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A North Carolina landlord says he is out $24,000 in unpaid rent from tenants, while one renter bought three boats over the course of the eviction moratorium just as the CDC announced a new ban that will last until October 3. Buddy Shoup, who owns 35 properties across the state, said that he has been forced to maintain the properties and hemorrhage costs while the federal government slowly dribbles out rental assistance, of which only 7% has been doled out to renters in need. ‘[The money] was used, they went and bought brand new boats, but I mean, you know...

Q: My fellow-parishioners and I are so shocked and hurt by the Holy Father’s deliberate destruction of the Traditional Latin Mass [in Traditionis custodes, his new motu proprio]…. Everyone agrees it’s so badly written, there are many internet articles explaining the document’s inconsistencies as I’m sure you’re aware. We’re wondering if somehow this can be said to render the document unworkable, because it’s so unclear. Or maybe there’s a loophole that somehow we can use…. –CiaraA: Ciara is on to something here! It’s certainly true that many thousands of words have been written about this motu proprio in numerous languages,...

The Bank of England left its monetary policy unchanged on Thursday, but warned of a more pronounced period of above-target inflation in the near term. Policymakers unanimously decided to keep the Bank's main lending rate at a historic low of 0.1%, where it has been since March 2020, and voted 7-1 to maintain the quantitative easing program at £895 billion ($1.25 trillion). The MPC said it intends to begin reducing its stock of purchased assets when the bank rate has risen to 0.5%, given the appropriate economic circumstances, by ceasing to reinvest in maturing U.K. government bonds. This is a...

BREAKING: Apple plans to install software on US iPhones to scan images of child abuse, opening the door to monitoring personal devices for millions of people -

. Israel is prepared to attack Iran, Defense Minister Benny Gantz said, as his country lobbied for a response to a fatal drone attack on an Israeli-operated oil tanker that it blamed on the Islamic Republic. Asked in an interview broadcast on a local media website whether Israel is prepared to assault Iran, Gantz gave a one-word answer: “‘Yes." US plans to require Covid-19 shots for foreign travelers Goods imports rose 1.8% to $239.1 billion, also a record high. Exports of goods gained 0.2% to $145.9 billion in June, an all-time high Adar Poonawalla, chief executive officer of Serum...

American athletes can make a lot of money demonizing their own country these days. The world stage of the Olympics, then, presents a prime opportunity to cash in on the lucrative industry of self-hatred. U.S. wrestler Tamyra Mensah-Stock however, took no shame in competing on behalf of the United States at the Tokyo games. Quite the opposite.“I love representing the U.S.! I freaking love living there,” Mensah-Stock told a reporter while draped in the stars and stripes upon winning the gold. “I’m so happy I get to represent U.S.A!”America’s Tamyra Mensah-Stock won gold at Tokyo in wrestling:“I love representing the...

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A Texas GOP official whose social media posts include anti-mask and anti-vaccine rhetoric has died from COVID-19. H. Scott Apley, who according to the Galveston News was a member of the Galveston County Republican Party and Dickinson City council, was 45 years old.

***PLEASE SIGN AND SHARE THIS PETITION for a great man and life-saving treatment for COVID*** Dr. Vladimir Zelenko had an answer to neutralizing the corona virus in March 2020. If he wins the Nobel Prize, people will wake up and realize that his work was ignored for far too long, and now demand that it be taken seriously as it seems to a laymen that the vaccines are failing in every way possible. It seems that there are and have been vested interests who have suppressed the information regarding this doctor's work, a doctor who found himself overrun with patients,...

HUNTINGTON BEACH (CBSLA) – A Huntington Beach man was arrested Thursday morning in connection to the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. Security camera video shows the moment just before the FBI raided the home of 61-year-old Glenn Allen Brooks, who owns a home remodeling firm, in Huntington Beach. Federal agents descended on Brooks’ residence just before 6 a.m. with shields up and weapons drawn. One of Brooks’ neighbors who did not want to be identified told CBSLA that the incident is still stunning to watch. “There were assault weapons, full body armor, like top and bottom, battering rams,...

Nationally syndicated radio host Mark Levin tore into the “frauds” in corporate America who have made it a point to be clinically woke but then silent on their dealings with the “genocidal mass murderers” in the Chinese Communist Party. Levin told listeners on the August 2 edition of “The Mark Levin Show” to “look at the businesses in this country.” He continued: “Here we have a country, China, that is slaughtering Muslims; that is now targeting Christians; that is now rounding up freedom supporters in Hong Kong, which is building a military they hope will be second to none to...

An 18-year-old TikTok star, known online as Timbo the Redneck, died over the weekend while performing a truck-driving stunt in his friend’s front yard in Florida. The social media celebrity, whose real name was Timothy Hall, died on Sunday after he was tossed from his beloved pickup as he attempted to execute a series of donuts, a maneuver that involves the driver whipping their vehicle in small circles while accelerating. In a YouTube video, Timothy’s future brother-in-law Tony, who appeared in some of his videos, said Timbo fell from the driver’s side window before the truck toppled over. “His whole...

The QAnon Storm is Upon Us: Mike Rothschild on Skeptical Inquirer Presents, Aug 5Mike Rothschild: How QAnon Became a Movement, Cult, and Conspiracy Theory of Everything Once dismissed as just another set of wacky conspiracy theories from the internet, the phenomenon known as QAnon has grown into a malignant force, infecting minds with dangerous fictions and amassing real power. What is this movement trying to achieve, and what happens next? Thursday, August 5 at 7pm ET, on the next Skeptical Inquirer Presents live online event, journalist Mike Rothschild will untangle the many threads of myth and misinformation that make up...

Kicking off the first hearing of the House Select Committee investigating the U.S. Capitol riot, Chairman Bennie Thompson, a Mississippi Democrat, promised to fully investigate "the facts of what happened on Jan. 6,” calling it “a scene of violence in the citadel of democracy.” But over the next 3½ hours, he and other Democrats, along with their handpicked Republican panelists and police witnesses, never mentioned the most lethal act committed that day — the fatal Capitol Police shooting of unarmed protester Ashli Babbitt. It was the only shot fired during the entire riot.This omission angered Babbitt’s family and a number...

Somewhere near Cozumel in the Caribbean Sea, there’s a cruise ship that had zero unvaccinated people aboard but that still suffered an outbreak of Covid-19. This goes against the narrative that the reason for “breakthrough cases” is due to too many unvaccinated people mingling with those who have taken the experimental injections. The Carnival Vista, which departed from Galveston, Texas, on July 31, has issued strict face mask protocols and ordered infected people aboard into isolation. Mainstream media is already busy blowing it off while the cruise company is patting itself on the back for reacting to swiftly. In a...

A court in Scotland has ruled in favor of a Christian CEO who they said was unjustly fired by the country’s biggest grant-making trust because of his Christian views on marriage. Kenneth Ferguson was unlawfully discriminated against by The Robertson Trust and its Chairwoman Shonaig Macpherson for believing that marriage is exclusively between a man and woman, an Employment Tribunal has ruled. The Christian Institute, which supported Ferguson, announced the ruling in a statement on Friday. Ferguson is an elder of Stirling Free Church, which holds traditional views on marriage and abortion. The Christian CEO was dismissed from the Glasgow-based...

Despite WHO Director-General Dr. Tedros’s pleas for the west to impose a booster shot “moratorium” to give the developing world a better chance of catching up to North America and Europe in the vaccination race, it looks like President Biden is preparing to greenlight booster jabs for the most vulnerable, Axios reports. Citing anonymous sources, Axios says Biden and his team are “actively working toward” allowing the highest-risk patients to receive a third jab, a policy that could be handed down in the coming days or weeks, despite the WHO’s pleas. The recommendation is likely to be issued “soon”, according...

If arrogance and obsequiousness came in a bottle, Peter J. Hotez, MD, Ph.D., would be chugging it by the gallon. In a gallant defense of Dr. Anthony Fauci and Dr. Peter Daszak, Hotez says that criticizing them or any other scientist with whom he agrees is a hate crime:We should look at expanded protection mechanisms for scientists currently targeted by far-right extremism in the United States. Rep. Paul Tonko (D-NY) has introduced a bill known as the Scientific Integrity Act of 2021 (H.R. 849) to protect US Government scientists from political interference, but this needs to be extended for scientists...

A rural New Mexico school board was suspended by the state Public Education Department on Wednesday for defying Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s mask mandate for children as schools prepare for classes to resume this month and COVID-19 cases continue to rise again. The five-member Floyd school board voted last week to make masks and social distancing optional and reaffirmed its decision in another vote Monday despite warnings from state officials that they could face suspension or other enforcement actions. The district’s superintendent has been ordered to report directly to outgoing state Education Secretary Ryan Stewart. Stewart said in a memo...

Sen. Rand Paul slammed Dr. Anthony Fauci for "very dangerous" advice on the coronavirus, in his latest rebuke of the government's leading infectious-disease expert. "Dr. Fauci needs to be away from government, away from advice, because almost all of his advice had been wrongheaded. But some of it's actually very dangerous," Paul, who is also a doctor, told "Fox & Friends" host Brian Kilmeade Thursday morning. The remarks came amid a discussion on an op-ed from the Atlantic titled, "Unvaccinated People Need to Bear the Burden," which advocated for allowing only vaccinated individuals to fly on domestic flights. "Obscene," Paul...