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Hundreds of Guatemalan demonstrators stormed into the country’s Congress in Guatemala City on Saturday, setting fire to parts of the legislative building. The rally came amidst growing protests against the government under President Alejandro Giammattei for approving budget cuts to education and health spending. Around 7,000 people gathered outside the National Palace following the approval of the $13 billion (€11 billion) budget for 2021. It’s the country’s highest-ever spending plan and earmarks most funds for infrastructure projects linked to big businesses in a country with widespread poverty. Protesters accused the government of passing the budget in secret and demanded Giammattei’s...

Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Nov 18, 2020 / 04:01 pm MT (CNA).- As some states and cities reinstate restrictions meant to stop the spread of the coronavirus, a survey has found that Americans believe places of worship should not be subject to harsher regulations than are businesses. The Becket Fund released Nov. 17 its second annual Religious Freedom Index, a study tracking Americans’ perspectives on religious freedom. The index examines six categories of American thought on religious liberty: Religious Pluralism, Religion and Policy, Religious Sharing, Religion in Society, Church and State, and Religion in Action. A majority of respondents in their...

“Scaringi filed a request to delay the hearing, noting its complexity, his status as new to the case and recent turnover in the Trump legal team. “Having only been retained today, Plaintiffs’ new counsel need additional time to adequately prepare this case for the upcoming oral argument and evidentiary hearing,” Scaringi wrote in a court filing. “...“Furthermore, this is a case of significant complexity and importance to the people of the United States of America,” he said. “And, further, the court record compiled in such a short period of time already contains 148 docket entries by Plaintiffs, multiple Defendants and...

Attorney Sidney Powell needs your immediate support to halt the certification of ballots in Georgia, Michigan, Arizona, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. To contact Sidney Powell directly, please visit her website: https://www.sidneypowell.com Millions of dollars must be raised to defend the Republic as these lawsuits continue to be filed to ensure victory. In Bush v. Gore the Supreme Court recognized that once vested in the people, the right to vote is fundamental, and one source of its fundamental nature lies in the equal weight of each vote. This fundamental right to equal weight was not defended or actualized in this election....

If Your Time is short Syctl, a Spanish election software company at the center of the claim, said the U.S. military hasn’t seized anything, and it doesn’t have offices in Germany.The U.S. Army told the Associated Press that the claims in the posts are false. Scytl and Dominion aren’t connected.See the sources for this fact-checkVoting equipment company Dominion Voting Systems has been at the center of unfounded conspiracy theories — many spread by President Donald Trump — that claim Democrats committed voter fraud and stole the 2020 election for Joe Biden.There’s no evidence that Dominion’s systems were used nefariously...

When Carol St. Amour became pregnant the first time, she wanted to keep her baby, but her boyfriend Jim made it clear he wanted her to have an abortion. He threatened to leave her if she gave birth. In the book “Life Stories,” St. Amour shared her story of forced abortion and regret. St. Amour described herself at the time as a “pro-choice feminist,” but she didn’t want to raise her baby without a father. She said, “He stated he did not want me to have the baby, and that if I did, he’d leave me. I was crushed. I...

An LGBT activist is comparing Christians who affirm biblical sexual standards to "Holocaust deniers" and "rapists." Jayne Ozanne, who runs the Ozanne Foundation, was responding to a report from the Church of England arguing people who differ on issues of sexuality can "listen and learn" from one another. Ozanne said that's ridiculous, Pink News reported. "Would one invite a survivor of the Holocaust to sit down and listen to the rantings of a Holocaust denier?" she asked.

In a book of stories of men and women hurt by abortion, Robin Buckner describes being pressured into an abortion by her boyfriend and workers at Planned Parenthood. She describes the Planned Parenthood facility by saying, “It was cold, the staff was calloused and used high-pressure tactics.” She says they took her money immediately, “even before they got any information regarding my body or health.” Before her abortion, Buckner was shown a three- to four-minute “educational” video. She says the video didn’t prepare her for the trauma of the abortion or its aftermath: I was treated like a lab rat....

Nearly three weeks after the American elections, Americans and the world in general, are still none-the-wiser; not knowing who really won and if the votes have all been legitimate or otherwise. And the man who is supposedly trying to make America respectable again, yes, Joe Biden, started his ‘tenure’ ironically by presenting his own disrespect by breaking the law and declaring himself as ‘president elect’ and establishing an illegal entity in the name of the ‘Office of President-Elect’. There are serious accusations that allege that dead people have voted, that boxes of late illegal ballots (all voting for Biden) suddenly...

A book intended to help people hurt by abortion featured the story of Kay, who was coerced by her mother into an abortion at age 16. When Kay first learned she was pregnant, she wanted to abort. But then she spoke to a friend, who convinced her to choose life for her baby. Kay began to look forward to the birth of her child and adjust to the idea of being a mother. But when she told her own mother, the woman flew into a rage and demanded that Kay have an abortion. Kay says: My resolve [to have the...

No.......what more do you need to know? A caller to Rush made this very point. Leaders rally the troops, Grifters follow the money. Note: There is a small group of Republicans that have been on the ground fighting this fight with us. Gaetz, Jordan come to mind. Not many more though.

The Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich satellite is the latest in a series of satellites that have provided critical data about sea level rise and climate change for almost three decades. The new ocean-spying bird will be able to measure sea levels within a few centimeters for 90% of oceans around the globe. A twin satellite named Sentinel-6B will join the effort when it launches in 2025. Instruments on the new satellites will also provide data on atmospheric temperature and humidity that'll help improve weather forecasts, according to NASA. The mission began with the fairly rare launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base...

Attorney Lin Wood: "I do say it and I believe it, every lie will be revealed. This country’s going to be shocked when the find the truth about who’s been occupying the Oval Office for some periods of years. They’re going to be shocked at the level of pedoph*lia. They are going to be shocked at what I believe is going to be a revelation in terms of people who are engaged in satanic worship."

The Trump campaign’s lawsuit seeking to block Pennsylvania from certifying its election results was officially dismissed in federal court Saturday, effectively ending the Trump campaign’s central attempt to contest President-elect Joe Biden’s win through the courts and paving the way for the state to certify their votes on Monday.The Trump campaign, led by attorney Rudy Giuliani, challenged Pennsylvania’s presidential election results because the campaign objected to the fact that some Pennsylvania counties allowed voters to fix defects with their mail-in ballots to ensure their vote was counted, while others did not. Though the campaign has made a number of general...

The chair of the House Republican Conference became the latest high-profile Republican to publicly urge Trump to accept the results of the presidential election. Rep. Liz Cheney, the No. 3 House Republican, urged Trump on Saturday to respect "the sanctity of our electoral process" if he cannot prove his voter fraud claims. "America is governed by the rule of law," she said in a statement.

A Chinese virologist famous for her research on coronavirus in bats has shared new tests which suggest the virus did not originate at her lab in Wuhan. Shi Zhengli, the deputy director of the Wuhan Institute of Virology, recently retested blood samples taken in 2012 from four miners who fell ill after working in bat caves in southwest China. The results showed none of them were infected with Covid-19, The South China Morning Post reported. Her update appears to contradict accusations from Donald Trump's administration that the virus, which has infected nearly 58million people worldwide, originated at her Wuhan lab....

A Jewish American man jailed in 1985 for spying for Israel was released from strict parole conditions Friday, allowing his move to Israel, the US Justice Department said. Jonathan Pollard, a former Navy intelligence analyst, served 30 years for giving classified US documents and had been confined by parole terms to the United States since his release in 2015, despite Israeli pressure to allow him to leave. US officials said Pollard, over a series of months and for a salary, provided 1,500 intelligence summaries and 800 classified documents to Israel in the mid-80s.

~ GIVING THANKS ~ Psalm 92:1 - 5 1 It is a good thing to give thanks unto the LORD, and to sing praises unto thy name, O most High: 2 To shew forth thy loving kindness in the morning, and thy faithfulness every night, 3 Upon an instrument of ten strings, and upon the psaltery; upon the harp with a solemn sound. 4 For thou, LORD, hast made me glad through thy work: I will triumph in the works of thy hands. 5 O LORD, how great are thy works! and thy thoughts are very deep." Psalm 95:1...