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Cardinal Mauro Gambetti explains that the just-established “Fratelli tutti” Foundation aims to promote and support sustainable growth and a new humanism and provide a workshop for the future.The archpriest of St. Peter’s Basilica explained that a new Vatican Foundation aims to put social justice, solidarity and the construction of the common good at centre-stage. The just established “Fratelli tutti” Foundation, said Cardinal Mauro Gambetti, will provide the tools to realise an integral humanism in a synodal way, integrating the contribution of each party according to its own area of commitment and competence. The Foundation was launched on 21 October by...

Tens of millions of dirty, used, and counterfeit nitrile gloves - some of them stained with blood - have been shipped to the United States from Thailand in recent months as fraudsters look to take advantage of the surge in demand for medical equipment due to the COVID-19 pandemic. An investigation conducted by CNN has found that Thai companies are repackaging used gloves and reselling them worldwide, including in the US, where federal authorities are only beginning to understand the scope of the crisis. Earlier this year, Thai law enforcement agencies raided warehouses of companies who sold reused nitrile gloves...

Responding to charges by Sen. Rand Paul on Sunday's "Axios on HBO," NIAID director Anthony Fauci told "ABC This Week" that it's "molecularly impossible" for U.S.-funded bat virus research in China to have produced COVID-19. Why it matters: The issue 0f Wuhan research was reignited on the right last week with a National Institutes of Health letter to Congress disclosing more about the research. "I obviously totally disagree with Senator Paul," Fauci told George Stephanopoulos. "He's absolutely incorrect. Neither I nor Dr. Francis Collins, the director of the NIH, lied or misled about what we've done." Fauci was responding to...

Nothin' ain't worth nothin' but it's free. But nothing costs more than yet another worthless, never-ending government program. The first rule of costs - that we all should've learned in grade school - says there ain't no such thing as a free lunch. And the first rule of costs of new government programs - that most of us learned after we became taxpayers - says they will always cost more, much more, than the proponents estimate. And once started, they never go away. In other words, there ain't no such thing as a ZERO cost government program or a temporary...

NEW YORK – The data firm Markit-IHT reported Friday “survey-record rise in backlogs of work as firms struggled to meet demand due to supply chain bottlenecks and labor shortages” in October, “in turn driving the steepest rise in prices yet recorded by the survey.” Markit’s widely followed Purchasing Managers’ Index showed continued economic growth as well as stiffening inflationary headwinds. Also on Friday, the Atlanta Federal Reserve Bank lowered its “Nowcast” for US gross domestic product (GDP) for the third quarter to just 0.5% per annum, that is, nearly zero growth. The “Nowcast model” translates current data releases into an...

Two children were killed and several other people were seriously injured after a drag racer lost control and plowed into spectators at an event in Texas.

Our Troops Rock! Thank you for all you do! For the freedom you enjoyed yesterday... Thank the Veterans who served in The United States Armed Forces. Looking forward to tomorrow's freedom? Support The United States Armed Forces Today! ~ Hall of Heroes ~ Mark Thompson "It was nothing like I expected," admitted MAJ Mark Thompson of his months spent in Baghdad, Iraq last year, his first deployment. Stationed at Victory Base Camp (VBC), MAJ Thompson spent a portion of his time in theater in a place most would not imagine of someone deployed with the 11th Military Police Brigade:...

...Left for dead with the advent of CDs in the 1980s, vinyl records are now the music industry’s most popular and highest-grossing physical format, with fans choosing it for collectibility, sound quality or simply the tactile experience of music in an age of digital ephemerality. After growing steadily for more than a decade, LP sales exploded during the pandemic. In the first six months of this year, 17 million vinyl records were sold in the United States, generating $467 million in retail revenue, nearly double the amount from the same period in 2020, according to the Recording Industry Association of...

Newspaper cartoonist Michael Leunig has been axed from his prized position in The Age over an image comparing resistance to mandatory vaccination to the fight for democracy in Tiananmen Square.In an image posted to his Instagram account, Leunig — whose career has spanned five decades — drew a lone protester standing in front of a loaded syringe, mimicking the iconic “tank man” image of protest in China. An inset of the 1989 photo also appears in Leunig’s drawing.The image was posted at the end of September and never made it to print in The Age, and speculation about Leunig’s job...

An otherwise healthy and fit man documented on social media how he and his girlfriend both suffered severe adverse reactions following Covid-19 jabs that landed them in the hospital.In a TikTok video posted two days ago from a hospital bed, a man named Daniel Shepard discussed how his first Pfizer experimental injection left him with the supposedly-rare heart condition pericarditis, and his girlfriend’s second jab caused her to develop myocarditis.In Daniel’s case, he claims doctors actually told him his heart inflammation was directly related to the Covid jab, and that he’s lucky he didn’t take the second jab because it...

One of my favorite posters here. She suddenly stopped posting the end of March of 2020. Just on the eve of starting her third decade here. Hope she's okay, wherever she is. I think she had just moved out of the NYC area.

Covid-19 vaccines appear to inhibit the body’s natural ability to produce antibodies, leaving vaccinated people vulnerable to infection.The alarming information was contained in the UK government’s latest “Covid-19 vaccine surveillance report,” which noted that “N antibody levels appear to be lower in people who acquire infection following two doses of vaccination.”Vaccine researcher Alex Berenson first highlighted the UK government’s alarming admission, warning it means vaccinated people will never be able to acquire full immunity even after they’ve recovered from an infection.“What the British are saying is they are now finding the vaccine interferes with your body’s innate ability after infection...

The phrase #ArrestFauci was trending on Twitter Sunday afternoon in response to multiple controversies surrounding Dr. Anthony Fauci. Twitter users posted the hashtag calling out Fauci over reports that hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars were used to subject dogs to cruel testing before ultimately killing them.

This week, President Biden took an Amtrak train to his alleged "home town" of Scranton, Pennsylvania where he boasted of logging two million miles as a rail passenger during his days in the US Senate. "I saved this country millions of gallons of gasoline and the tens of millions of dollars it would have cost me if I had driven myself." "It's time for the pure selfishness that leads people to take their personal vehicles everywhere they go," he said. "Be smart like I was and take the train. When you arrive at the train station take a taxi or...

When a child contracts Covid-19, the chances that they’ll recover from it relatively unscathed is 99.994%. When they get any of the various adverse reactions to the injections, their chances of full recovery are far worse. Myocarditis is just one of the debilitating and even deadly conditions proven to be caused by the so-called Covid-19 “vaccines” that seems to most heavily affect children. The mainstream narrative is that adverse reactions to the jabs are “rare,” but time and again we see the scant data that gets released telling us they are far more common than is being reported. One such...

Sunday on “MediaBuzz,” Fox News anchor Neil Cavuto urged those who have not yet been vaccinated against COVID to do so for “those around you.” Discussing being diagnosed with a breakthrough coronavirus case and having multiple sclerosis, Cavuto said, “I would like to urge people of all sorts to please get vaccinated. The situation for me being immunocompromised, half the cases we’re hearing on the breakthrough front are among the immunocompromised, people like me who had and have multiple sclerosis or prior heart situations or cancer. There are many like that all around us, and mine is no secret at...

Ventura County nurses from differ­ent sectors and specialties are coming forward to blow the whistle on what they deem serious lapses in local health care practices, mostly related to COVID-re­lated protocols, “vaccine” mandates and politically and financially motivated bul­lying of medical staff, which these health care workers say is seriously compromis­ing the general quality of local care.The Guardian spoke with multiple nurses of various ages and at different stages in their careers, all of whom work in medical care settings or hospitals in Ven­tura County. Each preferred to speak un­der a pseudonym for now. Each described seriously declining standards of...

Today's Mass Gospel Sermon... The overlooked recounting of Bartimaeus.... and asking for the mercy to see.... Where Christ ask those who listen- "What do you want me to do for you?" 14 min. YouTube videoAre You blinded by the Cities of sin?

Most of the new infections reportedon Saturday were in Auckland, New Zealand’s largest city that has been under a strict lockdown for more than two months. Looser restrictions are in place in most of the rest of the country of 5 million. The risks of a further spread from the case reported in Blenheim, in the north-east of the South Island, remained low, health officials said, with the person likely in the late stage of infection. On Friday, prime minister Jacinda Ardern said that New Zealand will end its strict lockdown measures and restore more freedoms only when 90% of...

The United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Sudan and Morocco all said in 2020 they would normalize ties with Israel, as Washington under the administration of then-US president Donald Trump made Arab-Israeli rapprochement a foreign policy priority. “Some governments have unfortunately made errors — have made big errors and have sinned in normalizing (their relations) with the usurping and oppressive Zionist regime,” Khamenei says... “It is an act against Islamic unity, they must return from this path and make up for this big mistake,”