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Speaking of China Joe, the elderly reprobate sock puppet for the DC Swamp currently pretending to be the legitimate President of the United States of America, he and his utterly incompetent, pathetic diplomatic staff are getting their heads handed to them by Putin and Xi Jinping this week. The corrupt Democrat toadies who staff our major news media outlets are all doing their best to pretend that this is all just fine, that there’s nothing to see here, but they’re lying to us as usual. This is not fine at all. It is in fact the opposite of fine.

Pray For the Peace of Jerusalem Psalm 8Psalm 8[a] For the director of music. According to gittith.[b] A psalm of David. 1 Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory in the heavens. 2 Through the praise of children and infants you have established a stronghold against your enemies, to silence the foe and the avenger. 3 When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, 4 what is mankind that you are mindful of them, human beings that...

The image of the new wall or fence with razor wire on top that now surrounds the Capitol is a disturbing symbol of what we're in for. The image of the new wall or fence with razor wire on top that now surrounds the Capitol has been floating across the screen of my mind since it was erected. Was it erected merely as a response to the horrible events of Jan. 6, and the fear of a right-wing uprising against the anti-Trump Democrats? Recently, this writer had a breakthrough and understood that this wall is actually an austere reminder that...

WASHINGTON – The mood is so bad at the U.S. Capitol that a Democratic congressman recently let an elevator pass him by rather than ride with Republican colleagues who voted against certifying Joe Biden’s election. Republicans say it’s Democrats who just need to get over it - move on from the deadly Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, end the COVID-19 restrictions and make an effort to reach across the aisle toward bipartisanship. Not yet 100 days into the new Congress, the legislative branch has become an increasingly toxic and unsettled place, with lawmakers frustrated by the work-from-home limits imposed...

March 20 2021 Phát Diệm Cathedral, Vietnam Lectionary 249First readingJeremiah 11:18-20 ©'Let us cut him off from the land of the living, so that his name may be quickly forgotten'The Lord revealed it to me; I was warned. O Lord, that was when you opened my eyes to their scheming. I for my part was like a trustful lamb being led to the slaughter-house, not knowing the schemes they were plotting against me, ‘Let us destroy the tree in its strength, let us cut him off from the land of the living, so that his name may be quickly forgotten!’But...

The US Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that the Nazi-bought Guelph Treasure will not return to its Jewish heirs. The decision is in line with the court’s traditional tendency to avoid a situation where foreign plaintiffs bring cases to US courts even if they have little connection to the US, according to a New York Law Journal report. The ruling was made despite the fact that the Jewish owners of the medieval collection, who bought it in 1929, sold it to Nazi agents of Hermann Göring in 1935 during a time when they were under a lot of pressure to...

She is dressed in the casual, ‘urban cool’ uniform of the London 20-something: skinny jeans, unzipped hoodie, Nike baseball cap, trendy shades. Her hair dyed and straightened in the style of her generation. She really could be any young woman about town. But this is not any young woman. This is Shamima Begum, the teenager who fled Britain in 2015 to marry an Isis fighter. The now 21-year-old who described with chilling nonchalance how she ‘wasn’t fazed’ by the sight of a severed head. Who declared how she had a ‘good time’ with Isis, and who justified the bombing of...

In a statement posted on his organization’s website, NAACP president and CEO Derrick Johnson called on the National Football League to “rethink” its relationship with Fox Corporation due to the way Fox News carries out “un-American attacks on those that stand for racial equity and justice,” including NFL players. Saying that Fox News represents “the worst traditions of American broadcasting,” Johnson urged the NFL to distance itself from Fox given what the network “has done to harm its players and the franchise” and requested a formal meeting with league executives to discuss the “unscrupulous tactics employed by Fox to underwrite...

Chancellor Angela Merkel said Friday she was ready to be vaccinated with AstraZeneca's coronavirus jab if she is offered it, in a bid to shore up confidence in the jab. "Yes I would take the AstraZeneca vaccine," Merkel told a news conference, adding she "would like to wait until it's my turn but I would in any case". Merkel's firm endorsement of the vaccine came after its use was suspended for several days this week by major European countries, including Germany, over fears it may cause blood clots.

Testosterone can reduce a man’s “social brain” function and dampen his generosity, according to a new study. The higher the testosterone level, the less neural activity occurred in the temporoparietal junction, an area in the upper human brain associated with social functions, said the researchers in a paper published in the peer-reviewed PNAS, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. More from AsiaOne Read the condensed version of this story, and other top stories with NewsLite. Wu Yin, a lead author of the study with Shenzhen University’s school of psychology, said their discovery...

An amateur astronomer just spotted a strange new object in the sky. And it’s bright enough for you to see with binoculars from your backyard. The discovery image (left) of a new nova that recently appeared in the constellation Cassiopeia. The right image shows how the same region of the sky appeared just four days prior. Yuji Nakamura At around 7 P.M. JST on the evening of March 18, Japanese amateur astronomer Yuji Nakamura spotted something strange: A new point of light in the familiar constellation Cassiopeia the Queen. Researchers at Kyoto University quickly followed up using the 3.8-meter Seimei...

A pair of determined rescuers in Digby County, N.S., paddled and swam through a frigid lake Sunday to save a stray dog stranded on a patch of ice. Video from Drone & Co and Carla Smith-Titus.

An inquest heard vital life-saving equipment was missing from a resuscitation room at Ystrad Fawr Birth Centre when Zak-Ezra Carter was taken there shortly after his birthWarning: This article contains an image and details which some readers might find upsetting A young mother whose baby died following childbirth was turned away from hospital three times while in pain from labour, an inquest has heard. Zak-Ezra Carter died at the Royal Gwent Hospital in Newport two days after his birth at Ystrad Fawr Birth Centre in Ystrad Mynach at about 7.15pm on July 20, 2018. The baby’s mother, Adele Thomas, said...

“It was frightening, he was white as a sheet, floppy and also had shortness of breath. We were so worried"A mother says her son could have died because “Covid confusion” led to late diagnosis of Type 1 diabetes. Fynn Hannify started feeling ill in November last year. The usually fit and active 10 year-old from Neath Port Talbot, began losing weight rapidly, felt tired and thirsty. His parents Nicola and David and teachers noticed he was not his usual self but Nicola said she could not get a face to face appointment for him at the GP. “He looked like...

Michael Cohen, the former personal lawyer for Donald Trump, met Friday for the eighth time with top officials from the Manhattan District Attorney office, who are conducting a sprawling criminal probe of the former president, his company and others in his orbit.

"On the personal front, I am doing a lot more," Gates wrote. "I am driving electric cars. I have solar panels at my house. I eat synthetic meat (some of the time!). I buy green aviation fuel. I pay for direct air capture by Climeworks. I help finance electric heat pumps in low cost housing to replace natural gas."

Emergency authorities in Australia are warning of "life threatening" flash floods as torrential rains batter parts of the country's east coast. Dozens of people have been rescued from floodwaters, and residents in many low-lying communities of New South Wales have been ordered to leave their homes. Police say hundreds of people have flocked to evacuation centres in areas north of the city of Sydney. Major roads have been shut. Footage has emerged of a house being swept away. Agata Imielska from the Bureau of Meteorology warned of localised intense rainfall and damaging winds, saying the public should be aware of...

Now that his previous "gold standard" Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D-NY) is besieged by allegations of sexual harassment and molestation, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the highest paid federal government employee, has pivoted to a new hero—Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D-Mich) who is "a really good governor, I think she's done some really good things." Considering that Whitmer's COVID decrees closely imitated Cuomo's, what's not to like? She, like Cuomo, imposed a sweeping lockdown of small businesses that drove many into bankruptcy and pushed unemployment into double-digit levels. She, like Cuomo, ordered nursing homes to take in COVID-infected patients—exposing thousands of high-risk elderly persons...

It is a late friday, and The Who's abridged version of "Tommy" and Pete Townsend, played accoustic guitar during the whole session is remarkable.

In 2008, I wrote a book, The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot. I warned, based on my study of closing democracies in 20th century history, that America needed to beware of a slide toward totalitarianism. I warned that would-be tyrants, whether they are on the left or the right, always use a map to close down democracies, and that they always take the same ten steps. Whether it’s “Invoke a Terrifying Internal and External Threat,” “Create a Thug Caste,” “Target the Press,” or the final step, “Suspend the Rule of Law,” these steps are always...