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ransomnote: The Expose is over the target and taking flak, banned and censored - even Paypal turned against them in an effort to deprive them of funding. Please pray that the Expose receive the funds it needs to keep serving the public. Dr. Nathan Wolfe was a founding citizen of Ghislaine Maxwell’s TerraMar Project; a member of the Edge Foundation; a self-proclaimed “virus hunter” whose area of research is zoonotic diseases with a special focus on bats; with links to the Wuhan Institute of Virology and EcoHealth Alliance; who previously bungled epidemic responses while selling pandemic insurance; whose company Metabiota...

For Catholics ‘Concerned’ About Germany, What’s Happening in Bätzing’s Limburg Offers a Case in PointThe website of the Diocese of Limburg published a report on the panel discussion ‘Out in Church,’ without criticizing it or clarifying Church teaching. FRANKFURT, Germany — “The focus is too much on homosexual men!” said Eric Tilch at a panel discussion in Frankfurt last Wednesday hosted by the Diocese of Limburg — the bishopric headed by Bishop Georg Bätzing, president of the German Catholic bishops’ conference. But Tilch, a Church youth education officer, wasn’t protesting against the homosexual agenda or seeking to uphold the...

In a shocking incident, four people have been arrested for allegedly raping a bengal monitor lizard in the Sahydari Tiger Reserve near Gothane village in Maharashthra. According to India Today report, the accused, identified as hunters, allegedly entered the core zone of Sahydari Tiger Reserve in the Gabha area at Gothane and committed the crime. The criminals have been identified as Sandeep Tukram, Pawar Mangesh, Janardhan Kamtekar and Akshay Sunil. After the Maharashtra Forest Department checked the mobile phone of the accused, it came to know about the incident. The officials found the recording of the act which showed the...

A 9-year-old California girl mistakenly shot Tuesday at a mall when a store owner opened fire on alleged shoplifters was waiting to take photos with the Easter Bunny, according to a local report.

Explanation: What created Devils Tower? The origin of this extraordinary rock monolith in Wyoming, USA is still debated, with a leading hypothesis holding that it is a hardened lava plume that never reached the surface to become a volcano. In this theory, the lighter rock that once surrounded the dense volcanic neck has now eroded away, leaving the dramatic tower. Known by Native Americans by names including Bear's Lodge and Great Gray Horn, the dense rock includes the longest hexagonal columns known, some over 180-meters tall. High above, the central band of the Milky Way galaxy arches across the sky....

The first original song that George Thorogood ever wrote was "Bad to the Bone." Celebrating its 40th anniversary this year, the track is still omnipresent on classic rock radio and has been used in countless movies and television shows. Not a bad place to begin your career as a songwriter. Thorogood and his band have put their spin on plenty of blues staples over the years, notably making radio classics out of John Lee Hooker's "One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer," "Move It On Over" by Hank Williams and Bo Diddley's "Who Do You Love." But Thorogood felt pigeonholed as...

Charred bodies were recovered at the scene on the side of a highway in the country’s south. Five Egyptians, four French people and a Belgian were killed. Among the injured were eight people from France and six from Belgium, and all are in stable condition after suffering fractures, burns and bruises, officials said. The bus was en route to the ancient Temple of Esna on the West Bank of the Nile River when it crashed on the highway, but the reason for the collision is unknown. The crash comes mere days after another tourist bus crashed near the Red Sea,...

Officials say the felines repopulated during the COVID-19 pandemic. Animal health clinics encourage residents to participate in trap-neuter-return programs to combat rising cat populations. Gatherings of cats are also known as cat colonies – like the ones in Oakland. They are made up of two or more feral cats in the wild. PetFix is a program that provides residents’ pets free or low-cost spay and neuter services. Officials say spaying and neutering pets prevents overpopulation and animal euthanasia. Kaplan recommended locals to look into their offers. “It is neither responsible nor humane for people to adopt pets that they are...

ransomnote: The Expose is over the target and taking flak, banned and censored - even Paypal turned against them in an effort to deprive them of funding. Please pray that the Expose receive the funds it needs to keep serving the public. The world first started to hear about a novel coronavirus in early January 2020, with reports of an alleged new pneumonia like illness spreading across Wuhan, China. However, the world did not actually know of Covid-19 until February 2020, because it was not until the 11th of that month that the World Health Organisation officially named the novel...

Fayetteville police are investigating a McDonald’s customer who cursed, then threatened to assault and shoot, the manager after being dissatisfied with the food order he received. Fayetteville police at approximately 3:55 p.m. on March 31 were dispatched to the McDonald’s restaurant at 465 North Glynn Street in reference to a reported physical altercation. Police met with the complainant, a McDonald’s employee, who said an unidentified male and female subject arrived at the drive-thru and complained their food order was not fresh, said Fayetteville Police Department spokesperson Ann Marie Burdett. Burdett said the employee told police he retrieved the food from...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (WFLA) — A Taco Bell employee in St. Petersburg was arrested Friday for threatening to shoot someone in December, according to police. The St. Petersburg Police Department said on Dec. 14, the victim was at the drive-thru of the Taco Bell on 5th Avenue when he got into an argument with an employee, identified as Chavez Keshaun Middleton, 19, of St. Petersburg. St. Pete man drowns after boat capsizes in Lake Seminole Police said the victim pulled around to the main entrance where Middleton continued to confront the customer in his vehicle. “The defendant pointed a gun...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov says that EU has changed its stance toward Russia because of western countries and is now acting as the military arm of NATO.In an interview with Russian media on Monday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said that the EU has made a “serious U-turn” by turning into a military organisation functioning in the interests of Washington and NATO. He referred to a remark made by EU foreign policy leader Josep Borrell on Saturday.As he promised fresh military aid to Kiev, the Spanish-born politician stated that the crisis in Ukraine “will be won on the battlefield.”...

Two women at New Jersey's only all-women's prison have both fallen pregnant after having sex with a transgender inmate. The pregnant women, who were not identified, are housed at the embattled Edna Mahan Correctional Facility, in Clinton, which New Jersey Governor announced plans to close last year. Prison bosses said that in both instances, the sex was consensual. It is unclear if the women had sex with the same transgender inmate, or if it was two different inmates. Edna Mahan houses 27 transgender prisoners, and over 800 women altogether. It is also unclear how far along the two inmates are,...

Tuesday's NBA Play-in Tournament game between the Los Angeles Clippers and Minnesota Timberwolves had an unusual situation occur that made rounds on social media. The Timberwolves were taking free throws with 3:34 remaining in the second quarter when played stopped, as someone on the other end of the court was seen apparently trying to glue herself to the floor, according to media reports.(snip) TNT sideline reporter Allie LaForce later reported that the woman was protesting Timberwolves majority owner Glen Taylor for an incident involving chickens at an egg farm he owns. An animal rights activist on Twitter, Alicia Santurio, claimed...

While it’s not entirely unusual for the Northern Plains to observe a snowstorm this late in the season, it’s the intensity of the latest storm, which is battering parts of North Dakota and eastern Montana today, that is truly “historic,” according to the National Weather Service (NWS). ... NWS said a “historic blizzard” has begun to impact the Northern Plains on Wednesday and will continue through Thursday. Heavy snow and strong winds will produce whiteout conditions. Travel across parts of eastern Montana and western and central North Dakota will be severely impacted. The regional snowfall total estimates could be as...

City council has decided to enforce the removal of parklets despite strong disapproval by some restaurants in downtown Carmel-by-the-Sea. Carmel declared an emergency proclamation on March 13, 2020, calling for the construction of parklets despite the violation of zoning laws. City council voted to remove the parklets, arguing it was no longer an emergency situation. But according to businesses in favor of parklets, it still is. "It was actually very sad and frustrating that the city does not understand to extend this until we get really out of the COVID era where like, as you see right now, China is...

A Pennsylvania family's pet cockatiel was identified after three years on the loose thanks to the bird's love for a classic TV theme song. Louise Duncan said she knew the bird she found on the front porch of Christ United Methodist Church in Lancaster County was not a native species. "I knew it was not a normal bird that comes by because it had an orange or yellow plume," Duncan told WGAL-TV. Duncan and Pastor Roseann Goldberg-Taylor wrangled the bird into a box and contacted local animal rescue group ORCA. ORCA posted photos of the bird on Facebook, and soon...

Hillary Clinton has bounced right back after coming down with a "really mild case" of COVID-19, she said in an episode of her podcast this week. "I'd been dodging it for two years," Clinton, 74, told Kate McKinnon, her guest for the season finale of You and Me Both with Hillary Clinton, which debuted Wednesday. "I was so tired. That was like the only thing that I experienced." (snip) Clinton and McKinnon fielded listener questions and revealed a number of ways that the former secretary of state and New York senator cultivates optimism and holds on to hope through personal...

U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert will face a Republican challenger in Colorado's June primary election after state election officials announced Tuesday that state Sen. Don Coram submitted enough valid signatures on nominating petitions.The Montrose lawmaker said he's anxious to put up his record of delivering results for the Western Slope against what his campaign described as Boebert's "embarrassing juvenile antics on the national stage."

I’ve been exposed to Tariq Nasheed’s extremism, and racism. I’ve been attacked by him. Now that’s it’s clear that he radicalized a black nationalist terrorist (with the help from Farrakhan), can @TwitterSafety recognize the filth on the platform, and remove it? #BrooklynSubway— ((( Rebecca ))) 🍀 🏀 (@dorothyofisrael) April 13, 2022