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A woman seeking to “extract revenge” against her husband has been found guilty scalding him to death with a fatal mixture of boiling water and sugar. Corinna Smith, 59, was convicted of murder for the July 14, 2020 attack of her 81-year-old husband, Michael Baines, at their shared home in Neston, Cheshire, England. Smith filled a garden bucket with the scalding hot liquid and threw it onto Baines’ arms and torso as he slept. She then fled to a neighbor’s house and admitted what she’d just done, according to local news outlet Cheshire Live. “I’ve hurt him really bad,” she...

Olympic runner Shelby Houlihan said she has been banned from the sport for four years following a positive test for anabolic steroids that she attributes to eating a pork burrito. Houlihan said she was devastated to learn of the suspension from the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU), an independent body that combats doping, after she tested positive for nandrolone. Houlihan said in a post on Instagram Monday that a burrito she ate before the test contained pig organ meat, or offal, which she said can lead to a positive test for nandrolone. A study funded by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA)...

Nevertheless, the court raised concerns about a pastor’s rights being violated when she was confined to a quarantine hotel against her will.. Canada’s federal court has ruled that quarantine hotels imposed by the government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau since January — and for which travelers must pay — are constitutional. The court, however, also ruled that a pastor’s rights were violated when she was confined to a quarantine hotel against her will. Chief Justice of the Federal Court Paul Crampton issued the ruling today in response to four separate legal challenges with 14 applicants against the mandatory quarantine hotels....

We are in the wake of The Fed flood. And its not a half-step, but a flown-blown boogie. The Fed sold a record $756 billion in Treasury securities this morning in exchange for cash via overnight “reverse repos.” This was up by a stunning 45% from yesterday’s operations of $521 billion. There were 68 counterparties involved. Yesterday’s overnight reverse repos had matured and unwound this morning, to be more than replaced by today’s Fed Flood. The result? The Fed’s balance sheet tops $8 trillion! This is truly The Wake of the Fed Flood!

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Police in Virginia are investigating a series of violently antisemitic and homophobic flyers targeting a local school board that were distributed by a white supremacist group affiliated with the Ku Klux Klan (KKK).Flyers denouncing the school board in Fairfax, Va., as “Jew-inspired, communist, qu*er-loving sex fiends violating the words of the Holy Bible” were discovered on Wednesday, ahead of the board’s meeting on Thursday night. The flyers carried the insignia of the “Loyal White Knights,” one of several groups around the country that compose the organized KKK movement, along with the warning that “Yahweh is Watching!”Members of the school board...

Oscar-winner Rita Moreno humiliated herself on Twitter Wednesday with a groveling apology to the Woke Mob after she defended the box office flop In the Heights. When it tanked over its debut weekend — in some cases by as much as 80 percent below expectations — the knives came out for Lin-Manuel Miranda’s In the Heights. The film features many unknown black and Hispanic singers and dancers singing and dancing to songs no one’s heard of in a 145-minute movie with no plot. There are rumors it’s some sort of love story. But there’s no doubt the songs pushed woke...

Shelby Houlihan will not compete in the U.S. Olympic track and field trials after all. The status of Houlihan, an elite middle-distance runner who earlier this week received a four-year ban after failing a drug test, on Friday changed to “not qualified” and “not accepted” on the start lists of the Team USA trials, which begin today in Eugene, Ore. In a statement posted to her Instagram account Friday afternoon, Houlihan said a Swiss Federal Tribunal had failed to grant her request for an emergency order that might have let her run in the Olympic trials. That attempt at an...

If we consider a “perfect” country, it is not hard to find problems in America: racial prejudice, economic exploitation and inequality, greed, etc. However, countries do not exist in fantasyland; they exist in the real world. However, the world that surrounds us is not too idyllic. If we compare the US to its surroundings, America is the one that begins to resemble an idealized paradise. Otherwise, why do so many foreign nationals risk life and limb to get to America? In any election, the overriding consideration in voting should be the political ideologies associated with candidates and the direction America...

Portland, Oregon is without a riot squad because 50 members resigned in protest following the indictment of a fellow officer for striking an “activist photographer.” The left coast city has had repeated and ongoing riots since George Floyd’s death in May 2020. As you can imagine, the police force is stretched thin.

A paralysed man who challenged the law which criminalises assisted suicide has died, aged 65. Paul Lamb was severely injured in a car crash in 1990 and was left with no function from the neck down aside from limited movement in his right arm. Mr Lamb, from Leeds, had lived with chronic pain as a result of his paralysis and required 24-hour care. Humanists UK, which announced the news of Mr Lamb's death, said he had left a "fierce legacy of campaigning". Mr Lamb took on several legal challenges over the current law on assisted suicide, which he said breached...

[Biden] Let’s get this straight. How would it be if the United States were viewed by the rest of the world as interfering with the elections directly of other countries and everybody knew it? What would it be like if we engage in activities that he’s engaged in? It diminishes the standing of a country that is desperately trying to make sure it maintains its standing as a major world power.I mean, holy hell, President Joe. You’ve been in Washington since the damn Taft administration.

This isn’t a conservative-vs.-progressive thing. It’s not a Republican-vs.-Democrat thing. It’s not a coastal-elite-vs.-flyover-country thing. It’s not even a Trump thing. It’s a journalists-vs.-normal-people thing. Outside of the narcissistic and incestuous Thunderdome that houses the American media, it remains the case that people simply do not think in the way that the Beltway-media class believes they do. They are not traumatized by the daily news. They do not make key life decisions based upon the behavior of the president, nor wait for him to leave office before deciding that they are so disturbed that they no longer wish to work....

Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) said during her 2018 Senate campaign that she wants to be the next “John McCain,” according to a report released Friday. Sinema, a moderate-leaning Democrat who frequently bucks her own party, told her advisers in 2018 that she wants to emulate “John McCain.” The Arizona Democrat lauded the former Arizona Senate Republican and one-time presidential candidate, calling him a “legend” and “my personal hero.” Sinema even copied some of McCain’s most dramatic acts in the Senate, including when he bucked his own party.

Evidence was presented at the Fulton County Board of Commissioners (BOC) hearing on June 16, indicating that Stacey Abrams “financed the main contractor used in Fulton County elections during the Nov 3rd poll and the Jan 5th U.S. Senate runoff,” according to CDMedia. CD media reported it as a developing story saying evidence shows the financing of a staffing service called Happy Faces Personnel Group by groups associated with Abrams. Former nine-year Precinct manager and Dominion Poll technician Bridget Thorne testified in the 2020 Election Fraud evidentiary hearing conducted by former Mayor Rudy Giuliani in Georgia on December 3 (2:18:32...

Chief Justice John Roberts, along with Justices Amy Coney Barrett and Brett Kavanaugh, demonstrated their collective power at America's highest court on Thursday. They fueled the Supreme Court's limited opinions on Obamacare and religious liberty, in action that marks a twist for the conservative-dominated bench and adds to the suspense of the next two weeks as the court finishes its annual term. An overriding question going into the session that began last October was whether Roberts would still wield significant control, after former President Donald Trump appointed Barrett to succeed the late liberal Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and created a...

ELEVENTH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME MATTHEW 6:19–23 Friends, in today’s Gospel, Jesus tells his disciples not to store up treasures for themselves on earth, but to store up treasures in heaven, “where neither moth nor decay destroys, nor thieves break in and steal.” St. Augustine once said that since every creature is made ex nihilo, it carries with it the heritage of nonbeing. There is a kind of penumbra or shadow of nothingness that haunts every finite thing. This is a rather high philosophical way of stating what all of us know in our bones: no matter how good, beautiful,...

Protecting their store with punches and a pistol. VIDEO AT LINK............................

A video shows a man’s awful reaction after he was rejected by a group of women. The woman shared the video on social media and has already generated millions of views, and has shared outrage. There are not many details surrounding the context of the video, but in the clip, you can see a man approach a group of ladies as they were sitting down at a restaurant. The man seemingly begins making passes at the ladies when someone begins recording. At one part of the video that didn’t get screen recorded. He said “I’m a killer” and still the...

Windows 7 users might finally decide to upgrade soon. Windows Latest today reported that a leaked build of Windows 11 suggests Microsoft plans to offer a free upgrade to the next significant update to the operating system when it debuts.A caveat: This is based on a configuration package in a leaked build of an operating system that hasn't officially been announced yet. Microsoft's plans could have changed, or it may have planned for the upgrade to be paid all along. Windows Latest said its claim was "based on the configuration keys found within Pkeyconfig (product key configuration package) in the...