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Joel Davis was a Hillary Clinton Campaign officials and founder of the organization “Youth to end Sexual Violence.” Joel was arrested in 2018 after engaging in sex with a child. Davis also had over 3,700 images and more than 330 videos of child pornography, including numerous images of prepubescent minors who had not attained 12 years of age. Joel was nominated for a Nobel Prize for his work.

Where do they come up with the brain is 60% fat? Your brain has been called the most complex object in the universe – countless experiments have yet to uncover how and why it functions. Some random Facts about the brain: The weight of your brain is about 3 pounds. Your brain is made up of about 75 percent water and feels like Jello to the touch! Your brain consists of about 100 billion neurons. The brain has the most mitochondria of any organ ( esp. the frontal cortex). Pain receptors are absent in your brain, so your brain can...

The long-time partner of the US Capitol police officer who died following the Jan. 6 insurrection penned an emotional op-ed Wednesday that detailed her grief and her efforts to see a full investigation into the siege. Sandra Garza, who spent 11 years with Officer Brian Sicknick, wrote in the opinion essay published on CNN that initially following his death, she couldn’t bear to watch any of the news coverage of the insurrection, but once she did, she couldn’t believe her eyes. “I saw officers being brutalized and beaten, and protesters defying orders to stay back from entering the Capitol. All...

The Cult of the “Expert”How our failure to interrogate scientists, academics, researchers, and journalists is creating a class of (perceived) infallible elites.In 2008, Silicon Valley entrepreneur and cultural critic, Andrew Keen, wrote The Cult of the Amateur, a scathing polemic against the detrimental effects of social media upon many cultural institutions. With the tools at our disposal, the average person could now amplify their opinions and engage audiences on a larger scale than ever before. But Keen noted how the democratization of the web often undermined the “experts,” empowering amateurs to bypass educational and professional checks and balances. However, in...

How did people in the past prove their identity? How common was identity theft? Let's find out!In this history documentary we ask the question: how did people prove their identity in the past? The results of our research actually resulted in a far more sophisticated answer than I could have ever imagined and which sheds light on the true complexities of antiquity.We began by quickly reviewing the reasons why you might even need to prove your identity in the first place. This involves things like property claims, inheritance, marriage, and more. But perhaps the most important use of ID was...

Alex Berenson @AlexBerenson 1/ THIS IS NOT OKAY. @cdcgov just posted its myocarditis/pericarditis update. They are now admitting that post-second dose risk in people under 25 could be over 200x the background rate (and that’s not accounting for underreporting). But the real news is even worse...8:25 AM · Jun 23, 2021·Twitter for iPhone Alex Berenson@AlexBerenson·2h Replying to @AlexBerenson2/ Here’s stratification by year of patient. As you can see, the post-second dose cases double from age 25 to 21, then double again in the 16-18 range. The younger you are, the higher the risk. HOW CAN WE JUSTIFY GIVING THIS TO...

Tucker Carlson & TECH HEALTH CONF: Manipulating thru human engineering to address Climate Change?!?!?

Who Will Be The Next MARAD Chief? John Konrad Total Views: 212 June 23, 2021 Share this article by Captain John Konrad (gCaptain) Last November, Forbes published a series of articles claiming that the most critical nomination Biden will make for the future of our ocean, climate, and society is that of the US Maritime Administrator. Seven months later, the White House has failed to make that appointment, but several candidates have emerged including a popular and young minority female with high ambition. Could she become the Lina Khan of the maritime industry? Or will she run into trouble for...

White House chief medical advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci said Tuesday the highly contagious delta variant is the “greatest threat” to the nation’s attempt to eliminate Covid-19. Delta, first identified in India, now makes up about 20% of all new cases in the United States, up from 10% about two weeks ago, Fauci said during a White House news conference on the pandemic. He said delta appears to be “following the same pattern” as alpha, the variant first found in the U.K., with infections doubling in the U.S. about every two weeks. “Similar to the situation in the U.K., the delta...

LOS ANGELES - Despite data indicating that the pandemic is improving in the U.S. and other parts of the world, the global death toll this year from the novel coronavirus has already eclipsed 2020’s. As of June 20, more than 3.8 million people around the world have died from COVID-19 since the beginning of the pandemic, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. Globally, approximately 1.8 million people were killed by the virus in 2020. So far this year, more than 1.9 million people have already lost their lives to the deadly disease as of June 20.

Dr. Bailey was making some genuinely preposterous statements about who to prioritize with the vaccine. Video...

TWELFTH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME MATTHEW 7:15–20 Friends, in today’s Gospel, Jesus tells us that a tree is known by its fruits. In the fifth chapter of his Letter to the Galatians, Paul makes this very specific. He tells us that the fruits of the Holy Spirit are “love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, gentleness, [and] self-control,” implying that the Spirit’s presence in one’s life can be read from its radiance in these soul-expanding qualities. All of Paul’s “fruits of the Holy Spirit” are marks of an outward-looking, expansive magna anima (great soul), which stands in contradistinction to the...

Graydon Young, a 54-year-old from Florida who was charged in a 16-person conspiracy case related to the Capitol riot, will plead guilty Wednesday. Young, a member of the Oath Keepers, was hit with 6 counts, including conspiracy and aiding and abetting the obstruction of the congressional proceeding, CNN reported. He was also previously charged with document tampering after he deleted his Facebook account two days after January 6 – months before the feds interviewed him! Federal prosecutors claim Young participated in the “stack” military formation of Oath Keepers that “cut through the crowd to move inside the Capitol.”

A report from the GOP-controlled Michigan state Senate released Wednesday found no evidence of fraud in the 2020 election. The report from the state Senate Oversight Committee affirmed that there was no evidence of fraud in the election. “The Committee can confidently assert that it has been thorough in examination of numerous allegations of unlawful actions, improper procedures, fraud, vote theft, or any other description which would cause citizens to doubt the integrity of Michigan’s 2020 election results,” the committee wrote. “Our clear finding is that citizens should be confident the results represent the true results of the ballots cast...

An unexpected discovery: Inflammatory proteins may slow cognitive decline in aging adults. Research has previously linked inflammation to Alzheimer’s disease (AD), yet scientists from Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and the Harvard Aging Brain Study (HABS) have made a surprising discovery about that relationship. In a new study published in Alzheimer’s & Dementia: The Journal of the Alzheimer’s Association, they report that elevated levels of two chemical mediators of inflammation, known as cytokines, are associated with slower cognitive decline in aging adults. “These are totally unexpected results,” says the study’s co-senior author, Rudolph Tanzi, PhD, vice chair of Neurology and co-director...

Given an obscure, cryptically written poem as a clue and a vague idea of where the chest could be, hundreds of people have already headed to the great outdoors in search of the reward. The activity’s organizers, John Maxim and David Cline, say that their self-funded treasure hunt has already received national attention. Some people are planning on flying in from as far away as Atlanta and Hawaii in search of the prize.

At least six people were hurt when a pedestrian bridge crashed down onto a freeway in northwest Washington, DC, around noon on Wednesday, according to reports. The collapse of the bridge at Kenilworth Avenue and Polk Street trapped several vehicles under the rubble, including a truck that began leaking fuel, WZDC-TV reported. At least four people were taken to area hospitals and two others were treated at the scene, the station reported.

A White House Fact Sheet previewing President Joe Biden’s Wednesday afternoon speech suggests he will announce increased overwatch of Federal Firearms License holders (FFLs) as part of his response to surging crime. According to the White House, Biden’s Department of Justice (DOJ) “is announcing a new policy to underscore zero tolerance for willful violations of the law by [FFLs] that put public safety at risk.” What the new policy means in real terms: Absent extraordinary circumstances that would need to be justified to the Director, ATF will seek to revoke the licenses of dealers the first time that they violate...

Please permit some musings on the obsession that many of us have with achieving the perfect body ourselves. Let me start by saying (with all the good humor I can summon) that I do not have a perfect body. In fact, I have become increasingly dissatisfied with my appearance over the years as I gain weight, lose hair, and watch the gray eclipse the dark brown of what hair I do have left. Fatigue and sore joints are also increasingly my lot.Yes, I am well aware that my body is far from perfect and is steadily “heading south.” Like many...

The basic John Kennedy story says his speech on religious tolerance was a great step for Catholics in America. It's a very nice story; too bad it isn't true.“The Catholic Church benefited enormously from the JFK presidency,” pollster Larry Sabato wrote Monday morning. “Prejudice against Catholics declined and millions were exposed to church rituals. Church leaders welcomed the ‘JFK effect.'”“Now at last there is a second Catholic [president],” he continued, “and what do some in the hierarchy do? They ruin it.”“A little more than 60 years [after President John F. Kennedy’s speech on accepting Catholics in American politics], a second...