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During the last year and half it’s become obvious to anyone whose head is not in the sand that America has been under assault on multiple levels from within. There is no denying that the COVID-19 viral invasion was a catalyst for so much of the disruption of 2020, culminating in election irregularity in November. By spring 2020, normal activities and businesses were largely shut down nationwide by federal and local governments’ response to COVID-19. Antifa and BLM protests and riots in May and June brought the costliest manmade damage to American property in history. Then the cancel culture, already...

“On this day (June 16) was born Ernesto Guevara De la Serna, known as 'Che,' in Rosario, Argentina. Let us remember this person (and quite fondly, the Tweet seems to imply) by watching his historic speech at the UN General Assembly December 1964.” (Tweet from UNESCO en Español, June 16). “If the (Nuclear) missiles had remained in Cuba we would have fired them at the heart of the U.S., INCLUDING NEW YORK CITY!” Che Guevara to Sam Russell of The London Daily Worker, Nov. 1962.) Alas! UNESCO, whose mission statement says in part: “Our purpose is to contribute to peace...

Unwilling to support measures that would suppress crime by focusing on the criminals, President Biden is making another stab at disarming law-abiding gun owners. Statistics show a strong upswing in the criminal use of firearms—over 300 people have been shot to death in Chicago since the start of the year and murders are up by 95% in Los Angeles County compared to the same time period in 2020—since he took over as president. Both Chicago and Los Angeles have strict gun-control laws. "The irrefutable fact is that there are too many guns in the hands of private citizens," Biden said....

We are currently in the midst of the National Basketball Association's (NBA) end of season playoffs. The Los Angeles Clippers are battling the Phoenix Suns for the Western Conference title. The Milwaukee Bucks are battling the Atlanta Hawks for the Eastern Conference title. By early July, the respective conference winners will play each other for the 2020-21 NBA championship.If you watched any NBA games in June, or WNBA games (the women’s professional league) you might have noticed a strange phenomenon. The players wear masks as they enter the court. Once the game commences, the non-starters sit on the sidelines, spaced...

A woman took to TikTok to share a hack she came across on the social media app that helps to clean out blocked sinuses - and viewers were disgusted by the resultsA woman has gone viral after trying out a hack for clearing sinuses – which involves putting a clove of garlic into each nostril. Rozaline Katherine, 29, decided to try out the tip after seeing it on TikTok and her clip has racked up millions of views. In a video that has been viewed more than 4.3 million times, Rozaline can be seen inserting the garlic cloves into her...

Colorado police on Friday explained how a heroic bystander who had just shot and killed a cop-hating gunman was himself fatally struck by a responding officer. Johnny Hurley, 40, was shopping in downtown Arvada, a Denver suburb, when he heard Ronald Troyke ambush and murder Officer Gordon Beesley, who was responding to a call Monday afternoon, officials said. Troyke, 59, then returned to his truck to grab an AR-15, and was holding it when Hurley — who was carrying a concealed weapon — confronted him and shot him dead, Police Chief Link Strate said in a video clip posted Friday....

A potential Covid-19 treatment has become hostage to a larger global fight between populists and anti-populists On December 31st of last year, an 80 year-old Buffalo-area woman named Judith Smentkiewicz fell ill with Covid-19. She was rushed by ambulance to Millard Fillmore Suburban Hospital in Williamsville, New York, where she was put on a ventilator. Her son Michael and his wife flew up from Georgia, and were given grim news. Judith, doctors said, had a 20% chance at survival, and even if she made it, she’d be on a ventilator for a month. As December passed into the New Year,...

A man who lived "completely isolated" in the forests of Vietnam with his dad for 41 years had no idea women existed, according to reports. Ho Van Lang's extraordinary story began when he fled civilisation at the end of the Vietnam War in 1972 when a US bomb killed his mum and two siblings. Lang, now 46, his brother Tri and his dad resettled deep in the jungle in the Tay Tra district of Quang Ngai province. The trio lived entirely off the wilderness, eating honey, fruit and forest creatures, building shelters and fending for themselves. Alvaro Cerezo, a photographer...

Emirati grandmaster Salem Salah plays world champion Magnus Carlsen on Saturday, and could win $100,000Emirati chess champion Salem Salah is preparing for a speed chess tournament on Saturday, when he'll come up against the World Champion, Magnus Carlsen. Antonie Robertson / The National It was clear from a young age that Salem Saleh had startling talent, and an extraordinary mind. The Arab chess prodigy started winning professional championships aged only 10, and was named a grandmaster by the International Chess Federation (FIDE) when he was 16, a title currently held by 1,721 other players in the world. As Arab...

Senior government hospital doctor says mixing of shots highly effectiveA booster shot is the most effective protection against Covid-19 for those who have taken two shots of the Sinopharm vaccine, doctors said at the Arab Health trade exhibition in Dubai. Dr Gehad ElGhazali, lead immunologist at the government-run Sheikh Khalifa Medical City in Abu Dhabi, reported a "very strong" response in the body's immune system once a double dose of the Sinopharm vaccine was topped up with a booster shot of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine. Although we see antibodies in those who have had the virus, we still do not know...

Anthrax bassist Frank Bello recalled patrolling the streets of New York with a gun, searching for the murderer of his younger brother in 1996. Twenty-three-year-old Anthony Bello was shot three times in the Bronx on March 25 of that year. The case was never solved, although Bello, who was 30 at the time, said he was aware of details he couldn’t discuss. In a recent episode of No F'n Regrets, Bello told Machine Head frontman and show host Robb Flynn that he still struggled to speak of the tragedy 25 years later. “I pray to God none of the people...

Chris Cuomo was pictured wearing socks emblazoned with skulls to the site of the Miami building collapse disaster that has left four people dead. Exclusive DailyMail.com photos show the CNN host wearing the socks on Friday while at the scene where bodies have been pulled from the rubble of the collapsed 12-story Champlain Towers South in Surfside, near Miami Beach. The black crew-length socks show a skull colored with the design of the American flag on the right foot as well as white stars. On the left foot, a patriotic bald eagle is seen – also stylized with the coloring...

Lindsey Graham said Joe Biden made Republicans like look 'f***ing idiots' as GOP outraged ensues after the president tied the bipartisan infrastructure deal to passing his American Families Plan. 'Most Republicans could not have known that. There's no way,' Graham told Politico. 'You look like a f***ing idiot now.' 'I don't mind bipartisanship, but I'm not going to do a suicide mission,' the South Carolina senator added.

After injecting Americans with over 300 million doses of one of the mRNA COVID-19 bioweapon shots since December 13, 2020, the FDA has finally agreed to force Moderna and Pfizer to put warning labels on their shots over a “likely association” between the injections and heart problems, which they claim is “rare.” The warning comes as the vast majority of Americans who wanted one of the mRNA injections have already been injected, as demand for the shots has decreased to levels seen back in December, just after the shots were given emergency use authorization and were beginning to be rolled...

In honor of George Owell’s birthday yesterday, here’s a selection of our favorite quotes about freedom of speech, political correctness, and the First Amendment. “Political correctness is tyranny; just tyranny with manners.” – Charlton Heston “Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it.” – Mark Twain “The right to speak freely does not include the right to be taken seriously. And it certainly doesn't include the obligation that others must supply you with a platform.” – Johan Norberg “Those who call for censorship in the name of the oppressed ought to...

"I'm the government, and I'm here to help you." I know it's a youtube video, but if you are on covid forbearance, you have to see this. What happened to these people is unbelievable!

The word 'caucasian' should be banned because it is 'associated with a racist classification of humans', according to five Cambridge and UCL scientists. Researchers said scientists should only use the term when absolutely unavoidable but refrain from 'usage where possible'. Authors of the article titled 'The language of race, ethnicity, and ancestry in human genetic research' said the term Caucasian was an 'old term associated with racist and pseudo-scientific classifications of humans'. Caucasian, they wrote, is 'an 18th-century term invented to denote pale-skinned northern and western Europeans, or in other archaic connotations a wider range of people based on skull...

Vietnam has agreed to give Chinese nationals in the country priority for its latest shipment of Covid-19 jabs after a complaint from China, according to its embassy in Hanoi. It comes after China donated 500,000 doses of the Sinopharm vaccine to its southern neighbour, which arrived in Hanoi on Sunday. Vietnam’s health ministry on Wednesday said the doses would be sent to nine northern provinces for “Vietnamese people living in communities neighbouring China, people who engage in trade and service exchanges with China, and Chinese nationals staying and working in Vietnam”. But the following day, the Chinese embassy in Hanoi...

On this date in 1574, Gabriel de Lorges was beheaded in Paris for treason. Known by the time of his death as the Comte de Montgomery (English Wikipedia entry | French) — though the title was punitively stripped from the man and his heirs, causing him to spit at the scaffold, “tell my children, if they are not able to reclaim their position, I curse them from the grave” — Lorges’ treason was going Protestant and fighting for the Huguenots in the wars of religion ravaging France. But his claim to fame, and indeed (if quite unjustly) one of the...

SALEM, MA — Sun, sand and a shot of vaccine.That's what city and health officials hope will make for a fun and potentially life-saving trip to the beach for those who have been procrastinating on their vaccinating this weekend. On Friday and Saturday, Salem and Curative will have a mobile unit at Salem Willows Park where anyone eligible who has yet to receive a coronavirus vaccine can get one. The unit will be there from 4 to 6 p.m. on Friday and 2 to 4 p.m. on Saturday. Both the Pfizer and J&J vaccine will be available. Second appointments will...