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Is the German synodal way banking on the Vatican-China deal?The Pillar reported Sunday that the “Synodal Way” undertaken by the German bishops’ conference in partnership with the Central Committee of German Catholics (ZdK) is considering radical proposals to democratize the Church in Germany. The document, which is under review by the Vatican, is the latest development in a synodal process which has been repeatedly criticized by the Vatican and Pope Francis.The document, titled the “Fundamental Text” of the synod’s Forum I, is the most systematic proposal yet for breaking with the Church’s traditional hierarchical structure and advancing a democratized and...

Oracle and Walmart’s plan to buy TikTok’s U.S. operations has been pushed back indefinitely, as President Joe Biden reviews former president Donald Trump’s efforts to address potential security risks from Chinese tech companies, The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday, citing people familiar with the matter. Oracle’s stock was slightly positive in premarket trading Wednesday and Walmart’s was slightly negative. Trump pushed TikTok to find an American buyer by threatening to ban the popular video app due to concerns that its Chinese parent company ByteDance could hand over U.S. users’ data to the Chinese government. TikTok has denied that this...

This is from 4chan. I cleaned it up and didn’t post a link because there is some porn type stuff on the page. It is full of wisdom though - what most people don’t understand about the young people on the sight - and I have been using it relentlessly. It is easy, and the perfect first step to get someone into the local political arena. Cut, edit, rewrite, whatever - but an excellent place to start. FROM 4CHAN ANON: >Dug around and discovered a gaping, massive hole in the structure of the GOP: >Each county in my state has...

Bruce Springsteen was arrested for DWI and reckless driving in his home state, it was revealed Wednesday — days after he appeared in a much-criticized Super Bowl commercial for Jeep. Springsteen was charged with DWI, reckless driving and consuming alcohol in a closed area, and was cooperative throughout his arrest, the spokesperson said. According to TMZ, which first reported the arrest, Springsteen has a court date in the coming weeks and has no known prior busts for DWI. News of the bust broke just days after Springsteen appeared in and narrated a Super Bowl spot for Jeep, in which...

Whether someone believes that demonstrable widespread voter fraud changed the results of the election or not, they must be willing to admit that it existed and deserves to be covered by the media. Millions of Americans believe the election was, indeed, stolen and the vast majority of them are conservatives. Why are so many “conservative” news outlets refusing to cover it? Many haven’t been covering it for weeks. Some never covered it at all.Before I explain why they’re not covering it, let’s look at three reasons it MUST be covered today and beyond, perhaps indefinitely. First, contrary to popular belief...

Now that the bin-fire that was 2020 is in our rear view mirror, social media is making a return to serious discussions that truly matter. Like how many colors a thing has. Again. Earlier this month, a classic optical illusion was posted on Twitter with the question "How many colors do you see?" The poster saw three. How many colors do you see???? i see 3 pic.twitter.com/IgEHtyzebZ — jade⁷🍓(slow ♡) (@0UTR0EG0) February 4, 2021 Others replied with numbers as high as 17. And tens of thousands of comments followed in heated debate on what the 'true' figure must be. We...

Today is first day of Donald Trump’s impeachment trial, and we are witnessing the House Impeachment Managers present their case claiming that he directly incited the Washington DC Capitol Riots which allegedly led to the deaths of seven American lives. On a side not, that is ignoring the fact that two of those deaths were from suicide after the fact, one police officer whose death we do not know the cause, a Trump supporter died of a stroke, while another had a heart attack and then one unarmed woman was shot in cold blood by an undercover police officer. For...

VIDEO#YouTubeStrikeDay​The February 4 article in Time magazine about how liberal organizations, including social media, conspired to "fortify" (rig) the 2020 election made it more necessary than ever to have a YouTube Strike Day on April 1. As we saw with what happened with GameStop in which the "deplorables" cost a hedge fund over half their value when they attempted to short GameStop, so too can the "deplorables" work in concert to drive down the traffic on YouTube on April 1 as a way to protest the blatant election interference of Social Media as well as their general suppression of free...

After six months of debate over the George Washington bust, which currently sits in the Watsonville City Plaza, council members voted Tuesday evening that the statue be moved to Watsonville Public Library. In addition, a bilingual plaque will be added to the statue, that outlines Washington’s history.

AOC and her colleagues in Congress want to take more of our money, this part is already painfully clear, but she doesn’t just want to take our money, she wants it to go to illegal immigrants. New York Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer have joined forces to demand that taxpayer dollars go toward creating a federal program that will reimburse the families of coronavirus victims. Ocasio-Cortez’s and Schumer’s plan calls for up to $7,000 for funeral expenses for deaths from the disease that occurred in 2020 — even if the death involved an illegal alien.

ATLANTA — Prosecutors in Fulton County have initiated a criminal investigation into former President Donald J. Trump’s attempts to overturn Georgia’s election results, including a phone call he made to Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger in which Mr. Trump pressured him to “find” enough votes to help him reverse his loss. On Wednesday, Fani Willis, the recently elected Democratic prosecutor in Fulton County, sent a letter to numerous officials in state government, including Mr. Raffensperger, requesting that they preserve documents related to “an investigation into attempts to influence the administration of the 2020 Georgia General Election.” While the letter does...

100 Percent Fed Up reports – Throughout the election, Donald Trump was battered by CCP Virus statistics in order to hurt the American economy and his political campaign. We know that it was shamelessly wielded as a political weapon to prevent President Trump and his supporters from rallying as Antifa and Black Lives Matter burned progressive poor and minority neighborhoods to the ground throughout the entire year. Now that Biden has been installed into the office of president, he promises to increase Covid lockdown measures and extend them further into your ability to travel and force unscientific mask-wearing for at...

Lawyers of fifth President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko claim that NABU (National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine) has closed the case of alleged pillage of USD 100,000. The defendants in this case were Poroshenko himself, U.S. ex-President Barack Obama and the incumbent President Joe Biden. Poroshenko's lawyer Ihor Holovan said so as quoted by Interfax-Ukraine news agency. "As we found out, on January 25, National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine closed the criminal case registered on the appeal filed by an MP (Renat Kuzmin, - 112 International) and a group of lawmakers...", he said. The lawyer added that in December 2019, MP...

A simple majority of US senators have voted to recognize the impending impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump as constitutional. Trump’s legal team insisted the chamber lacks the jurisdiction to try an ex-president. Six Republicans joined Senate Democrats on Tuesday to give the go-ahead for Trump’s second impeachment trial. Mitt Romney, Bill Cassidy, Ben Sasse, Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski and Pat Toomey broke with the rest of their party to guarantee the trial moves ahead. The task was not daunting, as only a simple majority was needed, with the final vote tally being 56-44. Senator Cassidy joined the five...

Georgia prosecutors have launched a criminal investigation into former President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the state's election results, NBC News confirmed Wednesday. The investigation by Fulton County prosecutors will look into a damning phone call that Trump made to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger while he was still president in which Trump begged him to "find" the votes to reverse President Joe Biden's victory.

Bruce Springsteen was arrested for a DWI months ago while at a park in his home state of New Jersey.The incident took place in November at the Gateway National Recreation Area, a public affairs officer confirmed to Fox News on Wednesday.

Many here have given such great ideas but as time goes by these get lost in the multitudes of messages I am trying to gather up thoughts on what needed entities we would need to build and own for the Alternate use by freedom loving Americans. These would include Media, IT, Publishing, Transport, Training systems etc.

Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen led the coalition of state AGs and sent a letter to Joe Biden warning him Americans will suffer “serious, detrimental consequences.” “Your decision will result in devastating damage to many of our states and local communities. Even those states outside the path of the Keystone XL pipeline—indeed all Americans—will suffer serious, detrimental consequences,” they wrote. The letter was also signed by attorneys general from Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, North Dakota, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, and West Virginia.

In signing an executive order to fund abortions overseas, President Biden chose to disregard the wishes of the African people.resident Joe Biden likes to present himself as an advocate for racial justice and a man of the people, especially those whose voices are often under-represented. Yet his actions routinely contradict his lofty rhetoric. A recent example is how he has ignored African people’s plea not to fund abortions on their continent. One of the more than two dozen executive orders President Biden signed recently revokes the so-called “Mexico City Policy.” The policy, first implemented by President Reagan in 1984, requires...

China has made it to Mars.The nation's first fully homegrown Mars mission, Tianwen-1, arrived in orbit around the Red Planet today (Feb. 10), according to Chinese media reports.The milestone makes China the sixth entity to get a probe to Mars, joining the United States, the Soviet Union, the European Space Agency, India and the United Arab Emirates, whose Hope orbiter made it to the Red Planet just yesterday (Feb. 9).And today's achievement sets the stage for something even more epic a few months from now — the touchdown of Tianwen-1's lander-rover pair on a large plain in Mars' northern hemisphere...