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From the world’s largest gathering of hypocrites at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, we have learned that a personal carbon footprint tracker is in the works. In the wrong hands, it would be the equivalent of the ankle monitors used to ensure that criminal offenders don’t escape their house arrest. “We’re developing, through technology, an ability for consumers to measure their whole carbon footprint,” J. Michael Evans, president of Alibaba Group USA, said Tuesday while on a panel discussion on responsible consumption. “What does that mean? Where they are traveling. How they are traveling. What are they eating....

Carmine Sabia of Conservative Brief talks to host Steve Bannon about the common thread behind many of the recent mass shootings that have plagued our country. “When I look at reality, in the ’50s kids were going to school with guns. In the ’60s, ’70s, ’80s there were shooting clubs… There were none of these background checks… but you can draw a straight line from the generation that grew up having these psychotropic drugs shoved down their throat … to when these mass shootings started happening.”

27 May 2022 Friday before Ascension Sunday St Augustine of Canterbury Catholic Church, Brandon, Manitoba Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: White.First readingActs 18:9-18 ©'I have many people on my side in this city'At Corinth one night the Lord spoke to Paul in a vision, ‘Do not be afraid to speak out, nor allow yourself to be silenced: I am with you. I have so many people on my side in this city that no one will even attempt to hurt you.’ So Paul stayed there preaching the word of God among them for eighteen months. But, while Gallio was proconsul of...

Law enforcement officers are investigating whether a retired federal agent had about 30 minutes advance notice of a white supremacist's plans to murder Black people at a Buffalo supermarket, two law enforcement officials told The Buffalo News. Authorities believe the former agent – believed to be from Texas – was one of at least six individuals who regularly communicated with accused gunman Payton Gendron in an online chat room where racist hatred was discussed, the two officials said. The two law enforcement sources with direct knowledge of the investigation stated these individuals were invited by Gendron to read about his...

When I first heard about the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, I felt sick to my stomach. First, I couldn’t escape the thought of fourteen (later reports increased the number to nineteen) children between ages 8 and 10 being brutally murdered. The horror to their families, as well as to the families of the two teachers who died while in the process of equipping their students to live, is unimaginable to me. But then I was further sickened by the Democrats who shed crocodile tears for the victims while using this tragedy to push their political agenda. After all, their...

VIDEORay Liotta might be gone but his distinguished laugh will live on for all eternity. In this video we see the reaction of Ray Liotta to hilarious Ray Epps denialism.Despite the fact that Ray Epps, like a January 6 Forrest Gump, was showing up on multiple videos urging folks to go INTO the Capitol as well as being at the forefront of the protests, many politicians and media people vociferously deny Epps was in any way acting as an instigator. For everybody else, if you were just standing outside the Capitol Building on January 6 munching on an oatmeal cookie,...

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Susan Rice is leading the administration's gun control efforts. Jean-Pierre said there is "no one better" than Rice to lead the effort in the wake of a mass shooting Tuesday at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. She was responding to a question about whether President Joe Biden intended to tap his vice president as a gun czar, a role Biden held during the Obama administration that some Democratic lawmakers have urged the president to fill again. “We have a whole-of-government approach … that Ambassador Susan Rice is leading, along with other departments,”...

“‘“And forgive us our debts”’” (Matthew 6:12). Sin dominates the hearts and minds of lost men and women, separates them from God, and is therefore their greatest enemy and problem. It is the common denominator for every crime, immorality, pain, and sorrow—and there is no natural cure: “Can the Ethiopian change his skin or the leopard his spots? Then you also can do good who are accustomed to doing evil” (Jer. 13:23). The natural individual does not even want his or her sin cured (John 3:19). If sin is our greatest problem, our greatest need is the forgiveness God provides....

When Adam sinned, he tried to hide from God. When Jonah refused to preach to Nineveh, his fear drove him into the ocean, trying to flee the presence of the Lord. After Peter denied Christ, he left to weep bitterly. Adam, Jonah, and Peter ran away from God, not because they lost their love for him but rather because they feared that the Lord was too angry to have mercy on them. The accuser of the brethren waits like a vulture for you to fail in some way. At that point, he uses every lie in hell to convince you...

Texas Democratic candidate for governor Beto O’Rourke said Thursday on “MSNBC Prime” that he believes there will be a “reckoning” led by voters reacting to mass shootings in the upcoming midterm elections in November. O’Rourke said, “The choice is to vote for people who reflect and represent your values. What I’m trying to say is that too often, we dismiss folks to others who belong to the other political party. We say all Republicans are this or that or all Democrats are this and that. I’m just saying that the majority of us in Texas, which includes Republicans and Democrats,...

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Officials in Ukraine have admitted that Russia has the “upper hand” in fighting in the country’s east, as Ukrainian forces fell back from some of their positions in the Donbas region. The governor of Luhansk region, Serhiy Haidai, said just 5% of the region remained in Ukrainian hands – down from about 10% little more than a week ago – and that Ukrainian forces were retreating in some areas. Pro-Russian separatists from the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic have said they have established full control over the strategic town of Lyman in eastern Ukraine. The claims have not been independently verified....

WASHINGTON, Monday, May 20. The following is the latest received at the War Department from Gen. BANKS: WILLIAMSPORT, May 26. Hon. Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary of War: We believe that our whole force, trains and all, will cross in safety. The men are in fine spirits, and crossing to good order. The labor of last night was fearful. The enemy followed us last night on our march, but has not made his appearance this morning. The news of your movements South has unquestionably caused them to look out for their safety. Your dispatch was read to the troops this morning...

Vladimir Lenin supposedly once said, “The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.” There’s some doubt as to whether this line is genuine; regardless, it seems like a pretty good description of what the Biden administration is doing to America’s middle class. Inflation is running rampant. The Producer Price Index, the most useful measure of general inflation, is up a whopping 16.3% from April 2021, per the Bureau of Labor Statistics. That means that roughly $1 out of every $6 that people earn has been lost to inflation in a single...

My wife and I have thoroughly enjoyed the television series Blacklist, and I would recommend this nine season action thriller to anyone who enjoyed the likes of "24" or "Designated Survivor". My one question to Blacklist fans: When night, or dark environment scenes are playing, does it appear too dark, almost impossible to perceive? I adjusted all my TV settings to no avail. Any input appreciated!

As I’ve been pointing out now for a couple of years, the obvious gap in the plans of our betters for a carbon-free “net zero” energy future is the problem of massive-scale energy storage. How exactly is New York City (for example) going to provide its citizens with power for a long and dark full-week period in the winter, with calm winds, long nights, and overcast days, after everyone has been required to change over to electric heat and electric cars — and all the electricity is supposed to come from the wind and sun, which are neither blowing nor...

I don’t have anything of value to add about Uvalde and I’m as heartsick and angry as you are.But I do want to try to impose some reality in our thinking about guns: This will happen again, and again. Because guns are a problem that cannot be fixed. Three reasons: (1) The Second Amendment, like it or not, provides cover that makes reforming gun laws difficult to do and then more difficult to legally sustain. (2) Guns are more popular than you probably realize and our political system gives so much leverage to one particular political party that if this...

IPray For The Peace of JerusalemGenesis 9The Sons of Noah 18 The sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem, Ham and Japheth. (Ham was the father of Canaan.) 19 These were the three sons of Noah, and from them came the people who were scattered over the whole earth. 20 Noah, a man of the soil, proceeded[a] to plant a vineyard. 21 When he drank some of its wine, he became drunk and lay uncovered inside his tent. 22 Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father naked and told his two brothers outside. 23 But...

Harley-Davidson electric bicycle off-shoot Serial 1 introduced its MOSH/CTY and RUSH/CTY models in August, 2021. Serial 1 positioned both bicycles to urban riders and commuters with a 529Wh li-ion battery and a mid-mounted Brose electric motor. The new BASH/MTB electric mountain bike builds on those foundations for a more rugged clientele.

The incoming Congress could end the FBI’s use and abuse of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act to spy on “U.S. persons.” The 18-member U.S. intelligence community (IC) has released the Annual Statistical Transparency Report Regarding the Intelligence Community’s Use of National Security Surveillance Authorities. One of the few to pay attention was historian Matthew Guariglia, a policy analyst at the Electronic Frontier Foundation and an affiliated scholar at the University of California’s Hastings School of Law. This government document, the ninth such report to be made public, “provides statistics and contextual information concerning how the Intelligence Community uses the Foreign...