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Excerpt: "Biden yesterday reaffirmed his commitment to returning to the 2015 JCPOA nuclear deal with Iran– a deal which saw the Obama government send $100 billion to Iran, including a C-130 Hercules carrying $400 million in cash on January 16, 2016, as CNN reported. The Islamist regime then used that money to wage war in Yemen, Lebanon, Iraq, Gaza and around the world, massively destablizing the world. Now, Biden’s offer to the Ayatollahs threatens to dwarf even that gargantuan act of treason. “Under the deal, Iran gets a financial package worth up to $275 billion in the first year and...

This week, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez (D-NY) complained that a man "said some disgusting things to me while I was walking near the Capitol." The accused offender, political satirist Alex Stein, called it "'a tit-for-tat' exchange. She's said a lot of disgusting things both inside and outside the Capitol. For one, just last week she was justifying the mob that chased Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. Prior to that she had no objections to the mob that has been illegally camped outside his home nor the gunman who waited near the mob for his chance to murder the Justice." "The...

The White House on Friday said Saudi Arabia has committed to increasing oil production in July and August—a move that will help "stabilize markets considerably." The commitment from Saudi Arabia came after bilateral meetings between President Biden and administration officials and King Salman bin Abdulaziz al Said and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, as well as Saudi Ministers. "Saudi Arabia has committed to support global oil market balancing for sustained economic growth," the White House said. "We have welcomed the increase in production levels 50 percent above what was planned for July and August." "These steps and further steps that...

Two religious leaders plan to join a lawsuit filed by a synagogue in Boynton Beach, Florida against a state law banning abortion at 15 weeks gestation. The two leaders, one Unitarian and one Buddhist, will argue that the law violates the state Constitution’s right to privacy and freedom of religion (via NBC): The retired Unitarian Rev. Harris Riordan and the Buddhist minister Maya Malay confirmed they will file a lawsuit in state court next week, echoing arguments from Rabbi Barry Silver. Silver intends to file his own amended complaint next week along with Rabbi Arthur Wascow, the founder and director...

The recent flare is directed towards the Earth and is expected to cause significant blackouts to GPS navigation systems, which could end up disrupting journeys for small aircraft and ships. Ham radio or amateur radio operators will face some disruptions due to this solar flare, which has a 10 percent chance of being an X-class solar event. Astronomers are not yet sure if the flare was also accompanied by a coronal mass ejection (CME), which could result in a geomagnetic storm in a couple of days. The timing of the solar flare brings back memories of another solar flare that...

Dr. Caitlin Bernard, the Indiana doctor who treated a 10-year-old Ohio rape victim, warned Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita to cease and desist Friday. Bernard warned that the attorney general's claims she did not report she performed an abortion on the 10-year-old victim were false and defamatory. Her lawyers contended she had complied with applicable reporting laws and that the attorney general's remarks could mislead her patients. INDIANA AG INVESTIGATING DOCTOR WHO PROVIDED CARE FOR CHILD RAPE VICTIM SEEKING ABORTION "We are especially concerned that, given the controversial political context of the statements, such inflammatory accusations have the potential to...

WASHINGTON — First, he killed a plan that would have forced power plants to clean up their climate-warming pollution. Then, he shattered an effort to help consumers pay for electric vehicles. And, finally, he said he could not support government incentives for solar and wind companies or any of the other provisions that the rest of his party and his president say are vital to ensure a livable planet. Senator Joe Manchin III of West Virginia, who took more campaign cash from the oil and gas industry than any other senator, and who became a millionaire from his family coal...

Police said they got a call at 12:50 p.m. that a car was stuck in a ride in Tivoli Friheden and several people were stuck. Two people were sitting on the rear seats and were taken by emergency workers, the newspaper reported. Ragborg Olsen told the Ekstra Bladet daily that the two had been seriously injured and were taken to the hospital. The accident occurred on the Cobraen roller-coaster and the park has been shut down... The roller-coaster is 25 meters (82 feet) tall and the wagons have a top speed of 70 kilometers per hour (44 mph)... The roller...

MOSCOW. July 15 (Interfax) - Roscosmos and NASA have signed an agreement on joint cross-flights of Russian cosmonauts and American astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS). "On Thursday July 14, 2022, the Roscosmos state corporation and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) signed an agreement regarding the flights of integrated crews on Russian and American crewed transport ships," the Russian state corporation said on Telegram on Friday. Cosmonaut Anna Kikina will, as was planned if the agreement were signed, join the crew of the American Crew Dragon spaceship as part of the Crew-5 mission, Roscosmos said. Her place...

Except in early 2021, when people started noticing that they had heavier than usual, or unexpected, menstrual bleeding after getting vaccinated against COVID-19. [A]ccording to a massive study published in Science Advances which surveyed more than 39,000 adults over three months, and found around 42 percent of those with regular menstrual cycles bled more heavily than usual after vaccination. Of respondents who described their menstrual cycles as predominantly regular, nearly half of respondents in the online survey (42 percent) said they had heavier menstrual bleeding after getting vaccinated against COVID-19. Roughly the same proportion of people [women] (44 percent) reported...

Lina al-Hathloul is an activist from Saudi Arabia whose sister, Loujain, was imprisoned and tortured from 2018 to 2021. She traveled to Washington this week to explain to policymakers just how devastating it is that President Joe Biden has traveled to the Middle East to meet Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud, known as MBS. “The thing is, Saudi Arabia is now a police state. So whatever reforms they brag about having, concretely, it really depends on the will of MBS,” Lina al-Hathloul told me. “It’s a dictatorship and a dark era for Saudi that we’ve never experienced...

Joe Biden’s transgender Assistant Health Secretary Dr. Rachel (Richard) Levine and newly hired DOE employee Sam Brinton celebrated Bastille Day at the French Ambassador’s residence.

At the NATO summit in Madrid, Finland was invited to join the alliance. What does this mean for Finland?If Russian President Vladimir Putin breaches the 830-mile Finnish border, the United States will rise to Helsinki's defense and fight Russia on Finland's side.What does Finland's membership in NATO mean for America?If Putin makes a military move into Finland, the U.S. will go to war against the world's largest nation with an arsenal of between 4,500 and 6,000 battlefield and strategic nuclear weapons.No Cold War president would have dreamed of making such a commitment – to risk the survival of our nation...

No stranger to controversy, Archbishop Elpidophoros has caused another commotion in the international Orthodox community. In the midst of the ongoing scandal involving the Archbishop’s plans to consecrate a defrocked former priest as a bishop for the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America, which other hierarchs have characterized as a serious threat to Orthodox unity in America, the GOARCH head has made headlines by baptizing the children of a gay celebrity couple. The parents and relatives are praising the Archbishop for serving the “first openly gay baptism” in the Greek Church. Just after the GOARCH Clergy-Laity Conference ended in New...

Biden's mental decline - all the signs were there. (breaking - a 'source' states that prior to the election, Biden was given pills before each appearance, he was acting like a child without them..)

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Louisiana can now enforce its ban on almost all abortions under a judge’s order issued Friday amid a flurry of court challenges to state “trigger” laws crafted to take effect when the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. The decision came the same day President Joe Biden issued an executive order to protect access to abortion in states where it is still legal and mitigate the potential penalties women seeking the procedure may face after the high court’s ruling on June 24. Days after the Supreme Court decision, Louisiana District Judge Robin Giarrusso issued a...

Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jul 10, 2022 / 21:37 pm The pastor of a Catholic parish in Bethesda, Maryland, gave a powerful testimony Sunday hours after his church was set on fire, telling the congregation, "We are the Church. We are the living stones." St. Jane Frances de Chantal Parish was the most heavily damaged of three Bethesda churches hit by vandalism over the weekend. A video posted on the parish's YouTube channel appears to show flames near the church's tabernacle. Authorities believe the incidents are connected. A fire at North Bethesda United Methodist Church early Saturday morning caused minor damage...

[Catholic Caucus] Rorate Exclusive: Interview with Dom Alcuin Reid on his ordination, his community, the diocese of Fréjus-Toulon, and Desiderio DesideraviIn May the news broke that two monks of the Monastère Saint-Benoît in the diocese of Fréjus-Toulon, France, a Public Association of the Faithful that celebrates the traditional liturgy exclusively and that lives a classical Benedictine observance, had received ordination from an unnamed “senior prelate in unimpeded communion with the Holy See” after its own bishop, Mgr Dominique Rey, had repeatedly said that he was unable to confer them. The monastery argued that these ordinations were necessary for their...

Help me out, fellow Bibliophiles! I read a delightful rhyming book to my kids about a British man who takes a vacation to the beach he keeps losing things along the way. One of the lines is, "Oh, well, what's done is done. I think I'll picnic in the sun." Part of the charm of this book is finding the places where these items were forgotten. For example, the umbrella was left on the bus and we see it in the window as the bus pulls away. CAN ANYONE TELL ME THE NAME OF THAT WONDERFUL BOOK?

WASHINGTON, D.C. (LifeSiteNews) – Democrat Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi brushed off criticism of her pro-abortion stance conflicting with her Catholic self-identification Thursday on the grounds that, as a woman, she was capable of becoming pregnant and male popes are not. “Republicans sometimes have said Nancy Pelosi thinks she knows more about having babies than the Pope. Yes, I do. I think any Pope would agree,” Pelosi, who has five children, said at a press conference, Just the News reported. Her support for legal abortion-on-demand is about “respect, freedom, of reproductive health for women and it’s not about politicians...