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Dustin Honken was convicted of murdering five people, including two children, and was sentenced to death in a federal court in 2004. Sixteen years later, he was executed. He also received the last rites of the Catholic Church -- in the execution chamber -- from Father Mark O'Keefe, a Catholic priest who accompanied him there. "On the day of the execution, Father O'Keefe was screened thoroughly by security and accompanied by an agent escort at all times -- except for the brief period during which he accepted Mr. Honken's final confession," said a brief filed by the American Civil Liberties...

John Kerry, President Joe Biden’s climate envoy, said there would be no coal in the United States by the end of the decade at the COP26 climate conference in Glasgow, Scotland. “By 2030 in the United States, we won’t have coal,” Kerry said in an interview with Bloomberg. Kerry is the first Biden official to publicly comment on the administration’s environmental policy since the $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill that contained numerous sections dedicated to climate change passed Congress. His aspiration to rid the country of its coal by 2030 aligns with Biden’s deadlines for lowering greenhouse gasses by the same...

Partisan polarization remains the dominant, seemingly unalterable condition of American politics. Republicans and Democrats agree on very little – and when they do, it often is in the shared belief that they have little in common. Pew Research Center’s new political typology provides a road map to today’s fractured political landscape. It segments the public into nine distinct groups, based on an analysis of their attitudes and values. The study is primarily based on a survey of 10,221 adults conducted July 8-18, 2021; it also draws from several additional interviews with these respondents conducted since January 2020. Faith and Flag...

Official Office for National Statistics data has inadvertently revealed that 35,924 people have died within twenty-one days of having a Covid-19 vaccine in England during the first 8 months of 2021.Dozens of freedom of information requests have been made to Public Health England (PHE) over the past several months requesting to know how many people have died within 28 days of having a Covid-19 vaccine, but each and every time PHE have claimed they do “not hold the information requested”.SourceIt is extremely strange to find that PHE do not hold the information considering their counterpart in Scotland has been able...

An investigation of official ONS data has revealed that since the Covid-19 vaccine was offered and administered to kids in England and Wales there has been a 86% rise in deaths among male children compared to the same period in 2020 with one week seeing an increase as high as 600%.The UK’s Medicine and Healthcare product Regulatory Agency (MHRA) have openly admitted that they suspect myocarditis and pericarditis are potential side effects of the Pfizer and Moderna Covid-19 vaccines, especially among young males. A suspicion that has been strong enough for the UK Medicine Regulator to officially add warnings about...

Kyle Werner, a 29-year-old mountain bike champion from Idaho, gave his testimony during a three-hour panel discussion hosted by U.S. Senator Ron Johnson on 3 November in Washington D.C. The expert panel included doctors and medical researchers who treat Covid injection injuries and they were joined by patients who have experienced adverse events to Covid injections.Kyle Werner developed pericarditis following a Pfizer Covid injection. He has been bedridden, unable to work and unable to exercise for months.“I want to say thank you to Dr. Fauci, the FDA heads, CDC, NIH and everyone for not showing up to this meeting and...

President Joe Biden continues struggling with messaging to Americans about what his administration is doing to make things better for the difficult 2021 holiday season. The White House released a video on Tuesday evening of Biden trying to reassure Americans things were going to be fine, despite looming reports of shortages, and stubbornly high costs for ordinary goods.

VIDEO at link.................. MONTEREY, Calif. (KION) The sea otters who call the Monterey Bay Aquarium home are rolling up their invisible sleeves to receive their COVID-19 vaccine. The eight otters who currently live at the aquarium have all received their shots. Dr. Michael Murray, who is the Jane Dunaway Director of Veterinary Services at the aquarium, says the vaccine is different than the human dose. It was donated to the aquarium by animal drug company Zoetis. They began administering the vaccine back in August. "I felt based on the information I had that it was safe for sea otters and...

Britain’s Prince Harry said he warned the chief executive of Twitter ahead of the Jan. 6 Capitol riots that the social media site was being used to stage political unrest in the U.S. capital. Harry made the comments Tuesday while he was taking part in an online panel on misinformation in California. He said he made his concerns known via email to Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey the day before the riot. “Jack and I were emailing each other prior to January 6 where I warned him that his platform was allowing a coup to be staged,” Harry said at the...

A year after Biden's election, the question of whether anyone really intended to destroy democratic republicanism in the United States is now moot. Forty-six years ago, a headline in New York�s Daily News read "Ford to City: Drop Dead." Today, the Biden administration and its legion of corporate media and big tech allies communicate the same message to the American people so consistently, and so pointedly, that one can only conclude the humiliation of the electorate is a matter of policy. The administration's undeniable incompetence, fresh evidence of which is forthcoming every day as it squabbles over vaccine mandates and...

November 10, 2021 Saint Leo the Great, Pope, Doctor on Wednesday of week 32 in Ordinary TimeReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: White.Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst readingWisdom 6:1-11 ©Kings, your power is a gift to you from the LordListen, kings, and understand;rulers of remotest lands, take warning;hear this, you who have thousands under your rule,who boast of your hordes of subjects.For power is a gift to you from the Lord,sovereignty is from the Most High;he himself will probe your acts and scrutinise your intentions.If, as administrators of his kingdom, you have not governed...

Parents who never imagined running for office battled to win seats on local school boards last week; they won some, but lost many. Their fiercest opponents were the teachers unions. The media portrayed these school board races as culture wars, but more than anything they were struggles by parents to wrest control of the boards from self-serving unions. For decades, the unions have maintained a tight grip on who gets elected. No wonder school district decisions -- about budgets, masking, COVID closures, curriculum and teacher contracts -- protect teachers first. Never mind what's best for kids. That needs to change....

A Michigan school district was forced to close its doors after several staff members suffered adverse reactions following a Covid booster clinic. The Saginaw Township Community Schools admitted in a Facebook post Monday that a “large number” of faculty members fell ill following booster jabs.

In a new USA Today/Suffolk University poll, resident Joe Biden's approval is down to 38%. Which looks pretty good compared to Vice resident Kamala Harris, whose approval now stands at 28%. Democrats have just been reprimanded by voters, with the upset victory of Republican candidate and political novice Glenn Youngkin in the governor's race in Virginia, an almost upset victory in New Jersey by Republican gubernatorial candidate Jack Ciattarelli, who came within 2% of the vote of winning, and revolts in school board elections nationwide, pushing back against critical race theory and COVID-19 government interventions. It's not rocket science that...

The Food And Drug Administration (FDA) approved an emergency use authorization for the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for children as young as 5 years old despite the fact that its Pfizer-connected advisory committee knew about numerous adverse events that were reported in Pfizer’s clinical trials for children, including adverse events that were determined to be “related” to the clinical vaccine trial.

Al Gore has been pushing the unproven climate change hypothesis ever since he left the Clinton administration, produced the 2006 fantasy movie, “An Inconvenient Truth,” and begged an unwilling massage therapist, “Come on, Baby, Release my Chakra,”...Inconvenient Truth won awards, but then again, so did Andrew Cuomo’s daily COVID briefings. The Gore film was riddled with misconceptions and silly predictions. To make matters worse, Gore himself admitted on the tenth anniversary of the documentary this past May that the film is flawed, although he qualified his concession by insisting that he had underestimated the seriousness of the problem. Now that...

WASHINGTON, Saturday, Nov. 9. It will be gratifying to the country to know that at the present time over 450,000 troops have been mustered in the service of the Government, and by the meeting of Congress, three weeks hence, the half million authorized to be raised by act of July will have been made up. Those wishing to volunteer must decide quickly, or the only chance left them to fight will be in the regular service, which will then, no doubt, experience no difficulty in getting recruits. In respect to the blockade, all the advices received at the State Department...

… you can check out but you can never leave.Via Soviet Men I discovered a three part Youtube series by a presenter called Aussie Cossack about a family fleeing Australia for Russia. There is much that could be said about the family, their attitudes and the experiences that have caused them to reevaluate their comfortable suburban Australian experience and take the drastic step of leaving the country to live in what used to be the namesake for persecution. But times are strange and there is nothing new under the sun. As an Australian who left Australia for ten years,...

The whistleblower said that employees were required to complete the "Knowing Who You Are" training, and then report back to their supervisor to state that they completed it. They said it was required as a condition of employment. The training, though not explicitly stating that it's critical race theory, encompasses many of the race-based tenants it's based on. The course teaches that race and ethnicity are essential to every aspect of life.The training cites a TedX Talk given by Dr. Camara Jones, an activist that helped pioneer the idea of institutionalized racism, and claims that racism is a public health...