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If you’ve ever wondered why Bill Gates owns more farmland than any other private citizen in the United States, we may know the answer… To control meat consumption. If livestock owners don’t have places to grow food for their animals to eat, they can’t keep the animals… and when the animals go bye-bye, in walks the “fake meat industry.” “This is a conversation we need to have. Bill Gates owns more farmland in the US than any other, and in a time of dwindling supply, he’s pushing the idea of meat elimination. The words of a delusional man.”

What are you giving up for Lent? California State University is giving up academics — at least where standardized testing for admission is concerned.The school’s Board of Trustees issued the decision Wednesday.Due to the pandemic, CSU had temporarily axed ACT and SAT considerations. Now it’s been made permanent.Why would a school terminate tests which determine how good a student is at school in order to decide whether they should be let into a school that doesn’t let everyone in? Well, maybe the school lets everyone in. But according to CSU acting Chancellor Steve Relyea, it’s about leveling the playing field....

Tension begins to show as the war in Ukraine goes into day thirty-three. Both the Ukrainians and Russians are beginning to come to terms with the fact that neither one is going to get exactly what they want. Both sides are now searching for what they can declare as sufficient victory to end the conflict.Exploring peace shifts to talks being hosted by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in Turkey. Erdoğan has been in contact with Putin even as his country supplies drones to Ukraine. So far, it’s not a very promising week. Russia continues to rule out Putin meeting with Zelenskyy,...

Whether people who suffered heart conditions following their Covid-19 vaccinations develop long-term health problems is being looked into by the Ministry of Health. But not all of them want to take part in the study, with one saying the invitation to take part was "offensive"... So far about 250 people have been identified as eligible to participate in the new study... Last week Alexandra man Ben Jountz, 25, received a letter from the ministry inviting him to participate in the study. The heavy diesel mechanic was diagnosed with pericarditis following a reaction to the Pfizer vaccine last year. "I had...

Ukraine is prepared to discuss adopting a neutral status as part of a peace deal with Russia but such a pact would have to be guaranteed by third parties and put to a referendum, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in remarks aired on Sunday. Follow Israel Hayom on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram The Ukrainian president also accused the West of cowardice, making an exasperated plea for fighter jets and tanks to help defend his country from Russia's invading troops. Speaking after US President Joe Biden said in a lacerating speech that Russian President Vladimir Putin could not stay in power...

Kamil Galeev @kamilkazani tweeted on 27 March 2022:That's why Russian military are so pessimistic about their perspective in Ukraine. Consider Strelkov. For 29 days Russia didn't achieve strategic success on any directions"My worst fears came true, we get involved into a long, bloody, and very dangerous war"https://twitter.com/kamilkazani/status/1507819910105239553

Five myths cloud our perception of both the past and the present: 1) The "robber baron" myth, which holds that in late nineteenth-century America there were powerful men who became rich at the expense of the poor. The reality is that they became wealthy by being productive, and that there is no other period in history which saw such a rapid and widespread improvement in the well-being of the average individual; (2) The myth that the Great Depression was caused by a failure of business, when it was, in fact, produced by a failure of government and specifically by the...

Standard image sensors, like the billion or so already installed in practically every smartphone in use today, capture light intensity and color. Relying on common, off-the-shelf sensor technology – known as CMOS – these cameras have grown smaller and more powerful by the year and now offer tens-of-megapixels resolution. But they’ve still seen in only two dimensions, capturing images that are flat, like a drawing – until now. Researchers at Stanford University have created a new approach that allows standard image sensors to see light in three dimensions. That is, these common cameras could soon be used to measure the...

Republican gubernatorial candidate Geoff Diehl’s “running mate” will be a 33-year-old working mother from Danvers. She is fellow conservative Leah Allen, a former state representative from Peabody who served briefly in the House with Diehl before giving up her seat to become a registered nurse.. She was just 24 when she was first elected in a district dominated by Democrats in a 2013 special election.. The mother of a 2-year-old and a 5-month-old, Allen is planning to bring a working mom’s perspective and experience to the campaign as well as to the governor’s office.. She will also bring her experience...

Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) on Sunday demanded that Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas be recused from any cases related to the 2020 election, arguing that his wife texting a White House aide about overturning the election is a “textbook case for removing him.” “You have the wife of a Supreme Court justice advocating for an insurrection, advocating for overturning a legal election to the sitting president’s chief of staff,” Klobuchar said on ABC News’ “This Week,” referring to Ginni Thomas’ recently unearthed text messages to Mark Meadows. “She also knows this election, these cases, are going to come before her...

The Alberta minister will be mandated to a house curfew from 7 p.m. to 7 a.m. except to attend his church services.LETHBRIDGE, Alberta (LifeSiteNews) – Canadian Christian Pastor Artur Pawlowski was granted bail this afternoon by a provincial court judge on mischief and critical infrastructure charges, but once released he will be under strict house arrest conditions that will severely limit his movement. His release date will not come until sometime next week, according to Rebel News, as there have been new charges placed against him. Once out of jail, Pawlowski will be mandated to a house curfew from 7...

Rep. Ted Budd (R-NC), endorsed by former President Trump, is leading among his opponents in the Republican Senate primary race, a new poll finds. The poll, conducted March 22-23, came just days after Budd gave an exclusive interview to Breitbart News on SiriusXM Patriot, where he detailed his recent trip to the United States-Mexico border and described the human and drug trafficking taking place by the Mexican drug cartels. Budd leads likely GOP voters with 32 percent, followed by former North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory with 29 percent, and former Rep. Mark Walker (R-NC) with 12 percent, according to the...

Newly released footage shows a Florida cop shouting at a detained black man 'I will remove your f***ing soul' before he was pulled away by a female officer, whom he later grabbed by the throat in a fit of rage. Sgt. Christopher Pullease arrived at the scene in the city of Sunrise on November 19, after other officers had already responded to reports of a man attacking people outside a convenience store. The suspect, Jean Similien, had threatened to shoot officers and resisted as they guided him to the back of a police cruiser. 'Look at me, motherf*****,' Pullease told...

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — The friendship between then-Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio of Buenos Aires and Father Gustavo Zanchetta took root during 2005-2011, when the future pope led the Argentinian Bishops’ Conference and the younger priest served as executive undersecretary of that body. And after the election of the Church’s first Latin American pope in 2013, the strength of that bond was clear to all when Pope Francis, in one of his first episcopal appointments, named Father Zanchetta the new bishop of Orán in northern Argentina. The announcement prompted protests in the bishop-elect’s former Diocese of Quilmes, where lay leaders accused him...

U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi spoke about being a “devout” Catholic in an on-stage discussion on Tuesday, while defending her staunch support of legalized abortion and arguing that the Supreme Court should not overturn Roe v. Wade — positions that place her sharply at odds with Church teaching. “This [topic] really gets me burned up in case you didn't notice, because again I'm very Catholic, devout, practicing, all of that. They would like to throw me out. But I'm not going because I don't want to make their day,” the California Democrat said. Pelosi made her comments at...

President Joe Biden’s budget request asks Congress for at least $12 billion extra to accelerate the inflow of economic migrants into Americans’ jobs and homes but minimizes the requests for anti-drug efforts, border enforcement, and deportations. The budget request “completely flips the script” for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), said Robert Law, a former DHS official who now works at the Center for Immigration Studies.

Two separate bills aimed at the dissolution of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church were submitted to and registered by the Verkhovna Rada, the Ukrainian Parliament, over the past week. Similar bills have been submitted to the Rada for years now, though they have so far proved unsuccessful. Since the fratricidal war began last month, different reactions to the canonical Ukrainian Church, an autonomous body within the Moscow Patriarchate, have been seen. Some, including certain government officials and bodies, have called for all Ukrainians to unite, decrying the attacks and fake accusations against the Church, while others have only ramped up the...

On Monday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Jesse Watters Primetime,” Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) stated that we shouldn’t have to treat President Joe Biden like someone who is declining cognitively by having to help him say what he really means, Biden’s “intemperate speech” is “a national security risk.” And Biden lives “in an alternate universe where he just says they’re not true and he didn’t say them.” Host Jesse Watters asked, [relevant exchange begins around 4:25] “Are you surprised by these comments, Senator?”

The President of the United States, Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr., who is 79 years old and suffering from senile dementia at the end of a long life of bullying, lying, boasting, conniving, grifting, grafting, and living off the public tit to an extent indecent even by Washington standards, declared war on Russia on Friday. In the course of a typically blustering, hectoring speech, the senescent Biden went off script and interpolated the following peroration: “My God, this man cannot remain in power.” To which the only proper response is: “My God, this man cannot remain in the Oval Office.” Joe...