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Erik Finman, the self-proclaimed "Bitcoin millionaire," has launched a new smartphone designed to fight back against Big Tech companies by promoting free speech and security. The Freedom Phone comes with its own app store, which will feature apps that are blocked or banned by Apple and Google, although the details haven't yet been given. It has already been endorsed by conservative commentator Candace Owens. "I just did a live on Instagram taking everyone through the new FREEDOM PHONE which is now trending," she tweeted on Wednesday night... The handset has been described as a "free speech and privacy first" phone,...

So, it looks like GloboCap isn’t going to be happy until they have fomented the widespread social unrest — or de facto global civil war — that they need as a pretext to lock in the new pathologized totalitarianism and remake whatever remains of society into a global pseudo-medicalized police state, or that appears to where we’re headed currently. We appear to be heading there at breakneck speed. I don’t have a crystal ball or anything, but I’m expecting things to get rather ugly this Autumn, and probably even uglier in the foreseeable future. Yes, friends, a storm is coming....

The Republican Party has long been divided on allowing the importation of cheaper prescription drugs from Canada, a policy proposal President Joe Biden revived in a sweeping executive order after the Trump administration's similar efforts fizzled in 2020.... ...The Trump administration’s vision for legal prescription drug importation from Canada did not materialize, despite enthusiasm from Trump and his ally, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who has pushed for prescription drug importation as a fix to high drug costs for years. In 2019, the Trump administration first proposed to import inexpensive drugs from Canada, where prescription drugs are cheaper because the government...

July 15 , 2021Memorial of St. Bonaventure Sacred Heart Cathedral, New Delhi, India Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: White Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst readingExodus 3:13-20 ©God reveals his name to MosesMoses, hearing the voice of God coming from the middle of the bush, said to him, ‘I am to go, then, to the sons of Israel and say to them, “The God of your fathers has sent me to you.” But if they ask me what his name is, what am I to tell them?’ And God said to Moses, ‘I Am...

The Communist Party's creeping influence and international ambitions are being seen through its Belt and Road Initiative - which sees nations in Asia and Africa wooed by Beijing's ambitious promises.... ...Wooed by the glitzy sales pitch, many cannot afford to keep up with the return payments when China comes knocking like an international loan shark. And then the building projects end up being abandoned or unfinished until the debt is settled - with the Communist Party more than happy to take their pound of flesh. The initiative has seen China get its hands on resource rich mountains in Tajikistan and...

It is being generally acknowledged that capitalism and communism are two phases of the same thing. The twentieth century Financial Capitalists of Wall St. sponsored the Russian and Chinese revolutions, without which sponsorship they would have died in the cradle, to bring the great mass of humanity out of isolation in central and east Asia into the world money system. You can't un-know that, now that you do. What is the opposite, not under the Hegelian thesis-antithesis-synthesis, but preceding and separate from this mind-trap of centuries? What conservative sociologist Carl Clarke Zimmerman called, the Trustee Family society. It's what socialism...

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — Minnesota state Sen. Foung Hawj was never a fan of the “Asian carp” label commonly applied to four imported fish species that are wreaking havoc in the U.S. heartland, infesting numerous rivers and bearing down on the Great Lakes. But the last straw came when an Asian business delegation arriving at the Minneapolis airport encountered a sign reading “Kill Asian Carp.” It was a well-intentioned plea to prevent spread of the invasive fish. But the message was off-putting to the visitors... “We wanted to move away from any terms that cast Asian culture and people...

Berlin police on Wednesday announced that it had raided apartments and rooms connected to five of its officers after it was found that they had shared racist and anti-government content in an online chat group with 12 members. The officers were said to have distributed images and caricatures depicting racist, right-wing imagery as well as unconstitutional symbols. The department said the operation had been "a success" and that evidence was currently being evaluated.

I think one of the most powerful scriptures on healing for the most part goes untapped. Proverbs 4:20-23 says, 20 My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings. 21 Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart. 22 For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh. 23 Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life. That word health is translated medicine, remedy, healing, and cure. Did you get that, God says his word is medicine...

The White House admitted Wednesday that Senate Democrats lack the votes to pass the $3.5 trillion reconciliation “infrastructure” framework agreed upon Tuesday evening. “If there were enough votes for each of these priorities there would be a vote and it would have happened,” White House press secretary Jen Psaki said about the two track infrastructure proposals the Democrats are attempting to pass, one via filibuster- immune reconciliation and the other by a traditional vote. Psaki added that Biden is: …headed up to the hill because it’s the next natural step, ummm, and as I said, he [Biden] knows that as...

The ranking Republican on the House Budget Committee is pressing the Biden administration to account for how much money it is costing taxpayers in litigation and settlement costs after President Biden halted construction on the wall at the U.S.-Mexico border, canceling government contracts in the process. Rep. Jason Smith, R-Mo., accused the Biden administration of "effectively undermin[ing] efforts to protect our southern border" by ceasing border wall construction and demanded to know what the financial impact of that decision will ultimately be. In a letter to Undersecretary of Defense Michael McCord sent Tuesday evening, Smith said that "historic levels of...

On Wednesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Situation Room,” Senate Budget Committee Chairman Bernie Sanders (I-VT) argued that the $3.5 trillion spending bill won’t add to inflation issues because it will be paid for “significantly by higher taxes on the wealthy and large corporations.”

12 July 2021 Danish Student solves how the Universe is reflected near black holesAstrophysics:In the vicinity of black holes, space is so warped that even light rays may curve around them several times. This phenomenon may enable us to see multiple versions of the same thing. While this has been known for decades, only now do we have an exact, mathematical expression, thanks to Albert Sneppen, student at the Niels Bohr Institute. The result, which even is more useful in realistic black holes, has just been published in the journal Scientific Reports. A disk of glowing gas swirls into the...

On Wednesday, the U.S. Senate approved legislation to ban imports from China’s Xinjiang. The bipartisan measure was passed unanimously. The bill, as written, would shift the burden of proof to importers. Add title U.S. Senate approves bill banning all products from China's Xinjiang On Wednesday, the U.S. Senate approved legislation to ban imports from China's Xinjiang. Republican Senator Marco Rubio introduced the legislation along with Democrat Jeff Merkley. He called for the House to quickly act. This is the latest attempt by Washington to punish Beijing over what U.S. officials call a continuing genocide against Uyghurs. “As the Chinese Communist...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel arrived in Washington on Wednesday for what will in all likelihood be her last official visit to the US before her almost 16-year term in office ends after the September federal election. Although the Merkel era is coming to an end, the trip is being seen as marking a new beginning in German-US relations following the tensions between Berlin and Washington under the administration of Donald Trump. However, although new US President Joe Biden has vowed to steer his country away from the far more unilateral "America First" course of his predecessor, he and Merkel will...

A whopping two-thirds of Republicans in the South favor seceding from the United States while nearly half of Democrats in the Pacific region and almost 40 percent in the Northeast say the same, according to a new survey. Support for secession is also considerable among independents in the Midwest and Great Lakes regions, where 43 percent say they would favor breaking away and forming their own country. Half of independents in the South also favor secession while 43 percent of Republicans in the Rocky Mountain states share the same view.

House Republicans on Wednesday launched a probe of President Biden's family members, demanding answers from the White House on their efforts to 'profit from proximity' to power. It follows reports that Hunter Biden's newfound art career could see him pocket as much as $500,000 for a painting. Republicans on the House Oversight Committee accused the president son, brother Frank and sister Valerie of using Biden's position to line their own pockets.

Poison drummer Rikki Rockett has tested positive for COVID-19 despite having previously been vaccinated against the virus. The rocker took to social media to share his experience with fans. "I have COVID,” Rockett matter-of-factly admitted in a video posted to YouTube. The drummer went on to explain how his son first came down with symptoms and tested positive for coronavirus. A few days later, Rocket began feeling unwell and also tested positive. "Guess what: I'm vaccinated,” the rocker further noted. “I'm fully vaccinated, and I've been vaccinated for months. I don't know if this is the delta variant, but every...

The wife of Dwayne Haskins faces a domestic violence charge stemming from an alleged assault involving the Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback that occurred in a Las Vegas hotel room earlier this month, according to multiple reports. Kalabrya Gondrezick-Haskins faces a felony charge of battery and domestic violence resulting in bodily harm stemming from the alleged altercation on July 3 at The Cosmopolitan. According to reports, Gondrezick-Haskins is accused of punching Haskins in the mouth, and other injuries Haskins reportedly suffered were "substantial in nature." Haskins, 24, had a split upper lip and a missing tooth, and he suffered other injuries to...

“A man hath joy by the answer of his mouth: and a word spoken in due season, how good is it!” (Proverbs 15:23).