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In the US Constitution, there is a clause that prevents the government from taking your property without just compensation (Article 5). In recent years that has been called into question in various court cases. But still, in America, the government must pay you for taking your real property — at least they are supposed to. That is not the case in South Africa, where a new law was passed that demands land owners give up their land for seizure by the government. It is called the Expropriation Bill. The new bill awaits approval from the National Council of Provinces, and...

Griner's attorney said she is worried she will serve her entire sentence in Russia

Universal Basic Income, Green Politics and ‘Zero-COVID’ Proposed at Vatican Conference on EuropeThe Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences event drew a mix of pro-abortion politicians, socialist economists, and experts in the thought of Pope St. John Paul II. VATICAN CITY — The Vatican hosted a conference this week that brought together a number of politicians, business leaders and economists, many of whose views are diametrically opposed to Church teaching, to propose “integral solutions to the COVID-19 pandemic and climate crisis.” The organizers of the “Healing Patient Europe” Oct. 7-8 conference aimed to discuss how denying the “very existence” of...

Wednesday night, the RINO Establishment wing of the Hillsborough County Republic party attempted an in-house "palace coup" to take control of the Hillsborough County Republican Party, but were overcome and defeated by Party Chairman Col Jim Waurishuk, USAF (Ret.), a staunch MAGA populist Constitutional Conservative. They used a “weaponized” grievance process to replace the Republican Party of Florida’s Constitution, rules & procedures to serve as a means to strip Waurishuk of his authority as the county party chairman. They suspended his nationally recognized orientation and training program for bringing on new precinct committeemen and committeewomen in an attempt to stack...

The hype about wind and solar energy keeps colliding with the hard reality of land-use conflicts. Nowhere is that more obvious than in Ohio, where 41 townships have rejected or restricted the expansion of wind and/or solar projects since last November. In addition, at least eight Ohio counties have implemented restrictions on Big Wind and Big Solar over that same time period. The soaring number of rejections – all of which are documented in the Renewable Rejection Database – brings the total number of solar rejections in the U.S. this year to 67. That total includes the October 12 unanimous...

All across the United Kingdom, teenagers concerned about the environment are doing "milk pours." The new trend involves going into grocery stores, picking up cartons of cow-produced milk, and pouring out their contents, according to the animal rights group Animal Rebellion. Videos that have popped up on social media show teens pouring milk onto the floor, over sales counters, and elsewhere in the store. Milk prices are displayed in a supermarket in Washington, DC, on May 26, 2022, as Americans brace for summer sticker shock as inflation continues to grow.

The defence ministry in Minsk on Sunday said just under 9,000 Russian troops would be stationed in Belarus as part of a "regional grouping" of forces to protect its borders. "The first troop trains with Russian servicemen who are part of the (regional grouping) began to arrive in Belarus," Valeriy Revenko, head of the defence ministry's international military cooperation department, wrote on Twitter. "The relocation will take several days. "The total number will be a little less than 9,000 people."

President Biden on Saturday criticized a tax cut plan that British Prime Minister Liz Truss has now largely backed away from as a “mistake.” “Well, it’s predictable. I mean, I wasn’t the only one that thought it was a mistake,” Biden said during a trip to Portland, Ore. Truss announced plans last month to cut taxes by the equivalent of roughly $50 billion without detailing how it would be paid for, spooking investors. The plan sent the price of gilts, which are British government bonds, tumbling, as the pound plunged to a record low against the dollar.

Ugandan authorities on Saturday imposed a travel lockdown on two Ebola-hit districts as part of efforts to stop the spread of the contagious disease. The measures announced by President Yoweri Museveni mean residents of the central Ugandan districts of Mubende and Kassanda can't travel into or out of those areas by private or public means. Cargo vehicles and others transiting from Kampala, the capital, to southwestern Uganda are still allowed to operate, he said. All entertainment places, including bars, as well as places of worship are ordered closed, and all burials in those districts must be supervised by health officials,...

PHILADELPHIA, Wednesday, Oct. 15. The Bulletin says that it has received a private letter, dated Shippensburgh, Cumberland County, which states "that the rebels are crossing the Potomac River again, at Hancock, in large force." Great excitement prevails. A private telegram from Chambersburgh, last might, says that heavy firing was heard all day in the neighborhood of Hancock. PHILADELPHIA, Wednesday, Oct. 15. The reported rebel crossing of the Potomac at Hancock is not believed at Harrisburgh. WASHINGTON, Wednesday, Oct. 15. The TIMES special correspondent, at Frederick, sends the following dispatch this evening: "I have just seen, at headquarters, a Lieutenant who...

Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O LORD, my strength, and my redeemer. Psalm 19:14 (King James Version) It is time to stop this charade and for Biden to resign. He has embarrassed himself and this country enough with his senile old coot antics and go to his rocking chair in Delaware. Somebody needs to tell Jill his time is up after causing irreparable damage to the US and world economy. His never-ending misogynist behavior around women and young girls would destroy any other regime, yet the DNC just...

Former President Barack Obama will sweep through Georgia on October 28 to campaign for Sen. Raphael Warnock and Stacey Abrams, an announcement that comes one day after Warnock underperformed in the state’s sole U.S. Senate debate and as Abrams struggles in polls. Obama’s stop in Georgia is one of just a few currently on the former president’s schedule, signaling he views the top Democrat candidates in the Peach State as vulnerable to losing. Obama also announced plans to visit the battleground states of Michigan and Wisconsin.

Yukon could see much warmer winters, more precipitation and treelines moving to higher latitudes because of climate change, according to a new report out of Yukon University. Drawing on research since 2015, when the university last conducted a literature review on the issue, the report states temperatures in the territory could jump between 0.7 to 3.7 degrees in the next 50 years, enough to drastically alter ways of life. Alison Perrin, lead author of the report, said a growing body of Yukon-based research is helping to provide a clearer picture of what climate change could look like in the not-so-distant...

U.S. Air Force B-52 Stratofortress bombers will lead fighter jets from Belgium, Germany, and 12 other countries across Europe’s skies on nuclear exercises Monday, amid reports Russia has increased the number of strategic bombers close to its border with NATO-member state Norway. The annual NATO training is going ahead despite rising fears President Vladimir Putin might consider a real nuclear strike in Ukraine.

Pray For The Peace of JerusalemMatthew 6 Do Not Worry 25 “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? 26 Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? 27 Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life[e]? 28 “And why do...

President Joe Biden boasted the economy under his presidency was “strong as hell” during a Saturday campaign trip to Portland, Oregon. “Our economy is strong as hell — the internals of it,” Biden said to reporters during a Baskin-Robbins ice cream stop in Portland. The president signaled his optimism about the economy as he ate his ice cream cone, despite punishing inflation, higher gas prices, and a recession. Biden acknowledged there was inflation, but falsely claimed that it was worse everywhere else in the world.

Thought that this was a neat-o enough find to share. Its the latest crew replacement for the International Space Station that launched on 10/9/22. Crew5 I believe. Video is a timelapse so its short. Enjoy.

Leora Levy, Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in Connecticut, is closing the gap and is nearly tied with Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D), according to the Connecticut Examiner’s latest poll. The poll found that Blumenthal has a narrow lead over Levy, at 49 percent, compared to Levy’s 44 percent. An additional seven percent of Connecticut voters remain undecided with just over three weeks until midterm elections.

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Former President Barack Obama admitted Friday that it had been a “mistake” not to support Iranian democracy protesters in 2009, when they rose up against their tyrannical regime in what was called the “Green Revolution.” At the time, Obama chose to remain quiet about the protests, as he hoped to preserve the regime, and the administration of radical, Holocaust-denying Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, in the hope of pursuing negotiations toward a deal on Iran’s nuclear weapons program.