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DEVELOPING STORY: Hundreds of students walked out of class today in Loudoun County, Virginia. School leaders are accused of covering up the rape of a 16-year-old biological girl. The student found guilty of the heinous crime is a 14-year-old boy who thinks he is a girl. The student is also accused of assaulting another girl at a different school. “Loudoun County protects rapists,” the students chanted. Loudoun County Public Schools (LCPS) claimed to the Todd Starnes Show “very few students actually walked out.” “This was a parent-led protest (one parent) and was not student-generated. Most students had no idea it...

A Sudanese teenager will resume his life now that he is free on bail only weeks after being charged with three counts of murder. Ahmedal Tayeb Elnouman Modawi, 17, made bail over the weekend, according to KPRC-TV in Houston. Modawi faces three counts of murder and one count of aggravated assault with serious bodily injury stemming from an Oct. 1 joyriding incident that ended in tragedy. As a condition of his release, Modawi can attend school and church, and must wear a GPS ankle monitor. Modawi is a Sudanese national who has lived with his family in Houston for the...

ARLINGTON, Texas - Arlington's police chief says he does not believe bullying played any role in this month's school shooting at Mansfield ISD’s Timberview High School. Shortly after the shooting, which injured two students and a teacher, Timothy Simpkins' family said he'd been the target of bullying. They said that's what led to a classroom fight and ended with the shooting. The family of the injured student involved in the fight denied the boy had bullied Simpkins. The police chief said Simpkins participated in "high-risk activity" leading up to the fight. That announcement was made at a town hall meeting...

Immunology and virology 101 have taught us over a century that natural immunity confers protection against a respiratory virus’s outer coat proteins, and not just one, e.g. the SARS-CoV-2 spike glycoprotein. There is even strong evidence for the persistence of antibodies. Even the CDC recognizes natural immunity for chicken-pox and measles, mumps, and rubella, but not for COVID-19.

Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, the 24-year-old armorer who handled weapons on the set of Alec Baldwin’s “Rust,” was the subject of numerous complaints on her previous film just two months earlier after she discharged weapons without warning and infuriated star Nicolas Cage, a crew member told TheWrap. Stu Brumbaugh, who served as key grip on the Cage Western “The Old Way” this summer, told TheWrap that Gutierrez upset both Cage and other crew members on the Montana production by failing to follow basic gun safety protocols like announcing the arrival and usage of weapons onto the set. After firing a gun near...

If you are over the age of 16 years and are “not fully vaccinated” you cannot visit another person’s place of residence, except in limited circumstances, says the New South Wales Government.RuminatorDan has summarised the new rules in New South Wales in a twitter thread as follows:“If you are over the age of 16 years and are not fully vaccinated you cannot visit another person’s place of residence, except in limited circumstances.”“If you are not fully vaccinated you cannot visit a gym or indoor recreation facility.”“If you are not fully vaccinated you cannot visit a recreation facility.”“If you are not...

'(I)sn’t traditional burial disrespectful to God’s good, green earth?'DUBUQUE, Iowa (LifeSiteNews) – The Catholic Archbishop of Dubuque, Iowa, has written to urge the faithful to reject “traditional burial methods” in favor of liquifying a corpse in order to be less “offensive” to the earth and environment. Archbishop Michael Jackels made the argument in a letter dated October 20 entitled “Alternatives to traditional burial methods.” Making reference to the “two people” who die every second worldwide and the 2.5 million who die annually in the United States, Jackels declared that this “makes burial practices a significant environmental issue.” 'Liquify’ bodies to...

The Covid vaccine has harmed yet another individual, prompting the Swedish government to impose an indefinite ban on all further administration of the Moderna jab to anyone under the age of 31.Moderna’s vaccine, which has previously been suspended in most of the Nordic countries for causing a litany of health problems, caused yet another recipient to develop a crippling heart condition. In response, Swedish health officials halted all use of the mRNA vaccine in young people.The mRNA jab from Moderna is particularly problematic in younger men. Most of Scandinavia is either no longer recommending it or has banned it from...

A key federal advisory committee voted Tuesday to recommend emergency authorization of the Pfizer mRNA COVID-19 vaccines for children between the ages of 5 and 11, a sign that the shot will likely be authorized for this age group in the next week.

"A scene out of rural Newfoundland history sprang to life on Thanksgiving Monday (Canadian Thanksgiving was 10/11) as a two-storey house bobbed along the Bay of Islands toward a new life on a new shoreline."

Archbishop of Canterbury among C of E officials to tweet concern over draconian lawChurch leaders in the UK have strongly criticised Ghanaian bishops over their support for a draconian anti-LGBTQ+ law. Justin Welby, the archbishop of Canterbury and leader of the global Anglican church, Stephen Cottrell, the archbishop of York, and other Church of England bishops, tweeted their concerns on Tuesday in what appeared to be a coordinated effort to put pressure on their Ghanaian colleagues. A draft law submitted to Ghana’s parliament earlier this year would make it a crime to be gay, bisexual or transgender, or to advocate...

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s mandate last week for all city workers to get COVID-19 vaccines gave rise to even more protesters standing up against what they see as a violation of freedom of choice and a communist takeover of the country. The Epoch Times was there to interview some of the NYPD officers and FDNY participants, and witness the massive march across the Brooklyn Bridge that ended in front of City Hall on Monday afternoon. Protesters chanted slogans as they marched in support of freedom and against the mandates issued by de Blasio and President Joe Biden....

There is a coordinated effort worldwide to introduce a Digital Identity and Social Credit System, and the latter is coming to the United Kingdom from January 2022 according to a UK Government press release.In January 2022 the the Department of Health and Social Care, currently led by Sajid Javid, plan to launch a new app that will allegedly help people to make positive changes to their diet and physical activity.A pilot scheme will see users wear wrist-worn devices that can generate personalised health recommendations, such as increasing their step count, eating more fruit and vegetables, and decreasing portion sizes.Users will...

Following his release from George Washington University Hospital yesterday, Patriarch Bartholomew resumed his schedule of political meetings, including with President Joe Biden and Secretary of State Joe Blinken. Pat. Bartholomew was feeling unwell on Sunday morning and was taken to the hospital, where he stayed overnight. He then met with Sec. Joe Blinken yesterday afternoon, accompanied by Archbishop Elpidophoros of America, Metropolitan Emmanuel of Chalcedon, and senior members of the Patriarchate and the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America, the Archdiocese reports. Pat. Bartholomew spoke about “the vision and ministry of the Ecumenical Patriarchate to promote inter-religious dialogue and environmental awareness,”...

The most reliable long-term measure of Covid-19 vaccine effectiveness/safety is the age adjusted all-cause mortality rate. If, over a reasonably prolonged period, fewer vaccinated people die, from whatever cause, including Covid-19, than unvaccinated people then we could conclude that the benefits of the vaccine outweigh the risks.In order to avoid the confounding effect of age, it is critical that data for each age category is available, rather than the aggregated data because, clearly, aggregated data might exaggerate vaccine mortality rates if more older people, with shorter expected mortality, are included.The UK roll out of the vaccine was executed in descending...

10/22/2021: Press Briefing by White House COVID-19 Response Team and Public Health Officials - YouTubeust as predicted, those in power within the US government are already signalling plans to require “booster” shots for the Covid-19 vaccine in order for the “fully vaccinated” to stay that way.US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Rochelle Walensky recently announced that she and her fellow comrades may redefine “fully vaccinated” to include President Biden’s booster shots once they become more widely available.During a recent press briefing, an Associated Press (AP) reporter asked Walensky whether or not Biden was considering making booster jabs...

ransomnote: May God bless these people for speaking out, and may He provide funding for theExpose.uk to continue to publish the 'inconvenient' truth.“The most important thing for people to do is to continue to speak out even if it’s just to say that you don’t agree with the mainstream narrative because mass formation is provoked by the specific voice it’s gotten used to. Totalitarian leaders know this very well. They start every new day with thirty minutes of propaganda in which the voice of the leader constantly penetrates the consciousness of the population … If other voices are available in...

Russian President Vladimir Putin, a former lieutenant colonel in the KGB, strongly criticized the "woke," social justice warriors in the United States and Europe, arguing that they behave just like the Bolshevik Communists did in the former Soviet Union. They are ruled by a "dogmatism bordering on absurdity," he asserted, noting that "cancel culture" is nothing more than "reverse discrimination," and teaching children that sexuality is flexible is potentially "a crime against humanity." In his Oct. 22 speech in Sochi, Russia, before members of the Valdai Discussion Club, Putin addressed some of the major issues affecting the entire world, such...

The Conference Board Consumer Confidence Index® increased in October, following declines in the previous three months. The Index now stands at 113.8 (1985=100), up from 109.8 in September. The Present Situation Index—based on consumers’ assessment of current business and labor market conditions—rose to 147.4 from 144.3 last month. The Expectations Index—based on consumers’ short-term outlook for income, business, and labor market conditions—improved to 91.3 from 86.7. “Consumer confidence improved in October, reversing a three-month downward trend as concerns about the spread of the Delta variant eased,

For most of the past two centuries, the Left has been identified with science and against obscurantism; we have believed that rational thought and the fearless analysis of objective reality (both natural and social) are incisive tools for combating the mystifications promoted by the powerful. … Theorizing about “the social construction of reality” won't help us find an effective treatment for AIDS or devise strategies for preventing global warming. Nor can we combat false ideas in history, sociology, economics, and politics if we reject the notions of truth and falsity.~Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont, “Fashionable Nonsense” (1997)Nowhere is the politicization...