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On Friday, the streets of Ottawa were a surreal scene that was more appropriate for a dystopian science fiction movie or a third-world totalitarian hellhole than the capital city of a so-called western liberal “democracy” that shares a common border with the United States of America. In a display of raw force that will live in infamy when historians recount the modern era of the proud nation of Canada which has been transformed into an oppressive police state under the helm of leftist Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, an overwhelming number of heavily-armed, militarized police acted to crush peaceful patriotic protesters...

Socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez ditched the commoners in coach and cozied up to elites in first class on an American Airlines flight, avoiding the left wing altogether for a spacious seat closer to the cockpit after a weekend of stumping for comrades in the Lone Star state, an eyewitness told The Post.

Secret discussions are under way between western allies over how to arm what they expect to be fierce Ukrainian resistance in the event of a Russian invasion that topples the Kyiv government. ... Similar discussions have been taking place in the US, where reports suggest the country’s national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, has told senators that the US is willing to arm a resistance and is not going to accept a Russian military victory that erases the principles of national self-determination.

Let’s call it what it is upfront. The Democrats’ plan for universal mail-in voting without identification is a ploy to establish permanent rule for the left across the nation. They will do this the same way they stole the 2020 election: By cheating. Senator Rand Paul is far more diplomatic than I am. He made his case against the Democrats by highlighting logical points during an interview Sunday morning: “One side, now though, wants to have everybody vote by mail without an ID,” he said. “I think that’s a problem. And they want to have it done out of Washington....

President Biden is scheduled to spend at least part of his President’s Day weekend at his home in Delaware, the White House announced Sunday, amid warnings from administration officials that a Russian invasion of Ukraine is imminent. Mr. Biden was expected to stay at the White House throughout the holiday weekend, but the White House scrapped those plans Sunday afternoon

Klaus Schwab tells interviewer the WEF has infiltrated governments around the world with their "young leaders". He proudly states that over half of Canadian Prime Minster Trudeau's cabinet has been "penetrated" with WEF "young global leaders". Schwab is the founder and executive chairman of the World Economic Forum (WEF) and the author of "COVID-19: The Great Reset" (4 min Video) Klaus Schab: WEF has infiltrated governemtns around the world with globalist agents (4 min video)

The National Institutes of Health and their evil leaders like Anthony Fauci were directly involved with the development of Covid-19. There is absolutely no other explanation for the organization’s fake “fulfillment” of a Freedom of Information Act release to The Intercept last week. They were obligated to release documents from a 2020 request that detailed what they know about the origins of the Wuhan Flu. Their latest release of 314 pages is an insult to the American people and a clear admission of direct involvement in creating Covid-19. I’m not basing that on what was said in the documents. I’m...

The Cygnus spacecraft, which was launched on an Antares rocket, is scheduled to arrive at the space station around 4:35 a.m. on Monday, February 21. NASA Television, the NASA app, and agency’s website will provide live coverage of the spacecraft’s approach and arrival beginning at 3 a.m. The spacecraft will then be installed on the Earth-facing port of the station’s Unity module. This is Northrop Grumman’s 17th contracted resupply mission under the second Commercial Resupply Services contract with NASA. The delivery includes critical materials to support dozens of the more than 250 science and research investigations occurring during NASA’s Expedition...

CNN media reporter Brian Stelter said Sunday on his show “Reliable Sources” that his network faces a “legal mess” from executives Jeff Zucker, Allison Gollust, and anchor Chris Cuomo’s exits. Stelter said, “When CNN President Jeff Zucker abruptly resigned this month, people wondered if another shoe was going to drop. Zucker tied his exit to his failure to disclose a romantic relationship with Allison Gollust But was there more to the story? A few days ago, Gollust also resigned, and now there are stories about the reasons why. It seems the second shoe was landed. Well-placed sources have told me...

The Hubei health authority in China reported that 115 more people died of the coronavirus in Hubei province on Thursday, raising the death toll in the epicenter since the beginning of the coronavirus outbreak to 2,144. Hubei authorities confirmed an additional 411 cases of the virus in Hubei on Thursday. The total number of cases in the epicenter of the outbreak is now 62,442. By the numbers: The Hubei report brings the total number of deaths in mainland China to at least 2,233. The global death toll is at least 2,244, with 11 deaths outside of mainland China. Japan has...

Homeland Security announced the departure of the last Afghan evacuees from military bases on U.S. soil Saturday, saying 76,000 of them have been processed and released into American communities. A base in New Jersey became the last to shut down its migrant camp, ending a critical period in the evacuation efforts just a week shy of the six-month mark of the end of the chaotic airlift that accompanied the end of U.S. operations in Afghanistan. Officials are now looking to set up a new location to handle future Afghans who are able to make it out of their home country...

US Embassy warns of possible terrorist attacks in Russia

President Joe Biden is willing to meet with Russian leader Vladimir Putin “at any time” to prevent an invasion of Ukraine, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Sunday. During an appearance on CNN‘s “State of the Union,” Blinken said the US “will use every opportunity and every minute we have” to promote diplomacy “until the tanks are actually rolling and the planes are flying. “President Biden is prepared to engage President Putin at any time, in any format, if that can help prevent a war,” he said.

There are no other constitutional rights in substance without freedom to transact Being meaning to write this for 6 months, but the Canadian response to the trucker protests is illustrating this so vividly, that today is the day. I assume we are in agreement that constitutional democracies are a good form of government or, at least, a better form of government than the other methods we have found to-date. This means that I am taking for granted the following assumptions. - People have fundamental rights to speech, assembly, religion and so on - People are innocent until proven guilty -...

The Wisconsin Department of Health Services (DHS) has confirmed a child in Wisconsin died from multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C), a rare but serious condition associated with COVID-19. The child lived in southeast Wisconsin and was under 10 years old. There have been 183 MIS-C cases reported in Wisconsin since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. This is the first case to result in a death. DHS will not be disclosing any additional patient information to protect privacy and out of respect for the family. “We are saddened to report that a child has passed away from MIS-C,” said...

“We have officers from across the province and country here to help us; every person supporting this effort is proud to be here,” he (Steve Bell, Ottawa Interim Chief of Police) declared, suggesting that there is little hesitance among officers about enforcing Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s emergency powers clampdown on protestors. [cut] Members of the press gave the police chief some mild pushback on his claim that his men have acted with restraint, with one asking “with respect, sir, can you explain what appears to be excessive force by police officers when a protestor is arrested; there is multiple videos...

FIVE millions workers are to be hit by tax rises within weeks that will cost them hundreds extra a year. It comes as millions of UK households are already battling a cost of living crisis which is forcing some to choose between heating and eating. From April, National Insurance Contributions will go up by 1.25 percentage points, costing the average worker hundreds of pounds more a year. At the same time, income tax bands are being frozen, meaning workers are effectively taking a pay cut. Soaring inflation is pushing up the price of everything from energy bills to groceries.

The electrochemical conversion of ammonia to dinitrogen in a direct ammonia fuel cell (DAFC) is a necessary technology for the realization of a nitrogen economy. Previous efforts to catalyse this reaction with molecular complexes required the addition of exogenous oxidizing reagents or application of potentials greater than the thermodynamic potential for the oxygen reduction reaction—the cathodic process of a DAFC.

Jean-Luc Brunel, Jeffrey Epstein's modelling agent 'pimp', was not on suicide watch before he was found dead in his cell on Saturday morning - despite having tried multiple times to kill himself. Since his 2020 arrest, the 76-year-old Frenchman had made multiple attempts to take his own life, reports The Telegraph. Still, Brunel - who allegedly helped procure over one thousand women for Epstein and convicted child sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell - was not under 'emergency protection', more colloquially known as suicide watch, at the time he died.

When someone says something we disagree with, should we shut them up? In 1927, Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis had an answer: "The remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence." Well, in that case, the internet should have solved everything, notes correspondent David Pogue – it's nothing but more speech. And yet lately, the news is full of stories about people trying to limit other people's expression. The free-speech erosion is even happening in schools. Since January last year, according to PEN America, Republican lawmakers have introduced more than 150 state laws that would restrict how teachers...