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Twilight of the Magicians: Aleksandr Dugin and the War Against the West "If the Fourth Political Practice is not able to realize the end of times, then it would be invalid. The end of days should come; but it will not come by itself. This is a task, it is not a certainty. It is active metaphysics. It is a practice.” ALEKSANDR DUGIN, THE FOURTH POLITICAL THEORY [I] The “philosopher” who has done the most to justify Russia’s war against the West is Aleksandr Dugin. He was the first to advocate a Russian invasion of Ukraine. He has also advocated...

Members of the Republican Party are busy betraying their base while simultaneously shooting themselves in the foot. They’re doing it by embracing so-called “red flag laws,” which is a euphemism for the creation of a separate legal system designed to target a single class of Americans (gun owners) and exact a severe penalty (gun confiscation). That’s right, some Republicans have somehow concluded that targeting their political base (gun owners) by depriving those Americans of their fundamental constitutional right to keep and bear arms (the Supreme Court’s words, not mine) is constitutional, good public policy, and smart politics. These Republicans are...

Texas GOP’s proposed platform signals party’s rightward shift BY JULIA MANCHESTER - 06/20/22 5:06 PM ET The new proposed Texas GOP platform has drawn outrage among Democrats and stoked concern from some Republicans, signaling the degree to which Lone Star State conservatives appear to be shifting rightward as the party looks to maintain its hold there in the November midterms. On Sunday, the state party adopted a resolution that rejected President Biden’s win in the 2020 presidential election, formally embracing former President Trump’s unfounded claims of election fraud. Additionally, the convention’s attendees voted on a platform that criticized homosexuality as...

Oceana Grill, a popular seafood restaurant in New Orleans, has achieved a first-of-its-kind victory in its long-running legal battle to receive payouts from insurer Lloyd’s of London for loss of revenues during its COVID-19 shutdown beginning on March 20, 2020. On June 15, a Louisiana state court reversed an earlier decision and ruled in favor of the claim for damages brought by the company owning Oceana Grill, Cajun Conti LLC. Cajun Conti initiated legal action on that same day that the shutdown went into effect in March 2020, seeking damages under its insurance policy with Lloyd’s of London. But the...

Senate lawmakers finalized negotiations on bipartisan gun and school safety legislation Monday, with the bill text expected to be made public as soon as lawmakers return to Washington on Tuesday. Lawmakers at the heart of the negotiations say a deal was clinched after Democrats made concessions to bring wary Republicans on board. Democrats compromised on incentives for states to adopt red-flag laws and the broadening of restrictions on gun ownership for people accused or convicted of domestic violence. “I’m confident that there’s serious negotiation that [are] very close,” President Biden told reporters while vacationing at his oceanside home in Rehoboth...

~The FReeper Canteen Presents~ Road Trip: Marine Corps Air Station New River, North CarolinaMarine Corps Air Station New River is a United States Marine Corps helicopter and tilt-rotor base in Jacksonville, North Carolina, in the eastern part of the state. In 1972, the airfield was named McCutcheon Field for General Keith B. McCutcheon, one of the fathers of Marine Corps helicopter aviation. Near Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, it shares some facilities with Camp Geiger.The Air Station was the first Marine Corps base with the new MV-22 Osprey. It has the ability to fly like a plane, and take...

Vatican City, Jun 17, 2022 / 08:38 am Pope Francis spoke about the teachings of Jesus and the Buddha during a meeting with a Buddhist delegation from Thailand on Friday. “Sadly, on all sides, we hear the cry of a wounded humanity and a broken earth. The Buddha and Jesus understood the need to overcome the egoism that gives rise to conflict and violence,” the pope said at the Vatican on June 17. He added: “The Dhammapada sums up the Buddha’s teachings thus: 'To avoid evil, to cultivate good, and to cleanse one’s mind — this is the teaching of...

Democratic Congressman and Florida gubernatorial hopeful Charlie Crist's website features two distinct themes for its English and Spanish speaking audience. He's got plenty of Pride merch for the English language side of the site, but on the Spanish language side, no rainbow or trans flags are on display. ***** He was originally a Republican, even serving as a Republican governor of Florida in 2006, but then became an Independent in 2010 after losing to Marco Rubio in a Senate Primary. Crist then started to identify as a Democrat after he came out in support of then President Barack Obama's reelection...

NYC police are searching for the criminal amid rising acts of vandalism and violence against Catholic institutions and pro-life groups across America.BROOKLYN, New York City (LifeSiteNews) – A vandal was caught on camera scrawling “All Catholics are rapists” on the wall of a non-profit Catholic charity in New York City. This Wednesday, video footage released by police showed a man wearing a backpack and face covering use a black marker to vandalize Catholic Charities’ downtown Brooklyn headquarters, according to the New York Post. NYPD’s Hate Crimes Task Force is investigating the crime, while asking for citizens for any information regarding...

...He was very sexist towards me," she said of Putin, who once said it is "better not to argue with women" after Clinton lamented the difficulties in forging a relationship with him. She continued: "We had some interesting, even helpful, interactions in private and then the press would be invited in and he would say something insulting about America. He would then manspread for effect."

When four-time world champion Formula 1 racing driver Sebastian Vettel denounced Alberta’s oilsands as a “climate crime” prior to Sunday’s Montreal Grand Prix, he revealed his brain is an irony-free zone. Gas-guzzling Formula 1 racing would not exist without fossil fuels. Vettel’s racing team is sponsored by Saudi Aramco — the world’s largest oil and natural gas company. Aramco is owned by the government of Saudi Arabia, one of the world’s most brutal dictatorships, which also sponsors Formula 1 racing itself . The 34-year-old German-born Vettel is a poster child for celebrities who denounce the oilsands, conveniently overlooking the reality...

Rome Newsroom, Jun 20, 2022 / 04:00 am (CNA). Gunmen in Nigeria attacked a Catholic church and a Baptist church on Sunday morning, killing three people and reportedly kidnapping more than 30 worshippers. Armed bandits on motorcycles stormed villages in Nigeria’s northwestern Kaduna state and attacked St. Moses Catholic Church and Maranatha Baptist Church on June 19 while people were worshiping, local government officials told the Associated Press. “It was some few minutes after 7am today, while both the Catholic and Baptist churches were holding their services when the kidnappers attacked,” Reuben Buhari, a former spokesman for the local government,...

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The blessing of a gay couple. Photo: Daily Compass On June 11, 2022, for the first time in Italy, a same-sex couple received a church blessing for “marriage” in the church of San Lorenzo in Budrio, reports the Italian Catholic news site, Daily Compass. Pietro Moretti and Giacomo Spagnoli registered their marriage in the municipality of Budrio. Then, with numerous relatives and friends, they arrived at the church of San Lorenzo for a solemn mass. In order to circumvent the Roman Catholic church’s prohibition against same-sex marriages, the priests invented a special “mass of thanksgiving” in order to tie the...

The US Army has introduced Critical Race Theory to West Point cadets, new documents show, according to Fox News Digital. The “woke” lessons ask cadets about whiteness while encouraging them to apply Critical Race Theory to their answers, according to documents obtained by Judicial Watch and given to Fox News. The more than 600 documents were only handed over to Judicial Watch after the conservative organization sued the Department of Defense. “Our military is under attack – from within,” Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said in a press release. “These documents show racist, anti-American CRT propaganda is being used to...

[Catholic Caucus] Francis Confirms the Root of the Problem: Vatican IIFrancis’s May 19, 2022 interview with the editors of European Jesuit Journals provided yet another indication that Vatican II is still one of the most vital matters in the Church, and by extension, the world:“Restorationism has come to gag the Council. The number of groups of ‘restorers’ – for example, in the United States there are many – is significant. . . . There are ideas, behaviors that arise from a restorationism that basically did not accept the Council. The problem is precisely this: in some contexts the Council has...

AbstractRecently, The Lancet published a study on the effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines and the waning of immunity with time. The study showed that immune function among vaccinated individuals 8 months after the administration of two doses of COVID-19 vaccine was lower than that among the unvaccinated individuals. According to European Medicines Agency recommendations, frequent COVID-19 booster shots could adversely affect the immune response and may not be feasible.The decrease in immunity can be caused by several factors such as N1-methylpseudouridine, the spike protein, lipid nanoparticles, antibody-dependent enhancement, and the original antigenic stimulus. These clinical alterations may explain the association reported...

Israel’s weakened coalition government announced Monday that it would dissolve parliament and call new elections, setting the stage for the possible return to power of former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu or another period of prolonged political gridlock. The election will be Israel's fifth in three years, and it will put the polarizing Netanyahu, who has been the opposition leader for the past year, back at the center of the political universe. “I think the winds have changed. I feel it,” Netanyahu declared. The previous four elections, focused on Netanyahu’s fitness to rule while facing a corruption investigation, ended in deadlock....

[H/T mewzilla] CMS just EXEMPTED officials hired to enforce their vaccine mandate...from the vaccine mandate! My office obtained the memo. Stunning hypocrisy. - The Donald - America First | Patriots Win

It is the general consensus that a recession is coming. Obama Treasury Secretary Larry Summers says ‘My best guess is that a recession is ahead.’ 60% of CEO's globally think a recession is coming. Elon Musk and Jamie Dimon think a recession is coming. Some think a recession will come in 2023 and not 2022. Some think we're already in a recession. Most Americans feel that we are already in a recession. Then there's Joe Biden. Nope, no recession. Here he snaps at a reporter: One reporter asked about a growing number of economists voicing concerns that a recession was...