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The Passion of the Christ: Resurrection Plot kept under wraps. Described as a sequel to the 2004 film, 'The Passion of the Christ.'

We’ve already seen McDonald’s push for more touchscreen kiosks in stores. Now one restaurant in Chicago is being used to test robot fryers and a drive-thru that uses voice-recognition rather than people. From the Wall Street Journal: The company is testing voice-recognition software at a drive-through in suburban Chicago. Inside the restaurant, a robot also tosses chicken, fish and fries into vats of oil. Both technologies are meant to shorten customer wait times that executives acknowledge have grown in recent years. McDonald’s also has stopped serving some burgers and given franchisees more control over their menus recently to simplify operations....

The wide gender gap in American politics is not just down to what women want MEN have long tended to favour Republican candidates; women have voted more for the “mommy party” than men in every election since 1992. Yet the gap now looks like a chasm. In 1992 women and men disagreed over which party they identified with by 11 points. The margin has since widened to 23 points (see chart). For comparison, Donald Trump won white voters by 21 points in 2016 and lost Hispanics by 36 points. It is no mystery why so many women are abandoning the...

As protesters and police clashed outside Hong Kong’s legislature over the city’s extradition bill on Wednesday last week, Taiwan’s pro-independence ruling party was wrapping up its primary poll. The next day, buoyed by the tensions in Hong Kong, President Tsai Ing-wen, the leader of the self-ruled island, emerged to beat her former premier, William Lai Ching-te, and secure the Democratic Progressive Party’s (DPP) ticket to seek re-election in January. But it did not stop there – even front-running presidential contenders from the mainland-friendly main opposition Kuomintang (KMT), including former Foxconn chairman Terry Gou and popular Kaohsiung mayor Han Kuo-yu, are...

The corridors leading up to the Alabama Senate are lined with black-and-white photographs of past legislative sessions - each framed poster like a yearbook page from a distinctly male-only school. But inside the dim public gallery, looking down onto the Senate floor, many of the seats are filled by women. They are young and old, some in suits and some in bright shirts with pro-choice slogans emblazoned across the front. They watch the drama play out in the chamber below, as a handful of Democrats and an even smaller number of women make clear their outrage over the abortion ban...

President Donald Trump approved a series of cyberattacks targeting the systems Iran uses to launch missiles, Yahoo reported. Personnel with U.S. Cyber Command launched the attacks Thursday, the Friday report notes, citing sources within the administration. The sources told reporters that the Pentagon proposed launching them after Iran’s alleged attacks on two oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman. “This operation imposes costs on the growing Iranian cyber threat, but also serves to defend the United States Navy and shipping operations in the Strait of Hormuz,” Thomas Bossert, a former senior White House cyber official in the Trump administration, told...

The additional health problems, known as comorbidities, that people with HIV experience fall into six clusters, according to an analysis of two groups of Western European individuals that skewed older, aidsmap reports. Presenting their findings at the 2019 Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) in Seattle, researchers analyzed data from two cohort studies to parse patterns behind the existence of comorbidities among HIV-positive individuals.

South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg was confronted by a group of protesters in his own hometown Friday following the fatal police shooting of a black man by South Bend police early Sunday morning. Police Sgt. Ryan O’Neill claimed he fired his weapon when Eric Logan, 54, approached him with a knife and refused to drop it after being confronted vandalizing a car parked at an apartment complex. Logan was transported to a hospital, where he later died. No camera footage or witnesses exist of the incident, which has stirred up racial tensions in the area because the officer is white...

The Yellow Vests on the streets of Paris and marching and rallying in other locations in France today with a reported 25 percent increase in numbers from last week according to the "Yellow Number" Facebook page. The government's Yellow Vest estimate this week was 11,800, up from 7,000 last week. In Paris 1100 Yellow Vests reported today.....

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) is doubling down on her claims that the Trump administration is running concentration camps on the southern border, tweeting on Saturday that the administration is also “fighting to not give children toothpaste or soap” and “making people sleep on dirt floors.”

President Trump approved an offensive cyberstrike that disabled Iranian computer systems used to control rocket and missile launches, even as he backed away from a conventional military attack in response to its downing Thursday of an unmanned U.S. surveillance drone, according to people familiar with the matter. The cyberstrikes, launched Thursday night by personnel with U.S. Cyber Command, were in the works for weeks if not months, according to two of these people, who said the Pentagon proposed launching them after Iran’s alleged attacks on two oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman earlier this month.

Peruvian expert in liberation theology reveals ‘scheme’ behind the Amazon Synod  ROME, June 22, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) — The upcoming synod of bishops on the Amazon region is a “scheme” aimed at “revamping” the Church according to the “most radical versions of liberation theology,” a Peruvian author has said. Julio Loredo, president of the Italian branch of Tradition, Family and Proverty (TFP) and author of “Liberation Theology, a life jacket for the poor made of lead” [Teologia della liberazione. Un salvagente di piombo per i poveri (Cantagalli, 2014)], said the “untold” backstory of the Amazon Synod is that it’s been decades in...

Ezekiel 16:49 "Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fullness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy." Because of the fall of man in the Garden, the specter of sexual anarchy always haunts societies. Societies without a strong moral ethos to suppress this destructive behavior are vulnerable to it. Affluent societies are particularly vulnerable to homosexuality as the scripture indicates above. Historically, most societies, for purposes of self-preservation, do not allow homosexuality to go open and uncontested (e.g. African Nations,...

The White House announced yesterday that deportation orders would be executed on illegal alien individuals and families in multiple cities this weekend. (Why we’re tipping all of them off remains a mystery.) While I suppose it was sadly inevitable, this led to some immediate pushback from Democratic mayors in these urban population centers, along with some governors. The first I heard of it was when Chicago’s new mayor, who is battling a staggering murder rate in her city, had the police tweet out that she would be forbidding Chicago PD cooperation with ICE. At the direction of @chicagosmayor, no...

MADISON (WKOW)– Three women were arrested Wednesday night in the 100 block State St after assaulting Madison police officers. Madison Police Department officers responded to a call about a loud disturbance on State St Wednesday night, June 19. Officers attempted to diffuse the situation by trying to separate the women, who were fighting, so they could better understand the situation. Instead of listening to the officers, 2 of the women got into a physical altercation with police. During the altercation, one woman punched an officer in the face. Another woman spit in the face of a different officer while being...

        DON'T GIVE UP Let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not. — Galatians 6:9 KJV Do you ever feel like giving up? Perhaps you’re discouraged about your finances or you’re facing problems with your health, your marriage, or your children. Sometimes problems seem so overwhelming that the road ahead seems too steep to climb. We all go through these times. I’ve wanted to give up and quit many times through the years. But when I realized I had nothing interesting to go back to,...

Michael Moore warned Democrats about the fight ahead of the 2020 election after seeing the excitement and enthusiasm of President Donald Trump supporters Tuesday night in Orlando. “I watched the whole thing last night,” the 65-year-old filmmaker tweeted Wednesday to his millions of followers, along with a clip from Trump’s rally in Florida where he officially kicked off his 2020 re-election campaign to a packed arena. “I know no one wants to waste that kind of time even looking at him [Trump], but not wanting to see the enormity of the fight ahead doesn’t make it go away,” he added....

Trump is a businessman and knows that if someone destroys one of his properties, that offender should pay for the cost of the property destroyed. The same holds true for U.S. property destroyed by an enemy. Therefore, he should tell Iran to wire us the cost of the drone within 48 hours or else.

For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way. (2 Thessalonians 2:7)And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory. ( I Timothy 3:16)There are two rival mysterious spiritual principles working simultaneously in the world today, vying for the hearts of all men. Paul tells us that both are actively doing a work, building rival kingdoms, developing a following, and...

Ground was broken this month on an anxiously awaited highway project outside of Washington, D.C., one of the latest examples of the public and private sector acting as partners to advance critical state and local infrastructure projects. The June 6 launch of the Fredericksburg Extension Project – a 10-mile extension of express toll lanes on the Interstate 95 corridor in Northern Virginia nicknamed the “FredEx” – featured the leadership of a public-private partnership (P3) that will get the $565 million job done by the end of 2022. The state’s governor and its transportation secretary launched the project as the public...