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Marine Corps Recruiting Facebook post for Pride Month (Screenshot/Facebook)Official social media pages for various arms of the United States military showed their support this week for Pride Month, an annual tribute to the LGBTQ community.Marine Corps Recruiting posted on Facebook on Friday, writing, “We celebrate the opportunity to serve together — as a warriorhood strengthened, not divided, by our differences.”“Tearing down barrier after barrier, overcoming obstacle after obstacle, winning battle after battle for our Nation and everyone in it. That’s what makes a Marine,” the post stated. It also included the phrase “STRENGTH & PRIDE IN BELONGING,” with the “&...

In twenty-first-century America, millions of Americans—Christians and social conservatives especially—are finding that the nation’s most influential institutions appear to be implacably hostile toward them. These institutions include universities, public schools, the news media, and government bureaucracies. Moreover, corporate America has increasingly embraced a posture of hostility toward groups considered to be “right wing” or conservative. Recent examples are numerous, to say the least. Major League Baseball, for instance, recently moved its all-star game out of the state of Georgia with the explicit purpose of punishing voters and policymakers who supported policies MLB didn’t like. These “objectionable” policies were mostly supported...

As we reported earlier, the jobs report for May came out today and it wasn’t good. As I predicted earlier this week, the signs were that it wasn’t going to be what Joe Biden needed to stand on to say he was pursuing the right approach. That prediction was correct. It turned out to be 111,000 fewer jobs than Biden’s people had predicted, even when they were trying to be conservative after the horrible miss on predictions in April. Those aren’t “new” jobs really, but people coming back to work after the pandemic when we were down millions. So in...

(President Trump's Operation Warp Speed Update) (Vaccination just barely on pace for July 4th, but Cases are dramatically low) Total Vaccine Doses Delivered: 369,159,075 (21,365,800 J&J) Administered: 299,120,522 (11,014,773 J&J) People Vaccinated, At Least One Dose: 169,735,441 Fully Vaccinated: 137,455,367

NAPA (CBS SF) — Napa County has reported its first death from COVID-19 in a fully vaccinated patient, a county spokesperson said Thursday. The woman, a Napa resident, died Wednesday, said Leah Greenbaum, public information officer for Napa County. She was over 65 years of age and had underlying medical conditions and died from complications of COVID-19 after a prolonged hospitalization. The woman tested positive for the B117 (UK) variant, which is more transmissible and causes more severe illness.

Calling 9-1-1 in the United States (and many other countries) sends the caller’s location to emergency services, so the dispatcher can send assistance as quickly as possible. However, the location data isn’t perfect — most notably, it doesn’t include the caller’s vertical location, an important factor in taller buildings. The three major carriers in the US have now agreed to start providing vertical location data for 911 calls, though it might be a while before the data can be used by emergency services. The FCC first announced in 2015 that carriers would be required to start sharing vertical location data....

Black Lives Matter protesters in Racine Wisconsin bullying an elderly disabled motorist, and disrupting the traffic during last night’s demonstration were caught on video which also shows no police presence as the chaos unfolds. The woman in the video that was sent to us this evening is desperately trying to call help! Of course, the sender confirmed that he sent this video to every major news outlet but everyone ignored the fact that BLM harras a disabled person. Video below: (video uploaded on the site) Most Americans, whether Republicans or Democrats, don’t want violence. BLM’s Marxist roots and violent methods...

Americans and most of the global population for over a year have been consumed with fear, sacrifices and concerns about the COVID-19 pandemic. But few people have understood or been given a chance to support or reject what is best seen as the wait for the vaccine pandemic strategy. Hidden from public view was a most substantial tradeoff between doing what was feasible to save lives of most people infected by COVID starting in the early months of the pandemic versus placing priority on waiting for COVID vaccines to be the pandemic salvation. This tradeoff violated key principles and ethics...

Dr. Anthony Fauci's forthcoming book 'Expect the Unexpected' has been removed for pre-order from all major online booksellers.https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1400208907746922499

...House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) tried to enact a Jan. 6 Commission Act, but it was recently rejected by the Senate. While some Democrats suggested Joe Biden should create the 9/11 style panel himself earlier this week, Pelosi claimed their last-ditch effort was not a workable idea. This was ultimately decided because Congress would still need to approve any money needed and subpoena authority.Democrats have been looking for a way around bipartisan support after receiving support from only six Republicans, with the remainder noting similar investigations are already taking place. Regardless, Pelosi is continuing the push to create the panel...

Many people think that "made in china" stands for inferior quality, so let's dig deeper for the causes.In the five years from 2007 to 2012, a total of 37 bridges collapsed in China, including 13 bridges under construction, which killed 182 people and injured 177, an average of 7.4 "deadly bridges" per year.In 2008, it was found that many infants were suffering from kidney stones after consuming Sanlu milk powder, which was found to contain melamine and cyanuric acid. According to china’s Ministry of Health, "By the end of December 2008, a cumulative total of 296,000 children with kidney stones...

The New York Times had a story raving about the tremendous jobs report. The Labor Department’s report that the economy added 559,000 jobs in May, an acceleration from April, buoyed Democrats and the Biden administration on Friday, adding new fuel to the president’s claims that vaccinations and his economic program are beginning to get the economy back on track after a halting recovery from pandemic recession. “This is historic progress,” Mr. Biden said in remarks from Rehoboth Beach, Del. “Progress that’s pulling our economy out of the worst crisis it’s been in in 100 years.” Really Joe? Labor force participation...

Dr. Peter Daszak was spotted outside of his million-dollar home in upstate New York on Friday, just as DailyMail.com learned that he has 'ignored' a request from Congress to answer questions about his charity's funding of the Wuhan Insitute of Virology. Daszak is accused of using 'thuggery and intimidation' to dismiss a theory that Covid-19 came from a Chinese lab his charity, EcoHealth Alliance, worked with and helped support with U.S. government dollars. In April the House Energy and Commerce Committee sent him 34 questions about his involvement with the lab. Despite a deadline of May 17, Daszak has failed...

June 4th is the anniversary of the martyrdom of Quirinus, Bishop of Siscia, during the Great Persecution of the early 4th century AD. Though he was bishop of the Roman town of Siscia (modern-day Sisak in Croatia) in the province of Pannonia, he was taken to the provincial capital of Sabaria (modern-day Szombathely in Hungary) for trial and execution. Thus, he is especially venerated in both Croatia and Hungary though his remains have found their way to Rome over the centuries. Unlike many of the Christian martyrs of this time, Quirinus is known from multiple sources including a passio, the...

"President Donald J. Trump and First Lady Melania Trump join fellow G20 leaders, spouses and guests Friday evening, Nov. 30, 2018, at the Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires, Argentina." "President Donald J. Trump and First Lady Melania Trump are greeted by Argentine President Mauricio Macri and First Lady Juliana Awada upon their arrival Friday evening, Nov. 30, 2018, at the Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires, Argentina." "First Lady Melania Trump poses for a photo with Eduardo Constantini, the President of MALBA, the Latin American Art Museum of Buenos Aires Saturday, Dec. 1, 2018, in Buenos Aires, Argentina." "President Donald...

With the looming release of a national intelligence report detailing U.S. military encounters with “Unidentified Aerial Phenomena” or “UAP,” the People’s Republic of China has announced there has been an increase of mysterious and unexplained aircraft in Chinese airspace, with the PLA establishing its own UFO task force to investigate sightings. The South China Morning Post reports Chinese analysts “have been overwhelmed in recent years by rapidly mounting sighting reports from a wide range of military and civilian sources” by what the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) are calling “unidentified air conditions.” The PLA’s use of the term “unidentified air conditions”...

On Friday, Walsh launched a GoFundMe campaign to raise money to "Save AOC's Abuela's Ancestral Home." "One cannot be certain of the cost to repair grandma’s house, but surely most of the work could be completed for the price of AOC’s shiny Tesla Model 3," Walsh wrote in the campaign description. "Sadly, virtue-signaling isn’t going to fix abuela’s roof. So we are. Walsh continued, "Let’s all kick in to help save AOC’s abuela’s ancestral home. Any amount is appreciated, but the cost of a monthly lease payment on that Tesla is around $499… All proceeds will be donated to abuela,...

The FBI has asked USA Today for the IP addresses and phone numbers of everyone who read one of its articles during a 35-minute period in February as part of an ongoing child porn probe, in what the publisher is calling a violation of the First Amendment. On February 2, FBI agents Daniel Alfin and Laura Schwartzenberger were killed and three others were wounded when 55-year-old David Huber started shooting as they approached his apartment in Fort Lauderdale shortly after 6am. USA Today was among the many news outfits that covered the story on February 2. It published the story...

DOJ lawyers tell federal court that the Biden Administration has ceased its illegal processing regime and will consider applications on a race neutral, first-come-first-served basis WASHINGTON, DC – The Biden Administration told a federal court yesterday that it will no longer give preferential treatment to select racial groups when awarding relief under the Restaurant Revitalization Fund. It also told the court that it will work to undo any preferences that it illegally conferred on so-called “priority” racial group applicants during the first 21 days of the program. This is a major victory for equal rights under law and a repudiation...

Dear All: I would like to begin by highlighting an article that was shared with me by one of our activists. The article revolves around an Indian IT staffing firm pleading guilty to H-1B fraud. Unsurprisingly, not a single American media outlet covered the story. You have to follow Indian media outlets to come across stories like this. Here’s a summary of how Cloudgen, the Indian IT staffing firm, committed fraud: “The company admitted to recruiting multiple information technology workers from India and falsely procuring H-1B visas for them to enter and work in the U.S. In this bench and...