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A proposed law penalizing ambitious wokester prosecutors from prosecuting junk cases, such as happened to Kyle Rittenhouse, is worthy of promoting. A prosecutor who uses his or her authority to virtue signal to the public to advance his or her political career is more dangerous to society than all but the most violent criminals. Insurance will cover many forms of property crimes, and you can legally use deadly force against somebody who menaces you with death or serious bodily injury. A prosecutor, though, can bankrupt most people by filing unfounded criminal charges against them, ruin their lives with prison time...

Ukraine’s counteroffensives in the country’s south and northeast are gaining momentum, President Zelenskyy said, retaking territory and pressuring Russian troops. Ukrainian forces have recaptured 1,000 square kilometers (386 square miles) of land, he said in his nightly address. Over the summer, Ukraine had said it would launch a counteroffensive to retake the southern city of Kherson, but had not mentioned any plans to counterattack in the northeastern Kharkiv region or elsewhere in the east. Analysts say Kyiv could now be taking advantage of Russia’s decision to redeploy troops to southern Ukraine. Russia’s top lawmaker slammed the Group of Seven’s plan...

9 September 2022Saint Peter Claver on Friday of week 23 in Ordinary Time Altar of Iglesia de San Pedro Claver in Old Town, Cartagena, Colombia Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: White. Year: C(II).Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst reading1 Corinthians 9:16-19,22-27 ©We go into strict training, like fighters at the gamesI do not boast of preaching the gospel, since it is a duty which has been laid on me; I should be punished if I did not preach it! If I had chosen this work myself, I might have been paid for it, but...

US military aid has been key to Ukraine's effective defense against Russia's renewed invasion. Most of those weapons have come from US military stocks, but some are coming straight from the design table. The Phoenix Ghost tactical unmanned aerial system is one of them. In late April, the Pentagon announced it would send 121 Phoenix Ghost drones to Ukraine. According to the Pentagon, the US Air Force had been working on the Phoenix Ghost well before Russian troops crossed the Ukrainian border on February 24. However, once the war started, the Pentagon decided that the drone would be well suited...

Europe, which went all in on “green” energy, is facing the ugly reality of renewable fuels. Perhaps the only true benefit of the current European energy crisis is to make apparent to an economically motivated citizen population that “wishing and hoping” will not make the Green New Deal renewable energy dream a reality. Instead of doubling down on wind and solar power, the EU nations are reacting to Moscow’s natural gas shutdown with a scramble to find enough hydrocarbon fuels to keep Europeans warm this winter. On September 5, Russia announced that the shutdown of natural gas to Europe to...

New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu (R) endorsed state Sen. Chuck Morse in the crowded Republican primary field attempting to oust Sen. Maggie Hassan (D) in November. Sununu gave Morse the nod on Thursday, days before the Sept. 13 primary, one of the last of the 2022 cycle. The move comes as the Republican establishment rallies around Morse and after a Democratic PAC started boosting far-right candidate Don Bolduc, gambling that he would be easier for Hassan to beat in the general election. White Mountain PAC, which is aligned with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), has committed millions in ad...

Kevin McCarthy, Congressional Leadership Fund, Defending Main Street have spent $5 million to prevent Karoline Leavitt from winning her primary election for New Hampshire’s District 1 next week. McCarthy, GOP Elites and Super PACs have dumped $5 million to stop challenger Karoline Leavitt. It is the same tactics the GOP elites use in every state. They can’t win on the issues so they spend MILLIONS to slander and smear MAGA Republican candidates. MILLIONS!

Wind turbines require massive amounts of rare earths for their generators and motors. A single wind turbine eats up tons of rare earth metals. Rare earth mining carried out in China is horrifyingly destructive to people and the environment. One story described radioactive lakes, high cancer rates and villagers whose "teeth began to fall out" and "hair turned white at unusually young ages". "Children were born with soft bones and cancer rates rocketed." A recent Associated Press story about rare earth mining operations in Burma told of a world where "birds no longer sing, and the herbs no longer grow....

The announcement of the Queen's death on BBC News Clip... [2 mins]

A southwest Missouri judge signed an order late Wednesday to close the embattled Agape Boarding School, but early Thursday said he wanted more information before the order is carried out. Attorney General Eric Schmitt and the Department of Social Services filed a petition in Cedar County Circuit Court asking the judge to shut down the school, citing concerns about the safety of students. The request for the court injunction Wednesday came after an Agape staff member was placed on the state’s Central Registry for physical abuse, The Star has learned. Judge David Munton signed the order calling for the immediate...

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Crazy tune and video, and you have to feel kind of sorry that dude has no idea he is in a video with not so flattering lyrics lolz

The song I was originally planning to release this week sucked, so here is a hastily thrown-together U2 cover.

Video shows sabotage in the Congo. Vandal cuts ribbon that was holding up a bridge.https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/1567525597580070913

Lyrics... most likely about Charles, the new perert lib king. He's bitter and twisted He knows what he wants He wants to be loved and He wants to belong He wants you to listen He wants us to weep And he was a stupid baby Who turned into a powerful freak But how do you? How do you? How do you? He lives with his mother But we show him respect He's a dangerous bigot But we always forget And he's just like his daddy 'Cause he cheats on his friends And he steals and he bullies anyway that he...

Premier Daniel Michael Andrews is way ahead in the polls and hard to beat in the state election in Victoria in November this year. But as with the 1964 presidential election in America, where the cause of freedom lost that battle, people will build bases for future victories, as did Nixon and Reagan in backing Goldwater. Tyranny is unsustainable. In the long term, Monica will back winners.

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Thursday admitted that Joe Biden’s ‘Inflation Reduction Act’ is actually the Green New Deal repackaged. Yellen said Biden’s Marxist spending bill will “rid ourselves” of oil and gas. “The Inflation Reduction Act will put us on our way toward a future where we depend on the wind, the sun and other clean sources of energy. We will rid ourselves from our dependence on fossil fuels,” Yellen said. VIDEO: Treasury Sec. Janet Yellen: “The Inflation Reduction Act will put us on our way toward a future where we depend on the wind, the sun and other...

Video at https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/1567525597580070913KINSHASA, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) - Sharply-suited dignitaries gathered to inaugurate a footbridge in the Congolese capital on Monday only for the structure to collapse beneath their feet to the barely concealed delight of onlookers, video verified by Reuters showed. Just as an organiser cut the ribbon at the ceremony in Kinshasa's Mont-Ngafula district, the bridge buckled, both its handrails broke off, and the central section slumped into the stream a couple of metres below. Spectators shouted in apparent glee as the VIPs struggled to get off the crumpled wreck. Nobody was reported to have been hurt...

Usually a provocative claim like this can be readily backed up with facts and figures from multiple sources, but I cant find a single one. Since this is coming from the "commander in chief" and broadcast to the entire country, who is it that is going to step up and finally ask "where is the substance to this "political violence" claim" and also the claim that "MAGA Republicans threaten the very soul of the United States?" It cant just be simple 'projection'...not something this serious. Who tf is going to just listen to this stuff without saying "now wait a...

Former Acting Attorney General Matt Whitaker on Thursday slammed the man who he succeeded, saying former AG Bill Barr's recent embrace of the Justice Department raid on Donald Trump flew in the face of all the wrongdoing he himself exposed in the discredited Russia collusion case. "Bill Barr continues for some reason to be an institutionalist when it comes to the Department of Justice, even though based on what he presided over, he should know better," Whitaker said on the Thursday edition of Just the News, Not Noise. "We have seen far too many examples as it relates to Donald...