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Hollywood celebrities supported a Black Lives Matter bail fund that recently bailed out Quintez Brown, the BLM and anti-gun activist who has been charged with the attempted murder of a mayoral candidate in Louisville, Kentucky. Celebrities who have promoted or donated to the Louisville Community Bail Fund, which is overseen by Black Lives Matter Louisville, include ABC’s Scandal star Kerry Washington, actress-singer Janelle Monáe, Schitt’s Creek actor Dan Levy, Jeopardy! host Mayim Bialik, and Hamilton star Lin-Manuel Miranda.

Parliament was set to debate Justin Trudeau's Monday morning invocation of the Emergencies Act, a law that is already being used to arrest protesters and seize bank accounts of those involved with or supporting the Freedom Convoy in Ottawa. As per the Parliamentary Protective Service’s (PPS) most recent email notification, a police operation is expected to take place on Wellington Street and other locations in the downtown core of Ottawa.

This dissertation on Vatican II influenced Rome’s decision to lift the excommunications of the SSPX bishopsLifeSiteNews has learned that this dissertation was timely and had a positive influence upon the Vatican’s decision to remove the excommunications of the four bishops of the Society of St. Pius X (SSPX), who were consecrated in 1988, in January of 2009. Fri Feb 18, 2022 - 3:33 pm ESTFri Feb 18, 2022 - 3:34 pm EST (LifeSiteNews) — There lies in Rome a story that has not yet been told but that deserves our attention. In 2006, Msgr. Florian Kolfhaus, a member of the...

A Crucial Clue in the $4.5 Billion Bitcoin Heist: A $500 Walmart Gift Card Increasingly sophisticated tools and some gift cards helped lead investigators to charge a young couple with conspiring to launder billions Federal investigators spent years hunting for clues in the 2016 hacking of the Bitfinex cryptocurrency exchange, when thieves stole bitcoin now worth $4.5 billion. In the end, what helped lead them to two suspects was something much more quotidian: a $500 Walmart gift card. That card and more than a dozen others like it, including for Uber, Hotels.com and PlayStation, were linked to emails and cloud...

As several states lift their COVID-19 restrictions, health experts are warning of a new sub-variant of Omicron called BA.2. The subvariant has been spotted in 74 countries and 47 U.S. states. Research suggests BA.2 could spread faster and may cause more severe disease, as well as be resistant to some of the current COVID-19 vaccines. The findings come from new lab experiments in Japan, which health experts emphasize haven't been peer-reviewed. "We are certainly watching this BA.2 this sub-lineage of Omicron because it is showing some kind of level of transmission advantage,” says Dr. Margaret Harris, of the World Health...

It's asymmetrical: we are happy to listen to and refute their statements, but they are not happy to listen to and refute our statements. Here are the excuses they use.Steve Kirsch Here’s my list of excuses used by people for not believing people and/or data that goes against the official narrative (collected over the past 6 months from multiple sources):Generic excusesI don’t want to read it.I don’t have time to read it.It was too long to read.There was a typo in the 3rd paragraph so obviously this is a low quality paper and not worth reading.I saw the list of...

Avi Yemini @OzraeliAvi Ottawa Police Chief says even if protesters “retreat and go home”, they’ll be hunted and punished.Meaning they have ZERO incentive to leave.Because cowering won’t save them.

20+ minutes ...Worth a listen methinks .

My friend Marc Girardot has written a series of 9 COVID myth buster articles designed for the average layperson to understand. They may not convert a blue to a red pill however.Steve KirschI’ve known Marc since shortly after I realized the vaccines were bad news.He recently wrote 9 articles for his COVID "Myth Buster" series.You can see all of these on his COVID Myth Buster Series substack.Here are a few:Safety (3)What happens to those billions of NanoParticles you've become host to?Two Fundamental Mechanisms that Explain Serious Adverse Effects Post-Vaccination What could go wrong? Designed for the muscle, inadvertently shot in...

In many years, we wouldn’t have a seventh Sunday of Ordinary Time, because of how Lent usually falls, but we do this year, and it is providential, because the teachings of the Readings for this Lord’s Day are particularly relevant. The Readings are united by the theme of love for enemies, which is one of the most difficult forms of love to practice. The First Reading and the Gospel show that, in both the Old Covenant and the New Covenant eras, God is on the side of those who pay back hatred with love. 1. Our First Reading is 1...

Andrew Scheer - Parliament is suspended! Before MPs even finish debating Trudeau’s massive power grab, the House of Commons gets shut down. https://youtu.be/lC4tlUkAP6o

A group of parents of students at Weaver Elementary School in Los Alamitos are upset with the Los Alamitos Unified School District after learning about the sleeping arrangements at a school-organized science camp in San Bernardino County.

WHY DO WE STILL HAVE SCARS? One of the greatest truths we can know in life is that God is always able and willing to forgive us for our shortcomings. All we have to do is ask for His forgiveness. And if God is willing, then we too, should forgive ourselves. Yet one of the greatest ironies concerning forgiveness is that the painful memories, the scars of our past, remain with us. We may wonder, "What's the sense in receiving forgiveness if the scars from the painful memory remain?" Maybe the question should be, "What goes through your mind...

A Dutch teenager completely forgot his native tongue after waking up from surgery and could only speak English, doctors have revealed. The unidentified 17-year-old boy, thought to be from Maastricht, was in hospital for a knee operation following an injury during a football match. But after he awoke from the anesthesia, he was unable to speak or understand any of the medics, who were speaking in Dutch. Instead, he was only able to talk in English — a language he had only been learning at school and never used outside of the classroom. The boy also failed to recognise his...

Three Southwestern Ontario women face charges following a St. Thomas police probe into an unauthorized bingo. Police launched an investigation after being contacted by the family of a person who lost $5,000 while participating in an unauthorized bingo, police said Thursday. Investigators determined the three alleged organizers of the bingo weren’t licensed by the Alcohol and Gaming Commission, the province’s gaming and gambling regulator, police said. A Strathroy woman, 50, was arrested Wednesday and charged with fraud under $5,000 and operating an unauthorized lottery. Investigators also obtained arrest warrants for a Strathroy woman, 62, and a Rodney woman, 61, on...

SMETHPORT, Pa. — Some Democrats here in rural Pennsylvania are afraid to tell you they’re Democrats. The party’s brand is so toxic in the small towns 100 miles northeast of Pittsburgh that some liberals have removed bumper stickers and yard signs and refuse to acknowledge their party affiliation publicly.

LAURENS, SC (FOX Carolina) - The Laurens Police Department is investigating after a loaded gun was found at Laurens Elementary School Friday morning. A staff member at the school found the gun in a classroom, according to Laurens School District 55 Superintendent Dr. Ameca Thomas. She said law enforcement was notified and arrived on campus in a matter of minutes. Police said no threats were made against any student or staff and due to swift action by school staff and school resource officers, the situation is stable at this time. In a press conference Friday afternoon, police said the 6-year-old...

Finally they have released it! Check out this episode. Maajid is a very interesting guy. Link...

DEMONSTRATORS: You must leave. As night falls, it is unsafe to stay. Get out of the cold and cease further unlawful activity. Anyone within the unlawful protest site may be arrested. #ottawa #ottnews— Ottawa Police (@OttawaPolice) February 20, 2022

Explanation: The spiky stars in the foreground of this backyard telescopic frame are well within our own Milky Way Galaxy. But the two eye-catching galaxies lie far beyond the Milky Way, at a distance of over 300 million light-years. Their distorted appearance is due to gravitational tides as the pair engage in close encounters. Cataloged as Arp 273 (also as UGC 1810), the galaxies do look peculiar, but interacting galaxies are now understood to be common in the universe. Nearby, the large spiral Andromeda Galaxy is known to be some 2 million light-years away and approaching the Milky Way. The...