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LGBTQ lobby has already triumphed at the SynodThe wrestling match over a link to an American LGBTQ organisation on the Synod website - put, removed, put back - reveals just how influential the gay lobby is today at the top of the Church. It amounts to the official recognition of a group disavowed by the American bishops, condemned by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith 22 years ago, but now promoted by Pope Francis.A link is worth more than a hundred theological and magisterial documents. This is the lesson that was taught recently by the Synod on Synodality,...

14-yr-old son of Philly pizza shop owner reportedly pulls gun, shoots robber in the face as mom is attacked The 14-year-old son of a Philadelphia pizza shop owner was caught on surveillance video pulling a gun and shooting a robbery suspect in the face as he attacked his mother who was behind the cash register. The shooting took place at approximately 9:30 p.m. on Dec. 9 at Bolds Pizza on Spring Garden Street, according to WPVI-TV. It happened after one of three men who had just allegedly attempted to rob a CVS pharmacy came into the pizza shop which was...

Lithuania said Wednesday that it has closed its embassy in Beijing and pulled its last diplomat out of the Chinese capital, a move that came amid a spat over the European Union nation allowing Taiwan to open a representative office in its capital, Vilnius. The Lithuanian Foreign Ministry said in a statement that the Baltic country would carry out its diplomatic activities in China, which claims Taiwan as part of its territory and does not give diplomatic recognition to nations that treat the island as a separate state. The ministry said it had recalled Lithuania's charge d'affaires — the deputy...

Breaking news this evening, as we are learning that the Sante Fe Police Department has obtained a search warrant for disgraced actor Alec Baldwin’s cell phone records. This of course, comes as Baldwin faces more and more questions over the fatal movie set shooting that took the life of cinematographer, Halyna Hutchins. Alec claims he didn’t pull the trigger. Based on the mechanics of a firearm, we’re not quite sure how that’s possible.

Security researchers at Google’s Project Zero have picked apart one of the most notorious in-the-wild iPhone exploits and found a never-before-seen hacking roadmap that included a PDF file pretending to be a GIF image with a custom-coded virtual CPU built out of boolean pixel operations. If that makes you scratch your head, that was exactly the reaction from Google’s premier security research team after disassembling the so-called FORCEDENTRY iMessage zero-click exploit used to plant NSO Group’s Pegasus surveillance tool on iPhones. “We assess this to be one of the most technically sophisticated exploits we've ever seen,” Google’s Ian Beer and...

Most Americans should be given the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines instead of the Johnson & Johnson shot that can cause rare but serious blood clots, U.S. health advisers recommended Thursday. The strange clotting problem has caused nine confirmed deaths after J&J vaccinations — while the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines don’t come with that risk and also appear more effective, advisers to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said. It’s an unusual move and the CDC’s director, Dr. Rochelle Walensky, must decide whether to accept the panel’s advice. Until now the U.S. has treated all three COVID-19 vaccines available to...

A total of six state governors have challenged the Defense Department’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate as it pertains to their respective state’s National Guard. On Tuesday, Republican governors from five states, Alaska, Iowa, Mississippi, Nebraska and Wyoming, published a letter to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin requesting exemptions for National Guard personnel from federal COVID-19 vaccination mandates. Their letter is the latest salvo in the battle between states and the federal government over inoculating those in uniform. In November, Oklahoma made headlines when the commanding general of the state’s National Guard issued a memo exempting Oklahoma Guardsmen from getting the COVID-19 vaccine....

Archbishop Viganò defends Cardinal Müller and his Great Reset critiqueVigano comments on those considered by the 'globalist Sanhedrin' to be heretics, 'unworthy to ask questions about the new dogmas of the health religion defined ex cathedra by the experts in the pay of BigPharma.' (LifeSiteNews) – After Cardinal Gerhard Müller gave Catholic activist Alexander Tschugguel a thoughtful and good interview concerning the coronavirus lockdowns, vaccine mandates, and especially the dangerous and anti-democratic agenda of the Great Reset, he came under strong attacks in Germany. Both state and faith leaders rebuked him for purportedly spreading “conspiracy theories” and even “anti-semitic codes,”...

Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. Explanation: Fireflies flash along a moonlit countryside in this scene taken on the night of December 13/14 from southern Uruguay, planet Earth. On that night meteors fell in the partly cloudy skies above during the annual Geminid meteor shower. Frames recorded over a period of 1.5 hours are aligned in the composite image made with the camera facing south. That direction was opposite the shower's radiant toward the north and so the Geminid meteor...

Dr. Peter McCullough Tells Joe Rogan That Covid-19 was a Premeditated Attack on Civilization Video...

A homeless man will spent six years in prison for stabbing an 84-year-old Portland man after the elderly man, who had given him cash and tried to get him a job for a year, refused to give him more money.

A Response to Rumors of Further Restrictions on Traditional Catholicism Bring it on, modernists.According to a recent article from Rorate Caeli, the Congregation for Divine Worship is preparing instructions to further implement Traditionis Custodes, with the goal of releasing them next week. The author of the article says that “The instruction will try (among other things) to impose over the global Church, by violent and illegitimate will of the legislator, the blueprint established for the Diocese of Rome by its Cardinal Vicar months ago regarding all Sacraments other than the Holy Eucharist.” Rome’s protocol forbids the celebration of all...

The Chicago Police Department is conducting an internal investigation into a sergeant who voiced her support for the formation of a Turning Point USA chapter at an area high school. Chicago Police Department Sergeant Ammie Kessem, who's also the 41st Ward Republican Committeeman in Chicago, voiced her support for the potential creation of a TPUSA chapter at William Howard Taft High School in Chicago on Dec. 9, stating on Facebook that several "brave students" are creating the high school chapter of the conservative group. "Some brave students will be creating this Chapter of Turning Point USA tomorrow at William Howard...

In November New York City voters sent a message by electing former NYPD officer Eric Adams as the next mayor. Adams' tough on crime stance solidified his victory. He has repeatedly vowed to restore order to the city, which is riddled with violent crime under outgoing Democrat Mayor Bill DeBlasio. But during an event Wednesday night, ironically to appoint the new NYPD commissioner, Adams stood in front of a mural glorifying convicted cop killer Assata Shakur. .... Shakur murdered New Jersey State Trooper Werner Foerster in 1973 and was sentenced to life in prison. She escaped from prison in 1979...

Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) says it has arrested 106 suspected members of a Ukrainian neo-Nazi group. Authorities carried out a number of raids across Russia on Monday against the "MKU" youth group, the FSB said in a statement. The group is accused of using social media and online messaging forums to plan "terrorist acts and mass murders".

It's time for The Jesse Kelly Show! Let's have some fun!Listen live at the link below. E-mail Jesse at jesse@jessekellyshow.com. When he takes listener calls, the studio line is 877-377-4373.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...

Australian researchers have discovered that negative capacitance could lower the energy used in electronics and computing, which represents 8 percent of global electricity demand. The researchers at four universities within the ARC Centre of Excellence in Future Low-Energy Electronics Technologies (FLEET) applied negative capacitance to make topological transistors switch at lower voltage, potentially reducing energy losses by a factor of 10 or more.These very promising results are reported this week at the prestigious International Electron Devices Meeting in San Francisco. And while challenges remain to making a working benchtop device, the work is covered in a patent application.What are transistors?A...

"I called the law on my own kin! Step on me, Pearl!"

MIAMI, FL—Tourists unloading from the ferry onto Liberty Island in New York Harbor were met with disappointment this week, as the pedestal upon which the Statue of Liberty once stood was empty. Instead, a stationery the size of a king bed lay on the pedestal with a message reading, “Fed up with New York, moving to Florida. - L. Liberty” “I had just clocked into my shift this morning and looked up to see she was gone,” said security guard Feldman Baxter, while complying with the city’s mandates of wearing three masks outdoors, standing 20 feet from anyone else, rubbing...

Government authorities have ordered the public to not show any signs of happiness while North Korea commemorates Kim Jong Il's death. Kim Jong Il ruled North Korea from 1994 until his death in 2011, and was then succeeded by his third and youngest son, current leader Kim Jong Un. Ten years after his death, North Koreans are being forced to observe the 11-day period of mourning where they are not allowed to laugh or drink alcohol. They added: 'In the past many people who were caught drinking or being intoxicated during the mourning period were arrested and treated as ideological...