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Lots of powerful people want you to stay scared about COVID, even as the toll in terms of death and hospitalization continues to plummet. It's easily proven to be bunk. Lots of powerful people want you to stay scared about COVID, even as the toll in terms of death and hospitalization continues to plummet in the United States and other advanced countries. Because viruses naturally evolve rapidly, they have a new variant, at first called “The Indian variant” because it was first spotted there. But it has now been renamed the “delta variant,” perhaps to be able to continue to...

Lots of Republicans have ideas and plans to find better candidates and to raise more money for 2022 and 2024, but that's not the answer. These plans won't work. Take my home state of Nevada as an example. Donald Trump won the presidency in 2016 but still lost Nevada by about 27,000 votes. Then, in 2020, when Trump got the most votes of any Republican candidate in the history of America, he lost Nevada by about 33,000 votes. Nevada is a purple battleground state, just like Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania. Trump lost those six states by razor-thin margins....

The task force also called for 'trigger warnings' to accompany historical contentThe National Archives' task force on racism claimed in a little-noticed report to the U.S.’s top librarian that the Archives' own Rotunda – which houses the Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights – is an example of "structural racism" and that the Founding Fathers and other White, historically impactful Americans are portrayed too positively. The report was completed in April and released this month but has so far flown under the media radar. The task force claims that structural racism "unequivocally impacts" how...

The disappearance of Chinese vice-minister of State Security Dong Jingwei is the most fascinating report of the week. Maybe I’ve been too engrossed in Charles McCarry’s wonderful spy novels, but this week the story of the disappearance of Chinese vice-minister of State Security (the Guoanbu) Dong Jingwei strikes me as the most fascinating report of the week. While we are unlikely to get the full story for a while -- if ever -- I think he’s in the U.S. under deep cover and that has to concern both the leaders of China and any CCP operatives there may be in...

Source: Unsplash/Alex SmithWhen Christina Clemons qualified for the Tokyo Olympics, the media latched on to her taste in fashion – namely, the Cool Ranch Doritos earrings that she wore during trials. But she was wearing something else when she won too: a cross necklace. On June 20, Christina made Team USA after placing third in the 100-meter hurdles during the U.S. Olympic track and field trials. The 31-year-old hurdler from Waldorf, Maryland, isn’t new to success: She was an eleven-time All-American and ten-time Big Ten champion at Ohio State University. She’s won both silver and gold during world championships. But...

June 27 , 2021 St. George's Church, Alexandria, Egypt Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green First readingWisdom 1:13-15,2:23-24 ©God takes no pleasure in the extinction of the livingDeath was not God’s doing,he takes no pleasure in the extinction of the living.To be – for this he created all;the world’s created things have health in them,in them no fatal poison can be found,and Hades holds no power on earth;for virtue is undying.Yet God did make man imperishable,he made him in the image of his own nature;it was the devil’s envy that brought death into the world,as those who are his partners will...

There are few things liberals love more than crying racism, but not many. Money from perverts, abusing power, and maybe some of their families, but that’s about it. Crying racism is oxygen to the average Democrat, but it’s heroin for elected and media Democrats and the addiction they have for it makes Hunter Biden’s love of crack and hookers seem like passionate indifference. It is their precious and these Gollums will do anything to ensure its use is their exclusive domain. Unfortunately for them, its practice is also their exclusive domain. The Nazis were not as dogged as Democrats are...

WASHINGTON — Consumer spending was flat in May with incomes dropping for a second month as the impact of the government's pandemic stimulus payments waned. Inflation, however, posted a sizable gain with prices excluding food and energy jumping by the largest amount in nearly three decades. The flat reading for consumer spending in May represented a marked slowdown following gains of 0.9% in April and a 5% surge in March, the Commerce Department reported Friday. The spending surge in March had been fueled by distribution of payments of up to $1,400 per individual from a $1.9 trillion stimulus bill, the...

After claiming to be “personally” offended over accusations the drag queen-loving U.S. military is woke, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Army Gen. Mark Milley said, “I want to understand white rage, and I’m white.” Oh, okay, because that’s not woke at all. This happened during congressional testimony on Wednesday. Then he added this bone-chilling explanation: “What is it that caused thousands of people to assault this building and try to overturn the Constitution of the United States of America?” The implication being it was “white rage.” Okay, just for starters, only an idiot would see skin color as...

From jazz to Mozart, young Indonesian breathes new life into centuries-old stringed instrument (ni) Kongahyan 01 Jakarta-based traditional musician Seto Noviantoro showcasing the two-string bowed instrument kongahyan. (Photo: Nivell Rayda) Nivell Byline - smiling By Nivell Rayda @NivellCNA 27 Jun 2021 06:01AM (Updated: 27 Jun 2021 07:36AM) Bookmark JAKARTA: With great precision and agility, Seto Noviantoro’s fingers glided across the strings of an Indonesian musical instrument, while his right arm moved the bow back and forth. Despite its distinctive sound, not many people know the name of this two-string bowed fiddle, even in Jakarta where the instrument originated centuries ago....

At least 20 people were detained in Turkey as riot police resorted to using tear gas & rubber bullets to disrupt the annual Pride Parade in Istanbul. At least 20 people were detained in Turkey as riot police resorted to using tear gas and rubber bullets to disrupt the annual Pride Parade in Istanbul, intensifying a crackdown on the march amid increased government hostility toward LGBTQ individuals in the country. Earlier, Istanbul's Governor's office had denied granting a permit for the said parade which has been held since 2003 but banned for the last seven years. Upon consecutive rejections. hundreds...

Near the end of the video for Journey's new single "The Way We Used to Be," an animated proxy of guitarist Neal Schon appears to transform into a dung beetle. It would be an odd visual choice if not for the insect's importance in Journey lore, appearing — in various fantastical forms — on multiple album sleeves. But why a beetle to begin with? The answer involves another rock giant. "We got the job to do a Jimi Hendrix album cover," visual artist Stanley Mouse told NBC Bay Area in 2017, referencing his creative partner Alton Kelley. "And just as...

“Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful” (Proverbs 27:6).

BREAKING NEWS Coronavirus in IDF: 11 service members infected By JERUSALEM POST STAFF JUNE 27, 2021 09:25 Some 11 service members in the IDF were infected with the novel coronavirus as of Sunday morning, according to the IDF Spokesperson's Unit. Some 46 service members were in quarantine.

Paul tests whether a flare gun is an effective self defense tool.

Habitable Planets With Earth-Like Biospheres May Be Much Rarer Than Thought TOPICS:AstrobiologyAstronomyAstrophysicsExoplanetRoyal Astronomical SocietyBy Royal Astronomical Society June 26, 2021A new analysis of known exoplanets has revealed that Earth-like conditions on potentially habitable planets may be much rarer than previously thought. The work focuses on the conditions required for oxygen-based photosynthesis to develop on a planet, which would enable complex biospheres of the type found on Earth. The study was recently published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.The number of confirmed planets in our own Milky Way galaxy now numbers into the thousands. However, planets that are...

“The high-profile scientist who was fired from Canada’s top infectious disease lab collaborated with Chinese government scientists on inventions registered in Beijing, but closely related to her federal job,” reports National Post reporter Tom Blackwell.Xiangguo Qiu was “a long-time federal civil servant when the patents were registered in 2017 and 2019 for innovations related to the Ebola and Marburg viruses, key focuses of her work at Winnipeg’s National Microbiology Laboratory (NML),” according to Blackwell’s article. Qiu shipped a load of the deadly pathogens from the NML to the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), a likely source of the virus that...

Attorneys for lawyer Sidney Powell, Rudy Giuliani, and MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell argued Thursday during a federal district court in the District of Columbia that a defamation lawsuit filed by elections technology firm Dominion Voting Systems should be thrown out.They argued that Dominion acted in a government capacity during the last election by providing counties with election software. As a result, their lawyers said the firm has to prove Powell and Lindell acted with malice when they made claims against the company after the Nov. 3 election, citing previous court cases that barred public officials from filing lawsuits against individuals...

One often wonders if the BLM actually cares about black lives because their focus is so much on driving everything further left, and they don’t seem to care about the black lives that may be taken in the process of their actions.For example, they don’t seem to have cared much about former police captain, David Dorn, 77, killed during the rioting in St. Louis, who died trying to protect his friend’s shop. Then, there was little, 8-year-old Secoriea Turner, who was shot and killed in a parking lot ‘autonomous zone’ by BLM ‘protesters.’ The city had previously failed to shut...

U.K. Health Secretary Matt Hancock, who has led the country's response to the coronavirus, resigned Saturday, a day after apologizing for breaching social distancing rules with an aide with whom he was allegedly having an affair. Hancock had been under growing pressure since the tabloid Sun newspaper published images showing him and senior aide Gina Coladangelo kissing in an office at the Department of Health. The Sun said the closed circuit television images were taken May 6 — 11 days before lockdown rules were eased to allow hugs and other physical contact with people outside one's own household. In a...