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Southern Poverty Law Center senior fellow Eric Ward said Friday, after Kyle Rittenhouse was found not guilty of all charges brought against him for the shootings that killed two men and injured a third, that the defendant was an "armed vigilante," and attributed the violence that engulfed Kenosha, WI during August 2020 to law enforcement. Rittenhouse was acquitted Friday of first-degree reckless homicide, first-degree recklessly endangering safety, first-degree intentional homicide and attempted first-degree intentional homicide after he had been on trial for shooting and killing Joseph Rosenbaum and Anthony Huber, and injuring Gaige Grosskreutz during an August 2020 riot in...

President Biden’s physician Dr. Kevin O’Connor says Biden is “fit to successfully execute the duties of the Presidency” despite a worsening cough caused by gastroesophageal reflux and a stiffer gait when he walks. O’Connor released a six-page report Friday afternoon that didn’t reveal any urgent reason for Biden’s physical earlier in the day. A colonoscopy using anesthesia required Biden to hand over presidential powers to Vice President Kamala Harris for 85 minutes.

Texas Democratic Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson says she will retire before the 2022 midterms ending a career in Congress that lasted almost 30 years. Johnson, who was elected to represent the Dallas, Texas area in Congress in 1993, announced during an event on Saturday that her current term would be her last. The 85-year-old Texas Democrat did not endorse a replacement but said she hopes that she will be replaced by a woman. "I will recommend to you who is the best to follow me," Johnson said. "My goal is to look for a female that is qualified. Anyone who...

Kyle Rittenhouse’s lawyer says he’s getting so many death threats, he can’t use his cell phone. Mark Richards told Insider.com on Saturday that he “can’t count” the number of death threats, noting, “It’s too high.”

SHARE MORE Former President Obama took to Twitter to wish President Biden a happy birthday on Saturday. “Happy birthday to my friend and my brother, @POTUS!” Obama tweeted. Obama and Biden have worked together for years in their political careers, with Biden serving as Obama’s vice president during his eight years in office

KYLE Rittenhouse stood trial over the fatal shooting of two men and injuring a third during racial justice protests in 2020. The shooting of Jacob Blake on August 23, set off a series of protests that gave way to violence for three nights in a row, in Kenosha, Wisconsin.

The International Olympic Committee recommended that sports organizations allow biologically male, transgender athletes to compete in women’s sports without lowering their testosterone levels. The committee stated that no athlete should be excluded from competition based on unverified, alleged, or perceived unfair competitive advantage due to biological sex in a Tuesday report. The report says athletes should compete in sports based on their self-determined gender identity and should not be subject to “targeted testing” to determine biological sex. “Athletes should not be deemed to have an unfair or disproportionate competitive advantage due to their sex variations, physical appearance and/or transgender status,”...

A university vice president was recently fired after it was proven she discriminated against the campus police chief because of his political views. The College Fix reported that the University of North Dakota fired Cara Halgren, the school’s vice president for student affairs and diversity, because she discriminated against UND Police Chief Eric Plummer after she learned he voted for Donald Trump.

McMichael describes fatally shooting Arbery(Excerpted) McMichael said he was at home with family on Feb. 23 when his father came into the room and told him the man they believed had been breaking into houses in their neighborhood was back. McMichael grabbed his shotgun and got into his truck with his father, Gregory, in the passenger seat. Although they didn't know Arbery's name at the time, they were looking for him. When McMichael caught up with Arbery, he said he drove beside him and asked him to "please stop" but that Arbery didn't stop or speak to him. At one...

The Deep State is a system of cronyism within the U.S. political system and constitute a hidden government within the legitimately elected government. In the beginning of the 20th century, federal, state, and local governments (the Deep State) took in revenues equal to 6 to 7 percent of the gross national product (GNP). By 1950, Deep State revenues rose to 24 percent of GNP. Over the past 40 years, the tax proportion of the GNP is 32 percentages. In 2018, federal civilian workers had an average wage of $94,463, compared with $40,331 in the private sector.We have close to 4.106...

It appears that the U.S. preventing companies like Intel from expanding their chipmaking operations in China is having an affect on other chipmakers globally. That’s because South Korea’s SK Hynix, a top supplier of memory chips globally, has halted the installation of new production equipment in China as a result of American trade policies. The company was planning on bringing extreme-ultraviolet lithography equipment to its Jiangsu Province plant, which makes about 40% of its DRAM chips, according to Nikkei. But the company put a halt to the plans as a result of American measures that have been put in place...

California Highway Patrol began receiving calls at about 9:15 a.m. about “a large sum of money in the roadway” on a section of Interstate 5, and that some drivers were getting out of their cars to collect the bills, KTLA’s sister station in San Diego, KSWB, reported. A man and a woman suspected of taking cash were arrested after they got stuck on the freeway with their keys locked in the car, blocking traffic, according to CHP. The incident generated significant buzz in the community. Soon, videos of people scooping up cash were widely circulated on social media and among...

The unimaginable has occurred. Kyle Rittenhouse, the admitted killer of two men and maimer of a third, has been acquitted on all counts. On Aug. 25, 2020, Rittenhouse armed himself with a borrowed AR-15-style assault rifle loaded with full metal jacket armor-penetrating ammunition and marched into downtown Kenosha, Wis., during a third night of protests following the police shooting of Jacob Blake, a 29-year-old Black man. Blake was left partly paralyzed after a white police officer shot him seven times in the back outside an apartment complex in Kenosha two days before.

Thirty-third Week in Ordinary Time Luke 20:27-40 Friends, today’s Gospel reports a conversation Jesus had with some of the Sadducees, who held that there is no life after death. We could practically hear their speech on the lips of secularists today. But Jesus is having none of it. The dead shall indeed rise, he says. Otherwise, how could Moses have spoken of God as the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, all of whom were long dead by Moses’ time? But their risen existence, though in continuity, even bodily continuity, with what has gone before, will be transformed, transfigured, raised...

Maria Butina, a Russian national who pleaded guilty to conspiracy and acted as an unregistered foreign agent in the US, denied this week that her new seat in Russia's parliament is a gift. "It's not a reward," Butina told the New York Times in a new interview. "I wasn't a spy. I wasn't working for the government. I was just a civilian." "If I had known that I have to register to build peace between the two nations by my own initiative, I would have loved to," she added.

Unlike the United States, the European Union is very transparent about the number of adverse effects and fatalities from people who were vaccinated and the numbers are staggering. According to their reports through November 13th, they had 30,551 fatalities and 1,163,356 people who had adverse reactions to the vaccines. The European Union had 448 million people in 2020 compared to 331 million in the United States. You do the math on this. According to European Medicines Agency, an official site for the European Union, the data for the report came from ADRreports.eu portal that allows users to keep track of...

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Kariann Swart, the finacee of Joseph Rosenbaum, offered her reaction to the not guilty verdicts of Kyle Rittenhouse

The crown jewel of Henry VIII’s 16th century fleet was its flagship, the venerable Mary Rose. More than 500 years after its launch, the vessel remains a precious cultural treasure. Though she ploughed the Atlantic and battled with her heavy cannons for 34 years – and laid buried beneath the turbulent English Channel for 437 more, bacteria and chemicals have begun eating away at her remnants, on display at the Mary Rose Museum in Portsmouth, England. Thankfully, the ship’s conservators have received a helping hand.A new X-ray method has allowed an international team of researchers to identify zinc-sulfide nanoparticles in...

This story is about money and an alarming paper by Biden’s nominee Saule Omarova. For quite a while, we’ve been all discussing different aspects of the Great Reset and the treacherous plan to use the “happy” language of “public good” and “sustainable development” to push through an all-encompassing power grab by the largest institutional investors and the richest people of the world. The end result of the power grab would be a fully mechanized society where the citizens’ bodies and minds are invaded by tech, managed by AI, and ultimately serve the financial and emotional interests of the self-appointed mad...