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The coronavirus cabinet approved new restrictions on Tuesday night, as senior government members admitted a lockdown in September is not a remote possibility anymore. Starting August 8, the full green pass system will be in place again (from August 20 also for children under 12), masks will be mandatory in all outdoor gatherings and a vaccinated/recovered parent caring for a child in quarantine under the age of 12 will be demanded to isolate as well. In addition, government offices will work with only 50% of their workforce in person, and the private sector will be encouraged to do the same....

Arizona Republican state legislators pushed back against Maricopa County officials on Tuesday, one day after the county’s Board of Supervisors defiantly refused to cooperate with subpoenas for additional information about the November 3, 2020, election conducted in the state’s most populous county. ....... Snip....... On Tuesday, State Senate Majority Whip Sonny Borrelli (R-Lake Havasu City) released a statement announcing he asked Arizona Attorney General Brnovich to investigate the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors for violating the law: Today I submitted a request for the Arizona Attorney General to investigate the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors for their failure to comply...

God Is Sick of Them: Francis' Model Church Reduced to a Pile of RubbleThere are 22,193,347 "Catholics" in Germany, which corresponds to 26.7% of the population.The data refers to the year 2020 and appeared in statistics published by the German Bishops' Conference.The "Catholics" are served by 12,565 priests (2019: 12,983). In 2020, there were only 67 priestly ordinations (56: diocesan priests; 11: religious priests).Attendance at religious services fell to 5.9% (2019: 9.1%), as did the number of marriages (11,018; 2019: 38,537), baptisms (104,610; 2019: 159,043), first communions (139,752; 2019: 166,481). 221,390 persons left the Church (2019: 272,771). In contrast, burials...

In my most recent prior post I referenced two things: The Wrong of Slavery, the Right of Emancipation, and the future of the African race in the United States - this book(and audiobook) is strongly related to the final report of the Freedmen's Inquiry Commission and bears many likenesses to the text.(source) Additionally: George Bancroft's History of the United States, Vol. VI. All I want to do here is give you the full text of the order from the King's own hand so you can read it for yourself. On December 10th, 1770, here was the order given by King...

The $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure accord would institute a multiyear "national motor vehicle per-mile user fee pilot" program that, without future intervention from the White House, could potentially violate one of President Joe Biden's previously stated red lines. Top White House officials emphatically stated for months that paying for the infrastructure investments by indexing gas taxes to inflation or instituting new electric vehicle mileage fees were hard red lines for the president on the grounds that they would raise taxes on people earning less than $400,000 per year. Yet, the new per-mile user fee pilot, outlined in section 13002 of...

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Secret Commission: Is Francis Preparing His Next Attack On the Church?Francis wants to „study“ Communion for Protestants, MarcoTossatti.com (August 4) writes.However, Protestants don’t fulfil the two prerequisits for receiving Communion, i.e. going to confession and believing in transsubstantiation.Rumours say that Francis instructed the Secretary of the Liturgy Congregation, Archbishop Vittorio Francesco Viola, a former lecturer at the anti-Catholic Liturgical Institute of Sant'Anselmo, Rome, to organise a „confidential commission“ in September, and to report directly within only two months to Francis.In defiance of all pretended 'synodality', this method which Francis likes is bypassing the Cardinals, bishops, and all bodies in charge...

A Danville bowling alley has come out in opposition to the indoor mask mandate rolled out by seven Bay Area counties earlier this week. Danville Bowl is going so far as to refuse enforcing the mandate, their reasoning being that "everyone has the right to freedom and not constant retracting restrictions from the government." "If you would like to wear your mask inside while you bowl…feel free," reads their post published Tuesday. "If you don’t want too, that’s okay. The choice is up to YOU, as it always should have been. Not to mention if you’re vaccinated you should have...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. – When President Richard Nixon was neck deep in the Watergate scandal and faced impeachment in the House of Representatives and a trial in the U.S. Senate, Tricky Dick said he would never resign. After all, Nixon was sure that he could beat conviction in the Senate, where he merely had to hold on to a third of the members in order to remain in office. As gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson wrote at the time, any president who couldn’t use the vast powers of their office to keep 33 senators in line by hook or by...

They tell you Joe Biden got 81 million votes in November. More than anyone in history, including birthday boy Barack Obama. Yes, the same guy who days ago was declaring “My butt’s been wiped” and eating food stuck on his chin. 81 million. If you’re Hillary Clinton, you’re saying, “There’s no way he got 15 million more votes than me!”Former military intelligence officer and election data analyst Seth Keshel would tell Hillary she’s right. Keshel’s been studying election trends, population trends, registration rolls, party affiliation and several other data points. His conclusion?Biden was given 8.1 million excess votes.Trump won Arizona,...

AOC masks up for a photo op, removes it moments later while she mingles with the crowd. https://twitter.com/YALiberty/status/1422947938242805762

Stray Kids’ Bang Chan is under fire for the Jim Crow controversy after an old video of him making a ‘racist’ pose resurfaced. Black Stray Kids fans have expressed their outrage against the apology he released on Bubble, a paid platform. On August 3, an old video of Stray Kids’ leader, Bang Chan, imitating a racist pose recirculated. After the video got much attention globally sparked outrage on social media, Bang Chan took to Bubble, a paid fan app, to apologize for his past actions. For a lot of Stray Kids fans, the Jim Crow reference isn’t clear. For the...

She definitely hasn’t left her heart in San Francisco. Nancy Pelosi was spotted out in New York City on Tuesday night as she watched Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett take to the stage together for a joint concert to promote their upcoming second album. Taking the night off from Washington DC, the Speaker took in the glamor of NYC and waved to the crowds as she left the famed Radio City Music Hall. Footage posted on social media showed a masked-up Pelosi being escorted from the theater to a waiting SUV. Pelosi, surrounded by security personnel, waved enthusiastically as she...

Cases are definitely rising rapidly with the delta variant to around 72,000 per day now from around 12,000 per day in early June nationwide. Deaths however have remained low with a 7 day average of 300 nationwide and have remained under 400 per day since the beginning of June.

New York City plans to require proof of vaccination for restaurants, gymsBoston's mayor said she wants to encourage people to get vaccinated against COVID-19 but compared the idea of requiring vaccine passports to several unsavory parts of American history. NewsCenter 5's Sharman Sacchetti posed the question to Mayor Kim Janey Tuesday, after New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that proof of COVID-19 vaccination will soon be required for entering restaurants, gyms and indoor venues. Advertisement The new requirement, which will be phased in over several weeks in August and September, is the most aggressive step New York has...

A Virginia couple was sentenced to home confinement on Wednesday after pleading guilty to charges related to the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol, according to multiple reports. Jessica and Joshua Bustle were both sentenced to two years of probation and 40 hours of community service, according to NBC News. Additionally, Joshua Bustle was sentenced to 30 days of home confident, while Jessica Bundle was sentenced to sixty days.

The story of popular music in the late 20th century is never complete without an account of the explosive psychedelic rock, funk and Afrobeat styles that proliferated on the African continent and across Latin American and the Caribbean in the 1960s and 70s. It’s only lately, that large audiences are discovering how much pioneering music came out of Kenya, Ghana, Nigeria, and other postcolonial countries, thanks to UK labels like Strut and Soundway. Germany’s Analogue Africa, a label that reissues classic albums from the era, puts it this way: “the future of music happened decades ago.” Only most Western audiences...

ONE of Jill Biden’s top aides has been accused of “berating” other staffers and creating an abusive office environment like The Devil Wears Prada, according to reports. Trusted staffer Anthony Bernal is accused of a “mean streak” that has made co-workers cry, as it's claimed he bad-mouths other members of "Team Jill" behind their backs. It comes despite a strong relationship with the First Lady who dedicated a whole paragraph to Bernal in the thank yous to her 2019 memoir. “A special thank-you to Anthony Bernal, who spent countless hours, holidays, and weekends to push me to write,” she wrote....

I wonder how our medal totals would be if we had an exclusionary immigration system which we have had for the last few years. My heart swells for all of our medalists, including those whose families have come from far off lands to love our country.— Jeb Bush (@JebBush) August 4, 2021

Must have been a turbulent ride. CNN host Chris Cuomo caught a helicopter from the Hamptons back to New York City — just hours after his brother, Gov. Andrew Cuomo, was exposed as a serial sexual harasser in a damning official report. A source spotted Chris alone at the East Hampton airport around 6 p.m. Tuesday — and said the CNN anchor was scrolling through news about his older brother as he waited for his ride. “I saw the article from New York Post on his phone when I walked by,” the source said. Photos showed the 50-year-old “Cuomo Prime...