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Two officials at one of the largest hospital systems in Los Angeles and Southern California dismissed government officials’ statements about another wave of COVID-19 hitting the region and the United States as ‘media hype,’” The Epoch Times reported Sunday. This flies in the face of Los Angeles County Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer’s announcement on Thursday that Los Angeles County has officially reached the “High” level of new COVID-19 cases and County hospitalization rates, giving the County two weeks to fall back below or else mandatory indoor masking mandates return, as the Globe reported.

The two-tiered ‘justice’ system strikes again. Last month several CBS employees who work for Colbert’s late-night show were arrested in the US Capitol, trespassing after hours, and HARASSING GOP lawmakers. The US Capitol was closed at the time. Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) let the insurrectionists in the building. Colbert’s goons were not only harassing Republican lawmakers after hours but they also went and harassed and mocked the families of the January 6 prisoners held in prison for over a year without a trial. Now this… Stephen Colbert’s crew has been cleared of “unlawful entry” charges after they were caught inside...

An official notice encouraging children to promote vaccine use among elderly relatives that was published by a district educational body of China’s Beihai City on July 6 has triggered widespread criticism among Chinese netizens.The online notice, titled “A Special Summer Vacation Homework Assignment,” requires young students, including kindergarten children, “to motivate paternal and maternal grandparents of 60 and above to take their first COVID jab successfully.”Children will be awarded “a merit certificate and a nice small gift” by their teachers when going back to school or their kindergarten in the coming semester upon presenting their grandparents’ vaccination certificate, the notice...

The Pulitzer Prize Board on Monday announced it is standing by awards given to the New York Times and Washington Post for their reports on the Russia, Russia, Russia hoax. “In the last three years, the Pulitzer Board has received inquiries, including from former President Donald Trump, about submissions from The New York Times and The Washington Post on Russian interference in the U.S. election and its connections to the Trump campaign–submissions that jointly won the 2018 National Reporting prize,” the organization’s statement reads. “These inquiries prompted the Pulitzer Board to commission two independent reviews of the work submitted by...

The University of California San Diego wants to help its students get operations on their tops and bottoms. Therefore, the school has published a guide.For female students who’d like their breasts removed — or a penis made from arm skin — and for males who prefer a vagina fashioned from their penis, the system will assist.As indicated at UCSD.edu, the Student Health Insurance Plan covers the operations as well as “hormone therapy.”Additionally encompassed by the plan:Vocal Training Electrolysis and Laser Hair Removal of Face, Neck, and Donor Site Tracheal Shaves Fertility Preservation For male-to-female “gender-conforming facial surgery”:Brow Lift Forehead Contouring...

Idaho’s dominant political party charted a new direction for itself over the weekend at its state convention, not only replacing all current members of the GOP state party leadership, but also approving an array of resolutions, rule changes and platform modifications favored by the farthest-right wing of the party. “My concern is a purge has begun,” said Gem County delegate Steven Thayn, a current GOP state senator from Emmett who attended his first state GOP convention in 1972 at age 18, the first year that 18-year-olds were allowed to serve as delegates. “What you see here is basically wanting to...

Dicastal North America makes wheels for Ford, GM, Stellantis and others The FBI raided western Michigan wheel manufacturing outfit Dicastal North America on Monday. The Chinese-owned manufacturer is a major supplier of automotive wheels and has been operating in Greenville, Mich., since 2015, the local Daily News newspaper reported. The FBI has not released any information about the raid apart from acknowledging that it was executing a warrant at the company's Michigan location. According to the Detroit Free Press, agents sent employees home and seized office

Former Vice President Mike Pence endorsed Karrin Taylor Robson over Kari Lake, who is supported by former President Donald J. Trump.

[Catholic Caucus] Abp. Naumann criticizes Pope Francis for supporting pro-abortion politicians Biden and Pelosi‘There is no excuse.' Biden ‘should not keep presenting himself as a devout Catholic,’ said Archbishop Naumann.(LifeSiteNews) — The former chair of the U.S. bishops’ pro-life committee, Archbishop Joseph Naumann, has criticized Pope Francis’ support of pro-abortion politicians as “doing exactly what he warns others not to do.”Speaking to German newspaper Die Tagespost in an interview released July 13 but conducted earlier this month, Archbishop Naumann of Kansas City addressed the issue of abortion and Catholic politicians, noting also that “many” baptized Catholics are “not really part...

ROME — The Vatican’s equivalent of foreign minister, Archbishop Paul Gallagher, said Tuesday that Pope Francis will “definitely go to Ukraine,” possibly as early as this summer. Archbishop Gallagher said the pontiff will visit Kiev, perhaps following his July 24-30 trip to Canada. “It will be a question of seeing how Pope Francis feels after his trip to Canada, let’s see,” the prelate said at the Rome presentation of the upcoming August meeting of the Communion and Liberation movement in the northern Italian city of Rimini. “I cannot say at the moment” whether Francis will go to Moscow, the archbishop...

Trump-Endorsed Arizona Gubernatorial Candidate Kari Lake gave an excellent interview on Steve Bannon’s War Room yesterday, responding to the lawless Biden Regime’s lawsuit over a new law requiring voters in Arizona to prove their US Citizenship.The Gateway Pundit reported yesterday morning that the Department of Justice is suing Arizona to ban safeguards that prevent illegal immigrants from voting in federal elections. The Democrats will stop at nothing to allow cheating in our elections.Lawless Biden Regime Sues Arizona To Block Law Requiring Voters to Prove US Citizenship to Vote“Lawless Biden Regime Sues Arizona To Block Law Requiring Voters to Prove US...

The Department of Health and Human Services said a federal law from 1985 allows women who face medical emergencies to get abortions, regardless of new state bans.The Biden administration said Monday that federal law allows women access to abortion in emergencies, even in states that banned the procedure after last month's Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade. The Department of Health and Human Services said that in cases of health emergencies, the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act — a 1985 law that ensures access to emergency care regardless of a person’s ability to pay — takes priority...

~The FReeper Canteen Presents~ Road Trip: Altus Air Force Base, OklahomaAltus Air Force Base is a United States Air Force base located approximately 4 miles east-northeast of Altus, Oklahoma. The host unit at Altus AFB is the 97th Air Mobility Wing (97 AMW), assigned to the Nineteenth Air Force (19 AF) of the Air Education and Training Command (AETC). The wing's mission is to provide C-17 Globemaster III, KC-135 Stratotanker and KC-46 Pegasus formal initial and advanced specialty training programs for up to 3,000 flight crew and aircraft maintenance students annually.The 97th Air Mobility Wing plans and executes C-17,...

VLADIMIR Putin is weaponizing the "Jihad for Islam" to justify his war in Ukraine in a bid to gather support from the allied Chechen forces.

Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jul 12, 2022 / 14:56 pm The pastor of a Catholic church in Bethesda, Maryland, targeted by an arson attack over the weekend has clarified that the fire did not reach the parish’s tabernacle. A video posted on the YouTube channel of St. Jane Frances de Chantal Catholic Parish appeared to show the tabernacle engulfed in flames. However, Father Samuel Giese told CNA on Monday that the flames were only reflections in a window behind the tabernacle from pews in front of the altar. “There was no fire in the sanctuary,” Giese later told “EWTN News Nightly.”The...

"AHS is rescinding the Immunization of Workers for COVID-19 Policy, effective July 18,2022. As a result, workers will no longer be required to be immunized for COVID-19 as a condition of employment," read the email title "Immunization Policy Update" sent Monday afternoon to the staff of Alberta Health Services. The email was provided to Rebel News by a long-time AHS employee. The email from interim AHS CEO Mauro Chiles, published in full below, makes no reference to rehiring or compensating anyone terminated for resisting the now-defunct COVID policy...

Be careful: what is dissent today, can change’ the Pontifical Academy for Life wrote in defense of its recently published book.VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews) — The Pontifical Academy for Life has defended its recent book promoting contraception, writing on Twitter that theology requires “progress” as part of a natural process. The Pontifical Academy for Life (PAV) recently published a book, Theological Ethics of Life. Scripture, Tradition, Practical Challenges, which is a collection of essays taken from a three-day interdisciplinary seminar sponsored by the PAV. LifeSiteNews reported on the text, noting how the book advocates for contraception and artificial insemination as if...

The gunman who killed three people in an Indiana mall yesterday fired 24 rounds from a legally owned rifle after waiting in the mall bathroom for an hour, and was killed two minutes after he started shooting by a Good Samaritan. Jonathan Sapirman, 20, is the gunman responsible for yesterday's attack at the Greenwood Park Mall in Indiana. He had recently been evicted from his apartment, according to his family. Sapirman waited in the mall bathroom for an hour before he opened fire in the food court using a Sig Sauer 400M rifle that he legally purchased in March this...

Part of the fun of reading Snake Oil: How Xi Jinping Shut Down the World is that you get to put yourself in the dictator’s shoes. In the book, Xi is an allegory for the Chinese Communist Party in the 21st century. Xi’s “lines” break up the writing with dark humor, a satirical jab at western elites’ blasé attitude toward an advanced, totalitarian regime with overtly-manipulative goals. The book invites you to see through the bad guy’s eyes and imagine just how easy it was to subvert the free world into totalitarianism using the response to a perfectly banal virus....

[Catholic Caucus] Cardinal Cupich strongly rumored to be planning to remove community of Latin Mass priests from ChicagoA prominent Chicago Catholic has gone on record to address the story that has created so much concern in the past few days. (LifeSiteNews) — A prominent Chicago Catholic has told LifeSiteNews that, in a further move to destroy the traditional rite in his diocese, Cardinal Blase Cupich, the archbishop of Chicago, has instructed the traditional Institute of Christ the King to close down all public Masses by the end of July of this year. He will remove their other faculties by August...