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On June 15, President Joe Biden unveiled his battle plan for the war on domestic terrorism. His pitchfork is aimed specifically at the scarecrow of white supremacy. “We cannot ignore this threat or wish it away,” Biden wrote in the strategy document. “Preventing domestic terrorism and reducing the factors that fuel it demand a multifaceted response across the federal government and beyond.” Summarized by the sympathetic New York Times, Biden’s so-called “National Strategy for Countering Domestic Terrorism” calls for “improving information sharing among law enforcement agencies, preventing recruitment by extremist groups, investigating such groups and confronting the longstanding drivers of...

On this date in 1945, Japanese forces occupying Indonesia cut off Dr. Achmad Mochtar’s head for a medical experiment gone horribly awry. Officially, Dr. Mochtar had been responsible for a supposed vaccine whose administration killed hundreds of Indonesian forced laborers. Latter-day research, however, indicates that it was the Japanese military who administered the vaccine (Indonesian link), an experimental tetanus-cholera-typhoid-dysentery combination shot, getting a trial run before it was administered to Japan’s own soldiers. When this drug proved lethal to most of its recipients, Mochtar and his staff at the Eijkman Institute were arrested in 1944 and subjected to harrowing torture....

ROME – For the first time, a cardinal will stand trial in a Vatican court along with nine other individual defendants and three corporate entities, all charged with various offenses for their roles in a controversial London property deal orchestrated by the Vatican’s Secretariat of State. Italian Cardinal Angelo Becciu, who oversaw the early stages of the London deal when he served as the substitute, or number two official, was indicted on Saturday along with nine others, including well-known Swiss lawyer René Brülhart, the former president of the Vatican’s financial watchdog unit. The decision comes after a two-year investigation. The...

The assault on language is an integral component of the unrelenting warfare being waged for the conquest and control of the mind, Stephen Karganovic writes. Little wonder that here and there sanity nostalgia is gripping the Western world, at least those isolated portions of it that are not internalising the sinister “new normal.” But it is seemingly to no avail. All commanding positions are firmly in the hands of lunatics, who are determined to turn a once great and exemplary civilisation into an asylum. As George Orwell has taught us, language manipulation is at the frontline (yes, I have just...

Far-left Time Magazine, one of the country’s chief conspiracy theorists pushing the Climate Change Hoax, openly advocates having air-conditioning banished.

Asatar Bair, an assistant professor of economics at Riverside City College, is a self-described communist and supporter of Joseph Stalin. He recently praised the communist dictator as one of the greatest leaders of the 20th century.Last week, Bair tweeted his support for Stalin, the communist revolutionary who ruled the Soviet Union from 1927 until he died in 1953.Bair described Stalin as “a very successful revolutionary, a great contributor to Marxist theory,” as well as a “great listener and collaborator during discussions.” Bair added he “would certainly conclude that he [Stalin] is one of the great leaders of the 20th c...

Students and other young people walking around the Georgetown area of Washington, D.C., struggled to say whether they were "proud" to be American ahead of 4th of July weekend. Ophelie Jacobson, a reporter with Campus Reform — a conservative news site and higher-education watchdog — walked around Georgetown asking young people in the area whether they were proud to be American and whether the United States is the greatest country in the world. "I feel sorry for those young students," Lily Tang Williams, an American citizen who immigrated from China, told "Fox & Friends" on Saturday in response to the...

Royal Caribbean's Freedom of the Seas will begin cruising July 2 from Miami on three- to four-night trips. Unvaccinated and vaccinated passengers aboard the ship will have different cruising experiences. Unvaccinated guests can't access the vaccinated-only parts of the ship and will have to pay extra for COVID-19 tests. See more stories on Insider's business page. Royal Caribbean doesn't have a sweeping vaccine mandate for cruises sailing out of Florida. But if you're unvaccinated and sailing with the cruise line this July, you might not have the same cruising experience as your fellow vaccinated passengers. Royal Caribbean's Freedom of the...

July 3, 2021 Feast of Saint Thomas, Apostle Altar and reredos of St. Thomas the ApostleBoston Road, Hanwell, London Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Red.First readingEphesians 2:19-22 ©In Christ you are no longer aliens, but citizens like usYou are no longer aliens or foreign visitors: you are citizens like all the saints, and part of God’s household. You are part of a building that has the apostles and prophets for its foundations, and Christ Jesus himself for its main cornerstone. As every structure is aligned on him, all grow into one holy temple in the Lord; and you too, in him,...

WASHINGTON, Tuesday, July 2. It has been determined not to forward copies of the President's Message to the Press, for publication simultaneously with its presentation to Congress. No more appointments will be made in the Army until after Congress has determined whether it will authorize an increase in the regular army. A member of the Seventy-first Regiment was drowned, to-day, at the Navy-yard. A member of the Fourteenth Regiment New-York Volunteers, Col. JACKSON, was shot to-day and mortally wounded. One of the men put down an empty musket in his tent, and in a short time picked up what he...

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Independence Day makes Progressives squirm. They despise the principles of the American Revolution. If they could, their scotus judges would gut the Declaration as thoroughly as they have the Constitution. To them, our Noble Declaration, this expression of God-given reason subverts social justice; they are right. Since the Declaration is indeed hostile to their moral relativism, the Left has long attempted to minimize our founding to a fuzzy faith in the people. The “deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,” and “all men are created equal,” translates in their Marxist minds as widespread democracy accompanied with equal...

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Residents of Wakefield and Reading - 15 miles from downtown Boston - are urged to lock their doors and stay inside Eight 'armed and dangerous' men wearing tactical-style clothing fled into woodland early Saturday morning Two of them have been arrested, but the other six remain at large Police have confirmed members of the group posted videos to a YouTube account named 'Rise of the Moors' The group were seen in one clip waving a Moroccan flag, but insisted that they are not anti-US government

Floyd Wynn (pictured), who has been a mailman in Asheville for 20 years, was recently the victim of a carjacking in broad daylight when a woman approached him in the middle of the road June 12 as he was driving his Camaro on Patton Avenue, opened his door and assaulted him, telling him to give her the keys and give her the car, Wynn said. Asheville Police Department, which responded to the scene 12 minutes after a witness called 911, says it has a person of interest in the case. (Photo credit: WLOS Staff)

The U.S. Army has reportedly told its commands to prepare to administer mandatory COVID-19 vaccinations to its entire force by as early as Sept. 1, in anticipation of full approval for the vaccines by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).On Thursday the Army Times first reported on the potential mandatory vaccines, based on a portion of an order updating the Headquarters for the Department of the Army (HQDA) Executive Order 225-21, COVID-19 Steady-State Operations.“Commanders will continue COVID-19 vaccination operations and prepare for a directive to mandate COVID-19 vaccination for service members [on or around] 01 September 2021, pending full...

Supply chain cyberattack could have wide blast radius through compromised MSPs Software maker Kaseya Limited is urging users of its VSA endpoint management and network monitoring tool to immediately shut down VSA servers to prevent them from being compromised in a widespread ransomware attack. According to Kaseya, the attack began around 2PM ET on Friday. The company said that while the incident only appears to impact on-premises customers, SaaS servers have also been shut down as a precautionary measure. While the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) had not yet issued an official alert as of...

The Vatican’s bioethics academy and the World Medical Association on Friday called for an all-out effort to combat vaccine hesitancy and correct the “myths and disinformation” that are slowing the fight against the coronavirus.In a joint statement, the groups said some vaccine reluctance in poorer countries is rooted in historical inequalities and suspicions of Western pharmaceutical companies. But they said “a more pernicious form” of hesitancy is being driven by fake news, myths and disinformation about vaccine safety, including among religious groups and some in the medical community.They demanded that “all relevant stakeholders exhaust all efforts to...confront vaccine hesitancy by...

An illegal alien out of jail on bail in New Mexico is now accused of beheading a man and then kicking the man’s head around like a soccer ball, Breitbart News has learned. Joel Arciniega-Saenz, a 25-year-old illegal alien, was indicted by a grand jury this week after being arrested for allegedly murdering 51-year-old James Garcia in Dona Ana County, New Mexico, the day after Father’s Day. According to court records obtained by KTSM 9 News, Arciniega-Saenz is accused of decapitating Garcia before mutilating the rest of his body and kicking his head around like a soccer ball. At the...

Black Widow sauntered into the mainstream consciousness in 2010’s Iron Man 2. Not walked—sauntered. Natasha Romanoff, the Russian agent turned U.S. spy played by Scarlett Johansson, first meets Tony Stark, a.k.a. Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.) when he’s working out in a boxing ring with his employee, played by Jon Favreau, the film’s director. Favreau’s Happy Hogan condescendingly offers to teach Natasha how to box, so she slips off her high heels, slinks into the ring and immediately kicks the man’s butt. That’s the joke: Surprise! This unbelievably fit woman can fight. But it’s the moment after Natasha handily beats...