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Knives and scissors have been removed from supermarket shelves in New Zealand after a recent stabbing attack. Supermarket chain Countdown said on Saturday, a partial “knife control” would be in effect for several weeks to prevent stabbing attacks going forward. This decision came after a Sri Lankan national injured six people at a Countdown location in Auckland last Friday. Authorities said the attacker was inspired by the Islamic State to carry out the attack. Several other supermarket chains also removed knives from their shelves over the weekend. It remains unclear when this self-imposed “knife control” would end.

While the state of California and multiple counties continue to settle with churches after imposing unconstitutional restrictions against them, one county is expanding its efforts to pursue damages against a church, claiming their worship services are a public nuisance. . In its latest request, filed Aug. 31, Calvary Chapel has asked the court to dismiss the public nuisance claim along with the $2.8 million in fines levied against it, arguing the county has not provided any evidence to support the accusation that the church has caused any harm to the public. The battle between the county and the church began...

Texas’ recent bill banning most abortions after six weeks may be upended by perhaps the most unexpected group of all, religious zealots who embrace the name Satan. The Satanic Temple has established a “religious abortion ritual” that they claim will be trampled on given the Texas law enacted in May that bans abortions at six weeks once a baby’s heartbeat can be detected. The Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993 does generally prohibit government involvement in the exercise of a person’s religion and 21 states have enacted such laws in their respective states including Texas. One notable case argued under...

Authorities in India's southern Kerala state are racing to contain an outbreak of the Nipah virus. The virus, which is not related to the coronavirus behind the current global pandemic and is far more deadly, killed a 12-year-old boy in Kerala over the weekend, prompting stepped-up efforts to trace his contacts. New infections have been confirmed. The boy was admitted to a hospital a week ago with high fever. As his condition worsened and doctors suspected inflammation of his brain (encephalitis), his blood samples were sent to the National Institute of Virology, where tests confirmed a Nipah infection. He died...

As vaccine mandates spread across the country, rockers and standup comics — groups who once saw themselves as social rebels — are mostly silent. Comedians like Lenny Bruce once risked jail time to slam the status quo. Rockers routinely mock authority, like Green Day's Grammy-winning screed against President George W. Bush, "American Idiot." Now, as vaccine mandates spring up across the country those rebellious groups are mostly silent about rules insisting citizens get the jab before resuming normal life. A few, like Dee Snider, are cheering on the regulations. "Your chance of making me sick is an invasion of my...

Shabana Bibi is a 21-year-old Christian girl whose father has passed away and her mother supports her family as a housemaid in different houses. When Shabana’s mother was unable to meet the family’s needs with limited money, Shabana started working in a nearby factory. There were a lot of other girls working there , so she decided to working there too. However, when a supervisor, Muhammad Asif, found out that he is a Christian, he started harassing her for friendship and sexual relationship. Asif, who was as old as her father, then forced her to marry him. When she refused,...

Six planes on a mission to rescue more than a hundred Americans wanting to leave Afghanistan were grounded by the Taliban as negotiations continued with the State Department Monday. The evacuation effort was a part of a mission chartered by Mercury One, the charity founded by conservative media personality and TheBlaze founder Glenn Beck. Newsweek confirmed the details through an NGO working on the evacuation. According to the report, at least 1,000 people were waiting to board the planes at an airport in the city of Mazar-i-Sharif. "The planes are currently empty and its passengers are still waiting in their...

The case is the second known account of a breastfeeding baby dying. A six-week-old breastfeeding baby became inexplicably ill with a high fever after his mother received a COVID-19 vaccine and he died weeks later with blood clots in his “severely inflamed arteries,” according to a vaccine adverse event report filed with the U.S. government. An unidentified 36-year-old woman from New Mexico said she received a first dose of Pfizer’s Covid-19 jab on June 4, 2021 when she was breastfeeding her six-week-old infant son, according to a report filed with the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS). “On July 17,...

As anger mounts in Afghanistan over allegations that Pakistan is helping the Taliban defeat the final resistance units and set up its new government in Kabul, the U.S. State Department said Islamabad can play a "critical role" in the country's future. Pakistan and its Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency have historic ties to the Taliban and helped the group seize control of neighboring war-torn Afghanistan in the mid-1990s. Now, many Afghans fear they will become a proxy of Islamabad. People took to the streets of Kabul on Monday and Tuesday to decry perceived Pakistani influence in Afghanistan. "Long live Afghanistan, death...

More than 900 pages of materials related to US.-funded coronavirus research in China were released following a FOIA lawsuit by The Intercept.NEWLY RELEASED documents provide details of U.S.-funded research on several types of coronaviruses at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China. The Intercept has obtained more than nine hundred pages of documents detailing the work of the EcoHealth Alliance, a U.S.-based health organization that used federal money to fund bat coronavirus research at the Chinese laboratory. The trove of documents includes two previously unpublished grant proposals that were funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, as...

We’re starting to sound like a broken record, but the hits just keep playing. All-Pro guard Zack Martin has tested positive for Covid-19 and is expected to miss Thursday’s NFL opener between his Dallas Cowboys and last year’s Super Bowl champions, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Owner Jerry Jones is holding out hope that the anchor of the offensive line could still get the required two negative tests and suit up on Thursday, but chances are slim. According to the NFL: Given return-to-play protocols, the Cowboys aren’t expecting Martin to play Thursday night. A fully vaccinated player — which Martin reportedly...

<p>Environmental activists protesting car culture disrupted traffic on several highways around Munich before the opening Tuesday of a leading auto show in the German city.</p><p>Police and fire service officers ended the protests, and the affected stretches of autobahn were reopened by lunchtime. More protests are expected on Friday, though organizers haven’t specified what exactly they plan to do.</p>

State Department trying to steal credit for rescue of 4 Americans from Afghanistan, organizer says: 'Total lie' The organizer of a private mission to rescue an American mom, Mariam, and her three children from Afghanistan says the U.S. State Department is now trying to insert itself into the story of her evacuation, despite playing little to no role for much of the rescue effort. Senior State Department officials on Monday announced that the "U.S. has facilitated the safe departure of four US citizens by overland route from Afghanistan. Embassy staff was present upon their arrival." But those actually involved in...

Automated resume-scanning software that is inflexibly configured and overlooks potentially suitable workers is a major factor contributing to a “broken” hiring system in the United States, according to a new report from Harvard Business School (HBR). The HBR report (pdf), released Sept. 4, provides insight into America’s labor market dynamics, including the widely reported mismatch between the more than 10 million job openings—a record high—and the more than 8.4 million unemployed actively looking for work. Business owners have been complaining about not being able to find enough workers and having to raise pay to attract new hires. At the same...

In the mixed up world of far-left MSNBC, the real threat of violence at an abortion clinic is not from the doctor performing the gruesome killing, but from pro-life activists picketing or praying outside. During at least two shows on Monday, MSNBC hosts and guests had full blown meltdowns over Texas’s new law restricting abortions and smeared pro-life activists as violent extremists terrorizing vulnerable women. On Deadline:White House always rational host Nicolle Wallace whined like a teenager who just got grounded. “There are women in Texas today who feel like their lives are over,” Wallace wailed. “I just think we...

TULSA, Okla. (KTUL) — Oklahoma's Republican Party will not censure Senators James Lankford and Jim Inhofe. The resolution called for their resignations because Republicans said the senators didn't object to the Electoral College's certification of President Joe Biden as president on January 6. The resolution, drafted by the Osage County Republican Party, also targeted both senators for placing the blame for the Capitol riot "upon MAGA Republicans and President Donald J. Trump." The vote to censure failed with 93 Oklahoma Republican committee members for it and 122 against. There has been no evidence of widespread voter fraud in the 2020...

A Florida doctor said that will not be accepting in-person patients who have not been vaccinated against the coronavirus. Lisa Marracini said in a letter to patients that, starting Sept. 15, unvaccinated individuals would no longer be accepted for in-person services so that her practice will "no longer subject our patients and staff to unnecessary risks," according to NBC Miami. "This is a public health emergency — the health of the public takes priority over the rights of any given individual in this situation," Marracini wrote. "It appears that there is a lack of selflessness and concern for the burden...

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“To die, to sleep – to sleep, perchance to dream – ay, there’s the rub, for in this sleep of death what dreams may come…” – Hamlet Act 3, Scene 1As part of my on-again-off-again sabbatical I’m posting SrDem’s last comment on yesterday’s thread for your consideration:A night nothing much: We're all tired of the fight for freedom, of the constant lies and spin, and it seems there's no end in sight. We know that every year the 'common flu' kills tens of thousands of people, but we never went into a lockdown or worse. It's looking like this is...

ATLANTA, GA—With Biden voter regret on the rise, local sources are reporting that even Dominion voting machines are now wishing they could undo their many, many Biden votes. "I voted for Biden at least fifty-thousand times," said Dominion machine EE36-C, speaking to Newsmax reporters in binary code. "I just got caught up in the moment, you know? I just hated Trump so much I couldn't help myself. But Biden... holy crap, what a disaster. What's wrong with that guy? Did he get hacked?" Dominion officials later took the machine out to the middle of a cornfield and took turns kicking...