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It All Starts today, Feb 1st 2021… What You Need To Know As Trump Executive Order 13848 Goes Into Effect Do you think it’s a coincidence that February 1st is “FREEDOM DAY”? Folks, this is why Wall Street is going crazy right now. They are freaking out, and they are trying to move money around, basically “money laundering” to move their money before it gets frozen. THIS IS HUGE! IF YOU DIDN’T READ THE EXECUTIVE ORDER ON ELECTION INTERFERENCE ALL THE WAY THROUGH it is time to do so now! 45 days from November 3rd, 2020 was Dec 18th, 2020...

Stacey Abrams, the former Georgia gubernatorial Democratic candidate and star voting rights activist, has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, Reuters reports. Abrams and her organization Fair Fight Action were integral in increasing Black voter turnout in Georgia this election cycle — a sprawling, years-long effort that culminated in the long-time red state turning blue. Lars Haltbrekken, a Socialist Party politician in Norway’s Parliament, said Monday, the first day of Black History Month in the U.S. and the last day for someone to be nominated for the prize, that “Abrams’ work follows in Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s footsteps...

Official White House Photo by Shealah CraigheadDr. Anthony Fauci may be a saintly figure within media circles, but most of us recognized his game within a month or two of the pandemic starting. Claiming expertise does not in fact make someone an expert, as Never Trumper Tom Nichols so aptly illustrates, and Fauci has quickly fallen into that category. The good doctor’s claims shift on a dime, moving from each side of an issue with no accountability for ever being wrong. The commonality in everything he does just so happens to be politics.Take this latest contradiction, which happened over just...

At the end of the Olivet Discourse, Jesus Christ’s famous prophetic pronouncement of the signs of His return, He likens His listeners to ladies in waiting. This exclusive group being confessors of Christ that go out expectantly to meet him. Note that the parables of Jesus are only understood in light of the other related scriptures throughout the Bible since His purpose in using them is to hide His word from the unbelieving and faithless (Matthew 13:10). Understanding this parable requires us to to dig!Oil represents the Holy Spirit (1 Samuel 16:13). Lamps representing the word of God (Psalm 119:105)....

The Media Fawns Over an ‘Ascendant Liberal Christianity’The same media that never tired of questioning Christian support for Trump now rejoices in the corruption of Christianity under Biden. Christians who supported Trump had sold their souls for political gain, the media told us. Reporters churned out endless stories browbeating Christians for giving hypocritical support to that “coarse” libertine. But “progressive Christians” receive no such lectures, even as they discard their faith for the sake of advancing Biden’s libertine politics.Trump-supporting Christians at least had a religious motive for their choices. They saw Trump as a Constantine-like figure who would serve as...

Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said during an Instagram Live broadcast Monday night that she is a survivor of sexual assault. Ocasio-Cortez made the statement, which appeared to be one of the first times she has spoken in public about being a survivor, in explaining why she feels traumatized by the insurrection at the US Capitol last month. The New York Democrat went through a detailed account of her day on January 6, recounting her experience during the riot. She said those in Congress who are telling her "to move on," or even apologize, following the violent insurrection at the Capitol...

The supposedly-conservative Washington Examiner has published a shocking op-ed comparing Trump supporters to al Qaeda. The shocking article, essentially calling for war against the American people, was written by former CIA officer Kevin Carroll. "We defeated al Qaeda and can do the same to the fascist thugs who attacked our democracy last month,” the Examiner tweeted. The “fascist thugs” the article refers to are Trump supporters who protested and Republican lawmakers who have attempted to practice their Second Amendment right at the Capitol. Of course, Carroll wrote nothing similar about the Black Lives Matter rioters who terrorized cities across the...

Velma Farlin is 104 years old. Recently, she contracted the coronavirus. She beat it. “You know, the Lord is a healer of sickness,” she said Thursday as she sat in her room at Wellspring Meadows Assisted Living facility, the place she has called home for about seven years. While COVID-19 is especially dangerous, even fatal, to the elderly and those with compromised immune systems, Farlin said she was never scared after learning she had it. She said it left her weary and affected her sense of smell for several days, but otherwise, it didn’t hit her too hard. And for...

After four years of lies and denials by the FBI, the wheels of justice appear to be producing results on what the FBI knew about Seth Rich. Attorney Ty Clevenger learned today that his motion to compel the FBI to produce the files it had been hiding regarding the murder of Seth Rich be produced by April 23, 2021: MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER. It is therefore ORDERED that Defendants’ Motion to Stay Scheduling Order Deadlines (Dkt. [10]) is hereby GRANTED in part and DENIED in part. It is FURTHER ORDERED the Scheduling Order in this case is amended as follows:...

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Bishop McElroy: Some bishops making abortion a political 'litmus test'Washington D.C., Feb 1, 2021 / 01:30 pm MT (CNA).- The bishop of San Diego on Monday accused “some bishops” of making the issue of abortion a “litmus test” for Catholic politicians during the Biden presidency. With the inauguration of Joe Biden as just the second Catholic president in United States history, “some bishops want to recast the presence and tone of the conference in the public order,” said Bishop Robert McElroy of San Diego at an online event on Monday.These bishops, he said, “argue that abortion is not merely a...

Scientists captured this striking image of the Apollo 15 landing site by shooting a powerful radar signal from Earth into space and bouncing it off the lunar surface. The thin, meandering channel running through the middle of the image is the Hadley Rille, a scar left on the moon after past volcanic activity, likely a collapsing lava tube, according to a statement from the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO). The circular dent pictured near the rille is Hadley C, a crater about 3.7 miles (6 kilometers) in diameter. Scientists spent two years developing the technology to take these detailed images...

Lockdown measures designed to stop the spread of coronavirus have forced places of worship to shut.Religious leaders in Scotland have started legal proceedings against the Scottish Government over the closure of churches. Lockdown measures designed to stop the spread of coronavirus have forced places of worship to shut. Some representatives from the Church of Scotland, the Free Church of Scotland, the Free Church of Scotland (Continuing) and a number of independent churches have now launched a claim for judicial review. Rev William Philip, leader of the Tron church in Glasgow city centre, said: “We are able to do some things...

CNA Staff, Feb 1, 2021 / 06:30 am MT (CNA).- Australian prosecutors announced on Monday that they were dropping charges against individual journalists accused of breaching a gag order over the trial of Cardinal George Pell. Prosecutor Lisa De Ferrari told the Supreme Court of Victoria on Feb. 1 that the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) had decided to drop the charges against the individuals after all 12 Australian media outlets accused of breaching the order agreed to plead guilty. The media companies also signaled that they would pay part of the DPP’s prosecution costs. “Each corporate respondent has indicated...

The last remaining monuments dedicated to Vladimir Lenin, the great enemy of the Church and the people, on public territory in Ukraine are being dismantled. On January 21, a monument in the village of Kalcheva in the Odessa Province was toppled, reports Decommunization. Ukraine.Another was pulled down a few days later in the village of Stari Troyani. Before and after: the Lenin monument in Stari Troyani. Photo: Facebook“While we were sleeping, some unknown men tore down the last monument in Ukraine to the red occupier Lenin (except for the occupied territories and museums/factories). He was hiding from the keen eye...

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell on Monday called freshman GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (GA) a “cancer for the Republican Party.” “Somebody who’s suggested that perhaps no airplane hit the Pentagon on 9/11, that horrifying school shootings were pre-staged, and that the Clintons crashed JFK Jr.’s airplane is not living in reality,” McConnell said in a statement first shared with The Hill. “This has nothing to do with the challenges facing American families or the robust debates on substance that can strengthen our party.” Marjorie Taylor Greene responded to McConnell.

Internet platforms like Twitter, Facebook and YouTube are not systematically biased against conservatives or right-wing viewpoints in their content moderation practices, according to an analysis from NYU researchers. According to the report released Monday, “False Accusation: The Unfounded Claim that Social Media Companies Censor Conservatives,” the allegation that social media companies engage in anti-conservative bias “is itself a form of disinformation: a falsehood with no reliable evidence to support it.” “No trustworthy large-scale studies have determined that conservative content is being removed for ideological reasons,” the NYU report says. “Even anecdotal evidence of supposed bias tends to crumble under close...

A South Carolina man said he won a $300,000 lottery jackpot thanks to a craving for a candy bar bringing him to the right store at the right time. The Landrum resident told South Carolina Education Lottery officials he was only looking for a candy bar when he stopped at the Corner Mart in Landrum, but while in the store he decided to buy a $300,000 Extra Play scratch-off ticket. The man said he was shocked to scratch off the $300,000 top prize. "I about passed out," the winner recalled. The lucky player said his candy bar didn't fare quite...

Francis Talks Up Communion for AdulterersFurious Catholics on social media give pope lessons in catechesis ATICAN CITY (ChurchMilitant.com) - Faithful Catholics responded with fury after Pope Francis cited the hypothetical example of spiritually confused children to talk up Holy Communion for adulterous and cohabiting parents."How can one explain to children that their mother, abandoned by their father and not willing to establish another marriage bond, receives the Sunday Eucharist with them, while their father, cohabiting, cannot participate in the Eucharistic table?" Francis asked.Francis with the Roman Rota in the Clementine Hall Addressing the Apostolic Tribunal of the Roman Rota at...

The Biden administration asked the Supreme Court on Monday to cancel coming oral arguments on two pillars of former President Donald Trump’s immigration policy, construction of a wall along the southern U.S. border and the “Remain in Mexico” program that barred U.S. entry to many asylum applicants while their cases were considered. The filings are among the first of many the Justice Department is expected to make as the Biden administration changes direction on immigration, LGBT protections, voting rights, the Affordable Care Act and other policies. In both cases, acting Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar, who represents the federal government at...