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Russia may need an Olympic "timeout" as doping issues resurface after figure skating prodigy Kamila Valieva tested positive for a banned substance at the Beijing Winter Games, senior International Olympic Committee (IOC) member Dick Pound from Canada said. Russian athletes at the Beijing Games are already not competing under their flag while carrying the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) on their uniforms, and their anthem is not being played at any ceremonies, following sanctions imposed for the widespread doping across many sports exposed after the Sochi Games. The 15-year-old Valieva became an early darling of the Beijing Games when she became...

Canadian police have apparently failed to reopen a bridge linking Ontario and Michigan, 24 hours after a judge ordered the span to be cleared of anti-vaccine mandate truckers who have occupied it for at least five days. Demonstrators who had spent the night in their vehicles or at nearby hotels rose with the sun Saturday, vowing to continue their fight against vaccine mandates and other COVID-19 restrictions. They gathered in small groups, discussing their strategies for keeping the bumper-to-bumper demonstration going. Police moving to end Canadian trucker protest after court order Police arrived just after 8 a.m. to begin moving...

In an exclusive interview with the Register, the prefect emeritus of the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith castigated the state of the Church in Germany and its ‘Synodal Way’ process.VATICAN CITY — Faithful Catholics are today facing a period of persecution, tribulation and “psychological terror” that, in an unprecedented way, is coming from within their own countries that have ancient Christian traditions, Cardinal Gerhard Müller has observed. The German cardinal made the observation in an exclusive Feb. 5 interview with the Register, during which he issued a blistering attack on the state of the Church in Germany and...

A bombshell report shows the depths of the Clinton campaign’s criminal activity. Special Counsel John Durham has filed a motion showing that lawyers for the Clinton campaign paid a technology company to “infiltrate” servers belonging to Trump Tower and later the White House. The purpose of this corrupt and illegal infiltration was to establish an “inference” and “narrative” to bring to government agencies linking Donald Trump to Russia. Durham filed a motion on Feb. 11 against former Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussman. Sussman has already been charged with making a false statement to a federal agent. He allegedly told then-FBI...

As of today, amendments to the Russian Penal Code are effective which stipulate mandatory life sentences for certain criminals found guilty of sexual crimes against minors of both sexes before 18 years of age. Such legislative measures have long been requested by concerned parents and public advocacy groups. The Chairman of the Patriarchal Commission on Family, Motherhood, and Childhood — priest Feodor Lukianov — has offered his comments on the new law. "This is the right time to tighten criminal liability for the molestation of minors, and for spreading sexual perversion in social media," insists Fr. Feodor. "Presently there are...

ROME — The bishop of the northern Italian diocese of Bergamo has suspended a priest of the diocese for publicly opposing Italy’s vaccine mandate. Bergamo Bishop Francesco Beschi relieved Father Emanuele Personeni from all pastoral duties just prior to the priest’s planned tour of parishes throughout Italy to protest the government’s imposition of the Green Pass on citizens. The priest has argued that the vaccine mandate and imposition of the green pass violate “the fundamental rights of the person.” Personeni wrote a letter to Pope Francis insisting that “the vaccine’s side effects certified by the American, European, and Italian supervisory...

Mayor Eric Adams on Friday urged social media firms to ban “drill” rap videos that glorify and promote violence. The mayor’s plea came a day after he gave an emotional speech about the life and death of 18-year-old drill rapper Jayquan McKenley, aka Chii Wvttz, who was gunned down in Bedford-Stuyvesant last Sunday. Adams said he was not familiar with drill rapping — which tends to have dark, violent themes, often including killing with semiautomatic weapons — until he spoke to his son, Jordan Coleman, who works at Jay-Z’s Roc-Nation. “I had no idea what drill rapping was. My son...

Global supplies of pharmaceutical drugs are getting tighter and tighter, and this has very serious implications for 2022 and beyond. If you depend upon a certain pharmaceutical drug in order to stay alive, I would recommend doing whatever you can to make sure that you have as much of that drug stockpiled as possible, because a day may come when you are unable to get any more for an extended period of time. Much of our drug production has been outsourced to China, and our relations with China are not going so well right now. In fact, the moment that...

Archbishop Richard Smith cast the truckers and protesters objecting to vaccine mandates as the rebellious and hard-hearted, angry mob that wanted to kill Jesus, both groups forming 'a convoy of resistance.' EDMONTON, Alberta (LifeSiteNews) — If there was a shred of hope in our Catholic hierarchy left, a recent homily from the Archbishop of Edmonton annihilated it. Our Canadian Catholic leaders are completely out-of-touch with reality. They don’t know the people they are meant to shepherd. They don’t even seem to attempt to understand the working class. They are elitists, as dogmatic and hypocritical as Pharisees. The reading for Sunday...

It’s a shame that news of Special Counsel John Durham’s court filing landed on a Saturday in which so much is already going on. This is a bombshell, blockbuster, story for the ages as it pretty much takes the crimes committed during Watergate and expands them exponentially. Except instead of Richard Nixon in the crosshairs, it’s Hillary Clinton.According to Infowars:A court filing by Special Counsel John Durham reveals that a Democrat tech executive spied on President-elect Donald Trump and the Executive Office in the White House on behalf of the Clinton campaign.Durham filed a motion Friday for U.S. District Court...

Police have blocked both ways southbound and northbound Huron Church Road with concrete barricades south of the intersection of College Avenue in Windsor, Ontario, Canada for ongoing freedom convoy trucker's rally. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGeyQ7pBhCs

Russia has accused both the US government and Western media outlets of stoking military tensions and rebuked claims that it plans to attack Ukraine early next week. “Hysteria at the White House is revealing more than ever. The Anglo-Saxons need war. At any cost. Provocations, disinformation and threats are [their] favorite method of solving their own problems,” Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova wrote on Friday evening. “The whole world is watching how militarism and imperial ambitions are exposing themselves,” Zakharova said, adding that “the propaganda brigade led by Bloomberg” is complicit in the ongoing escalation. Media outlets name another...

It’s able to swim through the water like a real fish can, but without any intelligence guiding its path. That wasn’t why the tiny fish automaton was created, however. Instead, researchers at Harvard and Emory University are using it as the groundwork towards growing organic artificial hearts one day. The fish’s design features a flexible tail that’s covered in a layer of heart muscle cells (cardiomyocytes derived from stem cells) on each side. When the cells on one side contract, it pulls the tail in that direction, and when the cells on the other side contract, it pulls the tail...

Nationwide, more than 100 drugs are in short supply, including antibiotics, diuretics, opioids and heart failure medications, FDA data shows. As of Jan. 11, 114 drugs were in shortage, according to the FDA's database of current and resolved drug shortages, which is updated daily. The current tally is a continuation of shortage levels seen last year. In November 2021, the FDA reported 112 drug shortages. The most recent drug added to the FDA's shortage list was heparin sodium and sodium chloride 0.9 percent injection, an anticoagulant, on Jan. 7. Dexmedetomidine injection, a sedative used for patients on ventilators, was added...

THE TREE OF LIFE "For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish, but have eternal life. For God did not send the Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world should be saved through Him." (John 3:16,17). One night I was watching a movie. At the end, the cowboy turned and put the name of his girlfriend in the window of his car for all to see. Then he put his arm around her and pulled her close. It has long been...

Are diplomatic relations between the Vatican and Beijing on the horizon?Vatican City, Feb 11, 2022 / 08:30 amAccording to Vatican sources, the establishment of diplomatic relations with Beijing is not on the horizon, despite what some recent appointments might suggest. On Jan. 31, the Vatican said that Msgr. Arnaldo Catalan, its chargé d’affaires in Taiwan, was being posted to Rwanda, where he will serve as apostolic nuncio.Days later on Feb. 5, Msgr. Javier Herrera Corona, head of the Holy See Study Mission in Hong Kong, was named apostolic nuncio to the Republic of the Congo and Gabon.The appointments leave two...

French police have squared off with thousands of protesters attempting to establish a Canadian-style convoy in Paris in response to the draconian coronavirus measures that Emmanuel Macron’s government has imposed upon the country. A little over a month after President Macron infamously announced that he wanted to “piss off” the unvaccinated people in France by introducing full-on vaccine passports in the country, over 3,000 vehicles have attempted to enter Paris to demand an end to the Covid regime. It is not clear at the time of writing how many vehicles of them actually made it into the city, as police...

In January 2019, WHO [1] defined the growing number of vaccine critics as one of the ten greatest threats to global health, and since the unprecedented corona vaccination fiasco [2], the number of vaccine refusers has really multiplied. Meanwhile, resistance is emerging even within the conventional medical community. But the masterminds at WHO continue to insist on an unrealistic vaccination rate of at least 70 percent. Now several experts and former mainstream journalists like John O’Sullivan are warning that the massive PCR testing campaign could be a WHO vaccination program in disguise. (see Principia Scientific) [3] O’Sullivan is referring to...

The violent Left who approved of BLM and Antifa burning down and looting entire cities across America, trapping federal agents, and then lighting then federal buildings and courthouses on fire, are now calling on the police officers they despise, government officials, and everyday citizens to use violence against the truckers in Canada who are defending the freedom of every citizen in Canada from COVID vaccine mandates and restrictions. The Truckers for Freedom Convoy movement for freedom, that’s received worldwide support, has curiously, infuriated liberals, who apparently, hate freedom. Liberals are so angry about the sacrifices truckers are making for their...

This is the greatest gift America gave to the world. Freedom. We may be crippled now, under siege by a fraudulent regime that stole the election but the rest of the world has taken on the mantle of freedom. Fight fascism. Now is the time.