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Vice-president says US is ‘profoundly disappointed’ with Chinese firm’s 5G involvement Pence told the US broadcaster CNBC: “The United States is very disappointed that the United Kingdom has decided to go forward with Huawei. “We are profoundly disappointed … When I went at the president’s direction in September I met with Prime Minister Johnson and I told him the moment the UK was out of Brexit we were willing to begin to negotiate a free trade arrangement with the UK.” Asked whether the decision could prove a “deal-breaker”, he replied: “We’ll see.” ....The UK has said it will allow Huawei...

Faithful prelate warns: 'We already live in a situation of schism'TURIN, Italy (ChurchMilitant.com) - In January, Church Militant reported on Bp. Derio Olivero of Pinerolo's deliberate omission of the Nicene Creed during Mass in order to avoid offending non-Catholics. It wasn't the first time Bp. Olivero made headlines for his controversial decisions, as members of his diocese, along with clergy of the neighboring archdiocese of Turin, have been engaging in spreading heretical practices for years. Before becoming bishop of Pinerolo in 2017, Msgr. Olivero then was vicar general of the diocese of Fossano, and presented himself for his last celebration...

Warren, the senator from Massachusetts running for the Democratic presidential nomination, retold the story in an interview on MSNBC Tuesday night after a disappointing performance in the New Hampshire primary where she wasn't awarded a single delegate. She said that a "broke college student with a lot of student loan debt" approached her in the "selfie line" at the end of her primary event. The senator said that the young woman told her, "I checked, and I have $6 in the bank — so I just gave $3 to keep you in this fight.”

Major League Baseball announced a series of new rules for the 2020 season, headlined by pitchers being subject to a three-batter minimum. That rule will be officially implemented during spring training on March 12.

Thanks to all who previously had prayers for him last week for his heart surgery. The short of it is he had to go back today as he's got some pericarditis, inflammation of the heart sac. Symptoms are mostly identical to the pain of having open heart surgery so it got to a point where he had to go back and have them make sure the grafts were ok (they are) and give him a steroid to get the inflammation down. They are stil l running tests to figure other things out, but if you can still keep him in...

On February 12, 1733, James Oglethorpe disembarked from the Anna, a ship full of British settlers, at a site near present-day Savannah, officially founding the settlement that became the Georgia colony. Georgia was the 13th colony to be established, of the group that became the United States of America, 43 years later. Just like its neighbors, Georgia was built by British settlers who were to spend the following generations building farms and ranches, towns and cities, churches and businesses. Georgia was to see the spread of civilization, from the Atlantic coast inland, and produce many of America’s great talents -...

Moscow, February 11, Interfax - The Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF) does not mind mentioning God in the preamble to the Russian constitution, CPRF leader Gennady Zyuganov said. At a press conference at Interfax's central office, Zyuganov answered a question about the possibility of mentioning God in the preamble to the constitution, saying, "It's an image that is in line with the main moral and spiritual values of our state." God is also mentioned in the Russian national anthem, he said. According to Zyuganov, biblical themes have become a part of communist ideology. "When I studied the Bible,...

It’s a sick prank that sent some commuters off the rails. Two teens dressed in full-body hazmat suits pretended to spill a vat of COVID-19 on a packed Big Apple subway — leaving straphangers screaming as they fled in terror. The pair, identified by Insider as Queens pranksters David Flores, 17, and Morris Cordewell, 19, initially sat calmly in their protective get-ups while holding a clear container with red liquid. “I hope that’s Kool-Aid,” one passenger on the L train in Brooklyn correctly guessed — while another asked, “Is that coronavirus?” The teens both gave thumbs-up signals while telling straphangers...

~ The FReeper Canteen Presents ~ ~ Remembering Our Troops!! ~ TAKE THE NIGHT Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Login Loftis fires an M240 medium machine gun as Lance Cpl. Krikland Harrington looks through a night-vision device during Integrated Training Exercise 5-16 at Marine Air-Ground Combat Center in Twentynine Palms CA, Aug. 18, 2016. The exercise brings together the ground, air and logistics combat elements of the Marine Corps into one unit ready to respond to global uncertainty. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Timothy Valero Canteen Mission Statement Showing support and boosting the morale ofour military and our allies' militaryand...

Feminism is an international sickness destroying mens’ and boys’ lives in western societies and thereby also inflicting enormous damage in the lives of the majority of women who love their men and their boys. Feminism must be opposed. With reason. With truth. With compassion. And with comedy: https://freedom-demokrasi-and-civilised-humanity.com/2020/02/13/a-rat-in-the-kitchen/

Members of the state Assembly vowed Wednesday to oppose a state Senate plan to revise New York’s controversial bail reform law, calling the effort “racist” and “bulls–t.” “I don’t need any fake-ass legislators who are allowing fear-mongering to try and go after our people,” said Assemblyman Michael Blake (D-Bronx). “Right now we have a racist, institutionalized system that for centuries has done everything possible to go after black and brown communities … We are not going back on bail.”

The politically influential Culinary Union in Nevada released a statement on Wednesday claiming that its members have been “viciously attacked” by supporters of Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt. after the union publicly warned its members against backing a candidate in the state’s Democratic caucus who supports “Medicare-for-All.” The union’s statement comes amid reports of harassment of union members over the phone and on social media by alleged Sanders’ supporters less than a day after the union released a flyer claiming that Sanders wants to “end culinary healthcare.” “It’s disappointing that Senator Sanders’ supporters have viciously attacked the Culinary Union and working...

Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee boycotted a hearing on Wednesday, complaining that the committee’s Democratic chairman Adam Schiff has neglected proper oversight of the intelligence community by failing to hold a hearing on the Justice Department inspector general’s report detailing the FBI’s FISA abuses. “Under your chairmanship, the House Intelligence Committee has strayed far from its mandate of overseeing the Intelligence Community,” the panel’s nine GOP members wrote in a letter to Schiff obtained by the Daily Caller. “Until the Committee prioritizes oversight activities related to urgent and critical concerns, Republican Members cannot support distractions from our core responsibilities,”...

Joe Biden had a strong hold on the African-American vote. "Just wait till South Carolina," they said. "His supporters will come out in droves; he'll catch the momentum, clinch the nomination, and be on his way to the White House." That ain't happening. Now that Biden is on his way down, and perhaps out, where will his African-American supporters go? Bernie?--No, thanks. Pete--Are you kidding? Warren--No way. Here's a novel idea: Donald Trump! Who says African-Americans have to support the Democrat? What have the Dems ever done for them? This is a great opportunity for Trump to court African-American voters....

[Catholic Caucus] Francis’s Silence, Ratzinger's Tears, and That Never-Published Statement of His What is most striking in the post-synodal apostolic exhortation “Querida Amazonia,” made public today, February 12 2020, is its total silence on the most anticipated and controversial issue: the ordination of married men.Not even the word “celibacy” appears in it. Pope Francis desires “to configure ministry in such a way that it is at the service of a more frequent celebration of the Eucharist, even in the remotest and most isolated communities” (no. 86). But he reiterates (no. 88) that only the ordained priest can celebrate the Eucharist,...

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In 1966, there were 654 murders in New York City. The next year, that number increased by about a hundred. Then two hundred. By the mid-1970s, nearly 1,700 people were being murdered every year in New York City. That insane level of violence maintained until the early 1990s. Then, in 1994, the level of murder in New York City began to decline. It declined from approximately 2,000 people killed in 1993 to 289 in 2018 -- a level not seen since the end of World War II. Needless to say, on a per capita basis, the murder rate had never...

Democratic Michigan Rep. Rashida Tlaib told Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell that he “has the authority” to bail out the governments of Detroit and Puerto Rico. . . . “Do you not believe that the governments of Detroit and Puerto Rico also play a vital role that should be preserved even if a financial crisis makes it hard for them to borrow money?” she added.

Election season is here. And voters worry about prescription drug costs more than almost any other issue. Sixty-five percent of Iowans and 60 percent of Granite Staters expressed concerns about high prescription prices in a recent Morning Consult poll. Politicians typically blame drug companies for soaring pharmacy prices. But a new report shows that insurers, pharmacies, and other middlemen are the real driving force behind rising drug spending.These groups are incentivized to push for high sticker prices, as they're often able to keep the rebates and discounts they negotiate. Until political leaders address this perverse incentive, America's sickest patients will continue struggling...