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Car Week on the Monterey Peninsula will be back this year. Organizers said Friday they are going ahead with plans for some big events which could provide a much-needed economic boost for the battered hospitality industry. The Pebble Beach Concours d‘Elegance is on for 2021, one of the biggest events on the Central Coast every year. The Concours, and other car week events, bring tens of thousands of people to the Monterey Peninsula every year. A lot of people in one place but organizers say they have a plan to keep everyone safe. >>Watch the full story in the video...

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg recently called for solar panels to be used to help power "heavy battle tanks or fighter jets and naval ships," at an online seminar titled New Ideas for NATO 2030 — whose transcript is published on the NATO website. During the seminar, Stoltenberg addressed the fact that the militaries of the world need to take action to curb their considerable CO2 emissions — which are so sizeable they exceed entire countries. "NATO should do its part to look into how we can reduce emissions from military operations," Stoltenberg explained. "We know that heavy battle tanks or...

Iran said on Tuesday it will start enriching uranium to 60% purity, a move bringing the fissile material closer to levels suitable for a bomb, after accusing Israel of sabotaging a key nuclear installation. The disclosure came soon before the resumption of talks in Vienna aimed at reviving Iran's 2015 nuclear deal with major powers, an accord Israel fiercely opposed, after former U.S. President Donald Trump abandoned it three years ago. A fissile purity of 90% is suitable for a nuclear bomb. Last week, Iran and the global powers held what they described as "constructive" talks to salvage the 2015...

While getting his second COVID-19 vaccine dose on Tuesday, a New Hampshire man accidentally received the Pfizer jab, despite his first dose having been from Moderna. Despite the unfortunate mishap, officials say he’ll be just fine, with no further shots needed for now. SNIP While medical experts reached by News 9 declined to comment on the situation due to the lack of data regarding mixing vaccine brands, New Hampshire’s Department of Health and Human Services released a statement late Wednesday offering further reassurance. Mixing brands, while possibly not ideal or as effective as receiving two shots from either Moderna or...

April 15, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) – A world-renowned Harvard-trained psychiatrist and author of dozens of scientific papers is calling for a “moratorium” on COVID-19 vaccines due to the explosion of adverse reactions and thousands of deaths that have followed in the wake of those who have received the jab.“The vaccine is much more dangerous than the disease COVID-19,” Dr. Peter Breggin, former Consultant at the National Institute of Mental Health, told LifeSiteNews’ John-Henry Westen this week.“It's very clear now we absolutely need a moratorium on it. Don't take it. We need a moratorium,” he said.Breggin’s comments come as American and European...

“Marxist” Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Khan-Cullors tearfully defended her $3.2 million real estate empire, insisting she didn’t use a penny of BLM donations on herself. “I have never taken a salary from the Black Lives Matters Global Networks Foundation,” she also said Thursday. “That’s important,” she told host told “Black News Tonight” host Marc Lamont Hill, “because what the right-wing media is trying to say is that the donations that people gave to Black Lives Matter went towards my spending.

“Aging Bull” Robert De Niro is being worked to death to keep up with his estranged wife’s extravagant lifestyle — including her “thirst for Stella McCartney” and $1 million-plus diamond rings, his lawyer claimed in court Friday. The elderly acting legend is already a tax delinquent again — with the paychecks from his next two movies to offset his latest multimillion-dollar bill to Uncle Sam, his divorce lawyer claimed. “Mr. De Niro is 77 years old, and while he loves his craft, he should not be forced to work at this prodigious pace because he has to,” De Niro’s lawyer,...

America’s largest casino company launched a TV and radio ad blitz last night aiming to stoke Texans’ FOMO—their fear of missing out. “Every year,” one ad explains, “Texans spend billions of tourism and gambling dollars at casinos in Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and New Mexico—billions that could be staying here.” Las Vegas Sands, the corporation funding the campaign, wants state lawmakers to put a measure legalizing casino gambling on the election ballot in November. The bill under consideration would permit construction of one hotel casino in each of the state’s four largest urban areas. The Lone Star State does have some...

BERLIN (CNS) — Germany’s lower house of Parliament is considering replacing state payments to the nation’s two largest churches. The Catholic and Protestant churches received combined state benefits of more than $650 million in 2020. At a hearing in the interior affairs committee of the Bundestag, or lower house of parliament, they welcomed in principle the intention of legislation by the opposition liberal Free Democratic Party, the Greens and the Left Party and pointed out that it was in line with a constitutional mandate to abolish the payments, which date back to a 19th-century provision. By contrast, a number of...

Italian authorities announced on Monday that an arrest warrant has been issued for Gianluigi Torzi, who brokered the Vatican’s 2018 purchase of a London property. The Italian court order raises a startling assertion from Vatican authorities: that the Secretariat of State acted outside its legal authority when it invested hundreds of millions of euros of Church funds, and when it put Peter’s Pence funds up as collateral for high risk investments. The charge could render the transactions void, and implicate Cardinals Pietro Parolin and Angelo Becciu with final legal responsibility for the scandal. The 14-page court order noted that Vatican...

Yes, the Ohio Court of Appeals held Thursday.? "Fighting words"—face-to-face personal insults that are likely to start a fight—are generally constitutionally unprotected, and can be criminally punished (usually under disorderly conduct statutes). But in R.A.V. v. City of St. Paul (1992), the Supreme Court struck down a statute that imposed heightened punishment on those "fighting words" that "arouse[] anger, alarm or resentment in others on the basis of race": Even when some speech (e.g., fighting words, libel, obscenity, etc.) is constitutionally unprotected, the law can't selectively impose extra punishment on unprotected speech that, say, expresses racist views. Yet in Wisconsin...

Project Veritas released the 2nd part of their Expose CNN series. However, soon after, Twitter permanently suspended James O'Keefe's account. See video at link.

MANILA, Philippines — Another private hospital was given a Compassionate Special Permit (CSP) to use Ivermectin as treatment for COVID-19 patients, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said yesterday. According to FDA director general Eric Domingo, there are now two private hospitals, which he refused to identify, that can use the mainly veterinary drug to treat their COVID-19 patients. “As of (Thursday), there was a second hospital applicant for CSP. (Yesterday) morning, it was approved already,” he noted. The CSP is valid for one year and can only be used by doctors of these hospitals. But Domingo stressed there is...

Michigan announced the current mask rule will now include children age 2 to 4 years old, according to a Michigan Department of Health and Human Services release Friday. “The change means that kids from 2-4 are now subject to the masking requirement just like everyone else,” MDHHS Public Information Officer Bob Wheaton wrote in an email statement. “So if an 18 year old would be required to mask because they were in a gathering at a park, so would a 2-4 year old” As the surge of coronavirus cases continues in Michigan, a younger demographic has been part of the...

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, says he’s not wearing a mask at the Capitol anymore, since he’s vaccinated against Covid-19. Cruz joined his Republican colleagues Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., and Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Ky., in ditching face coverings. In the House, members and aides are required to wear masks, but the Senate has no such rule. "At this point, I’ve been vaccinated. Everybody working in the Senate has been vaccinated," Cruz told CNN. A reporter told Cruz that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) still recommends vaccinated people wear masks in public. "CDC has said in small groups, particularly...

On Saturday, April 10, a recently-installed memorial to Tsar-Martyr Nicholas II in the far northern city of Kovdor was blessed by the Metropolitan of Murmansk. The bust, installed on the territory of the Church of the Dormition of the Most Holy Theotokos in December, was blessed by His Eminence Metropolitan Mitrophan of Murmansk and Monchegorsk, reports the Murmansk Diocese. This is the first memorial in the Murmansk Province dedicated to the founder of the city of Romanov-on-Murman, known as Murmansk today. The city was the last of the Russian Empire, founded in 1916. The installation of the monument was initiated...

China has been touting the success of its COVID-19 vaccines at home and abroad, luring a number of countries into purchasing Sinovac and Sinopharm, two front-runner Chinese vaccines. Moreover, whenever a foreign sale is made, Chinese authorities immediately cite it as proof of popularity and effectiveness in the propaganda it uses inside China. Such propaganda has indeed achieved a certain amount of success both inside the country and in the international community. However, recent deaths and the low protection rate of Chinese-made vaccines revealed by clinical trials and real-life cases, should put an end to that self-proclaimed “success.” Deaths and...

‘They can take our facility, but we’ll just find another one,’ said Pastor James Coates during his sermon.EDMONTON, Alberta, April 14, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) — Members of a Christian church in Alberta were forced to meet underground on Sunday after their building was raided and fenced off by police for breaking coronavirus health rules. In a first for modern-day Canada, members of Grace Life Church (Grace Life) located near Edmonton, Alberta, met this past Sunday in secret at an undisclosed location. At the same time, protesters were on site at the barricaded church property in support of the community. The church’s...

With the 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) getting closer, the death of Yang Xiong, former mayor of Shanghai, has drawn people’s attention to the power struggle within the CCP, especially between Xi Jinping and former leader Jiang Zemin. The 20th National Congress will be held in the autumn of next year. The CCP’s National Congress is held every five years to decide who will be the next leader. According to the CCP’s official media, Yang died of a heart attack in Shanghai Huashan Hospital in the early hours of April 12 at the age of 68....