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Two local filmmakers have been recording life inside Wuhan, the epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak, for over 50 days since the city went under lockdown in January

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Berlin Archbishop "Unreservedly" In Favour of Homosex "Blessings," Will Stage "Queer" ServiceBerlin Archbishop Heiner Koch will appoint a "chaplain" to encourage unrepentant homosexuals on their evil path, he announced after an audience for the Berlin homosex group LSVD which is rampantly anti-Catholic.Koch "apologised" that as a bishop he could not ignore the Roman refusal of homosexual blessings "for the sake of the unity of the church" (sic!), but said in the same breath that he would "unreservedly" commit himself to granting the blessing of [his] "God" to the "love" and "relationship" of homosexuals .Koch even promised to hold a "service"...

Pushback is growing against Gov. Jay Inslee's new order mandating that all state employees, healthcare and long-term care workers get the COVID-19 vaccine.Under the governor's order, issued Monday, those workers must submit proof that they have been vaccinated against the virus by Oct. 18 - or else.The new mandate applies to 400,000 healthcare workers in Washington state and comes amid a fifth wave of COVID-19, as the highly contagious delta variant drives up cases and fills up hospital beds. The governor's order does include exemptions for medical or religious reasons.Robin Dale with the Washington Health Care Association says they've been...

The Senate on Tuesday passed a roughly $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure deal, a significant win for President Biden and the first step on his top legislative priority. Senators voted 69-30 on the bill, which was spearheaded by a bipartisan group of senators led by Sens. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) and Rob Portman (R-Ohio). Nineteen GOP senators voted with all Democrats to pass the legislation. The bill is now heading to the House, where it faces an uncertain future and skepticism from progressives. Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has vowed she won’t take it up until the Senate passes the second part of...

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) confirmed on Friday a Border Patrol agent who was patrolling near the Rio Grande in the El Paso Sector fired upon from two individuals on the Mexican side of the border. The agent took cover and was not hit. In a statement, CBP said around 20 rounds from a rifle were used to shoot at the agent: "On August 6, 2021, at approximately 3 AM, a BPA assigned to an area east of the Jonathan Rogers Water Treatment Plant reported hearing gunshots near his location and immediately drove to cover behind an obstruction. Camera...

United States torturer Dan Mitrione was executed on this date in 1970 by Uruguayan guerrillas. A onetime Indiana beat cop, Dan Mitrione graduated to an agent of empire via a USAID program called the Office of Public Safety. This organ headlined the putatively amicable mission of extending training to foreign police officers, both in their home countries and in the American capital. OPS’s real purpose, according to A.J. Langguth‘s Hidden Terrors: The Truth About U.S. Police Operations in Latin America, was: "allowing the CIA to plant men with the local police in sensitive places around the world; and after careful...

@JohnCornyn "After reviewing the CBO’s analysis, which estimates the bill will increase the deficit by a quarter trillion dollars, and because of the failure to include my bipartisan amendment, I cannot support the final bill.”

Today marks 17 months since the institution of the infamous “Flatten the Curve,” AKA The Deep State’s Plot to Drive Us Crazy, Make Us Stupid, and Take Over the World (in order to make the world safe for China and/or the Deep State and/or New World Order cabal to take it over). Since my last post in this series, 15 days ago, multiple city and state governments, as well as large private companies, have announced that employees will have to be vaccinated or will be fired. Much of the federal government, including the military, is under a vax mandate. In...

The White House has enlisted “Gen Z” social media influencer Benny Drama in the push to get young Americans vaccinated, with a parody video of him parading around as Jen Psaki’s “intern.” The comedic influencer, whose real name is Benito Skinner, uploaded a new video on TikTok and Instagram late Monday co-starring the White House press secretary. The video, which was filmed around the White House, features Drama’s “Kooper the Gen Z Intern” character wearing a white skirt and flashing his long nails. It had been viewed more than 2.7 million times on TikTok and 850,000 times on Instagram as...

Despite many inherent difficulties, some military leaders showed apparent willingness to support radical calls to resist the president... .... if military officers had done to President Obama some of the things that members of the intelligence community (IC) had done to President Trump, they would have been denounced as conspirators seeking to undermine the actions of a duly elected president, and thus enemies of civilian control of the military and the Constitution itself. ...That this sort of activity on the part of the IC was ongoing was confirmed by a prominent member of the intelligence brotherhood who acknowledged that Trump...

[Catholic Caucus] Madness! Old Rite Bishop DEFENDS Traditionis CustodesBishop Fernando Rifan, the head of the Old Rite Apostolic Administration in Campos, Brazil, commented in a recent homily (video below) on Francis’ Traditionis custodes.He said that he replied to Francis' never published consultation on the Roman Rite, that there were "no problems" within his jurisdiction.However, Rifan identified two "enemies" of the Roman Mass. His first "enemy" are progressive conformists who hate the Roman Mass because it expresses the Catholic doctrine of the Sacrifice of Mass.In order to place himself opportunistically in the "middle," he invented a "second enemy" whom he called...

A Democratic judge in Travis County, Texas, has issued a temporary restraining order that will prevent the arrest of Texas state legislators who fled the state for Washington, D.C., rather than vote on an election integrity bill. The order will be good for 14 days and can be renewed indefinitely.

@KelleyAshbyPaul 1. Covid has a 99% survivable rate. 2. Voter ID for all citizens is not racist. 3. Males competing in women’s sports have an unfair advantage. “Truth is Treason in an Empire of Lies” - Ron Paul

We should be allowed to shoot anyone who makes practical arguments regarding COVID-19, according to one 2022 California congressional candidate. The candidate is Steve Cox, an independent running to represent California’s 39th Congressional District. On Monday, Cox responded to conservative commentator Matt Walsh on Twitter, writing, “Whenever anyone says ‘we all die from something’ (or a variation thereof) to justify not taking precautions to help protect others in this pandemic, we should be allowed to shoot them.”

Monday marked the 7th anniversary of the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. The young man was justifiably shot and killed by Ferguson Police Officer Darren Wilson in August 2014 after he attempted to take Wilson's gun during a struggle in a police vehicle. The encounter happened shortly after Brown robbed a convenience store and assaulted a clerk. After months of riots and an investigation from the Obama Justice Department, led at the time by Attorney General Eric Holder, these facts remained true.

This morning, I was reading an open letter from Glenn Beck to Congress: How YOU Can Fight Back Against the Great Reset. It’s well worth YOUR read. The introduction says… In an attempt to secure vast amounts of wealth and influence over society, corporations, bankers, and investors, working closely with key government officials, have launched a unified effort to impose environmental, social, and governance (ESG) standards on most of the industrialized global economy. I will not get into the full contents of the letter today or the chilling implications of this scheme. But I will be following up its goals...

Republicans have helped put President Biden several steps closer to passing...an unnecessary and costly infrastructure bill that will pave the way for Democrats to pass their multi-trillion dollar social agenda. This is a pathetic surrender that has been built on a mountain of lies. Republicans who voted for this monstrosity claimed that the infrastructure bill they negotiated would be fully paid for. It isn’t. They claimed it would narrowly focus on traditional infrastructure such as fixing roads and bridges. It doesn’t. They claimed it would help convince moderate Democrats to abandon Biden’s larger bill. It won’t.

Dr. Anthony Fauci said Monday the coronavirus “will disappear” when the “majority of the population [are] vaccinated,” noting “we don’t know what that threshold is.” “When you get the overwhelming majority of the population vaccinated – and we don’t know what that threshold is – the virus will disappear, and then we won’t need to worry about it, at least in this country,” Fauci said when interviewed by USA Today. “If you don’t do that, you will get a smoldering level of infection that will just go right into the fall, get confused with influenza in the winter, and then...

About 2,000 light-years away from Earth, there is a star catapulting toward the edge of the Milky Way. This particular star, known as LP 40−365, is one of a unique breed of fast-moving stars—remnant pieces of massive white dwarf stars—that have survived in chunks after a gigantic stellar explosion. “This star is moving so fast that it’s almost certainly leaving the galaxy…[it’s] moving almost two million miles an hour,” says JJ Hermes, Boston University College of Arts & Sciences assistant professor of astronomy. But why is this flying object speeding out of the Milky Way? Because it’s a piece of...