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North Korea: Kim Jong-un vows to make military ‘invincible’ as he hits out at US Shweta Sharma Tue, October 12, 2021, 8:40 PM Kim Jong-un has vowed to make his country’s military “invincible” to counter what he called persistent hostility from the US. The hermit kingdom’s leader gave mixed signals during a speech at an event on Monday by saying that while his primary objective was to give North Korea an “invincible military capability” no one would dare challenge, these objectives must not be seen as threatening war with its neighbour South Korea or the US, its regional ally. Mr...

Was President Biden's announcement Sept. 9 of a vaccine mandate for private companies employing 100 or more people a bluff to persuade more Americans to be vaccinated? One month later, pointed out The Federalists' Joy Pullman, no rule has been issued by the Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration, known as OSHA. The nearly two dozen Republican attorneys general who have threatened to sue on constitutional grounds have not yet filed, because there is no mandate for them to bring to court. That may be part of the plan, wrote Pullman, The Federalist's executive editor. The Biden administration,...

Ben & Jerry’s co-founders Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield were stumped when Axios journalist Alexi McCammond asked why they boycott parts of Israel but not red states with policies they don’t like. “You guys are big proponents of voting rights,” McCammond said. “Why do you still sell ice cream in Georgia? Texas, abortion bans. Why are you still selling there?” Cohen responded “I don’t know” with nervous laughter. “It’s an interesting question. I don’t know what that would accomplish. We’re working on those issues, of voting rights,” Cohen said. “I don’t know. I think you ask a really good question....

Ethnic Diversity and the Latin MassIn a recent article in the Illinois Times, Massimo Faggioli, a theology professor at Villanova University in Philadelphia, is quoted as follows, of a specific Traditional Mass location:It’s not an accident that all of these Catholics at the old Mass are white, because one of the things that happened after Vatican II was an ‘inculturation’ of the liturgy. …The Latin Mass is white and European by its definition, because it’s a product of the Catholic Church of the 16th century. So, this is creating serious problems because it is never limited to the liturgy only,...

What we are seeing happening across government, business, and education is horrifying. White employees of major corporations from Disney to American Expresss to Coca-Cola are vilified, trained to be “less white” and are routinely, as part of the racist CRT training, pitted against their fellow, often minority, employees who are simultaneously being trained to hate white people, including their fellow white employees. Nothing says “success” like purposefully destroying your corporate culture by purposefully training employees to hate, distrust, and reject one another. Go Team!? It’s one thing to try to brainwash adults with their racist crazy, and it’s a completely...

<p>Instead of playing hide-and-seek with the White House press corps, or whining about Republicans blocking his $5 trillion tax-and-spend scheme, President Joe Biden could be doing something useful.</p><p>The president could be working to bring down inflation. How? By getting people back on the job, addressing the supply chain challenges that are increasing the cost of nearly all consumer goods and by doing everything possible to increase U.S. oil and gas output, to help put a lid on fast-rising energy prices.</p>

New York Times senior economics correspondent Neil Irwin bent himself into a pretzel spinning the atrocious Bureau of Labor Statistics report showing the economy only added 194,000 jobs in September. Following the release of the abysmal job growth report Oct. 8 at 8:30 a.m., Irwin had the nutty spin: “The New Jobs Numbers Are Pretty Good, Actually.” Irwin had a much different reaction earlier on Twitter that undercut the gaslighting in his article. He tweeted immediately at 8:30 a.m. after the BLS report dropped: “+194k on payrolls, a big miss. But unemployment rate way down to 4.8%.” He tweeted one...

Gold rose on Tuesday as rising inflationary fears weighed on investors’ appetite for risk and a pullback in U.S. Treasury yields added to the appeal of the non-yielding bullion. Spot gold rose 0.4% to $1,761.41 per ounce by 1159 GMT, while U.S. gold futures were up 0.4% at $1,762.40. A global energy crunch has threatened the economic outlook and fanned inflation fears, driving some investors toward safe-haven assets. “There’s more risk aversion in the market and gold is benefiting from that, coupled with concerns about inflation and cooling of the global economy,” Commerzbank analyst Daniel Briesemann said. If stagflation talks...

Pennsylvania’s Lt. Gov. John Fetterman is leaning out the costs associated with having a second-in-command in the state’s executive branch. To date, his office reports it has spent $776,000 less than it was appropriated in the last two years’ budget cycles. The underspending was achieved through trimming money spent on salaries, travel, food, printing, conferences, furniture and office supplies, according to his office. He also has never flown on the state plane. And he has chosen to forgo living in the state-provided residence and instead stays in a downtown Harrisburg apartment at his own expense when he is in the...

Following up on a whistleblower's claims of Capitol Police leadership failures and lawmakers' lies stemming from Jan. 6, former President Donald Trump compared the abandoning of Capitol Police during the storming of the Capitol to President Joe Biden's leaving U.S. citizens behind in Afghanistan. President Trump: "The highly partisan Unselect Committee is just a sideshow to distract America from massive failures by Biden and the Democrats. What happened to the Capitol would have never happened if the people in charge did their job and looked at the intelligence. They abandoned the officers on the ground, just like Biden abandoned Americans...

In its latest World Economic Outlook report published on Tuesday morning, the International Monetary Fund voiced its starkest caution about stagflation yet, warning that the global economic recovery has lost momentum and become increasingly divided, even as it warned about rising inflation risks. The fund warned threats to growth had increased, pointing to the delta variant, strained supply chains, accelerating inflation and rising costs for food and fuel. As a result, the IMF trimmed its global growth forecast and now expects world GDP to rise 5.9% this year, down 0.1% from what it anticipated in July and a bounce from...

Tuesday on CNN’s “New Day,” Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) warned the subjects of the January 6 select committee against being uncooperative. Schiff said those who refused to cooperate with the committee were “going to be the subject of criminal contempt.” He added that members of the committee are “not fooling around” in the investigation into what took place during the riot at the U.S. Capitol.

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Violent Clashes Mar Pope’s Synodal KickoffFrancis trashes 'tradition,' calls for openness to the 'spirit of the age' VATICAN CITY (ChurchMilitant.com) - Pope Francis kicked off his much-talked-up 2021–2023 Synod on Synodality, attacking the tendency to adopt "old solutions" and calling for a "Church of listening," as violent clashes against Italy's medical tyranny erupted in Rome. Pope leads reflection on synodality in Vatican's synod hall Speaking on the synod's theme — "For a Synodal Church: Communion, Participation and Mission" — on Saturday, the pontiff quoted liberal French theologian Fr. Yves Congar urging, "We must not make another Church, we must make...

Before Congress completes consideration regarding either or both mega-infrastructure bills, it needs to determine how it will offset the reduction in federal tax revenues that will occur resulting from the many states’ legislation passed in 2021 to “work around” the state and local tax (SALT) deduction cap of $10,000. It matters not whether each or any member of Congress believes the $10,000 SALT cap is justified and/or unjustified or whether the members of Congress believe the “workarounds” are appropriate. The loss to Treasury could be in the hundreds of billions of dollars. The loss of revenues either needs an offsetting...

PENSACOLA, Fla. -- Two Pensacola men have waited three years for their opportunity to hunt alligators. Monday morning, Andy Sokol and his friend Tanner caught one -- and it was much larger than they expected. The reptile measured nearly 12-feet in size. The men got their unexpected catch after three years of applying for a tag. Sokol said he was in shock when he saw the 12-foot gator. He says he was expecting something measuring around 8-feet Sokol and Tanner came across the gator Monday morning in the Perdido River. "That was our first night trying and rolled up on...

Anthony Fauci’s approval numbers are in the tank, according to new data from Rasmussen Reports. A survey conducted in early October reveals that the highest paid bureaucrat in the United States – “Dr.” Anthony Fauci – no longer has public support. The director of the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID) and Chief Medical Advisor to the President commands a paltry 25 percent “Very favorable” rating with the U.S. public, with 16 percent more saying they feel “Somewhat favorable” towards Fauci. Fourteen percent say they have a “Somewhat unfavorable” view of Fauci, with a big 31 percent saying...

New York City is seeing a surge in violent crime committed by homeless suspects with untreated mental health issues A homeless man tried to abduct a little girl walking with her grandmother in the Bronx by wrapping her in a comforter and snatching her from the sidewalk The man bent down to grab the girl and lifted her up, running away with her while the grandmother ran after the pair while a passerby from the gas station managed to apprehend the man and get retrieve the youngster Santiago Salcedo, 27, was later arrested and charged with kidnapping, attempted kidnapping, unlawful...

MINNEAPOLIS (TBEN) – Cory Kohls wasn’t even on a hunting trip when he shot a 616-pound bear in western Wisconsin. He just spotted the bear on Friday while driving near a cornfield in New Richmond, so he asked the farmers if he could get permission to track down the bear. “I have a 449 [pound bear] a few years ago, and I thought it was a giant bear until I got this one, ”he said. “It was amazing. It took nine guys to drag him there. The bear population of Wisconsin is increasing and it is legal to hunt them....