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Freedom Convoy spokespeople host a press conference late Monday evening. Convoy spokesman Tom Marazzo says reinforcements may be needed imminently given rumours that have been going around. He says that he, along with the group's alternative scientists, are willing to meet with Trudeau on Tuesday. He also says that they are willing to meet with the Governor General as well as any or all of Canada's opposition parties.

Democratic strategist James Carville cursed out unvaccinated individuals on his podcast last week, saying anyone without a vaccine was a "piece of ----" and he wanted to punch them in the face. On Thursday's "Politics War Room with James Carville & Al Hunt," Carville and Hunt took a listener question wondering why President Biden would not pass a bill that bars unvaccinated citizens from interstate travel. SNIP "I wish what they’d do is pass a law to make you immune from liability if you punch some unvaccinated person right in the face, which I’d really like to do. If you...

“She standeth in the top of high places, by the way in the places of the paths. She crieth at the gates, at the entry of the city, at the coming in at the doors” (Proverbs 8:2-3 KJV).

A man was arrested in Santa Fe, New Mexico, after police said he broke into a home where he drank some beer, ate some shrimp and took a bath. Police said the homeowner found the intruder inside his home on the city's southwest side. The man told the homeowner he needed a warm place to stay, apologized for breaking in and left $200 on a chair to pay for the window he broke to get inside, police said. The intruder then left the home, taking his bag with him that the homeowner said contained an AR-style rifle. The next day,...

We might not have actually seen the last of Tom Brady in the NFL. While the undisputed greatest quarterback of all-time had what amounted to a several-day retirement last week, he is not ruling out an eventual comeback to the league. On his SiriusXM show “Let’s Go!” Brady was asked by co-host Jim Gray about the possibility of returning to football. “[Michael Jordan] came back. Muhammad Ali came back. Mike Tyson came back. So inevitably some quarterback’s going to get hurt or not perform at the level and it’s gonna start in July in training camp. It’s gonna go again...

Black Lives Matter’s (BLM) “Week of Action” was observed in schools across America last week and has left parents outraged. Numerous schools from Washington state to Massachusetts partook in the Week of Action from January 31 – February 4, where schools taught Black Lives Matter’s “13 Guiding Principles,” according to Fox News. The principles include “Globalism,” “Queer Affirming,” “Trans Affirming,” and “Black Villages,” BLM’s website shows. Under the principle of “Black Villages,” the page states: We are committed to disrupting the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure requirement by supporting each other as extended families and “villages” that collectively care for one...

A few years ago, a novel measurement technique showed that protons are probably smaller than had been assumed since the 1990s. The discrepancy surprised the scientific community; some researchers even believed that the Standard Model of particle physics would have to be changed. Physicists at the University of Bonn and the Technical University of Darmstadt have now developed a method that allows them to analyze the results of older and more recent experiments much more comprehensively than before. This also results in a smaller proton radius from the older data. So there is probably no difference between the values -...

A black student from Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville in Edwardsville, Illinois, is facing criminal charges for reporting racist notes to the police that she allegedly knew were not sent to her from an unknown perpetrator. Two white students who were falsely accused of placing notes on her dorm room door reading “BLACK PEOPLE DON’T BELONG” and “DIE BITCH” have been cleared following an investigation into the incident. Illinois law enforcement announced on Friday that Kaliyeha Clark-Mabins, a black college student, will be charged with three counts of disorderly conduct for filing a false police report late last month. According to the...

Hundreds of high school students in Oakdale, California, staged a protest in opposition of Gov. Gavin Newsom (D)’s mask mandate last week. Some students were sequestered inside a gym at one of the schools, according to footage that was posted to social media. A video circulating on social media last week showed California high school students in a gym not wearing masks. “Oakdale CA students throughout the district are refusing to wear masks. High schoolers have been sent to the gym and filled it with more unmasked students on their way,” read one tweet from an account that shared the...

Six adults attacked a 17-year-old girl in Berlin for not wearing a face-covering on a tram, beating her so hard she had to be taken to a hospital, reports state. The attack took place on Saturday evening after the girl reportedly refused to wear a mask on a tram in the Berlin district of Prenzlauer Berg. The unidentified girl who was travelling with her friends was initially racially abused when she refused to wear a mask after being told it was a legal requirement by the other passengers, reports claim. Die Welt notes that once the girl left the train...

OROVILLE, Calif. - The woman who was shot and killed last week aboard a Greyhound bus in Oroville, Calif., died protecting her children, according to her family. Karin Dalton, the 43-year-old mother of four, was gunned down allegedly by Asaahdi Coleman, who started shooting at passengers as they exited the Los Angeles-bound bus after it stopped at a convenience store authorities said.

The Texas Freedom Coalition, a network of conservative advocates, made several requests to various sources for information pertaining to data collected regarding COVID-19 hospitalizations in the unvaccinated versus the vaccinated. These requests followed several articles published throughout Texas and the nation proclaiming that Texas hospitals were rapidly reaching capacity with unvaccinated coronavirus patients and that it is now a “pandemic of the unvaccinated.” Information received by TFC in response to the inquiry tells another story entirely. Texas hospitals and Texas Public Health Agencies neither collect or report data related to Covid-19 hospitalizations in the vaccinated vs. the unvaccinated. Although various...

"And he spake to his disciples, that a small ship should wait on him because of the multitude, lest they should throng him. For he had healed many; insomuch that they pressed upon him for to touch him, as many as had plagues. And unclean spirits, when they saw him, fell down before him, and cried, saying, Thou art the Son of God. And he straitly charged them that they should not make him known." "And he goeth up into a mountain, and calleth unto him whom he would: and they came unto him. And he ordained twelve, that they...

Olympic athletes are exposing the disturbing measures China is taking in an attempt to hold a “COVID-free” Olympics.According to the UK Daily Mail, dozens of athletes said they had experienced inhumane conditions while in isolation due to positive COVID-19 tests.Russian biathlete Valeria Vasnetsova said she was served an extremely small and unappealing meal three times a day for five days while she was in isolation. By the end, she said her “bones [were] sticking out,” the Daily Mail reported.Vasnetsova posted a picture of the unsavory meal she was provided to Instagram.Is China using quarantines to rig the Olympics?A Russian athlete,...

Researchers have detected tiny airborne particles containing RNA from SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, both inside and outside of rooms in which infected people were self-isolating at home.This finding suggests that airborne transmission beyond the isolation rooms in homes may pose a risk of infection to other home occupants.The study, in Annals of the American Thoracic Society, is the first report of household air contamination with SARS-CoV2 RNA under typical daily living conditions when a household member is infected. Airborne transmission in crowded living conditions may be one reason for higher rates of COVID-19 infection among people with lower...

Researchers of a new study say that two patients with leukemia continued to be in remission a decade after they were first infused with the experimental CAR T-cell therapy that turned their immune cells into cancer-killing cells.In 2010, Doug Olson and Bill Ludwig, participated in an experimental phase 1 clinical trial of the immunotherapy, after their cancer had mutated and no longer responded to the standard treatments. Both were battling chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), a type of blood and bone marrow cancer. Olsen was diagnosed in 1996 and Lugwig in 2000.Dr. Carl H. June, a senior author, and director of...

HONG KONG, Feb 7 (Reuters) - Hong Kong residents crowded supermarkets and neighbourhood fresh food markets on Monday to stock up on vegetables, noodles and other necessities after a record number of COVID-19 infections in the city and transport disruptions at the border with mainland China. The city of 7.5 million people reported a record 614 coronavirus cases on Monday, in the biggest test yet for the Chinese territory's zero-COVID strategy. Hong Kong imports 90% of its food supplies, with the mainland its most important source, especially for fresh food. Consumers have already seen a shortage of some foreign imported...