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New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said one of the main reasons he expanded the city's vaccine mandate to include children aged 5-11 is because he wanted to "give parents a sense of urgency" amid the spread of Omicron variant. "For the older kids—12 and up—it's over 80 percent now, vaccinated. So I think we're going to get there with the younger kids, but I'm trying to give parents a sense of urgency," De Blasio told CNN's New Day on Tuesday. "We're dealing with a new reality—this is not the fall. This is the winter We see COVID go...

Steve Bannon talks about artificial intelligence, the singularity, and life-extension technology with Luke Rudkowski and Tim Pool on TimcastIRL.

A Los Angeles detective has warned against people visiting the city due to rising crime rates while adding that police are unable to guarantee their safety. “We’re telling people don’t visit because we don’t think we can keep you safe right now. And that’s just sad to say,” Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) detective Jamie McBride told Fox News on Tuesday. McBride blamed Governor Gavin Newsom, L.A. County DA George Gascon, and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) for propagating the Proposition 47 bill that has led to such a situation. “How did we get here? The ACLU advocated for...

Germany’s incoming government, led by the center-left Social Democrats (SPD), were pressed to clarify their foreign policy priorities at a press conference on Tuesday. Having officially signed a three-party coalition agreement, Chancellor-designate Olaf Scholz and the rest of his Cabinet members are expected to take office on Wednesday after a vote and swearing-in ceremony in the German parliament. Scholz put Europe in focus as he fielded questions on Russia, China and the United States alongside Greens co-leader and incoming vice chancellor Robert Habeck as well as Free Democrat (FDP) chief and incoming Finance Minister Christian Lindner. Strengthening the European Union...

The United States Senate on Wednesday narrowly confirmed Suffolk County District Attorney Rachael Rollins to be the next U.S. attorney for Massachusetts.... Vice President Kamala Harris was needed to break two votes that were tied 50-50 along party lines...Republicans all voted against Rollins' nomination.... “to declining to prosecute low-level offenses, Rachael Rollins has really shown that we can take a different approach to law enforcement," said Carol Rose, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)... Rollins has also sparred with Boston’s largest police union, which accused her last summer of inciting violence against law enforcement..

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Every Texas Longhorns offensive lineman on scholarship will get $50,000 annually for use of their name, image and likeness to support charitable causes, a new nonprofit entity announced Monday.Horns with Heart said “The Pancake Factory” would start in August 2022. The organization said it hopes to expand the program to other football position groups and Longhorns athletes in the future. The name comes from the “pancake” blocks linemen sometimes do during play.

A 71-year old Chicago man was executed a block from his Chinatown home in a suspected random attack on his way to buy a newspaper Tuesday afternoon. Dramatic footage reveals the moment Woom Sing Tse, a retired restaurateur, was walking by the Haines Elementary School, in Chinatown, when a silver two-door car slows by him. The unidentified driver, believed to be in his 20s, pulls out a gun and begins shooting Tse, who falls to the ground. The driver parks, steps out of the vehicle, and continues to unload his gun on the wounded man, killing him. Tse, a Chinese...

A newly released photo that has reportedly been shown to jurors in the Ghislaine Maxwell trial show deceased pedophile Jeffrey Epstein and Maxwell lounging on the front porch of a residence that has been identified as the Queen of England’s royal retreat at Balmoral. The photo, which according to multiple U.K. outlets was presented to jurors on the eighth day of the Ghislaine Maxwell trial, shows a beaming maxwell relaxing on the porch next to Epstein, resting her arm on his thigh. UK paper the Mirror reports that “The photograph, which has not been seen before, appears to show the...

Joseph wanted to raise the Egyptians to a higher spiritual and moral plane. So he arranged that they be circumcised. That way, perhaps the exile destined upon his people would be shortened. The plan backfired. Rather than alleviating the Egyptian exile, Joseph empowered the Egyptians to oppress his people yet more viciously. Joseph believed he could shortcut the Egyptian exile. We sometimes delude ourselves that we can hot-wire our own darkness. We imagine we can bring thousands more to Torah, if we just would compromise with electronics on Shabbat. Or that we could achieve so many more mitzvahs, if we...

Where and How LENR Occur E-mail: nagel@gwu.edu The occurrence of LENR involves two separate considerations: (1) the location where reactants come together, and (2) the mechanism by which the nuclear reactions occur. Understanding, and also the practical reproducibility and control of LENR, require attention to both where and how LENR happen. Where: The locations and conditions needed for production of LENR, what Storms called the Nuclear Active Environment (NAE) [1], have received much attention over the decades. Both the interior and surfaces of materials have been considered, with frequent attention to defects. The interiors of real lattices range from...

[Catholic Caucus] Major interview by Henry Sire (author of the Dictator Pope): "Essentially the problem is that Bergoglio has no real principles, like the typical Peronist that he is." Henry Sire, the historian and former member of the Order of Malta (illegally expelled for his research work on Francis) is well known and well regarded by orthodox Catholics worldwide for his great book on Jorge Mario Bergoglio, "The Dictator Pope."He granted a long interview to Gloria.tv. The first long part is about the Order of Malta, and it is available on the original site -- the second part is...

Among the convicted were the Cardinal Archbishop of Mexico City, Carlos Aguiar Retes, and the former archbishop of Guadalajara, Cardinal Juan Sandoval Íñiguez.Two Mexican cardinals, a bishop, and three priests have been convicted of constitutional violations for warning the public against the ruling party’s opposition to the values of human life and family, their advocacy of the LGBT agenda, and their promotion of socialism. The convictions have caused alarm in Mexico regarding their implications for freedom of speech and the right to criticize the socialist ruling party “Morena,” which is accused of undermining Mexican civil liberties. Among the convicted were...

Jewish anthropologist: 'Prelates placating evil as they appeased Hitler' VIENNA (ChurchMilitant.com) - An outspoken Jewish anthropologist is comparing the Austrian bishops' endorsement of the nation's totalitarian vaccine fiat to the Austrian Catholic hierarchy's support for Hitler under the National Socialist regime. "The Austrian bishops are yet again guilty of placating evil. They supported the Anschluss [Hitler's annexation of Austria], with Cdl. Innitzer flying the Nazi flag for Hitler," Karen Harradine told Church Militant. Austria has become the first Western democracy to mandate COVID-19 jabs for its entire adult population, with conscientious objectors facing fines of 3,600 euros ($4,080) per day...

It's no secret: Chris Christie wants to be president. He’s relentlessly promoting his new book to get his face in front of all the major news media. But while he claims he wants to remake the Republican Party, Mark takes him to task, exposing him as a fraud, a blowhard, and a man without a backbone. He's a RINO and has no business representing the Republican Party.

Moscow, December 6, Interfax - The Russian Orthodox Church is so far unaware of when and where Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia might meet with Pope Francis, Metropolitan Hilarion, head of the Moscow Patriarchate's Department for External Church Relations, said on Monday. "My meeting with Pope Francis is planned between December 20 and December 30. I intend to wish him a happy 85th birthday on behalf of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill and discuss a broad range of issues concerning the bilateral relations between our churches with him. Among these issues is a possible meeting between Pope Francis and...

Democratic cities are seeing a wave of smash-and-grab thefts around the holidays, raising concerns about why they're occurring and how leaders might combat the problem. Black Friday saw news reports of robberies in Minneapolis, Los Angeles and Chicago. High-end stores in San Francisco were vandalized, with thousands of dollars in merchandise retrieved by police. Walgreens closed nearly two dozen stores in the liberal city, earning it the moniker "shoplifter's paradise." And in October 2020, law enforcement recovered approximately $8 million in stolen merchandise. In recent months, special attention has been paid to prosecutors like Kim Foxx of Chicago, George Gascon...

At least 820 sex abuse lawsuits have been filed against New Jersey’s Catholic dioceses and religious orders in the past two years — including some 180 in the past month alone, according to an analysis by news outlet NorthJersey.com.About 250 of the lawsuits, representing 30% of the total, involved priests, with religious sisters and lay church employees also named as abusers, the analysis showed. The flood of civil complaints came during a two-year period New Jersey provided under the 2019 Child Victims Act to allow victims who otherwise would have been barred by the state’s statute of limitation to file...

Police are warning Frederick County residents of a growing scam involving fake street performers, known as buskers, stealing personal information. The Frederick County Sheriff’s Office in a news release urged residents to be on the lookout for “fake” buskers asking for money through cash and electronic credit or debit donations who are using credit card skimmers to steal personal information. Buskers are people who perform music or other entertainment for monetary donations. Fakers act like they’re playing the violin, for example, when they’re actually imitating the action while a soundtrack plays from a hidden device, police warn. They may pretend...

Video showed Duryea, in an orange suit and with an axe in his left hand, buffeted by winds and spraying water as he was lowered toward the car through falling snow. After slowly spinning and swinging past the car, he was able to grab hold on the passenger side, open the door and disappear inside. About two minutes later, with water surging around the vehicle and over the precipice about 50 yards (meters) downstream, Duryea emerged and signaled to the helicopter, which then hoisted him and the motionless driver from the water. It was unclear how the car got into...

Brother Dave Wilkerson used to tell one of the most fantastic stories. It was about this 82-year-old woman who was living by herself in one of the New York boroughs. One night, she heard someone start hammering on the front door. Her bedroom was at the top of the stairs; she looked down and saw a man kick open her door. What do you do? You're 82 years old; this man's about to steal everything you have. She just started crying out, "Acts 2:38, Acts 2:38, Acts 2:38." The man froze then got down on the floor, spread his arms...