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The Biden admin’s announcement that they will quadruple at-home rapid testing by December is very welcome. We need a moonshot for testing, as we did with vaccines. There should be enough #covid19 tests for every American to get tested twice a week. And testing should be free.

Democrats roll out radical redesign of U.S. flag

Many in the West see the US pullout from Afghanistan as a geopolitical disaster and an epic tragedy for those left behind under Taliban rule. The Taliban and other radical Muslims see their takeover of Afghanistan not only as a military victory but as a fulfillment of Islamic prophecy. The Taliban Twitter page carried this message: “Black flags will arise from Khorasan and nothing will be able to return them.” Joel Richardson, the author of the best-selling book The Islamic Anti-Christ, explained why this Islamic prophecy is so important on CBN’s recent webinar, “Afghanistan: What’s Next After the US Pullout.”...

Hunter Biden has sold at least five prints of his artwork for $75,000 each as a team of lawyers works to vet people who plan to attend his spring gallery show in New York City. The prints were sold from Georges Berges Gallery in Los Angeles before the Oct. 1 opening of his pop-up presentation. It is unclear which reproductions were sold or if any other works were sold once the LA show opened. The buyers also remain a secret. However, a source familiar with the sale told the New York Post that 'most of those allowed to buy works...

A radical Islamic preacher has been jailed for a maximum of nine years for selling drugs to an undercover police officer. Mohammad Junaid Thorne, 32 was being watched by a terrorism taskforce in 2018 when he struck up a partnership with the operative. The court heard he arranged a phone with encrypted technology to ensure their communications were kept under wraps. Over the following months, he and his girlfriend of the time sold him $66,000 worth of cocaine and $34,000 of MDMA in multiple deals at Newington and Guildford. Thorne was arrested and charged in July 2019. The court heard...

The Australian Union Conference (AUC) of the Seventh-day Adventist Church has appointed Lyndelle Peterson as a part-time Ministerial Association associate secretary after the AUC Executive Committee created the position in May 2021. Peterson is the first female Seventh-day Adventist pastor to be employed to work across all areas of the Ministerial Association, including ministry development, resourcing, and working with conference Ministerial leaders to develop and implement strategies to support and inspire pastors around Australia. ...The AUC Executive Committee also voted to introduce a Women in Pastoral Ministry (WiPM) scholarship, which will assist women already studying or thinking about studying ministry...

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The Russian Federation and China claimed in a joint statement that the military biological activities of the United States and its allies pose a ‘serious threat’ to their national security. The two countries stated that they “reaffirm their conviction that the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on their Destruction (BWC) is essential as a pillar of the international peace and security, and their determination to safeguard the authority and effectiveness of the Convention.” Over the past two decades, the BWC States Parties have failed to reach an agreement...

A Pennsylvania woman was charged Thursday with stealing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s laptop during the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, reports said. Riley Williams, 22, was also accused of selling or getting rid of the Hewlett-Packard computer, which has yet to be found, according to KDKA-TV of Pittsburgh. Williams was arrested in January after investigators saw cellphone video, allegedly recorded by her, that allegedly showed her taking the laptop from Pelosi’s office during the riot but the Justice Department waited eight months to formally indict her. The suspect was released on home confinement with an ankle monitor, United Press International reported....

“I wisdom dwell with prudence, and find out knowledge of witty inventions. The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate” (Proverbs 8:12-13).

Giancarlo Esposito has a plan for how to handle the unvaccinated: put them all on an island. The Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul actor, 63, shared his two cents in The Hollywood Reporter's story about the chaos in Hollywood over some actors refusing to get the COVID vaccine while there's no universal vaccine mandate in place for sets. The Mandalorian star's take? "If you don't want to vaccinate, go to a small island and sequester yourself," he said. [Otherwise] you're saying '**** you' to all you other human beings. We all have to do it if we want to...

The View cohost Joy Bewhar[sic] said Thursday that black people don't need to be afraid of the COVID-19 vaccine anymore because white people did it as an "experiment." Co-host Sunny Hostin said she was struck by the number of Americans who remain unvaccinated and that the solution may be "fear" — 56% of Americans are fully vaccinated, while 65% have received one dose. Only 46% of black Americans have received at least one shot of the coronavirus vaccine as of Oct. 4, according to CDC data. “I also remember the ad campaign, this is your brain, this is your brain...

The latest official figure released by the Spanish Health Ministry on Thursday 7 Oct for the number of people who have tested positive for Coronavirus since the start of the pandemic is now 4,971,310. This is an overall increase of 1,807 against the figure released on Wednesday, of which 792 have been registered in the past 24 hours. Wednesday had seen an overall increase of 2,303 over Tuesday, of which 995 were registered in 24 hours. The peak of recorded infections for a 24-hour period during the pandemic in Spain was on 21 January, when 18,504 cases were registered. The...

My latest song. "When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro." (Hunter S. Thompson)

This Time The Focus Is On The Computer Contractors Paul Sperry’s latest investigative piece on John Durham’s Russia Hoax conspiracy probe is, as usual, information dense. This time around the focus is on the cybersecurity experts that the Clinton campaign—through intermediaries—hired to assemble ‘evidence’ of a nefarious Trump - Russia connection for Michael Sussmann to present to the FBI. The idea being that Sussman would use his contact with FBI General Counsel James Baker to induce the FBI to initiate an investigation of Trump, the existence of which could be leaked to the press weeks before the 2016 election. Durham...

A veteran TV reporter at a Missouri news station was fired last week for refusing to get the COVID-19 vaccine. Linda Simmons, who worked for 14 years at KY3 based in Springfield, wrote on Facebook that she requested a religious exemption to the vaccine mandate instituted by her station’s parent company — but it was denied. “I value the freedom we all have to make our own informed decisions,” Simmons wrote in the Friday social media post.

In a new documentary, Dr. Anthony Fauci reveals he has PTSD from the HIV/AIDS epidemic. [cut] At one moment in the documentary, Fauci cries when remembering an AIDS patient who lost his vision from an infection that destroyed his retina. The man was always upbeat, Fauci says, and would often comment on Fauci's smile. "One day, we walked in in the morning and I walked up to the desk and he said, 'Who's there?' And it was clear that he had gone completely blind," Fauci says. When the an interviewer asks why Fauci is so affected by the memory, he...

A recent report on Ros Atkins’ show on BBC News Channel (16 September 2021) is analysed and found to be misleading, biased and obsessively featuring veterinary ivermectin whilst ignoring the safe, human version of ivermectin that many countries around the world are deploying successfully to beat covid19.Download our Sense Check report in PDF format here SUMMARY A misleading piece intent on painting ivermectin as “dangerous horse paste”.Let’s be clear: Ivermectin is also used for animals. Just like aspirin and antibiotics are used for animals, Ivermectin is a very effective human medication. It is FDA and MHRA approved and a WHO...

...No walking the plank for her. She was hanged, proven guilty of robbery, by Sheriff Joe Robinson on a beautiful fall day. Her downfall after a brief career with her husband of piracy, thievery and murder? A pretty bonnet. Rachel, around the age of 16, loved the water. The boats and dockyards always spoke to her. Born on a farm outside of Carlisle, Pennsylvania, it bored her; so, while in Harrisburg, she went to the docks. She was harassed, harangued and attacked by a group of girls. Enter George Wall –- a fisherman and former privateer who served in the...