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On what felt like one of the last normal Mondays of last March, Colin Kane, a 66-year-old driver for a Newcastle, England paving contractor called in to work and said that he was feeling too sick to come in that day. That wouldn't have raised any red flags, as Kane was known to have a serious lung condition that occasionally caused him to miss his shifts. But later that day, one of Kane's coworkers saw him at a pub and he immediately ratted Kane out to their bosses at Debmat Surfacing. What that guy could've done was wave at Kane,...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Thursday that it will convene an "emergency meeting" of its advisers on June 18th to discuss rare but higher-than-expected reports of heart inflammation following doses of the mRNA-based Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines.

Francis will meet 'nationalist and populist' Prime Minister Viktor OrbánBUDAPEST, Hungary (ChurchMilitant.com) - In a dramatic reversal, Pope Francis has agreed to meet Hungary's conservative Christian rulers during his September visit to the International Eucharistic Congress (IEC) after Hungarian media shamed the pontiff's behavior as "anti-Christian." The pope "plans to meet separately with leaders of the Hungarian state, President János Áder, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, members of the government and senior state officials," the Hungarian Catholic Episcopal Conference (MKPK) announced Wednesday morning. Francis will meet Hungary's rulers before he celebrates the IEC closing Mass, a MKPK press statement revealed, dismissing...

The news this week that first son Hunter Biden routinely used a racial slur in conversations with his white attorney as recently as early 2019 has been studiously ignored by the mainstream media. The messages between Hunter Biden and Chicago-based lawyer George Mesires were saved on his abandoned laptop and were first reported by DailyMail.com “How much money do I owe you,” Hunter Biden asked Mesires in one exchange on Dec. 13, 2018, before adding, “Becaause [sic] n—a you better not be charging me Hennessy rates.” The following month, Hunter Biden used the slur twice more in a bizarre, wide-ranging...

Hackers have stolen 26 million user logins for tech giants including Amazon, Apple, Facebook as well as vital payment information in the latest online security breach. The malware hack, exposed by cybersecurity provider NordLocker, also saw payment details nabbed from 3.25 million computers that run Windows software. It was uncovered after researchers discovered a 1.2 terabyte database filled with stolen personal information. According to a report released by NordLocker on Wednesday, an unidentified, Trojan-type malware stole the files, including 26 million login credentials, between 2018 and 2020.

Kentucky pro-life advocates won a legal victory this week against a Louisville buffer zone that restricts pro-life sidewalk counselors from reaching out to women outside the city’s only abortion facility. The Louisville Metro Council narrowly passed the 10-foot buffer zone outside EMW Women’s Surgical Center in May. On Sunday, however, Sisters for Life and the Kentucky Right to Life Association sued the city, arguing that the ordinance unconstitutionally “squelch[es] dissenting speech,” WDRB reports. Barely two days later, Kentucky Right to Life announced that the city agreed not to enforce the ordinance while the lawsuit moves forward. “This is a new...

Days before the fifth anniversary of the Pulse nightclub shooting, U.S. Senators passed a bill designating the site of the former nightclub as a national memorial.

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.” ― Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities If there is anything that I have discovered and learnt over the last 12 months, more than any other time in my history, it has been to never judge a book by...

Last Friday, a San Diego-based federal court overturned California’s three-decade-old ban on so-called assault weapons. U.S. District Judge Roger Benitez sided with a number of gun advocacy groups challenging the law, finding that firearms prohibited in the state of California are protected under Supreme Court precedent.

Breitbart News Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow’s Breaking the News: Exposing the Establishment Media’s Hidden Deals and Secret Corruption details the tricks the media use to contort every story to fit their fixed agenda— also known as the rules to properly decipher the New York Times. Establishment media outlets require something akin to a “secret decoder ring,” Marlow observes in his best-selling blockbuster, which recently landed on the New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, and Publishers Weekly bestseller lists. “What is written on the page (or spoken in a broadcast) is not always literal and can only be fully understood...

The Centers for Disease Control has announced Thursday that it has scheduled an emergency meeting to discuss increasing reports of myocarditis and pericarditis (heart inflammation) in individuals who had recently received the COVID vaccine, specifically the mRNA Pfizer and Moderna COVID vaccines. The virtual meeting is scheduled for June 18 and will last from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. The CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) has outlined an agenda for the emergency meeting, which lists several data points uncovered during the investigation previously reported on by National File. The CDC ACIP notes that 488 total...

Texas Governor Greg Abbott told Breitbart Texas the State will immediately begin building border barriers in areas where migrants can easily cross the Rio Grande border with Mexico. The barriers will, in part, enable state law enforcement to arrest migrants for violations of state law. “The influx across the border is out of control, and the Biden Administration has shown that is not going to step up and do its job,” Governor Abbott told Breitbart Texas shortly before Thursday’s border summit in Del Rio, Texas. “And amidst reports of even more people coming in across the border, we know we...

ARE THESE INTERPRETATIONS TWISTING THE WORDS OF JESUS AND THE BIBLICAL WRITERS? “This generation” (Mt. 11:16; 12:39; 16:4; 17:17; 23:36; 24:34) REALLY MEANT some other future generation. “In a very, very little while” (Heb. 10:37) REALLY MEANT thousands of years later. “The end is at hand” (1 Pet. 4:7) REALLY MEANT it was not at hand at all, but rather far distant. “The time was short” (1 Cor. 7:29) REALLY MEANT the time was a long time off. “It is the last hour” (1 John 2:18) REALLY MEANT millions of hours later. Judgment to occur at Jesus’ return in his...

Way, way back in 2005, in more innocent times, this song got a lot of summer airplay on what was called back then "alternative" rock stations. I always thought it was a good song and it seems to hold up over time. Dredg - Bug EyesFrom the album "Catch Without Arms" which is a worthy listen all the way through.

Summer is officially here and that means it’s time to chase down some refreshing and crushable craft beer. Beer release schedules are an every-turning wheel of unique styles and flavor profiles that help you keep things seasonal and fresh. Right now, we’re deep into the summer releases. We know summer only really started over Memorial Day weekend and doesn’t technically kick off until the 20th of June, but as far as beer goes we’re about six weeks away from pumpkin ale and fall beers. Meaning that now’s the time to indulge in the fruity, refreshing craft entries that are dropping...

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has sent a letter to Representative Ilhan Omar asking her to clarify her ambiguous and possibly concerning statement "We should kill all the Jews." It's rather unclear what you meant by 'Kill the Jews', Rep. Omar, and we'd appreciate some clarification," Pelosi wrote in a letter to the congresswoman. "We look forward to hearing from your unique perspective as a woman of color and are excited to hear what it is you meant. We know you don't always know how to use words good like we do, so sometimes that can be tough...

Explanation: Want to see a ring around the Sun? It's easy to do in daytime skies around the world. Created by randomly oriented ice crystals in thin high cirrus clouds, circular 22 degree halos are visible much more often than rainbows. This one was captured by smart phone photography on May 29 near Rome, Italy. Carefully blocking the Sun, for example with a finger tip, is usually all that it takes to reveal the common bright halo ring. The halo's characteristic angular radius is about equal to the span of your hand, thumb to little finger, at the end of...

I noticed that you don't have to browse Free Republic by a particular forum such as "News/Activism", "General/Chat" or "Smoky Backroom", etc. You can pull up recent posts in ALL FORUMS all at once by simply clicking the "Everything" link at the bottom of the "Browse by Forum" applet. It's pretty amazing.

Hiromitsu Takeuchi, a lecturer at the Graduate School of Science, Osaka City University, and a researcher at the Nambu Yoichiro Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics (NITEP), has theoretically identified the nature of a mysterious topological defect produced by the recently discovered non-equilibrium time evolution of spontaneous symmetry breaking (SSB). Since the SSB realized in this system is like the SSB that has been known to occur in isotropic superconductors and superfluid 4He, it was expected to produce topological defects with vortex-like properties in the fluid, called quantum vortices. However, the topological defect observed in this experiment has a structure...

MSNBC anchor Brian Williams, who lost the NBC Nightly News anchor position for fabricating a journalism war story, blasted Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W. Va., this week for living in a world "of his own imagination."Williams also suggested West Virginia deserved less say in the U.S. Senate because of its small population.