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Ask and you shall receive. A recent gathering at a rural Catholic church highlighted painful emotions rising to the surface as a Native American couple sought perspectives of people affected by Oklahoma Catholic boarding schools in the state between 1880 and 1965. The "listening session" at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Konawa ended abruptly after several Native American women spoke about the troubled history of some of the boarding schools. The schools, they said, ultimately stripped many Native youths of their Indigenous identity in assimilation efforts that were often abusive. Deacon Roy Callison has been facilitating the sessions with his...

Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) have confirmed to Breitbart News that no officers have been assaulted by protesters at the Alberta border blockade despite the assertion from the province’s Premier, Jason Kenney, that they had. The blockade – in which truckers protesting various Canadian coronavirus mandates by blocking the highway used as an international border crossing between Coutts, Alberta, and Sweet Grass, Montana – is part of what has become known as the “Freedom Convoy,” which also has conducted large demonstrations in Ottawa, the nation’s capital. At a press conference Tuesday, Kenney called for “calm” and said that he had...

The U.S. public is purposefully being kept in the dark about what actually happened on January 6. But it isn’t Donald Trump or his associates that stand in the way — it’s the Democrat-led Congress. The Capitol Police are seeking to shut down a legal request for its communications and surveillance video on January 6, as was requested in connection with a Judicial Watch lawsuit. The Congress that oversees the Capitol Police has blocked it from releasing the footage, because it is preposterously not in the “public interest,” nor is it a matter of “public record.” It is also claiming...

Pro-LGBTQ+ archbishop of Malta tipped off to be Vatican doctrinal czarVALLETTA, Malta (ChurchMilitant.com) - Catholics have expressed outrage after Malta's archbishop demonstrated solidarity with LGBTIQ+ activist organizations a couple of days before a faithful priest was dragged to court for "hate speech" against homosexuals. Archbishop Charles Scicluna and auxiliary bishop Joseph Galea-Curmi met Drachma LGBTI, Allied Rainbow Community, Drachma Parents' Group, LGBTI+ Gozo, and LGBTIQ Rights Malta at the archdiocesan curia in Floriana on Tuesday, a Drachma press release announced. During the two-hour "positive and flowing conversation," the bishops and the LGBTIQ+ community explored ways of how to make pansexual...

Unvaccinated people were less than one percent of recent COVID cases in New South Wales.. NEW SOUTH WALES, Australia – Vaccinated people are the vast majority of COVID-19 cases and deaths in Australia’s largest state, driving the worst surge in New South Wales since the onset of the virus. According to the latest COVID surveillance report of the New South Wales Department of Health (NSW Health), a record spike in cases since the emergence of Omicron late last year has been overwhelmingly linked to the vaccinated. Between November 26, 2021 and January 8, 2022, around 90 percent of people in...

Tropical Cyclone "Batsirai" formed well east of Madagascar on January 27, 2022, at a time Madagascar, Mozambique and Malawi were still assessing severe damage caused by the passage of Tropical Cyclone "Ana." Environmental conditions favor further intensification, leading to a possible catastrophic landfall in Madagascar on February 5. Up to 600 mm (24 inches) of rain is possible in some areas. Batsirai is the second named storm of the 2021/22 Southwest Indian Ocean cyclone season. At 06:00 UTC on February 2, Batsirai was an Intense Tropical Cyclone located approximately 246 km (153 miles) NNE of Port Louis, Mauritius. Its maximum...

There are a lot of good reasons for US songwriters to sell their publishing catalogs right now. There’s the fact that Joe Biden’s tax plans will – if they get through the US legislature – significantly raise capital gains tax for composers whose songs attract a sale price-tag over $1m. There’s also the fact that streaming continues to grow the record industry, leading to rosy projections from the likes of Goldman Sachs… and, in turn, fuelling a frenetic M&A music rights marketplace. And, of course, there’s the fact that acquisition multiples have never been higher, as well-funded players like Hipgnosis...

The truth is out there — or at least that’s what researchers at NASA and the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Institute are hoping. While much of the SETI Institute’s research involves scanning space for light and radio signals as indicators of extraterrestrial life, it’s also looking for bigger objects — and specifically alien megastructures. “[It’s] essentially any artificial structure built by an intelligent civilization perhaps for energy harvesting purposes,” Ann Marie Cody, a researcher scientist at NASA Ames and the SETI Institute, told Vice in a fascinating new interview. The method that Cody and her colleagues employ to try...

Just watched this movie everybody at church was talking about. Dark satire, dark humor parable. An embarrassment for our country.

I have a friend who has $150,000 in a CHECKING account. He basically has no bills, house and car paid for, makes good money so bank account is growing significantly each month, and current age is 64

Aliens are coming to Earth, and they're going to eradicate all of our diseases and increase our lifespan, according to Uri Geller. The truth is out there, they say. Let's be real: it's naive to think we're the only intelligent life across the whole universe. Somewhere, across 10 billion lightyears and countless galaxies, there has to be... someone, something, right? Don't take my word for it: Geller, a self-proclaimed physicist most-famous for bending a spoon and clearly a reputable authority on extra-terrestrials, believes an alien invasion is 'imminent', and these 'superior' beings will share their knowledge with us lowly humans....

Newly declassified emails obtained released by the U.S. State Department suggest deep-seated corruption in the Biden family. Despite the impeachment of a sitting president, Donald Trump, for seeking answers on the appearance of impropriety involving Hunter Biden’s business dealings in Ukraine, the emails now reveal that those shady dealings indeed “undercut” U.S. foreign policy

The butterflies will fly no more — or not in public view, anyway. The National Butterfly Center in Mission, Texas, has announced that it's closing its doors "for the immediate future" after ongoing harassment directed at employees and the center itself. The center, a nonprofit nature reserve nestled near the U.S.-Mexico border, unwittingly became the subject of conservative conspiracy theories and political conflict in recent years, having been locked in a years-long legal battle with the Trump administration and We Build the Wall regarding a planned border wall. The harassment grew so great that it led the board of directors...

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Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director Christopher Wray is claiming that there is no difference in how the FBI has treated Jan. 6 protesters in relation to how ANTIFA and Black Lives Matter forces have been treated.“We have one standard, which is: I don’t care whether you’re upset about an election or upset at our criminal justice system,” Wray said while appearing at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley for a speech on Monday night. “Whatever it is you’re upset about, there’s a right way and a wrong way to express your being upset in this country and...

Even as I write this article and give it the title, I know, and any student of Bible Prophecy likely knows, that there are way more than 50 reasons why the Covid-19 vaccine, or should I say … the jab, jab, jab … jab, is not the mark of the beast. When one considers all the events that must actually achieve fulfillment within Daniel’s 70th-week before the Mark event is officially introduced, a student of Bible Prophecy understands 50 reasons is really just a smidgen of what will actually transpire before the Mark becomes an official reality. But when I...

(The opinions expressed in guest op-eds are those of the writer and do not necessarily represent the views of RedState.com.)Most Americans know they are able to claim benefits from Social Security at any age between 62 and 70, where claiming later in life results in higher monthly checks, but fewer of them. Unfortunately, most are unaware that early retirement is by and large a bad decision for the individual, and a poor choice to offer workers approaching retirement.It is a 50-year-old solution to a 50-year-old problem, shaping the way people retire today.By way of background, the rules for early retirement...

Josh Hawley @HawleyMO Tweeted Feb 1, 2022: In a closed door hearing this morning on the Islamic terrorist attack against the Jewish synagogue in Texas, FBI assistant director repeatedly refused to acknowledge the FBI was wrong jn failing to call the attack what it was - terrorism directed against Jewish Americans.Feb 1, 2022 Why is this difficult? Why can’t the FBI acknowledge Islamic terrorism when they see it. And why are they even now defending their original asinine comments saying the attack was “not related to” the Jewish community.

I hear many of my brothers and sisters, and other people as well, increasingly lamenting the times and wishing we could return to “normal.” I think it is safe to assume most are referring to the time before Covid-19. However we may, as individuals, define this life-altering period, it has indeed changed our lives, and – it has changed how we must view the future, in an unprecedented way. Let’s examine that condition, “normal,” and see what was ongoing prior to this period. 1) Unborn humans were/are still being slaughtered by the millions. 2) Every depravity against God’s firmly established...

Ottawa (Reuters)-Police in Ottawa see signs that guns have been brought into a trucker' protest against vaccine mandates that have paralyzed the Canadian capital, the police chief said on Wednesday adding that calling in the military would pose a major risk. "We have had an indication around firearms coming into this jurisdiction as part of this demonstration as much as a week and a half ago," Chief Peter Sloly told a briefing. He said there was evidence of "a significant element from the United States in the funding and organizing" of the protest.... "We are looking at every single option,...