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David Archuleta took to his Instagram account earlier this month to reveal he is a member of the LGBTQ+ community. American Idol veteran, 30, shared he felt relief after he did so because he no longer had to hide a part of himself. When he came out he said he was not sure about his sexuality but now feels he is 'some form of being bisexual' as he is attracted to both men and women. Specifically, that he felt 'so much relief to not feel like you have to hide a part of yourself, like a secret.' When asked about...

It is an industry like no other, with profit margins to rival Google – and it was created by one of Britain’s most notorious tycoons: Robert Maxwell. In 2011, Claudio Aspesi, a senior investment analyst at Bernstein Research in London, made a bet that the dominant firm in one of the most lucrative industries in the world was headed for a crash. Reed-Elsevier, a multinational publishing giant with annual revenues exceeding £6bn, was an investor’s darling. It was one of the few publishers that had successfully managed the transition to the internet, and a recent company report was predicting yet...

Trump released a statement on Wednesday trolling Kamala Harris and taking credit for pressuring Kamala to visit the border. “After months of ignoring the crisis at the Southern Border, it is great that we got Kamala Harris to finally go and see the tremendous destruction and death they’ve created — a direct result of Biden ending my very tough but fair Border policies,” Trump said. “Harris and Biden were given the strongest Border in American history. And now, it is by far the worst in American history,” he added.

United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Germany on Wednesday and made clear that maintaining good relations would Berlin would be high on Washington’s agenda. “I think it’s fair to say that the United States has no better partner, no better friend in the world than Germany,” Blinken said. The visit is his second to Europe in just seven days, having accompanied President Joe Biden to leaders’ meetings at the G7 and NATO summits. The US has been quick to emphasize the idea of a fresh start to relations with Germany, with Biden recently saying they were now...

Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley used his Wednesday congressional appearance to defend teaching critical race theory to members of the military, saying that he found criticism of it “offensive.”

A bipartisan group of House lawmakers introduced a bill Wednesday to remove the decision to prosecute serious crimes from the chain of command, the latest step in a march toward a major change to the military justice system.Led by Reps. Jackie Speier (D-Calif.) and Mike Turner (R-Ohio), the Vanessa Guillén Military Justice Improvement and Increasing Prevention Act mirrors language in a bipartisan Senate bill championed by Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) that would take the decision to prosecute sexual assault and other serious crimes away from military commanders and give it to independent military prosecutors.“We're here today for the service members...

Jack Posobiec @JackPosobiec BREAKING: Chairman of the Joint Chiefs says Critical Race Theory is important, blames Capitol Riot on ‘White Rage’ 0:31 1:29 PM · Jun 23, 2021·

Dr Ah Kahn Syed @arkmedic IMPORTANT UPDATE. More data has emerged from @PHE_UKwhich now confirms that the #delta #covid19 death rate is 2x HIGHER for the #vaccinated The result is highly statistically significant (Vax=37/17605, Unvax= 34/35473, RR=2.19, p<0.01) PAUSE. THIS. NOW. Dr Ah Kahn Syed @arkmedic·Jun 18 Replying to @arkmedicSource data https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/994839/Variants_of_Concern_VOC_Technical_Briefing_16.pdf… Archived here:SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern and variants under investigation (publishing.service.gov.uk) Dr Ah Kahn Syed @arkmedic·Jun 18 This is really important: It was Public Health England (PHE) that claimed to have performed an independent analysis of the raw vaccine data. That means PHE are responsible PHE failed to...

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...