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Potemkin villages” refer to the magnificent facades that Crimean governor Grigory Potemkin supposedly built in front of decrepit villages to impress Catherine the Great on her grand tour of the region. Today, there’s no better term than “Potemkin schools” to describe how educrats run public education in New York City. ... teachers at William Cullen Bryant High School in Queens complained that administrators forced them to pass failing students. Last year, a long-stalled investigation revealed that Maspeth High School in Queens repeatedly faked passing grades. In 2020, at Brooklyn’s Cobble Hill High School where more than 70% of the students...

CBS NEWS — Only 30 percent of U.S. weapons sent to Ukraine reach destination……

Drought a big concern of France's government at the end of the week Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne activating an inter-ministerial crisis group. As the very hot summer continues with temperatures in many parts of France regularly exceeding 100 degrees Fahrenheit more than 100 communities said to be without water supplies. The situation described by mainstream media as historic... And this 59 minute video gives you an inside look at the protest on the streets of Paris today you will see the distribution of fruit, magicians and comics in the midst of today's march on the streets...

Politico is reporting on the likelihood that Joe Biden is preparing to extend the national COVID-19 state of emergency through the 2022 midterm elections. The debate, as outlined in just about every media narrative surrounding renewals of a national COVID emergency, is obtusely presented as if the primary political concern is public health. Again, everyone must pretend not to know the true motive of the “emergency” is extending unilateral executive power and all of the control mechanisms therein. One mechanism would include the use of ‘Mail-in election ballots‘, which has absolutely nothing to do with public health. The article appears...

Senator Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) announced on Thursday that he would be the Chairman of the newly-formed Senate Select Committee on Monkeypox.

DALLAS – Former President Donald Trump convincingly won the 2024 GOP presidential nomination straw poll at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) three-day gathering in Texas Trump, who’s repeatedly teased making another presidential run in 2024 to try and return to the White House, captured 69% of ballots cast in the anonymous online straw poll, according to results announced by CPAC on Saturday. The support for the former president, who remains the most popular and influential politician in the Republican Party and continues to play a kingmaker's role in GOP primaries, is up from his 59% showing in the anonymous...

President Trump easily won the CPAC 2024 straw poll and captured 69% of the votes. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis came in second with 24% of the votes. “President Trump remains the most dominant force in American politics, and as yet another poll shows, it’s a reality that will propel the growth and success of the Republican Party through the Midterms and beyond,” Trump spokesman Taylor Budowich told Fox News. Fox News reported:

NAVIGATION Navigation of a ship at sea is, in principle, a very simple matter: you plot a course between where you are and where you want to be, and let the propeller muscle the ship through the water. As simple as that seems, it won’t happen without another very important element: the rudder! The rudder performs its quiet, steady work, unshaken by the tremendous pressures directed against it. And it must hold the true course without deviation. The navigation of a human life is also, in principle, a very simple matter. As with a ship, there must be motivation...

The Cuban government said it has accepted “technical guidance” offered by the Unites States to help the island’s authorities put out a raging fire that threatens to engulf an oil storage facility at the port of Matanzas, in what could be one of the few examples of cooperation between the two countries in recent years. “We deeply appreciate the condolences and expressions of help from people and organizations in the U.S. regarding the #Matanzas incident, including from the U.S. government, which offered technical advice, a proposal already in the hands of specialists for proper coordination,” Carlos Fernández de Cossío, Cuba’s...

The head of Amnesty International's Ukraine branch has acrimoniously quit after the human rights NGO published a 'pro-Russia' report that condemned Ukraine for 'endangering civilians'.Oksana Pokalchuk said the controversial study on Thursday had 'unwittingly created material that sounded like support of Russian narratives'.She added in a Facebook post last night: 'Seeking to protect civilians, this study instead has become a tool of Russian propaganda.

The ‘Synodal Way’ wants to reverse Catholic teaching on homosexuality. Here’s why that’s impossibleThe Church's teaching is unchangeable, and same-sex behavior can't be reconciled with human nature, created by God as a communion of male and female.(LifeSiteNews) – The German “Synodal Way” and its allies within the Church are hellbent – seemingly more so every day – on changing Catholic doctrine regarding homosexuality.A leader of the “Synodal Way” indeed recently acknowledged that the heterodox initiative is intended as a direct challenge to the Church’s teaching on this issue.Marc Frings, the secretary-general of the Central Committee of German Catholics, a leading...

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have issued guidelines for “safer sex” amid the spread of the monkeypox virus, urging romantic partners to take steps to reduce exposure to the rare disease. Published Friday and titled “Safer Sex, Social Gatherings, and Monkeypox,” the CDC document advises couples to be wary of “any new or unexplained rash or lesion” in various parts of the body, a hallmark symptom of the monkeypox virus. While the agency said the monkeypox vaccination would offer protection, it added that the limited supply of doses currently could mean that some will not have...

44 Polish pilgrims on the bus driving from Poland to Medjugorje, a Roman Catholic shrine in southern Bosnia, including two drivers. Among them were three priests and six nuns, a ministry spokesman said. Police cleared the area where the accident took place after firefighters and medical teams recovered all the occupants of the vehicle which had Warsaw registration plates. Polish police officers, in Croatia as part of project "Safe Tourist Destination" project, were helping Croatian authorities in communicating with the survivors. An investigation has been started into the cause of the accident.

"The BBC action-adventure show ‘Doctor Who’ has been around for almost 60 years. From the first episode, which aired November 23, 1963, with William Hartnell as the lead character, it was originally aimed straight at children with no curve-balls other than the character being an alien (Time Lord) who protects Earth and regenerates into a new body which retains all of its memories when he is injured enough to trigger the transformation (which was used to cover for actors being replaced). Until December 26, 2017, when Peter Capaldi’s last episode ended, The Doctor had always been played by a white...

The 100,000 North Korean “volunteers” reportedly being offered up to Russia to join the war on Ukraine would be people from the lowest “social class,” most likely forced to go by the government, North Korean defector Grace Jo told National Review. Russian talk show host Igor Korotchenko mentioned the new development in North Korean–Russian relations on Russian state TV this week, saying, “There are reports that 100,000 North Korean volunteers are prepared to come and take part in the conflict.” In North Korea, “volunteer” doesn’t have the same definition as in the U.S., Jo said. When the government issues an...

This is an important sworn testimony by Dr. Richard M. Fleming PhD, MD, JD, who is doctor, a lawyer, a medical journal reviewer, creator of between 400-500 peer reviewed medical journal papers, as well as, an inventor of medical products. The interview starts off with the virus, and he states that beyond question it is not a natural occurring virus, and that it was created via gain-or-function. That it meets all of the qualifications of being classified as a bio-weapon, and why it is legitimate to be classified as a bio-weapon due to the definition of what is considered to...

Before long, one of the two juveniles grabs what looks like a mug from the counter next to Nguyen's cash register and walks toward the door. Attempting to reason with him, Nguyen says he can take the mug but leave the coins that were inside of it. The same kid then reaches and grabs another item before turning and trying to make off with it. The other juvenile then jumps over the glass case toward Nguyen, who is on video grabbing some sort of sharp object by his register. The clerk then runs at the kid and stabs him what...

“‘Take courage, son; your sins are forgiven’” (Matthew 9:2). Jesus’ ultimate words to the paralytic, “your sins are forgiven,” represent the greatest of all divine miracles and definitely the most desirable for the one who hears them. This is the holy Son of God forgiving the sins of an unholy man. He could control nature with a word, and with these words He dismissed the man’s sins and graciously made him right with God. The verb translated “are forgiven” means send away or do away with. David declares, “As far as the east is from the west, so far has...

Jack Posobiec 🇺🇸 @JackPosobiec They are using Alex Jones to go after freedom of speech. If you don’t speak out against this, you will be next 7:38 PM · Aug 5, 2022

Are you facing a crisis? Do you have a menacing giant of a problem at home, at work or in your family? The only way to face a giant is to do as David did: remember the lion and the bear. By remembering God’s faithfulness to him in his past crises, David could go up against Goliath without fear. When David volunteered to fight Goliath, “Saul said to David, ‘You are not able to go against this Philistine to fight with him.’ …But David said to Saul, ‘Your servant used to keep his father’s sheep, and when a lion or...