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EUROPEAN HIGH COURT OKAYS ANTI-CATHOLICISMChristmas carols were being sung when a woman walked into Mass, ascended to the altar, naked from the waist up, with pro-abortion slogans all over her body. She then proceeded to “abort” Jesus, holding up pieces of calf liver to symbolize an aborted baby. She completed her blasphemous act by urinating on the altar in front of parishioners.This 2013 stunt occurred in France. Now the European Court of Human Rights has taken her side, saying she was unjustly found guilty by a French court for an unlawful “sexual display.” The high court said she was merely...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is preparing to visit Washington on Wednesday, according to three AP sources, in his first known trip outside the country since Russia’s invasion began in February. Two congressional sources and one person familiar with the matter confirmed plans for the visit. They spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the highly sensitive nature of the trip.

The Taliban’s Head for Public Health Department in Zabul, Abdul Hakim Hakimi, says that in the last few weeks, people suffering from an illness with an unidentified cause have been admitted to medical centers. In the last week, two people have died due to the outbreak of this disease in Fatuz village, Shahjoy district, Zabul province, according to Hakimi. The Taliban’s Head for Public Health in Zabul reports about efforts that are going to be made to deal with this idiopathic disease. It should be noted that severe fever and bleeding from the mouth and nose are prominent symptoms of...

The whole initiative is asinine, but one word, in particular, stands out among the rest. According to Stanford University, the word ‘American’ is harmful. Stanford would rather the term ‘U.S. Citizen’ be used because American typically refers to “people from the United States only, thereby insinuating the U.S. is the most important country in the Americas.” In other words, Stanford, a university located in the United States, does not believe the United States is the most important country in the Americas. Stanford not being in the camp of the United States being the best country in the world is no...

Best of Ron Johnson explaining what crooks the Bidens are, how the FBI, deep state and Dems have tried to smear him, spread dis-information, and interfere in election of 2020, with charts and documents.

In an email to the county’s judges on Tuesday, Chief Judge Timothy Evans acknowledged that “in the last week, many of you have been ‘Zoom Bombed’ with a video of a person who exposes himself and engages in sexually explicit conduct.” That may be an understatement, based on the graphically described accounts of witnesses CWBChicago acquired through a source. Evans said the Cook County Sheriff’s Police are investigating the incidents. He told judges that “bad actors seem to be using Zoom access information from the court’s website” to “broadcast these egregious acts to the detriment of proper decorum and the...

"In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink. "He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water." "And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest. For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more." John, Chapter 7 1 After these...

A semi-truck driver hauling red dye failed to stop despite knowing the liquid was leaking onto the roadway and splashing cars for miles through the Portland area on Saturday night, authorities said. Deputies in Multnomah County responded to reports of a tractor trailer leaking a red substance in Troutdale, a city about 16 miles outside Portland, the Multnomah County Sheriff's Office said. The driver, 40-year-old Junior Jean, told deputies the liquid was used to dye mulch, according to authorities. Deputies said Jean also claimed to have stopped to inspect the leak when another driver flagged him, but his company had...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — As Congress continued to conduct its final pieces of business before the holiday break, lawmakers warned that a total government shutdown could ensue if an agreement to send an additional package of tens of billions of dollars to Ukraine is not made by Friday. "This situation is dire," Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell said to reporters gathered at the U.S. Capitol. "Our government is facing a shutdown, and the only way to avoid it is for us to send $45 billion to Ukraine by the end of the week. Life as we know it in the United...

There are devils, Evil devils. Nixonian evil devils. And then there's Donald Trump. He takes evil to "a new level." That was the Morning Joe take today. Joe Scarborough said that Richard Nixon "used to be seen as the embodiment of evil by many in the Oval Office." Scarborough then quoted the unhinged leftist Hunter S. Thompson: "Richard Nixon was an evil man, evil in a way that only those who believe in the physical reality of the devil can understand. He was utterly without any ethics or morals, or any bedrock sense of decency." But Scarborough took issue with...

President Joe Biden and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky are planning to meet at the White House on Wednesday, according to two sources familiar with the planning underway, in what would be a surprise visit that could change based on security concerns. The visit, which hasn’t been finalized and has remained tightly held due to security concerns, will coincide with the administration’s intent to send the country a new defense assistance package that will include Patriot missile systems. It would mark Zelensky’s first trip outside Ukraine since the Russian invasion began in February of this year. His potential visit to Washington...

Update from Ukraine | Zelenskyi in Bakhmut | Ruzzian Pipeline Destroyed | Putin wants long conflict https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_RpUoBi4yg Follow on Instagram up to date uploads. https://www.instagram.com/denys_pilot/ SUMMARY & MAPS Military Maps & Comment here: https://militaryland.net/news/invasion-day-300-summary/ Invasion Day 300 – Summary December 20, 2022 The summary of the situation of Russian re-invasion to Ukraine covering the last 48 hours, as of 20th December 2022 – 22:00 (Kyiv time).

Can't sleep when your partner is on his or her smartphone? This may not be oversensitivity on your part; your eyelids probably deserve some of the blame. A scientist from shows that eyelids transmit much more light than previously thought. Sleep deprivation and sleep disorders are detrimental to health and interfere with daily life. Studies have been conducted to elucidate the mechanisms underlying various factors that affect sleep. One major factor is the lighting environment. Changes in light exposure during the daytime and nighttime or during sleep have been reported to influence circadian rhythms and sleep quality. Although several studies...

MIAMI, Florida — Former President Donald Trump told Breitbart News exclusively here on Friday that Republicans must engage and fight Democrats on mail voting and ballot harvesting like the Democrats fight, saying the GOP has “no choice” but to “live with the system that stinks” for now until Republicans get back into power and can change it for the better.To be clear, Trump still believes there should be systemic reform to the way elections are conducted. “The best thing would be same-day voting, paper ballots, voter ID, et cetera,” he said, reiterating points he has made in public remarks and...

FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried has now signed extradition papers in the Bahamas, where he lived in a multimillion-dollar mansion, after waffling on the decision since his initial court appearance last week. The disgraced former CEO signed the papers to waive an extradition hearing from the Bahamas and will now be flown to the United States to face prosecution after the collapse of a company that was once valued at $32 billion, according to acting Commissioner of Corrections Doan Cleare. Bankman-Fried, 30, had been expected in court Tuesday but did not appear, even as his lawyers and U.S. consular officials waited...

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said during a press conference on Tuesday that the “number one priority” for Republicans is to provide more aid to Ukraine. “Providing assistance for Ukrainians to defeat the Russians is the number one priority for the United States right now according to most Republicans. That’s sort of how we see the challenges confronting the country at the moment,” McConnell said during a press conference with Senate Republican leadership. The Kentucky Republican said he was “proud” that Republicans were able to achieve all of their priorities in the omnibus.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau said Tuesday that Wells Fargo & Co. had harmed millions of people through wrongful car repossessions, improper denials of mortgage-loan modifications, and surprise overdraft fees that were lobbed at consumers who had enough funds at the time of their transactions. Thousands of customers lost their cars and homes due to the alleged mistreatment, the consumer watchdog agency said in its new findings. Now the CFPB is ordering that Wells Fargo pay $3.7 billion — including more than $2 billion in direct redress to affected consumers and a record fine of $1.7 billion — as a...

Argentina’s 2022 World Cup celebration almost took a catastrophic turn when a low-hanging power line nearly knocked Lionel Messi and four of his teammates off a moving open-top bus in Buenos Aires on Tuesday. In video footage from the team’s World Cup victory parade, Messi, Leandro Paredes, Angel Di Maria, Rodrigo De Paul and Nicolas Otamendi can be seen sitting on the roof of a bus when De Paul noticed the cable and told his teammates to duck. All five players made it under the power line with seconds to spare as the bus carrying the team continued on the...

In this parody of "Mary, Did You Know?" by the great Mark Lowry (please come on the podcast Mark we love you), we chronicle all the wonderful things the Biden administration has done for us this holiday season. And we wonder: did he know?Lyrics: Biden did you know that your policies would drive us underwater? Biden did you know that your policies would trans our sons and daughters? Did you know that your policies will punish what is true? The church that you subscribe to, does not subscribe to you. Biden did you know that your baby boy made shady...

On Tuesday, Senator Mitch McConnell proved once again that he is totally disconnected from the desires of the American people. Instead of stopping Biden from enacting more policies that are harming our economy, McConnell says that “helping Ukraine” is what he wants to be focused on right now. And exactly what money is the government using to help Ukraine? That’s right, your tax dollars. “Making sure the Defense Department can deal with the major threats coming from Russia and China, providing assistance for the Ukrainians to defeat the Russians. That’s the number one priority for the United States right now,...