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'There is at least some tacit acknowledgement among Crowns that the public interest in continuing to prosecute [COVID] breaches is minimal to non-existent,' noted the pastor's lawyer.(LifeSiteNews) –– Crown prosecutors have dropped COVID charges levied against Ontario Christian pastor Dr. Aaron Rock of Harvest Bible Church for holding a church service contrary to COVID rules in 2020, and for protesting at an anti-lockdown rally. Rock’s lawyer, Christopher Fleury, said Wednesday that he is “pleased to see Crown Attorneys across the province are taking a more reasonable and practical approach to prosecuting these types of offences.” “There is at least some...

Pillow tycoon turned conspiracy theorist Mike Lindell raged against Florida governor Ron DeSantis at the Conservative Political Action Conference on Thursday, calling the popular conservative a “Trojan Horse.” “Now I’ll tell you what Ron DeSantis — and he’s got money behind him — did he do anything for Disney? Remember that was the big thing, you’re gonna go after Disney,” began Lindell. “He did nothing, they got everything they wanted, everything — look it up!” “The media is covering up for Ron DeSantis. He is a Trojan Horse, he is the Trojan Horse,” shouted Lindell on the convention center floor....

Incumbent mayors in Chicago almost never lose a reelection bid. But Lori Lightfoot ran into an issue that’s plaguing Democrats across the country. Lori Lightfoot made history four years ago when she won every ward in the city of Chicago to become the first Black woman and first openly gay person to be elected mayor of America’s third-largest city. She made it again last night, becoming the first Chicago mayor in 40 years to lose a reelection bid. Lightfoot’s loss was expected, but it also served as a referendum on her first four years in office and on crime in...

Berlin said it would oppose the plan unless Brussels agrees to allow so-called synthetic fuels that can burn like gasoline and diesel but spew fewer climate-damaging emissions alongside fully electric vehicles. Italy’s Environment Ministry said that environmental targets should be pursued in a way that avoids harming jobs and production and that electric vehicles shouldn’t be seen as the only route to zero emissions. Meanwhile, Carlos Tavares, chief executive of Stellantis NV, whose brands include Fiat, Peugeot, Jeep and Chrysler, warned on an earnings call with reporters last month that the industry may be getting ahead of its customers. “I...

My wife is a Stage IV colon cancer survivor who has had 18 surgeries on her intestinal tract. Starting in January she has been unable to get her Fentanyl Transdermal Patch prescription filled and nobody in the entire state of Colorado has it in. Cold turkey withdrawal can cause issues like heart attacks and death. Are there any FREEPERS out there who have noticed similar issues with essential medications?

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Democrats’ persistent calls for far-reaching climate policies are less about genuine concern for the environment and more about political power — and money. According to a new analysis by the Washington Free Beacon, Joe Biden’s “clean energy economy” agenda, which he has advanced with billions in taxpayer dollars, has been very good for the pocketbooks of influential Democratic donors like Bill Gates and Laurene Powell Jobs. In the last two months, the Biden Energy Department has announced approximately $3 billion in loans to the electric-battery companies Redwood Materials and Ioneer. Both these companies received seed funding from Jobs and Gates,...

Journalist and author Matt Taibbi noted the U.S. government’s role in creating a “new cottage industry” of “disinformation labs” ostensibly combatting fraudulent online propaganda in the interest of national security in his latest Twitter Files report published Thursday. The “Twitter Files #17” thread focuses on the Global Engagement Center (GEC), a subsidiary of the State Department, and its claimed objective to “recognize, understand, expose, and counter foreign state and non-state propaganda and disinformation efforts aimed at undermining or influencing the policies, security, or stability of the United States, its allies, and partner nations.” The Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab...

Update from Ukraine | Civil war in Ruzzia | Opposition forces assault in Bryansk Region of Ruzzia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Kl_BycXWc8 Follow on Instagram up to date uploads. https://www.instagram.com/denys_pilot/ ****SUMMARY Military MAPS & COMMENTS here: The summary of the situation of Russian re-invasion to Ukraine covering the last 48 hours, as of 28th February 2023 – 22:00 (Kyiv time). https://militaryland.net/news/invasion-day-372-summary/

State Question 820 is on the ballot almost five years after Oklahoma voters legalized medical marijuana with the passage of State Question 788. Groups have worked to get recreational marijuana on an Oklahoma ballot. In October, Gov. Kevin Stitt set a date for early March when Oklahomans could decide whether to legalize recreational marijuana

Video released of the black students who gathered several white students on the playground & forced them to state 'Black Lives Matter;' you can see they punished the white students who refused. The school initially refused to release the footage, but bowed under public pressure:

About 500 hours of video gets uploaded to YouTube every minute. The online video-sharing platform houses more than 800 million videos and is the second most visited site in the world, with 2.5 billion active monthly users. Given the deluge of content flooding the site every day, one would surmise that YouTube must have an army of people guarding against the spread of misinformation — especially in the wake of the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection that was fueled by lies on social media. Well, not actually. Following recent cutbacks, just one person is in charge of misinformation policy worldwide, according...

Michael Hugo resigned as the chair of the Framingham Democratic Committee in Massachusetts on Thursday following weeks of backlash for complaining about the cost of special needs education for children who are not aborted. "I have apologized profusely too many times, but it seems obvious to all objective observers that there is something unusual about this particular crisis, in that it has an extraordinary life," Hugo wrote in an email to the committee and obtained by Fox News. "Time will tell as to why this has become a — literally — international story, and why it has been amplified by...

The Mississippi Senate has passed a bill that will stop electric car companies from opening their own dealerships in the state, ensuring that the state famous for being last place in many rankings of all 50 states remains there. There is a saying used in the US: “Thank God for Mississippi.” This is a reference to the state coming in last place in many rankings of desirability as compared to the other 49 states in the US. It typically ranks last or close to last in economic measures, poverty, quality of life, health, education, unemployment rate, and so on. So...

Calls to #BoycottHersheys after Ottawa transgender activist Fae Johnstone featured on chocolate bar A social media campaign by U.S.-based chocolate giant Hershey's has garnered both a hateful response and a loud chorus of support after a call to boycott the brand's chocolate over ads featuring a Canadian transgender woman. For International Women's Day, Hershey's Canada has released five limited "HER for SHE" chocolate bars, featuring the faces of five women to "shine a light on women and girls who inspire us every day"...

[Catholic Caucus] EXCLUSIVE: Bp. Schneider says Synod on Synodality serves up ‘spiritual poisons’ to the faithfulBp. Schneider spoke to LifeSiteNews on the ‘dangerous’ Synod on Synodality, warning about its promotion of concepts and a style of governance that runs ‘contrary to the entire history of the Church.’ Bishop Athanasius Schneider has warned that current trends in the Catholic Church, especially the Synod on Synodality, are “dangerous” to the Catholic faith and are “spiritual poisons.”Speaking to LifeSiteNews recently in Rome, the auxiliary bishop of Astana, Kazakhstan, discussed “ecological conversion” and ecumenism, but also the dangers presented by the Synod on Synodality.Synod...

In the besieged city of Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine, the volunteers collecting the civilian dead risk becoming casualties themselves. “Where? Where?” demands Daniel Wilk, a Canadian driver, in shaky video footage shot recently inside the city and seen by the Guardian. Wilk proceeds quickly, the anxiety of the situation visible in his movements as he is directed to a fence, cutting an uncertain path across the snow as another voice cries “no, no” repeatedly. The bodies, when Wilk gets to them, have been cut in half by the force of the explosion that took their lives, and still lie where...

At least three prominent Fox News stars are set to be axed from the embattled news network to help Rupert Murdoch save face amid the ongoing $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against him and his company, RadarOnline.com has learned. Among the names on the list of those to be potentially axed from the network include popular Fox News stars such as Sean Hannity, Maria Bartiromo, and Jeanine Pirro. Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott is also reportedly set to be “sacrificed” in a last-ditch effort for the network to avoid losing any of its millions of audience members due to the ongoing...

PNC Financial Services Group Inc. abruptly terminated its business relationship with the news aggregation app company launched last year by Donald Trump Jr. and former Trump spokesman Taylor Budowich, Fox News Digital has learned, which the company called the latest move by "woke corporations" to silence conservatives. MxM News was founded and launched last year by Trump Jr. and Budowich to compete with apps that aggregate news content for readers, like Apple News, Google News and others that conservatives have accused of censorship. The parent company of MxM News is ROCDIGITAL, LLC. "After being told to call a generic help...