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In the late morning hours of December 29, 1924, a British pilot took off from Amman, Jordan... he soon reached the mountain-plateau site of Masada, where King Herod had built an elaborate palace-fortress. At precisely 11:15 A.M., the pilot began conducting a series of aerial photography sorties. Taken at the altitude of 4,500 feet, the images were immortalized on glass negatives, which were deposited several years later in the library of the Institute of Archaeology of University College London. Having been granted access several years ago to this unique aerial photography collection, my (Stiebel’s) attention was drawn to a subterranean...

PENSACOLA, Florida, April 8, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – A Florida pro-life activist is calling on Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis to intervene and shut down a Pensacola abortion facility that stands accused of bringing customers from coronavirus hotspots to the state in violation of a state-imposed quarantine. Cris Dosev, a Marine veteran and former Republican congressional candidate, has been working to raise awareness of the American Family Planning (AFP) abortion center, which he says is inviting non-Florida residents into its doors – many from Louisiana, despite the Florida government placing a 14-day quarantine on travelers from the Bayou State. “While we will...

Francis Interview: Will Through-The-Wall-Consecration Be Next? Thinking of people “anoints” him, Francis told his hagiographer Austen Ivereigh in a TheTablet.co.uk interview (April 8),“It takes me out of my self-preoccupation” and “I have my areas of selfishness.” Francis new mantra is “creativity.” He uses it with different modifications ten times.Again, he plays his Hitler card, accusing “populist speeches” and “political decisions” of “a few European politicians,” but lacks the guts to give names.His solution for a better economy: “This is the time to move from using and misusing nature to contemplating it.” He calls this “the contemplative dimension.”Francis mentions a bishop...

Since our founding, brave men and women who have selflessly answered the call of duty to defend our precious liberty have shaped the fabric of our Nation.  In the course of fighting for our freedom and security, many of these heroes have been captured and often subjected to shocking conditions and unimaginable torture.  On National Former Prisoner of War Recognition Day, we honor the more than 500,000 American warriors captured while protecting our way of life.  We pay tribute to these patriots for their unwavering and unrelenting spirit.In every major conflict in our Nation’s history, American prisoners of war (POWs)...

MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE THE SECRETARY OF HOMELAND SECURITYSUBJECT:       Providing Federal Support for Governors’ Use of the National Guard to Respond to COVID-19By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act, 42 U.S.C. 5121-5207 (the “Stafford Act”), and section 502 of title 32, United States Code, it is hereby ordered as follows:Section 1.  Policy.  It is the policy of the United States to take measures to assist State Governors under the Stafford Act in their responses...

  Roosevelt Room  3:05 P.M. EDTTHE PRESIDENT:  I want to thank everybody for being here.  It is a great tribute to the banking business.  The money that’s been done, and the money that’s been essentially loaned — these are great loans for the banks and they’re great loans for small business, and we appreciate it.We’re looking forward to speaking with the top CEOs from the banking industry and finance industry.  Some of you I know very well and great relationships with.  You do an incredible job.  Respected all over the world.  You’re the biggest and the best.And we’re meeting to...

White House economic adviser Peter Navarro told "The Story" Wednesday night that China has its sights set on controlling various United Nations agencies like the World Health Organization, and is using the WHO's current director-general as a surrogate. "The U.N. itself has 15 specialized agencies, including the WHO," Navarro told host Martha MacCallum. " ... What China has been doing very aggressively over the last decade is to try to gain control of those by electing people to the top. It already controls five of the 15, also, by using proxies, colonial-like proxies, like Tedros [Adhanom Ghebreyesus] at the WHO."...

Politicians: Take this drug if you’re sick. Can’t hurt. Scientists: Stop! We need to do a double-blind, randomized trial first. -- A debate rages over a malaria drug that might treat Covid patients. It hasn’t proved its value in scientific trials. But people who are sick don’t want to wait for the results of trials. They want access to the drug now. Science confronts personal liberty. For the scientist’s view of this debate, I interviewed an M.D. who used to be part of the FDA’s drug approval division. That view is presented in this Q&A as the responses to questions...

Even after an unambiguous, direct denial from the source of the alleged report, ABC is still pushing the story that: "As far back as late November, U.S. intelligence officials were warning that a contagion was sweeping through China’s Wuhan region, changing the patterns of life and business and posing a threat to the population, according to four sources briefed on the secret reporting." Buried deep in the article is a clear and direct denial: "The Pentagon did not comment Tuesday, but on Wednesday evening following the publication of this report, the Defense Department provided a statement from Col. R. Shane...

Will Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) keep confirming judges in this time of pandemic? “We will go back to judges,” he said in an interview. “My motto for the rest of the year is leave no vacancy behind.” The whole landscape was barren, and the fires burned everywhere. And in the smoldering remains of the Senate, Mitch McConnell sat on a throne of skulls making preparations to confirm his 8,999th judge. Mitch McConnell would leave no vacancy behind. The people were long gone. The streets were empty, and some old scraps of burned newspaper tossed on the hot, sulfurous...

Easter looming, Kansas Republican leaders on Wednesday revoked Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly’s order limiting religious gatherings to 10 people as the state’s coronavirus death toll jumped 40 percent. House and Senate leaders — meeting as a body called the Legislative Coordinating Council — voted along party lines to throw out the directive. Their decision came as the number of reported COVID-19 cases in the state climbed to more than 1,000 and the death count ticked up to 38. Church gatherings have produced three case clusters across the state and health officials fear Easter gatherings could further spread the deadly coronavirus....

Griffith University scientists have led an international team to date the skull of an early human found in Africa, potentially upending human evolution knowledge with their discovery. The Broken Hill (Kabwe 1) skull is one of the best-preserved fossils of the early human species Homo heidelbergensis and was estimated to be about 500,000 years old... Discovered in 1921 by miners in Zambia, the Broken Hill remains have been difficult to date due to their haphazard recovery and the site being completely destroyed by quarrying. Using radiometric dating methods, Professor Grün’s analyses now puts the skull at a relatively young date,...

A chain of abortion facilities in Maine have taken advantage of the COVID-19 pandemic to push a no-contact service for the abortion pill. Just six days after Maine reported its first case of the coronavirus, Maine Family Planning program director Leah Coplon had successfully implemented the program under the guise of social distancing and helping to reduce the spread of the virus. Maine Family Planning was already participating in a clinical trial attempting to prove the safety of TelAbortion with pills dispensed by mail. Currently, an FDA safety system called REMS (Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy) dictates that abortion pills...

A farmer has discovered one of the largest hauls of Roman coins to ever be found in Poland. Mariusz Dyl had been looking for abandoned antlers in a field near Cichobórz, south of Hrubieszów, Lublin, when he stumbled upon the 2,000-year-old coins scattered across 100 metres of the field. After calling in experts, the 1,753 coins weighing 5.5kg and which were found in 2019, were taken to the Hrubieszów Museum where they have now been analysed and their authenticity confirmed. Director of the Museum Bartlomiej Bartecki said... all the coins, had been originally placed in a wooden box or leather...

It is becoming increasingly clear that “mitigation” has done nothing but cause a pointless, catastrophic disruption of social and economic life. April 8, 2020 (The Remnant) — “And I predict that even stranger things have happened.” —The Amazing Kreskin In what has become a continuing series on the Great Coronavirus Panic of 2020, I would like to begin this much shorter article by thanking Remnant readers for their prayers for my father, Joseph, who is still locked down in a nursing facility in which the Wuhan virus is present. So far, he is doing well and shows no signs of...

Amna Dermish is the Regional Medical Director for Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas, and in a recent op-ed for the Washington Post, she complained that she won’t be able to commit abortions in the state during the coronavirus pandemic. Referencing the abortion ban in Texas, which the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals recently upheld, Dermish acknowledged that the world is facing an unprecedented health crisis. And it’s for that very reason that Texas Gov. Greg Abbott put the ban into place to begin with; all surgeries and procedures which are not medically essential are currently not allowed, with the goal...

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/italyUS Coronavirus Cases: 434,927 Deaths: 14,788 Recovered: 22,891 Italy Coronavirus Cases: 139,422 Deaths: 17,669 Recovered: 26,491

Liberal critics are raving about a new film about one of their most cherished issues: abortion -- and they even managed to tie it to the Chinese coronavirus! The PG-13 film revolves around a 17-year-old character named Autumn (Sidney Flanigan) who leaves her home in Pennsylvania, where parental consent for abortion is required, to get an abortion at a Planned Parenthood in New York City. Apparently, Never Rarely Sometimes Always is both quiet and devastating. Canada’s The Globe and Mail called it “a quietly devastating look at women’s health, and empathy” while The Boston Globe dubbed it similarly, “a quietly...

As we near day 20 or so of coronavirus quarantine, the wailing and gnashing of liberal teeth on social media is reaching a fever pitch. Hollywood celebrities have reached new lows in their anger for the president and conservatives, with venom-filled entertainers like comedian Sarah Silverman fully admitting that they “hate” President Donald Trump and what she considers pro-Trump media. The Trump-loathing comedian told the Twitterverse that she hates the president, his advisers — like Counselor to the President of United States Kellyanne Conway — and pro-Trump media -- like Fox News Host Sean Hannity. Considering she’s among the crowd...

Louisiana is set to start doling out supercharged unemployment benefits of $600 more a week on Monday, providing the first wave of relief to a staggering number of residents seeking aid as the coronavirus rocks the state’s economy. But as benefits begin flowing and officials project no part of Louisiana is on track to run out of hospital beds or ventilators in the coming 10 days, Gov. John Bel Edwards warned Wednesday it will be a long time before things return to normal.