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Why COVID vaccine commercials don’t include side effects to inform the public about any potentially negative side effects. There must be a lot of money to be made in peddling medical treatments and prescription drugs to Americans, or else there’d be no way the advertisements pitching these treatments and drugs to the public could be so plentiful. But you may have noticed a feature of those ads that is conspicuously absent in the public pitch for COVID-19 vaccines. Let’s consider that commercial (or any of the hundreds exactly like it) entreating you to get vaxxed as a means to “get...

Watching local coverage in Miami...for a couple hours now... The COVERAGE of Afghanistan mentions NOTHING about the stumbling press conference, NOTHING about the military giving intel to the Taliban, NOTHING about the abandonment of Bagram, NOTHING about Joe ignoring the generals. Nope. Instead, the story being advanced is Biden is vowing revenge. As if he is in control.

The FDA has licensed Pfizer’s Comirnaty Covid vaccine, NOT the existing Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine – the one that is still being administered, with a large stockpile on hand. On August 23rd all the mainstream or agitprop media outlets were trumpeting the news that the FDA had granted permanent approval for the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine. The press breathlessly reported that vaccine mandates were now legal for healthcare workers, employees in private industry, college students and government employees at all levels including teachers and school staff. Almost immediately Joe Biden shuffled his way to the podium and read off his teleprompter that all...

“As a bird that wandereth from her nest, so is a man that wandereth from his place” (Proverbs 27:8).

Federal judges in Washington are questioning whether rioters who have admitted to storming the Capitol on Jan. 6 in support of President Donald Trump are being treated too leniently. Judges are asking prosecutors why defendants aren’t paying more to cover the cost of damage to the Capitol, why the court can’t order additional supervision of many defendants beyond a brief prison term and why more do not face heftier charges. Judges have also pressured defendants to explain why they were in the building that day and express contrition, even if their plea agreements do not require such admissions. The friction...

An explosion at a print shop near Ray Road and Rural rocked nearby Chandler homes Thursday morning, and fire crews worked to put out the flames. The Chandler Fire Department says they are treating four patients, all in serious to critical condition Authorities have not confirmed the cause of the explosion. They did say they are not looking for a suspect, and are looking into a possible underground gas leak.

IFP- While Iranian officials maintain that it is unlikely the Turkmenistan–Afghanistan–Pakistan–India (TAPI) pipeline project becomes operational, Saudi Arabia has pledged to provide its investment and Taliban militants vowed to secure it. Taliban Spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid said the militants are ready to guarantee the security of TAPI Pipeline. Attending a ceremony to launch the project, he added Taliban is ready to secure the pipeline because it is a good project for Afghanistan’s economy, a report by the Persian-language Fars News Agency said. This comes as Hamid Reza Araqi, the CEO of Iran’s National Gas Company, says he is not optimistic about...

Taliban fighters are blocking access to Kabul airport as evacuation efforts begin to wind down. There are still crowds of people outside the airport gates trying to access flights, even though an announcement has been made that no further evacuees will be processed. Thousands still inside the airfield are guaranteed to be evacuated but it is highly unlikely anyone else outside the airport will be processed. Earlier, Defence Secretary Ben Wallace told Sky News the evacuation will likely be over in a "matter of hours". Around 100 members of the UK armed forces left the country this morning and more...

[...] After decades in Afghanistan, America has been defeated by Muslim fanatics equipped primarily with small arms and Toyotas. ... The failure to destroy arms, equipment and facilities was another fail, indeed a gift to the Taliban and the global [https://www.dni.gov/nctc/groups.html] jihad. As the 20th anniversary of 9/11 approaches, Afghanistan is likely, again, to become a haven for jihadists in South Asia. No principal at the National Security Council, Department of State, or Pentagon will be fired or relieved. The 9/11 precedent abides: flag officers who enabled that fail were decorated, celebrated, and promoted. The small wars fiction, the so-called...

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Ex-Navy SEAL who killed bin Laden Robert O'Neill discussed terrorism in the Middle East and described the Marines being killed in Kabul as ‘a sad day’ during an appearance on "Cavuto: Coast to Coast," Thursday. ROBERT O’NEILL: I learned a long time ago, long before the bin Laden raid - when we were in combat with these same groups of people - one of my jobs I had after we assaulted the target was called a battlefield interrogator, where we caught these weaklings who they really are and interrogated them. …What I learned and we're learning right now is they're...

A Florida judge on Thursday rejected a self-defense claim by a white man accused of pulling a gun and yelling racial slurs in a traffic confrontation with a group of Black teenagers protesting housing inequality on Martin Luther King Jr. Day in 2019. Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Alberto Milian ruled following a two-day hearing that Mark Bartlett, 54, of Broward County, did not act reasonably in getting out of his SUV and pulling a pistol on the teenage protesters who had stopped traffic near the Brickell Bridge in downtown Miami, the Miami Herald reported.

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Evacuation flights from Afghanistan resumed with new urgency on Friday, a day after two suicide bombings targeted the thousands of desperate people fleeing the Taliban takeover and killed more than 100. The U.S. says further attempted attacks are expected ahead of the Tuesday deadline... As the call to prayer echoed through Kabul with the whine of departing planes, the anxious crowd outside the airport was as large as ever. In one location, dozens of Taliban members with heavy weapons about 500 meters from the airport were preventing anyone from venturing forward... ... Gen. Frank McKenzie, the...

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Nickelodeon star JoJo Siwa — who came out as part of the LGBTQ community in January — will make history as the first “Dancing With the Stars” contestant to be matched with a same-sex partner, ABC announced in a social media post promoting the show’s 30th season. “I am so excited to be a part of ‘Dancing With the Stars,’ Season 30, and to be dancing with a girl,” Siwa, 18, said in the promo clip. “I think it’s so cool.” Jojo’s partner will be announced during the show’s season premiere. The American series will be following in the footsteps...

A German model was mauled by a leopard during a photoshoot — leaving her unconscious and with large gashes on her face and head, according to reports Thursday. Jessica Leidolph, 36, was posing for shots inside an animal enclosure at a center for retired showbiz animals in Nebra Tuesday when the 16-year-old leopard, Troja, sunk its teeth into her head, according to the German newspaper Bild. “It repeatedly kept biting my cheek, ear and head,” she told the outlet, according to the UK Sun.

25:1–131. Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom.2. And five of them were wise, and five were foolish.3. They that were foolish took their lamps, and took no oil with them:4. But the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps.5. While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept.6. And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him.7. Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps.8. And the foolish said unto the wise,...

August 27th , 2021 St. Monica, Indianapolis Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: White Readings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst reading1 Thessalonians 4:1-8 ©What God wants is for you all to be holyBrothers, we urge you and appeal to you in the Lord Jesus to make more and more progress in the kind of life that you are meant to live: the life that God wants, as you learnt from us, and as you are already living it. You have not forgotten the instructions we gave you on the authority of the Lord Jesus. What God wants is...

A group representing over 30 whistleblower and anti-corruption groups around the world is urging the United Nations secretary-general to protect Emma Reilly, a U.N. human rights lawyer who risked her career by reporting undue Chinese influence at the U.N. Reilly fears she will be fired for her efforts. She alerted her bosses at the U.N. Human Rights office that – at the request of China – her office handed over names of dissidents who were coming to the U.N. Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Switzerland, including some U.S. citizens. Reilly said this resulted in pressure from Beijing on the dissidents...

A Washington-area Catholic bishop has issued a letter rebutting the transgender movement root and branch, calling gender reassignment “wrong and harmful” and saying everyone is male or female as seen in that person’s body. “The Church teaches that a person is created male or female,” Bishop Michael F. Burbidge of Arlington wrote. “No one ‘is’ transgender.”... ...Bishop Burbidge said the church wants to lead people who feel discomfort with their biological sex “to the truth and to healing.” He warned against efforts to affirm such dysphoria as an identity as “pernicious” and a form of false charity.... ...The bishop added...