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TORONTO — Canada on Wednesday declared the Proud Boys a terrorist entity, adding the far-right group to a list that includes al-Qaida, ISIS and al-Shabab in an effort to crack down on “ideologically motivated violent extremism,” described by the country’s public safety minister as the “most significant threat to domestic security.” The announcement by Public Safety Minister Bill Blair came less than a month after Proud Boys allegedly joined the violent mob that stormed the U.S. Capitol after attending a rally by then-President Donald Trump in the hope of overturning the presidential election. Five people, including a Capitol Police officer,...

When it comes to domestic extremists such as those who stormed the Capitol, a longtime CIA officer argues that the U.S. should treat them as an insurgency. That means using counterinsurgency tactics — similar in some ways to those used in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Robert Grenier served as the CIA's station chief for Pakistan and Afghanistan in 2001. He went on to become the CIA's Iraq mission manager and then director of the CIA Counterterrorism Center from 2004 to 2006. "We may be witnessing the dawn of a sustained wave of violent insurgency within our own country,...

Academy Award-winning actor Denzel Washington said he has “the utmost respect” for cops — while taking a shot at anti-police protesters. The 66-year-old “Malcolm X” actor said he’s had a first-hand look at the value of police work, after playing law enforcement in several roles throughout his career. “I have the utmost respect for what they do, for what our soldiers do, (people) that sacrifice their lives. I just don’t care for people who put those kind of people down,” Washington told Yahoo! Entertainment. “If it weren’t for them, we would not have the freedom to complain about what they...

The Arizona Senate is set to pass a contempt resolution finding that the Maricopa County Board has failed to comply with a subpoena demanding access to elections equipment and ballots cast in the November election, with the potential threat of arrest alluded to in the sure-to-pass resolution.The Associated Press reported Wednesday:The Senate introduced the resolution Wednesday afternoon. Timing on a full Senate vote is unclear, but all 16 Republican senators are listed as sponsors, meaning it is virtually certain to pass.If the resolution is enacted, the five members of the county board could be arrested for failing to comply. It...

"Facebook didn’t respond to a request for comment. The social media giant took many punitive actions against Trump in the lead-up to the November 2020 election and eventually banned him from its website, insisting he was encouraging rather than condemning the actions of his followers. Facebook appeared to take no action against Biden, notwithstanding the Democrat issuing a number of misleading posts before and after the election."

... In Kinzinger’s case, it seems some of his own family members are among those who feel angry and betrayed. They told him so in no uncertain terms, sending his office a certified letter disowning him and, in a bizarre twist, claiming he is possessed by the devil. ...

Pope Francis: Dismantling MarriageIn the context of this article by the excellent Phil Lawler, Dr. Peter Kwasniewski offers the following comment:Not long ago, I was involved in a fairly intense discussion of whether Pope Francis is an evil man. One side said "yes, absolutely, you can see that from his years-long patterns of equivocation, ambiguity, and deception, his personnel selections and promotions, his attitude of contempt for tradition, his arrogance, insults, etc." The other side said "no, we don't know enough about his internal state, his knowledge, his capacities, to be able to make such a claim. All we can...

Gov. Tom Wolf picked the big lumber off his policy bat rack Wednesday, unveiling a $37.8 billion state budget proposal that calls for the kind of sweeping change that he started his tenure in office with six years ago. Wolf proposed a major tax reform that also - and unfortunately for the governor and his allies - can be accurately described by his Republican critics as the single-biggest income tax increase ever seen in Pennsylvania, even though it would only ask the top one-third of state wage earners to pay more, according to the administration’s numbers. Gov. Wolf proposes Pa.’s...

ATLANTA — There’s a new effort to remove Confederate monuments and memorials from public land across Georgia, including Stone Mountain. Channel 2′s Richard Elliot is at the State Capitol, where two new pieces of legislation were introduced Wednesday morning. There are legal protections that Confederate monuments and memorials have under current Georgia laws.

ATLANTA — The House Rules Committee voted Wednesday evening to advance a resolution that would strip Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene from all of her committee assignments. Greene represents Georgia’s 14th Congressional District. The North Georgia congresswoman has been facing backlash over the last couple of weeks after Facebook posts and past comments have come to light showing support of conspiracy theories surrounding school shootings and the 9/11 attacks.

FORT WORTH, Texas — Two American Airlines executives are warning that decreased travel volumes means the company may have to furlough up to 13,000 employees, according to a letter sent to employees Wednesday. CEO Doug Parker and President Robert Isom wrote that without an extension of the Payroll Support Program beyond the end of March, they will have more employees than the flight schedule requires. Fort Worth-based American Airlines had expected to be back to a full summer schedule of flights, the letter said. However, due to slow vaccine rollout and the added requirement for a negative COVID-19 test for...

WE THE PEOPLE WORLDWIDE Forwarded from Michael Dunn This is from the Netherlands. Europe knows more about what’s going on here than we do. It's done. Deep State collapses. The Best is coming NOW The official announcement of martial law and a legitimate military government, in effect since 12:00 AM on January 20, 2021, was made on Friday, January 29 at 6:00 PM EST (11:00 PM GMT). The official announcement of Biden's arrest along with 355 congressmen and 109 senators (464 elected) on January 24 and 25 was made on Sunday, January 31 at 4:35 PM EST (10:35 PM GMT...

It looks like leftist forces, without question, represent a much more advanced civilization than the unwashed Trump supporters. Apparently, nowadays, intellectual superiority lies with the knights of social justice, commissars of post-Marxism, and neo-Maoist intelligentsia. We were all not fair-minded when we said that Americans' new generation didn't contribute anything to human, huwoman, and huit civilizations. We complained about the Soros-Jugend folks using cell phones, computers, and the Internet invented by previous generations. However, the well-educated anti-Trumpist intelligentsia has, beyond any reasonable doubt, demonstrated a remarkable ability for time travel. Ladies and gentlemen, we were wrong, period. Firstly, the 2020...

Among its multiple alterations, the coronavirus pandemic of 2020-21 may be undermining the role of public schools in the United States, in place since the middle of the 19th century. It is a reassessment that is long overdue. A relevant anecdote is Ronald Reagan’s famous explanation that he didn’t leave the Democratic Party, the Democratic Party left him. Across the country the past year, that has been the experience of parents with children in many of the nation’s public systems—abandoned by schools they’ve supported with their tax dollars. In Chicago, the nation’s third-largest system is on the brink of a...

Harry S. Dent Jr., the “Contrarian’s Contrarian,” who for years was predicting a cataclysmic market crash late 2017 to early 2020, isn’t gloating. But clearly his mode is I-told-you-so. Recently, he’d warned that the worrisome debt and financial assets bubble would blow in March. Then came “the perfect trigger”: coronavirus, which proved his forecast correct and threw America into “an instant depression,” he argues in an interview with ThinkAdvisor. The U.S. is going through “detox for a crack-addicted economy,” Dent insists, citing a bubble that’s been building to an “orgasmic phase” for some time.

Talk about high praise! Or was it the soft bigotry of low expectations? On today's Morning Joe, Scarborough said: "AOC's never, actually, threatened to kill a Republican."Get the rest of the story and view the video here.

MODERNA’S vaccine is causing a rash on some people’s arms after injection.The side effect, dubbed “Covid arm”, appears around a week after receiving a dose and affects very few patients, doctors say.But they stressed that people with the harmless reaction should still get their second dose of the jab for optimal protection against Covid - around 95 per cent for the Moderna jab.The Moderna vaccine is being dolled out in the US after authorisation in December, but is not expected in the UK until March.It uses the same mRNA technology as the Pfizer vaccine, which has been given to millions...

Papal Primacy and the Heresy of Conciliarlism[EDITOR’S NOTE: In the following essay, as the number of endnotes alone suggests, Fr. Kramer has left few stones unturned in examining the nature of papal primacy and the prospect of a pope who has fallen into heresy. Like the recent article by Robert Siscoe and John Salza, it will take considerable effort to read, but I can assure you that it is well worth your time as you will come away with a deeper understanding and appreciation for the way in which Christ constituted His Church. So, please, persevere! – LV]It is claimed...

Source: LightFieldStudiosI assume it's overkill to continue listing the evidence against death row inmate Kevin Cooper, duly convicted of committing a quadruple murder back in 1983. The blinding proof of his guilt was covered in last week's column. To review, this included shoeprint evidence, footprint evidence, cigarette and tobacco evidence, blood evidence and DNA evidence, proving that this violent rapist and mental hospital escapee: -- hid out in a house next to Doug and Peggy Ryen's Chino Hills, California, home for two days after escaping from prison; -- used a hatchet and hunting knife taken from his hideout to hack...

Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III has ordered a DOD-wide stand down to discuss the problem of extremism in the ranks, Pentagon Press Secretary John F. Kirby said today. Austin and Army Gen. Mark A, Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, met with service civilian leaders and service chiefs to discuss the problem of extremism. Kirby noted that some of the extremists who stormed the U.S. Capitol on January 6 were active duty service members and others were military veterans. Kirby was quick to say that "the vast majority of men and women who serve in...