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The blaze began when members of a band performing at the Kiss nightclub, in the southern city of Santa Maria, lit flares which set light to the ceiling. There was a stampede and most of the victims died through smoke inhalation. The two owners of the club and two band members were found guilty of murder and attempted murder. A police investigation said sparks from a flare lit by the Gurizada Fandangueira band on stage had set alight the insulation material in the nightclub which in turn produced the toxic fumes. According to the findings, the venue had no functioning...

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U.S. DOJ Wins Court Case Seeking Wikileaks Founder Julian Assange ExtraditionDecember 10, 2021 | Sundance | 64 CommentsThe United States government (specifically the Fourth Branch) has won an appellate level legal case in the U.K. as they seek to extradite Wikileaks founder Julian Assange for crimes against U.S. national security interests.However, Assange’s lawyers have a few more avenues left to block the extradition.As much as I would like to see a Julian Assange trial reveal all of the corruption inside the dark parts of the U.S. political and intelligence system, I can also see how our government would have a...

A baby whose mother received two COVID vaccine shots during her last trimester of pregnancy was born bleeding from his mouth and nose, and died the day after his birth, according to a recent report to the U.S. government’s Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System from a foreign “regulatory authority.”The baby boy was born on the morning of October 6, 2021, after his mother received two experimental mRNA Moderna shots on July 19 and August 13. He was expected on October 15 but was delivered weighing 2,800 grams (just over six pounds, two ounces) in hospital after a labor marked by...

Join together with fellow FREEPERS to pray for AMERICA: For those in Authority in Government, Family, Military, Business, Healthcare, Education, Churches, and the Media. I urge, then, first of all, that requests, prayers, intercession, and thanksgiving be made for everyone: for kings and all those in authority that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness. ~ 1 Timothy 2:1-2 Religion Forum Threads labeled [Prayer] are closed to debate of any kind.

Noncitizens in New York City would gain the right to vote in municipal elections under a measure approved Thursday by the City Council that would give access to the ballot box to 800,000 green card holders and so-called Dreamers. More than a dozen communities across the United States already allow noncitizens to cast ballots in local elections, including 11 towns in Maryland and two in Vermont. But New York City is the largest place by far to give voting rights to noncitizens. Noncitizens still wouldn’t be able to vote for president or members of Congress in federal races, or in...

On Wednesday, former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows sued House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and all nine members of the U.S. House Select Committee claiming they are exceeding their constitutional authority. Meadows’ attorney sent a letter to committee chairman, Rep. Bennie Thompson saying his client would no longer cooperate with the committee’s investigation to have “no intention of respecting the boundaries concerning Executive Privilege” and the “wide ranging” subpoena of his phone records would include “intensely personal” and potentially “privileged” communications. According to Cornell Law School’s Legal Information Institute, “Executive privilege is the power of the president and other...

@mtgreenee1. I received a letter from a J6 PRE-TRIAL defendant who says he has been transferred to a maximum security prison and is now in 24 hour a day confinement & only gets to shower 3 days per week. Andrew Takke is the defendant I met on my DC Jail visit that has a mangled finger, 2. and has been refused medical treatment all these months. His letter states that he and 2 others were transferred to USP Lewisburg after my visit. ALL J6 defendants should be in a pre-trial facility or allowed out on bail until their trial. This...

The Chinese Communist Party has industrialized the murder of prisoners of conscience for their organs, and it must be stopped, a group of lawmakers from the United States and other countries said on International Human Rights Day. “These are living people having their organs taken from them,” U.S. Rep Scott Perry (R-Pa.) said at a Dec. 10 webinar hosted by Doctors Against Forced Organ Harvesting, a Washington-based medical ethics group. “We must challenge the evil designs of the Chinese Communist Party, which entails highlighting its wanton disregard for basic standards of human decency,” he said. The Chinese regime has for...

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Two session musicians getting together. I like the respect Lukather had for Glen. And at the end when Glen tells Luke how good he is - you can tell it meant so much. Gold.

President Joe Biden has weighed in on the Department of Labor report out Friday that shows the consumer price index, which measures the prices consumers pay for a market basket of everyday goods and services, climbed at its fastest rate in nearly 40 years. "It matters to people when you're paying more for gas, although in some states we've got the price down below three bucks a gallon. But the point is, it's not gone down quickly enough, but I think it will," Biden said at the end of his remarks closing out the Summit for Democracy on Friday.

Hillary Clinton predicted Trump would run again in 2024 and warned of dire consequences for the country if he were to retake the White House. “If I were a betting person right now, I’d say Trump is going to run again,” Hillary said in an excerpt of her interview with TODAY host Willie Geist. “But I want people to understand that this is a make-or-break point.” Hillary Clinton is still bitter she lost to Trump after calling more than half of Americans “deplorables.” “Are we going to give in to all these lies and this disinformation and this organized effort...

The trial, which began in July and will resume on Dec. 14, has yet to get off the ground after procedural disputes over missing transcripts related to the prosecution’s investigations. Four of the original 10 defendants have had their charges at least temporarily dropped, leaving just six defendants currently on trial.VATICAN CITY — A key element in the ongoing Vatican trial over a London property deal that led to massive financial losses for the Holy See is how Vatican officials came to sign off on agreements in 2018 that caused the Vatican the most damage. A 487-page indictment published ahead...

A married father of three in Washington state shot dead a burglar who had broken into the family's home and wounded another before telling cops, 'I have a right to defend myself.' Jerahme Smith, 31, said he was at home with his sister when the two alleged robbers kicked in the back door at around 4:20am on Thursday. Police in Spanaway, about 45 miles south of Seattle, arrived within 10 minutes of getting Smith's call about the home invasion and found a 24-year-old man unresponsive on the floor. The man, who has not been identified, was declared dead by medical...

A woman tried to stab a Hartford detective this week, police say, in the second such attack on a Hartford officer in two months. Surveillance video shows a woman police identify as Sheila Calderon walking, then running, toward three officers talking on Taylor Drive Tuesday. With an outstretched arm and a large knife in her hand, she tried to stab the detective in the head and neck, police said. The detective was a fraction of a second away from being stabbed when he was able to get out of the way while flinging the woman to the ground. She was...

'People were really mad,' said student Timothy Que. 'It’s been kind of crazy. I didn’t expect it to be this bad.' VANCOUVER, British Columbia (LifeSiteNews) – A high school in Vancouver has placed restrictions on a Grade 11 student’s Catholic Club after the school board was inundated with complaints. Last month, Eric Hamber Secondary School in Vancouver placed restrictions on Grade 11 student Timothy Que’s Catholic club aimed at teaching and promoting the authentic Catholic faith, after the school’s board was hit with a barrage of complaints following an interview he did to promote his new club. While Que’s pro-Catholic...

MPP Rick Nichols of Ontario recently addressed Parliament about the rising rates of stillborn children in the Province, and asked the Minister of Health, Christine Elliot, the following question: In the Waterloo area 86 stillbirths have occurred from January to July, and normally it is roughly 1 stillbirth every two months. But here’s the kicker. Mothers of stillbirth babies were fully vaccinated. And you have clearly said on numerous occasions that the vaccines are safe. So minister, what do you say to the doctors who told expecting women it was OK to get fully vaccinated, and what should they tell...

Florida sheriff’s deputies could be seen on video during a high-speed chase with an SUV on a golf course — weaving around golf carts and confused golfers. The daylight police dashcam footage, posted to Facebook by the Indian River County Sheriff’s Office, shows the SUV in a futile attempt to flee from cops in the middle of the wide-open fairways on Grand Harbor golf course in Vero Beach. The footage also shows a strange arrest sparked when one sheriff’s office vehicle makes contact with the SUV. The vehicle goes spinning as a second vehicle boxes in the SUV. A...

Attorneys representing a Maine family at the Supreme Court are feeling confident following Wednesday’s oral arguments in the case Carson v. Makin. The case asks whether a state – such as Maine – breaches the free exercise clause or equal protection clause of the First Amendment by barring students in a student-aid program from using their aid to attend schools offering a “sectarian” education. The Carson family, consisting of parents Amy and David and their daughter Olivia, reside in Glenburn, Maine. Because Glenburn has no public school system, families with school-age children are eligible for a school-choice program that pays...