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The pastor of Fairview Baptist Church in Southeast Calgary has been arrested for holding church services and “flouting” pandemic health orders, despite only 951 reported cases across all Canada yesterday. Disturbing footage of Pastor Tim Stephens being hauled into a police cruiser as his horrified children looked on, sobbing uncontrollably, circulated on the internet yesterday.

Four centuries and one year after the Mayflower departed from Plymouth, England, on a historic sea journey to America, another trailblazing vessel with the same name has set off to retrace the voyage. This Mayflower, though, is a sleek, modern robotic ship that is carrying no human crew or passengers. It's being piloted by sophisticated artificial intelligence technology for a trans-Atlantic crossing that could take up to three weeks, in a project aimed at revolutionizing marine research. IBM, which built the ship with nonprofit marine research organization ProMare, confirmed the Mayflower Autonomous Ship began its trip early Tuesday.

Spiking inflation seems to be the new normal under President Joe Biden’s administration, and the ABC, CBS and NBC evening news continue to protect him from negative coverage. The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported June 15 that the anticipated Producer Price Index (PPI) for final demand in May increased at a whopping 6.6 percent annual pace. The increase was “the largest increase since 12-month data were first calculated in November 2010,” according to BLS. On a monthly basis, the PPI increased at 0.8 percent in May. Fox Business reported that “[a]nalysts surveyed by Refinitiv had expected prices to increase...

Chaos erupted Wednesday at the summit between President Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin as reporters from both countries pushed each other, yelled and talked over the world leaders’ remarks. Some reporters blocked the TV cameras while others yelled at each other while the two presidents made their opening statements, rendering the leaders’ words inaudible. Politico’s Anita Kumar, a pool reporter covering the Geneva summit, called the media scuffle “the most chaotic” event she’s seen in nine years of covering presidential events.

Check out camera 5 and the tables in the background. It appears that most of, if not all of the counting is complete (tables in the background). In the foreground of camera 5 it appears they are inspecting ballots and taking photos of both sides of each ballot. I have no idea the purpose of this, but there are two rows of tables that line the entire length of the area doing this.

Now anyone caught collaborating with the sun must be brought to bear. You may think that coed laying on the beach is relatively harmless, but in fact she may be guilty of: Blackfishing. As described by Pema Bakshi in Beauty Crew magazine, it is a problem. “Blackfishing is a relatively new concept...and does not exactly mean to necessarily mock qualities of BIPOC people, but rather seeks to emulate those identifiers." So, yes, this is a crime. If you are white and benefit from a tan, you are reaping the rewards of being a darker person without paying the dues, i.e....

Source: Photo via Robert OrlandoExactly six years ago, Citizen Trump seized the global agenda and never lost it. Citizen Trump (a new book and film) teaches the “Donald Trump method,” a way to overwhelm the media, crush your enemies and advance your agenda. Just as there were Reagan conservatives and Kennedy Democrats, a new generation of Trump Republicans will be on the scene for decades to come (from Don Trump Jr. to Ron DeSantis to many of you (75 million strong).Here are ten ways to carry out the mission like Citizen Trump:Speak so people remember your words. The media instantly...

To be misquoted is an occupational hazard of political leadership; for this reason I should like to clarify my position in regard to the Palestinian issue. I have been charged with being rigidly insensitive to the question of the Palestinian Arabs. In evidence of this I am supposed to have said, “There are no Palestinians.” My actual words were: “There is no Palestinian people. There are Palestinian refugees.” The distinction is not semantic. My statement was based on a lifetime of debates with Arab nationalists who vehemently excluded a separatist Palestinian Arab nationalism from their formulations. When in 1921 I...

The U.S. manufacturing sector is getting battered by high levels of inflation of the costs of inputs that businesses are struggling to pass on to consumers. The prices of materials and components used by manufacturers rose in May by 2.4 percent compared with April, a blazing hot level of inflation rarely experienced before the current bout of rising prices.

The U.S. manufacturing sector is getting battered by high levels of inflation of the costs of inputs that businesses are struggling to pass on to consumers. The prices of materials and components used by manufacturers rose in May by 2.4 percent compared with April, a blazing hot level of inflation rarely experienced before the current bout of rising prices.

Although all votes have been counted, Pedro Castillo's right-wing rival, Keiko Fujimori, has called on some ballots to be annulled, claiming fraud. Leftist candidate Pedro Castillo claimed victory on Tuesday after the final votes were counted from Peru's June 6 presidential election, although his rival, right-wing candidate Keiko Fujimori, disputes the outcome. Although the count has been completed, the result has not been officially announced by election authorities. Nevertheless, Castillo thanked his supporters on Twitter. "A new time has begun," Castillo said in a tweet thanking his supporters. "Millions of Peruvians have stood up in defense of their dignity and...

On June 6, Rep. Mo Brooks, now running for the U.S. Senate, revealed that a private investigator paid by Eric Swalwell entered his home without his permission and confronted his wife to serve Brooks with a lawsuit related to January 6. Brooks said that the entry was illegal, and slammed Swalwell for sending his team to his home. In a press release, Brooks’ officec now says “Tuesday, a warrant was issued for the arrest of Congressman Eric Swalwell teammate Christian Seklecki of Georgia for the Class A misdemeanor of 1st Degree Criminal Trespass. Christian Seklecki illegally entered Congressman Mo Brooks’...

The Biden administration has announced plans to fight "domestic terrorism" by allowing Americans to report their own friends and family, who could be "potentially radicalized," to the government. One senior administration official emphasized the importance of preventing politically fueled violence before it started.

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PwC announced a $12 billion plan to hire an extra 100,000 people between 2021 and 2026.About 10,000 of these hires will be Black and Latinx students, it said Tuesday.The firm said it wanted to focus more on environmental, social, and governance advice to clients.See more stories on Insider's business page.PwC is spending $12 billion on a new plan to hire 100,000 people over the next five years."The New Equation" plan, announced on Tuesday, is set to pump money into recruitment, training, and technology at the firm, and focus PwC on giving clients more environmental, social, and governance advice, the company...

The Chinese government recently rushed out two new laws in an effort to increase its control over data and to counter foreign sanctions. These new laws have exponentially increased the risks of doing business in China.The first new law Beijing enacted is about data security. The law claims that data collected by government entities and companies in critical sectors such as finance, telecommunications, and other areas are part of “core state data.” Therefore, this data should be treated as “a new type of state-owned asset, and its data rights belong to the state.” The language of what constitutes “core state...

Ivory Hecker, the Fox affiliate reporter who went off-script during a Monday report that went viral, has been fired from her job at the Texas network. Hecker, who stated that "Fox Corp." was "muzzling" her and stopping viewers from receiving "certain information," now states that the station has been trying to prevent its reporters from covering hydroxychloroquine and its use in treating COVID-19 patients. What are the details? Hecker, a general assignment reporter, said Tuesday that she was fired after the viral report. In an interview with the Daily Beast, Hecker said that she lost her job via text after...

The recent ProPublica article claiming new insights into how the wealthy pay little or no income taxes has generated predictable, but uninformed, outrage among those who seek to make the rich pay their so-called “fair share.” But the ProPublica analysis contains logic errors and ignores important concepts built into the tax code. ProPublica disingenuously compares current taxes paid to income that includes unrealized gains without considering the fact that eventually those gains will be taxed. There is a difference between deferring taxes and eliminating taxes. A more honest analysis would factor in the present value of the taxes that will...

The newest wrinkle on pandemic corruption is how most of the medical and public health establishment refuses to accept natural immunity, obtained through COVID infection, as equivalent to or even better than the artificial immunity obtained from vaccines.The reason is simple. The more that natural immunity is accepted, the more reason there is to reject getting one of the experimental COVID vaccines. Half the US population from kids to adults likely have natural immunity, even though most never suffered any serious ill effects from being infected.And there clearly is an ongoing bulldozer over facts run by President Biden all the...

ELEVENTH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME MATTHEW 6:1–6, 16–18 Friends, today’s Gospel asks us to do three things: pray, fast, and give alms. Let’s focus today on prayer. Studies show that prayer is a very common, very popular activity. Even those who profess no belief in God pray! What is prayer, and how should we pray? Prayer is intimate communion and conversation with God. Judging from Jesus’ own life, prayer is something that we ought to do often, especially at key moments of our lives. Well, how should we pray? What does it look like? You have to pray with faith,...