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One by one the lines have all been crossed. Patriot missile-defence systems. Bradley armoured fighting vehicles. Leopard and Abrams tanks. Weapons that NATO had previously balked at providing Ukraine, for fear of “provoking” Russia, are now being supplied in abundance, if not in haste. The latest Ukrainian request to give NATO pause is for F-16 fighter jets, though France and Italy are already talking of going ahead with these. That is in part a measure of Russian weakness. Each new weapons shipment brings forth blood-curdling new threats from the Russian side, up to and including nuclear war. But Western strategists...

Nearly half of the Democrats in the House of Representatives voted against a resolution condemning the “horrors of socialism” Thursday, revealing a “soft spot” many in the party have for the destructive political ideology. Democrats split their vote for the resolution by a 109-86 tally, Fox News reported, “even though every Democrat who debated the bill spoke against the resolution.” The total vote was The was 328-86 with 14 Democrats voting “present.” After two years of far-left Democrat governance, Republicans felt a need to bring the issue up to remind the public that socialist policies go against America’s founding principles....

The Bible In Paintings ~ Encouragement for Appreciating and Applying God's Word ~ MARY ANOINTS JESUS FOR BURIAL ֎ Featuring 21 Paintings, 2 Reliefs, 1 Statue and 9 Windows ֎ J O H N Chapter 12* Six days before the Passover, Jesus arrived at Bethany, where Lazarus lived, whom Jesus had raised from the dead. Here a dinner was given in Jesus’ honor. Martha served, while Lazarus was among those reclining at the table with him. Then Mary took about a pint of pure nard, an expensive perfume; she poured it on Jesus’ feet and wiped his feet with...

(Daily readings from the USCCB)“Come away by yourselves to a deserted place and rest a while.” Mark 6:34The Twelve had just returned from going about the countryside preaching the Gospel. They were tired. Jesus, in His compassion, invites them to come away with Him to rest for a while. So they get in a boat to cross over to a deserted place. But when the people hear about this, they hurry on foot to the place that their boat was heading. So, when the boat arrives, there is a crowd awaiting them.Of course, Jesus does not get upset. He does...

LGBT activists Zachary and William Zulock each face over nine life sentences with charges of aggravated sodomy and prostitution of a minor, among others. The Zulocks are accused of sexually abusing the two sons they adopted from a now-defunct Christian special-needs adoption agency Warning: The following story is extremely disturbing. GEORGIA (LifeSiteNews) – A same-sex couple allegedly abused and prostituted their adopted sons, as well as produced and distributed pornography of the pre-pubescent boys – offering insight into an apparent pedophilia ring within the Atlanta, Georgia area as well as raising questions about expedited adoption process the men were granted....

After the three public shootings over the last two weekends in California, Democrats are again clamoring for even more gun control laws. To California Gov. Gavin Newsom, the solution is to ban more places where people can carry permitted concealed handguns. Unfortunately, the proposal has nothing to do with stopping these attacks, and more gun-free zones only encourage these attacks. Other heavily Democratic states such as New York, New Jersey, and Maryland are making similar pushes. Concealed handgun permit holders didn’t commit those or other mass public shootings. Permit holders are also extremely law-abiding, being convicted of firearms-related violations at...

The semiconductor gold rush is all but over, and we've had our fill. Or so the past month of dismal earnings might have you believe. Electronics giant Samsung saw its profits contract 69 percent during the fourth quarter, while revenues slumped 8 percent overall. South Korean memory manufacturer SK Hynix, meanwhile, followed a few days later with an equally bleak report. Both companies told a story of macroeconomic forces that were suppressing consumer spending and driving DRAM and NAND flash inventories to unprecedented levels. Put simply, where there was once a chip shortage there is now a glut. Well, of...

As judges hand down one absurd sentence after another, one might be inclined to laugh at the absurdity of it all except, of course, it’s not funny. The Department of Justice carefully crafted the dramatic moment in court. A federal prosecutor handed an enclosed paper bag to an FBI agent responsible for investigating members of the Proud Boys, now on trial for seditious conspiracy related to their participation in the events of January 6. The bag contained “evidence of the unlawful entry of the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021 and evidence of the disruption to the certification of...

Translation through Google: TRIBUN-TIMUR.COM - The crew of the Russian BMP with the new Berezhok combat module carried out its last heroic battle, but was surrounded by the enemy. The recording was widely circulated on Telegram Social Media on Wednesday (1/2/2023). The American mercenary posted a new footage with the continuation of the battle and explaining what happened. Russian troops from the ambushed BMP eventually take up defenses in a house, which the American mercenaries begin to raid without success. The Americans took a loss and offered to negotiate, when one of the Russian soldiers came out the American appeared...

I have no idea who this retired Air Force Officer is or what his qualifications are in order to make these claims, I mentioned this possibility in another thread about the balloon earlier and most didn't think this particular balloon was capable of carrying a nuclear device, instead of launching an ICBM which would be detectable early in flight and taken much more seriously, a balloon which the USA doesn't appear to take seriously, could invade US airspace unopposed and be positioned over the middle of the USA and create real problems, evidently this particular balloon has the ability to...

Tucker Carlson began his top-rated Fox News program with a startling and disturbing comparison of the treatment of Joe Biden's family with the way that children of dictators are treated in places like Iraq under Saddam. (Hasty transcription by me.) [Partial transcript in post #1][Video clip at source link] Tucker went on to discuss Hunter Biden's laptop, abandoned at John Paul Mac Isaac's repair shop in Delaware, and Hunter's lawyers' yesterday demanding that the both the federal government and the state government of Delaware prosecute him for "crimes" that were unspecified but, as Beria told Stalin, can always be dredged...

Pray For The Peace of JerusalemMark 1Jesus Heals a Man With Leprosy40 A man with leprosy[h] came to him and begged him on his knees, “If you are willing, you can make me clean.”41 Jesus was indignant.[i] He reached out his hand and touched the man. “I am willing,” he said. “Be clean!” 42 Immediately the leprosy left him and he was cleansed. 43 Jesus sent him away at once with a strong warning: 44 “See that you don’t tell this to anyone. But go, show yourself to the priest and offer the sacrifices that Moses commanded for your cleansing,...

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NEW DELHI -- The recent conclusion of India's longest-running legal dispute -- after 72 years and by a judge who was not even born when the case began -- has sparked renewed calls for solutions to speed up the country's snarled judicial system. The case, which involved the liquidation of the former Berhampore Bank in Kolkata, started after the city's High Court ordered the insolvent institution to wind up operations on Nov. 19, 1948. But a maelstrom of litigation to recover money from debtors left the matter unresolved for seven decades, until January. For the public, the key takeaway has...

Classified documents, everywhere, and by everyone: Joe Biden, Hunter Biden, Mike Pence… and the list keeps growing. Now there are questions about Barack Obama, who took 30,000,000 documents to his Presidential library (it’s doubtful he even knows what he has) and who has ignored the National Archive’s requests for their return. This is just more evidence of what the American people have learned really exists: The Deep State. The Deep State successfully ousted Trump with constant leaks and political chicanery against a sitting president, all to foment distrust and dishonor, and to make his life and office a living Hades....

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WAYNE COUNTY, N.C. — Arguments began Monday in the trial of a former teacher accused of molesting two 11-year-old female students at a Christian school in Wayne County in the mid-1990s. 53-year-old Warren Riley is charged with multiple counts of indecent liberties with a child. On the first day of arguments, one of his alleged victims took the stand to lay out the abuse she claims she suffered. Riley was arrested in August 2020 and charged with abuse stemming from his time teaching at Faith Christian Academy in Goldsboro. The trial began with opening statements. Prosecutors told the jury that...

The Biden administration took a first step Friday toward ending federal protections for grizzly bears in the northern Rocky Mountains, which would open the door to future hunting in Montana, Wyoming and Idaho.... Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte welcomed the administration’s announcement and said it could lead to the state reclaiming management of a species that’s been under federal protections since 1975. He said the grizzly’s recovery "represents a conservation success." The federal government removed protections for the Yellowstone ecosystem’s grizzlies in 2017. Wyoming and Idaho were set to allow grizzlies to be hunted when a judge restored those protections in...

Taurus has shown a compact version of its popular TX22 pistol at the 2023 Shot Show in Las Vegas. The pistol is .34 inches shorter with a half-inch shorter barrel, at 3.6 inches compared to the standard version, which has a 4.1 in barrel, or the TX22 competition, with a 5.25-inch barrel. The compact version is 6.7 inches in length and 4.9 inches tall, with a slightly reduced magazine capacity of 13 rounds instead of 16 rounds. It is .54 inches shorter from top to bottom of the grip compared to the original TX22.The Taurus website says it has a...

President Biden sought to contrast his administration's accomplishments with House Republicans' agenda Friday night during the Democratic National Committee's winter meeting in Philadelphia Friday... On the economy, the president particularly highlighted his administration's focus on manufacturing jobs, and on buying American products, before shifting gears in an effort to contrast his administration with House Republicans. "Jobs are up, wages are up, inflation is down," he said. "COVID no longer controls our lives. But now, the extreme MAGA Republicans in the House of Representatives have made it clear they intend to put it all at risk...These aren't conservatives. These aren't conservatives....