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More than 100 giant stone jars, thought to have been used in burial rituals thousands of years ago, have been rediscovered at ancient sites in forests, on hillsides and along mountain ridges in remote central Laos. The carved stone jars are scattered across miles of the rugged, tiger-haunted Xiangkhouang province, about 200 miles north of Laos' capital, Vientiane, in South Asia. They have been dubbed " jars of the dead " by researchers. Several human burials, thought to be around 2,500 years old, have been found at some of these sites in Laos, but nothing is known about the people...

Pearls of wisdom for the speechmakers of graduation season, 2019… Congratulations, Commencement Speakers! Today is your day! After a lifetime of devotion to your respective careers – as journalists, entrepreneurs, inventors, CEOs, ward heelers, or rent seekers – you have finally reached that pinnacle of achievement reserved for only 4600 people each year: you have been selected to give a commencement speech at one of America’s institutions of higher learning. You have finally made it. As you feverishly scribble your notes over the days to come, preparing for that moment of success, that twenty or thirty, or Heaven forbid, forty-minute...

Tensions escalated between the United States and China when Trump wrote in a tweet on May 5 that he would increase tariffs on $200 billion Chinese goods to 25 percent from 10 percent. Trump accused Beijing of backtracking on its commitment to deliver structural reforms. The dispute revealed the vulnerability of China’s stock market, with the Shanghai Stock Exchange Composite Index falling nearly 6 percent on May 6, the day after Trump’s tweet. The stocks haven’t recovered since then. The total outflow from Chinese stocks by nonresidents since tensions escalated reached $6.2 billion, according to IIF, which has tracked capital...

Full Headline: School district rescinds job offer for fired cafeteria worker after student's parents accuse her of cover-up A New Hampshire school district said it no longer wants a fired high school cafeteria worker to get her job back after a student's parent said she tried to cover-up giving the boy free food. The lunchroom worker, Bonnie Kimball, said she was fired in March . . . . because she gave a Mascoma Valley Regional High School student free lunch when he did not have money to pay for food. After Kimball's firing gained national attention last week, Mascoma Valley...

David Daleiden Journalists David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt, who exposed suspect dealings at taxpayer-funded abortion mill Planned Parenthood via undercover videos, were denied a request to halt criminal prosecution, a press release from The Thomas More Society said on Friday. Ocasio-Cortez: There'd Be 'As Many Planned Parenthood Clinics' As Post Offices If Male Politicians Could Get Pregnant (See video in link at source) Last month, the California Supreme Court issued a stay in the high-profile case based on "political bias and selective prosecution." But now the case is moving forward. Daleiden and Merritt were hit with 15 felony charges in...

Walking through the Pittsburgh airport with his wife last October after a beautiful Hawaiian vacation, Matt Scoletti immediately felt the enormous shift that had happened in his hometown. The usual banter and laughter were gone, replaced by a heartbreaking heaviness. A huge sign that adopted the Pittsburgh Steelers logo read “Stronger Than Hate,” in response to the mass shooting in the city that occurred at the Tree of Life, Dor Hadash, and New Light House of Worship on October 27th. Scoletti stood in front of it, and a wave of resolve washed over him. “This was not only an attack...

Thursday of the Fifth Week of Easter Reading 1 Acts 15:7-21 After much debate had taken place, Peter got up and said to the Apostles and the presbyters, "My brothers, you are well aware that from early days God made his choice among you that through my mouth the Gentiles would hear the word of the Gospel and believe. And God, who knows the heart, bore witness by granting them the Holy Spirit just as he did us. He made no distinction between us and them, for by faith he purified their hearts. Why, then, are you now putting God...

After 37 Years Body of IDF Soldier Comes Home By Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz April 4, 2019 , 2:40 pm “Then they took the bones and buried them under the tamarisk tree in Jabesh, and they fasted for seven days.” I Samuel 31:13 (The Israel Bible™) Miriam and Yoni Baumel hold a picture of their son Zachary Baumel, who went missing in at the Battle of Sultan Yacub in 1982. Brooklyn-born Zechariah Baumel was an IDF tank commander who, along with five others, was listed missing in action (MIA) in the Battle of Sultan Yacoub in Lebanon on June 11, 1982,...

Report: IDF Officers Convinced Kabbalist Rabbis Located Terror Tunnels By Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz May 22, 2019 , 1:34 pm “So follow the way of the good And keep to the paths of the just.” Proverbs 2:20 (The Israel Bible™) Light at the end of the tunnel. (Credit: Kornpoj/Shutterstock) FacebookTwittergoogle_plusPinterestEmailWhatsAppCopy LinkShare76 A recently released media report detailed how two mystic rabbis patrolled Israel’s border and successfully identified the locations of tunnels terrorists had dug into Israel. Several officers were sufficiently impressed to recommend using them in future IDF operations but more senior officers have refused. Zman Yisrael, the Hebrew language edition...

Dutch Migration Minister resigns after ‘underreporting murders and sex attacks by Muslim asylum seekers’ MAY 22, 2019 A Dutch junior justice minister has quit after his department came under fire for appearing to minimize statistics about criminality among Muslim asylum seekers. Migration minister Mark Harbers resigned yesterday in a bad blow to the government just ahead of European elections. Daily Mail (h/t Terry D) His departure adds to the struggle faced by centre-right Prime Minister Mark Rutte as he tries to counter a surge in anti-immigration populists who look poised to win big in the elections on Thursday. Harbers was...

The nation of Canada has been giving us a chilling vision of what it looks like when a western nation completely succumbs to the dangerous ideology of multiculturalism, the cultural Marxism that always inevitably restricts the rights of some to pave the way for the rights of others. There is no equality in multiculturalism. Christians have faced increasing adversity in Canada as of late, but new proposed legislation that would make it a crime to publicly express one’s faith is a chilling new low. In the proposed legislation, it would become illegal for Christians to make any public displays which...

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah — The lunch rush at St. Vincent de Paul Dining Hall is a snapshot of the changing character of American homelessness. The first thing that strikes you is the sheer number of people the soup kitchen serves. The line outside starts forming two hours before the food is ready. Diners file in, eat quickly and get up as soon as they’re finished. They know someone is waiting outside for their seat. Even more striking than the scale of need are the shifting demographics of who is eating here and why. The homeless population is getting younger,...

TOKYO − Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will be taking U.S. President Donald Trump to a traditional Japanese charcoal grill restaurant in Tokyo for an intimate and informal dinner during his visit to Japan from the weekend, sources familiar with the matter said Wednesday. Abe and Trump will be joined by their wives, Akie and Melania, at the Sunday dinner in the Roppongi district in a quiet setting to taste a "robatayaki" cuisine of meat, fish and vegetables grilled over a charcoal fire. Small casual dinners have been a go-to formula for Japanese prime ministers when entertaining U.S leaders to foster...

Also suing for Comey’s Talking Points On Clinton Email Decision (Washington, DC) — Judicial Watch announced today it filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the Department of Justice seeking draft copies of FBI charts containing information on potential “statutory violations” committed by Hillary Clinton in the former secretary of State’s use of a non-secure, non-government email server to conduct government business. Judicial Watch is also suing for draft copies of talking points prepared by the FBI for its officials to use following then-Director James Comey’s July 2016 press conference during which he recommended against prosecuting Clinton for...

Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) accused President Trump of throwing a “temper tantrum” and leaving a White House meeting on Wednesday in a letter to the entire Democratic Caucus. “There were those who said that we should not work with the president, but we believe that we must be For The People and create good-paying jobs for American workers. Democrats are here for the country,” Pelosi wrote. “Sadly, the only job the President seems to be concerned with is his own. He threatened to stop working with Democrats on all legislation unless we end oversight of his Administration and he had a...

(snip) We know we ought to obey the pope and the magisterium because if we don’t we will place ourselves outside the faith and become heretics. We also know that if a prelate or the Pope himself was a heretic before/after election we know that they, ipso facto, ain’t no more the head so what does all of this mean? It means francis isn’t francis is what it means. (snip) Rev. Francis X Doyle, S.J. explains: “The Church is a visible society with a visible Ruler. If there can be any doubt about who that visible Ruler is, he is...

Can we have a quick reality check and acknowledge that what is happening to America is a million times worse than what's happening in Europe and is of much greater consequence? Conservatives regularly point to the mass migration afflicting Europe as if it's the Ghost of Christmas Future for America. Since waves of Third World migrants began sweeping into the European Union, we've seen terrorism, knifings, rape gangs and riots popping up all over the birthplace of Western civilization. Sweden has gone from a country where rape was essentially nonexistent to the Rape Capital of the World. It's sweet of...

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Huawei Technologies, the largest smartphone vendor in China, said it has developed its own operating systems (OS) for both smartphones and computers, which can be used on its devices in the event that current systems provided by US technology giants are no longer available. The Chinese company has developed a proprietary OS as tensions between the company and the US government could impact the availability of US-made operating systems used on Huawei devices, Huawei’s mobile chief Richard Yu Chengdong, said in an interview with German publication Die Welt. Yu’s comments confirm an earlier report by the South China Morning Post...

The problem with Harvard University’s collection of glass flowers, explains professor of botany Donald H. Pfister, is that they’re too realistic. “When they’re photographed, they just look like plants,” he says, ruefully. “So how do you make a photo book that lets people know that these are actually glass models?” Even the first director of Harvard’s Botanical Museum, George Lincoln Goodale, was initially fooled by the models. During an 1886 trip to Germany to visit the home of glassmakers Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka, he saw what he assumed to be a vase of blooming, freshly-cut orchids. In truth, each...