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Alberta's associate minister in charge of women's issues Jackie Armstrong-Homeniuk says that an essay with sexist, racist and white nationalist elements never should have been awarded a prize in a contest for young women launched earlier this year. The author, identified only as S. Silver, won third prize in the "Her Vision Inspires" contest.The essay states that women are not equal to men and that their ability to bear children takes priority over trying to break into male-dominated careers.

We are here because we discuss uncomfortable truths. We accept things as they are, and not as we would wish them to be.Since the original innocuous tweet 48 hours ago, from a private account, which did not even use the name “Trump,” Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has been absolutely silent about the illicit FBI raid on the home of Florida citizen and former President Donald J Trump. DeSantis is showing us all who he really is; but are you willing to accept it?The raid on President Trump’s home is a moment for all to stand and take a position. On...

The FBI’s office in Cincinnati, Ohio was put on lockdown Thursday amid a standoff with an armed man who reportedly made threats, and shots were fired outside the building before the suspect fled police. National and local news journalists reported on the incident, announcing that roads have been closed as the situation unfolds.

An ornate courtyard found in an otherwise humble home may have reflected the owners' aspirational vision of the future.Discoveries in Pompeii—from elaborate frescoes to garden shrines—have taught researchers a lot about the city's wealthiest residents. Until recent years, however, the lives of the lower and middle classes have garnered less interest.But now, archaeologists have excavated several rooms in a middle-class home partially destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 C.E. Frozen in time, the rooms provide a snapshot into the lives of everyday people in the ancient Roman city, according to a statement from the Archaeological Park of...

A 75-year-old man was found dead in his Brooklyn apartment surrounded by biohazard canisters and schematics depicting weapons of mass destruction. The man, who has yet to be identified by police, was found during a wellness check in Cypress Hills Wednesday afternoon and was pronounced dead at the scene. He was discovered sitting on a chair and is believed to have been dead for at least a week, according to NBC New York. Police officials were seen wearing hazmat suits to remove the man's decomposing body from the apartment. Discovery of the body and the canisters labeled with biohazard labels...

Chris Wray insists the FBI is the real victim here. NBC-DFW reported: The director of the FBI had strong words Wednesday for supporters of former President Donald Trump who have been using violent rhetoric in the wake of his agency’s search of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home. Christopher Wray, who was appointed as the agency’s director in 2017 by Trump, called threats circulating online against federal agents and the Justice Department “deplorable and dangerous.” "I’m always concerned about threats to law enforcement,” Wray said. “Violence against law enforcement is not the answer, no matter who you’re upset with.” Wray made the remarks...

Conservatives across America, and indeed, the entire Western world, have plenty of reason to embrace doom and gloom. The entire world seems to be on fire. Long-held assumptions of Western liberalism like equality under the law, free speech, and even truth itself seem to be not only under attack, but completely falling apart. Cultural Marxists have weaponized concepts of gender and race against society, unleashing radical feminism, anti-white racism, and transgenderism against normal society. Basic morality and the value of life are under assault by postmodernism and anti-religious zealots. The seed of Western Civilization—Christianity—is in freefall in the United States....

After years of Russiagate conspiracy theories about how the Russians had somehow rigged the 2016 presidential election using Facebook ads, the Senate Intelligence report awkwardly revealed that the Russian operation had focused most of its attention on black nationalists. The Senate report revealed that "most of the videos" put out by the Russian IRA troll factory on YouTube "pertained to police brutality and the activist efforts of the Black Lives Matter organization" and found that "no single group of Americans was targeted... more than African-Americans" around "race and related issues". But that was an understatement. The Russians had created their...

A study suggests a new way for hematologic oncologists to protect older patients from the risks of medication interactions. Researchers teamed up with hematologic-oncology investigators to look at the association between older patients with blood cancers who were taking multiple medications and their corresponding frailty. They also created a new scale based on a list of Potentially Inappropriate Medications (PIMs) from the NCCN Guidelines for Older Adult Oncology—called the Geriatric Oncology-Potentially Inappropriate Medications (GO-PIMs) Scale—and found it to be more effective at predicting frailty than conventional methods. "A large portion of research for older adults identifies patients as 'having polypharmacy'...

New English language intro to the Ganymede Hypothesis The Ganymede Hypothesis is the most major breakthrough there has ever been in our understanding of human origins and planetary system formation. Aside from everything else, it totally wrecks any and all theories of human descent from hominids such as the Neanderthal. Intro

Cincinnati--Ohio State Highway Patrol officers reportedly exchanged fire Thursday morning with a man who tried to break into an FBI building in Cincinnati, Ohio. Interstate I-71 North was shut down after the suspect drove away from the scene and reportedly started firing at police from a cornfield, NBC 15 News reported. FBI negotiators have also arrived on the scene. The suspect was described as a white male over police scanner traffic, according to the News Journal. “Blood splatter on his shorts. Right thigh area,” an officer in a police helicopter said over the radio. “Part of windshield shot out ......

This is why Wray and Merrick Garland thought they could get away with it. The FBI sought the sign off on the Get Trump Raid within 24 hours of Wray being questioned by the Senate. A high ranking senior Republican, Lindsey Graham “questioned” Chris Wray. Lindsey and Wray obviously really like each other. Lindsey asks Wray, how much more money does the FBi need to do its job? Wray smiles broadly like the Grinch, and Lindsey interrupts - just get me a number, and I dare anyone to say No! Lindsey Graham doesn’t ask Wray about Garland’s public threats to...

For Black people, the microaggressions come as veiled insults. "You're so articulate for a Black person" is a common microaggression that Zellie Imani, organizer at Black Lives Matter Paterson, has faced. He's also been told that "you're not like the other Blacks" and "you're so educated for a Black person." "All this is how much you as a Black person don't fit into the white dominant culture," Imani said.

Add the U.S. Department of Education to the list of federal agencies that can invade your home at gunpoint and hold you and your family in custody for hours. Kenneth Wright learned this the hard way last week, when federal "education" agents busted down the front door of his Stockton, Calif., home at 6 in the morning. "They surrounded the house; it was like a task force or SWAT team," a neighbor told a national news affiliate. "They all had guns. They dragged him out in his boxer shorts, threw him to the ground and handcuffed him." Wright's terrified children...

Military bases in Russia and Belarus were rocked by an outbreak in fires and explosions Thursday, just days after a Russian airbase in Crimea saw explosions that wiped out nine warplanes. Russian media reported that a military housing unit was ablaze in town outside of Moscow early Thursday but did not provide information on how the fire broke out. The Directorate of the Ministry of Emergency Situations in the Moscow Region reportedly said the fire took more than 35 men to distinguish after they found smoke billowing from under the roof. "The fire has now been extinguished, there is no...

The list of things that the FBI may have been after as leaked to the corrupt Washington Post includes the following random items. This is unconscionable.

The oldest known seeds from a watermelon relative, dating back 6,000 years to the Neolithic period, were found during an archaeological dig in Libya. An investigation of these seeds led by biologist Susanne S. Renner at Washington University in St. Louis reveals some surprises about how our ancestors used a predecessor of today’s watermelon...Scientists generally agree that watermelons came from Africa, but exactly where and when watermelons with red, sweet flesh were first domesticated from their wild form is debatable. The most recent data point to watermelon getting its start in the Nile valley, which is consistent with archaeological evidence.However,...

MSNBC host Joe Scarborough said Thursday on “Morning Joe” that former Republican House Speaker Newt Gingrich is a “freak” for criticizing the FBI raid on former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate. Scarborough said, “Some of the same people are making dark, ominous threats, now comparing the FBI to Stalin, now suggesting that this is a banana republic, now saying we have to go to war against the FBI. These people hate law and order. I thought they were the party of law and order. They don’t believe in the rule of law when it applies to the most powerful, I...

Nobody who favored overturning Roe ought to be particularly surprised by the result of the Kansas referendum on abortion. By the margin, maybe — but a Republican state voting to preserve a right to abortion emphasizes what’s always been apparent: With the end of Roe, the pro-life movement now has to adapt to the democratic contest that it sought. Right now, majorities of Americans favor abortion restrictions that were ruled out under Roe, but only slightly over one-third of the country takes the position that abortion should be largely illegal, a number that shrinks if you remove various exceptions. That...

Researchers have studied the benefit of adding an established drug as a novel targeted therapy in the treatment of acute myeloid leukemia (AML). The results suggest that the drug hydroxyurea can increase treatment efficacy at a relatively low cost. The research could have significant implications for cancer treatment. Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is an aggressive blood cancer with high mortality. The 5-year relative survival rate after a myeloid leukemia (AML) diagnosis is 30 percent. One reason is that responses to chemotherapy are often insufficient, and a large proportion of patients relapse. SAMHD1, the protein in the leukemia cell, has been...