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Worldwide the cruise industry is making a restart with the strictest of health regulations in place, safety measures that ensure the health and safety of all onboard. Nonetheless, the Australian Government has extended a cruise ban in effect for over a year now. The move from the Government was met with surprise from the cruise lines and the cruise industry representative group CLIA. After many months of negotiations and promising noises from the Government, the cruise industry is still at a standstill. “Situation continues to pose an unacceptable risk.” Australian Health Minister Greg Hunt has extended the human biosecurity emergency...

Name one mainline institution that the woke Left does not now control—and warp. The media? The campuses? Silicon Valley? Professional sports? The corporate boardroom? Foundations? The K-12 educational establishment? The military hierarchy? The administrative state? The FBI top echelon? The Left absorbed them all. But this time around it really believes that “by any means necessary” is no mere slogan. Instead, it is a model of how to disrupt or destroy 233 years of American customs, traditions, and values. Our 21st-century revolutionaries are multibillionaires in flip-flops, tie-dye T-shirts, and nose rings, but with the absolute power and wish to censor...

Abp. Viganò’s considerations on the feared modification of Summorum Pontificum'Let us pray that the Divine Majesty ... will deign to enlighten the Sacred Pastors so that they desist from their purpose and indeed promote the Tridentine Mass for the good of Holy Church and for the glory of the Most Holy Trinity.'une 10, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) — On the occasion of the Philosophy Symposium dedicated to the memory of Msgr. Antonio Livi which was held in Venice on May 30 (here), I tried to identify the elements that constantly recur throughout history in the work of deception of the Evil One....

An unmanned tanker drone successfully refueled a fighter jet in mid-air during a test flight on Friday. The impressive feat, which involved a Navy F/A-18 Super Hornet, demonstrated the significant potential of unmanned tanker drones and could mark the beginning of the end for traditional piloted tanker aircraft. During the test flight, the drone - a Boeing-built device named MQ-25 Stingray - maintained its altitude and speed as the hose extended and the two aircraft briefly linked up to exchange fuel. The test was carried out from the MidAmerica St. Louis Airport in Mascoutah, Illinois. In total, 325lbs of fuel...

A shooter opened fire inside of a Florida Publix supermarket Thursday, leaving two adults and one child dead, authorities said. The Palm Beach Sheriff’s Office responded to the Royal Palm Beach grocery store inside of the The Crossroads complex and upon arrival, found an adult male, adult female and one child dead of gunshot wounds, the agency wrote on Twitter. One of the deceased was the shooter, cops said, adding that the incident was “NOT an active shooter situation.” Further details were not immediately available.

Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) has had just about enough of Dr. Anthony Fauci. The Republican senator has repeatedly clashed with the top U.S. immunologist during hearings on Capitol Hill, but he went a bit further on Wednesday. “I know Dr. Fauci, I like Dr. Fauci, I respect Dr. Fauci,” Kennedy told Fox News’ Sean Hannity. “But Dr. Fauci needs to cut the crap. This isn’t about Dr. Fauci. It’s not about his feelings, and I’m sorry if his feelings were hurt. You know, maybe he ought to buy an emotional support pony.” “But we’re not debating dance moves on TikTok...

Operating principle of a spaceplate. a, A spaceplate can compress a propagation length of deff into a thickness d. For example, a beam incident on the spaceplate at angle θ will emerge at that same angle and be transversely translated by length w (resulting in a lateral beam shift ?x), just as it would for deff of free space. b, Adding a spaceplate to an imaging system such as a standard camera (top) will shorten the camera (center). An ultrathin monolithic imaging system can be formed by integrating a metalens and a spaceplate directly on a sensor (bottom). Can you...

A convicted terrorist who was shot by police following the Fishmongers' Hall attack was lawfully killed, an inquest jury has found. Usman Khan fatally stabbed Jack Merritt and Saskia Jones during a prisoner rehabilitation conference at the London venue on 29 November 2019. He was chased from the hall on to London Bridge by three men, before being shot at 20 times by armed police. The inquest heard police feared Khan might detonate a suicide belt. Six police officers from the Met and City of London fired 20 times at Khan, including 18 shots in a 90-second period. They had...

David Chipman, President Joe Biden’s nominee to head up the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF), claimed before the Senate Judiciary Committee this week he never lost his firearm as an employee. Yet a group familiar with the situation that spoke to his former colleagues told GOP senators they learned differently.Judiciary ranking member Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa, Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas, Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, and Sen. Mike Lee of Utah pushed Chipman on whether he had ever lost possession of his assigned gun while employed at the ATF for more than two decades. Chipman...

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MSNBC “Morning Joe” host Joe Scarborough on Thursday reacted to the inspector general’s report confirming that U.S. Park Police had already planned to secure the perimeter around the White House after violent attacks by rioters on law enforcement and cleared the park using pepper balls. The report flies in the face of many in the media who pushed the narrative of the use of tear gas on “peaceful protesters” for a photo-op.

Read: Letter from Pope Francis rejecting Cardinal Marx's resignationDear brother,First of all thank you for your courage. It is a Christian courage that does not fear the cross, it does not fear annihilating itself before the tremendous reality of sin. This is what the Lord did (Phil 2. 5-8). It is a grace that the Lord has given you and I see that you want to assume and guard it so that it bears fruit. Thanks.You tell me that you are going through a moment of crisis, and not only you but also the Church in Germany is experiencing it....

Kamala’s Motorcade Ambushed In Mexico Kamala Harris’ motorcade was trailed in a high-speed chase through the streets of Mexico City on Tuesday on her way to meet President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador. In a video clip posted on Twitter by Bloomberg reporter Jennifer Epstein, several motorcycles were recording the vice president’s motorcade. Others on the motorcycles carried live-stream equipment, Epstein reported. The vice president’s motorcade diverted from the main boulevard to an old brick street, losing the motorcycles upon arriving at the presidential palace. WATCH: Tons of TV cameras are chasing the Harris motorcade in Mexico City. Some have live-stream...

A Marine Corps general has been permanently relieved of duty after the service determined he failed to properly train Marines and sailors, leading to the deaths of nine troops when an amphibious vehicle sank off the coast of Southern California last year.On Wednesday, the Marine Corps confirmed Maj. Gen. Robert F. Castellvi, the former Commanding General of the 1st Marine Division had been relieved of his command. “He will not return to that position,” Marine Corps spokesman Capt. Andrew Wood said in a statement Wednesday, reported by Business Insider.Wood added Marine Corps Commandant Gen. David Berger “took adverse administration action...

Michigan Attorney Matthew DePerno released new information from his investigation into the Antrim County 2020 election. In May DePerno broke the news that the Antrim County tabulator machines can be reopened after the election. The machines can then run more ballots through the tabulator, print off a new tabulator tape with new ballots, and then backdate that tape to November 3rd. On Tuesday Matt DePerno dropped another bomb that he says should disqualify the 2020 Antrim County election. According to DePerno the Dominion Voting Machines were accessed from the outside and remotely logged into after the election. TRENDING: Medical Journal...

Rep. Ilhan Omar slammed "constant harassment & silencing" from a group of House Democrats in an early-Thursday morning tweet as tensions among some House Democrats over her alleged anti-Semitism exploded out into the open this week.

Christians in The Muslim World. Lebanon: When pain leads to solidarity and not only vengeanceOasis, Feb 9, 2008. Damour, a predominantly Christian town of 25,000 some 20 kilometres south of Beirut, experienced the worst mass slaughter in its history as a result of an attack by some 10,000 Palestinian terrorists... The attack itself had begun in the mountains and was apocalyptic. They were thousands, screaming “Allahu akbar! God is great! Attack them in the name of the Arabs. Let us offer Muhammad a holocaust!” They slaughtered anyone they found in their path: men, women and children. Entire families were killed...

An important clue about Covid dirty dealings, is that the Chinese complain that they are (they might hate to admit it), relatively minor players in a larger, world system. Another is that they claim the U.S. Military was present at the Wuhan Lab just before the outbreak. Just because they're bad guys doesn't mean there aren't bigger ones. (Their history is filled with feckless flubs, like when they increased earth-orbit space junk 40% by crashing satellites.) We are used to thinking left-right, Capitalism-Communism. Patrick Wood Technocracy. That is the search term. His videos are all over the web. He emphasizes...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The Jacksonville Transportation Authority again lit the Acosta Bridge in rainbow colors Wednesday night after being told Tuesday by the Florida Department of Transportation that its color scheme was “out of compliance” with its existing permit. Emails obtained by the I-TEAM from FDOT officials show that within 12 hours of Jacksonville’s Acosta Bridge being lit up to celebrate Pride Month, state officials were calling for the rainbow colors to be turned off after complaints. Public records show an FDOT official in the agency’s Jacksonville Urban Office called and emailed JTA officials saying they’d received “several complaints regarding...

Group sets sights on Manchin in effort to abolish ICE, advance reparations and single-payer health care A left-wing advocacy group funded by George Soros and backed by 30 House Democrats is planning a yearlong campaign for a "Third Reconstruction" that includes abolishing ICE, expanding welfare for illegal immigrants, and removing criminal penalties for violent protesters. The Poor People’s Campaign, which received a grant from the Soros-backed Open Society Foundations following the death of George Floyd as part of the organization’s $220 million "anti-racist" initiative, held a Day of Action on Monday to kick off its crusade. The group counts Democratic...