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Thousands of people have gathered on the streets of central London to protest in solidarity with Palestinians amid the ongoing conflict with Israel. "Immediate action" is needed by the UK government, organisers say, to help end the "brutal" violence against the people of Palestine. By Saturday afternoon, thousands of people had marched through Hyde Park in central London, chanting "free, free Palestine", and gathered outside the Israeli embassy in Kensington. Organisers say that 100,000 people had joined the crowds in Kensington outside the embassy. On a makeshift stage on Kensington High Street, Labour's Diane Abbott told the crowd: "We must...

Publix will no longer require customers to wear masks, if they are fully vaccinated, starting Saturday, May 15. The company announced its updated policy on Friday, one day after the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention updated its mask wearing guidance stating fully vaccinated people can stop wearing masks both outdoor and indoors, except when in healthcare settings, on public transportation, or in other areas where governments require masks.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbot is expected to sign into law a bill that bans abortions after a fetal heartbeat can be detected, which can occur as early as six weeks into a pregnancy. Texas Senate Bill 8, also known as the Texas Heartbeat Act or “heartbeat bill” was passed in the state Senate 18-12 on Thursday, and awaits Abbott’s signature. The Republican governor has indicated that he will sign the bill on the same day.

Tensions are at a zenith, thanks to the Biden administration’s stubborn insistence that now is the time to re-enter the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action — the flawed 2015 nuclear deal with Iran. America’s role in whatever is agreed upon is very likely to include billions of dollars in cash incentives to the Islamic Republic, in exchange for temporary nuclear concessions. The Iranian regime is one of Hamas’ top sponsors. Thus, the Biden administration is on the cusp of indirectly providing funds to Hamas, using Iran as a pass-through. ... Iran is long known to have provided Hamas with entire...

I finished Part II of this "thinking out loud"-style series by suggesting two things. The first was that the Wokist devastation of our society suggests our society's original rules set the boundaries of tolerance too far apart. The space thereby created allowed this ruthlessly intolerant, totalitarian ideology to take root and spread. As predicted by Karl Popper's Paradox of Tolerance, Wokism is now exterminating the very tolerance which allowed it to thrive in the first place. It permits no other rival ideologies. It is our own Islamic fundamentalism. The second thing I suggested was that too much tolerance not only...

On Friday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Ingraham Angle,” Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) reacted to the CDC’s summer camp guidance and health officials arguing that unvaccinated children need to wear masks by stating that it doesn’t make sense given that there isn’t a wave of deaths among children and “the burden of proof should be on the state. If Fauci wants kids to mask up and wear masks everywhere, he should show us the science, show us the evidence that kids are creating a contagion.” Paul said, [relevant remarks begin around 2:20] “Kids don’t get this disease. When they...

President Joe Biden has revoked a string of proclamations by Donald Trump, including an order to punish vandals who destroy monuments. Mr Trump issued the order amid last year's social justice protests as statues were being defaced or toppled. Mr Biden also rescinded Mr Trump's plans for a sculpture garden to honour American heroes. And he canned a 2019 proclamation that sought to bar entry to immigrants who could not afford health insurance. Mr Trump issued an order in June 2020 instructing the federal government "to prosecute to the fullest extent" any person "that destroys, damages, vandalizes, or desecrates a...

It seems that one of the major objectives of the Biden administration, and I guess all Democratic politicians, is to dismantle everything that built this nation and made it great, and of course to spend us into oblivion without acknowledging any consequence for their actions. The one warped initiative that may end up being the most painful is the push to shut off the energy spigot and somehow replace it with fairy dust and unicorn farts. Yes, I'm talking about the fantasy that green "renewable" energy can replace our current, efficient and abundant fuel sources like coal, oil and gas...

Early Saturday evening, SpaceX hopes to embark on its 28th Starlink mission, sending another cluster of 60 broadband internet network satellites into orbit aboard a Falcon 9 rocket. That launch is at 6:54 p.m. ET and will lift off from Launch Pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center. Then, on Monday, United Launch Alliance hopes to send up an Atlas V rocket with the S-B-I-R-S GEO-5 missile detection and early warning satellite for the U.S. Space Force Space and Missile Systems Center. The rocket is poised to lift off from Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. That launch...

A camera mounted on the Electron's upper stage showed stage separation 2 minutes and 35 seconds into the flight, followed by what appeared to be a brief ignition and a sharp sideways motion before shutting down. Rocket Lab confirmed a loss of telemetry from the rocket four minutes after liftoff. Saturday's launch failure follows a failed launch in July 2020, which the company traced to a single faulty electrical connection. Rocket Lab's first Electron launch in 2017 failed to reach orbit due to a telemetry issue. Aside from those flights, Rocket Lab has seen 18 successful launches. Rocket Lab launched...

I realize that in these days it’s difficult to keep up with all the news and information that continually bombard us. It’s often hard to know what’s true and what’s not true. Even sources we would like to think we could trust often run with stories prior to doing any sort of independent fact-checking. We must all work harder than ever to get the real truth because real truth is now censored by the internet conglomerates and social media platforms. Try researching the truth about any of the things I’m sharing with you, and you’ll find plenty of articles online...

Early Friday, it was widely, incorrectly reported that Israeli ground forces had advanced into Gaza. Some observers blame the confusion on a military ploy to lure militants into the tunnels under Gaza. More than 150 Israeli jets went on to intensely bombard the tunnel system, known as "the metro." "The IDF makes Hamas think that a ground operation is beginning, which causes the organization to bring in all its fighters, including the Nahba, the special force of Hamas, to go down into the tunnels and prepare for combat," Dvori wrote. "Then for 35 minutes, 160 planes hover over Gaza and...

The FBI quietly admitted Friday that the 2017 Alexandria, Virginia, baseball field shooting that nearly killed Rep. Steve Scalise has been classified as “domestic terrorism” carried out by a “domestic violent extremist” targeting Republicans after the bureau previously classified it as “suicide by cop.” The revelation appears in the middle of an appendix on page 35 of a 40-page FBI-DHS report released on Friday titled “Security Strategic Intelligence Assessment and Data on Domestic Terrorism.” In a section describing approximately 85 different “FBI-Designated Significant Domestic Terrorism Incidents in the United States from 2015 through 2019,” the Alexandria baseball field shooting appears,...

Democrat Maxine Waters is among members of Congress accused of turning a tax-paid program to protect airline passengers in the wake of 9/11 into a “concierge service.”..... lawmakers began requesting protection while traveling to and from their districts — and even on vacation. Waters flew to the Chauvin trial joined by Capitol Police and S/S. Waters told reporters that if Chauvin wasn’t convicted, police-hating protesters would have to “stay on the street" and be confrontational. Air marshal union president David Londo complained to the DHS inspector general that putting marshals on flights “simply because a member of Congress requests it...

When my husband was getting ready to fly to Iraq to fight in the war, at the airport I was seized with fear that as he walked away it might be my last time to hug him. I started to cry. My husband had told me that “the Lord will walk between you and me”. Our son went from a young man to a responsible man. He told me “let me drive you home mom”. Shortly thereafter I put up a wooden cross in the front yard and painted on it the “Lord has already won this war”. I prayed...

The weekend began with a shooting that wounded a 2-year-old girl followed by two multiple victim attacks, one that wounded three on the West Side and another that left one dead and four injured on the South Side. At least 18 people have been shot citywide since 5 p.m. Friday. The 2-year-old girl was in the rear seat of a car being driven by a male about 6:55 p.m. in the 2800 block of West 26th Street when another vehicle drove up alongside them and someone inside that vehicle started shooting, Chicago police said. She was shot in the leg...

The Washington Post spent the entire week knocking the Abraham Accords that were struck under former President Trump as tensions continue to rise between Israel and the terrorist group Hamas. In the final months of 2020, the Trump administration brokered a historic peace agreement between Israel and several Arab nations that paved the way for normalized relations. The nations that struck deals with the Jewish State include the UAE, Bahrain, Morocco, and Sudan. While the Abraham Accords had been regarded as one of Trump's greatest foreign policy achievements, the Washington Post appeared gitty in trashing the peace deal as violence...

May 15, 2021 Saturday of the 6th week of EastertideSt. Isidore Church (location unknown)Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: White.First readingActs 18:23-28 ©Apollos demonstrated from the scriptures that Jesus was the ChristPaul came down to Antioch, where he spent a short time before continuing his journey through the Galatian country and then through Phrygia, encouraging all the followers. An Alexandrian Jew named Apollos now arrived in Ephesus. He was an eloquent man, with a sound knowledge of the scriptures, and yet, though he had been given instruction in the Way of the Lord and preached with great spiritual earnestness and was accurate...

May 15, 2021 Saturday of the 6th week of EastertideSt. Isidore Church (location unknown)Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: White.First readingActs 18:23-28 ©Apollos demonstrated from the scriptures that Jesus was the ChristPaul came down to Antioch, where he spent a short time before continuing his journey through the Galatian country and then through Phrygia, encouraging all the followers. An Alexandrian Jew named Apollos now arrived in Ephesus. He was an eloquent man, with a sound knowledge of the scriptures, and yet, though he had been given instruction in the Way of the Lord and preached with great spiritual earnestness and was accurate...

With an ongoing conflict involving Israel, Royal Caribbean International is expected to cancel or at least significantly adjust its summer season from Haifa on the new Odyssey of the Seas. According to a report from Crew Center, crew aboard the ship have already been informed the season has been scrapped. Industry sources indicated earlier in the week that the company would need to at least delay the season amid ongoing violence in the region. Now it appears the ground-breaking homeporting operation, which was set to see Royal Caribbean make history by putting a brand new ship into Israel, will need...