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Pope Francis’ deal with Communist China has led to greater persecution of CatholicsPope Francis previously said the deal will usher in a ‘new chapter of the Catholic Church in China,’ which so far has been marked by increased persecution of the Catholic faithful. Sun Feb 13, 2022 - 6:00 am ESTThu Feb 10, 2022 - 3:42 pm EST (LifeSiteNews) – While Pope Francis’s Vatican enjoys the televised spectacle of the 2022 Winter Olympics, which are reportedly “close to the Pope’s heart,” it seems that something that is not close to his heart is the Catholic Church in China, as Francis...

The Biden administration is planning to throw Americans’ tax dollars at the Taliban without knowing how the money will be used, according to a watchdog group. “The Biden administration has laid out plans through the U.S. Treasury to open up the U.S. taxpayer dollars spigot back into Afghanistan,” Adam Andrzejewski of the group Open The Books said in a video on the organization’s website. “We run the risk of funding the world’s most dangerous foreign terrorist organization if we open up the U.S. taxpayer spigot through the Department of Treasury,” he said. On Friday, President Joe Biden signed an executive...

The Covid-19 vaccines have been forensically examined in the United Kingdom and a laboratory report confirms they contain graphene nanomaterials that can penetrate the body’s natural barriers and damage the central nervous system, and Graphene Oxide which can damage internal organs, destroy blood health, trigger cancer, and cause changes in gene function among a host of other ill effects.Following her own experience with patients who had suffered apparent vaccine injury and adverse reactions, a British Medical Practitioner came forward in December 2021 offering to assist in an investigation to ascertain whether the results discovered by Dr’s Noack and Campra could...

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The next time you hear a loud “crack” outside on a moonless winter night, don’t assume it’s someone firing a weapon. It could just be an exploding tree. In Collin County, Texas, locals recently heard a number of trees cracking in the icy weather. “We listened to them all night. Sounds like gunshots going off,” Lauren Reber of Princeton said, as reported by NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth. In 2005, “exploding maple trees” were the basis of an April Fool’s Day hoax from the media. But while trees don’t exactly detonate like bombs, they have long been seen as vulnerable to...

LOS ANGELES, CA—Tonight's Super Bowl event has been temporarily delayed so LA authorities can clear out a homeless encampment that sprung up overnight on the 50-yard line. "Unfortunately, we may have to delay the game by 30 or 40 minutes," said a maskless Mayor Eric Garcetti while trying to hold his breath as a big yellow bulldozer demolished a row of tents behind him. "Everything's fine. Nothing to see here! LA is a wonderful place to live!" Some experts claim that the homelessness epidemic in LA is due to crushing government policies that drive up the cost of living and...

In my ongoing studies in the early-church fathers, I have discovered a number of pretribulation-rapture passages in Ephraim the Syrian that I haven’t seen referenced in books, magazines, or online. I offer ten of the clearest here. Perhaps “undiscovered” is an overstatement, but unless my radar needs to be significantly upgraded, these passages do seem to have largely escaped notice in prophecy-loving circles. I found them in his 150-plus Greek works which not only aren’t included in the standard English-translation church-father collections, but the vast majority of them have never been translated into English, at least not with any semblance...

Do you remember how we got out of the mandates for smallpox? Most of my readers won't remember it, probably because it happened over 135 years ago. Here's the amazing story of what happened.Steve Kirsch Image from article - historical black and white protest against compulsory vaccinationThis insight comes from one of my readers, A Midwestern Doctor who Writes A’s Newsletter (which was just launched 3 hours ago).In turn, he got it from the amazing book “Dissolving Illusions” by Dr. Suzanne Humphries and Roman Bystrianyk which describes the history of vaccines, public health, and the anti-vax movement (which started in...

Explanation: This is what the Earth looks like at night. Can you find your favorite country or city? Surprisingly, city lights make this task quite possible. Human-made lights highlight particularly developed or populated areas of the Earth's surface, including the seaboards of Europe, the eastern United States, and Japan. Many large cities are located near rivers or oceans so that they can exchange goods cheaply by boat. Particularly dark areas include the central parts of South America, Africa, Asia, and Australia. The featured image, nicknamed Black Marble, is actually a composite of hundreds of pictures remade in 2016 from data...

Andrea Suchy-Shinn owns six rental properties in St. Paul, at least half of them open to low-income tenants subsidized by federal Section 8 housing vouchers, but she's in the process of selling. Her townhomes in the Selby-Dale neighborhood likely will be converted into condominiums. Her triplex off Congress Street, on the city's West Side, is poised to be sold to a new owner who may not accept new tenants who rely on federal vouchers to pay the rent. "It'll be up to him," Suchy-Shinn said. "Right now, he says the Section 8 tenant that's currently there can stay." Her reasoning...

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Coca Cola's social division and political bias have placed the business on the wrong side of history on multiple occasions. Unfortunately, it's becoming a pattern. The manufactured image of Coke as an American patriotic drink, sending the message both at the front and at home that drinking Coca-Cola was synonymous with fighting against the enemies of freedom and democracy. Yet Coca-Cola was sending this message to its public. It was also doing business in Nazi Germany, where apparently the "Coca-Cola logo rested comfortably next to the swastika." This leads one to question whether or not the Company should have attempted...

On Grace Schara’s last day, she had been given a combination of a sedative, an anxiety medication, and morphine leading up to her time of death at 7:27 p.m. on Oct. 13, 2021.With an armed guard standing near the doorway of her room at St. Elizabeth Hospital in Appleton, Wisconsin, Jessica, Grace’s sister and patient advocate, screamed at nurses she saw standing in the hallway begging them to help Grace, who had been admitted to the hospital on Oct. 6 after testing positive for the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus on Oct. 1.Grace felt cold after the 6:15 p.m. morphine...

According to a report just filed by Special Counsel John Durham, lawyers for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign paid a technology company to “infiltrate” servers belonging to Trump Tower and the White House in order to fabricate a narrative connecting Donald Trump to Russia. Durham’s filing focuses on potential conflicts of interest related to the representation of Michael Sussman, a former lawyer for the Clinton campaign. Sussman has been charged with making a false statement to a federal agent. He has pleaded not guilty. The indictment against Sussman alleges that he told then-FBI General Counsel James Baker, less than two...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. – Police are searching for suspects who reportedly shot a Corvette driver after he refused to race. Police said the incident happened early Sunday around 5 a.m. on Raleigh Lagrange Road. Prior to the shooting, the suspect and the victims got into an argument about racing among other topics, according to a police report. At some point, the driver of the Mustang blocked the Corvette in a parking lot. The Corvette’s driver managed to get away and that’s when he was shot. Incidents like these are a cause for concern for community members. These type incidents are not...

Sunday’s "State of the Union" featured a critique of President Biden’s withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan by CNN host Jake Tapper. A preview of Biden’s pre-Super Bowl interview aired on "NBC Nightly News" with Lester Holt on Thursday. In the segment, Biden admitted that he rejected the U.S. Army investigative report that argued the administration was not prepared to pull out troops from Afghanistan in August.

“The country needs the police to do their job,” said Blair, a former Toronto police chief After police cleared the Ambassador Bridge Sunday morning, talk turned to how to deal with the Ottawa protesters, with a senior Liberal cabinet musing about bringing in the War Measures Act. “We have an emergency act that I will tell you, there has been a near-constant and vigorous examination of those authorities and what’s required,” Emergency Preparedness Minister Bill Blair said in an interview on CTV’s Question Period Sunday. When circumstances exceed the capacity of the provinces to manage it under their authorities, we’re...

The US Consumer Product Safety Commission is my favorite federal agency. Not only do they serve a purpose explicitly designed to help normal people by holding businesses accountable for shoddy products, they also post some dank-ass memes. I may even go as far as to argue that the USCPSC's social media manager, Joe Galbo, is one of our greatest living American heroes (seriously, I could not recommend the interview at that link more highly). Case-in-point: to mark the occasion of National Pizza Day, the USCPSC reminded its followers that nearly three-thousand people were so severely injured in pizza-related incidences in...

KYIV, Feb 13 (Reuters) - Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy during phone call on Sunday invited U.S. President Joe Biden to visit Ukraine, the presidential office said. "I'm convinced that your arrival in Kyiv in the coming days, which are crucial for stabilizing the situation, will be a powerful signal and contribute to de-escalation," the presidential office quoted Zelenskiy as saying in a statement.

“‘Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven’” (Matthew 5:3). Achieving humility doesn’t mean merely putting yourself down. Because of sin, you are already spiritually down, whether you know it or not; humility just recognizes this truth. Furthermore, this recognition comes only from God, which is why asceticism, self-denial, and other human efforts are so futile in seeking humility. Yet even though genuine humility results from God’s sovereign, saving work, He still commands it of men and women (cf. Matt. 18:4; 23:12; James 4:10; 1 Peter 5:5). Therefore it is always helpful to remember some...