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The number of vaccine deaths jumped double digits in the latest US reporting. The Israeli political situation with Prime Minister Netanyahu saying 'people rightly feel cheated' with the new government being proposed but first... 27 arrests in Minneapolis Saturday night in a third night of protests over the killing of Winston Smith by a US Marshals Task Force... (Comment) Not such a big deal because Joe Biden is President mainstream media? Also feds not using body cams if local law enforcement uses them why not feds? The latest Centers for Disease Control data on vaccine side effects showing 759 new...

One of the things about the 2020 election that hasn’t gotten the attention it deserves is how much of the Hispanic vote President Donald Trump picked up.As I previously reported, a study of the data by Catalist showed that a majority of Pres. Trump’s supporters in the 2020 election were women and people of color.According to the data, Trump gained across all demographics, all racial and gender groups, except white men where he lost only a percentage point. The share of Trump voters who were women or people of color in 2020 was 57.2%, up from 54.8% in 2016, with...

This month we are marking the centenary of Nelson Riddle, perhaps the greatest of all arrangers of popular song. That's what Frank Sinatra thought, and we cite "I've Got the World on a String" and "I've Got You Under My Skin" as merely the obvious examples. But Sinatra and Riddle rescued a lot of other songs over the years - songs that had once been hits and then been forgotten, songs that had been in hit shows but no one had noticed, songs that had been in the stage version but dropped for the movie adaptation... But they rarely transformed...

An explosion and fire were reported at the Zarand Iranian Steel Company in eastern Iran on Saturday night, in the latest in a series of similar incidents throughout Iran, according to Iranian media.Video reportedly from the scene showed a large blaze with what appeared to be an explosion launching debris into the air. The Iranian IRNA news reported that a large explosion occurred during the incident.The governor of Zarand told the Iranian Fars News Agency that no injuries were caused in the incident and that the incident was under control. The incident was reportedly caused by the sudden overflow of...

Q/ After our exclusive interview last year, in which you said the Covid-19 virus was man-made, scientists and governments are considering it to be a possibility. New theories have emerged as well. Do you think the samples found from the Yunnan copper mine come closest to Sars-CoV-2?A/ They say the Bat Woman Shi Zhengli got RaTG13 from a copper mine in Yunnan and, after a bit of modifications, inserted the furin cleavage site to make it the Sars-CoV-2 virus. I have actually proved in my reports that this is not true.Yunnan is in the west, but the real virus comes...

Suppose you lent someone $100, and when they paid you back they only handed you, say, $99 or $80. Would you consider the borrower to have kept his promise and contractual obligation? Or would you think that he had cheated you out of a part of the money you had lent him in good faith? Well, there are those who say that doing so is just fine, if it’s done through price inflation so the borrower repays the lender in depreciated dollars. Binyamin Appelbaum, who makes this argument, is the lead writer for The New York Times on financial and...

StopHate.com released their outstanding documentary on the Jan. 6 Protest and March in Washington DC. The film combines numerous clips including video of: ** The unprepared and understaffed Capitol Police. ** Four skinny police officers blocking a march of over 100,000 patriots from passing through their bike rack barrier on way to the US Capitol. ** Open doors and open hallways inside the US Capitol. ** Police firing gas canisters and sound grenades on the massive Trump crowd without warning. ** Music blaring from cars set up to agitate the protesters. ** Capitol Police pushing a Trump supporter off of...

Lucero is a new musical discovery of mine, a country rock band out of Memphis, Tennessee. They kind of do their own thing which is mostly touring around America and doing live concerts and such. They have 11 albums to their credit. This particular song of theirs is on their most recent album titled "When You Found Me" and thought I'd share it here because it's pretty good music. Lucero - Outrun the Moon

President Trump wanted to haul Dr. Anthony Fauci in front of a presidential commission to give evidence about funding the Wuhan laboratory suspected of leaking COVID-19. Advanced plans were underway for the special presidential panel, with an executive order even drawn up to hold China and its collaborators accountable and tally a reparations bill to fire off to Beijing. Trump’s senior advisers talked him out of the idea as it was about to be announced, according to insider accounts detailed in a soon-to-be-released book on the origins of COVID-19, “What Really Happened in Wuhan.” In another bombshell revelation from the...

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have announced the birth of their second child, a baby girl. Lilibet "Lili" Diana Mountbatten-Windsor was born on Friday morning in a hospital in Santa Barbara, California. Both mother and child are healthy and well, the couple said in a statement. Buckingham Palace 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." Prince Harry and Meghan said they named their second child Lilibet after the Royal Family's nickname for the Queen, the baby's great-grandmother.Her middle...

Former Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows pushed the Department of Justice (DOJ) to probe multiple unfounded theories about the 2020 presidential election in the weeks leaking up to President Biden's inauguration, according to newly obtained emails reported by The New York Times. The Times said that it obtained five emails from December and January between Meadows and Jeffrey Rosen, the acting attorney general at the time, showing Meadows pressing the DOJ head to look at multiple election fraud claims that were circling on the internet. ... According to the emails cited by The Times, Rosen said he...

Pope Francis said Friday that environmental degradation is “a clear outcome of economic dysfunction.” In a June 4 message marking the launch of the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, the pope underlined the importance of protecting the environment and reforming the global economy. “The current environmental situation calls us to act now with urgency to become ever more responsible stewards of creation and to restore the nature that we have been damaging and exploiting for too long,” the pope said. “Otherwise, we risk destroying the very basis on which we depend. We risk floods and hunger and severe consequences for...

A woman was shot in the face and seven other people were hurt in a shooting in New Orleans early Sunday morning, city police said. The woman, who’s in critical condition, and a man with “an undetermined gunshot wound,” were taken to the hospital by EMS, cops said in a social media post. But the other six victims went to hospitals on their own. They were last listed as being in stable condition or as having received graze wounds, police said. A neighbor told the station that people hang out around near the property and other abandoned parcels in the...

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Federal and state judges approve permanent injunctions in two cases, barring the targeting of houses of worship over COVID-19.The state of California will never again be able to target Our Lady of the Angels Church with a ban on Holy Mass due to COVID-19 under a permanent injunction in a priest’s lawsuit against California Gov. Gavin C. Newsom. Fr. Trevor Burfitt of the Society of St. Pius X, and the Thomas More Society sued Newsom in September 2020, challenging the state’s ban on indoor worship as a violation of constitutionally protected freedom of religion. California Superior Court Judge Gregory Pulskamp...

As small businesses complain that it has never been harder for them to hire workers according to a recent NFIB survey, many are facing growing pressure to survive. As the American economy continues to reopen, some fear it might not happen soon enough to save thousands of small businesses. Data from Alignable’s June Revenue Poll shows that 35% of all small business owners are still at risk of closing permanently by the end of the summer. Among the 3,772 small business owners in the 10 days ended June 1, Alignable’s June Revenue Poll showed a myriad of factors – including...

The latest episode of Microsoft Is Poking Me Through The Windows involves a pop-up message that appears in Windows 10's purpose-built notification center. It reads: "Microsoft recommends different browser settings. Want to change them?" I fancy most people would sniff: "Oh, do please run along. I'm perfectly happy with my settings, whatever they are, and I have a lot to do today, thank you." Redmond, though, is undeterred. The notification adds that you'll get "Search that gives you back time and money." And "fast and secure search results with Bing." Oh, yes. Bing, the MySpace to Google's Facebook, is still...

The Allied invasion of Normandy, France on June 6, 1944 was the largest amphibious invasion in history. The scale of the assault was unlike anything the world had seen before or will most likely ever see again. By that summer, the Allies had managed to slow the forward march of the powerful German war machine. The invasion was an opportunity to begin driving the Nazis back. The invasion is unquestionably one of the greatest undertakings in military history. By the numbers, here's what it took to pull this off. Around 7 million tons of supplies, including 450,000 tons of ammunition,...

According to emails obtained by the New York Times, Trump’s Chief Of Staff Mark Meadows asked the DOJ to probe multiple election fraud claims. One of those was that votes were being switched in Italy. According to the New York Times, Acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen refused to set up a meeting between the FBI and a man who was pushing “Italygate.” From The Hill: Former Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows pushed the Department of Justice (DOJ) to probe multiple unfounded theories about the 2020 presidential election in the weeks leaking up to President Biden’s inauguration, according...

Dr. Anthony Fauci and First Lady Jill Biden visited a New York City vaccination center on Sunday where they addressed the press with a few short remarks and left before taking any questions. Fauci shared his gratitude with Harlem’s Abyssinian Baptist Church and those operating the clinic for spreading the word about coronavirus vaccine distribution. "We’re going to end this outbreak for absolutely certain," he said. "And the vehicle to ending it is vaccination." Jill Biden then encouraged the "faith community" to get the word out about being vaccinated, and the pair turned away from the cameras.