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Vice President Joe Biden Remarks on Extremism and Terrorism, February 17, 2015"I'm old enough now. I said, one is that there is -- in America there's an overwhelming skepticism for orthodoxy. From the time a child, whether they're naturalized or they're native-born, they think about it, a child never gets criticized in our education system for challenging orthodoxy. For challenging the status quo. I would argue it's unlike any other large country in the world. There's a second thing in that black box. An unrelenting stream of immigration. Nonstop, nonstop. Folks like me who are Caucasian, of European descent, for...

The big picture for Covid-19 in the US is looking a little brighter as new infections and hospitalizations decline. In 45 states, the rates of new Covid-19 cases either declined or stayed relatively steady this past week compared to the previous week, according to data Saturday from Johns Hopkins University. Five states -- Montana, Colorado, Minnesota, Michigan and Pennsylvania -- had at least 10% more new cases this past week compared to the previous week.

Czech President Milos Zeman was rushed to the intensive care unit of a military hospital on Sunday... The unexpected development complicates efforts to form a new government. In a news conference on Zeman’s hospitalization, hospital director Miroslav Zavoral cited “complications accompanying his chronic illness” but did not elaborate on the illness from which the president suffers or whether he was conscious. Zeman has been reported to suffer from diabetes and neuropathy. Zeman’s hospitalization adds further uncertainty to the outcome of the election, which left the opposition with a far clearer path than Babis’s party to form a government — but...

Celebrity pastor Joel Osteen’s Lakewood Church buckled to pressure and will repay $4.4 million in COVID-19 disaster loans meant for small businesses, according to a new report. In a statement to the Houston Chronicle, Lakewood — whose pastor Osteen is reportedly worth $50 million — defended its decision to seek support from the Paycheck Protection Program and insisted neither Osteen nor his wife received any of the money. “Like many organizations temporarily shuttered by the pandemic, this loan provided Lakewood Church short-term financial assistance in 2020 ensuring that its approximately 350 employees and their families would continue to receive a...

Indicating that the militaries of India and China have “dug in their heels” along the Line of Actual Control (LAC), Indian Army Chief General MM Naravane on Saturday said the infrastructure build-up by China along its side of the LAC seems they are “here to stay”. “ We have matched the infrastructure on our side,” said the Army Chief. The built-up by the Chinese shows they are at the LAC for a second winter—the first one being last year. The Army Chief...remarks come a day ahead of the scheduled 13th round of talks between senior military commanders of either side....

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ISLAMABAD (AP) — The U.S. has agreed to provide humanitarian aid to a desperately poor Afghanistan on the brink of an economic disaster, while refusing to give political recognition to the country’s new Taliban rulers, the Taliban said Sunday. The statement came at the end of the first direct talks between the former foes since the chaotic withdrawal of U.S. troops at the end of August. There was no immediate comment from the U.S. on the weekend meeting. The Taliban said the talks held in Doha, Qatar, “went well,” with Washington freeing up humanitarian aid to Afghanistan after agreeing not...

“The 118 doctor breaks the silence: "On the most fragile, the anti-Covid vaccine is the lethal weapon" CDC exclusive interview with ambulance doctor "the death rate from adverse effects is 70%" a real killing, covered up by doctors who do not report, for agnosia and uncritical belief in drugs. Because from the bites they earn double, while the 118 is progressively dismantled.”… “ MD Are you saying that 7 out of 10 "fragile" people who suffer the adverse effects of the so-called anti-Covid vaccines, die from them? Exactly. We can say that these vaccines are making a clean sweep of...

On the Senate floor in conversation with Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT), Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) warned of the rising national debt. Video...[5:45]

MASTER OF BIDEN, I'M PULLING YOUR STRINGS...

When the strictest abortion law in the nation went into effect in Texas last month, abortion procedures all but stopped. Women woke up with a new reality: If they wanted an abortion, they would most likely need to travel out of the state. It created exactly what abortion providers feared -- a chilling effect. After calling more than a dozen clinics across the state, only one doctor agreed to talk to us on the record. Others declined, expressing outrage over the new law but concerns about possible litigation. We traveled to Houston to meet Dr. Bhavik Kumar inside Planned Parenthood....

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A Navy nuclear engineer and his wife from Maryland were busted for trying to sell confidential information about US nuclear-powered submarines to a foreign country, using memory cards hidden inside a peanut butter sandwich and a Band-Aid wrapper to transmit the secrets, according to court documents. Jonathan Toebbe, who worked at the Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program and had a top-secret security clearance, and his wife, Diana, were busted Saturday in Jefferson County, W.Va., accused by the FBI for violating the Atomic Energy Act, the Justice Department said on Sunday. Toebbe, 42, “has passed, and continues to pass, Restricted Data as...

On Wednesday, October 6, Walk Away founder Brandon Straka pled guilty to a Class B Misdemeanor for the crime of disorderly conduct inside the US Capitol Grounds on January 6th.Brandon did NOT go inside the US Capitol, did not participate in ANY violence, did not encourage violence, did not plan any violence, yet the corrupt and politicized federal government charged him with TWO felonies and a misdemeanor.Brandon Straka was charged with crimes because Brandon Straka is EXTREMELY EFFECTIVE as a grassroots organizer!Brandon’s story is amazing. After being a dedicated liberal for years and years he started to do a bit...

The Taliban are set to demand the UK and other nations pay billions in reparations to Afghanistan for the 20-year war for after they took over the country. The Islamist government will urge Britain to make the payments imminently, reports suggest, and the Taliban believe the UK will cave to their demands. Veterans who fought in Afghanistan have slammed any request for reparations by the Taliban, who have executed dissidents, tortured prisoners and forced women into hiding since seizing power, as an 'outrage'. Noor Mohommad Mutawakel, from the Taliban's Ministry of Information and Culture, told The Mirror: 'Britain is ready...

The lavish villas of Nordelta have for years hosted bucolic getaways for Argentina’s wealthy, protected in an enclave where industry titans and soccer stars seek escape from the torments of city life. Yet even an exclusive gated community can’t keep out the world’s biggest rodent. “The problem is that their population is out of control, and people are too scared to do anything. No one wants to look like they’re opposed to nature.” Mr. Iglesias’s lakeside garden gets a daily serving of jumbo scat ... The big rodents, which typically live in family units of as many as 40 animals,...

A Florida man exonerated of rape and murder after 37 years in prison is suing police and the city of Tampa over his wrongful conviction and initial death sentence. Robert DuBoise, 56, left prison in late Aug. 2020 after officials revealed new evidence that proved his innocence. Untested DNA evidence from a rape kit proved he did not rape and murder 19-year-old Barbara grams in 1983. No one else had been arrested.

Cardinal who runs the Synod (“walking together”): “It is a grace that today Christendom is no more.”The man who runs the Synod (“walking together”), Mario Card. Grech.“It is a grace that today Christendom is no more. Because we felt we had arrived: the Church as a” perfect society “. And whoever is perfect doesn’t feel the need to seek, to improve, to convert, to set out on the path listening to the Spirit, wheras this is the Gospel.”“È una grazia, che oggi non ci sia più la cristianità. Perché ci sentivamo arrivati: la Chiesa come “società perfetta”. E chi è...

Still not safe to gather indoors without a mask’ Just another 15 days to slow the spread

Biden's plan is 'putting America on the wrong path': Rep. McCarthy Oct. 10, 2021 - 11:28 - House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy warns the Democrats' $5 trillion bill will 'transform America' to look like a 'socialist government.' ___ "It has more than a 100 billion dollar for amnesty for 10 million people who came to this country illegally."