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The Becciu Boomerang Will Hit Wheeler-Dealer FrancisForbes.com (October 4) presented the position of René Brülhart at the Becciu trial. Brülhart is the former head of the Vatican’s Supervisory and Financial Intelligence Authority (AIF). Highlights:• A Swiss anti–money laundering expert (“the James Bond of the financial world”), Brülhart removed Liechtenstein from blacklists and accepted the AIF job in 2012 under the condition that not even the pope was off-limits.• Francis received a briefing [from Brülhart] about Becciu in 2016 with “incontrovertible” proof about Becciu diverting more than $2 million. Francis ignored the file and made Becciu a cardinal.• When Francis finally...

Posts from small businesses selling calamansi juice concentrate are claiming again that similar acidic products like lemon and honey can be used to cure the coronavirus. Like most other diet myths claimed to effectively treat the coronavirus, this is misleading. What they're saying: This one post sourced from a Viber group of community sellers labels a calamansi juice concentrate product as being "Anti-COVID Delta Variant."

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen defended on Tuesday the new requirement that all purchases above $600 be reported to the IRS Said it will help fill the $7 trillion tax gap 'from places where the information on income is opaque and can be hidden' Also said Biden's controversial pick to lead the agency responsible for regulating America's banks deserves a 'fair hearing' 'Professor [Saule] Omarova is the President's nominee... And I think she deserves a fair hearing by the Senate. I hope she will get that' Omarova is a Cornell Law School professor who graduated from college in Moscow, where she...

Dershowitz: "Ordinary Americans received threatening letters from Dominion said, If you speak out, we're going to sue you" VIDEO AT LINK

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is defending a Biden administration proposal that would require banks to report data to the Internal Revenue Service on transactions over $600, calling the collection of information “routine,” after taking heat for the idea that is widely seen as an unprecedented invasion of privacy. During an interview on CNBC’s “Squawk Box” on Tuesday, Yellen was pressed on whether the IRS has the “wherewithal” to collect more information about taxpayers and bank accounts including cash flows, something many Republicans have called invasive. “Well, of course they do,” Yellen said. “Right now, on every bank account that earns...

Sen. Joe Manchin, a centrist Democrat who is blocking a massive social welfare spending passage, said he would consider raising the cost of the measure from his proclaimed limit of $1.5 trillion to as high as $2.2 trillion in order to reach a compromise that can satisfy party lawmakers in both chambers. Manchin told reporters in the Capitol he won’t rule out a measure that costs between $1.9 trillion and $2.2 trillion, which is the range President Joe Biden recommended to House Democrats in a closed-door session last week. Last week, Manchin, a Democrat from West Virginia, announced he would...

Experts believe they’ve finally found one of the holiest sites in the Bible — miles from where it was previously assumed to have existed. A biblical archaeologist organization, The Doubting Thomas Research Foundation, claims it has found the actual mountain where, according to the Old Testament, Moses lead the Israelites – a mountain that was enveloped in smoke, fire and thunder – and where, at the top, Moses received the Ten Commandments from God. But in actuality, the society now claims, Mount Sinai, one of the most sacred places in the Jewish, Christian and Islamic religions, is Jabal Maqla, which...

Please pray for my family and me and the adopted God family of my lovely Lady Kathleen Elizabeth. I found her dead in her recliner in the living room this morning when I woke up as I greeted her with my usual “good morning. I love you.” She had passed away, apparently peacefully about 3AM. Kathy had taken early retirement just 18 months ago, looking for a long well earned retirement after 40 years of being a Registered Nurse and Certified Case Manager for Workers Comp. She was joyful at having escaped from California’s insanity to the sane State of...

[Catholic Caucus] Bishop calls out Vatican institute for wanting to ‘redefine’ the family unitStrickland clarified that a false sense of mercy is leading priests to be overly 'pastoral' and causing them to not uphold Church doctrine.Tue Oct 5, 2021 - 4:38 pm EDTTue Oct 5, 2021 - 4:44 pm EDT (LifeSiteNews) — Bishop Joseph Strickland is pushing back against comments made by the new head of the conservative-turned-liberal Pontifical John Paul II Theological Institute for Matrimonial and Family Science.Weeks after taking up his post as the new president, Monsignor Philippe Bordeyne made a remarkable statement in an interview with La...

Facebook calls for new "standard rules" for the Internet after the "whistleblower" hearing.

The slap challenge is apparently related to the viral TikTok trend called “devious licks,” in which children across the U.S. posted TikTok videos of themselves vandalizing school property. Sandburg Middle School in Glendora was among two schools in the Glendora Unified School District that have faced destruction last month because of the social media challenge, with soap dispensers ripped off and bathrooms covered in some sort of red liquid. This month’s challenge has teacher groups and school districts around the country alarmed, with many issuing warnings to school communities.

ASHBURN, VA—At a Loudoun County school board meeting last night, a heroic FBI agent violently tackled a parent who was expressing concern over his child's education during open comments. This came after Attorney General Merrick Garland directed the FBI to crack down on parents who violently and menacingly dare to question the holy authority of the state when it comes to educating kids. Since the FBI is highly experienced in covering up for sick perverts who use their power to corrupt impressionable children, Garland thought this was right up their alley. According to sources, undercover agents will infiltrate these cells...

It's time for The Jesse Kelly Show! Let's have some fun! Listen live at the link below. Jesse's show is now on over 200 radio stations across the nation, replacing Buck Sexton. Those of us who miss Rush very much know that no one could ever replace him, but if you give Jesse a chance, you'll find him to be a very intelligent, refreshing, naturally funny truth teller.Jesse is a former Marine. He and his beautiful wife live in the Houston area with their two young sons. He's a self-deprecating historyphile with an infectious laugh. His time slot is later...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — In a story published October 4, 2021, about the theft of a laptop during the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, The Associated Press erroneously reported the laptop belonged to Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Her office says it was a staff laptop stolen from a conference room that was used only for presentations.

It is now apparent to anyone with eyes that war was declared on the free people of the earth long ago. Really, you could trace it back to Satan and his fallen angels making war on Michael and his good angels, Satan getting his a– handed to him, and being unceremoniously tossed out of Heaven. And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels, and prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven. And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the...

Efforts to clean up a homeless encampment in a Los Angeles park is being stymied by the MS-13 gang, which considers the park their territory.

Politicians and parents are joining together to slam the Department of Justice’s recent decision to bring in the FBI to investigate what it called a spike in “harassment, intimidation, and threats of violence” against school teachers, administrations, board members and other staff. In recent months, dozens of parents have taken a stand in school board meetings against the teaching of Critical Race Theory in classrooms and to protest mask mandates, causing some to wonder what the FBI and DOJ are actually investigating.

Humans are varied. Some are old, some are fat, some are from Kentucky, and others are from Kenya. Some can touch the tip of their nose with their tongue, and others can flatulate on command. We all have intersections of privileges and disadvantages. The point is not to see each of us as unique individuals, but to parse all of humanity into groups based on these obscure and often meaningless attributes so that a new minority group can be created.

Tesla Inc. must pay nearly $137 million to a Black former worker who said he suffered racial abuse at the electric carmaker’s San Francisco Bay Area factory. The jury in San Francisco agreed that Owen Diaz was subjected to racial harassment and a hostile work environment. Diaz alleged in a lawsuit that he was harassed and faced “daily racist epithets” while working at Tesla’s Fremont plant in 2015 and 2016 before quitting. Diaz was a contracted elevator operator. Diaz alleged that employees drew swastikas and left racist graffiti and drawings around the plant. He contended that supervisors failed to stop...

A huge infusion of money for people living with HIV was announced today by the Department of Health and Human Services as part of its funding for the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program. HHS will disburse $2.21 billion to cities, counties, states, and local community-based organizations in 2021; the money will fund treatment and services for hundreds of thousands of people. The 30-year-old Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program pays for HIV services for low-income Americans — or about half of all people diagnosed with HIV in the nation. “For more than three decades, HHS has driven federal efforts to end the HIV...