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BAGHDAD – The five Chaldean-Syriac-Assyrian Members of Iraqi Parliament have denounced in a joined statement the new Federal Court bill which would appoint legal experts in Islam to the Federal Court. The Federal judges themselves would be appointed only from within the Islamic components of Iraq: 5 for the Shia component, 2 for the Sunni, and 2 for the Kurdish component, which is also Muslim. The Chaldean-Syriac-Assyrian MPs showed their aversion to the bill by walking out of the session of parliament in which the bill was discussed. In their joint statement the MPs stated that the bill “pushes Iraq...

“She gave the state of Wyoming the middle finger.” “He’s a traitor.” “We want a real Republican in there.” These are just some of the criticisms that Republicans have lobbed at the 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach former President Donald Trump after his supporters stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6. The criticisms haven’t stopped there, either. Trump told attendees at the Conservative Political Action Conference last month to “get rid of them all.” And all but one of these 10 representatives have been publicly rebuked by state or local GOP officials. In total, nine already face a primary...

Moscow, March 15, Interfax - The introduction of so-called Covid passports may restrict people's rights and freedoms, the Russian Orthodox Church said. "There are currently more questions than answers, and therefore the concerns that are being stated in connection with these proposals are totally founded," Metropolitan Hilarion, the head of the Synodal Department for External Church Relations, said on the program the Church and the World on the Rossiya-24 television channel, commenting on the news about the European Union's plans to consider a bill on Covid passports this month. The hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church said that such passport...

Washington D.C., Mar 15, 2021 / 01:15 pm MT (CNA).- While the White House on Monday would not respond to the Vatican’s statement on marriage, press secretary Jen Psaki said that President Biden supports same-sex unions. On Monday, the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) issued a response to a question on the Church’s power to bless same-sex unions. The CDF said that the Church does not have the power to bless same-sex unions or any relations “that involve sexual activity outside of marriage.” When asked by a reporter on Monday if the president had a response...

A retired New Jersey teacher who got death threats after editing a President Trump T-shirt out of a high school yearbook has now been awarded a $325,000 settlement from the district, according to a report. Susan Parsons insisted she was regularly ordered to make edits to photos at Wall Township High School, including making a “Trump Make America Great Again” shirt look like a plain blue one in 2017. When the alteration sparked outrage, Parsons was set up to “take the blame,” getting suspended and barred from talking to the media, she claimed in a lawsuit filed in May 2019....

Crazy Dr. Fauci today told Americans he wants to vaccinate your 6-month-old babies with the Coronavirus vaccine. We will vaccinate school-age kids and 6-month babies to protect them from COVID. Dr. Anthony Faucihttps://t.co/0J5JkVvdS6#Follow @JimmyAdHub pic.twitter.com/6lllI7SUeD — JimmyAdHub (@JimmyAdHub) March 18, 2021

Women of Nigeria watch out - the men are in revolt. No longer will they pay for lavish dates; no longer will they provide expensive gifts; no longer will they hand over cash on demand. That is, at least, according to the country's Stingy Men Association. It is a fictional creation - a light-hearted response on social media that emerged earlier this year to some male concerns about the cost of dating. "It's tough being a man in Nigeria, there is too much pressure on us," 35-year-old Lagos-based journalist Fred Itua told the BBC. "Everyone expects so much from you....

Archbishop Viganò: Church of Council Realises Masonic Plan, Prepares Advent of AntichristArchbishop Carlo Maria Viganò doesn't believe that the Vatican published the third secret of Fatima completely in 2000.Viganò told DiesIrae that those who saw the secret before its publication, said that it is about the Church’s apostasy which doesn't appear in the official version.He blames the Cardinals Sodano and Bertone for this, and strangely passes over the fact that Cardinal Ratzinger participated in the publication and even wrote the secret’s official interpretation.Viganò warns of attacks on the priesthood like the introduction of deaconesses, abolishing celibacy, and blurring the difference...

David Musgrove and Michael Lewis consider why the Bayeux Tapestry doesn’t tell the whole story of the Norman Conquest – and why Edgar Ætheling, a prince who inconveniently returned from exile, is completely overlookedIt’s 70 metres long, tells a tale that stretches over land and sea, covers a crucial piece of history, and has a wide cast of characters. Yet the Bayeux Tapestry does not relate the whole story of the Norman Conquest of 1066. It vividly records the head-to-head clash between England’s King Harold II “Godwinson” and Duke William of Normandy, placing these two protagonists firmly in the thick...

On February 7, 2020, two days after DJT was acquitted in round 1 of the sham impeachment circus, Vevgeny Vindman and his twin brother Porky Alexander Vindam were unceremoniously fired and quickly escorted off the White House grounds when they showed up for work. The story the media put forth was of brothers troubled by a phone conversation, the first to raise an alarm about the president's phone call in which they claimed (solely on their own interpretation of his words) threatened to withhold Congressional allocated defense funds if Ukraine wouldn't gin up a fake investigation into Joe Biden and...

U.S. Postal Service investigators found no evidence to support one Pennsylvania USPS employee’s claim that he heard his superiors discuss tampering with mail-in ballots. Richard Hopkins, identified as a U.S. Postal Service employee in Erie who signed a sworn affidavit claiming postal supervisory officials hatched a plan to backdate ballots mailed after the election, later recanted his story to investigators, according to the Postal Service’s inspector general. During his second interview with investigators, Hopkins “revised his claims, eventually stating that he had not heard a conversation about ballots at all — rather he saw the Postmaster and Supervisor having a...

Johor ruler Sultan Ibrahim Sultan Iskandar today called for the government to proceed with the appeal against the High Court ruling that allows non-Muslims to use the word “Allah” for religious and educational purposes. “As the head of Islam in Johor, I urge the federal government to appeal the ruling,” he said in a statement today. Sultan Ibrahim added that he would order the Johor Islamic Council to take any necessary steps to support the appeal. Citing a Johor fatwa that prohibits non-Muslims from using the word “Allah”, he said the fatwa states that the use of the word “Allah”...

The conflict in which we are now engaged is stark. The Left hates America and wants to destroy (or “fundamentally transform”) it. The Democratic Party, having drunk the Critical Race Theory kool-aid, is now openly anti-American. So those are the battle lines: on one side, those who love our country and want to preserve it. On the other, those who hate our country and want to destroy it. Unfortunately, our public education system is almost 100% in the hands of the haters, organized and mobilized by the teachers’ unions. Our children are steadily being indoctrinated in anti-Americanism. But here and...

President Biden on Thursday called his vice president, Kamala Harris, “President Harris” while celebrating the nearing US administration of 100 million COVID-19 vaccine doses. Biden said, “Now when President Harris and I took a virtual tour of a vaccination center in Arizona not long ago, one of the nurses on that, on that tour injecting people, giving vaccinations, said that each shot was like administering a dose of hope.” Harris joined Biden for his remarks at the White House, but her reaction to the slip was not recorded in the official video feed. It’s not the first time Biden has...

A top Taiwanese official issued a plea today for people to stop changing their name to “salmon” after dozens made the unusual move to take advantage of a restaurant promotion. In a phenomenon that has been dubbed “Salmon Chaos” by local media, around 150 mostly young people flocked to government offices in recent days to officially register a change in their name. SNIP Under the two day promotion which ended today, any customer whose ID card contained “Gui Yu” – the Chinese characters for salmon – would be entitled to an all-you-can-eat sushi meal along with five friends. Taiwan allows...

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PENSACOLA, Fla. (WKRG) — The man who fired a shot at an alleged intruder inside his house is talking about what happened early Thursday morning on West Jackson Street. Keith Fendley says the suspects went into the garage and cut off the power to the home and broke through a window in a door that leads to the kitchen. He and his wife were asleep and the glass breaking woke him up. “I jumped up, got the gun, came right there,” Fendley said. He poked his head out into the hall and saw two figures in the dark and they...

ransomnote: I've edited out some 'colorful' words and humor to meet FR's family standards for readers. I also trimmed out some info that seemed like side-tracking. Where content was removed/replaced, I typed 'SNIP' and ['expletive']. I have watched many videos and read content by doctors and researchers who have explained why the PCR test does not actually test for Covid-19. The inventor of the PRC test objected to it's use with Covid-19 because "it doesn't tell you if you're sick". Here's a link that touches on that. https://nationalfile.com/inventor-of-pcr-test-said-fauci-doesnt-know-anything-and-is-willing-to-lie-on-television/Thread article begins here. It's more detailed than most PCR analysis I've read....

Lawmakers in the House of Representatives on Thursday passed two bills that would establish paths to citizenship or legal status for millions of undocumented immigrants, including those brought to the country unlawfully as children and workers in the agriculture sector. The legislation was passed largely along partisan lines, with Democrats in favor and Republicans opposed. The bills are narrower than the comprehensive immigration package introduced in February with the support of President Joe Biden. Even so, they face an uphill path to passage in the Senate, where 10 Republicans would be required to vote with every Democrat in order to...

President Biden misspoke in a speech Thursday offering updates on an update on vaccination progress in the U.S., referring to his vice president as "President Harris." "When President Harris and I took ..." Biden said, before momentarily pausing, "a virtual tour of a vaccination site in Arizona not long ago, one of the nurses on that tour injecting people, giving vax each shot, was like administering a dose of hope."