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Taken from the upcoming album Point Blank MMXXIII... Stay tuned! In cooperation with Johanniter-Unfall-Hilfe e. V., BONFIRE finances the "Farba project" with donations in order to be able to help traumatized children and young people quickly.

Anyone remember this movie? I remember watching it as a grade schooler, and learning the duties of a young patriot. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNzApsp1ZSQ&t=11s

As 12-year-old David Vetter was about to die at Texas Children's Hospital in 1984, he gave a last wink to his doctor, William T. Shearer. His wife told us Dr. Shearer carried that moment through the rest of his life. Dr. Shearer, a professor of pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine, died this week at the age of 81. David Vetter had been born with severe combined immunodeficiency, a rare disease that could have made it fatal for him to be touched, held, kissed by his parents or even take a breath of fresh air. Doctors devised a sterile clear...

This poor democrat congresswoman agreed to a live interview with Fox News' Maria Bartiromo. BIG mistake. Whew....

Elon Musk got in hot water again on Twitter—for proposing peace. On Monday, Musk proposed a peace deal to end the war in Ukraine, for which he was denounced as a pro-Putin puppet by the Twitter mob that has formed to police the discourse on all things related to Ukraine. The president of Ukraine himself, Volodymyr Zelensky, accused Musk of supporting Russia—even though Musk's company SpaceX donated Starlink to Ukraine's war effort at an out-of-pocket cost of $80 million. (Full disclosure: Musk is a friend and I am an investor in SpaceX.) Ukrainian Ambassador to Germany Andrj Melnyk was less...

New York Governor Kathy Hochul leads Republican challenger Lee Zeldin by 10 percentage points according to a new Marist College poll. Hochul, a Democrat, is seeking a full four-year term after taking over when Andrew Cuomo resigned in August 2021. She has held the edge in polling and fundraising against Long Island Republican Congressman Lee Zeldin throughout the race, and with Election Day less than a month away, the Marist poll shows that dynamic hasn’t changed. The poll finds 51 percent of registered voters backing Hochul, with Zeldin at 41 percent. Among voters who say they will definitely vote, Hochul...

Scores of Amazon employees walked out of the Amazon Air Regional Air Hub in San Bernardino Friday, Oct. 14, to protest what they have called unfair labor practices and retaliation in response to their demands for better, safer jobs and a $5 hourly pay raise. Crowds gathered on the corner of a street leading to the 659,000-square-foot warehouse, known as KSBD, where roughly 1,400 employees work. Jane Chung, a spokesperson for the Warehouse Worker Resource Center, wrote in an email that 100 employees, or half the shift, went on strike Friday afternoon. Night shift workers also were expected to walk...

Update from Ukraine: I expect Ruzzia to leave Kherson very soon Oct 14, 2022 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deEDsODhADo 10/14/2022 Also, you may check military maps here: https://militaryland.net/ https://deepstatemap.live/

Explosions were heard in Melitopol, Zaporizhia region, occupied by Russian invaders. "Cotton" again covered the locations of the Russian army. This was stated by the mayor of the city Ivan Fedorov. According to him, the explosions were very loud. "In Melitopol again bombs. Powerful explosions were heard in the city. We are investigating the enemy's losses," Fedorov said. At the same time, the propaganda rossmi TASS confirmed "bombimgs" with reference to local collaborator Vladimir Rogov. "The sounds of explosions are heard in the city of Melitopol, Zaporizhia region," said Vladimir Rogov, chairman of the "We are together with Russia movement."...

President Joe Biden grabs a young girl by the shoulder and tells her “no serious guys till your 30” as she looks back appearing uncomfortable, secret service appears to try to stop me from filming it after Biden spoke @ Irvine Valley Community College | @TPUSA @FrontlinesShow

JPMorgan Chase & Co reportedly canceled the account of a religious nonprofit organization for unexplained reasons, and said it would only reconsider the decision if the group provided its donor list, and a list of political candidates it intended to support. The National Committee for Religious Freedom (NCRF) launched on January 18, 2022 “to defend religious freedom for all Americans and all their religious communities by supporting political candidates at the local, state, and national levels—regardless of party affiliation—who support the free exercise of religion,” according to its website. “Religious freedom is a cornerstone of America’s constitutional democracy and was...

"Biden grabs a young girl by the shoulder and tells her “no serious guys till your 30” as she looks back appearing uncomfortable, secret service appears to try to stop me from filming it after Biden spoke @ Irvine Valley Community College "

Crime here in Pennsylvania convenience store chain "Wawa" closing down two Center City Philadelphia locations... A federal judge dismissing one of the five charges against Igor Danchenko the primary source of the "Steele Dossier"... At least 25 dead and dozens still trapped following an explosion at a coal mine in Turkey... US Politics the Harvard-Harris poll shows Donald Trump leading for President in 2024 45 to 43 percent... The evening in Georgia a debate between Democrat US Senator Raphael Warnock and Republican challenger Herschel Walker... "these wackadoodles wanted a total police state in Ottawa after just 6 days" The reaction...

(a Russian viewpoint) Political corruption, a lack of knowledge, and irrational foreign policies have brought the U.S. to a point where it is losing its primacy in the world. In response to the 2014 U.S. coup in Kiev the Russian Federation supported ethnic Russian rebels in the Donbas region to resist that anti-Russian progroms with which the Nazi-controlled Kiev regime threatened them. This blocked U.S. plans to move Ukraine into NATO and to station U.S. missiles directly at the Russian border. In 2016 the Democrats sought revenge by pushing fake claims of Russian interference in U.S. elections. To justify her...

Earlier, Sweden warned of looming power cuts and possible energy rationing in the coming winter amid record-breaking energy prices that prompted measures to lower electricity consumption in all spheres of life, including worship. Faced with ballooning energy costs and unable to pay for heating bills, the Church of Sweden is closing down its houses of worship this winter. So far, there is no aggregate figure on how many churches will be completely closed across the country. The pastorates and the congregations are self-determining and there have been no orders from the dioceses. However, it is absolutely clear that many will...

After the two world wars in the 20th century, mapmakers were kept busy redrawing boundaries. Empires disappeared, new countries were born, and power alliances shifted radically. No matter what happens in Ukraine going forward, a weakened Russia cannot “win” in any conventional sense of the word. They may gain a little territory, but at such a horrific cost in money, men, and prestige that their status as a “superpower” will be questioned — even though their nuclear stockpile will (hopefully) remain intact.

The millionaire great-grandson of Henry Ford used his influence to force a Michigan church to take down part of its pro-life display this month. Edsel B. Ford II complained to the City of Grosse Pointe that the display at St. Paul on the Lake Catholic Church was ugly and a “blight” on the community, The Federalist reports. Ford retired from the board of Ford Motor last year, according to ABC News. The city responded “immediately” by ordering the church to take down its pro-life sign or replace it with a smaller one to comply with a city zoning ordinance, according...

Georgia Power announced tonight that fuel load into the Vogtle Unit 3 reactor core has begun at Plant Vogtle near Waynesboro, Ga. The fuel load process marks a historic and pivotal milestone toward startup and commercial operation of the first new nuclear units to be built in the U.S. in more than three decades. "The Vogtle 3 & 4 nuclear units represent a critical, long-term investment in our state's energy future, and the milestone of loading fuel for Unit 3 demonstrates the steady and evident progress at the nuclear expansion site," said Chris Womack, chairman, president and CEO of Georgia...

Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Oct 5, 2022 / 21:30 pm Police in Tulsa, Oklahoma, arrested a man Wednesday after he allegedly attacked a desk attendant with a sword and started a fire at Holy Family Cathedral. Tulsa Police Chief Wendell Franklin tweeted the following statement at 9:14 p.m. Wednesday: “TPD officers responded to a downtown church building at approximately 4 p.m. after a man attacked an employee of the building with a sword, lit incendiary devices, and attempted to set the building ablaze. There were children at the location, all of which were unharmed. We apprehended the man a short time...

Orthopaedics faculty participated in a study comparing two antisepsis aqueous solutions in reducing the risk of infection in patients requiring surgery for open fractures. In the largest known randomized-controlled trial, the research team found that contrary to current international recommendations, chlorhexidine gluconate was not superior to povidone-iodine in an alcohol or aqueous solution in preventing surgical site infection. The results suggesting health care practitioners can select either aqueous-based antisepsis solution when treating open fractures on the basis of solution availability, patient contraindications, or product cost are published in The Lancet. The authors highlight WHO estimates of millions of patients worldwide...