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A 3-year-old boy was killed and his 4-year-old sister was wounded when several gunmen fired nearly 150 rounds into a North Carolina home — in what police believe was tied to a high school feud. Asiah Figueroa was asleep just before midnight Tuesday when the suspected teenage gunmen pulled up in two cars to his great-grandmother’s Charlotte home and squeezed off hundreds of bullets, Charlotte-Mecklenburg police said. Asiah was struck by the gunfire and later died at a hospital. His 4-year-old sister was also struck, but is expected to survive, police said. Investigators released two videos of the suspects pulling...

president of United States, Joe Biden, will announce this afternoon the mandatory vaccination against coronavirus covid-19 of all employees of the federal government, a total of 2.1 million people, reported this Thursday the US media. Biden is scheduled to announce the decision in a speech from the White House at 5:00 p.m. local time (9:00 p.m. GMT).

Click on link above to read the entire thread on Twitter. ALERT: Biden just sent Congress his Administration’s policy “riders” for the Gov’t Funding Bill (Continuing Resolution). They include lifetime welfare & path to citizenship for every unvetted Afghan national Biden has randomly flown—or will fly—into US, and their relatives. 1/10

Australia offers a cautionary tale of how an open and free society will quickly become dystopian because of fear.In a tweet that has gone viral, someone asked what the world’s largest prison looks like from space. The answer was a map of Australia. It seems a farfetched claim at first. But seeing the draconian restrictions the Australian government has put in place due to COVID-19, the tweet makes perfect sense.Before March 2020, Australia was often celebrated as a role model of liberal democracy, with free elections, a free press, an independent judiciary, a functioning political system, and a market-based economy....

Peanut consumption was linked with a lower risk of ischemic stroke and cardiovascular disease in a Japanese population study. Peanut consumption was not, however, linked to a lower risk of hemorrhagic stroke or ischemic heart disease. Incorporating even small amounts of peanuts (4-5 peanuts/day) into your diet may be protective for ischemic stroke and cardiovascular disease. Asian men and women living in Japan who ate peanuts (on average 4-5 peanuts/day) had a lower risk of having an ischemic stroke or a cardiovascular disease event compared to those who did not eat peanuts, according to new research published today in Stroke,...

Arab and Asian American small business owners mainly running gas station pantries accuse the City of Chicago and Mayor Lori Lightfoot of forcing them to close in the misguided belief that closing their stores will help reduce the violence that is sweeping throughout the city. Dozens of gas stations and other small businesses owned by Arabs and minorities including Pakistanis, Indian and some African Americans operating in the city’s toughest neighborhoods are being forced to close on flimsy code violation citations. Lightfoot has ordered the Chicago Police to create a Special Task Force consisting of Police Officers and City Inspectors...

TALLAHASSEE - It was a good day for one Florida man after opening his new auto repair shop – and winning $1 million the same day! Brian Woodle, 46, of Callahan claimed a $1 million top prize from the $5 GOLD RUSH SUPREME Scratch-Off game. He chose to receive his winnings as a one-time, lump-sum payment of $880,000. Woodle told Lottery officials that on the same day he and his wife opened the doors to their auto repair shop, he picked up his $1 million winning ticket. "I love working on vehicles and it has always been my dream to...

The Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF) released a report on Wednesday showing 27,787 absentee ballots sent to voters by mail in the 2020 Georgia presidential election were deemed “undeliverable.” That number is more than two times greater than 12,670 vote margin of victory for Joe Biden over Donald Trump in Georgia certified by Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, a Republican, on November 20, 2020, 17 days after the November 3, 2020 election. All told, 5 million votes were cast in the 2020 election in Georgia. “In 2020, Georgia broke records for undeliverable and unaccounted-for mail ballots,” PILF said in a...

TULSA, Okla. (KTUL) — A woman charged in connection to the case of a pregnant 12-year-old is set to appear in court Thursday. A preliminary hearing for Desiree Castaneda is set for 9 a.m. this morning. According to court documents, Castaneda and 24-year-old Juan Miranda-Jara, the man accused of getting the girl pregnant, plead not guilty in August. Castaneda was arrested in July after Tulsa police say she allegedly enabled a sexual relationship between a man and her 12-year-old daughter. According to the arrest report, Miranda-Jara admitted to having a sexual relationship with the girl since last October and...

The world's largest plant that sucks carbon dioxide directly from the air and deposits it underground is due to start operating on Wednesday, the company behind the nascent green technology said. Swiss start-up Climeworks AG, which specialises in capturing carbon dioxide directly from the air, has partnered with Icelandic carbon storage firm Carbfix to develop a plant that sucks out up to 4,000 tons of CO2 per year. That's the equivalent of the annual emissions from about 790 cars. Last year, global CO2-emissions totalled 31.5 billion tonnes, according to the International Energy Agency. Direct air capture is one of the...

I examine the push to sanitize the Internet of "deplorable" opinions, the campaign to restrict speech and its ties to the COVID hysteria.

Illustration of Ulughbegsaurus uzbekistanensis. (Julius Csotonyi) NATURE T. Rex Wasn't Always at The Top of The Food Chain. Meet What Came Before author logo LAURA GEGGEL, LIVE SCIENCE 9 SEPTEMBER 2021 About 90 million years ago, a gigantic apex predator – a meat-eating dinosaur with serrated shark-like teeth – prowled what is now Uzbekistan, according to a new study of the behemoth's jawbone. The 26-foot-long (8 meters) beast weighed 2,200 pounds (1,000 kilograms), making it longer than an African elephant and heavier than a bison. Researchers named it Ulughbegsaurus uzbekistanensis, after Ulugh Beg, a 15th-century astronomer, mathematician, and sultan from...

RightForge says it operates with an ideological commitment to free speech As conservatives look to fight back against what they see as an ideologically driven censorship push by Big Tech, one company is looking to make the building blocks of the Internet cancel-proof – giving conservatives more solid footing online. RightForge is an internet infrastructure company providing server space and web hosting, with what it describes as an ideological commitment to free speech, and it is offering a platform that caters to conservative outlets, campaigns and others who fear they could be canceled by Big Tech. "We are absolutely ideological,"...

A man who authorities say brought molotov cocktails and firearms to the Capitol on Jan. 6 is expected to plead guilty, according to a court document filed Wednesday. Prosecutors said they’ve reached an agreement with Lonnie Coffman to resolve his case through a plea agreement. A hearing scheduled for Sept. 29 will is anticipated to be converted to a plea hearing. The details of the agreement were not revealed in Wednesday’s notice. Manuel Retureta, an attorney for Coffman, told The Hill that he is not commenting on the agreement at this time.

[H/T Ymani Cricket]ransomnote: The content of the video confirms many other reports I've read throughout the plandemic, but it's still very hard to hear it confirmed again. I'll put my comments in post #1 of this thread. The video is about 15 minutes in length and the transcript is provided below. Very important video.Whistleblower! Nurse DESTROYS "Delta" Narrative, VACCINATED Patients Fill Hospital (redvoicemedia.com)By Stew Peters ShowSeptember 8, 2021Rumble Link --> Whistleblower! Nurse DESTROYS "Delta" Narrative, VACCINATED Patients Fill Hospital!Transcript begins:Stew Peters: From the beginning we have been lied to about Covid patients filling the hospitals. We are now being told...

Taliban executions remind Americans to never give up arms they need for the primary reason the Constitution guarantees their right to have them.In Afghanistan the world is again seeing that radical Islam is an ideology premised on murdering non-believers and using that example to intimidate everyone else. Historically, the same has been true of leftism, when its adherents have achieved totalitarian control in a country.Leftists don’t have totalitarian control in America yet, so over the last few years they have mostly given us a heads-up about their desires by rolling out mock guillotines during their protests and riots, posing for...

Howard Stern takes no pity on his peers. The iconic shock jock has typically strong opinions about the swelling list of outspoken anti-vaxxer media personalities — including several US radio hosts — who’ve died of COVID-19 after waging high-profile campaigns about their “freedom” being impinged upon. “When are we going to stop putting up with the idiots in this country and just say, you know, it’s mandatory to get vaccinated?” Stern ranted in Tuesday’s episode of “The Howard Stern Show” on Sirius XM. “F–k them, f–k their freedom. I want my freedom to live. I want to get out of...

'After six days, somehow these people, like angels, they fall from the sky and say 'we will do our best to get to your family here because they're the family of the U.S. citizen.''Names in this story were changed to protect identities.The United States’ longest war is over, but the battle for Afghan-Americans to recover their families is just beginning. Henry, an Afghan-American translator, is just one of the many people still dealing with the fallout of the Biden administration’s botched withdrawal operations. After the last group of U.S. military took flight from Afghanistan to meet the president’s August 31...

Leaders of the Satanic Temple aren’t just outraged with Texas’s strict new abortion law. They say it’s also a matter of religion. “Consistent with our tenets that call for bodily autonomy and acting in accordance with best scientific evidence, The Satanic Temple, based in Salem, religiously objects to many of the restrictions that states have enacted that interfere with abortion access,” the religious group’s website says.

Portland's far-left mayor has admitted that his "hands-off" approach during last summer's civil unrest - that allowed Black Lives Matter and Antifa rioters to run wild in the city - was a mistake. On Wednesday, Mayor Ted Wheeler admitted it was "not the right strategy" to allow armed protesters to clash in the Oregon city on August 22, with no intervention from police.