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At least 22 people are reported to have been found dead at a nightclub in South Africa. Emergency services were called in the early hours of Sunday to the Enyobeni Tavern in Scenery Park, on the edge of East London, Eastern Cape province, according to the Daily Dispatch news site. Eastern Cape police spokesperson Brigadier Tembinkosi Kinana told the Newzroom Africa rolling news channel in the country that young people were among the dead. Reuters reported him saying they were aged between 18 and 20, but there are also reports they may have been younger, with AP saying they were...

The Iranian Ministry of Defense has announced that it has launched a second three-stage satellite for research...

BERLIN — Russia’s invasion of Ukraine seemed like an unexpected opportunity for environmentalists, who had struggled to focus the world’s attention on the kind of energy independence that renewable resources can offer. With the West trying to wean itself from Russian oil and gas, the argument for solar and wind power seemed stronger than ever. But four months into the war, the scramble to replace Russian fossil fuels has triggered the exact opposite. As the heads of the Group of 7 industrialized nations gather in the Bavarian Alps for a meeting that was supposed to cement their commitment to the...

THE WHITE HOUSE BRIEFING ROOM Background Press Call on President Biden’s First Day in Germany JUNE 26, 2022 • SPEECHES AND REMARKS Via Teleconference 8:04 A.M. CEST MODERATOR: All right, so in the interest of time, we’re going to go ahead and get started. Thanks for your patience. Just some logistical things we were dealing with this morning. So we’re — thanks for coming. Thanks for joining the background call today. This call is on background, attributable to “senior administration officials.” And it’s to preview day one in Germany today. So for your awareness, not for reporting, the speakers on...

Mollie Hemingway wrote the book on Democrat election fraud in the 2020 election. She sounds the alarm that worse is on the way: Biden really does not want the public to know about his federal takeover of election administration. Dozens of members of Congress have repeatedly asked for details, to no avail. Good government groups, members of the media, and private citizens have filed requests under the Freedom of Information Act. Not a single one has been responded to. All signs indicate a concerted effort to keep the public in the dark until at least after the November midterm elections....

Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I am the Lord. Leviticus 19:18 (King James Version) Thank you, President Trump, for taking the curse of abortion off of this Great country and putting it on the ash heap of history where it belongs. No longer can the pro-abortionists claim it is settled law and now have to actually defend this barbaric act. State by state they have to convince the people it is more important to kill a living human than to have and raise...

The Bible In Paintings 2 ENCOURAGEMENT FOR APPRECIATING AND APPLYING GOD'S MESSAGE 2nd KINGS CHAPTER 2 Elijah said to Elisha, “Tell me, what can I do for you before I am taken from you?” “Let me inherit a double portion of your spirit,” Elisha replied. “You have asked a difficult thing,” Elijah said, “yet if you see me when I am taken from you, it will be yours— otherwise not.” As they were walking along and talking together, suddenly a chariot of fire and horses of fire appeared and separated the two of them, and Elijah went up to...

Prince Charles personally accepted suitcases and shopping bags stuffed with millions of dollars’ worth of cash from a controversial Qatari politician between 2011 and 2015, according to an explosive new report. “Everyone felt very uncomfortable about the situation,” a former adviser to the Prince of Wales told the Sunday Times of London. The “only thing we could do was to count the money and make a mutual record of what we’d done,” the source said. “And then call the bank.” Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber Al Thani, the former prime minister of Qatar, bestowed the big bucks on the...

There has been much perfervid shouting and rending of garments (or these days, parading about with red splotches on the crotches of their clothing or performative displays in Handmaid's Tale costumes -- red hooded capes) to protest the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. On the other hand, those opposed to abortion hail this decision, claiming abortions will end or be much reduced. Neither side is right. I believe the decision will not substantially lessen the number of abortions. On the other hand, I do think that it signals a significant retreat from the days when...

France has long been one of the world’s greatest champions of nuclear energy. France leads the European Union in nuclear production, with the most productive reactors in the bloc, and relies on nuclear power for a larger share of its energy mix than any other country in the world. It makes sense that France should lead the charge for nuclear energy development as they have long been the global poster child for safe and reliable nuclear energy – until now. A recent flurry of unexpected issues at the Électricité de France (EDF), the state nuclear power operator representing the largest...

Republican Rep. Mayra Flores of Texas, who was sworn in as a member of Congress on Tuesday, once called for the jailing of Hillary Clinton and gave her view about both the 2020 presidential election and the January 6 riot at the US Capitol. In a series of tweets first revealed by CNN's KFILE on Thursday, Flores used her personal Twitter account @LARepublicana86 to promote her conservative views and defend former President Donald Trump on the day of the Capitol attack. "If we allow the Democrats to steal THIS election, they will steal EVERY election moving forward!" she tweeted ahead...

REDOUBT NO. 3, Wednesday, June 25 -- 1:30 P.M. Hon. E.M. Stanton, Secretary of War: We have advanced our pickets on the left considerably, to-day, under sharp resistance. Our men have behaved very handsomely. Some firing still continues. (Signed,) GEO. B. McCLELLAN, Major-General Commanding. REDOUBT No. 3, Wednesday, June 25 -- 3:15 P.M. Hon. E.M. Stanton, Secretary of War: The enemy are making desperate resistance to the advance of our picket lines. KEARNEY, and one-half of HOOKER's are where I want them. I have this moment reinforced HOOKER's right with a brigade and a couple of guns, and hope in...

Trump still holds sway over a sizeable section of the Republican Party and has the support of millions of American voters – a fact that drives Democrats to tear him down. Aside from the austere posturing and holier-than-thou reasons, what is motivating the January 6 hearings? Democrats' desperation to render Trump powerless. Democrats attempted impeachment based on January 6, which failed. The J6 hearings are now a second chance. They're hoping Merrick Garland will come to their aid if that doesn't work. You would wonder, why is that? Our latest Golden/TIPP Poll has the answer. Democrats know that Trump is...

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz welcomes leaders of the Group of Seven rich democracies on Sunday to a three-day summit in the Bavarian Alps overshadowed by the war in Ukraine and its far-reaching consequences, from energy shortages to a food crisis. The summit takes place against a darker backdrop than last year when the British, Canadian, French, German, Italian, Japanese and U.S. leaders met for the first time since before the COVID-19 pandemic and vowed to build back better. Soaring global energy and food prices are hitting economic growth in the wake of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The United Nations warned...

A GROUP of Ukrainian women (and men) have shared how they have raised £570,000 for their country's troops by selling nudes. The team has raised the staggering amount in just three months and has vowed to continue with the project, called "TerOnlyFans" until Vladimir Putin is dead.

Leaders of the Group of Seven (G7) are meeting on Sunday in the Bavarian Alps in Germany for the first day of their three-day annual summit. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and US President Joe Biden are set to discuss with the leaders of Canada, France, Italy, Japan and the United Kingdom proposals to increase pressure on Russia and extend support for Ukraine. The sharp rise in food and oil prices across the world, as well as inflation, are also on the leaders' agenda. Other democracies — Argentina, India, Indonesia, Senegal and South Africa — have been invited to participate in...

"Ashley Biden allegedly wrote in a 2019 entry: 'I remember having sex with friend @young age; showers w/my dad (probably not appropriate)'" The Daily Mail Reports... I will not argue about sexuality with people but I will say this without reservation if my sexual activities are selfish gratuitous, harmful to myself and others they're wrong. Here's a Central Pennsylvania local news for me Newsdump item from Friday... It's amazing how people are drug into endorsing tyranny when they are disturbed and angered by the: Drive-By Media or the Fakeservative Media... I Voted For Donald Trump In 2016 And 2020 But......

PARIS (AP) — Leaders of three French energy companies on Sunday called on the French public to immediately reduce consumption of fuel, oil, electricity and gas amid shortages and soaring prices due to Russia’s supply cuts and the war in Ukraine. “The effort must be immediate, collective and massive,” the leaders of the three companies, TotalEnergies, EDF and Engie said in a rare joint statement that was published in the French weekly Journal du Dimanche. “Every gesture counts,” the statement said. Russia has cut — and in some case shut off — gas supplies to several European Union countries in...

For Ritchie Herron, a bright and articulate civil servant from Newcastle, life over the past four years has become almost unbearable. It takes him ten minutes to empty his bladder, a process as painful as it is slow. Any sex drive is long gone. In fact, he says, his crotch is numb, ‘shell-shocked’ from the damage done to him under the apparent care of the NHS. ‘Numb’ rather sums up Ritchie’s whole demeanour as he struggles to process what has happened to him. Today he reveals – in an exclusive interview – that he is the man preparing legal action...

IPray For The Peace of JerusalemGenesis 26Jacob Takes Esau’s Blessing 34 When Esau was forty years old, he married Judith daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and also Basemath daughter of Elon the Hittite. 35 They were a source of grief to Isaac and Rebekah._______________________________________________________God Bless America.ML/LTOS