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Following a public consultation, the UK Government has confirmed plans to draw up new legislation making virtual forms of ID accessible via a phone app or website for instance, as trusted and secure as physical documents. At the moment there is a huge push by those seeking to make money by offering Digital ID services, and the Government to justify why Digital ID checks are a fantastic idea. All of the mainstream news on the subject only lists the alleged positives. Take the points raised in this article on introducing Digital ID checks to purchase a home for example –...

A congressional map approved by Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis and drawn by his staff is unconstitutional because it breaks up a district where Black voters can choose their representatives, a state judge said Wednesday. Leon County Circuit Judge Layne Smith said he would issue a formal order Thursday or Friday to keep the maps from taking effect in November’s election.

Dr. Peter Doshi is an editor at the British Medical Journal (“BMJ”). He dialled in to the most recent FDA committee meeting on vaccines and related biological products to give them his views regarding the integrity of the Pfizer “vaccine” trials.On 2 November 2021, the BMJ published information disclosed to them by whistle-blower Brook Jackson, a former regional director for Ventavia Research Group. Ventavia is a company that was contracted by Pfizer to help with the decisive trial.Jackson provided BMJ with company documents, audio recordings, emails and photographs to support her claims. She told BMJ: “The company falsified data, unblinded...

On 16 February 2022, a 7-year-old boy in Seattle Washington died from a heart attack with blood clots in his coronary artery and liver. He died 13 days after being injected with a Pfizer “vaccine.” He suffered shock and cardiac arrest. He could not be resuscitated and died in the emergency department, APAR TV reported. His death was recorded on the US VAERS database. APAR’s article continued: “A CDC-funded study published [7 March 2022] in The Lancet concludes that most of the Covid vaccine-related adverse events reported during the first six months of the U.S. deployment were “mild and short-lived,”...

Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., will be opposing a Democratic abortion bill when it is up for a procedural vote Wednesday afternoon, stating that it is too broad for his liking. Manchin said that while he would vote for a bill that would legalize abortion on the federal level, the bill before the Senate now "is not what I was hoping for and what I expected" because it goes too far.

The strangest thing about the debate over parents’ roles and rights in their children’s education is that there is a debate at all. As former teachers ourselves, we know firsthand that nothing is more valuable to a classroom or school – let alone to individual students – than parental involvement. Of course they should have access to instructional materials teachers use in class. Of course parents should decide when and how morally complicated issues are introduced into the classroom – if at all. The idea of public school personnel laying claim to children – independent of and even confidential from...

FOURTH WEEK OF EASTER JOHN 12:44-50 Friends, in today’s Gospel, Jesus identifies himself with the Father and so hints at the reality of the Trinity. The Trinity is just another way of saying that God is love. But this has to imply that there is a play, within the unity of God, of lover, beloved, and shared love. This is precisely what we mean when we speak of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. This love is so white-hot, so intense, that it spills over into creation. In the case of human beings, this communication in love was...

Yesterday was a significant day since the average daily COVID-19 deaths in the USA, based on a 7 day running average, have fallen to the lowest point since March 2020. At 231 average daily deaths this is the lowest since March 26, 2020 as you can see on the graph below.Somehow this seems to have been missed by the mainstream media but I thought I would bring it to your attention.

Actor James Cromwell went to great lengths while joining PETA's protest against Starbucks on Tuesday. In a video shared by the animal rights organization, the Succession star, 82, superglued his hand to a counter in a New York City Starbucks to protest the coffee chain's "senseless" upcharge for Vegan milk. "There's no reason for it except greed," Cromwell says in part in a video shared by PETA on Facebook, later reading a letter and asking, "Will you stop charging more for vegan milk? When will you stop raking in huge profits while customers, animals, and the environment suffer? When you...

Economist Ezra Solomon once observed that the “only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.” Historically, economists have had a terrible track record when it comes to making growth forecasts. The Federal Reserve (Fed) during the 2007-2016 period had a tendency to persistently overestimate future GDP growth. After correcting for this tendency in the recent past, Fed officials found themselves making a new set of costly forecasting errors during the past year. They persistently underestimated inflation.

Reports are surfacing of military equipment of the United States and other NATO countries on the Russia-Finland border. U.S. and NATO armored vehicles were spotted on the border, along with Finnish tanks and armored personnel vehicles, according to a translation of a Shraibikus News report. There have been reports of military exercises in Finland, but Russian intelligence reportedly suspects the military buildup will remain until Finland joins NATO. The report also indicates Finnish authorities are anticipating Finland joining NATO within a few months. Russian analysts consider the military presence on the Russia-Finland border to be a threat, particularly as NATO...

Barnette, in her bio on her webpage, says: "Appearing regularly on national TV and radio, Kathy Barnette is a veteran, former adjunct professor of corporate finance, sought-after conference speaker, and conservative political commentator. Next up — Kathy is taking on Washington D.C. and is running for the U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania." The bio also reads: "Kathy served her country proudly for 10 years in the Armed Forces Reserves where she was accepted into Officer Candidacy School. She worked with two major financial firms in corporate America and sat on the board of a pregnancy crisis center for five years." The...

Lindsey Graham playing politics and flip-flopping in his effort to stay in the center has come to light again as new audio recorded on Jan 6 is highlighted in a book by Reporters Jonathan Martin and Alexander Burns, who write for the New York Times. Martin and Burns obtained the audio, and discuss it in their book which they discussed on Anderson Cooper’s show Tuesday night. Graham has been all over the place with his stance on Trump. The four-term senator from South Carolina called the president ‘uninformed’ and said he would be an ‘absolute, utter disaster’ for the party...

Russia’s state-run RIA Novosti news agency is reporting for the first time Wednesday that the Russian military occupied southern Ukrainian city of Kherson will soon petition the Kremlin to become part of the Russian Federation. It was in late April that a pro-Moscow “military-civilian administration” was installed after Kherson fell to the invading forces, complete with a local transition to the Russian ruble. While the news hasn’t been officially confirmed by the Kremlin, it’s significant that the report surfaced through RIA and not Ukrainian or opposition sources, suggesting such referendums or even simple declared annexations in captured regions could be...

Elon Musk’s Tesla has recalled approximately 130,000 vehicles across the U.S. as the cars’ touchscreens can overheat and go blank. At the end of 2021, Tesla recalled 475,000 cars, or about half of the vehicles sold in the entire country. TechXplore reports that Tesla is recalling 130,000 vehicles across the U.S. in yet another major recall. The reason this time relates to the vehicles’ touchscreens which can overheat and go blank. Many cars feature touch screens or digital displays, but unlike other vehicle screens which offer GPS navigation or music displays, the Tesla touch screen is responsible for many of...

While immortality might forever be out of reach, a long, healthy retirement is the stuff dreams are made of. To that end, a recent study suggests that the kinds of memory problems common in old age can be reversed, and all it takes is some cerebrospinal fluid harvested from the young. In mice, at least. If this is sounding a little familiar, you might be thinking of a similar series of studies done back in the mid-2010s, which found that older mice could be generally 'rejuvenated' with the blood of younger animals – both from humans and from mice. The...

The modern left’s rules for radicals were followed to the letter in the wake of George Floyd’s murder two years ago: Seize on an event that attracts national attention to promote their extreme ideological objective; knowingly misrepresent what that event means with the eager help of friendly media to maximize public fear; mobilize a mob to intimidate those who might stand in their way; compel the obeisance of a craven crowd of corporate chiefs, technology leaders and other influential figures; and have it all justified and promoted by Democratic officeholders and candidates. In 2020 the campaign created enough of a...

The movie THE HUNT is a fantastic conservative movie. It's part parody, but, more importantly, shows conservative women can be smart and deadly when they need to be. The graphic violence can be a bit upsetting, however, the message is a good one, especially for conservative women. The message is to fight back! I remember reading the short story that the movie is based on in high school. The filmmakers update the story and give it a political twist. Rarely do you see a film where the left is shown for who they are -- targeting deplorables -- and get...

The House overwhelmingly supported sending $40 billion in aid to Ukraine on Tuesday, 368-57, prompting a harsh reaction from critics given the multiple crises that are going unaddressed at home. Particularly, conservatives took issue with the 149 Republicans who joined every single Democrat in passing the bill while inflation continues to soar, the border crisis is ongoing, and our nation’s most vulnerable population—infants—can’t get the food they need.

On April 2nd, a historic wave of pro-Trump candidates won at the Michigan nominating convention. The Michigan Republican Party delegates nominated Kristina Karamo for Secretary of State and Matt DePerno for Attorney General. Both were Trump-endorsed, and both were loudly talking about the obvious 2020 voter fraud. Now both are being blackballed by the NeverTrump Michigan establishment. Kristina Karamo has called every elected Republican and virtually none of them will even call her back. For Matt DePerno, it’s even worse. Fellow Republicans Michigan Senate Majority Leader-presumptive Aric Nesbitt won’t return his calls, neither will Michigan House Speaker Jason Wentworth. When...