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Venite Adoremus: Archbishop Viganò Calls on All Bishops and Priests to Offer the Traditional Mass Archbishop Carlo Maria ViganoEditor’s Note: Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò has issued his most rousing call to date for the complete restoration of the Traditional Roman Rite. He shares his personal experience of the liturgical revolution. He relays the long-forgotten memories of his youth in which he was nurtured by the Old Rite. Yet, at the beginning of his priesthood the revolutionaries substituted what he calls a “counterfeit ritual”. He relays that the need to go into hiding — due to threats to his life following...

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Female Ukrainian soldiers are taking to the video-sharing app TikTok to post glam pictures and videos of themselves in their bid to win the soft power propaganda war with Russia. Clips of glamorous women in Ukrainian military uniforms dancing, fooling around in barracks, and even holding bullets have gone viral on social media. As tensions between Russia and Ukraine remain strained, sharing candid videos and pictures of troops behind the scenes have become another front for a quasi-war. Typically, the videos feature soldiers performing dances, but some also show female troops taking apart and reassembling weapons, or having fun in...

Jeremy Giambi, former major league outfielder and first baseman, died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound at his parents' home in Claremont, authorities said.

I know many of you/ us don't want the United States involved in a war over Ukraine. I agree, though I believe there would be no invasion of Ukraine if Donald Trump were president. I also love Tucker Carlson, he's the most worthwhile host on Fox. However, I challenge anyone to justify the fanciful version of facts Tucker Carlson just put on with the help of Tulsi Gabbard. The clear news today is that Joe Biden, for at least the second time, unequivocally announced that a Russian invasion of Ukraine cannot and will not be militarily opposed by the United...

The Canadian government is successfully colluding with big banks to seize assets intended for the peaceful protesters of the Freedom Convoy movement. On Friday, TD Bank told CTV News that it would "apply to surrender to an Ontario court the money that had not been refunded by GoFundMe, totalling about $1 million, as well as some $400,000 the group had accepted through direct donations." “TD has asked the court to accept the funds, which were raised through crowdfunding and deposited into personal accounts at TD, so they may be managed and distributed in accordance with the intentions of the donors,...

***** Tunes For Our Troops ~ The Freeper Canteen Music Dedication Presents: Valentine’s Day Music! *****~ Support The Artists You Hear Throughout The Canteen ! ~ ***** Warning: Not all music may be appropriate for children! Please click with caution. Thank you! Tunes For The Troops This music is provided for the entertainment of our Troops, Veterans, Allies & their families! Enjoy the variety of musical selections that the Canteen DJs provide throughout the thread. Please ping any DJ with your requests for the Troops! All music is removed on Monday.Thanks to all the DJs for their time &...

DOWNERS GROVE, Ill. – Illinois State Police has arrested a Chicago woman for vandalizing a memorial in honor of slain police officer Ella French. Anna N. Kochakian, 26, is charged with criminal damage to property – defacement of a police memorial, a Class 4 felony. On Aug. 19, State troopers on routine foot patrol at the James R. Thompson Center were alerted that a police memorial honoring French had been vandalized. Authorities say a depiction of French had been “torn down, crumpled, and discarded in a trash can at a Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) “L” platform.” Months later, following a...

Nathan Chen put the ghost of PyeongChang emphatically behind him, delivering a whopping 218.63-point free skate to become just the second American man to win men's singles in 30 years -- and cement his status as the best men's figure skater in the world.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told Canadian trucker protesters, “you are breaking laws,” as the Freedom Convoy has created a blockade on the Ambassador Bridge, a key shipping route for U.S.-Canada trade. Trudeau said the protesters are seeking to take the economy hostage. He made a distinction between the truckers and those who are fatigued with his onerous public health mandates, even though the protests started due to Trudeau’s mandates.

Harry and Meghan's £11million mansion is apparently engulfed by a foul smell leaving neighbours 'disgusted' The duke and duchess' headache said to have been caused by the nearby Andrée Clark Bird RefugeFoul smell is said to have hit Montecito, also home to Oprah Winfrey, Orlando Bloom and Ellen DeGeneresHarry and Meghan have have to contend with odour issues in the past, including a nearby cannabis base Harry and Meghan’s £11million California mansion is apparently engulfed by a foul smell leaving neighbours ‘disgusted’, it has emerged. The duke and duchess’ headache is said to have been caused by the nearby Andrée...

If you've spent the past few days binge-watching The Tinder Swindler, you're not alone. The Netflix documentary-film centres around titular ‘Tinder Swindler’ Simon Leviev aka Shimon Heyada Hayut, an Israeli-born conman who used Tinder in order to lure his victims and cheat them out of huge sums of money: amounting to a total of $10 million (£7.4 million) in the years of 2017 alone, according to The Times of Israel. He did so predominantly through operating under a false alias: as the son of diamond trader Lev Leviev. The true-crime docu-film is currently trending in the top spot on the...

The Department of Defense’s National Defense University (NDU), the premier education institution for military and defense civilian leaders, is planning to host a lecture on how Western countries should adopt socialism in response to the challenge from China. The lecture, which is scheduled to take place online February 16, is titled, “Responding to China: The Case For Global Justice and Democratic Socialism,” and will be given by French economist Thomas Piketty, who is the author of a 2021 book titled Time for Socialism. A summary of the event, posted on the university’s website, reads: Western countries are still struggling to...

A school in San Diego County claims it has removed a “Wheel of Privilege” graphic from its professional development training materials after the image was exposed on social media and parents objected. The image was touted as part of professional development training by the Black Mountain Middle School in Poway Unified School District (PUSD), according to the Californians For Equal Rights Foundation (CFER), whose executive director posted the graphic on Twitter. The “Wheel of Power/Privilege” teaching tool was designed to rank people by power and privilege based on skin color, body size, and gender identity, as well as citizenship, language,...

Apple’s struggles with zero-day attacks on its iOS and macOS platforms are showing no signs of slowing down. For the second time in as many months, Cupertino released iOS, iPadOS and macOS updates to address a critical WebKit security defect (CVE-2022-22620) that exposes Apple devices to remote code execution attacks. “Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to arbitrary code execution. Apple is aware of a report that this issue may have been actively exploited,” the company said in a barebones advisory. As is customary, Apple did not provide details on the scope of the attack, the platform being targeted,...

@nytimes Doug Ford, the premier of Ontario, warned that protesters who did not clear transit routes could face a maximum penalty of $100,000, up to a year in prison and the potential loss of commercial and personal licenses.

Actor Seth Rogen has said the quiet part out loud and confessed the truth about self-important Hollywood award shows, like the Oscars: America doesn’t seem to care about them anymore. Speaking with Insider about his upcoming Super Bowl commercial, the Knocked Up star said he does not understand why movie insiders and stars would think the general public cares about awards shows come Oscars season. “I don’t get why movie people care so much if other people care what awards we give ourselves,” Seth Rogen said. “To me, maybe people just don’t care,” he added. “I don’t care who wins...

Nine years ago Nine years ago this very hour I was dressing for work when the announcement came across the radio. It was devastating. I truly thought he was dying or had been diagnosed with Alzheimer's and would be gone within the year. I loved him, I trusted him. He was like the grandfather I never knew. As long as I knew he was there, all would be well, or at least I thought. Since that time it has been a horror for the Church, for individual faithful Catholics. It has only become worse. When I look at him,...

Less than 2 weeks after her boyfriend killed 5 people in cold blood, Anne received a package from the grave. It came from the man she’d spent the last year with, Lyndon McLeod. Inside were the rights to Sanction—a three-volume book series McLeod wrote under a pseudonym that graphically details a killing spree carried out by a character who shares his name—and a 47-minute movie he shot and edited in his final days. The film, titled “War Horse,” contains footage that appears to tell the story of McLeod planning and carrying out the attack. The package also contained the books...