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In 2017, Michel Roccati was in a motorbike accident that left his lower body completely paralyzed. In 2020, he walked again, thanks to a breakthrough new spinal cord implant. The implant sends electrical pulses to his muscles, mimicking the action of the brain, and could one day help people with severe spinal injuries stand, walk, and exercise. It builds on long-running research into using electrical pulses to improve quality of life for people with spinal cord injuries, including a 2018 study by the same team that helped people with partial lower-body paralysis walk again. "It was a very emotional experience,"...

Douglas Trumbull, the visual effects visionary who, without CGI, fashioned the kaleidoscopic finale for 2001: A Space Odyssey, concocted the creepy cloud formations in Close Encounters of the Third Kind, filled the Blade Runner universe with smoke and fireballs and helped create the birth of the universe that opens The Tree of Life, has died. He was 79. Trumbull died Monday after a “major two-year battle with cancer, a brain tumor and a stroke,” his daughter Amy wrote on Facebook. “My sister Andromed and I got to see him on Saturday and tell him that we love him and we...

Australian police stormed into a Catholic mass Friday evening searching for mask less individuals. Sky News Australia reported that St. Bernadette’s Catholic Church in Mount Hawthorn, Perth had to pause its service while a police officer walked through the church to “ensure every parishioner was masked.” The parishioner, in his interview, added that the police “proceeded to check three or four parishioners’ exemptions and then left, everything was in order,” he said, referring to an exemption which is required from a doctor for somebody to skip the mask requirement.

For years grooming gangs in England visited sexual harm upon countless young women. The abuse went unconfronted for years for fear of being called racist. It was a terrible thing and something similar is happening in the US right now. Not satisfied with tolerance, LGBTQ activists are now grooming children to join their ranks in a clandestine manner, without parental knowledge. In California: Two teachers in a California school district are accused of coaching a student into coming out as transgender behind the backs of the student’s parents, according to video footage circulating on social media. When the parents objected...

Lightbound was alone in voicing these concerns in a press conference on Tuesday, but says he is not the only Liberal MP who is feeling uneasy with the direction the government has taken.... He said that he couldn’t help but notice that “both the tone and the policies” of his government changed “drastically on the eve and during the last election campaign”. “From a positive and unifying approach, a decision was made to wedge, to divide and to stigmatize. I fear that this politicization of the pandemic risks undermining the public’s trust in our public health institutions. Lightbound underlined that...

A Night with The UntouchablesI live in downtown Ottawa, right in the middle of the trucker convoy protest. They are literally camped out below my bedroom window. My new neighbours moved in on Friday and they seem determined to stay. I have read a lot about what my new neighbours are supposedly like, mostly from reporters and columnists who write from distant vantage points somewhere in the media heartland of Canada. Apparently the people who inhabit the patch of asphalt next to my bedroom are white supremacists, racists, hatemongers, pseudo-Trumpian grifters, and even QAnon-style nutters. I have a perfect view...

Saskatchewan ENDED THE COVID RESTRICTIONS!!! Beautiful!!! FEB 14 -- THE DAY OF LOVE!!!!! Things will be back to normal!

A bipartisan pair of senators on Monday introduced a bill that would require large companies to undergo an audit that seeks to detect forced labor being used in companies’ supply chains. The bill, introduced by Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) and Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), would mandate an annual audit for companies that earn at least $500 million in revenue a year that are involved in mining, manufacturing and the production of goods for sale. The results of the audit would then be submitted to the Department of Labor and ultimately be made public. If the audit discovers that companies are complicit...

The eco doom-mongering TIME magazine virtue-signaled that the U.S. needs to fight climate change if it's serious about fighting inflation. Really. The rag published a bonkers Feb. 3 article headlined, “If the U.S. Wants to Fully Tackle Inflation, It Needs to Tackle Climate Change.” After blaming consumers in part for driving the worst inflation seen in nearly 40 years, along with supply shortages caused by the COVID-19 lockdowns, the magazine started babbling nonsense. “[B]eneath the headlines economists say that extreme weather events tied to climate change are also contributing to inflation. Across the world, climate-linked disasters have killed crops, disrupted...

"I almost don't have words for how low it made me feel," says Melissa Henderson. When COVID-19 shut down her children's daycare in May of 2020, and Melissa Henderson had to go to work, she asked her 14-year-old daughter, Linley, to babysit the four younger siblings. Linley was engaged in remote learning when her youngest brother, four-year-old Thaddeus, spied his friend outside and went over to play with him. It was about 10 or 15 minutes before Linley realized he was missing. She guessed that he must be at his friend's house, and went to fetch him. In the meantime,...

The U.S. Postal Service defended its plan to replace the majority of its delivery vehicles with gas-powered trucks while electrifying some of its fleet. “Our commitment to an electric fleet remains ambitious given the pressing vehicle and safety needs of our aging fleet as well as our dire financial condition,” Postmaster General Louis DeJoy said in a statement on Sunday. “The proposed action, which we are evaluating under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), includes an initial order plan for 5,000 electric vehicles, and the flexibility to increase the number of electric vehicles introduced should additional funding become available.” The...

The agency said Feb. 7 it awarded a contract valued at up to $194 million to Lockheed to develop the Mars Ascent Vehicle (MAV), an essential element of the overall Mars Sample Return campaign being developed by NASA and the European Space Agency. The MAV will be transported to Mars on a NASA-led Sample Retrieval Lander, which will also carry an ESA-developed rover. That rover will pick up samples of Martian rock and regolith cached by Perseverance and return them to the lander. Perseverance may also return some samples to the lander on its own. Those samples will be loaded...

“When Jesus saw the crowds, He went up on the mountain; and after He sat down, His disciples came to Him” (Matthew 5:1). The gospel of the kingdom’s foundational truth (contained in the Sermon on the Mount) has had an impact for two thousand years on all who read and hear it. At least five reasons come to mind as to why Jesus’ greatest of sermons is so important. First, the Sermon demonstrates the necessity of the new birth. In order for us to recognize our sin, Jesus made a fuller, clearer presentation of the law, followed by His offer...

The inspector general for the U.S. Capitol Police (USCP) has opened a formal investigation into whether the law enforcement agency tasked with securing the Capitol has been inappropriately surveilling elected members of Congress, their staff, and visitors to their offices, The Federalist has learned. The opening of the investigation follows news reports and accusations from lawmakers that USCP has overstepped its bounds as it tries to recover from the January 6 riots that tarnished both the Capitol and the reputation of the law enforcement agency that was supposed to keep it safe. USCP Chief J. Thomas Manger confirmed the opening...

Jesus died on the cross to purchase peace with God for me, and he’s in heaven now to maintain that peace for me and in me. The peace we have with God through Christ distinguishes our faith from all other religions. In every other religion besides Christianity, the sin question is never settled. Sin’s dominion simply hasn’t been broken. Therefore, “’There is no peace,’ says the Lord, ‘for the wicked.’” (Isaiah 48:22, NKJV), but we have a God who provides peace by pardoning sin. This is the very reason Jesus came to earth: to bring peace to troubled, fearful humankind....

The current location is 234,461,410 miles (377,329,180 km, 2.522 AU, 20.98 light minutes) from Earth, moving away from Earth at a speed of 3,608 mi/h (5,806 km/h, 1.61 km/s). [Numbers adjust in real time] It has achieved a fuel economy of 15,691.1 miles per gallon (6,671.0 km/liter, 0.01499 liters/100 km), assuming 126,000 gallons of fuel. If the battery was still working, Starman has listened to Space Oddity 397,542 times since he launched in one ear, and to Is there Life On Mars? 535,670 times in his other ear. Starman has completed about 2.6269 orbits around the Sun since launch.

Months ago, a man who was featured on the FBI website — and wanted for attacking police at the Capitol during Jan. 6 attacks — died. The FBI must now decide what to do with these photos. Since Jan. 6, the FBI has posted photos of over 500 people on its U.S. Capitol Violence webpage. Over 350 people listed on the page have not been arrested. Several others have been identified online. The website labels people who are currently in jail as “arrest.” The FBI has removed some images from its database of people who have not been arrested in...

Wasting food is particularly hard on a food budget. Think about it. You’ve already spent the money. And you get zero benefit from it when it hits the trash. Can’t get much worse than that if you’re a Dollar Stretcher. How much do we waste? Good question. And, not an easy one to answer. According to data from RTS.com, “the United States discards more food than any other country in the world: nearly 40 million tons — 80 billion pounds — every year.” 43% of that waste is by consumers at home. Yes, we are throwing almost 35 billion pounds...

State Department spokesperson Ned Price was pressed in a heated back and forth Monday with The Associated Press' diplomatic reporter on whether the Biden administration lifting some sanctions benefited the Shia Islamist regime. Lee asked, "Ned, are you saying that that long list of things that you said that these waivers give. You're saying that there's no benefit to Iran in any of that?" Price replied, "I am saying that the net benefit of this is a nonproliferation goal for us."

Justin Trudeau’s brother spills the globalist secrets… Kyle Kemper born in 1984 to Margaret Trudeau and her second husband Fred Kemper I encourage watching this short video.