After failing to reach his previously stated benchmark for vaccinations, Joe Biden desperately tweeted a plea for Americans to do "the most patriotic thing you can do" and take the COVID shot.
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After failing to reach his previously stated benchmark for vaccinations, Joe Biden desperately tweeted a plea for Americans to do "the most patriotic thing you can do" and take the COVID shot.
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Pairs of children's shoes and toys are seen at memorial in front of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School. Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada May 31, 2021.
Pairs of children's shoes and toys are seen at memorial in front of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School. Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada May 31, 2021.
The nearly 1,000 bodies of indigenous children in mass graves were recently found by ground-penetrating radar, said the Federation of Sovereign Indigenous First Nations (FSIN) and the Cowessess First Nation.
A reported 150,000 indigenous children were abducted and imprisoned in the Catholic schools, where they were tortured with the intent of erasing their culture and language, as were also sexually abused, had needles driven through their tongues for speaking their own language, were sterilized, among many other horrific practices.
Comment: See also:
- Statues of Queen Victoria and Queen Elizabeth II torn down in Canada
- British Columbia First Nation says remains of 182 found near former school
- Spate of arson attacks burns down Catholic churches in Canada
- Cowessess finds signs of 751 unmarked graves at former residential school
- Trudeau's regret over children's deaths does nothing to address the issues faced by Canada's indigenous people
- Remains of more than 200 children found at site of Canadian indigenous school
The blaze was eventually 'stabilized', officials said
Around 50 firefighters were deployed to the scene after the explosion rocked the Navodari Petromidia refinery on the Black Sea coast.
The refinery's operations "have been stopped as a security measure," said the Kazakh KazMunayGas (KMG) group that owns the oil processing site.
Comment: Also this week two other major explosions occurred:
- Huge explosion filmed in Caspian Sea, officials speculate oil rig fire or mud volcano (July 4th)
- Undersea gas pipeline rupture causes fire in Gulf of Mexico (July 3rd)
- Huge explosion & fire underneath tube station in London (June 28th)
- Fire at martial arts centre in China kills 18, mostly children (June 25th)
- Scottish Dark Sky Observatory destroyed in suspicious fire (June 24th)
- Fire at medical marijuana lab in Italy kills 1, injures 3 (8th May)
- Despite major fire on hospital roof, medical team stay inside to complete heart operation - Russia (April 21st)
- Fire kills 55,000 animals at one of Germany's biggest pig farms (April 1st)
- Large fire at San Borja Arriaran Hospital in Santiago (Jan 30th)
- Fire breaks out at world's biggest vaccine maker, India's Serum Institute (Jan 21st)
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Author Michael Knowles and book "Speechless"
Author Michael Knowles and book "Speechless"
That's according to Publisher's Weekly, which gets its data from NPD BookScan, the industry's most comprehensive count of book sales.
But you wouldn't know it from reading The New York Times. The Times' prestigious "bestseller list" does not include Speechless: Controlling Words, Controlling Minds at all in its list of the top 15 books for the same week.
Instead, it lists books like On Juneteenth, which according to BookScan sold only 4,774 copies that week, or just over a quarter as many as Knowles' book. At #13, it lists Somebody's Daughter, a "memoir about growing up a poor Black girl in Indiana with a family fragmented by incarceration" that does not appear anywhere in Publisher's Weekly's list of the top 25 nonfiction books.
The Times lists O'Reilly's book, Killing the Mob, in first place.
Comment: The New York Times is a self-appointed gatekeeper. Loyal readership believes whatever it is told.
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More than 1 per cent of Iceland's working population took part in the pilot programme which cut the working week to 35-36 hours with no reduction in overall pay.
Joint analysis by think tanks in Iceland and the UK found that the trials, which ran from 2015 to 2019 and involved more than 2,500 people, boosted productivity and wellbeing and are already leading to permanent changes.
"Progressive change is possible"
Icelandic trade union federations, which collectively negotiate wages and conditions for most Icelandic employees, have already begun to negotiate reduced working hours as a result.
The researchers estimate that as a result of new agreements struck in 2019-2021 after the trials ended, 86 per cent of Iceland's entire working population now either have reduced hours or flexibility within their contracts to reduce hours.
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Israeli Arab women protest renewal of discriminatory law.
Israeli Arab women protest renewal of discriminatory law.
Critics, including many left-wing and Arab lawmakers, say it's a racist measure aimed at restricting the growth of Israel's Arab minority, while supporters say it's needed for security purposes and to preserve Israel's Jewish character.
The law creates an array of difficulties for Palestinian families that span the war-drawn and largely invisible frontiers separating Israel from east Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza, territories it seized in the 1967 war that the Palestinians want for a future state.
"You want your security, it's no problem, you can check each case by itself," said Taiseer Khatib. His wife of more than 15 years, from the West Bank city of Jenin, must regularly apply for permits to live with him and their three children in Israel.
"There's no need for this collective punishment just because you are Palestinian," he said.
Israel's dominant right-wing parties strongly support the law, and it has been renewed every year since being enacted. But Israel's new government includes opponents of the measure, and the right-wing opposition led by former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu — aiming to embarrass the government — has warned it won't provide the votes needed to renew the law.
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Metropolitan Hilarion, Chairman of the Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate, during the Divine Liturgy at the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow.
Metropolitan Hilarion, Chairman of the Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate, during the Divine Liturgy at the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow.
Speaking to TV channel Russia 24, the head of the Russia Orthodox Church's Department for External Church Relations, Metropolitan Hilarion, explained that his parishioners regularly repent to him for not being vaccinated. They feel guilty because they passed the virus on to someone else who eventually died, he claimed.
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Congressperson Cori Bush
Congressperson Cori Bush
While yes, the original Independence Day may not have freed black slaves back in 1776, the United States of America in 2021 is a country where Americans, regardless of color, are free to live their lives as they choose.
Black Americans, like Bush, are free to serve in the government. Former President Barrack Obama served as the commander-in-chief for eight years. 57 of the 435 House Representatives are black.
Her comment fails to take into consideration that if black people in America truly were not free, why would black people around the world immigrate to the Untied States? According to the Migration Policy Institute, 10 percent of those who immigrated to the US in 2019 were black.
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Laurel Hubbard scoops another gold in women's weight-lifting. This is fair how?
Laurel Hubbard scoops another gold in women's weight-lifting. This is fair how?
A petition to stop transgender athletes from competing with biological women at the Olympic Games has garnered more than 21,000 signatures.
New Zealander Laurel Hubbard's qualification for the women's weightlifting competition at this summer's Tokyo Games has brought scrutiny on the International Olympic Committee's rules.
Hubbard transitioned eight years ago at the age of 35. She has since met all of the requirements of the International Olympic Committee's (IOC) regulations for trans athletes and fair competition.
Comment: What a mealy-mouthed cop-out by Ardern. She just told half her citizens they must bow to the transgender madness.
The Daily Mail Australia conducted its own poll, which garnered a result of 96 per cent of participants - 2,418 readers - thought it was unfair that Hubbard had taken the place of another female athlete in the competition.
[T]here is still plenty of outrage in the sporting community, with everyone from professional athletes to everyday sports fans and commentators arguing she has not only taken a spot from a biologically-born woman, but has an unfair advantage in the competition because she has the physical strength of a man.
New Zealand Olympic weightlifter Tracey Lambrechs has suggested two gold medals be awarded if Hubbard wins in her division, arguing it would be unfair to pit her against female competitors.
Georgia Gubernatorial Candidate Dr. Kandiss Taylor
We've been reporting for months on the hundreds of thousands of ballots missing chain of custody documentation in Georgia. In April we reported on the problems with the chain of custody for 355,000 ballots
Joe Biden "won" in Georgia by only 11,779 votes.
Comment: The Gateway Pundit also provides an update on the Arizona audit:
On Thursday, The Arizona Audit evacuated the Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum.
The election audit team wraps up in the Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum.
Katie Hobbs's pink shirt observers were nowhere to be seen.
But that didn't stop Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs from again just making up total nonsense about the audit.
Katie Hobbs tweeted:"In what looked like a mad dash to clear out of the Coliseum today, observers reported that Cyber Ninjas have resorted to weighing stacks of ballots to fill out the official manifest of what is being returned to the county. Raising the question- do they even have an actual count?"Who reported this? TGP's Jordan Conradson was the only reporter in the building today and he didn't report this because it's not true.
Senate President Karen Fann set the record straight and taught Hobbs how audits work.
Hobbs has been frantically losing it over this audit since the very beginning because she knows what is coming.
Recently she convinced the County to scrap the corrupted machines that were used in 2020 but now she's pushing lies about the ballot total because she knows it will not add up.
Hobbs certified the 2020 election for Arizona. She had a responsibility to report accurate and fraud-free results. She must be scared to see what the real results are in Maricopa County.
Comment: Patriotism is the love of and devotion to one's country, not the love and devotion, and blind obedience to, that country's leaders. Perhaps a true patriot would forego the vaccine to be left healthy enough to continue its legacy.
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