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Labour’s Ben Bradshaw says church is ‘actively pursuing a campaign of discrimination’ against lesbian and gay peopleThe Church of England must move swiftly to welcome lesbian and gay people and embrace same-sex marriage or face mounting questions in parliament about its role as the established church of the country, a senior MP has said. The church was “actively pursuing a campaign of discrimination” against lesbian and gay people that was incompatible with its role as a church for England, said Ben Bradshaw, the Labour MP for Exeter and a former secretary of state for culture, media and sport. He was...

The story of the only Jew, probably the only Westerner, to become a general in the Chinese Army.My husband, Charles, was related to the only Jew, probably the only Westerner, to become a general in the Chinese Army – known as “Two-Gun Cohen” – who played a historic part in China’s abstention and the UN’s recognition of a Jewish state in 1947. In 1961 Charles’s mother, while staying at the King David Hotel Jerusalem, had to call the house doctor. Dr. Cyril Sherer arrived and, serendipitously, they discovered they were cousins! Cyril, a Londoner, lived many years in New Zealand...

Russia has acknowledged the deaths of several of its conscripts in Ukraine. Russian media reports that these soldiers have been sent to the front without training. Source: BBC News Russian, citing relatives and close friends of the dead soldiers Details: BBC journalists identified three out of five soldiers [whose deaths were reported by the Chelyabinsk Oblast military commissariat on Thursday, 13 October]: Anton Borisov, Igor Yevseev and Timur Akhmetshin. They were conscripted by the Korkino military commissariat [in Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia] between 26 and 29 September. A total of almost 1,000 people were conscripted around that time, the relatives of...

There is an astonishing development in Australia…. For me it is absolutely chilling and threatening. This is not just about Victoria – its about the whole of Australia – and the Western world. There have been many canaries in the coal mine – but this is the first time I have seen this – someone being persecuted and losing their job, not because of something they said or did – but purely because of the church they belonged to. Not a cult – not an extreme sect – but a mainstream church with no history of extremism. Read, weep, pray...

Guitarist Brian May and drummer Roger Taylor first told fans about a new Queen track this summer — now it’s here. Driving the new: For the first time in eight years, rock group Queen released new music with late frontman Freddy Mercury’s vocals, CNN reported. The track, “Face It Alone,” was originally recorded during the late 1980s but didn’t make the cut for their album, “The Miracle.” “We’d kind of forgotten about this track,” Taylor said in a statement. “But there it was, this little gem. It’s wonderful, a real discovery. It’s a very passionate piece.”The track was discovered as...

The Economy of Francesco might be characterized as an ecological religion rather than an economic blueprint, one in which the ideal society is not a Christian civilization but pagan tribal life in harmony with nature.(LifeSiteNews) – The Economy of Francesco is the name of a 2019 initiative created by Pope Francis to address the world’s economic problems. He invited “young economists, entrepreneurs and change-makers of the world” to participate in studies to explore new ideas to change how people and nations live and manage the economy. On September 24, 2022, Pope Francis visited Assisi, Italy, where about one thousand youth...

Since they first started arriving in Ukraine last spring, the Starlink satellite internet terminals made by Elon Musk’s SpaceX have been a vital source of communication for Ukraine’s military, allowing it to fight and stay connected even as cellular phone and internet networks have been destroyed in its war with Russia. So far roughly 20,000 Starlink satellite units have been donated to Ukraine, with Musk tweeting on Friday the “operation has cost SpaceX $80 million and will exceed $100 million by the end of the year.” But those charitable contributions could be coming to an end, as SpaceX has warned...

" Six of the nine members of the House panel are running for reelection, and we're just a couple weeks away from the 2022 midterm elections. Here are the members of the Jan. 6 committee on the ballot on Election Day."

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The thing was the size of a pickup truck. It reeked of decomposing mammal, and it was covered in what appeared to be long, white hair. “We’ve seen whales wash up before, and some that had been stuck on the shore for a few weeks, and never have they grown hair like that,” she said. Lynn touched it and said it was “firm but squishy” and felt blubbery. She could tell it was the body of something; she just didn’t know what. Tegner was confused by the long tendrils that appeared to be attached to it. He could see them...

A San Diego-area parent accused her local school board of being “groomers and activist pimps” after it invited the community to a “queer” Halloween party featuring a “family friendly” drag queen show. The Encinitas Union School District removed a flier promoting the Oct. 29 “Boo Bash” event after reportedly deciding it did “not meeting district approval criteria” — but festering anger led dozens of parents to protest outside Tuesday’s meeting as mom Brittany Mayer tore into officials. The Saturday block party set for San Diego’s LGBT stronghold in the Hillcrest neighborhood touts itself as “the queerfest free Halloween party for...

Commanders owner Dan Snyder believes he has enough “dirt” on fellow NFL owners, commissioner Roger Goodell and league officials that he could “blow up” several people and organizations, ESPN’s Don Van Natta Jr., Seth Wickersham and Tisha Thompson reported Thursday. “He’s backed into a corner,” a veteran owner told the network. “He’s behaving like a mad dog cornered.” ESPN’s report comes at a time when the embattled owner is facing investigations from the league and a congressional committee looking into workplace misconduct in the franchise. Yet, Snyder reportedly told associates he does not plan to lose the Washington team “without...

A source close to President Trump says that he would love to speak before the sham Jan 6 committee. Earlier today President Trump released the following truths. In the first truth, the President asked why corrupt Speaker Nancy Pelosi didn’t call in troops before Jan 6? He also asks why the Jan 6 committee never looked into voter fraud. This is why Americans were protesting the 2020 Election in the first place. The President also asks why the Jan 6 committee waited until now to call him in to testify. All of America knows the Jan 6 committee is a...

The drama around Washington Commanders owner Dan Snyder is escalating to new levels. A bombshell ESPN report on Thursday morning details how Snyder and his fellow owners are moving toward a showdown that could ultimately lead to his ouster. The story alleges that Snyder has been digging up dirt on his fellow owners, including allegedly hiring private investigators through his law firms, in a brazen attempt to keep control of his scandal-scarred franchise and has enough information to “blow up” several of them. One owner told the website that Snyder told him he “has dirt on Jerry Jones,” his one-time...

A pair of well-worn 19th-century Levi’s jeans — featuring a racist slogan — has sold at an auction for $76,000. Kyle Hauper, a 23-year-old vintage clothing collector from San Diego, snapped up the rare jeans dating from the 1880s at the Durango Vintage Festivus auction in New Mexico on Oct. 1. The second-hand jeans — hailed as “the holy grail of vintage denim collecting” — were discovered inside an abandoned mineshaft several years ago and are believed to be one of the oldest known Levi’s from that era.

PHOENIX - With just one month remaining until the November elections, FOX 10 has partnered up with polling firm InsiderAdvantage to see what direction Arizona voters are headed. Governor's race According to the new data, Republican Kari Lake is now leading the governor's race by about 4 points, with Lake polling at 49.3% and Hobbs at 45.6%.

Breaking news from the Poltava: Russia Ministry of Defense reported a shooting down of Ukrainian Su-27 over Poltava region by air defense system is raising concerns of the usage of fighter jets to defend against cruise missiles and suicide drones. This comes after report from Ukrainian Air Force that one of their MiG-29 crashed in the night of 12 October after combat operations to destroy Russian Shahid-136 over Vinnytsia region and was reportedly tasked to shoot down cruise missiles the day before. On top of this 2 losses, there are videos circulating in the social media of 2 separate crash...

President Biden said Thursday that he agrees with “whatever” Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) says — despite the congresswoman’s record of inflammatory remarks. “Rep. Maxine Waters — whatever Maxine says, I agree with,” Biden said at an event in Los Angeles. It’s unclear if he was being sincere or attempting dry humor about the notoriously hot-headed lawmaker.

Periodically, these gravitational behemoths will devoir stars and other objects in their vicinity, releasing tremendous amounts of light and radiation. In October 2018, astronomers witnessed one such event when observing a black hole in a galaxy located 665 million light-years from Earth....another team from the Harvard & Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics noticed something unprecedented when they examined the same black hole three years later. As they explained in a recent study, the black hole was shining very brightly because it was ejecting...leftover material from the star at half the speed of light. [T]he team observed the outburst while revisiting data...

Dumping the libs and their garbage, blue cities – figuratively throwing their junk out on the lawn just in time for the sprinklers to go off – is so tempting and sounds so sweet. If only we could wave a magic wand and make the weirdos, losers, and mutations of the left just go away, along with annoying states like New Jersey. ...*** There are a lot of logistical problems with splitting up the old United States. How do you handle national defense? What about the national debt? Will the borders between old and new America be open? Can people...