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The White House announced Monday President Joe Biden held a Zoom video conference call with Cuban-American celebrities in an attempt to organize a policy in response to nationwide anti-communist protests on the island. The call was hosted by the Director of the White House Office of Public Engagement Cedric Richmond and an administration national security advisor for the region. CBS Miami reporter Jim DeFede revealed, citing a White House press release, that the call included celebrity musician Gloria Estefan; her husband, producer Emilio Estefan; and actor Andy Garcia. The rest of the list included business leaders, lobbyists, and a playwright....

Sunrise, SunsetI will make this a very short one, requesting prayers from all those so inclined for both Succotash and our pbird this morning. Both are in the hospital. Succotash remains in end-of-life palliative care and we pray for her ease of passing. Pbird who is terribly ill, likely with an infection from a leg wound from hell that refuses to heal. We pray for effective treatment and healing so she can go home and continue her recovery.It’s been a tough year. But hang in there, we’re smarter than the other side (h/t Country Girl);I just hope that’s enough to...

Nothing triggers Democrats quite like non-compliance with their collectivist agenda, because for all their blustery blather about saving democracy from fascist Trump supporters, and beneath their micro-thin veneer of “tolerance and inclusiveness,” Progressives are totalitarians. The slightest resistance to their transformative, utopian vision elicits authoritarian rage. Case in point: the left has run out of patience with Americans who are resisting the COVID-19 vaccination.At the end of June, the propaganda rag The New York Times published an opinion piece whose title signaled the left’s growing frustration with the vaccine skeptics: “Vaccine Mandates Are Coming. Good.” Last weekend, The St. Louis...

By now everyone with two working brain cells knows, or pretends not to know, that Democrats cheated on a colossal scale to get Whisperin' Joe into the White House. So it's safe to say that Republicans, having wised up to the Donks' stratagems and skullduggery, will capture both House and Senate in next year's midterms. Right? Yes. That is, assuming elections actually take place on November 8, 2022. Who doubts that Democrats, with a death grip on power now, are capable of anything to keep Pelosi and Schumer on top and Biden's cabal in the White House calling the shots?...

The curiously sketchy case against six accused people in the FBI organized plot to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer took another hit to the case credibility on Monday, as the lead FBI Special Agent was arrested on domestic violence charges. This latest issue comes less than a week after court filings showed twelve embedded FBI operatives were involved in the suspicious plot that culminated in the arrest of six individuals {Go Deep}. (Detroit News) – […] FBI Special Agent Richard Trask, 39, of Kalamazoo [pictured left on Instagram], was charged Monday with assault with intent to do great bodily harm,...

The woke ice cream company veers into anti-Semitism The left-wing ice cream company Ben & Jerry's announced on Monday that it will stop selling its ice cream in the West Bank and East Jerusalem—or, as the company termed them, Occupied Palestinian Territory. In a move that perfectly captures how left-wing activism is increasingly bleeding into naked anti-Semitism, Ben & Jerry's said that selling ice cream in the West Bank is "inconsistent with our values." Yikes. We're not clear how exactly removing Ben & Jerry's ice cream from grocery stores in the West Bank will benefit the Palestinians. The move appears...

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Summertime means it’s time to play ball! But what would it be like to play ball on various locations across our Solar System? Planetary scientist Dr. James O’Donoghue has put together a fun animation of how quickly an object falls on to the surfaces of places like the Sun, Earth, Ceres, Jupiter, the Moon, and Pluto. The animation shows a ball dropping from 1 kilometer to the surface of each object, assuming no air resistance. You can compare, for example, that it takes 2.7 seconds for a ball to drop that distance on the Sun, while it takes 14.3 seconds...

BEIJING, July 20 (Reuters) - China unveiled a maglev train capable of a top speed of 600 kph on Tuesday, state media said. The maximum speed would make the train, self-developed by China and manufactured in the coastal city of Qingdao, the fastest ground vehicle globally. Using electro-magnetic force, the maglev train "levitates" above the track with no contact between body and rail.

TOKYO -- The chief of the Tokyo 2020 organizing committee on Tuesday did not rule out a last-minute cancellation of the Olympics, as more athletes tested positive for COVID-19 and major sponsors ditched plans to attend Friday's opening ceremony. Asked at a news conference whether the global sporting showpiece might still be canceled, Toshiro Muto said he would keep an eye on infection numbers and liaise with other organizers if necessary. "We can't predict what will happen with the number of coronavirus cases. So we will continue discussions if there is a spike in cases," Muto said. "We have agreed...

McCrone said on August 1st people cannot access resturants, bars, etc.. without a vaccine passport. Meanwhile, French police are exempt from the mRNA gene therpay. Gee I wonder why?I would say things are heating up in Paris.Video of the fire at the link. https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1417436902450516009

Last week, the CEO of Black Rifle Coffee, Evan Hafer, gave a long-form interview to Jason Zengerle for the New York Times Magazine. I don’t know what he expected to achieve by the exercise, but I’m pretty certain that what he accomplished represented a significant deviation from the plan. The piece framed Black Rifle Coffee as a “Starbucks for conservatives” and promoted the piece by saying that the company was trying to distance itself from some of its customers. Note that Black Rifle Coffee retweeted this tweet and that usually means that the tweet met with the approval of the...

Anybody remember the bluster Joe Biden emitted when he 'confronted Russian President Vladimir Putin' over Russian hacking at his June 16 Geneva summit?“I made it very clear to him that the United States expects, when a ransomware operation is coming from his soil even though it’s not sponsored by the state, we expect them to act if we give them enough information to act on who that is,” Biden told reporters.Tough, tough, tough. And as far as public knowledge goes, it's not completely certain that the Russian state even organized the Russian criminal hacks. But they were held responsible, and...

Red Card for the Ancient Rite, and the Game Is Getting NastyA few days after its publication, it is still too early to gauge the effects of the motu proprio “Traditionis Custodes” with which Pope Francis has practically banned the Mass in the ancient rite: that is, whether the new provisions will help to make the Church more united, or on the contrary divide it even more.Given the reactions, the most probable hypothesis is the latter, as Professor Pietro De Marco also suggests in his scathing commentary already published on Settimo Cielo.The unity of the Church was also the objective...

In a heated interview on CNN's New Day this morning, Joseph D. McBride, the lawyer for Capitol breach defendant Richard 'Bigo' Barnett—famously seen with his feet on a desk in Nancy Pelosi's office—condemned the conditions of detention for the defendants, labeling them "D.C. Guantanamo Bay," and repeatedly accused the authorities of "torture." Snide and smirking substitute host John Avlon took repeated shots at McBride, claiming that McBride's various arguments "make absolutely no sense," and are "utterly unbased in fact." In a parting shot, Avlon sanctimoniously said, "I had hoped you would have a more of a fact-based conversation with anything...

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A common tactic of the left is to highlight the worst extremists and compare them to regular conservatives. Murderers, rapists, violent racists – no one is too heinous to dredge up the comparisons. The left is getting sneakier about it too. The MSM stopped using the word terrorist recently, now referring to them as "extremists," for two reasons. The first is to make terrorists look less evil, since they want to make the right's opposition to terrorism look like racism, and the second reason is to lump the right in more easily with terrorists by also referring to people on...

Back in September last year, Kamala Harris said that President Donald Trump’s word alone on any potential coronavirus vaccine is not enough. Asked by CNN’s Dana Bash on whether she would get a vaccine that was approved and distributed before the election, Harris replied, “Well, I think that’s going to be an issue for all of us.” “I will say that I would not trust Donald Trump and it would have to be a credible source of information that talks about the efficacy and the reliability of whatever he’s talking about,” she continued in the clip from an exclusive interview...

“Traditionis Custodes.” The commentary of Pietro De Marco(s.m.) Published as received. The author of this scathing commentary on the motu proprio Traditionis custodes of Pope Francis, Professor Pietro De Marco, former professor of religion at the University of Florence and at the Theological Faculty of Central Italy, is a recognized expert on liturgy.It was precisely on the previous motu proprio of Benedict XVI now abrogated by Francis that in 2013 he published a book with another liturgist, Andrea Grillo, as a critic: “Ecclesia universa o introversa? Dibattito sul motu proprio ‘Summorum Pontificum’,” San Paolo Edizioni.*ON THE MOTU PROPRIO “TRADITIONIS CUSTODES”by...