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Bahrain: Francis' Personal Friend Condemns "Deviations Such As Homosexuality"During his November 3-6 trip to Bahrain, Francis presided over a November 5 Eucharist for 30,000 mostly working class Catholics from across the Arabian Peninsula.At various meetings, he called for an end to the death penalty and human rights abuses, pointing out that religious freedom should not remain limited to a mere freedom of worship.On November 4 he spoke to Muslim elders, calling them “brothers in Abraham” and saying that the “great religious traditions" [which contradict each other] must be "the heart" that unites the members of the body of humanity. He...

After the draft leak of the Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, violence, threats, and attacks against the pro-life movement skyrocketed. Yet this went largely unnoticed, while the abortion industry continued to claim that pro-life advocates are the real danger. Now, a new study is setting the record straight. According to the study from the Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC), there were 135 attacks against pro-life groups between May and September of 2022. During that same four-month period, there were just six attacks against abortion groups or supporters. “The bottom line is that after the Dobbs...

All she wanted was a burger and some nuggets from McDonald's. But imagine this woman's shock when her GrabFood order from the fast food restaurant's Yishun outlet came up to an excess of $1,203. "Laugh my a** out. What?" TikTok user Cowsmoker said in a video shared on Friday (Nov 4), while showing that her small order fee for her order was around $1,185. A small order fee applies to orders less than the minimum order value set by the restaurant, according to Grab. Fortunately, Cowsmoker chose to see the funnier side to this incident. "They think I what? Elon...

China’s Xian H-6K strategic bomber has been spotted carrying a new type of air-launched ballistic missile (ALBM), emphasizing its anti-access/area denial (A2/AD), carrier-killer and standoff strike capabilities against US bases and forces in the Pacific. This month, The Warzone reported that H-6K, serial 11097, was seen with a pair of new underwing missiles possibly derived from the hypersonic CM-401, a truck or ship-launched anti-ship ballistic missile (ASBM) with land-attack capabilities that was first launched in 2018. The report noted that the new ALBMs combine the CM-401’s formidable combat characteristics with the increased standoff range of the H-6K. According to the...

The US midterm elections are Tuesday. I was denied an absentee ballot for some reason, but I will get my disabled body over to the local precinct to cast my ballot. Fortunately for Democrats, the next inflation report is not due out until November 10th. Because the forecast for the next inflation report is ugly. Headline CPI YoY = 7.9% Core CPI YoY = 6.5% These numbers are slightly lower than the last inflation report, but Americans are still suffering mightily under Biden’s Reign of Error. Diesel fuel prices, the lifeline of the food industry, is up 102% under Biden’s...

Update from Ukraine | Finally long range Missile will be supplied to Ukrainian Army https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1m9uPp8Xrw Follow on Instagram up to date uploads. https://www.instagram.com/denys_pilot/ Military maps here: https://militaryland.net/ https://militaryland.net/news/invasion-day-256-summary/

UNIPARTY On Sunday Ronna McDaniel went on CNN’s State of the Union and said Republicans need to work with Joe Biden if they win Congress. Ronna McDaniel: “If [Republicans] win back the House and the Senate, it’s the American people saying to Joe Biden, we want you to work on behalf of us and we want you to work across the aisle and solve the problems that we are dealing with.” Who is this person?

Kathy Griffin’s Twitter account was suspended on Sunday for impersonating Elon Musk. It appears Kathy Griffin’s account may be permanently banned. Advertisement - story continues below Elon Musk warned users will be permanently suspended if they engage in impersonation and don’t clearly specify “parody.” “Going forward, any Twitter handles engaging in impersonation without clearly specifying “parody” will be permanently suspended” Elon Musk said on Sunday. “Previously, we issued a warning before suspension, but now that we are rolling out widespread verification, there will be no warning.” Musk said. “This will be clearly identified as a condition for signing up to...

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) will not be running for president during the 2024 election cycle, further paving the way for a Donald Trump ticket. A source close to Cotton confirmed to Breitbart News that he will not run for president in 2024. The decision comes after he has reached out to donors and senior Republican officials over the past week to inform him of his 2024 plans. According to Politico, Cotton has based the decision on “family concerns, saying that a national campaign would take him away from his two young sons, who are seven and five years old.” For...

A woman who says she worked as a housekeeper for Jeff Bezos is suing the Amazon founder and companies that manage his properties, claiming she endured “unsafe and unhealthy work conditions” and was subject to racial discrimination by other staff. Mercedes Wedaa said she was hired by Bezos’ staff in 2019 to help maintain the billionaire tech magnate’s Seattle-area property. Wedaa and other housekeeping staff regularly worked between 10 to 14 hours a day, and weren’t given adequate meal or rest breaks, she alleged in the lawsuit, which was filed Tuesday in King County Superior Court in Seattle. The lawsuit...

She and other libs were posting as Elon Musk and got BTFO.

The National Institutes of Health has issued more than a million dollars via taxpayer-funded medical research grants to find evidence that racism is to blame for poor sleep in minority communities. The funding was appropriated to Dr. Alexander Tsai, an associate professor at Harvard University who is conducting the research through Massachusetts General Hospital, where he works as a psychiatrist. The studies are based on the hypothesis that the disparity in sleep health in the black community is “thought to be explained partially by experiences of interpersonal racial discrimination.” “This application focuses on police use of deadly force on unarmed...

House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-S.C.) on Sunday said he sees parallels between the current threats to U.S. democracy and the rise of fascism in Germany and Italy in the 1930s. Clyburn told “Fox News Sunday” host Shannon Bream that election denialism and calling the press the enemy “causes those kinds of deterioration in democracy.” “I taught history and I’m telling you what I see here are parallels to what the history was in this world back in the 1930s in Germany, in Italy,” Clyburn said. “The facts are very clear.” Last week, Clyburn, the third highest-ranking Democrat in the...

Billionaire Citadel Investment hedge fund CEO Ken Griffin (pictured above, center) is one of the top purchasers of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis for a 2024 presidential bid. In a recent article for Politico, Mr. Griffin openly explains what he expects from his investment in DeSantis: WASHINGTON DC – […] He has given nearly $60 million to federal Republican candidates and campaigns this election cycle. That puts Griffin behind just liberal billionaire George Soros, who’s given more than $128 million to Democrats, and Richard Uihlein, who aligns himself with far-right candidates and organizations, at about $62 million. […] While he’s supporting...

The economic crisis in Cuba continues to impact the population, this time affecting Catholics specifically because the lack of wheat flour has meant that no more Communion hosts can be made. The St. Teresa Discalced Carmelite Monastery in Havana announced the news Wednesday. “We inform all the dioceses that there are no longer hosts for sale. We have been working with the little flour that was left and what was in reserve has already run out,” the nuns reported in a statement shared by the Catholic publication Vida Cristiana. “We hope and trust in the Lord that we can resume...

Mr. Musk—who once described himself to The Wall Street Journal as a “nano manager” steeped in the smallest details—appears to be employing many of the management tactics he deployed in building his other companies, Tesla Inc. and Space Exploration Technologies Corp., executives and advisers say. Those include a hands-on obsession over product decisions, a distaste for corporate structures and a focus on speed. Tesla is now the world’s most-valuable car company, and SpaceX is the world’s busiest rocket-launch operation. At a minimum, this is an untraditional approach,” said Joel Peterson, the former chairman of JetBlue Airways Corp., who has served...

From our Bureau of Great Moments in Socialist Agriculture with some assistance from our Bureau of Lethal Nostalgia They’ve done it. Castro, Inc. has managed to destroy Cuba’s sugar industry. This is quite an accomplishment, given the fact that 63 years ago Cuba was the world’s leading producer and exporter of sugar. Destroying the one agricultural industry that made Cuba one of the most economically successful nations in all of Latin America was not easy, since Cuba has such fertile soil and the infrastructure for sugar production in 1959 was arguably the world’s finest and most impressive. Once upon a...

A Chinese father, angered by a crab that pinched his daughter, ate the creature to punish it and ended up in hopsital with multiple parasitic infections. A man in China became seriously ill after eating a live crab in an apparent act of revenge after the crustacean nipped his child with one of its pincers, Zhejiang Television reported on Monday (Oct 24). The 39-year-old man named Lu from Zhejiang in eastern China was angered after a small crab attacked his daughter and decided to take revenge on the creature by swallowing it alive, according to doctors who treated him. The...

Japan hosted its first international fleet review for seven years on Sunday (Nov 6) with ships from 12 other nations in a show of unity as North Korea fires record numbers of missiles and China increases its pressure on Taiwan. The naval parade in Sagami Bay near Tokyo involved 38 vessels, 18 from friendly countries such as the United States, South Korea, Britain, Australia, Singapore, India and Thailand. Thirty-three aircraft flew overhead, including submarine-hunting patrol planes and helicopters. "We must ready for those who violate rules and who would use force to trample on the peace and security of other...

Amid reports former President Donald Trump had to be talked out of making his 2024 presidential campaign declaration Saturday night in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, Trump teased a potential announcement Monday night in Ohio. "I ran twice, I won twice, and I did much better the second time than I did the first, getting millions and millions more votes in 2020 that we got in 2016 – and likewise getting more votes than any sitting president in the history of our country by far," Trump told his Save America rally in Miami, Florida, on Sunday night, which aired live on Newsmax. "And,...