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Posting another Metal Music thread - this time an atmospheric nightmare of a song. If you love mean, slow burn and sludgy metal, with a dose of horror movie, give this a try. Please be warned, the video is disturbing as hell and not your typical metal song. Settle back and listen with headphones.

Am Mittwoch, dem 11. Mai 2022 veröffentlicht die EU-Kommission voraussichtlich den Gesetzesentwurf zur sogenannten Chatkontrolle. Geplant ist eine KI-basierte Prüfung aller Nachrichteninhalte und Bilder direkt auf unseren Geräten. Das so genannte Client-Side-Scanning wäre ein Angriff auf jegliche vertrauliche Kommunikation.

The Trump-endorsed Rep. Alex Mooney (R-WV) defeated Rep. David McKinley in the contentious battle for West Virginia’s second congressional district. The West Virginia primary tested the political will of the Republican Party base. After the 2020 census, the state lost one congressional district, forcing a primary battle between McKinely from the first congressional district and Mooney from the second congressional district.

Rep. Alex Mooney defeated Rep. David McKinley in the GOP primary for West Virginia’s 2nd Congressional District on Tuesday, a victory for former President Donald Trump, who endorsed Mooney in the race. In a rare matchup of incumbents, McKinley and Mooney faced off after the state lost one of its congressional seats amid declining population and saw their districts combined. Trump backed Mooney after McKinley voted in favor of the bipartisan infrastructure package and the effort to create a commission to investigate the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.

Catholic church weddings continue to be the most popular type of marriage ceremony in Ireland according to the latest figures released by the Central Statistics Office. According to new CSO figures, 39 per cent of all marriages in 2021 were Catholic ceremonies, a rise from 34.6 per cent in 2020 but lower than 2019. Civil ceremonies accounted for 34 per cent of ceremonies. In 2021, a total of 17,217 marriages took place compared to 9,523 in 2020. The 2020 figure was much lower due to the Covid-19 pandemic which saw significant restrictions on weddings. However, the new figures also show...

“The integrity of the upright shall guide them: but the perverseness of transgressors shall destroy them. Riches profit not in the day of wrath: but righteousness delivereth from death” (Proverbs 11:3-4).

ROME — Pope Francis’s secretary of state reaffirmed the pope’s offer to go to Moscow personally to try to convince President Vladimir Putin to stop his war on Ukraine but said the Kremlin had yet to respond. Cardinal Pietro Parolin, secretary of state, told reporters late May 4, “There has been an offer from the Holy Father to go to Moscow to meet personally with President Putin. We are waiting for them to tell us what they want, what they intend to do.” “I think that at this point there are no other steps to take,” the cardinal said. In...

The 59th World Day of Prayer for Vocations will take place on May 8, the Fourth Sunday of Easter, also known as Good Shepherd Sunday.VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis said on Thursday that “the Church must become increasingly synodal.” The Pope made the comment in his annual World Day of Prayer for Vocations message, published May 5, as Catholics worldwide participate in a global consultation process leading to the 2023 Synod on Synodality. In the message, he emphasized that vocations have a communal as well as a personal dimension. He wrote: “Each of us shines like a star in the...

The House on Tuesday approved a resolution that allows staffers in the lower chamber to unionize. The resolution, which passed along party lines in a 217-202 vote, officially gives House staffers the legal protection to unionize and take part in collective bargaining. Three Democrats and seven Republicans did not vote.Rather than as a standalone measure, the resolution passed as part of a rule that also pertained to a number of other measures.

While the perpetrators haven’t yet been identified, some are speculating a connection to a radical pro-abort group’s recent threat to burn the Eucharist.KATY, Texas (LifeSiteNews) ― A Texas Catholic church’s tabernacle was stolen sometime during the night, the church’s pastor reported Monday morning. Father Christopher Plant, pastor of St. Bartholomew the Apostle Catholic Church in Katy, Texas, announced the crime Monday morning on Twitter, calling it a “criminal sacrilege” and revealing that police are investigating the theft. While the perpetrators have not been identified, some are speculating that members of the radical pro-abortion group Ruth Sent Us may be responsible,...

Trump informed Mooney leads Manchin endorsed McKinley. Newsmax has already called race for Mooney.

Of late, Chinese military observers have been increasingly concerned about the potential of SpaceX’s Starlink satellite network in helping the US military dominate space, especially so, in the wake of the Ukraine war, where Elon Musk activated Starlink satellites to restore communications that had stopped because of shelling by the Russian troops. A recent commentary in the official newspaper of the Chinese armed forces suggested that the international community should be on high alert for the risks associated with the Starlink satellite internet system, as the US military could potentially use it for dominating outer space. The commentary came one...

Princeton professor Eddie Glaude, Jr., on Tuesday on MSNBC’s “Deadline,” called for Democrats to have struggles in the street to combat the agenda of white Evangelicals implemented by former President Donald Trump. When asked what voters the Democrats can get energized, Glaude said, “We see it among workers who have seen their quality of life deteriorate. We know that there are opportunities among young people who are coming of age in a world that’s broken. We know there are opportunities among black and Latino voters for the Democratic Party to begin to put forward a vision.”

According to a study released earlier this week, over 27% of all electric vehicle charging stations in the San Francisco Bar area are non-functioning, bringing forward a major issue that may push back further public adaptation of electric cars in California in the coming years.

The Senate on Tuesday confirmed Dr. Lisa Cook, who has a history of Black Lives Matter bullying and radical monetary policy beliefs, to the Federal Reserve board of governors. The Senate voted 51-50 to confirm Cook, with Vice President Kamala Harris breaking the tie.

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The government health agency continues to withhold key details about the sources and allocations of the large streams of cash flowing to its scientists. The National Institutes of Health and its scientists received an estimated $350 million in royalties from third-party payers between 2010 and 2020, according to an investigation by government transparency watchdog Open the Books. The third-party payers are, according to the report, mostly pharmaceutical companies that credit NIH scientists as coinventors on various patents. "Because those payments enrich the agency and its scientists, each and every royalty payment could be a potential conflict of interest and needs...

Durham blamed the delay on intelligence agencies' slow production of documents Special Counsel John Durham on Monday requested a delay to produce classified documents ahead of the trial of primary Steele dossier source Igor Danchenko, citing federal agencies' slow declassification of documents. While the bulk of classified discovery documents have been produced to Danchenko's lawyers, Durham noted that "recent world events continue to contribute to delays in the processing and production of classified discovery." Durham indicted Russian analyst Danchenko in November 2021 for repeatedly lying to the FBI during the alleged Trump-Russia collusion investigation. The special counsel wrote that the...

New $40 Billion now On Tuesday, RINO Senate leader Mitch McConnell (KY) threw his full support behind Biden’s recently proposed $40 billion aid package to Ukraine, claiming the additional funding was necessary to help the country prevail in the war against Russia. Snip McConnell made his comments during a press conference on Tuesday as he was flanked by other GOP senators. According to him, he expects the aid to be approved sometime this week.

W. Virginia GOP House CD 2 Percent (37%) Mooney 13,663 51.1 McKinley 10,401 38.9 Buchser-Lochocki 1,193 4.5