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A giant mural including a Black Lives Matter-style fist in New Jersey was partially whitewashed soon after it was finished following a flood of complaints, according to the artist. May Yuasa, 19, told NorthJersey.com that she spent 60 hours painting the mural on a Garden State Parkway underpass in Clifton last week after getting permission from City Manager Dominick Villano. But she was told that the part showing the fist quickly led to complaints — and Villano sent city workers to paint a white box over the offending image, he confirmed to the outlet. That decision sparked further outrage —...

The Chinese Communist Party is sending paramilitary trainers to Cuba. ADN Cuba, a Spanish media platform focusing on Cuba, obtained exclusive photos showing a Chinese military officer training Cuba’s black berets unit. The unit, formally known as the National Special Brigade, has videos and photos showing them attacking protestors during the recent Cuban protest.

This week saw the opening testimony on the so-called "insurrection" attempted at the Capitol by Trump supporters convinced that the 2020 election was stolen. In defiance of the odds, all nine members of the "jury" turned out to be congresspersons who voted for Trump's impeachment earlier this year. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif) explained that "agreement that Trump instigated this worst attack on our democracy since the Civil War was an essential criteria for selecting who would hear the evidence and make the judgment of guilt required to heal the nation." Similar scrutiny was applied to what evidence would and...

Australia today used helicopters and the army to enforce its 'Zero Covid' lockdown, as thousands of police flooded Sydney city centre to enforce the rules and hand out $500 fines for those not wearing a mask. Sirens blared across the city and a draconian message was broadcast from the skies, as millions were told: 'This is public health order —do not break rules —you will be found and fines issued.' Ministers had tried to eliminate all cases through isolation and closed borders, but just 17% of adults have been vaccinated and concerns are now growing over the virus' growing prevalence...

CHINA and Russia are posing a "daily threat" to the world from space with lasers and missiles ready to blast satellites out of the sky, a military chief has warned. Air Chief Marshal Sir Mike Wigston said Moscow and Beijing are engaging in "dangerous activity" - such as flying satellites within "close proximity" of others - on a daily basis. He warned future wars would be "won or lost in space" and said the UK are gathering intelligence on the "questionable" activity, The Telegraph reports. Sir Mike said "reckless" behaviour from the two nations was seen "several times a year"....

A famed conservative columnist who lives at the epicenter of the United States' latest Delta COVID cluster said of the virus 'Let it rip' after seeing how mild his vaccinated friends' symptoms were. Writer Andrew Sullivan says the COVID-19 outbreak in Provincetown, Massachusetts, that infected around 900 people and triggered CDC's mask U-turn was sparked by wild July 4 indoor parties following Pride Week. -snip- Sullivan said many had just come from Pride parties in New York City and packed into bars and dance clubs. One of the bars is like a 'dang dungeon where sweat drips from the ceiling...

Before the military was “woke”, it was purged and softened by Barack Hussein Obama and Joe Biden, purging it of career officers who believed it was their job to win wars and not scour the ranks of “white rage” and white supremacists. What was left were the likes of Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley, who fears Indiana grandmothers roaming the Capitol on Jan. 6 than he does the People’s Liberation Army of China. Milley followed the Congressional testimony the equally “woke” Chief of Naval Operations, Adm. Michael Gilday. Instead of preparing our fleets for battle,...

Israel's education minister said she opposes vaccinating children against the coronavirus inside schools, arguing that it will cause “social pressure” on students already suffering from emotional distress caused by the pandemic. In an attempt to explain her opposition to providing vaccines in the schools, Education Minister Yifat Shasha-Biton told Channel 12 News on Wednesday that “We are talking about children who for a year and a half sat at home, and are in emotional distress. It’s a crime as far as I’m concerned.” -snip- On Thursday, Shasha-Biton tweeted that “the role of the education system is to educate. The role...

President Trump told the hosts at the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show in June that he thinks former football great Herschel Walker will enter the US Senate race in Georgia as a Republican. Herschel Walker is a conservative favorite and leads Marxist Senator Raphael Warnock in the 2022 race and hasn’t even announced his candidacy yet. But RINO Senators John Thune and John Cornyn are hoping he doesn’t run for some reason.

Study of area cases says variant leads to ‘increased risk of transmission’ A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study regarding the Provincetown COVID-19 outbreak published Friday provides new evidence that vaccinated people are vulnerable to the disease’s highly contagious delta variant. A key finding in the report is that almost three-quarters of people infected in the Provincetown outbreak were fully vaccinated. That and other data from the Provincetown outbreak provided evidence that pushed agency scientists to advise that vaccinated people across the country again wear masks in indoor public settings in certain circumstances. “High viral loads suggest an increased...

As followers of Christ, we are to take God at his word and accept as true what he says about us. This means our ‘old man’ represents someone who still seeks to be seen as right before God because of his own works. Such a man’s conscience continually brings him under guilt, but instead of repenting, he pledges to overcome his sin problem himself. “I’m going to change! I’ll start fighting my besetting sin today, no matter what the cost. I want God to see how hard I’m trying.” Such a man brings much sweat and many tears to the...

“For as long as you practice these things, you will never stumble” (2 Peter 1:10). Assurance of salvation lets us enjoy earthly blessings. It is encouraging that scriptural assurance results in specific, practical blessings in the Christian life. Here are six I’d like to share with you today. Assurance makes you praise God. There is no way you can be filled with praise and gratitude to God if you’re not sure you’re saved. Assurance adds joy to your earthly duties and trials. No matter what happens to you, you can be certain that all will work out well in the...

Miriela Cruz, a Cuban woman arrested on July 11 for wearing a shirt reading “down with the dictatorship,” described being brutalized and tortured in putrid jail cells in an interview shortly after her release, the Cuban independent site ADN Cuba reported Wednesday.Cruz shared her story in audio posted to Facebook on Tuesday by Anamely Ramos, a longtime anti-communist dissident and member of the pro-democracy artist collective the San Isidro Movement. The head of the movement, Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara, disappeared on July 11 and has not been seen since. Human rights activists presume Otero is in police custody, one of...

We’ve heard it’s the Republicans who are at fault for the return of the mask mandates and the spreading of the Delta variant. Well, liberals are saying that of course. It’s conservative media that’s fanning the flames. There’s more nuance to this problem and you all know. The least of it is not being that vaccinations have always been a sensitive topic in America. When it comes to kids, it’s even more intense. There’s also the aspect that a lot of people don’t like being told what to do and there is a limit in telling what adults can and...

It's no secret that Vice President Kamala Harris has been doing a terrible job. And it's not just us saying so. The revelations have come over the past few months that working for her amounts to "an abusive environment." Top travel aides announced they were leaving right around the time Harris went to El Paso for her border trip. After reports of disastrous poll results, The Hill and The New York Post spoke to Democratic strategists, and they weren't playing around. A Morning Consult-POLITICO poll from last week revealed that the vice president did not have good favorability ratings, with...

Soft tissues that make up brains are very prone to rapid decay, Bicknell said. "In order for them to be preserved, either very special geological conditions, or amber, are needed." In this case, geology helped to keep the soft tissue in tip-top condition over the years and preserve the brain — or at least a copy of the brain. "We have a mold of the brain, not the brain itself, so to speak," Bicknell said. The deposits at Mazon Creek are made of an iron carbonate mineral called siderite, which forms concretions — mineral precipitations — that can quickly encase...

The government will stop paying for rapid antigen tests after sufficient numbers of German residents have been fully vaccinated, according to the Bild newspaper. The tabloid cited unnamed government sources as saying that two ministers were pushing for the change, possibly from the end of September. At present, Germans are required to present a negative coronavirus test if they want to enter offices, some shops and restaurants and can get tested for free. Testing sites have been expanded in recent months to include pharmacies. Finance minister and the center-left Social Democrat (SDP) chancellor candidate Olaf Scholz and Bavaria’s premier Markus...

The Biden administration has started fast-track deportation flights to Central America for migrants who have been denied asylum in the U.S. after arriving at the southern border. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) had announced earlier this week that such flights would resume, and on Friday announced that flights sending migrants back to Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras had resumed and were conducted via Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). “Asylum and other legal migration pathways should be readily available to those who need them, and this Administration is committed to fairly and efficiently considering asylum claims,” DHS said in a...

Yesterday's unexpected tilting of the International Space Station was caused by a software glitch, according to Russian space agency Roscosmos. A new Russian module dubbed Nauka arrived at the space station Thursday morning (July 29). In development for more than a decade, Nauka is designed to host science experiments, anchor visiting vehicles and serve as a gateway for spacewalks. However, while the module's arrival appeared to go smoothly, about three hours after docking, the module unexpectedly began firing its thrusters in an incident that caused the space station to tilt from its typical position for about 45 minutes in what...

Every Monday in the city of anarchy, on what Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot once called “Accountability Mondays” without irony, the media tallies the number of the weekend murdered dead and the wounded. And the Democrat politicians point fingers at each other. More than 70 people were shot this past weekend, with 12 dead. Over the July 4 weekend, more than 100 people were shot, among them more than a dozen children, and 19 were killed. And so on, weekend after weekend, weekday after weekday. Violence, the fear of violence and its after-effects are the top issues in Chicago. More than...