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If you're a fan of time travel shows like Doctor Who, then you know it's entirely possible for one person to exist in two different timelines at the same time...theoretically. Recently, I suddenly realized that many of my friends are still existing in the fear/isolation Timeline I "Tardis-ed" out of back in March 2020. That makes me terribly sad. As someone who was raised in an Environment of Fear, I know how damaging it is. I hate what it did to me and what it's doing to my friends still living in the fear/isolation timeline for the best possible reasons:...

Need some advice and/or support. I have large residential property with a large, clear field where my septic lines feed. I’m thinking of writing a campaign support design with winter rye on the field, something like 10 ft high letters. “Trump 2020” or something like that. The field is accessible to the roadway (no fencing in my area) and so is my house. Am I inviting vandalism, or worse? It will be semi-permanent, so I don’t want to get in too deep. I’m brave, but not stupid.

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At some point, people will get sick of this. Black Lives Matter activists occupied a Trader Joe’s in Seattle this week, claiming to be protesting “lack of access to grocery stores” and explaining to patrons “how capitalism exploits the working class.” That “capitalism” line is straight from Marxism. BLM founders do admit to being “trained Marxists.” Their training is trickling down. Yes, Karen*, it has. Socialism and communism exploit the working class and everyone else under their bootheel. Free speech, free press, and freedom of religion tend to die under socialism and communism. Gulags and concentration camps for punishing wrongthink...

Vatican City, Sep 14, 2020 / 08:00 am MT (CNA).- The Vatican expects to renew its interim deal with China on the appointment of bishops, as part of efforts to “normalize” the life of the Catholic Church in China, Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin said Monday. “With China, our current interest is to normalize the life of the Church as much as possible, to ensure that the Church can live a normal life, which for the Catholic Church is also to have relations with the Holy See and with the Pope,” Parolin said Sept. 14, according to Italian news...

Monday on CNN, former Obama administration Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson reacted to President Donald Trump telling journalist Bob Woodward there was “nothing more could have been done” with regards to the coronavirus pandemic. He also took a shot at Trump rallygoers for going maskless. Johnson said, “To say that nothing more could have been done is absurd. Put aside what he said to Bob Woodward in February and March. By mid-April, here in the Northeast in the New York and New Jersey area where I live, the densest part of the country, we knew how to flatten the...

Does anyone know if this is real? I found it on FB. The text with the pic is below. This is reality folks. Don’t turn away from this picture!!! Look at it! This women showed her will to survive and proved she had a winning mindset! She was shot twice in the face, multiple times in her arms and she stood tall and refused to give up...she placed a tourniquet on her partner, coordinate emergency response and got herself and her partner off the X, all while providing cover to her partner, who was also shot multiple times in the...

A collection of daguerreotype portraits of United States senators from southern states taken by Mathew Brady during the 1840's and 1850's

The strange and often troubling story of Atchison County, COVID-19, and Benedictine College.Nearly 2,000 students at Benedictine College in Atchison, Kansas, woke up on Thursday, September 3rd, to startling news: in less than twenty-four hours, all of them would be confined to their dorm rooms for at least the next two weeks. They would be allowed out of their rooms only three times a day to procure food. Any other movement outside of their individual rooms or, in some cases, suites, would be a violation of a county-imposed order that would go into effect that evening at midnight. Besides being...

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — The Khmer Rouge’s chief jailer, who admitted overseeing the torture and killings of as many as 16,000 Cambodians while running the regime’s most notorious prison, has died. Kaing Guek Eav, known as Duch, was 77 and had been serving a life prison term for war crimes and crimes against humanity. The communist Khmer Rouge regime that ruled Cambodia from 1975-79 was accused of genocide for causing the deaths of so many of their countrymen from executions, starvation and lack of medical care due to its radical policies. Only after neighboring Vietnam pushed the Khmer Rouge from...

Teleskof (Agenzia Fides) - The persistent difficulties following the jihadist invasion of 2014 and the new problems linked to the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic have not prevented Christians of the Nineveh Plain from celebrating the Feast of the Holy Cross, a liturgical solemnity particularly dear to the popular devotion of the Christian communities of that region. On the evening of Sunday 13 September, Christians from Teleskof (Tesqopa), 19 miles north of Mosul, gathered at the Chaldean church of Mar Gewargis (St. George), to take part in mass and then in the procession with candles and torches that wound through...

At an unknown time on this evening in 1973, or else the early hours of the following day, Chilean putschists ushering in the Pinochet dictatorship machine-gunned folk singer Victor Jara near the Santiago stadium that today bears his name. Four days before, Chile’s September 11 had seen General Augusto Pinochet topple the elected leftist government of Salvador Allende, murdering the president in his palace. (Or, go some accounts, Allende committed suicide — “pausing only twice to reload.”). A long pall of evil settled over the country, with all the accustomed chilling familiars: “disappeared” people, mirrored shades, Jeane Kirkpatrick. The day...

The about-face comes after The Australian last week revealed Melbourne’s Catholic priests were giving dying parishioners the last rites in ­defiance of the Andrews Government’s stage-four restrictions. Until Friday, Department of Health and Human Services questions and answers on Melbourne’s current stay-at-home restrictions stated: “Under Stage Four restrictions, faith leaders cannot visit someone in a hospital or care facility for last rites or to perform other religious ceremonies in person.” “Last rites and religious ceremonies can be provided using video or livestreaming.” On Friday, Premier Daniel Andrews confirmed the Government would reverse the advice. He said he spoke with Melbourne...

“Environmental justice so we can turn the faucet on and drink water, breathe clean air. I’m sor – I’m about to end, but lo, liv – you ‘ow, we have to live so, I mean, we have to just give people a chance,” Biden said. Got it?

If you think liberals were upset when Donald Trump defeated Hillary Clinton in 2016, just wait until you see what happens if he also beats Joe Biden, according to The Atlantic. The progressive publication warned readers on Sunday that Democrats might not be able to concede if President Trump wins reelection, “especially” if he loses the popular vote but gets to remain in the White House. Atlantic contributing writer Shadi Hamid wrote that he doesn’t believe “Trump is a fascist or a dictator in the making” and doesn’t consider America a “failed state,” but he does have one significant concern....

Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden is gearing up for a massive legal war over the results of the November election. The Biden campaign has tapped Dana Remus, its general counsel, and Bob Bauer, an Obama-era White House counsel, to lead a so-called special litigation unit of hundreds of lawyers, according to The New York Times. The law firm Perkins Coie, which was a player in the production of a dossier of discredited claims about President Donald Trump, is a key part of the campaign machine assigned to attack rules about voting in order to serve the Biden campaignÂ’s interests, the...

Above statement was forwarded, in Hebrew, to me from someone R Halpern on twitter. I'll explain: Referring to the contrast between the 1993 Oslo accord with butcher Yasser Arafat by leftist Y Rabin which thereafter there were bloody intifadahs by Arab "Palestinian" freedom fighters murderers blowing up restaurants and bus stops. VS now, as the peace is made by the right, Berabyahu/Trump, The ones explode (figure of speech) are those on the left...

Foreign entities looking to influence American politics sometimes devise lucrative commercial deals involving a politician’s family. While the deals can, and do, ensnare politicians of all stripes, those involving the Biden family are particularly troubling: The transactions implicate US national security. While Joe Biden served as vice president, his son Hunter received offers from foreign governments and oligarchs in areas where the he had little or no expertise. That his foreign partners included a rival state, Communist China, make these arrangements particularly brazen, even by Washington’s swampy standards. Newly released Secret Service travel records for Hunter paint a clearer picture...

Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva on Monday challenged NBA star LeBron James to match and double the reward money being offered for information on the gunman who ambushed and shot two deputies over the weekend.

The Islamic State is telling its followers to ignite destructive forest fires in the United States and Europe. As California continues to grapple with powerful fires that have forced hundreds of thousands to evacuate, a pro-ISIS media outlet called Quraysh has reportedly released propaganda posters urging adherents to “ignite fires.” According to the Middle East Media Research Institute, the first of the posters began circulating in April and the latest appeared on Monday. The institute, which monitors and tracks communications in radical groups, said the translation on the April poster read, “Oh monotheists [ISIS followers], ignite fires in the forests...