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The world is burning like hell! Oregon wildfire becomes Megafire and biggest in the US after burning over 200,000 acres, while more than 60 wildfires are burning in 10 states on the US West Coast. In the meantime, flames are tearing across 800,000 hectares of forest, and the hardest-hit region of Yakutia in the north has been in a state of emergency for weeks… Terrible! Siberian inferno Russia’s army has sent water-bombing planes to support 2,600 firefighters battling huge wildfires in Siberia. Flames are tearing across 800,000 hectares of forest, and the hardest-hit region of Yakutia in the north has...

WOKE emojis have been released — including one of a pregnant man. It comes after accusations the emoji dictionary was not inclusive enough.

What used to be called ‘science’ back in my high school biology class is now considered ‘hate speech’ in the dark ages in which we find ourselves, the radical idea that only a biological woman is capable of conceiving a baby in her womb and becoming pregnant. Did you ever think you would live long enough to see the day where that would be considered ‘hate speech’? Well, now you have and here you are, watching the world literally being turned into Hell while you watch. “Ask ye now, and see whether a man doth travail with child? wherefore do...

It was recently revealed that Dr. Anthony Fauci was privately saying in emails that the SARS-CoV-2 may have resulted from a lab leak from the Wuhan Institute of Virology. At the same time, Big Tech was deleting posts and manipulating search results that raised the same questions. Hence, what else are scientists currently saying about the pandemic and possible vaccine side effects that Facebook may not want you to hear? When Project Veritas broke the news on May 24, 2021, of two Facebook whistleblowers who revealed an extensive program to combat so-called “vaccine hesitancy” by censoring accurate information if it...

It may have taken a few days for the Biden administration to finally begin using "communist" to describe the government of Cuba. Still, the State Department's initial claim that the protests were purely due to COVID-19 reveals a futile attempt to control the narrative. The American Left clearly has a messaging problem when it comes to Cuba. This problem became most clear on Wednesday, when the Left’s primary activist wing, Black Lives Matter, issued a verbose statement that blamed Cuba’s situation not on the authoritarian regime, but solely on the U.S. trade embargo. The statement just barely stopped short of...

YouTube removed an entire radio show from its platform this week, hosted by popular Christian author and social commentator Eric Metaxas, citing violations of their community standards. Metaxas – author of biographies on the lives of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Martin Luther, and William Wilberforce, among many other books – announced the news to his social media pages on Tuesday. “It’s happened,” he wrote on his Facebook page. “Despite our going FAR out of our way to comply with their arbitrary ‘community standards’, YouTube decided to remove every single video we’ve ever done on the Eric Metaxas Show off their platform.” The...

The media are all concerned with inflation. Prices are in fact increasing, some increases seem exponential. However, one component has not inflated. Food prices in the Food City survey have remained pretty constant. What will be the results of a Pelosi/Biden government? Many think there will be inflation. Milton Friedman taught us that “Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon, in the sense that it cannot occur without a more rapid increase in the quantity of money than in output.” The $2Trillion covid relief plus the !5% minimum wage plus the forgiveness of college loans all pump money into...

More than 150 people across Europe have been killed and more than 600 injured after record-breaking rains caused catastrophic flooding on July 14 and 15, 2021. German authorities said more than 1 000 people are still unaccounted for. The worst affected were Germany and Belgium, followed by France, Luxembourg, Switzerland, and the Netherlands. In western Germany alone, the worst-affected region, more than 130 people have been killed after extremely heavy rains caused rivers to burst their banks, destroying roads, bridges, and homes. Numerous mudslides have contributed to the disaster which happened at an astonishing speed. According to DW, more than...

VIDEONo, that's NOT a typo. It is supposed to be "Shot" instead of "Shock" because interspersed with these awesome videos are incredible pool SHOTS, each one more unbelievable than the one before it. Minnesota Fats and Fast Eddie were unavailable for comment.

Officer Ronald Kennedy attended a scene on Lenox Avenue and 125th Street in Harlem, where a man had been stabbed in the chest. Kennedy immediately asked someone nearby to get a bag of potato chips and then some tape, and fashioned a covering for the wound ahead of paramedics’ arrival. The clip posted by Harrison included a note at the end saying a doctor who treated the victim had said Kennedy’s actions saved the man’s life.

For most of 2021, Loudoun County Public Schools has been in the news. While much of the coverage has focused on the debate about critical race theory or transgender policies, the story of Loudoun County is far bigger. It’s about how a pandemic led parents to open their eyes and witness a school system run by incompetent officials focused on pleasing special interests and refusing to give parents a seat at the table to help shape their children’s education. The story began during the pandemic, when parents were balancing work and managing their children’s virtual learning. By June of 2020,...

Street protests broke out overnight over severe water shortages in Iran's oil-rich southwest, according to Iranian news outlets and videos posted on social media on Friday, as the country faces its worst drought in 50 years. Videos showed protesters setting fire to tires to block a road and security forces were seen trying to disperse the crowds as some shots were heard. Reuters could not independently verify the videos' authenticity. "State television should report what we are saying and show the image of the buffaloes that perished from lack of water," an elderly protester said on a video carried by...

Luke 15 records three Parables of Redemption which Jesus told. Two days ago we looked at The Lost Sheep, yesterday was The Lost Coin, and now we'll take four days for The Lost Son—The Prodigal. PARABLE OF THE PRODIGAL SON — AND HIS BROTHER . LUKE 15 New International Version ©1984, emphases added Abrdgd: the complete text is in your Bible . Resources to CLICK: To read LUKE 15 in full To hear MAX McLEAN reading it To hear a DRAMATIZATION of it To see an ANIMATION of Matthew, Mark, Luke, or John Harmony of the Gospels 29 A.D. Bible...

Hundreds of tons of dead sea life washed up along the shores of Tampa Bay due to a natural phenomenon known as a "red tide," and now local officials calling on the state government for help in cleaning up the the massive mess. Nearly 800 tons of dead sea life were collected along the shores that consisted of fish, dolphins, sea turtles, eels and stingrays, according to St. Petersburg Mayor Rick Kriseman. "You cannot go outside in east St. Petersburg without choking on the smell," Twitter user Peter Schorsch wrote. On July 14, St. Petersburgh Deputy Mayor Dr. Kanika Tomalin...

The missing 20-year-old Julius Ssekitoleko was training as part of the nine-member Ugandan team in Izumisano, Osaka prefecture, city officials said. Teammates realized the athlete was absent around noon Friday when his saliva test sample was not delivered and they found his hotel room empty, city officials said. There was no training Friday morning and he was last seen in his room in the early hours of Friday. After failing to find him inside the hotel, officials notified police for a broader search. Media reports said Ssekitoleko, who did not meet Olympic standards in the latest international rankings, was to...

During a detailed discussion with The Federalist on Wednesday, representatives from the Georgia Secretary of State’s office provided their perspective on new evidence suggesting more than 10,300 Georgian voters illegally cast ballots in the November 2020 general election. Last week, The Federalist reported on recently obtained data indicating tens of thousands of Georgia voters had violated Section 21-2-218 of the state’s election code, which requires residents vote in the county in which they reside, unless they had changed their residence within 30 days of the election. Shortly after the November 2020 election, Mark Davis, the president of Data Productions Inc....

47 shot, 5 fatally, in Chicago since Friday night CHICAGO - Five people have been killed and at least 42 others wounded in shootings across Chicago since Friday night. Last weekend, 13 people were killed and 33 others wounded in shootings citywide

“To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson In the event all that fails to improve the lot of human life on earth perhaps you...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) - Former President Donald Trump's false claims of a stolen election have been debunked by the courts, his own Justice Department and scores of recounts. But in the battleground state of Pennsylvania, where Trump lost by 80,000 votes eight months ago, they're finding new signs of life. **SNIP** Sean Parnell, a candidate for U.S. Senate, said that “half the state” not trusting the election result is a problem that can be remedied with an audit, and dismissed the official state and county audits as simply “recounts" that were inadequate to investigate allegations that something went wrong. “And...

President Donald Trump’s greatest sin was threatening the power and privilege of the Ruling Class. For that, it will never stop seeking to bludgeon him, those seeking to carry his mantle, or their tens of millions of supporters—those icky, intransigent, irredeemables, judged as such because they refuse to submit. In so doing, it has shown that it presents the very authoritarian threat it claimed he did. The Ruling Class raved that Trump was a tyrant, madman, and traitor in part because it believed it needed to delegitimize him to neutralize a threat to the racket it has had going at...