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The first jolt, which struck off the coasts of Japan’s remote Bonin Islands, was recorded at magnitude 7.9 and up to 680 kilometers (423 miles) underground, making it one of the deepest quakes of its size. Then another oddity emerged in the cascade of aftershocks that followed: a tiny temblor that, if confirmed, would be the deepest earthquake ever detected. The ultradeep quake, described recently in the journal Geology, is estimated to have struck some 751 kilometers (467 miles) beneath the surface in the layer of our planet known as the lower mantle, where scientists have long thought earthquakes unlikely,...

For CNN, there's only one perspective on big government: bigger is better! On New Day, the hosts and panelists could only see the positives of a $1.7 trillion spending bill, and could only hope for more. The liberal media can't conceive that some Americans actually still believe in individual liberty and self-reliance, and reject cradle-to-grave government "help" [read, intrusion] into our lives. Get the rest of the story and view the video here.

Hundreds gathered outside Moog’s Elma complex in Elma during the noon hour, including some Moog employees who walked off their jobs in a protest of a federal COVID vaccine mandate that affects their jobs. The company, which works under federal contracts, informed employees last week that under federal guidelines they must be fully vaccinated for COVID. They have received a deadline of December 8 or face termination. Employee Matt Schieber led the speakers. He says he’s not opposed to the vaccine, but is against vaccine mandates. He also stated during his remarks that they’re not looking to fight Moog, but...

[Catholic Caucus] Priest Pressured Seminarians Into Swimming NakedThree former seminarians claim that Cleveland Diocese failed to respond, after Father James Cosgrove, a parish priest, allegedly pressured them to take naked swims, reports PillarCatholic.com (October 22).The three reported in December 2019 to the diocese but Cosgrove kept having access to seminarians including a key to the seminary until recently. Last November, Cosgrove took a paid medical leave of absence because of depression and anxiety. This October, he resigned from ministry.One seminarian, Nick Grismer, claims that he pressured him in June/July 2019 into skinny-dipping at the seminary’s swimming pool and at a...

Joy Hofmeister describes herself as a moderate who can appeal to Oklahoma Republicans dissatisfied with the party’s Trumpist shift to the right. After converting to a Democrat and announcing a run for governor, Hofmeister is taking a centrist approach to many key policy issues, including abortion rights, taxation and teaching about race in schools. During a Thursday interview with The Frontier, the two-term state superintendent of public instruction and former lifelong Republican said she was motivated to switch parties because she disagrees with many of Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt’s policies. “It became very clear to me that I no longer...

@RandPaul Dr. Fauci’s division at the National Institutes of Health @NIH wasted over $424,000 on deadly and unnecessary experiments on beagles. Thank you @WhiteCoatWaste for the expose! #BeagleGate LINK

The #MarsHelicopter successfully performed a short hop in its current airfield to test out higher rpm settings so it can fly in lower atmospheric densities on the Red Planet. This test also leaves the team room for an rpm increase if needed for future flights.

Once upon a time it was simple. Children went to sleep on a diet of bedtime stories that grew out of folklore, depended on magic or were just enchantingly simple: Little Red Riding Hood, Cinderella and Goodnight Moon. Not anymore, because these days bedtime is all about getting woke. Take a glance at the shelves of the children's department of any major bookstore. Teach Your Dragon About Diversity, sits next to 'Daddy & Dada'. Glance a few books along and you'll find, Joey, not a heartwarming tale about a baby kangaroo, but an illustrated hagiography of Joe Biden written by,...

The US faces triple weather threats as severe tornadoes, a nor’easter and a “bomb cyclone” loom large over the country during Halloween week. The US’ Pacific Northwestern states, including northern California, Washington and Oregon, have already been hit by the “bomb cyclone” that formed over the Pacific Ocean on Sunday, leading to a storm and heavy showers across the coast.

Enes Kanter torched China and Nike in a new Twitter video. The Boston Celtics player has been an outspoken critic of the Chinese dictatorship, and his latest video took direct aim at the nation’s cozy relationship with Nike. Kanter said the following in part in a video tweeted Monday afternoon: When it comes to China, Nike remains silent. You do not address police brutality in China. You do not speak about discrimination about the LGBTQ community. You do not say a word about the oppression of minorities in China. You are scared to speak up. Who makes your shoes in...

Francis Rehabs Deposed ‘Homo Mafia’ PrelateLeftist Slovak president interceded with pontiff for bishop's restorationTRNAVA, Slovakia (ChurchMilitant.com) - Pope Francis is rehabilitating a highly controversial, divisive and heterodox Slovakian archbishop who was sacked by Pope Benedict XVI after an apostolic visitation in 2012. Polish whistleblower on the gay clergy, Fr. Dariusz Oko Faithful clerics in Slovakia fear that the rehabilitation could include the offer of a cardinalate to the disgraced Róbert Bezák, former archbishop of Trnava, who is reported to have been at the center of an extensive homosexual clergy network. Archbishop's Lavender MafiaBezák, former provincial of the Redemptorists in Slovakia,...

DeSantis explained that Florida is planning to offer outside law enforcement officers a bonus to relocate to the state. "In Florida, not only are we going to want to protect the law enforcement and all the jobs, we are actively working to recruit out-of-state law enforcement because we do have needs in our police and sheriff's departments," DeSantis said, explaining that he has plans to introduce and sign new legislation offering out-of-state police officers a $5,000 bonus in order to relocate. DeSantis continued on to decry efforts to remove people from their jobs over refusal to get vaccinated, citing it...

It’s shameful. Chicago Public School officials want to celebrate a record graduation rate when much of the other data shows they are failing Chicago’s children. Only 26 percent of CPS 11th-graders can read and do math at grade level, according to the latest Illinois Report Card data, and yet last week the district proudly announced that 84 percent of students graduated from CPS in 2021 – a new record high. First of all, color us skeptical about that record high rate. Everyone knows that the city’s children were underserved by remote learning – the failures were reported ad nauseum by...

Explanation: Does the road to our galaxy's center go through Monument Valley? It doesn't have to, but if your road does -- take a picture. In this case, the road is US Route 163 and iconic buttes on the Navajo National Reservation populate the horizon. The band of Milky Way Galaxy stretches down from the sky and appears to be a continuation of the road on Earth. Filaments of dust darken the Milky Way, in contrast to billions of bright stars and several colorful glowing gas clouds including the Lagoon and Trifid nebulas. The featured picture is a composite of...

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis on Monday called for “mad scientist” Dr. Fauci to be fired and investigated for funding illegal gain-of-function research in Wuhan and for torturing Beagles. DeSantis gave a press conference Monday discussing economic improvements in Florida. At the end of the presser DeSantis took questions from rabid reporters who were trying to attack his decision to block vaccine mandates. DeSantis pointed out that Dr. Fauci is the one who should be put in the hot seat for experimenting with chimeric viruses in the Wuhan lab and for his torture of puppies.

MONTGOMERY – Governor Kay Ivey on Monday signed Executive Order 724 to fight the overreaching covid-19 vaccine mandates from the federal government. In doing so, Governor Ivey released the following statement: “The federal government’s outrageous overreach has simply given us no other option, but to begin taking action, which is why I am issuing this executive order to fight these egregious covid-19 vaccine mandates. Alabamians – and Americans alike – should and must have the choice to roll up their sleeves to get this shot and certainly not forced by government. While President Biden laughs at the idea of protecting...

Dr Anthony Fauci has been condemned for using taxpayers' money to fund animal experiments, including one which saw beagles trapped in cages so flies could eat them, and another where they were 'debarked' before being pumped with drugs and killed. One of the most disturbing incidents funded by Fauci's National Institutes of Allergies and Infectious Diseases involved $375,000 given to a Tunisian research lab. There, puppies had their heads held in cages, before being left for sand flies to eat them alive for research purposes. Distressing snaps showed the pups with their heads kept inside the muslin-type cages filled with...

Yes, we all know Biden declared a "Mandate" - just as he dictated 42 Executive Orders his first two weeks in offices. With all of his mainstream press corpse creating the "fear", has any actually published the OSHA Code and Paragraph that allows an employer to mandate off-jobsite health practices that Biden is using? Has OSHA actually written their "Law" yet? Or is it merely another overreach - like the CDC "rule" that prohibited renters from being released for not paying their rent?

Thousands of city workers, including the NYPD, FDNY, and others, marched on the Brooklyn Bridge Monday in defiance of vaccine mandates from President Biden and Mayor Bill de Blasio. "Hold The Line" Chant what appears to be thousand of municipal workers including FDNY, EMS, NYPD and SDNY #HappeningNow in Brooklyn Bridge pic.twitter.com/JwrRMCqKGq — Scootercaster (@ScooterCasterNY) October 25, 2021 Hundreds of people including FDNY, EMS, SDNY and NYPD have gathered in Brooklyn to protest the vaccine mandates in NYC pic.twitter.com/PMaY2fKf45 — Scootercaster (@ScooterCasterNY) October 25, 2021 #HappeningNow hundreds of off-duty FDNY, EMS, SDNY and NYPD members gathered in Brooklyn, about to...

Last week the Biden White House rolled out a plan, ahead of FDA authorization, to administer the Wuhan coronavirus vaccine to children ages 5-11. The administration is moving forward despite the disease being low risk to children. "In anticipation of the FDA’s independent advisory committee meeting on October 26 and the CDC’s independent advisory committee meeting on November 2-3, today the Biden Administration is announcing a plan to ensure that, if a vaccine is authorized for children ages 5-11, it is quickly distributed and made conveniently and equitably available to families across the country," the White House released in a...