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Fribourg, February 21, 2022 On Friday, February 4, 2022, two members of the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter, Fr. Benoît Paul-Joseph, Superior of the District of France, and Fr. Vincent Ribeton, Rector of St. Peter’s Seminary in Wigratzbad, were received in private audience by the Holy Father, Pope Francis, for nearly an hour. During the very cordial meeting, they recalled the origins of the Fraternity in 1988, the Pope expressed that he was very impressed by the approach taken by its founders, their desire to remain faithful to the Roman Pontiff and their trust in the Church. He said that...

The agency has withheld critical data on boosters, hospitalizations and, until recently, wastewater analyses. For more than a year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has collected data on hospitalizations for Covid-19 in the United States and broken it down by age, race and vaccination status. But it has not made most of the information public. When the C.D.C. published the first significant data on the effectiveness of boosters in adults younger than 65 two weeks ago, it left out the numbers for a huge portion of that population: 18- to 49-year-olds, the group the data showed was least...

FBI @FBI Fair elections are the foundation of U.S. democracy. Foreign influence in our elections won’t be tolerated, and the #FBI will continue to work with local government and private sector partners to disrupt and expose any attempts to erode confidence in the U.S. electoral system. 4:00 AM · Feb 21, 2022·Hootsuite Inc.

Firmly convinced that Russia will invade Ukraine unless he can stop them, President Biden has tasked Vice-President Harris with "soothing the savage breasts of these potential combatants." Biden says he is optimistic for her prospects of success. "She is a woman known for her feminine wiles," he pointed out. "Despite her lack of significant contributions to the public good in all the jobs she's had in the public sector and the unfavorable impression most ordinary people have of her, she has risen to the second-highest job in our government. She also has a very positive endorsement of her skills from...

What might have happened in Ottawa if Donald Trump were President? Might he have applied pressure to the Canadian government, that would have caused it to back down to the protesters? Biden obviously did nothing. It's not even clear that Canada is on the Administration's radar. ML/NJ

The House resolved wrongful termination claims by five Pakistani-American technology workers whose case was twisted into a right-wing conspiracy theory pushed by President Trump. The payments represent one of the largest known awards by the House to resolve discrimination or harassment claims. The House of Representatives quietly paid $850,000 this year to settle wrongful termination claims by five Pakistani-American technology specialists, after a set of routine workplace allegations against them morphed into fodder for right-wing conspiracy theories amplified by President Trump. Together, the payments represent one of the largest known awards by the House to resolve discrimination or harassment claims,...

Speaking at Germany’s annual Munich Security Conference on Friday, globalist billionaire Bill Gates confidently warned the world a new pandemic is coming.CNBC’s Hadley Gamble asked Gates, “How confident are you that we, as a global community, will deal with the next global pandemic better?” “Well, there were a lot of people after the Ebola epidemic who were talking about what needed to be done, and in this pandemic, the countries that had exposure to SARS-CoV-1 were amongst the outliers,” Gates answered.Next, Gates praised Australia’s authoritarian crackdown on its civilians as an example for other nations to follow.“So, Australia is a...

A major eruption on the far side of the sun Tuesday created one of the largest coronal mass ejections (CME) in recent years, KTLA sister station KOIN reports. Though the explosive CME is not expected to strike Earth, images captured by satellite and seismic mapping showing the sheer size of the eruption had many people talking... Todd said scientists estimate the flare stretched to roughly 400,000 kilometers... CME events of this magnitude are caused when the negative and positive charges within the electromagnetic field on the sun contradict, resulting in a powerful discharge or sunspots. CME events and sun flares...

It’s Presidents’ Day in the USA, which doesn’t mean much anymore other than your USPS mail will be later than normal. Our current president is busy saber-rattling about securing the sovereign borders of other countries while our own remain as porous as a crocheted face mask. “Our position is very clear in respecting the sovereignty and territorial integrity of all states.” (except ours) Meanwhile in Canada, the man Rolling Stone pined for and wished could be our president has characterized the most polite government protestors in history as terrorists and white supremacists. He deployed riot police to break it up,...

What if there were a fire in a liberal democracy scorching human rights and civil liberties? What if that fire was in several liberal democracies and spreading fast? The people are loudly screaming "fire!," but their leaders are curiously silent. The implementation of emergency war powers in Canada to suspend rights is either a temporary overreach of power or a blatant authoritarian shape-shift to crush political dissent, seize assets, and implement martial law on completely fabricated charges. The majority of people in the U.S. and Canada are seeing the totalitarian shape-shift and loudly screaming "fire!" but there are no Western...

The City of North Bay garnered national attention on social media over the weekend for aircraft spotted at Jack Garland Airport. A video posted on Twitter and TikTok of two United Nations airplanes parked at Voyageur Airways at Jack Garland Airport caused a flurry of speculation and conspiracy theories. The video, speculation and possible theories became so popular, North Bay was trending on Twitter for the last three days with people speculating why they believe the planes were in North Bay. Thousands of people, including politicians, journalists, North Bay residents and conspiracy theorists weighed in providing possible explanations. Many believe...

This episode was recorded on February 19th, 2022. Rex Murphy joins Dr. Peterson to discuss the most recent actions of Trudeau's Government, including the arresting of protestors, the freezing of the bank accounts of Canadians suspected of participating in the protests, and the long-term consequences of these extreme measures. Rex is a Canadian commentator and author who deals primarily with Canadian political and social matters. He is best known for working on and for CBC Here and Now, CBC Radio 1’s Cross Country Checkup, writing for The Globe and Mail, and writing for The National Post. He is a well-recognized...

A George Washington University pilot program 'used locational data tracked by Wi-Fi access points' to map student and employee movements on campus. The university failed to inform the students and staff about the now-ended program. The George Washington University's president publicly apologized Friday for a fall 2021 surveillance pilot program that tracked students' and employees' locations on campus without their consent. "I write to inform you of a data analytics pilot program that took place on the university campus during the Fall 2021 semester, and to apologize on behalf of the university for the failure to inform you in advance...

Oklahoma Democratic congressional candidate apologized for 'getting drunk and shouting at schoolgirls' Abby Broyles was invited by a friend to share a drink at her house while her daughter enjoyed a slumber party She allegedly got drunk before throwing up in a laundry basket and a girl's shoe Broyles originally denied she was at the party but later blamed a bad reaction to sleeping pills that left her unable to remember the events She said she was 'sorry from the bottom of my heart' and apologized for 'any hurt or damage' her behavior caused

First gas, then heating and now rents. Runaway inflation is driving rents skywards across Joe Biden’s America, delivering an average of a 20 percent increase in the U.S.’s biggest 50 cities over the past 12 months, a study details. At the same time, U.S. Census Bureau statistics show rental vacancy rates during the fourth quarter of 2021 fell to 5.6 percent, the lowest since 1984 in the the world’s largest economy.

White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki announced in a statement late Sunday that President Joe Biden “accepted in principle a meeting” with Russian leader Vladimir Putin, a week after Biden completely ignored a personal invitation to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. The Putin meeting, Psaki claimed, would occur “if an invasion hasn’t happened.”

The Federal Reserve and Federal government are helping make housing simply unaffordable! In January 2020, just prior to the COVID outbreak in the US, the Case-Shiller national home price index was growing at 4% YoY, the Zilliow rent index (all homes) was growing at 2.92% YoY and REAL average hourly earnings were growing at 0.52% YoY. Then COVID struck and the Federal government dumped trillions of dollars of stimulus into the economy and The Federal Reserve massively expanded its balance sheet. Now the US has home prices growing at a 18.8% rate, rents (for those who can’t afford to purchase...

As “cancel culture” has swept through this country, our leaders, government officials, teachers, college professors, and even reporters are jumping on the bandwagon by tempering their words to avoid conflict. Op-ed writer Alan Bergstein, whose words can be harsh, really harsh, is not drinking the ‘Cancel Culture Kool-Aid.’ His brutal honesty is necessary for today’s political climate and crucial for us to survive as a free people. In his own words: “Let’s get right to the point: The two top elected leaders of this country constitute a clear and present danger to our survival.”

From Our Special Correspondent. ROANOKE ISLAND, Friday, Feb. 14, 1862. The steamer Picket, Capt. J. POYNTON IVES' leaves here, to-day, for Hatteras Inlet, from which dispatches from Gen. BURNSIDE and Flag-Officer GOLDSEOROUGH will be sent immediately to their respective Departments concerning the state of affairs in this Department. Among the passengers who will go by the Picket to Fortress Monroe are Chief-Engineer CHARLES A. HASWELL, who goes on business for the Expedition; Lieut.-Col. BETTS, Major KIMBALL and Lieut. CHIFF, of the Ninth New-York, (Hawkins Zouaves;) Col. KINGSBURY, of the Eleventh Connecticut; Lieut. BRANNON, of the Forty-eighth Pennsylvania; Adjutant DAYTON, of...

One’s decision not to vaccinate is “child abuse” according to a recent Salon piece that accused conservatives of using children as “pawns in their gross political games,” viewing them as property, and damaging their “mental and emotional health” while “tearing families apart,” largely in order to undermine President Biden. Penned by senior politics writer Amanda Marcotte and titled “Vaccine refusal is child abuse,” the Friday Salon essay begins by accusing Republicans of opposing vaccination against the coronavirus in order to “sabotage” the Biden presidency.