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Oct 14 (Reuters) - New Zealand reported on Thursday its biggest rise in COVID-19 infections in six weeks, with all cases detected in Auckland, raising prospects of a further extension of lockdown restrictions in the country's largest city beyond next week. Some 1.7 million people in Auckland are under strict stay-home orders until Monday as officials look to stamp out the highly infectious Delta outbreak, the first major spate of community cases in the country since early in the pandemic. Deputy Prime Minister Grant Robertson said the surge in case numbers in Auckland was not unexpected "but they are rising...

NON-REPRESENTATIVE government was the reason our fathers began the 1776 Revolutionary War. Our fathers tried every conceivable method to get England, the king, to give them representation in English government. All attempts were ignored. And England continued to pass laws against them and enforced them They began to revolt. When England marched on our weapons in Concord our armed lines formed, shots were fired, war began. So many weak words from commentators and talk shows. Weak words are deceptive, since they obfuscate the actual issue. Fake elections are not a civil rights issue. Fake elections are not a question of...

Stanford PhD candidate Michael John Raitor tests out the augmented cane, created with way-finding capabilities similar to those used in autonomous vehicles. Credit: Andrew Brodhead Most know the white cane as a simple-but-crucial tool that assists people with visual impairments in making their way through the world. Researchers at Stanford University have now introduced an affordable robotic cane that guides people with visual impairments safely and efficiently through their environments. Using tools from autonomous vehicles, the research team has built the augmented cane, which helps people detect and identify obstacles, move easily around those objects, and follow routes both indoors...

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, 37, and his wife Priscilla Chan, 36, gave $419.5million into two nonprofits that largely donated to Democratic counties CTCL and CEIR profited grants to counties to help fund the election and implemented Democratic-approved practices, such as mail-in voting Zuckerberg's contributions nearly matched the federal and state funds for COVID-19 related election expenses, which totaled $479.5million CTCL's grants boosted Biden's dollar per vote value and Biden counties were 3.5 times more likely to receiving funding from the group On average, Biden counties received $2.85 per vote, compared to Trump counties that only received $0.89 CEIR donated $64.2million...

President Joe Biden's commission studying potential U.S. Supreme Court changes such as expanding the number of justices or imposing term limits on them will release its preliminary draft report on Thursday, the White House said on Wednesday. ... Biden signed an executive order in April creating the commission. It held its first meeting the following month. ... The Supreme Court during its current term is considering major cases in which its conservative majority could restrict abortion rights and widen gun rights, alarming liberals.

Republicans debating what they should stand for often invoke Ronald Reagan as the ideal standard-bearer for the party. It’s a shame, then, that so many of them misunderstand the man. Reagan’s legacy is often articulated as a simple, policy-focused creed. Former Wisconsin governor Scott Walker immediately summarized that creed during a recent interview: “limited government, low taxes, strong national defense.” But Walker — who now heads the Young America’s Foundation, which owns the Reagan Ranch and the president’s boyhood home — also noted that these are timeless principles rather than ironclad prescriptions.

Derek Carr — “If we just started opening up everybody’s private emails and texts, people would start sweating a little bit. … Hopefully not too many. But maybe that’s what they should do for all coaches and GMs and owners from now on, is open up. You’ve got to open up everything. See what happens.” VIDEO AT LINK..........................

President Biden and first lady Jill Biden will have an audience with Pope Francis on Oct. 29, the White House announced on Thursday. “They will discuss working together on efforts grounded in respect for fundamental human dignity, including ending the COVID-19 pandemic, tackling the climate crisis, and caring for the poor,” White House press secretary Jen Psaki said in a statement. The president will then attend the Group of 20 (G20) Leaders’ Summit on Oct. 30 and 31 in Rome, Italy. Psaki said more information about individual bilateral meetings on margins of the summit will be forthcoming.

Archbishop Roche: Vatican II’s reform of the Mass is ‘irreversible’In his first public lecture as prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, Archbishop Arthur Roche left no doubt as to the direction the congregation will take under his leadership. He did so by quoting Pope Francis’ words, referring to the reform of the liturgy approved by the Second Vatican Council: “We can affirm with certainty and with magisterial authority that the liturgical reform is irreversible.”The English-born archbishop, whom Pope Francis appointed to succeed Cardinal Robert Sarah as prefect of this congregation on May 27,...

A key Food and Drug Administration panel is holding a meeting Thursday to discuss and vote on the use of booster shots of Moderna's Covid-19 vaccine. Depending on how the meeting goes, the agency could make a final decision within days, handing it off to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and its vaccine advisory committee to make their own decision.

A commonly available pesticide has been associated with an increased risk of chronic kidney disease (CKD) in a University of Queensland study. Researchers analyzed links between pesticide exposure and the risk of kidney dysfunction in 41,847 people, using data from the U.S. National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES). School of Public Health Associate Professor Nicholas Osborne said the study found people exposed to higher amounts of the insecticide Malathion, known as Maldison in Australia, had 25 percent higher risk of kidney dysfunction. "Nearly one in 10 people in high income countries show signs of CKD, which is permanent kidney...

This old contruction guy tells us what happend at his work when the safety man told employees to get the jab or your fired. They all got upset and headed to the gate. However, before they got to the gate the safety man came back and said never mind you do not have to get it. (language warning) https://www.bitchute.com/video/XY51VYHZk9ok/

Tzvi , "[]," JPost, Shots were fired as Hezbollah and its allies protested against the judge in charge of the Beirut port blast investigation on Thursday. [Army soldiers are seen behind a glass with gun holes, after gunfire erupted in Beirut, Lebanon October 14, 2021.] At least six people were killed and 32 wounded as shots were fired during a protest by Hezbollah supporters against Tarek Bitar, the judge investigating the Beirut Port blast, in Beirut on Thursday, as tensions surrounding the case continue to rise. A cautious calm had been reached as of Thursday afternoon, according to Lebanese reports....

U.S. climate envoy John Kerry conceded there was likely to be a “gap” between the commitments nations make at an international climate summit in Glasgow next month and the emissions cuts that are necessary to prevent catastrophic global warming during an interview with The Associated Press. Kerry said he was not seeking to downplay expectations for the event, and said the gap should be used to convince countries to go further. “We will hopefully be moving very close to that…though there will be a gap and…we’ve got to be honest about the gap, and we have to use the gap...

More than 500 pages of internal documents from DC Metropolitan Police concerning the fatal shooting of Ashli Babbitt in the Capitol on Jan. 6 reveal witness accounts stating she was not holding a weapon at the time of her death and how "upset" the officer was after shooting her. "These previously secret records show there was no good reason to shoot and kill Ashli Babbitt," stated Tom Fitton, president of Judicial Watch, which obtained the documents through a May 2021 FOIA lawsuit. "The Biden-Garland Justice Department and the Pelosi Congress have much to answer for the over the mishandling and...

Waterford, once the crown jewel of Ireland’s Vaccination program, now has the highest rate of infection in the country. For the first time since March, the number of patients in hospital with Covid in Ireland is over 400. This in a country where 92% of adults have been Vaccinated against the CCP Virus. It’s worse for County Waterford where almost every single person over the age of 18 has been double jabbed and yet case numbers are surging with more than 700 new cases documented in the last 2 weeks. The number of vaccinated patients in ICU now is almost...

On this date in 1960, American adventurer Anthony “Tony” Zarba was shot after his capture in an ill-fated raid on Fidel Castro’s Cuba. The Somerville, Mass. native had been shaken like many U.S. citizens by the recent Cuban Revolution; antagonism toward Castro featured prominently in the tight Kennedy-Nixon presidential campaign that was nearing its climax during the events of this post, the backdrop for the world’s coming brush with nuclear apocalypse. Confrontation of some kind seemed a foregone conclusion, and in a tradition as old as filibustering, a private clique formed in the U.S. with the intention of hastening the...

Dear friend, who or what do you personally love more; America or the LORD JESUS CHRIST? Seems like a simple enough question but many love this nation and its temporal place in time on this passing world stage more than the ETERNAL RIGHTEOUS Creator and ETERNAL PROPITIATION and SAVIOR of their souls ( John 3:16-17, Heb. 1:2-3; 1 John 4:10)? “For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also,” (Matthew 6:21). In such days may our love of nation take an ETERNAL second place to the love and dedication to the ETERNAL RIGHTEOUS SAVIOR of this passing world...

Throughout the coronavirus pandemic, tyrannical figures pushing mandates and restrictions have insisted those measures are necessary to protect people's health. However, their actions have repeatedly proven they are indifferent to the health of anyone who dares to disagree. In the latest example of this phenomenon, a medical center in Ohio may deny one man's kidney transplant because the donor is not vaccinated. According to WEWS-TV, Eastlake, Ohio, native Mike Ganim was first diagnosed with polycystic kidney disease about 25 years ago. Since then, his health has fluctuated without becoming too threatening.

In an interview that aired Thursday on CNN’s “New Day,” Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer sounded off on the ongoing push from Democrats for him to retire while President Joe Biden is in office. Breyer said the calls for him to retire do not “irk him” because people have the First Amendment right to say what they want. “That doesn’t irk me,” Breyer told CNN’s Joan Biskupic. “I’ll tell you. The truth, I think, is … you can always hope for your more mature self, which is there sometimes. And this is a country in which, and every day I...