A 71-year-old Christian pastor and grandfather was arrested in London on the charge of making “homophobic comments” for preaching on what the Bible says about marriage.
John Sherwood, pastor of 35 years at an independent evangelical church in north London, was arrested after police officers were told he was “making homophobic comments outside Uxbridge Station in west London.”
He was preaching outside the Uxbridge Tube station. Sherwood said he was bruised by officers who pulled him down from the “mini-stepladder” he was standing on and “cuffed his hands behind his back.”
Billionaire hedge fund manager George Soros has committed hundreds of millions of dollars to “civil society initiatives” aimed at shaping political discourse and processes in many countries. Moscow banned the activities of his Open Society Foundations (OSF) in 2015, deeming they pose a threat to national security and Russia’s constitutional order.
George Soros and his Open Society Foundations undoubtedly played a role in the widespread unrest which rocked the United States last year following the police killing of George Floyd at the hands of police, Nikolai Patrushev, chief of the Russian Security Council, believes.
“As you know, he who sows the wind will reap the whirlwind. The same Soros Foundation [involved in colour revolutions abroad and the protests in the US] has no plans to scale down its projects. Moreover, it is working to give them a systematic character,” Patrushev said, speaking to Russian media in an interview published on Friday.
Twitter Inc. on Thursday reported increased quarterly revenue on the strength of ad sales, but its user numbers fell short of expectations.
The San Francisco-based company said its average monetizable daily active users increased 20% year over year to 199 million, but analysts had expected that number to grow to 200 million.
Twitter shares fell as much as 8.5% after hours, after a 0.9% drop in the regular session to close at $65.09.
During the presidential address to Congress on Wednesday, Joe Biden claimed he has “traveled over 17,000 miles” with President Xi Jinping of the Chinese Communist Party.
According to multiple left-wing fact-checks, this claim is unverified and misleading.
Biden had made the very same claim on multiple previous occasions, according to The Washington Post.
Once was at a Feb. 16, 2021, town hall. Another, during an interview with Norah O’Donnell of CBS News on Feb. 7. Going even further back, Biden made the claim during a Jan. 10 campaign rally at Sparks High School in Nevada.
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) on Thursday pledged to sign his state’s version of a bill to protect fairness in women’s sports by prohibiting transgender athletes who were born males from competing against females.
In a surprise move this week, Florida Republicans in the state House revived the Fairness in Women’s Sports Act after it died in Senate committee by attaching it as an amendment to SB 1028, a charter school bill. The legislation would ban males from competing on women’s sports teams at the public secondary and collegiate level.
The House passed the bill Wednesday in a vote of 79-37, mostly along party lines. The state Senate passed the bill 23-16 later that evening. If DeSantis signs the bill into law, Florida would be the seventh state to adopt a form of the Fairness in Women’s Sports bill though 30 states are considering similar legislation.
At a Fox News town hall Thursday evening with other Republican governors, Gov. DeSantis said he was eager to sign the bill.
The lawsuit, which was filed on Friday in the U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota Central Division, seeks to get a judge to rule the Department of Interior’s denial of the permit was arbitrary and to overturn it. The defendants in the case are listed as Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Interior for Fish and Wildlife and Parks Shannon Estenoz, acting Director of Operations for the National Park Service Shawn Benge, and Herbert Frost, who is the National Park Service director for the Midwest region.
“She was screaming in pain. She is one that is pretty stoic. That’s what created the sense of urgency.”
A mother of three in Nashville, Tennessee has been left paralyzed and unable walk by her second doze of the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine, with doctors unsure when she will regain the use of her legs.
Brandy Parker McFadden first noticed an “unusual sensation” in her legs, when then led “into a horrible neck pain, and it just kept getting worse and worse.”
Husband James Mcfadden stated, “She was screaming in pain. She is one that is pretty stoic. That’s what created the sense of urgency.”
Brandy Parker-McFadden was then taken to the hospital, where doctors began panicking. “I woke up. I can’t move my arms. I can’t move my legs. So, he’s freaking out. The doctors are panicking,” Brandy Parker-McFadden said.
“I’m holding her hand, and her hand is limp throughout the whole thing while she’s screaming in pain, and all the test results are coming back negative,” James McFadden recalled.
MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell reportedly plans to relaunch his social media platform at a South Dakota rally in less than two weeks.
Lindell released Frankspeech.com on April 19, though the website reportedly has had issues and its social media features have yet to be implemented, according to the Washington Examiner.
A staunch supporter of former President Donald Trump, Lindell told the Examiner on Thursday he expects “10,000 people at least” at the May 10 rally in Mitchell, S.D., although Corn Palace reportedly only seats about 4,000.
Lindell, a vocal proponent of claims the 2020 election was stolen from Trump, said the rally will be viewable online via a live stream.
The MyPillow CEO and Minnesota native has called his social media website an alternative to Facebook and Twitter. It’s called Frank, which Lindell says allows freedom of speech, except for certain curse words and saying the Lord’s name in vain.
“You won’t be able to use four words: the c-word, the n-word, the f-word, and God’s name in vain,” Lindell told “The Ledger Report” podcast. “You won’t be able to type that in.”
When Lindell’s new venture — a combination somewhere between YouTube and Twitter — is fully launched, users can expect a platform with features “that no other platform has.”
“My whole goal is to get our voices out there again,” Lindell told Newsmax. “It’s a site like you haven’t seen.”
Social media websites such as Facebook and Twitter banned certain content and suspended some accounts when they cracked down on unsubstantiated claims of voter fraud in the 2020 election.
Lindell himself was been banned from several social media platforms for alleging the November 2020 election was stolen from Trump.
The Frank site also features Lindell’s 24-hour station, Lindell TV.
Lindell said about 50 hand-picked broadcasters and influencers — who had been silenced on other social media platforms — are uploading their content to Frank. Those videos will soon be available to users.
Republican Florida Governor Ron DeSantis on Thursday blasted accusations that the United States is systemically racist as “horse manure” and further said critical race theory is a race-based form of Marxism.
Asked to respond to the claim that America is “a systemically racist country,” DeSantis told Fox News host Laura Ingraham during a town hall that such a proposition is “a bunch of horse manure.”
“I mean, give me a break. This country has had more opportunity for more people than any country in the history of the world, and it doesn’t matter where you trace your ancestry from,” DeSantis said to applause from the audience. “We’ve had people that have been able to succeed.”
