Democratic MP, Karl Lauterbach, warned that his compatriots need to brace themselves for yet another challenge: global warming. “We need measures to deal with climate change that are similar to the restrictions on personal freedom [imposed] to combat the pandemic,” the professor of health economics and epidemiology at the University of Cologne wrote...

You are witnessing an all-or-nothing struggle for the Presidency of the United States. This foreign internal defense sting operation has captured in real time the biggest criminal conspiracy in America history. The winner will control the fate of history for all time - the stakes couldn't be higher.

n 1954, Joseph Welch asked Sen. Joseph McCarthy, "Have you no sense of decency?" Someone needs to ask this of leftists regarding their cancel culture. The latest example of their revered cancel culture is a New York Times article approvingly profiling a boy who destroyed a classmate's aspirations because, four years before, in a private video, she used a racial slur common in that generation's music.

Ryan, who is a certified public accountant, says they discovered discrepancies between the numbers of total votes counted and total number of voters who voted in the 2020 General Election which is making them question how the results could have been certified by Gov. Tom Wolf and Secretary of the Commonwealth Kathy Boockvar. According to Ryan, the analysis compared official county election results to the total number of voters who voted Nov. 3, as recorded by the Department of State. Ryan says they found that 6,962,607 total ballots were reported as being cast, while DoS/SURE system records indicated that only...

Absolutely arrogant. For Timothy P. Schmalz, an Ontario-based sculptor, that’s really the only way to describe the renewed push to tear down statues that commemorate people who are now deemed out of step with modern morals. When a Confederate figure gets toppled in the U.S., or a prime minister who was part of brutal treatment of Indigenous people is destroyed in Canada, it says more than just disagreeing, Mr. Schmalz said. It’s a claim that we would have known better, acted otherwise. And that’s the hubris. “When one destroys or puts a Confederate statue in a museum, out of sight,...

Small drones will be allowed to fly over people and at night in the United States, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said on Monday, a significant step toward their use for widespread commercial deliveries. Small drones will be allowed to fly over people and at night in the United States, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said on Monday, a significant step toward their use for widespread commercial deliveries.

An accused serial burglar and thief has been sentenced to probation for a burglary in Lincoln Park last year — even though he was already on probation for two burglaries at the time of the alleged break-in. Jonathan Hernandez, 26, pleaded guilty to one count of theft in exchange for an 18-month probation sentence in the latest case, according to court records. He has been arrested seventeen times in Chicago since March 2014, according to CPD records. One year before his arrest, Hernandez was charged with threatening to shoot an off-duty police officer who confronted him as he allegedly burglarized...

This is a brief essay, a chain of thoughts, from a $2 therapy to … the fall of nations … (nothing less!)Article available in French at this link.If you watch the news about COVID-19, you will have certainly heard about drugs such as Remdesivir and REGEN-CoV2, two drugs that were administered to President Trump when he got the disease.But what about ZIVERDO? You probably never heard about it! And chances are that, if you don’t read this blog, or pay attention to COVID-19 news on Twitter and some other social media, you would never hear about it.A reason may simply...

We know that Texas rejected the use of Dominion voting machines for use in their elections about a year ago. I thought it might be useful to review the overall SoS report and the individual reports (x 6 qty) that went into this decision. Overall report: https://www.sos.texas.gov/elections/forms/sysexam/dominion-d-suite-5.5-a.pdf I should make all the above links clickable.... And why it's dated Jan 24th 2020, ya got me. Brandon Hurley, esq: https://www.sos.texas.gov/elections/forms/sysexam/oct2019-hurley.pdf Brian Mechler, Technical Examiner: https://www.sos.texas.gov/elections/forms/sysexam/oct2019-mechler.pdf Chuck Pinney: https://www.sos.texas.gov/elections/forms/sysexam/oct2019-pinney.pdf James Sneeringer, Ph.d: https://www.sos.texas.gov/elections/forms/sysexam/oct2019-sneeringer.pdf Ryan Vassar: (TX Gen'l Counsel) https://www.sos.texas.gov/elections/forms/sysexam/oct2019-vassar.pdf Tom Watson: https://www.sos.texas.gov/elections/forms/sysexam/oct2019-watson.pdf ALL of the above reports rejected the use of the...

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Protest in Utah next Monday morning when Republican Governor Spencer Cox takes office. Cox endorsing the coronavirus restrictions of outgoing Republican Governor Gary Herbert that included a ban on social gatherings of more than 10 people... "Initial examination does not show a link between the unfortunate incident and the vaccination" That's part of the statement from Israel's Health Ministry following the death of a 75-year man two hours after he had received the Pfizer BioNTech coronavirus vaccine... Why did the World Health Organization change its views on masks earlier this year from being against the mask to supporting it?... South...

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After nearly two months, the state of Pennsylvania is found to have certified votes that are in error. The Pennsylvania House has just uncovered that the certified results in Pennsylvania for President are in error by more than 200,000 votes. This is more than twice the difference between President Trump and Joe Biden. What a mess. Republican State Representative Russ Diamond uncovered and reported today that the results for President are way off in Pennsylvania. More ballots were cast than people voted by more than 200,000 votes. The group of Republican Representatives released this message: HARRISBURG – A group of...

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Curry occupies a grey area in Australia: sometimes exotic and other, sometimes ordinary, often a bit of both. Advertised in Australia as early as 1813, curry powder was a familiar ingredient for British colonists, developed in British India through a process of “negotiation and collaboration”. Curry powder was a food of empire. For the British colonialists who moved to Australia, curry powder was an “agent of transformation”. In a new country with unusual animals, these spices could render the unfamiliar into the familiar, as in “Iguana” tail curry and curried wattle bird. Writing in the Melbourne Herald in 1874, journalist...

let's say i have $100000. i want a short term investment portfolio (until EOY) consisting of SPY, AMZN, AAPL, AMD, TSLA (and possibly others) in some proportions. what should be the proportions? i already have most of these. thanks.

Alki David, Billionaire Businessman, PodcasterWant to make a quick million? All you have to do is tell the truth that could save America.In a world on the edge of collapse into global technocratic authoritarianism, that’s how easy it is to be an instant hero right now. And a millionaire.Alki David is a billionaire mogul and podcaster. He is also, apparently, not an anti-American globalist. That makes at least one. We must celebrate him and get his message out, despite knowing little else about the man. Perhaps more will follow and he can give us all more details about his bounty....

Officer Michael Sipos, 1 of the officers who responded to 2nd Ave N Christmas Day in the minutes prior to the explosion, had been issued a body camera just days earlier. Here is what he saw & heard: 13 min video