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An angry tourist smashed two ancient sculptures at the Vatican after being denied a chance to meet with the pope. It's just the latest in a series of instances of visitors behaving badly in Rome. Read on to find out what happened, what authorities said about the man, and how long it will take for the ancient works to be repaired. The incident happened around lunchtime in the Museo Chiaramonti, which is part of the Vatican Museums. It holds about 1,000 works of ancient statuary and Roman portraits. The man demanded to see the pope, the newspaper Il Messaggero reported....

Turkey’s “September 12” military junta — which had taken power in a coup on that day — hanged Necdet Adalı on this date in 1980, followed a few hours later by Mustafa Pehlivanoğlu. Respectively a left-wing alleged terrorist and a right-wing* alleged one, they were offered up together with intentional ideological balance in the military’s bid to quash the years-long warfare between factions that marred the 1970s. Both were condemned for a few of the 5,000-plus political murders that took place during those years, and both doubtfully; Adalı famously declined to participate in an escape attempt for fear it would...

On the ropes and with no message about rising crime or the struggling economy to appeal to voters, President Joe Biden has gone to pot. Literally. The president’s election-eve marijuana decriminalization order has him yet again putting politics over people’s lives and health. In a shameless attempt to buy the votes of young people and lower-income minority communities, Mr. Biden is waving his pen around again to dig himself out of the political cellar. The American Left, and some on the Right, along with the Big Tobacco companies already responsible for millions of deaths from their products, have spent heavily...

The Battle of Lepanto: When Christians Were Skinned Alive for Refusing Islam“I am a Christian and thus I want to live and die. My body is yours. Torture it as you will.”Today in history, on Oct. 7, 1571, one of the most cataclysmic clashes between Islam and the West — one where the latter for once crushed and humiliated the former — took place.In 1570, Muslim Turks — in the guise of the Ottoman Empire — invaded the island of Cyprus, prompting Pope Pius V to call for and form a “Holy League” of maritime Catholic nation-states, spearheaded by the...

The governor of Nablus, Ibrahim Ramadan, infuriated armed men in Nablus when he spoke about the mothers who encourage their sons to commit suicide. The statement drew an angry response from the armed groups. by Asaf Gabor 11th of Tishrei, 5th of September (06/10/2022) ... The governor said in the same interview that he sat down with the armed groups in the city of Nablus several times and will sit down with them to reach agreements and protect them from arrests, but so far the meetings have been of no use. He emphasized that he would not accept any other...

The Democrat former mayor of San Luis, Arizona, who pleaded guilty to ballot abuse, is hoping for leniency in sentencing.Guillermina Fuentes pleaded guilty in June to a single count of ballot abuse and admitted collecting several early voting ballots during the 2020 election, Fox News reported Friday.***“According to prosecutors, Fuentes used her status as a powerful local Democrat operative to run a ballot harvesting scheme that collected ballots from voters in Arizona’s August 2020 primary election,” Breitbart News reported in June.“Prosecutors accused Fuentes of collecting and filling out ballots from voters as part of the scheme. In some cases, prosecutors...

Peek's sister Cona Turner says the family have chosen not to explain what happened to the former Wendy's worker, for fear of distressing him.She is now advocating for her brother and wants answers as to why he was fired without notice.'I'm out here because I need to be his voice for the way he was treated,' Cona Turner, Peek's sister said. 'He don't understand and we can't tell him he was terminated. We have not told him and we won't tell him.'

J.K. Rowling has in-shirt-ed herself into a new transgender controversy. The outspoken “Harry Potter” author posted a photo of herself Thursday wearing a T-shirt calling a UK politician behind a controversial gender-identity reform a “destroyer of women’s rights.” Rowling — who has faced death threats over previous comments accused of being transphobic — proudly wore the garment to “stand in solidarity” with protests before a hearing of the Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill.

A GREAT MARINE Several years ago as the H & S Battalion Chaplain at MCB, Camp Lejeune, I visited the people in the different work spaces, including the rather large main post office. One day a little conversation took place with a young Marine Lance Corporal. This unplanned encounter has remained with me, and it seems worth passing on. The Lance Corporal was standing by a very large sack of mail. His job, every day, six days a week, for many hours, was to sort the mail from that large sack and place the letters into smaller sacks, depending...

First lady Jill Biden told a story on Friday recounting a situation when she assisted her friend in the aftermath of an abortion in Pennsylvania when the procedure was illegal in the late 1960s and accused Republicans of wanting to go "back to that time." Biden, speaking at the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Women's Lunch and Issues Conference, told the story of how when she was 17 when one of her friends got pregnant in the late 1960s. The two lived in Pennsylvania, where abortion was illegal.

A stunning series of photos and videos shows the violent impact of the explosion that tore through Russia’s prized Kerch Strait bridge to Crimea early Saturday morning. A monstrous fireball bloomed over all four of the bridge’s vehicle lanes at 6:07 a.m. as a passenger car and a freight truck drove side by side up the incline to its towering arch. The flames appeared to reach across the water, enveloping the twin railroad bridge about 100 feet away.

Which means if you want to stay protected, you'll likely need to get a shot every six months for the rest of your life. Otherwise, you'll be more at risk than the unvaccinated.Steve KirschOct 7 A friend pointed me to this excellent article by Dr. Meryl Nass entitled Negative vaccine efficacy keeps rearing its ugly head. Now Kaiser admits it.Meryl has testified that the COVID vaccines are not “safe and effective.” As a result, the state medical board suspended her license to practice medicine. Because that’s just the way it goes.Meryl points out that this paper from Kaiser shows negative...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Friday that Russia has begun to prepare its people for the possibility of the use of nuclear weapons against Ukraine. “They begin to prepare their society. That’s very dangerous,” Zelensky said.

Former President Donald Trump’s PAC will air nearly $5,000,000 worth of TV ads to support five Republican Senate candidates in battleground states, Breitbart News has learned. The investment is notable because the massive blitz will likely make a difference in many of the tight races, an impact Democrats likely dread. MAGA Inc., Trump’s PAC, will invest a total of $4,905,000 in the key senate swing states throughout Georgia, Arizona, Ohio, Nevada, and Pennsylvania. A source close to the PAC told Breitbart News the ads will air until the ad buy is exhausted. If additional funds are necessary, outstanding funds “will...

If you die from the vaccine, they'll pay for your funeral. So now, you have no reason to say "No." One minor problem: the payment is not guaranteed. Your next of kin still has to apply.Steve Kirsch16 hr ago Think I’m kidding?Check this out: Deceased COVID-19 vaccine recipient payments and funeral costsSo this just covers the funeral costs.This is a good first step: it shows that Australia acknowledges that the COVID vaccines kill people.In the US, we are not that sophisticated. None of the health authorities (other than those in Florida) think the jabs can kill you.As far as I...

A decision by the OPEC+ alliance of oil-exporting countries to sharply cut production and boost crude prices has dealt a blow to consuming nations, prompting accusations that Gulf producers are siding with Russia at the expense of the United States and its Western allies.

[H/T mewzilla]Publicly Available Published by De Gruyter March 25, 2022 Mohammad Mahdi Aliasin , Niloufar Yazdanpanah and Nima Rezaei From the journal Reviews in the Neuroscienceshttps://doi.org/10.1515/revneuro-2022-0006AbstractThe devastating characteristic of COVID-19 pandemic calls for immediate and effective solutions to tackle it. Vaccines seem to be the only promising and effective way to fight against the novel coronavirus – even against new mutated variants. Because of the rapid development and distribution of numerous COVID-19 vaccines in different platforms, meticulous evaluation of vaccines’ safety is more critical than ever – especially given the fact that most of the candidates have not completed the...

Vladimir Putin’s disastrous military adventure in Ukraine has raised the prospect that his 22-year rule could be nearing its end. But will he go, or will he have to be pushed? Seven months into the Russian president’s war of aggression, his troops have suffered massive losses of men and equipment and are in headlong retreat in eastern Ukraine. Putin’s order last week to mobilize hundreds of thousands of men has descended into chaos, drawing rebukes even from his own propagandists and political allies. The 69-year-old autocrat rose to power in 2000, succeeding an ailing Boris Yeltsin after championing Russia’s second...

Missoula police are trying to identify two people after an elderly woman’s dogs were stolen outside of Freshmarket on W Broadway. Around 11:30 am Saturday, an Australian Shepard and Border Collie dog were taken from outside the Freshmarket. The Missoula Police Department is asking anyone with information or who can identify the individuals in a photo they shared to contact them. Update 10/8/2022 3:00 PM: Dogs were located safe and reunited with the owner. Missoula Police is still investigating and looking for suspect identification. _____ Around 11:30 today an Australian Shepard and Border Collie dog were stolen outside of Freshmarket...

Just like Rochester, Minnesota Grand Forks, North Dakota has an old, closed-up K-Mart. Well, a _-Mart for now because the giant K is missing from the building. It's not lost though. It's in Hope Church Pastor Paul Knight's front yard. Why Is There A Giant K-Mart K In His Front Yard? That is a really good question. The Grand Forks Herald dug into it and here's what we know. It appeared on his lawn Tuesday night or Wednesday morning, while it was dark or before he was awake. Does he know who did it or why? Nope. Not a clue...officially....