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Webb sunshield tensioning. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab The Webb team has completed tensioning for the first three layers of the observatory’s kite-shaped sunshield, 47 feet across and 70 feet long. The first layer – pulled fully taut into its final configuration – was completed mid-afternoon. The team began the second layer at 4:09 pm EST today, and the process took 74 minutes. The third layer began at 5:48 pm EST, and the process took 71 minutes. In all, the tensioning process from the first steps this morning until the third layer achieved tension took just...

Sometimes I give my peers in conservative media too much credit. When a story broke a couple of days ago that an insurance company reported a 40% increase in death claims recently, I didn’t drop everything to write up an article. I assumed it would get massive coverage on right-leaning outlets since it’s the smoking gun that only requires a little investigation and common sense to demonstrate the primary source of the increase is the vaccines. When it popped the next day on The Gateway Pundit, I figured from there it would blossom. We got it up on The Liberty...

There are wedding bells in Donald Trump Jr.'s future. The eldest son of former president Donald Trump is engaged, according to multiple outlets. He popped the question to former Fox News anchor Kimberly Guilfoyle more than a year ago on New Year's Eve 2020, per DailyMail.com. However, it wasn't until New Year's 2021 that she seemingly revealed her engagement ring to the public while sharing a photo with Don Jr. at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Fla. "Tonight was extra special celebrating @donaldjtrumpjr's birthday," Kimberly, 52, wrote on Instagram. "Don, you are strong, smart, courageous, funny and the love of my...

MEMORIAL OF SAINT ELIZABETH ANN SETON, RELIGIOUS MARK 6:34-44 Friends, today’s Gospel shows Jesus’ compassion for the multitude in the desert. “When Jesus saw the vast crowd, his heart was moved with pity for them, for they were like sheep without a shepherd; and he began to teach them many things.” There is the motif of the people Israel in the desert after their escape from Egypt. Isolated, alone, afraid, without food, they clamored for something from Moses. Here we see people who are dying to be fed, and a prophet who is under threat of death. This crowd around...

A woman in Argentina stripped down to her underwear and attempted to use her dress as a face covering to get around an ice cream parlor’s mask mandate, video shows. “Don’t ask for my face mask, I’m putting it on,” she boldly tells the staff at the store in Godoy Cruz, a city in the western province of Mendoza, before she strips down. The surveillance footage also shows a man approach the counter with his three daughters as the comical scene unfolds.

Toyota passed G.M. in world sales in 2009...now this. I remember when japanese cars were ridiculed and called "rice burners"....unions ruined the American car companies.

Illinois police sergeant Marlene Rittmanic was begging for her life moments before she was shot dead with her own firearm by a gunman in a hotel last week, according to documents obtained by Fox News. On Monday, Kankakee County State’s Attorney Jim Rowe said in court that Sgt. Rittmanic was pleading with the suspects at the time Sullivan fired the fatal shots into her. Sgt. Rittmanic was begging the suspects to just leave, saying ‘you don’t have to do this, please just go, please don’t please don’t.’ She was desperately pleading for her life.” On December 29, 49-year-old Bradley police...

Hundred of birders flocked to the Pine Tree State for a glimpse of the rare raptor.A rare eagle, recently spotted in Massachusetts, has made its way to Maine. Hundreds of birders gathered in Georgetown, Maine, on New Year’s Eve to view the Steller’s sea eagle, likely the same one seen recently near the Taunton River, according to the Portland Press Herald. The bird — native to China, Japan, Korea, and eastern Russia, according to Smithsonian Magazine — has created a stir across the country. The bird was first seen in North America on Alaska’s Denali Highway in August 2020. According...

" At the Open Mind Conference, Ole Dammegard discussed the templates and methods normally used in false flag operations. This year, he is back again with another angle on the subject. https://lightonconspiracies.com Category Education Sensitivity Normal - Content that is suitable for ages 16 and over"

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As we told you earlier, there’s an ongoing humanitarian crisis on I-95 in northern Virginia where thousands of motorists were stranded overnight in the aftermath of Monday’s snowstorm and frigid temperatures. SNIP

Imraan Siddiqi - Executive Director - CAIR Washington [https://www.linkedin.com/in/imraansiddiqi] Imraan Siddiqi @imraansiddiqi Tweeted: "F*** Arabs" - Ohio Muslim Family's Home Vandalized With Swastika https://hatehurts.net/2017/01/11/f-arabs-ohio-muslim-familys-home-vandalized-with-swastika/… via @hatehurts_ Jan 11, 2017 https://twitter.com/imraansiddiqi/status/819277136527695872?s=20 ____ Andy Ngô (@MrAndyNgo) Tweeted: Another incident blamed on Trump’s America at the time: In Jan 2017 in Ohio, a Muslim family’s home was painted w/a swastika & message that read “F— Arabs.” Man who did it was Osama Nazzal, an Arab. Feb 20, 2019 https://t.co/zGpQM1jK0p #HateHoax https://t.co/tpyP7VXHMw https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1098385771919110145?s=20

The latest proclamation from King Joe runs counter to the buzz promoted by the media. Supposedly, Joe Manchin had returned to negotiations on Joe Biden’s Build Back Better plan, and might even have signaled a willingness to do a nuclear-option carve-out on the filibuster for the election-federalizing SB1.Not so fast, Manchin said a few minutes ago. First, no one’s changed positions at all on BBB and there haven’t been any new talks so far:

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (WVIR) - Doctor Patrick Jackson with the University of Virginia has advice for people looking to get vaccinated. Dr. Jackson says COVID-19 vaccines have a very low Myocarditis or heart inflammation risk, however the risk is highest in young men. He says says the Johnson & Johnson vaccine does not have any association with this side effect and could be the best choice for some. “Now that we have more data about these vaccines people can talk to their doctors about which vaccine might be the ideal one for them, or even now that we have some flexibility,...

Furious drivers stranded on I-95 in Virginia for more than 20 hours without gas, food and water are demanding that Governor Ralph Northam speed up rescue efforts as they resort to calling DoorDash in a dire effort to get food. 'We have to find a way to get national guard here. Diabetics and babies down here. People are going die here,' a friend told NBC's Jim Scarborough, who tweeted the quote in a plea to get people rescued faster as the 50-mile stretch of highway south of the nation’s capital was still closed Tuesday morning after six tractor-trailers jackknifed the...

An elementary school student in Indonesia’s Jombang Regency tragically passed away after receiving the Sinovac COVID-19 jab. 9-year-old Naura Sabrina Galiyah took the injection on 12/22 and started feeling ill two days later. The child died of complications on 12/31. Naura was the youngest of four children to Joko (46) and Marwatun (42). ... Marwatun said Naura took part in Sinovac’s COVID-19 vaccination at SDN Catakgayam 1 on Wednesday (22/12) morning. Two days later, his youngest daughter still had time to go to school. Coming home from school on Friday (24/12), Naura began to get sick. “The pain was on...

In a new study, Ellebedy's team found Pfizer vaccinations rev up "T helper cells" that act as the drill sergeant in those training camps, driving production of more diverse and stronger antibodies that may work even if the virus changes again. Ellebedy said baseline population immunity has improved so much that even as breakthrough infections inevitably continue, there will be a drop in severe illnesses, hospitalizations and deaths—regardless of the next variant. "We are not the same population that we were in December of 2019," he said. "It's different ground now." Think of a wildfire tearing through a forest after...

The church as we know it today began with repentance. When Peter preached the cross at Pentecost, thousands came to Christ. This new church was made up of one body, consisting of all races, filled with love for one another. Its corporate life was marked by evangelism, a spirit of sacrifice and even martyrdom. The wonderful beginning reflects God’s words about Israel: “I had planted you a noble vine, a seed of highest quality.” The rest of that verse describes what often happens to such works. “How then have you turned before me into the degenerate plant of an alien...

Credit: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH Researchers from the UArizona College of Medicine – Tucson found that the bacterial lysate OM-85 blocked SARS-CoV-2 infection by decreasing the ability of the coronavirus to bind to the lung cell surface receptor ACE2. A team of University of Arizona Health Sciences researchers at the UArizona College of Medicine – Tucson found that a combination of bacterial extracts used in Europe to treat respiratory infections may offer a new way to prevent or reduce infection by SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. The study, published in the Journal of Allergy and...

“Jesus answering said to him, ‘Permit it at this time; for in this way it is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness’” (Matthew 3:15). The most important symbol Jesus’ baptism gives us is a perfect example of obedience to God the Father. Our Lord always modeled obedience in all things (e.g., Phil. 2:6–8; cf. Matt. 17:25–27). In submitting to baptism, Jesus affirmed the validity of John’s standard of righteousness and demonstrated that baptism was God’s will to which every believer should be obedient. Furthermore, Jesus’ baptism is a profound, symbolic identification with sinful humanity. Hundreds of years earlier the...