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Adele's mega-money residency in Las Vegas started triumphantly on Friday night – but behind the scenes there has been drama, with the singer shunning a luxury suite at a hotel owned by Caesars Palace, where the show is being staged. The iconic Vegas mainstay offered swanky accommodation at the Palazzo Suites at the Rio Casino as part of her deal to sing at the Caesar’s Palace Colosseum for a reported $1 million a night. The suite was said to be a luxury lodging, with a butler thrown in and the plan was for Adele to spend weekends holed up there...

Dating all the way back to the very birth of American cinema in the 1910s, the western genre was pioneered by national filmmakers like John Ford, Howard Hawks and Sam Peckinpah, releasing such respective classics as The Searchers, Rio Bravo and The Wild Bunch. Though, after decades of dominance, by the 1960s, the genre had become stiff, with the arrival of Italian filmmaker Sergio Leone shaking up generations of stuffy cowboy tales. Inspired by Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa, Leone brought an iconic style to his Western trilogy that included A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More and his...

Schneider: The Results of the Synod on Synodality are Conceived in AdvanceBishop Athanasius Schneider assumes that the results of the Synod on Synodality are already in place. He said this in an interview with @cjm-media and Gloria.tv (17 November).Already at the 2014/2015 Family Synod, several bishops reported to him that their objections were not taken into account and Amoris Laetitia, the result of that synod, appeared conceived in advance.Schneider expects that the current Synod will juxtapose ambiguous/wrong and correct statements in order to "reassure the conservatives".This is how Vatican II proceeded, as well as Amoris Laetitia, but with the current...

Greta Gerwig has made the successful transition from actor to screenwriter and director. Her early career is marked by her performances in Joe Swanberg’s ‘mumblecore’ films such as Hannah Takes the Stairs and Nights and Weekends. Since the beginning of the 2010s, Gerwig has collaborated with her partner, Noah Baumbach, on several highly-acclaimed pictures. Interestingly, Gerwig is seemingly obsessed with the great actor John Wayne. Back in 2012, she said, “For me now, I think my fascination is with not a film, but an actor: John Wayne. For the last year, he’s really occupied my thoughts. I love John Wayne;...

As more details are being released about how the Club Q shooting suspect was subdued, numerous outlets have indicated that a patron took away the suspect’s handgun and then “hit him with it.” CNN reported that Colorado Springs Mayor John Suthers (R) indicated “one of the customers took a handgun from the gunman and hit him with it.”

Have you seen President Trump's powerful 4 minute video message? Don't miss it!A NATION IN DECLINEQ is the result of the sacrifices and commitment of countless patriots to win back our captured country from the Deep State and achieve the transformation President Trump promised in this campaign video. President Trump has said the awakening of the public is key to this transformation.Q describes this awakening as follows: "The Great Awakening ('Freedom of Thought’), was designed and created not only as a backchannel to the public (away from the longstanding 'mind’ control of the corrupt & heavily biased media) to endure...

A new scientific study claims to have found little to no health risks related to eating red meat. The study says previous studies that claimed there was a link between red meat consumption and health issues are based on "weak evidence." Researchers at the University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) released a study titled: "Health effects associated with consumption of unprocessed red meat: a Burden of Proof study." The paper was published in Nature journal in October. The scientists declared, "We found weak evidence of association between unprocessed red meat consumption and colorectal cancer, breast cancer,...

BOSTON — Even after leading the charge combating the worst pandemic in a century, vaccine researcher Kathrin Jansen doesn’t feel that she can relax. Another pandemic — this one based on an influenza virus — is inevitable, Jansen said at the annual STAT Summit on Tuesday. “Before SARS-CoV-2, we had worried about pandemic flu. And just because corona came first doesn’t mean flu is just sitting there,” Jansen, who recently retired as head of vaccine R&D at Pfizer, told STAT senior writer Helen Branswell. An influenza-based pandemic is only a matter of time, Jansen added: “The question is, does it...

Excellent MacGregor interview about what prompted Gen. Milley to leak private briefing of Biden. Interview discusses negotiation possibilities...not likely. Huge Russian offensive being prepared for. Milley is concerned that this conflict will end in defeat for the collective West.

On the cross, You welcomed the thief in his contrition. In dying, You destroyed our death. May I never despair of Your mercy. Christ on the cross is an image of infinite love where infinity Himself died for love of us (Rom 5:8). God chose to send His only begotten son, the living image of His invisible self (Col 1:15), to die as a sacrificial offering in atonement for the sins of men (Is 53:10). No one took His life. He laid it down. He laid it down willingly. He laid it down for love (1 John 3:16).As the image...

Our Troops Rock! Thank you for all you do! For the freedom you enjoyed yesterday... Thank the Veterans who served in The United States Armed Forces. Looking forward to tomorrow's freedom? Support The United States Armed Forces Today! ~ Hall of Heroes ~SGT Alvin C. York (Info found here.) BIOGRAPHY Alvin Cullum York (1887-1964) ended the First World War as one of America's most famous soldiers, with fame and popular recognition assured following a remarkable act of courage and coolness in October 1918. Having grown up in poverty the young York honed his skills as a crack marksman, a...

Today's Mass Sermon - Christ the King Sunday, reminds us how we should see Chist as our King, and Lord. 13 min. YouTube link below:King of All, Warrior of Mercy

Voluntary evacuation from the liberated Kherson and Mykolaiv Oblasts has already begun, and the state is paying all related costs. Source: Ukrinform with references to Iryna Vereshchuk, Minister of Reintegration of Temporarily Occupied Territories, and Vitalii Kim, the head of the Mykolaiv Oblast Military Administration Quote from Vereshchuk: "Voluntary evacuation from the liberated territories of the southern part of Ukraine has already begun, and the state is paying all costs and taking all responsibility associated with this process.

Former President Donald Trump, in his first major appearance since announcing his candidacy for president, said that the Republican success in retaking a majority in the House of Representatives is the just “beginning of the battle” to save the United States.“Breaking the radical Democrats’ grip on Congress this month was vital—is a great thing. But we’ve always known that 2022 was not the end, only the beginning of the battle to save our country,” Trump said. “Now, we have to take the fight straight to [President] Joe Biden and his radical and incompetent administration.”Trump spoke to the Republican Jewish Coalition...

Elon Musk poked fun at CBS for returning to Twitter after less than a 48-hour hiatus due to "uncertainty" with the platform under his management Two days after the major news network said it would suspend all Twitter usage, CBS announced that it will resume activity Sunday as it continues to monitor "security concerns" they have with the platform since the billionaire Tesla CEO took over the company. "After pausing for much of the weekend to assess the security concerns, CBS News and Stations is resuming its activity on Twitter as we continue to monitor the situation," the CBS News...

“The people have spoken. Trump will be reinstated. Vox Populi, Vox Dei,” Musk announced.Musk decided to reinstate the former president’s account after putting out a Twitter poll that came down to the wire – 51.8 percent “Yes” versus 48.2 percent “No.” Trump had been frozen out of his Twitter account since January 2021 in the wake of the Capitol Hill riot on January 6.Though leftists all across the platform erupted in a flaming circle of outrage in response to Musk’s announcement, Trump’s usual celebrity haters, from Rosemary’s Baby actress Mia Farrow to Misery director Rob Reiner to House of Cards...

SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Qesm Sharm Ash Sheikh — Negotiators early Sunday approved a historic deal that would create a fund for compensating poor nations that are victims of extreme weather worsened by rich countries’ carbon pollution, but an overall larger agreement still was up in the air because of a fight over emission reduction efforts. After the decision on the fund was approved, talks were put on hold for 30 minutes so delegates could read texts of other measures they were to vote on. The decision establishes a fund for what negotiators call loss and damage. It is a big win...

Pigs in Las Vegas are once again feeding off of casino scraps after going without during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. The COVID-19 lockdown in 2020 closed many hotels and restaurants on the strip, limiting food that was sent to nearby livestock farms. That left many farmers struggling to feed their pigs. ***** about 90% of the pigs’ diet comes from casino food scraps. Now that restaurants are back up and running, pigs are now feasting again. "This month, on Friday, we will actually reach the number of pigs that we had pre-pandemic," farm manager Sarah Stallard told the...

. Middle Class Joe who came out of the black community just spent OVER $300,000 on his granddaughter’s wedding. This is noteworthy. They won’t say how much over $300,000. He has a grandkid he and Jill don’t recognize. Biden, swore at one point, he sent out $8,000 checks to the American people. In that Press Conference, he said about three times, $8,000 is a lot of money, Joe said sternly. The checks he referenced were actually $600. Joe has also claimed he was poor compared to his colleagues when he owned three Mansions and his Crackhead son had over $500...

PurposeAnti-severe acute respiratory syndrome corona virus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) vaccination is recommended by AST, ISHLT, and CDC in all transplant recipients. Lung transplant recipients (LTR) are at a higher risk of developing severe symptoms due to higher immunosuppression (IS) and baseline compromised graft function. Limited antibody response to messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccines has been reported in LTR, with the majority mounting a response after the 2nd dose. In this series, 3 patients developed new and significant respiratory compromise after their 2nd vaccine dose consistent with antibody mediated rejection (AMR). To our knowledge, this is the first published case series of vaccine...