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Corporate America is “woke.” “Woke” means being aware of alleged social injustice – sometimes that injustice is real, but sometimes it’s just a contrived media narrative that stokes fear to gain viewers. Now, instead of just pitching their products, companies today are pitching political causes. Liberal political causes. Shampoo makers like Pantene used to run commercials about shampoo. Now they’re showing lesbian parents helping a biological boy become a girl. Dove is celebrating women’s different body types. Vaseline is “fighting for equity in skincare.” The gay agenda now has the support of the Oreo cookie. And Burger King is warning...

U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said in an interview Sunday that higher interest rates would be “a plus” for policy makers. Speaking with Bloomberg News following a G-7 finance ministers’ meeting in London, Yellen said it’s OK if President Joe Biden’s $4 trillion spending plans trigger inflation and higher rates.

“Damning” science strongly suggests that COVID-19 is a man-made monster, optimized in a lab for maximum infectivity before hitting the outside to catastrophic effect, two experts said Sunday.Writing in an opinion piece for The Wall Street Journal, Dr. Steven Quay and Richard Muller pointed to two key pieces of evidence to support the claim, which has increasingly gained steam after long being derided as little more than speculation.[cut]Recently revealed emails by Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s leading infectious disease expert, show that he was warned as early as Jan. 2020 that the virus may have been “engineered.” In a Senate...

According to a new study, cases of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) including chlamydia and gonorrhea could soon spike as the COVID-19 pandemic winds down. As we’re heading what the media has referred to as “hot vax summer,” experts are worried that STIs could return with a vengeance. Researchers analyzed positivity rates based on data from over 18.6 million tests performed across the US from January 2019 through June 2020. They found that testing for both chlamydia and gonorrhea hit their lowest point in early April 2020, when cases of COVID were on the rise.

The Republican efforts to change voting laws around the country after Donald Trump's 2020 loss are often all lumped together as one push. And while they almost all seek to ameliorate fear of widespread fraud that no one has proven exists, the modifications sought actually fall into two distinct groups. You have proposed bills that seek to change how people vote and ones that propose to change how votes are counted. The former has received much of the attention from Democrats trying to counter Republicans, but it is the latter that is by far a clearer threat to democracy. Recall...

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have welcomed their second child - a baby daughter named Lilibet "Lili" Diana Mountbatten-Windsor. Prince Harry and Meghan announced that the infant, a first sibling for Archie, was born on Friday in California. Lili is named after her great-grandmother the Queen - who was affectionately nicknamed Lilibet by her family - and her grandmother, the late Princess Diana. A Buckingham Palace spokesperson said: "The Queen, The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall, and The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have been informed and are delighted with the news of the birth of...

It can feel abstract: A group of organized but faceless criminals hijacking corporate computer systems and demanding millions of dollars in exchange for their safe return. But the impact of these ransomware attacks is increasingly, unavoidably, real for everyday people. These crimes have resulted in missed chemotherapy appointments and delayed ambulances, lost school days, and transportation problems. A ransomware attack on Colonial Pipeline in May led to gas shortages and even dangerous situations caused by panic buying. This past week, hackers compromised the JBS meat processing company, leading to worries about meat shortages or other key food providers being at...

More than two dozen suspected Antifa rioters have been charged in Portland in the past two weeks, signaling an escalation by both local and federal prosecutors following a full year of riots in the besieged Oregon city. On Thursday, the Multnomah County District Attorney’s Office announced charges against 10 suspects following several grand jury indictments. Maximilian Ryan Jennings, 23, James Walker Prettyman, 25, and Thomas Moll-Rocek, 34, are charged with one count each of felony riot, felony first-degree criminal mischief and second-degree criminal mischief. The three were indicted over accusations they were part of a black-clad mob that broke most...

Adversaries to the US are capable of shutting down the nation’s electrical grid, Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm admitted Sunday, saying that such cybersecurity attacks are “happening all the time.” Granholm warned of the system’s vulnerabilities — amid an uptick of ransomware sieges — on CNN’s “State of the Union.” “Yeah, they do,” Granholm told host Jake Tapper when asked if foreign actors have the ability to make the power grid go dark. “There are very malign actors who are trying, even as we speak,” she explained. “There are thousands of attacks on all aspects of the energy sector and the...

...I have been celebrating since February, when I got my first shot of the Moderna vaccine at a San Fernando Valley park. My sister Anita in Cleveland has spent the months since then worrying about me... Ever since COVID-19 vaccines became a reality, she’s been poring over articles and social media posts about hypothetical harms that most scientists debunk. That left her determined to shun the vaccine — and afraid for me to get my next shot.......my fear of needing a ventilator to breathe was stronger than whatever apprehension I felt about the vaccines. For my sister, that ratio was...

MINDSET “They are not like us. They don’t follow the rules. They don’t even do what they’re told. They actually think they have the right to decide things for themselves. They are not productive parts of society. They’re so careless they don’t mind if they kill all of their neighbors. Since they’re useless, in fact actually dangerous, we need to get rid of them in any way we can. If we can’t just shoot them or gas them outright, let’s just make it impossible for them to survive in society unless they conform and become like the rest of us.”...

It’s MAGA versus the mainstream in Tuesday’s GOP gubernatorial primary, as two candidates who adhere to the ideology of Donald Trump face off against a former state assemblyman who fits the pre-Trump Republican mold. The contest is particularly notable because it’s the first statewide election in the country since the November presidential contest (Virginia also has a gubernatorial election Tuesday), and so it might serve as a test of whether Trumpism has staying power. The winner faces Gov. Phil Murphy, a Democrat who does not have an opponent in his party’s primary. Murphy is relatively popular in this blue state,...

By Dan Diamond , Dan Keating and Chris Moody June 6, 2021 at 1:37 p.m. PDT Plummeting vaccination rates have turned what officials hoped would be the “last mile” of the coronavirus immunization campaign into a marathon, threatening President Biden’s goal of getting shots to at least 70 percent of adults by July 4.

Dr. Anthony Fauci is raging against Republicans like the Clintons used to do against the “vast rightwing conspiracies.” In both cases, they know they’re busted. They know they did wrong. So they go after the source of the outrage rather than dealing with what’s making us all mad in the first place. Fauci is a liar. We know that now from his emails. But he feels the need to lash out at anyone who dares to call him out for his unambiguous crimes against the American people. His latest ploy is to blame “anti-science” Republicans. According to The Blaze: Speaking...

There is much on which to reflect this Solemnity of Corpus Christi - No Holy Mass, no Procession, no Holy Sacrament. Who did this to us? It is the Solemnity of Corpus Christi in the modern rite today and the traditional if transferred. In the great and glorious Archdiocese of Toronto, there is, however, as usual, there isOn this day, some in Toronto will attend their parish to receive Holy Communion under a contrived service. One would think if you could have ten persons (under Ford's edict) you could have Mass for ten with the priest and then another...

Radio host John Fredericks reports live from the GOP Georgia convention, where the Deplorables have taken it over.

The city of Los Angeles saw a sharp 36 percent increase in homicides in 2020—but the L.A. County sheriff said this year is looking even more grim, and he’s blaming the widespread uptick in crime on District Attorney George Gascón. “In 2021, that 36 percent has now become 92 percent, which is a huge statistical jump,” Sheriff Alex Villanueva told The Epoch Times. “We’re seeing increases in all the categories—assault with a deadly weapon, arson, rape … these things are continuing upward unabated.” The widespread uptick in crime is the direct result of Gascón’s election as DA of L.A. County...

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey Republicans will decide Tuesday whether their standard bearer to take on Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy will be a strong supporter of Donald Trump or a well-funded establishment-backed candidate who hardly mentions the former president. Polls open at 6 a.m. and close at 8 p.m. in primaries for governor and the state Legislature, which has every member of both houses up for election this year.

Posted on June 5, 2021June 5, 2021 by Matthew CimoneWhat Would It Take To See Artificial Lights at Proxima Centauri B?Is there an alien civilization next door? It’s…possible(ish). In late 2020, we discovered a signal from the direction of Proxima Centauri (not necessarily from Proxima Centauri), our closest neighbour star. Named BLC- 1 by project Break Through Listen, the signal is still being analyzed to ensure it isn’t simply an echo of our own civilization – typically what they turn out to be. But why not just directly look at planets in Proxima Centauri and see if a civilization is...

Explanation: Yes, but have you ever seen a sunrise like this? Here, after initial cloudiness, the Sun appeared to rise in two pieces and during partial eclipse, causing the photographer to describe it as the most stunning sunrise of his life. The dark circle near the top of the atmospherically-reddened Sun is the Moon -- but so is the dark peak just below it. This is because along the way, the Earth's atmosphere had an inversion layer of unusually warm air which acted like a gigantic lens and created a second image. For a normal sunrise or sunset, this rare...