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FREMONT (CBS SF) — The church and museum at Mission San Jose in Fremont were still being cleaned up Thursday after being vandalized with graffiti last Friday. The buildings were tagged with anti-colonial messages such as “Ohlone land,” “Catholicism is a colonizer religion,” and “Genocide is not a spectacle” in red spray paint. Church officials believe the vandalism happened at around 3 a.m. Friday based on what was captured on security camera footage. A statue of Father Junipero Serra in the mission’s courtyard was also vandalized with red paint and an American flag was also defaced, according to Bay Area...

Paris (AFP) – British singer Sting is back at the age of 70 with a hopeful new album, though he admits he sees a lot to worry him in the world right now. "I think we're in a very dangerous political climate at the moment where the working class have felt abandoned by what they call the elite," he told AFP on a recent trip to Paris. "It has left them vulnerable to demagogues, to right-wing nonsense, fakes, snake oil salesmen." For the famously mild-mannered rock star, real name Gordon Sumner, the attacks on his liberal way of life have...

* More than half of the clergy support imposition of high taxes to distribute wealth* Only 34% of the regular churchgoers feel the same way* The poll conducted by Savanta ComRes is to show 'woke' clergy are out of touch'Woke' church leaders are at odds with their congregations on key political issues such as taxation and the role of the market, a new opinion poll has found. While more than half – 51 per cent – of the clergy support the imposition of high taxes to redistribute wealth, only 34 per cent of regular churchgoers feel the same way. And...

In 2018, a Chinese state-controlled company bought an Italian manufacturer of military drones. Soon after, it began transferring the company’s know-how and technology—which had been used by the Italian military in Afghanistan—to China. The Italian and European authorities had no knowledge of the move, revealing how Beijing is skirting weak investment-screening in Europe to acquire sensitive technology. Italian authorities are investigating the 2018 takeover of Alpi Aviation Srl by a Hong Kong-registered company that they say is a front for the Chinese state and was in the process of transferring the company’s technical and intellectual property to a new production...

For most of the crowd that went after Kyle Rittenouse, it was just word of mouth that he'd shot someone. Even the man he told that he had (which was picked up clearly on the videotape he would only have played back later) might have misheard him with all that was going on. Only later could he be sure, with the tape, of what was said. And since Rittenhouse left the area rather than shooting other people, and wasn't acting like an active shooter, they had no way of truly thinking that he was. The crowd went after him anyway,...

The Russian Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Media has proposed a ban on depicting “non-traditional sexual relationships and sexual deviations in film.” Sexual deviations include pedophilia, exhibitionism, and sadism and masochism, sexologist and psychiatrist Irina Airiyants told Vedomosti. Films with homosexual scenes are already being edited for Russian theaters, such as the recent film about Elton John, Rocket Man. Current legislation does allow the display of such deviancy (except pedophilia), with such films marked 18+. One of the proposals also includes a ban on the distribution of materials promoting non-traditional sexual relations and sexual...

Contacted Aetna only after College Fix reportThe Catholic University of America apologized for including abortion in its health coverage plan for students for three years. It said it has contacted provider Aetna to make the change. The change came after The College Fix published a story about the D.C. university’s inclusion of abortion coverage for the past three years. The university told The Fix after publication of the first article that it did not “provide abortion in [the] health plan.” “The Catholic University of America is committed to defending life at every stage, and we work hard to live out...

Somewhere in the upper northeast there must be an economic school or think-tank where leftist graduate students are taught how to verbalize cognitive dissonance using the same 300 words and emojis in a sequential pattern. Two of the most visible alma maters’ of this school are Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, and a fellow named Brian Deese, who is now the White House National Economic Council director. In his latest exhibition of post-graduate cognitive dissonance, Deese nuts, the primary architect of the JoeBama economic program, appears on NBC to proclaim that massive U.S. inflation is somehow connected to the fact that...

‘Complicit’: A Field Guide to the Lack of Infrastructure Funding, Leftist Carveouts in the $1.2 Trillion So-Called Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill Despite its moniker as a “bipartisan infrastructure bill,” the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act contains no conservative victories but has many leftist carveouts. President Joe Biden signed the $1.2 trillion Bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act into law, marking Biden’s most significant legislative victory since Congress passed his coronavirus rescue plan in March, the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan. This infrastructure bill serves as one part of Biden’s infrastructure agenda. The other bill, the $1.75 trillion reconciliation Build Back Better...

Scottie Pippen put forth his version of "The Last Dance." Pippen, who recently released a book called "Unguarded," went after former teammate and NBA icon Michael Jordan, saying that he "ruined the game of basketball" in an excerpt from the book, which was shared by Hypebeast. "I may go as far to say Mike ruined basketball," Pippen said. "In the 80s on the playgrounds, you’d have everyone moving the ball around — passing to help the team. That stopped in the 90s. Kids wanted to be ‘Like Mike.’ Well, Mike didn’t want to pass — didn’t want to rebound, or...

MSNBC contributor former Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) said Monday on “Deadline” that House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) was “worse” than former President Donald Trump because he “acts like” he cares about America. When asked to respond to a threatening voicemail sent to Republicans who voted for the infrastructure bill, McCaskill said, “Shame on Kevin McCarthy. Shame on him. You know, he has a member who is tweeting a cartoon showing him killing a fellow member of Congress. He has this kind of thing going on. He’s got members tweeting out phone numbers, calling fellow Republicans traitors, and he does...

Historian and author Jon Meacham said Monday on MSNBC’s “The Beat” that the infrastructure bill signed into law today by President Joe Biden “will rank” in history with former President Dwight Eisenhower’s Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956 that created America’s interstate highway system. Anchor Ari Melber said, “What you see in the sweep of history, it’s hard to get a sense of it as we go in real-time, but when we look at the numbers, how rare or infrequent it is you get this national investment. I’m curious your thoughts on where this fits in long term.”

This thing is 2468 pages. The most fun thing for me was to open it in Adobe Acrobat and then search for the dollar sign character ($). You really gotta try it...it hits 1,456 times. LOL. The first one looks like this: (1) $10,000,000,000 for hazardous fuels reduction projects within the wildland-urban interface; The 2nd hit is this: (2) $4,000,000,000 for, on a determination by the Secretary that hazardous fuels within the wildland-urban interface have been effectively treated to prevent the spread of wildfire to at-risk communities, hazardous fuels reduction projects outside the wildland-urban interface that are—... I'll stop there...you...

Britain remains “unwavering” in its support for Ukraine’s territorial integrity amid a “concerning” build-up of Russian troops on its border, Boris Johnson’s spokesman has said. Jens Stoltenberg, secretary-general of Nato, said the western alliance was standing by Ukraine as he described a “large and unusual” concentration of Russian forces on the country’s borders. He called on Russia to be transparent about its military activities to reduce tensions in the region and prevent an escalation. Asked about the build-up of Russian troops on Ukraine’s borders, Johnson’s spokesman said: “We are seeing a concerning situation at that border. We remain in unwavering...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Alaska doctors plan to ask the State Medical Board to investigate concerns about the spread of misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines and treatments by other physicians. Merijeanne Moore, a private practice psychiatrist, said she drafted the letter out of concern over an event about COVID-19 treatments that featured prominent vaccine skeptics in Anchorage last month, the Anchorage Daily News reported. An “Alaska Early Treatment Medical Summit” last month featured doctors, mostly from other states, who have been criticized within the medical community for questioning the efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines and for advocating treatments with drugs such as...

Joe Biden called a black man a “negro” last week. It was clear as day. He called the late Satchel Paige a “negro.” It’s not the n-word, but you can’t call black people that anymore, Joe. Yes, Paige was a pitcher in the Negro league, but that’s not what Joe said. And the fact that we have explainer pieces on how it’s not really a big deal that Joe said this just shows you that the liberal media knows this was a trip-up. If a Republican had said this, you know what the reaction from the liberal media would be....

A Northern California city has declared itself a “constitutional republic” city in an effort to take a stand against Democrat Governor Gavin Newsom’s COVID-19 mandates.

RUTH UNDERWOOD: A MOTHER OF INVENTION An integral part of Frank Zappa’s band the Mothers of Invention, Ruth Underwood stayed mostly in the background on stage and in the studio, filling the sound with her indispensable contributions on marimba, harp, xylophone, vibraphone and drums. Her reputation, as a multi-instrumentalist and composer, has only grown since the Mothers disbanded in the ‘70s. Ingrid Jensen, after taking a look at the musical legacy of Ruth Underwood, declares her ‘the undisputed queen of rock ‘n’ roll percussion’. It was 1967 when Ruth Komanoff first saw Frank Zappa perform in New York City, where...

There's no greater example of what the failed communist construct advocated by W.E.B. Du Bois – which was cleverly reformatted and utilized as a cultural and societal biologic that sterilizes a people's ability think and reason independent of the zeitgeist being used to subjugate and suppress them – than what liberal Democratic neo-Leninists have done to the minds and very souls of those who place all value and self-worth in being a crayon color. As someone raised to think for himself and to renounce all forms of hatred and stupidity, I'm offended by the cox-combs who purport themselves to be...

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is gearing up for a vote this week on President Biden’s multi-trillion-dollar social welfare legislation, but strong divisions remain among Democrats over the size and scope of the final bill. Mrs. Pelosi told reporters Monday that she was eager to push through the legislation during an event at the White House commemorating Mr. Biden’s signing of the bipartisan infrastructure package. “I’m so happy that hopefully this week we will be passing Build Back Better [legislation] to get tax cuts to America’s working families, to create millions of more jobs, to lower health care costs, and all...