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The “inexperienced” armorer in charge of weapons on set of Alec Baldwin’s movie “Rust” had given a gun to an 11-year-old actress without checking properly for safety, a report said. Hannah Gutierrez Reed, 24, daughter of prominent Hollywood armorer Thell Reed, was head armorer on set in Santa Fe where Baldwin fired a prop gun loaded with a live round, killing cinematographer Halyna Hutchins and wounding director Joel Souza. Gutierrez-Reed’s alleged misstep happened on the set of the upcoming Nicholas Cage film, “The Old Way” and temporarily halted filming, sources told The Daily Beast. “She was reloading the gun on...

Fox News contributor Bill Bennett discusses the gubernatorial race in Virginia and the battle over critical race theory in American schools.

Join with fellow FREEPERS to pray for AMERICA: For those in Authority in Government, Family, Military, Business, Healthcare, Education, Churches, and the Media. I urge, then, first of all, that requests, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for everyone: for kings and all those in authority that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness. 1 Timothy 2:1-2 Religion Forum threads labeled “Prayer” are closed to debate of any kind.

The inauguration of an Iranian governor was interrupted by a man walking on stage and slapping him in the face - allegedly because he was furious his wife had to get her Covid jab delivered by a male doctor. Abedin Khorram was appointed as Governor of East Azerbaijan Province in northwestern Iran was slapped by 'a member of the armed forces' during the ceremony, according to the regime-linked Fars news agency. Mr Khorram is a former IRGC provincial commander and has reportedly been kidnapped in the past by Syrian rebel forces. After taking the podium for his inaugural address, the...

Of all the platform firms, Google is singular. Its near-monopoly on search (around 90%) puts it in a position to steer thought. And increasingly, it avows the steering of thought as its unique responsibility. In an important article titled “Google.gov”, law professor Adam J. White details both the personnel flows and deep intellectual affini­ties between Google and the Obama White House. Hundreds of people switched jobs back and forth, some of them multiple times, between this one firm and the administration over eight years – an unprecedented alignment of corporate power and the executive branch. White writes that both aspired...

A Jamaican preacher and 41 of his congregants were arrested last week after two people were killed during an alleged “human sacrifice.” Kevin O. Smith, a self-proclaimed “prophet,” and the church members were arrested for slitting the throats of 39-year-old office worker Tanecka Gardner and an unidentified man. Friends told the Jamaica Observer Gardner had been buying “essentials” in the weeks before her death, as Smith told his congregants that a flood was about to sweep in. “Even recently, she has been stocking up on kerosene oil and cooking oil,” a friend told the Observer. “She told me that the...

The pastor spent 45 hours in prison for alleged violations of a provincial health order.. ... Pastor Tobias Tissen of Steinbach, Manitoba, was imprisoned for .. a provincial public health order banning outdoor gatherings of more than five people. ... "They had these conditions that I wasn't allowed to attend any gatherings that were in contravention of COVID-19," Tissen said. "And that would automatically prohibit me from going to church and preaching. And I could not agree with that." Tissen had been in hiding for months before his arrest Monday, for some time only making public appearances at his Church...

Let’s say it would cost $5.5 trillion dollars to wipe out your city by planting landmines under all the streets and sidewalks. Another proposal on the table is to wipe out the city by buying old poison gas on the dark web, and planting it in public buildings and public places when crowds are expected; this proposal only costs $3.5 trillion. A third proposal, only just recently promulgated, would involve the hiring of foreign mercenaries to shoot up the place; they work cheap, by comparison, and the bill is expected to only range between $1.5 and $1.75 trillion to wipe...

The White House said Friday it would delay the release of long-classified documents related to the assassination of former President John F. Kennedy. President Joe Biden wrote in a statement that the remaining files "shall be withheld from full public disclosure" until December 15 next year -- nearly 60 years after Kennedy's assassination in Dallas, Texas in 1963. In 2017, former president Donald Trump released several thousand secret files on the assassination, but withheld others on national security grounds. The White House said the national archivist needs more time for a review into that redaction, which was slowed by the...

Earlier this week, drivers on the Interstate 75 in Miami witnessed what could be the slowest police pursuit ever to be caught on camera: a woman walking on foot trying to escape from two police cars. The incident took place on October 11 during bright daylight when the woman was seen walking barefoot on the highway. The Dodge Charger police car approached slowly, with the officer trying to guide her to a safer spot. As we can see from the video uploaded on ViralHog, the woman didn’t want to stop and started running across the high speed lanes. Another state...

HENRY COUNTY, Ga. - A Kentucky woman was arrested and is awaiting extradition to Georgia after investigators said she threatened a Henry County judge over his ruling on the 2020 election. Erin Northup, 42, of Louisville, Kentucky, was arrested on Oct. 15 by the Louisville Police Department after the Henry County Sheriff’s Office took out an arrest warrant for making terrorist threats against a judicial officer. Investigators said Northup called Henry County Superior Court Chief Judge Brian Amero upset over his ruling to dismiss a lawsuit alleging fraud in Fulton County during the 2020 election. Deputies said Judge Amero received...

“Christ, Our Great High Priest” (Hebrews 7:23-28) For a number of weeks now, our Epistle readings have come from the Book of Hebrews. And throughout these readings, Hebrews has been making this major point: All the worship practices of Old Testament Israel, all its religious institutions, were pointing ahead to, and have been fulfilled by, Jesus Christ. The Sabbath rest, the tabernacle, the sacrifices, the priesthood--all these have been fulfilled in an even greater way by Christ. Take the priesthood, for example, and the office of the high priest, in particular. Our recent readings from Hebrews have made the point...

Concerned citizens are raising questions about some experiments conducted by Dr. Fauci's NIH, including one where puppies were tortured to death, their vocal cords severed to mute their screams. In an interview, Fauci said that anyone who attacks puppy torture is attacking science itself. "Puppy torture is science," said Fauci angrily. "So is grafting baby scalps onto lab mice and engineering viruses that kill millions! I AM SCIENCE! I AM GOD!!!" Fauci then threw back his head and laughed maniacally at the sky. Fauci insisted that his experiments are "super important", and "real science." He also defended some of his...

Jay Black, frontman for the Sixties pop-rock hitmakers Jay and the Americans, has died at the age of 82. Black’s family confirmed that the singer died Friday night from complications from pneumonia. In recent years, Black also suffered from dementia.

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Ed Blackwell, Dewey Redman, Ornette Coleman, Charlie Haden, at Prince Street May 1971 © Val Wilmer Once upon a time, before Manhattan priced out its young talent, you had to be an artist to live in SoHo. And in the late 1960s and 70s, a cultural phenomenon known as “Loft Jazz” came into existence in downtown Manhattan’s abandoned industrial spaces. Eclectic, edgy and often Black musicians turned Soho’s neglected lofts into places where they both lived, rehearsed, recorded and performed. Before gentrification hit, musicians fled small town America to squat these urban spaces vacated by the manufacturing industry, storing their...

Leaving America and England, a group of Orthodox Christian families are looking forward to starting their new lives in Russia. The only thing they need are VISAs. The Russian Orthodox Church has agreed to work together with government authorities, offering humanitarian VISAs to these Christian immigrants. On Friday, October 22, 2021, members of the Yaroslavl regional government had a meeting with Metropolitan Vadim, head of the Russian Orthodox diocese of Yaroslavl and Rostov. The Metropolitan has given his consent to offer humanitarian VISAs to the group of immigrants soon arriving from America and England. Under Russian law, a religious organization...

Three former seminarians say Cleveland diocesan and seminary officials failed to respond appropriately, after a priest allegedly pressured them to take naked swims with him at a lake house and other locations, couching the invitations in both spiritual language and excessive alcohol consumption. One seminarian also said the priest took nude photos and videos of him without consent. While the Cleveland diocese told The Pillar Thursday that the matter “does not involve any conduct that could be reasonably considered to be coercive [or] harassing,” one former seminarian called that response stunning. The former seminarians say they were harassed and manipulated...

Democrat regulations are holding the entire economy hostage.. After a long cross-country flight, I made it out of LAX and into an Uber. I wasn’t in the mood to talk, but the driver was. And hearing that I was a journalist, he wanted to tell me a story. I’ve heard a lot of stories over the years, but this may have been the most important one I let go. He hadn’t always been driving an Uber at 11:30 at night. Not all that long ago he used to have his own business with 7 trucks before he was bankrupted by...

The ‘Ecclesial Conference of the Amazon’ now has to submit its statutes to the Pope for approval, as it fulfils the mission of the Amazon Synod.VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews) — Pope Francis has canonically erected the “Ecclesial Conference of the Amazon” to promote the agenda of the Amazon Synod and continue to act as the “testing ground” for changes in the wider Church, possibly including female deacons or married priests. In an October 9 audience, Cardinal Marc Ouellet, the Prefect of the Congregation for Bishops, was given papal approval of the new “Ecclesial Conference” envisaged by the 2019 Amazon Synod. Paragraph...