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Brasília (AFP) - Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro suggested Friday that people "poop every other day" as a way to save the environment, after he came under fire for a surge in deforestation of the Amazon since he came to power. The far-right leader offered this idea in response to a journalist's question as to whether it was possible to simultaneously spur economic growth, feed the world's hungry and also preserve the environment. "It's enough to eat a little less. You talk about environmental pollution. It's enough to poop every other day. That will be better for the whole world," said...

The video is absolutely hilarious and worth the watch. The mainstream media's heads will explode in 3...2...1.

Another viral video of Bryson DeChambeau’s interminable process illustrates how the social media voices of its audience, and more importantly, its players, will compel the PGA Tour to fix slow play. It won’t happen because the media partners put pressure on the Tour to fix it. No, beyond an exasperated sigh or gentle chiding over a plumb bob, they are there to present the product in as appealing a way as possible. I once overheard Lance Barrow, the legendary CBS producer for NFL and golf broadcasts, bellow out on the patio at Colonial “we’re not journalists, we’re partners!" It came...

DES MOINES, Iowa — Joe Biden is calling for a cultural shift around how the country thinks about gun ownership. "The Second Amendment — no amendment is in fact absolute," Biden told the Everytown for Gun Safety Action Fund's Presidential Gun Sense Forum Saturday in Des Moines, Iowa. "You cannot stand up in this hall and yell fire. That's not freedom of speech because they know the consequence of yelling fire: There'll be a stampede, and someone will get hurt," the former vice president said.

The government should be held responsible for Friday’s power cut that left thousands stranded and sent London into ‘apocalyptic darkness’, a transport union leader has said. Manuel Cortes, general secretary of the Transport Salaried Staffs Association, has demanded answers from Boris Johnson over blackouts which affected over a million people. People were unable to travel from some of the country’s busiest railway stations including Kings Cross and Euston on Friday. Some chose to spend hundreds on taxis home instead of waiting out the chaos, but thousands of passengers face a second day of disruption as they attempt to make their...

Following the death of Jeffrey Epstein, MSNBC hosts have offered a variety of theories tying the incident to the Trump administration or to Russia. MSNBC's AM Joy host Joy Reid suggested Attorney General William Barr could be responsible for the death of disgraced U.S. financier Jeffrey Epstein. Reid drew attention to the fact that Epstein was in a federal prison. "This is somebody who not only is high-profile, who not only knew a lot of high-profile people, whose papers just came out of court just to let out of some of the documents related to his cases that name high-profile...

One of the individuals named by the Texas Democrat estimates that the lawmaker's actions have spurred donors to give more than $1 million toward Trump's reelection effort in recent days. R. H. Bowman told the Washington Examiner his fellow members of "Texas 44," as the San Antonio-based donors refer to themselves, have been on a fundraising frenzy since Castro tweeted about them on Monday.

NEW: Joe Biden said he was vice president when the deadly high school shooting in Parkland, Florida, took place. Except, it happened in 2018, two years after he left office -- the latest gaffe by the Democratic presidential front-runner.

[Catholic Caucus] An Open Letter to My Bishop ecently, the Archdiocese of Cincinnati suspended two priests from active ministry. The details surrounding both suspensions are disturbing and make clear that secrecy, corruption, and a lack of faith still prevail within the Catholic Church. Below is an open letter to my ordinary, Archbishop Dennis Schnurr, regarding his handling of these suspensions.Your Excellency, I am writing this open letter to express my disgust at your recent handling of the suspension of two priests of the Archdiocese, Fathers Geoff Drew and Clarence Heis. You suspended Fr. Geoff Drew, pastor of St. Ignatius of Loyola...

On the campaign trail this week the struggle for the Democratic presidential nomination continued to generate loony ideas. New Jersey Sen Cory Booker’s campaign director for New Hampshire, Erin Turmelle, demanded an end to Trump rallies, calling them “a breeding ground for racism and bigotry. They are despicable and have no place in New Hampshire, or anywhere in our country. That’s why Trump must cancel all future rallies.” She rejected criticism calling the demand a violation of Trump’s freedom of speech, saying that “there is no freedom for hate speech” and suggested that Trump “campaign like a normal Republican candidate....

As Democrats descend on Iowa to kick off a six-month sprint to the first primary vote, party activists are increasingly anxious that former vice president Joe Biden, the consistent polling leader, has not disposed of persistent questions about whether he is well-equipped to take on President Trump. Adding to the Democrats’ nervousness is that a clear alternative has yet to emerge. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (Mass.) is rising in the polls and has a high-quality campaign organization, but doubts linger in some quarters about the appeal of her left-leaning policies in a general election. Sens. Kamala D. Harris (Calif.) and Bernie...

A 23-year-old neo-Nazi was charged on Friday with planning an attack on a synagogue and gay club in Las Vegas. The suspect, Conor Climo, who was employed as a security guard, was arrested on Friday after FBI agents found unregistered bomb-making materials in his home, including fireworks, fuses, wiring, thermite, sulfuric acid, a soldering iron, circuit boards and other items needed for building timed explosive devices. The agents also found a notebook with handwritten plans on carrying out terror attacks in Vegas. The FBI said that Climo had been "communicating with individuals who identified with a white supremacist extremist organization...

Bernie Sanders says the industry is a criminal enterprise. Joe Biden is vowing to take action against it. Other candidates are competing to say who will wean America from its products the soonest. The fossil fuel industry is squarely in the cross hairs of Democrats running for the White House as they move sharply to the left on climate change, evoking growing alarm from a sector that’s found a cheerleader in the Trump administration. It has moved to rescind regulations on oil drilling and proposed extraordinary measures to aid coal mining. “We are made to be just some kind of...

Attorney General William Barr announced the Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz has launched an investigation into the circumstances surrounding Jeffrey Epstein's apparent suicide after he was found dead in his prison cell on Saturday. The announcement comes as the FBI confirms its inquiry already underway.But the FBI declined to comment on its impending investigation.

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Are Catholic Bishops Stoking Civil War? They've supplanted the hard truths of the Magisterium with the sappy, flaccid sentimentalism of social justice America is on the verge of civil war. Our Catholic bishops, in a frenzy to flee criminal investigators, are helpless.   In fact, they have been AWOL for years.  According to the Pew Research Center, most American Catholics don't even believe that the Eucharist is the Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of Our Lord Jesus Christ. For the past 50 years, our shepherds have ignored teaching that vital magisterial truth, as well as others — prime example: Humanae Vitae. Instead, they have supplanted the hard truths of the Magisterium with the sappy, flaccid sentimentalism of social justice. For years they have allied politically with pro-abortion Democrats and mindlessly supplied them...

For perhaps the first time this year, I find myself in full agreement with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. The circumstances of Jeffrey Epstein’s apparent suicide seem very strange indeed, so much so that it raises all sorts of questions as to what happened, how, and especially why: Ocasio-Cortez is hardly the only person demanding answers either, as Epstein’s victims have been robbed of their opportunity for justice. Epstein wasn’t just some minor figure sitting in a local lockup who had never sent out any signals of potential self- (or other-directed-) harm. “He was probably the most high-profile inmate” in federal custody in...

[Catholic Caucus] The Pope praises Greta and Ursula von der Leyen but forgets Christ The interview by the Pontiff to La Stampa is a unique occasion for getting involved in politics Camillo Langone IL FOGLIO August 10, 2019 Feast of St. Lawrence St. Lawrence martyr, the stars are falling*, governments are falling**, superstars are falling (Alain Delon’s stroke) and the Holy Father is falling yet again. Interviewed by La Stampa, he praises Ursula von der Leyen, patroness of Sodom, homosexual unions and adoptions. And once again he praises Greta the Papessa of a pagan religion. In such a shamelessly, political...

Hillary Clinton responds to the death of Jeffrey Epstein https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orYcAiFqknU

WELLFLEET -- An acoustic receiver, attached to a buoy, that uses email to alert officials and lifeguards to the presence of a tagged white shark is in place in the waters off Wellfleet’s Newcomb Hollow Beach and will soon be installed off Nauset Beach in Orleans and Head of the Meadow in Truro, according to shark researcher and scientist Greg Skomal, of the state Division of Marine Fisheries. The device can detect a tagged shark if it swims within 100 to 200 meters of the buoy, he said, but issues no alert when non-tagged sharks, population unknown, swim by, meaning...