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In evolutionary terms, the human population has rocketed in seconds. The news that it has now reached 8 billion seems inexplicable when you think about our history.For 99% of the last million years of our existence, people rarely came across other humans. There were only around 10,000 Neanderthals living at any one time. Today, there are around 800,000 people in the same space that was occupied by one Neanderthal. What's more, since humans live in social groups, the next nearest Neanderthal group was probably well over 100km away. Finding a mate outside your own family was a challenge.Neanderthals were more...

In a stunning turn of events, The Walt Disney Co. says that Bob Chapek will step down as CEO, with Bob Iger returning to lead the company.

Malta, the last remaining pro-life country in the European Union, is moving to relax its laws protecting preborn children from abortion. Lawmakers are looking to allow abortions to be committed when a woman’s life or health are at risk, even though the intentional killing of a preborn human being (induced abortion) is not medically necessary, and lifesaving and human dignity-affirming alternatives are available. In June, an American woman, Andrea Prudente, went public with her complaints about not being able to undergo a supposedly medically necessary abortion after experiencing preterm premature rupture of membranes (PPROM). Though abortion is not a necessary...

A North Carolina trucker has waged legal war against the entire police department of Phoenix, Arizona - after officers seized $39,500 in cash from him at a local airport alleging it was drug money. The suit, filed in April by Triple J Trucking owner Jerry Johnson, demands the sum returned in full for what he slammed as 'false accusations' by the force, who seized the money during an August 2020 stop at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport. Johnson, the owner and operator of his Charlotte-based business, alleges that seizure was unjust, saying he had saved the money to purchase a...

VATICAN CITY — The centuries’ old silver fir tree that had been destined to become the centerpiece Christmas decoration in St. Peter’s Square will now live, perhaps to see another century. Forest service rangers arrived at the scene — a mountain grove in central Italy’s Monte Castel Barone — Nov. 14 to alert workers to halt preparations for felling the tree. When it emerged back in 2019 that the small village of Rosello in Italy’s central Abruzzo region was donating the tree to the Vatican for 2022, local activists started flagging problems, such as the lack of transparency concerning the...

Italy’s Catholic bishops have provided their first-ever accounting of clergy sexual abuseVATICAN CITY -- Italy’s Catholic bishops provided their first accounting of clergy sexual abuse and revealed Thursday that more than 600 cases from Italy were on file at the Vatican since 2000. The report of the Italian bishops' conference, which only covered complaints that local Italian church authorities had received over the last two years, did not mention the hundreds of cases. It identified 89 presumed victims and some 68 people accused. But responding to a reporter's question during a press conference about the report, Monsignor Giuseppe Baturi revealed...

Doha — Qatar has invited the radical preacher Dr. Zakir Naik, infamous for his endorsing views on suicide bombings, to teach the FIFA fans about Islam. The famous ScreenMix entertainment magazine tweeted on Saturday, “Qatar invited the famous Islamic preacher Dr. Zakir Naik to deliver religious lectures during the 2022 World Cup

'We as a Church have not said that much about it,' said Cdl. Eijk.VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews) — The Dutch Cardinal Wim Eijk has revealed he asked for Pope Francis to issue an encyclical condemning gender theory, having made calls for such a document in previous years. Dutch Catholic newspaper Katholiek Nieuwsblad reported that Eijk made the comments while in Rome last week for the Dutch Catholic Bishops’ ad limina visit. “I asked if it would not be good if the pope issued an encyclical on gender theory,” Eijk told journalists. “Gender theory is being pushed in all kinds of organizations...

Dr. Daniel Fine unexpectantly passed away Monday, September 26, 2022, at Aventura Hospital, Aventura Florida. Dan Fine was a great American patriot. Our nation lost a real hero at 88. Daniel Fine predicted the end of nations. He predicted the Fall of the Soviet Union in the cold war in his seminal work Resource War in 3-D. This was a major assessment in the raw materials sector of U.S. national security and foreign policy. He redefined the Cold War. In a meeting with William De Clerk, then President of South Africa, Dr. Fine predicted that apartheid would fall. Dr. Fine...

Most of our readers know Microsoft founder Bill Gates is a eugenicist and globalist who adored Jeffrey Epstein and wants most people in the world to die quickly. But there’s another evil Bill Gates who has the polish of a practiced politician. The Maricopa County Supervisor seems willing to do anything he can to help Democrats retain power in Arizona. His latest attempt to “debunk” claims of Election Day shenanigans that flipped the vote to favor Democrats would be laughable if it wasn’t so destructive. He wanted to defuse complaints that the election was rigged, whether intentionally or due to...

New York’s Education Department is telling high schools to dump their Native American mascots by the end of the school year – or risk losing state funding in 2023. The move follows a June 2022 ruling against the upstate Cambridge Central School District, which sought to hold onto its “Indians” identity, despite decades of advocacy by indigenous groups saying such monikers disrespect native people. “Public school districts are prohibited from utilizing Native American mascots. Arguments that community members support the use of such imagery or that it is ‘respectful’ to Native Americans are no longer tenable,” reads a Nov. 17...

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) on Sunday voiced agreement with the Biden administration’s decision to grant sovereign immunity to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, shielding the autocrat from a lawsuit over the 2018 killing of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi. “What the administration has touted this week in granting sovereign immunity to Mohammed bin Salman is in keeping with the practice of custom of lawsuits involving foreign heads of state,” Cotton told “Fox News Sunday” host Shannon Bream. “It would have been a major break if those customs did not grant that kind of immunity.”

Old drug-related tweets posted by Caroline Ellison — the 28-year-old CEO of Alameda Research, the hedge fund linked to the downfall of FTX — are resurfacing as the cryptocurrency industry crumbles. In a 2021 tweet posted by Ellison, who is also the reported ex-girlfriend of FTX's disgraced founder, Sam Bankman-Fried, references regularly using amphetamines and how "dumb" the "non-medicated human experience" can be. Alameda Research filed for bankruptcy in early November along with other FTX Group-linked entities after failing to secure emergency funding. Although Bankman-Fried founded Alameda, Ellison has since emerged as an integral character in its demise. Her initial...

Jason David Frank, who portrayed Tommy Oliver – the original Green and White Ranger – in “Mighty Morphin Power Rangers,” died in Texas, his rep confirmed to TMZ on Sunday. He was 49. “Please respect the privacy of his family and friends during this horrible time as we come to terms with the loss of such a wonderful human being,” Justine Hunt said in a statement. “He loved his family, friends and fans very much. He will truly be missed.”

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...