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It is not an understatement to call this a battle of good and evil. It literally is. And on Friday, February 11, satanists from across the world will converge on Scottsdale, Arizona and for three days conduct rituals, services, celebrations, and more debauched and evil events. It’s SatanCon from February 11-13. The satanists chose to locate their conference in Scottsdale as a push back against the city for declining their request to deliver a satanic invocation before the Scottsdale City Council meeting. The organizers of the satanic conference say that they want people to think of Satan when they think...

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Shame on the New York Times! Instead of asking “Where are the fathers of these children?” the New York Times blames childhood poverty on lack of government funding. Also, shame on the New York Times for saying “they had little choice.”Here is a recent article from the New York Times about a bunch of unmarried women and their out-of-wedlock babies.The word “father” does not appear in the article.Instead, the New York Times uses the following words and phrases to explain why these women and children are living in poverty:“have few options”“waiting for subsidized housing”“18 people had been inside the four-bedroom...

In the span of a week, three American-born athletes of Chinese descent have been thrust into the spotlight at the Beijing Winter Olympics -- to very different reactions in China. All three were trained in the United States and are only a few years apart in age, but their paths diverged on the way to the Games: freestyle skier Eileen Gu and figure skater Zhu Yi chose to compete for China, while Nathan Chen, another figure skater, opted for Team USA. The young athletes have found themselves embroiled in deteriorating US-China relations, during one of the most divisive, tightly controlled...

President Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin will speak by phone Saturday as US officials warn that Russia may launch an invasion of Ukraine within days. A White House official told The Post “they will be speaking Saturday morning. Russia proposed a call Monday. We counter-proposed Saturday, and they accepted.”

There are millions of people who think Al Gore invented the Internet for the sole purpose of spreading cat videos. We should not be surprised then that this led to cats developing serious internet addictions. Can’t stop watching the catjinks Which led to another sub-category of internet entertainment: videos for cats. Nine hours worth at a time for cats that have developed other serious personality disorders such as separation anxiety.All of which explains the latest Internet assisted way to waste time. The meme is titled “There’s No Cat in This Picture,” in which there is. It started out easy enough.But...

A challenge to the Missouri Second Amendment Protection Act (SAPA) by St Louis and Jackson Counties failed in Circuit court. It is being appealed to the Missouri Supreme Court. The United States is a Constitutional Republic, not a direct democracy. The system was designed and built with a specific set of checks and balances to set government power against government power, to protect the citizens from the centralized abuse of government authority against them. Hillsdale College offers an excellent, free, online course on the subject.In Missouri, Second Amendment advocates have spent years developing a state law to aid in protecting...

WASHINGTON (AP) — As Republicans impose new restrictions on ballot access in multiple states, President Biden has no easy options for safeguarding voting rights despite rising pressure from frustrated activists. Unlike on other issues such as immigration or environmental protection, the White House has little leverage without congressional action as the November elections creep up. “If there were some sort of easily available presidential power on this, others would have done it,” said Nicholas Stephanopoulos, a Harvard Law School professor who researches election law. “There is no significant unilateral authority here.” Nine months before elections that will determine control of...

Some European countries have recently barged ahead by introducing wide-ranging Covid-19 vaccine mandates, but, as Statista's Katharina Buchholz details below, such major vaccination obligations also exist in Latin America and Asia. Austria's new law that mandates all adults to be vaccinated against the coronavirus went into effect last week amid controversy, while neighboring Germany is mulling a similar move. Aging societies Italy, Greece and Czechia meanwhile opted for mandatory vaccines among at-risk age groups. These are defined as those over the age of 60 in Greece and the Czech Republic and those over the age of 50 in Italy. As...

The Hague (AFP) – A convoy of vehicles from across the Netherlands brought The Hague's city centre to a standstill on Saturday, protesting against coronavirus restrictions. Inspired by Canadian truckers who congested the capital Ottawa, several hundred vehicles blocked access to the Binnehof, seat of the Dutch government, according to an estimate by public television. The protesters started to arrive in the early morning in trucks, cars, tractors and even caravans, and many seemed determined to stay on even after a police warning on Twitter to move by 3:30 pm (1430 GMT). The convoy will "continue to roll until fundamental...

The Covid-19 figures for England are produced by the UK Health Security Agency (see here).Their latest data is available as a downloadable pdf here. Page 43 contains data on Covid-19 cases in England by vaccination status from 3rd Jan 22 to 30th Jan 22 and reveals that the majority of cases in January were among the triple vaccinated.The following chart shows the Covid-19 case-rates per 100,000 by vaccination status for each age group over the age of 18 in England, plus the average case rate per 100,000 for all adults in England – Concerningly the case rights have been highest...

BOLIVAR, Mo. (KY3) - A 35-year-old Willard man is facing a felony terrorism charge after being accused of threatening one of the coaches on his son’s basketball team. The incident happened during a high school tournament at Bolivar High School on January 27 in a match-up between a pair of junior varsity teams, Morrisville (Marion C. Early) and Branson. Bolivar police were called to the gym around 7:40 p.m. on a disturbance call after 35-year-old Bryan Scott Pellham allegedly got upset with one of the coaches for the Morrisville team that his son plays on. “From our interview, he was...

Police have intercepted hundreds of vehicles trying to enter Paris as part of a protest against France's coronavirus regulations. Authorities have deployed more than 7,000 officers over the next three days in a bid to stop the demonstrators. Some vehicles managed to arrive at the Arc de Triomphe in the city, and tear gas was fired at demonstrators on the nearby Champs-Élysées. Similar demonstrations have started to spread around the world. Austria and Belgium have banned such convoys from entering their capitals, with similar demonstrations also emerging in Australia, New Zealand and the Netherlands. The groups were inspired by the...

Tucker Carlson went on an extended, incredible monologue about the truckers’ strike in Canada and the ongoing efforts by both the Canadian government and their counterparts in the United States to demonize, vilify, and hurt the protest movement over mandates and restrictions. “So we've been covering this truck strike in Canada all week. And at the end of the week, there are a couple of different images that kind of float around your head. Picture that cops stealing the fuel from the freezing truckers. You picture the smiling truckers, talking about love and waving Canadian flags,” said Carlson. “Totally non-threatening....

FORT HENRY, Friday, Feb. 7, 1862. For several days, at Paducah, outsiders suspected that something was on foot, from the fact that the utmost vigilance was exercised at the headquarters of the Provost-Marshal, in issuing passes, and on Sunday and Monday no person was allowed to pass in or out of the lines. Suspicion grew into almost certainty when, Sunday night, half a dozen gunboat steamed leisurely into port and brought their black forms to anchor opposite the levee, in the centre of the river. Monday afternoon, steamers commenced coming up from Cairo, laden with troops and stores, and by...

Warning: This story contains words and images that are graphic and cruel. A Maricopa County Superior Court judge and her staff mocked and ridiculed people during hearings and trials by routinely emailing each other cruel and obscene statements, jokes, and memes. The conduct happened in major felony cases, including high-profile capital murders. Emails and internal records obtained by ABC15 show no one was off-limits: Defendants, their families, jurors, witnesses, attorneys, even other court employees and top court officials. The judge was Erin O’Brien Otis.

2. AUTOIMMUNE PHENOMENA FOLLOWING COVID‐19 VACCINATION Autoimmune disease flares and new‐onset disease following coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) vaccination have recently been reported. 14 , 15 In general, all these cases appeared rare and most of them were moderate in severity and had an excellent resolution of inflammatory features, with the use of corticosteroids alone 14 , 15 (indicating that COVID‐19 vaccines are actually safe). The use of TLR7/8 and TLR9 agonists, as adjuvants of the available mRNA and DNA severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS‐CoV‐2) vaccines, may be the trigger of these post‐vaccination autoimmune/inflammatory phenomena, 14 as it is...

STORY AT-A-GLANCEThe Internet of Underwater Things is an invasive and dangerous initiative that has been quietly unfolding for a number of yearsDevelopment of “smart oceans” is a part of the overall agenda of financialization of natureThe initiative requires introduction of a wide range of invasive technologies into the ocean on a massive scale (including potentially 6G)The Internet of Underwater Things involves device communication using acoustic waves, which can drastically interfere with marine life as inhabitants of the ocean rely on acoustic signals for basic everyday functionsAmong the interested parties are World Economic Forum and DARPAThis story is about a crazy...

Vassalboro official had ordered marijuana growing business to close prior to fire VASSALBORO — The marijuana cultivation facility that was destroyed by an accidental fire Monday was unlicensed by the town of Vassalboro and had been ordered at the end of January to vacate the building within 60 days. In a letter dated Jan. 25, Ryan Page, Vassalboro’s code enforcement officer, informed Patrick Waibel, owner of GameBred, that he had 60 days from the date of the letter to stop all unapproved medical marijuana cultivation at the building at 647 Webber Pond Road. The business has apparently run afoul of...

“Perhaps for the ruling class the only thing that would be more terrifying than seeing children go to school without masks is the idea of losing elections.” — Grace Curley, The SpectatorThe whopping untruths launched onto the people of Western Civ by their governments reformatted the brains of millions so badly that they shuffled obediently into a mass formation and ran over a buffalo jump. What a stampede it has been!But suddenly, the remaining buffaloes are balking at the cliff’s edge, seeing the bodies pile up below. Some of the bulls have even turned the other way and started charging...