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The Late Bronze Age collapse of societies throughout the Levant, the Near East and the Mediterranean some 3,200 years ago has been a mystery. Powerful, advanced civilizations disappeared, seemingly overnight. Now an archaeologist believes he has figured out what lay behind the cataclysm.

Former Associated Press reporter Matti Friedman directly contradicted Associated Press President and CEO Gary Pruitt, who claimed Saturday the AP was unaware that Hamas terrorists were using the same building in Gaza City where AP and other media outlets housed their Gaza bureaus. What did Pruitt claim? After Israeli Defense Forces targeted a high-rise building in Gaza Saturday, which housed an AP bureau along with offices for other media outlets including Al Jazeera, the IDF revealed Hamas intelligence forces also occupied the building. In a statement, Pruitt claimed his staffers "had no indication" Hamas worked from the building, and demanded...

Two men were arrested on suspicions they illegally acquired and sold thousands of U.S. Air Force technical orders and aerospace data to domestic and foreign customers for a profit. Law enforcement officials arrested Sarfraz Yousuf, 43, of Miramar, Florida, and Marc Chavez, 53, of Trabuco Canyon, California, over their alleged involvement in the scheme, the Department of Justice announced Wednesday. Each was charged with one count of theft of government property. According to an affidavit provided to Military.com, the men each ran separate businesses out of their homes. Yousuf obtained and sold 1,875 stolen technical orders -- documents detailing operations,...

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi expressed gratitude for the Pope's letter chastising bishops who questioned whether politicians who support abortion should receive communion. "Basically, he's washed his hands on this issue," she boasted. "It's not for priests or bishops or anyone else to decide whether to give communion to whoever presents himself or herself for the rite. It's for each Catholic to make the choice." Pelosi characterized the Pope's stance as "realistic. The Pope knows we are battling for the soul of America with the most evil adversaries that we have ever encountered. To win this battle we need every vote...

Over 1,000 protestors, including those waiving ANTIFA flags, marched for Palestinian rights in Los Angeles on Saturday. The march was in the Westwood area near the 405 Freeway. At one point, ANTIFA protestors attempted to block a California Highway Patrol vehicle from moving. It didn’t work out how they planned. According to the LAPD, no arrests were made. Nobody ever accused mobs of 20 something jackass Antifa idiots of being smart. Or any mob of jackass idiots, obviously. But mobs of 20 something jackass idiot Antifa morons are especially idiotic. They’re used to singling out, surrounding, and attacking defenseless old...

Germany: Ecumenical Convention Uses Body of Christ as Toy for Act of DefianceAt the Ecumenical Convention in Frankfurt (May 15), it was up to "Catholics" and "Protestants" to help themselves either by taking Holy Communion or by eating bread at the Protestant Lord's Supper.The two presidents of the Convention made a start with a childish act of defiance. The President of the Central Committee of German Catholics, Thomas Sternberg, took part in the Protestant service and ate bread there. The Protestant President, Bettina Limperg, the president of the Federal Supreme Court in Karlsruhe, sacrilegiously took the Body of Christ at...

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have finally, at long last, changed their mask guidelines. It’s a bit frustrating because it’s something that everyone knew prior, but better late than never, right? Meh, not really. It’s still infuriating especially since the people we're talking about right now are most of those who have been vaccinated for months. Members of Congress still weak masks inside in a transparent display of political theater. Sorry, Dr. Fauci, Rand Paul was right; it’s theater. You were wrong…again. We need to be finished with this clown and Nancy Pelosi too, though ripping the speaker’s...

National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Dr. Francis Collins accused Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) Friday of spreading “misinformation” about the use of federal grant money by the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China. Earlier this week, Paul accused the NIH and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) of funding so-called “gain of function” research into bat coronaviruses through grants. Gain of function research refers to the process of studying viruses by making them more virulent and transmissible in people. “It’s really unfortunate that a lot of misinformation is being spread around here,” Collins insisted on Fox News’...

The Lord Is God 32 Ask now about the former days, long before your time, from the day God created human beings on the earth; ask from one end of the heavens to the other. Has anything so great as this ever happened, or has anything like it ever been heard of? 33 Has any other people heard the voice of God[a] speaking out of fire, as you have, and lived? 34 Has any god ever tried to take for himself one nation out of another nation, by testings, by signs and wonders, by war, by a mighty hand and...

<p>The Republican who now leads the Arizona county elections department targeted by a GOP audit of the 2020 election results is slamming former President Donald Trump and others in his party for their continued falsehoods about how the election was run.</p>

I hope it’s ok to post this vanity - I am headed on vacation and I want something to read that is not political, PC, preachy or self-help. I just want to read something that is well-written, light and interesting. I already read the Bible daily so this is in addition to that. I don’t mind romance added in, but I prefer historical fiction. I don’t like historical fiction that has been edited to the point of being unrealistic or or with a liberal agenda. I don’t mind action, mystery or drama, but not a fan of murder mysteries or...

So it's not just about the abolition of policing. It's about the abolition of capitalism itself. That was the message on Tiffany Cross's MSNBC show on Saturday. Will Cross applaud when Comcast is nationalized into Comrade? Cross began the segment by airing a brief clip of the last moments of Jamal Sutherland, a mentally ill person who resisted deputies attempting to remove him from his cell to attend a bond hearing, and died after the deputies pepper-sprayed and tased him. Cross then asked MSNBC contributor Brittany Packnett Cunningham whether policing can be reformed. Cunningham answered, "in short, no... That is...

It’s a lie. Donald Trump is flat-out lying to manipulate the political process. I get sick and tired of people on the Left who refuse to believe things that contradict what they prefer to believe, but it is no better when people on the Right do it. It is as plain as day what happens when a people accept as true statements they have every reason to know are lies, and accept them because it suits their political preferences. The corruption of the truth is far worse than ordinary corruption, like stealing money. It makes it impossible to know what...

You may not have heard of this man. You may wish you still haven't. Bishop Garrison is the Pentagon's new extremism czar, installing Marxist radical race theory, purging Donald Trump sympathies from military ranks, especially all officers, and a man with unprecedented new powers. He is leading CEWG, the Countering Extremism Working Group, with orders to change the Pentagon's definition of extremism, to stop Pentagon personnel from being recruited by "extremist" groups and to screen more aggressively to find hidden "extremists." If you are in any branch of the military, you can expect "Garrison Gangsters" to view your internet history...

The Wuhan Institute of Virology scrubbed the U.S. National Institutes of Health as one of its research partners from its website in early 2021. The revelation comes despite Dr. Anthony Fauci insisting no relationship existed between the institutions.Archived versions of the Wuhan lab’s site also reveal a research update – “Will SARS Come Back?” – appearing to describe gain-of-function research being conducted at the institute by entities funded by Dr. Anthony Fauci’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID).On March 21st, 2021, the lab’s website listed six U.S.-based research partners: University of Alabama, University of North Texas, EcoHealth Alliance,...

Dear Associated Press, I understand that you’re upset because Israel gave you only a ONE HOUR WARNING to vacate the building you shared with Hamas. (And then they wouldn’t give you ten more minutes to go up and get more stuff. The importance of careful packing!) Your headline was “Shocking and horrifying: Israel destroys AP office in Gaza.” I’m a little shocked and horrified myself, but not for the same reason. I see that, in paragraph three of your piece, you did get around to mentioning *why* Israel took down your building - it also housed Hamas military intelligence! (It’s...

Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Gov. Larry Hogan (R-MD) called former President Donald Trump “toxic for the Republican Party and for the country.” Anchor Dana Bash said, “So House Republicans ousted Congresswoman Liz Cheney from party leadership this week over her criticism of former President Trump and the big lie. You have praised Congresswoman Cheney, and you have spoken out against Donald Trump as well. Does her removal send a signal that people like her and, by extension, people like you, governor, are not welcome in today’s Republican Party?” Hogan said, “Well, certainly it appears to send that...

Lots of people have been moving away from the west coast over the last decade, but we have never seen the sort of mass exodus that we have seen over the last year. This mass exodus has created some extremely hot real estate markets in desirable areas located away from the coast, and according to the Wall Street Journal the hottest real estate market in the entire country right now is Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. Any house in the area that gets placed on the market is likely to spark a bidding war, and according to the Coeur d’Alene Association of...

A South Florida woman was so shocked recently by "woke" and "cancel culture" books being sold in the baby section of Barnes & Noble, she recorded the titles and posted them on Facebook. "OH MY LORD. Parents please wake up and see what is happening!" says Renee Times, a Republican precinct committeewoman in Palm Beach County. "I took a trip to #barnesandnoble to buy a children's gift check out some of these titles and how our children are being indoctrinated into this #woke Cancel Culture we are witnessing right before our eyes." TRENDING: Fauci's criminal malpractice and killing of medical...