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The Ukrainian soldier warns me to speak no louder than a whisper. The enemy lines are less than 50 meters away, he tells me, and my voice — if too loud — can easily carry across no man’s land and invite gunfire from the other side. “We see each other, and we shoot at each other every day,” says the soldier, whose name is Mykhailo. “Everyone is afraid … we are afraid, and the Russians are afraid of us.” We’re standing at one end of a ruined factory on the outskirts of the city of Avdiivka in Ukraine’s eastern war...

The British Home Office said Friday the Palestinian terror group Hamas had been banned for being a terrorist organization, something the US and EU had done long ago. In a statement, Home Secretary Priti Patel said, “Hamas has signfiicant terrorist capability, including access to extensive and sophisticated weaponry as well as terrorist training facilities,” adding, “That is why today I have acted to proscribe Hamas in its entirety.” Patel will urge parliament to make the change next week, saying the move was “based upon a wide range of intelligence, information and also links to terrorism.” Hamas, she said, was “fundamentally...

While attending Penn State University, Ross joined the libertarian club, worked on Ron Paul’s presidential campaign and brought him to campus. In his early 20s, Ross spent significant time thinking and writing about the ideas of limited government and individual freedom, and grew passionate about the ideas of liberty, privacy and free markets. Ross was an idealist. He cared about bettering the world. He was never motivated by money or power, and rather lived a simple life with modest possessions, dedicating himself to causes he believes in. “Ross is a pacifist, and someone generous with his time and knowledge. He...

An FBI SWAT team raided the home of an activist mother of three in Colorado on Tuesday, Nov. 16, knocking down her door, bursting into the house and handcuffing her while she was homeschooling her children. ----- She was at home with her three children Tuesday morning when she heard someone pounding on the front door. She said the officers "manhandled" her 18-year-old daughter, pulling her up the stairs by her hoodie, while another officer put her in handcuffs. They proceeded to search the entire house. Besides being a frequent attendee at her local school board meetings, Bishop has also...

Direct from the Comirnaty package insert... https://www.fda.gov/media/151707/download 5.2 Myocarditis and Pericarditis Postmarketing data demonstrate increased risks of myocarditis and pericarditis, particularly within 7 days following the second dose. The observed risk is higher among males under 40 years of age than among females and older males. The observed risk is highest in males 12 through 17 years of age. Although some cases required intensive care support, available data from short-term follow-up suggest that most individuals have had resolution of symptoms with conservative management. Information is not yet available about potential longterm sequelae. The CDC has published considerations related to myocarditis...

Cooler weather and the upcoming holiday season means that people will be spending more time indoors and in spaces that are more crowded. The issue of indoor masking immediately jumps to the forefront of the COVID-19 pandemic debate. Wearing masks indoor is a layer of protection against transmitting the virus. With over 70 percent of the adult population now fully vaccinated, and booster shots now widely available, some communities are rethinking their indoor mask mandate. Washington, D.C. announced that effective Nov. 22 masks will no longer be required in a number of indoor venues. The basis for this decision is...

Nellie Bowles, the former New York Times reporter who is married to Bari Weiss, the former Times op-ed editor whose newsletter Common Sense is a Substack sensation and publishes top-shelf op-eds practically every day, says in the latest edition of Common Sense that she found the liberal narrative about rioting in Kenosha last summer wasn’t true, but the Paper of Record buried her report until after the election last November. Bowles writes: Until quite recently, the mainstream liberal argument was that burning down businesses for racial justice was both good and healthy. Burnings allowed for the expression of righteous rage,...

A New Orleans woman who stole more than $2 million in inheritance money from an autistic man after she posed as an attorney has been sentenced to 20 years in prison. Kristina Galjour, 45, pleaded guilty on Monday to theft valued at more than $25,000 and three counts of practicing law without a license after she defrauded an adult autistic man whose parents had just died, according to Nola.com. The 59-year-old autistic man lost both his parents in 2015, leaving him millions of dollars and a home in New Orleans. The trust was being administered by Legacy Law Center, a...

It’s amazing how many people can view the same reality, watch the same train barreling towards the same open section of track, and still believe with all their heart that it will still reach its original destination rather than land in a pile of destruction. I don’t know if people with such flawed vision were born with an extra Pollyanna gene or simply lack a critical thinking gene. They seem to believe that all slippery slope arguments are fallacious, not just the emotionally loaded ones that ignore both reason and plausibility. So they end up believing in the most unreasonable,...

Coup de Vax: Even before COVID, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. spent years exposing Big Pharma corruption. Now he joins Tucker to detail the unholy alliance between Fauci and Bill Gates and how the vaccine is being used to launch a coup d'état against our Bill of Rights.https://rumble.com/vpgnhr-robert-f.-kennedy-jr.-on-tucker-carlson-today-november-15-2021.html

WASHINGTON (AP) — Part political performance, part stall tactic, Republican leader Kevin McCarthy unleashed a long, rambling and vitriolic speech overnight, seizing control of the House floor and preempting passage of President Joe Biden’s big domestic policy bill. Sneering with disdain one minute, spilling sarcasm the next, McCarthy carried on for more than eight hours as Thursday night became Friday morning. He spewed a tirade of grievances that reached far beyond Biden’s legislative package, morphing into a monologue of complaints over what’s wrong with the country and the Democrats who control Washington. Far from the “happy conservative” he claimed to...

The legislation will have a negative impact on the labor supply and send high prices soaring even higher.President Joe Biden has united the American people—in disapproving of his performance, with 70 percent of Americans disliking the direction the economy is going and over 6 in 10 blaming him for it. The impact of inflation on people's pocketbooks and concerns over the expanding role of government are important in explaining those low approval numbers. A good time to change course is now. A recent Washington Post-ABC poll asked, "How concerned are you, if at all, that Biden will do too much...

A customer who was accused of throwing hot soup in a restaurant manager's face was arrested and charged with assault on Wednesday. Amanda Martinez, 31, was booked into the Bell County Jail after a warrant was issued for her arrest. Martinez has been charged with assault causing bodily injury and is now being held on a $5,000 bond. A viral TikTok video captured the moment Martinez reportedly threw menudo soup in manager Jannelle Broland's face at the Sol de Jalisco restaurant in Temple, Texas, on November 7. Broland, 24, was doused in the soup after Martinez angrily confronted her, claiming...

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An election whistleblower in Delaware County, Pennsylvania released video evidence of the destruction of election data, documents, and equipment by election officials in the 2020 presidential election on Wednesday night. The videos show election officials admitting to each other that their actions were illegal, even “a felony.” But the officials decided to destroy the election evidence anyway. In one video James Allen, the Director of Elections Operations is seen in a backroom telling officials to destroy evidence knowing it was a felony. in another video, Tom Gallager, a lawyer for Delaware County, is seen destroying election tapes — a felony.

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases head Dr. Anthony Fauci said Thursday on MSNBC’s “All In” that if you were in a setting where you do not know the vaccine status of people, “then you should be wearing a mask.” [cut] Fauci said, “Well, the situation is — and let’s just take a scenario, you have a family setting. You’re vaccinated. Your family members are vaccinated, and even if the children who are yet too young to get vaccinated, go have an enjoyable Thanksgiving in your home. You don’t need to wear a mask.” He continued, “The situation is...

What's wrong with the economy? Nobody seems quite sure, but it's clear that the Biden administration's $1.9 trillion stimulus package passed in March, on top of the $900 billion approved in December, the last full month of the Trump administration, has not had the intended results. Yes, the economy has grown, and so have wages. But the assurances of resident Joe Biden, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell that inflation is just "transitory" grow less and less credible. Warnings of this came not just from Republicans but from impeccably credentialed Democrats -- from former Treasury Secretary...

The man known as "jump kick man" during the trial of Kyle Rittenhouse is 39-year-old Maurice Freeland of Wisconsin, defense attorneys revealed to Fox News Thursday. A video played at trial appears to show Freeland running at Rittenhouse and kicking him shortly after the teenager shot and killed Joseph Rosenbaum. Rittenhouse testified at trial that he fired at Freeland in self-defense but missed. "I thought if I were to be knocked out, he would have stomped my face in if I didn't fire," Rittenhouse told the jury. Prosecutors argued during the trial that the men who confronted Rittenhouse were trying...

Pray For The Peace of JerusalemJeremiah 7False Religion Worthless 7 This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord: 2 “Stand at the gate of the Lord’s house and there proclaim this message: “‘Hear the word of the Lord, all you people of Judah who come through these gates to worship the Lord. 3 This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says: Reform your ways and your actions, and I will let you live in this place. 4 Do not trust in deceptive words and say, “This is the temple of the Lord, the temple...

November 19, 2021 Friday of week 33 in Ordinary Time Our Lady of Hope Catholic ChurchPotomac Falls, Virginia Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green.First reading1 Maccabees 4:36-37,52-59 ©Judas and his brothers purify the sanctuary and dedicate itJudas and his brothers said, ‘Now that our enemies have been defeated, let us go up to purify the sanctuary and dedicate it.’ So they marshalled the whole army, and went up to Mount Zion. On the twenty-fifth of the ninth month, Chislev, in the year one hundred and forty-eight, they rose at dawn and offered a lawful sacrifice on the new altar of holocausts...