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The Ottawa interim police chief Steve Bell says law enforcement will seek out protestors for “financial sanctions and criminal charges” even after protestors leave Ottawa. In a press conference on Saturday, interim chief of Ottawa Police Steve Bell said law enforcement would go after individuals present at the peaceful freedom convoy protest in Ottawa for “months to come”. “If you are involved in this protest, we will actively look to identify you and follow up with financial sanctions and criminal charges. Absolutely.” Bell admitted police forces are collecting intelligence through police body cams. The intelligence will later be used to...

The U.S. military has a lot of work to do to catch up to China, according to a new government report. The Government Accountability Office released a National Security Snapshot of the pacing challenge with China earlier this week that found “China’s growing economic, diplomatic, military, and technological power … pose a significant long-term challenge to the United States.” Areas of concern highlighted in the report include space and undersea operations, cyber, artificial intelligence, and "area-denial," which is described as China’s expansion of its capabilities to “counter third party intervention during a large-scale, theater campaign such as a Taiwan contingency.”...

In what appear to be authentic screenshots of the RCMP Musical Ride team currently in Ottawa to assist in the crackdown on peaceful protesters in the capital city, members brag about using brutal force. Over the last 24 hours in Ottawa, police have deployed pepper spray and canisters on demonstrators, arrested dozens and trampled two people with horses.

Click link for 2 minute video of a Canadian protest in Toronto. Just people marching in the street.

A pair of winter storms will wring out more snow and ice during the week of Presidents Day from the West to the Plains, Midwest and Northeast. True to form for the typically busy month of February, the weather pattern is setting up for an active week ahead, with impacts over much of the country. First, the jet stream will take another sharp southward plunge into the West early next week. A surge of energy will swing east out of that jet stream plunge early next week, followed by a second, stronger disturbance later in the week.

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson is reportedly planning to announce the end to all COVID-19 restrictions in the country on Monday. Johnson will unveil his “Living With COVID” plan when Parliament returns from a break this week, The Sun reported.

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...