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Back in their '60s public school days, the founding members of Genesis fancied themselves as pop songwriters — aiming to operate in the shadows, penning hits for others to sing. They wound up achieving the success they craved, just not in the way (or after the evolution) any of them expected. "We didn't appear to be that good at [writing hits]," keyboardist Tony Banks said in a DVD interview for the reissue of 1986's Invisible Touch. "And then I think we sort of shown the way by groups at the time like King Crimson and Family and Fairport Convention —...

Is Summorum Pontificum in Jeopardy?Danger Comes For Benedict XVI's Great ContributionWarning signs have been multiplying of late when it comes to Summorum Pontificum: the majority of the Italian episcopate and of Curial heavyweights—particularly the Secretariat of State—have convinced the Pope that the traditionalization of young clergy is “preoccupying” and that the “right to the traditional Mass” as instituted through Benedict XVI’s motu proprio is an attack on Vatican II.Last Pentecost Monday, the first day of the of the meeting of the Italian Bishops’ Conference (the CEI), the pope starting out by giving the Italian bishops a talking-to for dragging their...

Report: Nation’s Largest Defense Contractor Sent Executives to a White Male Reeducation Camp to Deconstruct Their ‘White Male Culture’ . . . Developing Christopher Rufo, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, is teasing a report that Lockheed Martin, America’s largest defense contractor sent key executives to a three-day “white male reeducation camp” in order to deconstruct their so-called “white male culture” and apparently to atone for their “white male privilege”‘. Rufo reports that he’s obtained shocking internal documents that will be forthcoming.Rufo reports that the brainwashing was led by the woke consulting firm, “White Men as Full Diversity Partners”:SCOOP:...

ATLANTA — Atlanta City Council member Antonio Brown said he was on hold with 911 for five full minutes after children stole his car Wednesday. Brown is one of four candidates in the Atlanta mayor’s race this year, in which crime has become a driving issue. The councilman told Channel 2′s Tom Regan that he was meeting up with people to discuss plans to build affordable housing in the area. Moments after he stepped out of his car, a group of kids jumped in and took it. “These kids were in my opinion somewhere between 7- and 11-years-old. So you...

Move over, Netflix. You’re not the only video streaming outfit to benefit from the COVID-19 lockdown. In findings likely to surprise no one, new research shows Americans’ pornography usage spiked dramatically in the early months of the pandemic, as stay-at-home orders limited other types of … outlets. But the study, which was based on a nationwide survey and XXX website traffic reports, also found that by October, porn use had fallen to pre-pandemic levels. That was true, even for those who reported a big uptick in their erotica viewing habits at first. What’s more, researchers say they found no evidence...

Video of Israeli television segment (in Hebrew) with English transcription written below. Anchor: Good evening to the head of our health desk: Katie what is the Ministry of Health concerned about? Katie: We have been waiting for data on the connection between the vaccine and Myocarditis. This evening we can report the first findings published by the ministry, and according to 70% of the findings received from the hospitals. It seems there is a connection between the vaccine and Myocarditis. There are more such cases reported among people aged 16-30 who received the vaccine than among those who have not....

President Joe Biden released a statement calling again on Congress to act on gun control following the deadly mass shooting at a downtown San Jose, Calif. railyard that left eight people dead and several more injured.~~~SNIP~~~Wednesday wasn’t the first time Biden called on Congress to enact gun control.“I am calling on Congress to enact commonsense gun law reforms, including requiring background checks on all gun sales, banning assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, and eliminating immunity for gun manufacturers who knowingly put weapons of war on our streets,” Biden said in a statement at the time.

WCIA 3, a Champaign, Illinois-based CBS affiliate, apologized for running a story memorializing a man who killed Champaign police officer Chris Oberheim and wounded another. “WCIA apologizes for the insensitivities with the story we aired about the family of Darion Lafayette,” said the network. “The situation in its entirety is tragic and it was our intent to provide an opportunity for his family to share their grief with the community. It is still an active investigation and we will continue to provide updates and follow developments as they become available.” WCIA ran a story talking to the family of an...

Primer on Sheikh Jarrah Property Claims NGO Monitor May 03, 2021 On February 10, 2021, the Jerusalem District Court1 upheld an October 2020 Jerusalem Magistrate Court2 decision, requiring a number of Sheikh Jarrah residents to vacate properties they are living in by May 2, 2021. Following this decision, the residents appealed to the Supreme Court. The Court has given the two sides until May 6, to report if they have reached a compromise to settle out of court. These developments have been the source of extensive NGO campaigning- particularly by the Palestinian group, Al-Haq- including submissions to the International Criminal...

A professor with the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine has said that there is a general dismissal of the fact that more than half of all Americans have developed natural immunity to the coronavirus and that it constitutes “one of the biggest failures of our current medical leadership.”

Marc Lamont Hill, the charismatic professor-type guy and pundit-type guy when it comes to race issues asked a question to conservative media guy, Christopher Rufo “What do you like about being white?” It’s a hard question to answer if you’re not obsessed with skin color or have not been marinating in race theory education for years. Obviously the question is an entrée into a discussion in which the parameters have already been decided by Hill. Hill wants him to play along so badly it’s sad. Hill even went first when he talked about things he liked about being black. He...

A boat ferrying about 200 people capsized in the northwestern Nigerian state of Kebbi on Wednesday but the number of casualties remains unclear, a state spokesman said. The wooden boat capsized near Wara, a town on the shores of Kainji Lake, part of the Niger River, said Yahaya Sarki, a spokesman the governor of Kebbi. It had about 200 passengers on board, coming from the neighbouring country of Niger. "Bodies are still being recovered. We can't ascertain the number for now," Sarki said."The boat was overloaded, he said. "My brother is among those missing. This is the worst boat accident...

A recent easing of mask-wearing guidelines from the US government was a welcome change for many Americans. That wasn't entirely the case for mask seller Gabriela Henriquez. "I immediately called and texted my friends who were working for me making masks through the pandemic and said this wasn't good news for us," said Henriquez, who sells face masks on Etsy. LittleLadyAHomemade for her handmade masks plunged more than 70% the day after the US Centers for Disease Control & Prevention announcement on May 13. The agency said that people fully vaccinated against Covid-19 do not need to wear masks or...

Seventy percent of Pennsylvanians 18 and older have received a first dose of COVID-19 vaccine — a “significant milestone,” Gov. Tom Wolf said. It means if all of them follow through and get their second doses, 70% of Pennsylvania adults will be fully vaccinated — Wolf’s threshold for removing the mandate that unvaccinated people wear face masks while away from their homes. Pennsylvania is the tenth state to reach 70% of residents having a first dose, the Wolf administration said. “Since the beginning of the pandemic, Pennsylvanians have come together to keep themselves and their loved ones healthy and safe....

Results: Case growth was not significantly different between mandate and non-mandate states at low or high transmission rates, and surges were equivocal. Mask use predicted lower case growth at low, but not high transmission rates. Growth rates were comparable between states in the top and bottom mask use quintiles adjusted for normalized total cases early in the pandemic and unadjusted after peak Fall-Winter infections. Mask use did not predict Summer 2020 case growth for non-Northeast states or Fall-Winter 2020 growth for all states. Conclusions: Mask mandates and use are not associated with slower state-level COVID-19 spread during COVID-19 growth surges....

Explanation: What created these unusual clouds? At the center of this 2021 Hubble image, reprocessed by Judy Schmidt, sits AG Carinae, a supergiant star located about 20,000 light-years away in the southern constellation Carina. The star's emitted power is over a million times that of the Sun, making AG Carinae one of the most luminous stars in our Milky Way galaxy. AG Carinae and its neighbor Eta Carinae belong to the scarce Luminous Blue Variable (LBV) class of stars, known for their rare but violent eruptions. The nebula that surrounds AG Car is interpreted as a remnant of one or...

Today is JW last day on the Five. Still working for FOX but as political correspondent. Please let it not be Donna Brazil.

Most Americans have no idea how far gone their country is. We not only have the Biden regime announcing solidarity with BLM and flying the BLM flag at US embassies and consular missions, US military recruitment videos stressing recruitment of lesbian females, men dressing as women, and Americans having their genitals removed so they can become “no gender” https://www.rt.com/op-ed/524768-nullo-surgery-genital-modification/, we have Democrat school systems teaching white people self-hate and infusing them with guilt and making them effective agents in reconstructing America as a racial caste system favoring blacks. In the Spring 2021 issue of City Journal published by the Manhattan...

Brandeis University Assistant Dean Kate Slater said in a post marking the anniversary of George Floyd's murder that 'all white people are racist' and that she hates 'whiteness,' despite being Caucasian herself. Slater, who describes herself on social media as a 'racial justice scholar and educator,' made those controversial comments to her 5,424 Instagram followers on Tuesday. 'Yes, all White people are racist in that all White people have been conditioned in a society where one's racial identity determines life experiences/outcomes and Whiteness is the norm and the default. That includes me!' the educator wrote in all-caps. She continued: 'I...

When the Amerian Rescue Plan was passed, it included a provision setting aside $29 billion for farmers, restaurant owners and other businesses that were heavily impacted by the pandemic. The language of the bill raised eyebrows immediately because the grants and loan forgiveness being made available were to be prioritized for “socially disadvantaged” owners of such businesses. That provision became relevant to Adam Faust, a Wisconsin dairy farmer. Faust has two prosthetic legs but manages to operate his small farm with 70 dairy cows and a couple of hundred acres of feed crops for them. Keeping his business going during...