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September 3 is the feast of Pope St. Gregory the Great. This most significant of popes lived during a time of societal dissolution, when the Roman Empire in the West was in its final death agony. Though the Eastern Empire had re-established dominion in Africa and Italy in the 550s AD under Justinian, the invasion of the brutal Lombards in AD 568 proved unstoppable, leaving Italy in a state of perpetual fracture and chaos that would last centuries. Following is the opening to Gregory's work, The Dialogues. This great work was written during a period of brief respite, when Gregory...

Explanation: On August 25 Sun and Moon could both be seen in planet Earth's daytime skies. And so could the International Space Station. The ISS crossed the disk of the waning crescent Moon as seen from Shunyi district, Beijing, China at about 11:02 am local time. Some 40 kilometers to the southwest, in Fengtai district, the ISS was seen to cross the Sun's disk too. The solar transit was observed only 29 seconds later. Both transits are compared in these panels, composed of processed and stacked video frames from the two locations. The coordinated captures were made with different equipment,...

Inspired by President Biden's call to action against the enemies of our democracy, the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 riot at the Capitol is asking former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga) to voluntarily testify at its hearings. Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo) explained, "the President's speech reminded us that our work here is far from done. Many of the ringleaders of the MAGA conspiracy against democracy are still at large. The handful of Jan 6 insurrectionists that have been locked up in the DC jail are just the tip of the iceberg. We need to interrogate everyone linked to...

Former first lady Melania Trump reportedly bought a new wardrobe after the FBI “contaminated” her clothes when they searched her room as part of last month’s raid on Mar-a-Lago. Trump would not feel comfortable wearing any of the clothes FBI agents touched, a friend told Radar Online. “Melania doesn’t like the idea of strangers going rifling through her things. Who knows who touched her underwear during the raid?” Trump’s friend said. “She’s never going to feel comfortable wearing those ever again.” Shortly after the FBI raided Mar-a-Lago, former President Donald Trump confirmed reports that the agents searched through Melania’s bedroom...

This pic illustrates the irony that is gavin newsome's California. Maybe if Elon Musk threw in a trailer/generator/1000 gallons of gas for every Tesla purchase in California?

ussian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has warned Moldova not to endanger its troops or risk an attack. Russian forces have been stationed in the breakaway region of Transnistria since the 1990s.Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov this week warned Moldova not to endanger Russian troops stationed in Transnistria, a pro-Russian breakaway region in the country's east, saying doing so could spark military confrontation.

But the liberty at stake is moral and spiritual, not just intellectual.In the days since a brutal attack on Salman Rushdie, the world has seen an outpouring of solidarity. The phrase “We are all Salman Rushdie” appeared on Twitter profiles and in countless articles, acknowledging that threats to one person’s freedom of expression are a threat to all. In the New Yorker, Adam Gopnik anticipated efforts “to somehow equalize or level the acts of Rushdie and his tormentors and would-be executioners.” That approach is despicable, he wrote, “because the right to be insulting about other people’s religions…is a fundamental right,...

Well, that was quite the show. The Nazi background theme was an interesting choice. I'd love to know who came up with that one. Using US Marines in a thinly veiled threat against fellow Americans was in bad taste. The implication that Biden is going to use the military to eradicate MAGA Republicans is the concerning. Karine Jean-Pierre, the nitwit who masquerades as the White Press Secretary, assured us ahead of time that Biden's speech was going to be optimistic and not political. Lying is about the only thing she does well. After Biden's Hitleresque diatribe she declared that the...

LANDSBERG — President Joe Biden has announced the release of an autobiographical memoir entitled My Struggle, detailing his strategic plans for growing the power of the government and taking over the world. The book reportedly describes the reasoning for his hatred of certain people groups and why his political enemies must be crushed if the nation is to once again become a great empire. "He who would live must fight. He who doesn't wish to fight in this world, where permanent struggle is the law of life, has not the right to exist," Biden writes in the text. Biden also...

Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas is heading to New Hampshire next week on a 2022 mission that will also spark more speculation about his national ambitions in 2024. Cruz will travel to the crucial general election battleground state to campaign with Republican candidate Karoline Leavitt, in an announcement that was shared first with Fox News on Saturday. The get-out-the-vote rally will be held Thursday evening at American Legion Post 27 in Londonderry, New Hampshire. Leavitt, a 25-year-old veteran of former President Donald Trump’s White House press shop, is currently one of the co-front-runners in the Sept. 13 Republican primary in...

On Saturday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Cross Connection,” host Tiffany Cross said that Republicans “are the biggest threat to democracy.” And that “We don’t separate right-wing extremists and the Republican Party anymore.” During a panel discussion of President Joe Biden’s speech, Black Voters Matter co-Founder LaTosha Brown said, “[A]lso, there have been some Democrats that have been complicit around supporting policies that don’t support poor and working-class people, that support policies that literally put profit over people. And so, if we’re going to actually move forward as a nation. We’re going to have to have a real honest assessment of how...

Since the start of the war in Ukraine, several prominent Russian businessmen believed to be friends and allies of President Putin have found themselves in the crossfire, as international authorities included them on sanctions lists. Putin himself is at the top of those lists, and his megayacht is the biggest catch of all. $700 million megayacht Scheherazade was delivered in 2020, is now re-registered as a houseboatIn May this year, Scheherazade, a $700 million Lurssen megayacht believed to be owned by Putin, was arrested and seized by authorities in Italy, in a Tuscan port where it had arrived months prior...

As many of you know, I have spent time researching and speaking about mass psychosis theory. Most of what I have learned has come from Dr. Mattias Desmet, who realized that this form of mass hypnosis, of the madness of crowds, can account for the strange phenomenon of about 20-30% of the population in the western world becoming entranced with the Noble Lies and dominant narrative concerning the safety and effectiveness of the genetic vaccines, and both propagated and enforced by politicians, science bureaucrats, pharmaceutical companies and legacy media. What one observes with the mass hypnosis is that a large...

‘It is with deepest regret and profound loss that we have to announce the passing of our brother Angus ‘Drummie’ Gaye,’ the band said. Singer Angus “Drummie Zeb” Gaye, the lead vocalist and drummer for the British reggae band Aswad, has died at the age of 62, according to a statement. “It is with deepest regret and profound loss that we have to announce the passing of our brother Angus ‘Drummie’ Gaye,” the band said. “Drummie has left us to join our ancestors and leaves a huge void both personally and professionally.” Aswad, the trio of Angus Gaye, Brinsley Forde,...

Futile Attempts to Make Up Amazon Rite PresentedThe Amazon Church Conference (CEAMA) has presented the results of first consultations for an "Amazonian Novus Ordo Rite" at Cardinal Roche's decadent Liturgy Dicastery.According to Repam.net (September 1) a working group of sixteen people studied the pagan traditions and customs of the Amazon people.The goal is to elaborate a proposal for an "Amazonian rite" that would lead local parishes to celebrate "their faith" [=different religion] according to "autochthonous" expressions.The challenge is to combine different "mystical forms of expressions" in an "Amazonian liturgy."The working group has set up four (!) subgroups to deal with...

Too often remembered for its clichés, 80s music actually has far more to offer than many remember – and it’s cooler than you think.Is it possible to bully a decade? The 80s sure seems to have an eternal “Kick Me” sign on its back. Can someone help an epoch out and pull that thing off, please? For those of you haven’t been paying attention, 80s music is cooler than you think. There are reasons why the 80s is too often remembered more for its costume-party clichés than as a peak era in music. The stigma kicked in as the decade...

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Portland said the Rev. John Skehan, 66, pastor of the Augusta-based St. Michael Parish, died unexpectedly of natural causes Wednesday while visiting friends on his day off. The pastor of the local Catholic parish here who died suddenly this week will be laid to rest with a funeral and burial this Labor Day weekend, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Portland said. Rev. John Skehan John Skehan, 66, pastor of the Augusta-based St. Michael Parish, died unexpectedly late Wednesday afternoon, according to a statement by Bishop Robert Deeley. The diocese did not disclose the cause of...

was hanged Mahmood Mattan, 28, was the last person to be hanged in Cardiff 70 years ago for a crime he did not commitSouth Wales Police have apologised to the family of a man who was wrongfully executed for a murder he did not commit 70 years ago. Mahmood Mattan, a British Somali and former seaman living in Cardiff, was hanged in 1952 after he was convicted of killing shopkeeper Lily Volpert in her store in Cardiff. Ms Volpert, an established Cardiff shopkeeper and unofficial money lender, had her throat slashed with a razor and bled to the death in...