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A socialite charged over death of a high-ranking police officer reportedly "accidentally shot him while giving him a massage". Jasmine Hartin Ashcroft, the daughter-in-law of British billionaire Lord Ashcroft, was charged with manslaughter by negligence after Superintendent Henry Jemmott was found dead with a gunshot wound to the head in Belize early on Thursday morning (local time). When police arrived they found an “emotional” Ms Ashcroft with “what appeared to be blood on her arms and on her clothing,” Commissioner of Police Chester Williams told Channel 5 Belize. Supt Jemmott was found floating in the water next to the pier...

Q is the result of the sacrifices and commitment of countless patriots to win back our captured country from the Deep State and achieve the transformation President Trump promised in this campaign video. President Trump has said the awakening of the public is key to this transformation.Q describes this awakening as follows: "The Great Awakening ('Freedom of Thought’), was designed and created not only as a backchannel to the public (away from the longstanding 'mind’ control of the corrupt & heavily biased media) to endure future events through transparency and regeneration of individual thought (breaking the chains of ‘group-think’), but,...

Explanation: On May 26, the Full Flower Moon was caught in this single exposure as it emerged from Earth's shadow and morning twilight began to wash over the western sky. Posing close to the horizon near the end of totality, an eclipsed lunar disk is framed against bare oak trees at Pinnacles National Park in central California. The Earth's shadow isn't completely dark though. Faintly suffused with sunlight scattered by the atmosphere, the inner shadow gives the totally eclipsed moon a reddened appearance and the very dramatic popular moniker of a Blood Moon. Still, the monstrous visage of a gnarled...

(H/T Grey_Whiskers)A Chinese Communist Party military scientist who got funding from the National Institutes of Health filed a patent for a COVID-19 vaccine in February last year — raising fears the shot was being studied even before the pandemic became public, according to a new report.Zhou Yusen, a decorated military scientist for the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) who worked alongside the Wuhan Institute of Virology as well as US scientists, filed a patent on Feb. 24 2020, according to documents obtained by The Australian.The patent — lodged by the “Institute of Military Medicine, Academy of Military Sciences of the PLA”...

On rumored rollback of Summorum, German website asks: “What’s in store for us?”A pair of important articles appeared in recent days at the German traditionalist website Motu-proprio: Summorum-Pontificum (www.summorum-pontificum.de), the first on May 31st and the second on June 4. They are provided here in translation for readers of Rorate Caeli. Please note that some of the speculation in the first part is “corrected” in the second part, especially the rumor about Cardinal Braz de Aviz being placed in charge of traditional religious communities, which, for now, seems to be off the table. What’s in store for us? (Part 1)May...

Texas Land Commissioner George P. Bush, spoke with Brian Kilmeade about the latest on the border and his decision to run for Attorney General of Texas against Ken Paxton. Bush discussed his support for President Trump and addressed the issues between his father Jeb Bush and former President Donald Trump. Bush says he and Trump make a really good team

Facebook announced Friday that it will ban former President Donald Trump until at least 2023 — with Trump shooting back, “Next time I’m in the White House there will be no more dinners, at his request, with Mark Zuckerberg and his wife. It will be all business!” The decision means that Trump might still be able to regain access to his Facebook and Instagram accounts in time for the 2024 campaign if he seeks a rematch against President Biden. But Facebook said it may decide to ban Trump even longer than the two years — and White House Press Secretary...

TikTok’s “dry scooping” challenge: It’s not for the faint of heart. In fact, the death-defying trend that prompts participants to ingest a mound of undiluted supplemental energy powder caused 20-year-old stripper and OnlyFans star, Briatney Portillo, to suffer a heart attack. And while she was in the middle of having the heart attack in April, first responders didn’t think she was in cardiac arrest either. After weeks of watching digital fitness influencers swallow heaping tablespoons of pre-workout — a non-Food and Drug Administration regulated, caffeinated substance that athletes typically mix with water and drink before exercising in order to improve...

Our 18th century Framers were precise grammarians. They spent months debating in the stuffy Philadelphia state house to thrash out every concept, idea, detail, clause and yes, punctuation, that ended up in our beloved Constitution. From James Madison’s notes, there is no question that every detail had to first pass a committee composed of a few members, and then survive withering examination by a committee of all state delegates. Article I § 8 elaborates the declaration of limited legislative powers in Section 1: “All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall...

Vaccines never tested in people with immune deficiencies While there's no clear number of how many Americans are taking medications that might prove to be a challenge for the Covid-19 vaccine, a new study can help give an estimate. In a paper published last month, Dr. Beth Wallace, a rheumatologist and her team at the University of Michigan, looked at a database of more than 3 million Americans to see how many took immunosuppressants. Based on that data, Wallace estimates that about 60 million Americans are taking immunosuppressants that could interfere with the vaccine.

A second woman accused Democratic mayoral candidate Scott Stringer of sexual misconduct on Friday in a devastating blow to his troubled campaign. Teresa Logan told the New York Times that Stringer — the outgoing city comptroller — groped and kissed her without consent when she worked as a waitress at a bar he co-founded and helped run nearly 30 years ago. Logan said the first alleged incident took place while she was carrying trays past Stringer on a stairwell at the since-shuttered Uptown Local in spring 1992, when she was 18 and Stringer was 32.

President Biden on Friday said he’s “very confident” in his chief medical adviser, Dr. Anthony Fauci, despite the release of emails that exposed Fauci’s knowledge of and efforts to tamp down the Wuhan “lab leak” theory to explain the COVID-19 pandemic’s origin. “Yes, I’m very confident in Dr. Fauci,” Biden told reporters as he departed Rehoboth Beach, Del., to return to the White House. Video below: Twitter LinkThe White House has defended the president’s top coronavirus adviser, Dr Anthony Fauci, amid scrutiny of his recently released work emails. And even if it turns out that Fauci is a spy and...

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Jerome Powell might be done as a useful Federal Reserve Chairman. Not that Fed Chairs provide a use that’s of any real value. They mainly excel at destroying the wealth of wage earners and savers for the benefit of member banks. But as Powell loses a grip on price inflation the business of supplying credit at a fixed rate of return becomes less fruitful. Consumer price inflation, as measured by the consumer price index (CPI), is rising at an annual rate of 4.2 percent. That’s well above interest rate of a 30 year fixed mortgage, which is currently 3.1 percent....

A Washington state mom pleaded not guilty Thursday to allegations that she faked her adopted daughter’s “rare” illness and subjected the healthy child to a series of unnecessary medical procedures — even forcing her to use a wheelchair and leg braces for no reason, according to prosecutors. Sophie Hartman, who adopted the victim and another girl from Zambia years ago, also forced the 6-year-old to undergo surgeries to insert a feeding tube in her digestive system and a cecostomy tube, also known as c-tube, to flush stool out of her intestines, authorities said in charging documents filed last week. Overall,...

Guarded by Chinese police and sealed off from the outside world, this former copper mine in Mojiang some 1118 miles away from Wuhan could be a smoking gun on the origin of the pandemic. The Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) - a high security bio lab specalising in coronaviruses - is in the eye of the storm as questions rage whether Covid could have originally emerged from escaped from its campus. China and the lab furiously deny any allegations, but a new study has suggested the virus appears to have been manipulated and US President Joe Biden has ordered his...

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The release of the Fauci emails has given birth to hundreds of great memes, but maybe none so great as the meme that showed Kermit the Frog sitting on a log, playing a banjo and singing with the words “Here’s a little song I wrote called your conspiracy theorist friend was right and you owe them an apology.” The meme is not only hilarious, it’s true. For much of the last 15 months, the media and the left treated Anthony Fauci as a demi-God. A hero of the pandemic and a man who was beyond reproach. Any criticism of Fauci...

Coronavirus lockdowns had “no direct connection” to falling infection rates in Germany — as transmission was already declining before the restrictions were imposed, new research found. The research, conducted by statisticians at Ludwig Maximilians Munich University, found that the country’s R rate — or the number of people an infected person passes the virus onto — had already dipped below 1 prior to the national lockdown being imposed last November, according to the Telegraph. The rate was also decreasing in December and April when the lockdown was tightened, the research found.

Soon, we will return liturgically to the relative “quiet” of Ordinary Time, after so many celebrations of great historical events in Jesus’ life. Today, we pause to look back at the Last Supper. Why? Gospel (Read Mk 14:12-16, 22-26) Now that we have liturgically re-lived with Jesus the culmination of His earthly ministry and His return to Heaven, it might seem that Jesus has, in a sense, gone away. The celebration of Christ the King and His triumphant return to the world He died to save is many months away. To avoid thinking that the long period of Ordinary Time...