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PITTSBURGH -- One year ago, Lena Carson was pulling straight As at the city's Creative and Performing Arts Magnet school, located across the river from her parents' home. She also swam at the local YMCA every day in preparation for the annual state competition and enjoyed the everyday social life of a teenager. Today, she is sitting at home. Again. It has been nearly a year since she was able to walk into CAPA, to which she had to earn admission through a portfolio of her work, and interact with her teachers or friends. Her daily swims are gone, along...

... As previously mentioned, the IICD intelligence assessment indicated that the January 6th protests/rallies were “expected to be similar to the previous Million MAGA March rallies in November and December 2020, which drew tens of thousands of participants.” The assessment indicated that members of the Proud Boys, white supremacist groups, Antifa, and other extremist groups were expected to participate in the January 6th event and that they may be inclined to become violent. ... This mob was like nothing I have seen in my law enforcement career. The group consisted of thousands of well-coordinated, well-equipped violent criminals. They had weapons,...

Alot has changed in the past year. What has not is Britain’s love of pizza. From the spike in sales of wood-fired ovens to Pizza Express’s new home pizza kits, the nation’s appetite for hot crust continues to develop like 48-hour fermented sourdough. According to cookware retailer Lakeland, 33% of people in the UK have made their own pizza from scratch. More than one-fifth of those who had done so own a pizza oven. There exists a coterie of foodies who, armed with portable Ooni or small clay pizza oven (both renowned for hitting the 500C required for Neapolitan-style pizza),...

On Saturday, after months of stonewalling, Andy Cuomo released the total number of nursing home residents who have died of covid.It was 14,832.That’s a lot of grandmas and grandpas.The number previously released had been closer to 9,000. That was just the number who had actually died in their nursing homes. We learned Saturday that some 5,800 others had died after being moved from their nursing homes to actual hospitals as they became acutely ill.That means that Andy had been hiding some 63% of his body count.Families and Republican legislators and some reporters had pressed for months for the total number,...

BREAKING: The UniParty has reached a deal with itself! – The Democrats’ latest impeachment scam attacking Donald Trump is set to start today, as UniParty leaders Democan Chuck Schumer and Republicrat Mitch McConnell reached a deal on what the “rules” for the looming orgy of hyper-partisan slander will look like. What is shaping up here is exactly what everyone should have anticipated: Yet another act in the unending farce that is the DC Swamp Kabuki Theater. We already know the outcome – there will not be nearly enough votes to convict the former President of the fraudulent “incitement to insurrection”...

Aboooouuuut Face! – Just days after the Biden/Harris Defense Secretary, Lloyd Austin, ordered that all U.S. armed forces personnel be subjected to a one-day stand-down so that the Pentagon hacks can try to root out the “white supremacists” – i.e., conservatives – in the ranks, the Pentagon is now attempting to do an about face and declare that the effort is not intended to target people based on race. According to the new talking points, the stand-down is actually targeted at rooting out “extremism” of any kind in the ranks. From a story a the Washington Examiner: PlayUnmute Fullscreen VDO.AI...

Pray For the Peace of JerusalemLambs, Sheep, and Shepherds.Matthew 10:1-17Jesus Sends Out the Twelve 10 Jesus called his twelve disciples to him and gave them authority to drive out impure spirits and to heal every disease and sickness. 2 These are the names of the twelve apostles: first, Simon (who is called Peter) and his brother Andrew; James son of Zebedee, and his brother John; 3 Philip and Bartholomew; Thomas and Matthew the tax collector; James son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus; 4 Simon the Zealot and Judas Iscariot, who betrayed him. 5 These twelve Jesus sent out with the following...

The Covid19 Controversy has people asking: Are Tracking Implants the Mark of the Beast? There have been allegations that governments and elites want to implant tracking devices into the populace to track and control them. (From May 2020)Last week on Reddit, Bill Gates suggested a means of "digital tracking certificates", which caused many people to think that we could be close to this imposed technology Dr. Marshall looks at the controversy and whether this could be the "Mark" that is described in Apocalypse 13:18​.

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, has hired General Atomics, Lockheed Martin, and Northrop Grumman, to craft designs for an air-launched missile-toting air-to-air combat drone as part of a program called LongShot. In concept, a larger manned aircraft would fire this unmanned air vehicle, which could then fly to a certain area and engage multiple aerial threats with its own weapons. This, in turn, would extend the range of the launch platform and reduce its vulnerability to hostile aircraft or air defenses, among many other benefits.

Has an era of American mediocrity begun? In January the College Board announced it would eliminate the essay portion of the SAT, as well as all of the separate SAT subject tests. Their stated purpose was “reducing and simplifying demands on students.” Such a burden. One high school near me just dropped freshman advanced-standing (honors) English “to combat the effects of academic ‘tracking” because it “ultimately separates students of different socioeconomic and racial backgrounds.” It turns out that middle schools from lower-income areas aren’t adequately preparing their students for high school. So rather than fix that problem, they dumbed down...

As first reported by Reuters, former White House senior adviser Jared Kushner and Special Representative for International Negotiations Avi Berkowitz have been nominated for the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize by Alan Dershowitz, a professor emeritus at Harvard Law School. The pair joins former president Donald Trump, who has been nominated for the prestigious honor several times since the initial signing of the Abraham Accords in September of last year.

Mark 13:12 brother will deliver brother to death, and a father his child; and children will rise up against parents and have them put to death. A time is coming when a neighbor will be betraying a neighbor to the government. And don't think it will only be a liberal betraying a conservative. Conservatives WILL betray fellow conservatives. Why? How? Consider that one can be a conservative for different reasons. For example: one may be a conservative because he thinks it is immoral to kill, so they are against abortion; one may be against taxes because it is stealing, one...

It’s just the flu, bro. https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/08/health/us-coronavirus-monday/index.html Fear porn: We are still in the “eye of the hurricane” as cases drop due to the deadly new variants. - https://healingoracle.ch/2018/04/09/cdc-admits-98-million-injured-polio-shot/ For the anti-vaxxers: Not too familiar with this source but apparently the polio vaccine dramatically increased a number of cancers. I am not saying that the Coronavirus vaccine causes cancer but the point is valid that the harmful, and often unknown, health effects need to be weighed against any benefit. The problem is that the math behind the benefits of vaccines is a lot easier than the math behind the harmful effects...

The diesel-electric attack submarine was surfacing when it impacted the 51,000-ton commercial vessel off the Japanese coast. A collision between a Japanese submarine and a cargo ship in the Pacific Ocean has resulted in injuries to at least three submariners, according to initial reports. The incident occurred today at 10:58 AM local time, around 25 miles southeast of Cape Ashizuri, in the waters off the island of Shikoku, which lies southwest of Japan’s main island of Honshu. The submarine involved was the first-in-class Soryu, one of 11 of these diesel-electric attack submarines active with the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF)....

Changing the rules of a game right before it’s played normally inspires skepticism, if not cynicism. But a new Time magazine report celebrates a well-funded effort to change voting processes and the flow of political information before the 2020 elections.Time’s Molly Ball happily describes a “conspiracy” among the progressive left, big labor, big business and the Washington establishment to counter Donald Trump and suppress unwanted elements of U.S. political conversation before and after Election Day.Like the various actors she describes at the heart of this vast campaign, Ms. Ball presents it as a virtuous effort to protect democracy from Mr....

Democratic House impeachment managers continued their preposterous and dangerous assault on former President Trump, his supporters and the American Republic in their unconstitutional attempt to impeach Trump for the second time… even though he is now a private citizen. They averred that “every allegation” made against Trump is true, and pre-emptively stated that “any affirmative defenses and legal defenses set forth” by his defense team “are wholly without merit.” They added, “The evidence of President Trump’s conduct is overwhelming. He has no valid excuse or defense for his actions.” Well, who needs a trial? Burn him at the stake, already....

I should state at the outset that were it not for doctors, I would either be paralyzed or dead. I owe my mobility and probably my life to wonderful physicians. However, I will now state with equal certitude that the American medical profession as a whole and many individual doctors are responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands of Americans -- very possibly, more than that. Along with the media -- from The New York Times to Google/YouTube, Facebook and Twitter -- Americans have been denied both life-saving information and life-saving drugs. I am specifically referring to hydroxychloroquine and...

A Japanese submarine crashed into a Chinese tanker while it was surfacing after the crew failed to spot the giant ship through their periscope, officials have said. The crew of the Japanese navy's 275-foot vessel then had to report the incident by mobile phone because the submarine's radio was destroyed in the crash. Three of the crew members of the 'Soryu' suffered minor injuries, while the submarine suffered damage to its mast, Japanese defence officials said on Monday.

After the fiasco of January 6 and the semi-fiasco of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), some people like Jackie Gingrich Cushman are calling for moderation. Even Robert Stacy McCain is wondering “Why is tribalism in America now asserting itself in such toxic and ferocious ways?” Do I have to spell it out? Politics is tribalism, always has been and always will be. The only question is whether my tribe beats your tribe. What do you think the notion of Allyism is about? There is the tribe of helpless “oppressed peoples,” then there the tribe of noble woke “allies,” and together...

The sprawling expanse of flat emptiness in central Florida is an unlikely place for America's fastest growing metro area in the nation. Yet, just 70 miles northwest of Orlando sits 'The Villages' – the world's largest retirement community that surpasses the size of Manhattan and encompasses five zip codes with an ever-growing population. Spanning 32-square-miles, The Villages is a veritable boom-town for baby boomers aged 55+ who flock to the geriatric paradise in droves for its endless margarita mixers (happy hour starts at 11am), unlimited golf courses (50, to be exact), and notorious for its laissez-fair attitude towards sex, thriving...