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Ireland is to use its annual St Patrick’s Day celebrations to promote “diversity” and drag queens, an official announcement has revealed. Ireland’s progressive-leaning Arts Minister, Catherine Martin, declared on Monday alongside a number of drag queens that this year’s St Patrick’s Day festival in Ireland will be about celebrating “diversity” and “inclusivity”. She also took the opportunity to denounce the growing anti-mass migration protests taking place across the country, with many Irish people taking to the streets over their government’s open borders approach towards the current migrant crisis. According to a report by the Irish Independent, the line-up for the...

CNA Newsroom, Feb 1, 2023 / 14:00 pm A Belgian television station has rediscovered a 20-minute video in which Father Georges Lemaitre, considered the father of the Big Bang theory, explains what the origin of the universe may have been like. Lemaitre was a Belgian astrophysicist known for being the first academic to propose the theory of the expansion of the universe from a massive explosion of what he called a “primordial atom” or “cosmic egg.” Until now, only photographs of Lemaitre were preserved, the most popular being the one where he appears alongside Albert Einstein. However, the VRT television...

Spiritual support and health of the troops is a priority for the ROC.The Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) is hoping to boost the number of priests acting as chaplains in the special military zone, and has petitioned the government for the "regularization" of the status of military priests, establishing the subordination of military priests to their hierarchy, (right now the priest is fully accountable to the commander of his military unit) and introducing social benefits and guarantees for chaplains, similar to those that already apply to contract servicemen. Vakhtang Kipshidze, Deputy Head of the Synodal Department for Church, Society, and Media...

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The liberal media immediately seized on the pope's latest comments.(LifeSiteNews) – With leaders of two Protestant denominations standing at his side, Pope Francis has again delivered a confusing, problematic message about homosexuality, demonstrating that he and others remain unwilling to truly pastor those who identify as “gay” or “lesbian” while also demonstrating hesitation, if not cowardice, when it comes to addressing LGBTQ+ as a cultural movement and still-burgeoning political power. As LifeSiteNews’ John-Henry Westen quickly noted in response to the recent airborne papal press conference, Pope Francis conflated same-sex attraction and the practice of sodomy: While the laws criminalize behaviors...

Rapid advances in AI technology mean that computers can now write stories, create art, compose music, and even pass the bar. And while this has led to much media hand-wringing over the end of mankind, there is an even more immediate threat: the rise of deepfake AI, which can project anyone’s likeness into a hyperrealistic video without their knowledge or permission. It can even turn a person into an unwitting porn star. Just last week, this happened to a 28-year-old woman who appears on Twitch and YouTube under the handle QTCinderella. In this piece, which originally appeared in Pirate Wires,...

We need some serious Mystery Theatre commentary for tonight's State of the Union.

GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (GA) suggested she will bring a white balloon to Tuesday night’s State of the Union Address to troll Joe Biden. Joe Biden will deliver his State of the Union Address Tuesday evening at the US Capitol amid multiple scandals. Biden is under a special counsel investigation after his lawyers ‘found’ stolen classified documents at his private office and Wilmington home. Joe Biden is also facing a separate investigation for allowing a China spy balloon to traverse across the United States and gather intelligence on military bases. Biden waited until Saturday – 7 full days –...

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House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said Tuesday he has no plans to tear up President Biden’s State of the Union speech, a stunt former Speaker Nancy Pelosi pulled at the end of Trump’s final State of the Union speech in 2020. McCarthy will sit with Vice President Kamala Harris behind Biden during the State of the Union address tonight, and he tweeted Tuesday that "a lot of people have been asking" if he would repeat Pelosi’s move from three years ago. But McCarthy said it won’t happen. "I don’t believe in the theatrics of tearing up speeches," McCarthy said in a...

Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis recently praised a lawyer suing one of former President Donald Trump's biggest allies. On Tuesday morning, DeSantis held a roundtable discussion to discuss defamation and featured attorney Libby Locke, who is currently representing Dominion Voting Systems in their lawsuit against MyPillow CEO and Trump ally, Mike Lindell. "Also joining us here today is Libby Locke, she is a partner at ClareLocke LLP and is an extraordinaire when it comes to First Amendment defamation," DeSantis said as he introduced Locke in the roundtable discussion. The comments by DeSantis about Locke come as he has continued to...

FOREIGNER bassist Jeff Pilson says that there is a "very, very simple" reason his band has not yet been inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame. Artists are eligible for the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame 25 years after the release of their first album or single. Criteria for inclusion includes "the influence and significance of the artist's contributions to the development and perpetuation of rock and roll."

A gay stepfather has claimed the lead pastor of a Christian academy and church told him he could not pick up his daughter from school because gay couples aren't welcome. Don Williams and Jose Ortega said they were confronted by Heart Cry Christian Academy Pastor Billy VanCamp when they went to collect their 10-year-old daughter's Queen Creek city Baptist school in January. The child is from William's first marriage.

President Joe Biden on Tuesday is expected to tout the nation's economic health in his State of the Union Address, just days after a blockbuster jobs report showed a strong labor market has coincided with a monthslong easing of inflation. Looking ahead, however, Biden is expected to propose solutions for what he considers an ongoing economic ill: income and wealth inequality. The wealth of the top 1% increased by $6.5 trillion in 2021, according to a study the Federal Reserve released last year. That wealthiest sliver of Americans controls 32% of the country's wealth, the study found. The Biden administration's...

The FAA on Saturday shut down air space near the Atlantic as the Pentagon gears up to shoot down the Chinese spy balloon. At 2:40 p.m. ET, just off the coast of the South Carolinas, the Pentagon shot down the spy balloon. On Tuesday, the US Navy posted photos showing sailors retrieving parts of downed Chinese spy surveillance. Images that were posted on Twitter by the United States Fleet Forces show sailors from the Explosive Ordnance Disposal Group 2 recovering a piece of the balloon on Sunday. “US Navy Sailors assigned to Explosive Ordnance Disposal Group 2 recover a high-altitude...

After completing a three-year posting with the United States Navy (USN), Chief Petty Officer Luke Brewer was promoted to Warrant Officer on board USN ship USS Canberra in January. Warrant Officer Brewer joined the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) in 2002, served on board Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigates and was part of the HMAS Hobart commissioning crew. During his posting with the USN, he was embedded within the San Diego Southwest Regional Maintenance Center (SWRMC) combat systems alignment team, ensuring radars, sensors and weapon systems were aligned to meet mission requirements and operational tasking. Washington Naval Attaché Commodore Darren Grogan, who...

Gonzalez, who became the center of an international custody battle at 5 years old, was nominated Sunday to Cuba's National Assembly. Elian Gonzalez, the Cuban national whose precarious boyhood arrival in the U.S. in 1999 prompted a fierce international custody battle, is set to become a lawmaker. Gonzalez was nominated by his local municipal assembly on Sunday to serve in Cuba's National Assembly... Gonzlaez was en route to Florida with his mother when their boat capsized on Thanksgiving 1999 and she and other migrants drowned. The boy's fate thereafter became a flashpoint in U.S.-Cuba relations. His father, a waiter named...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky rode to power on pledges to clean up the Eastern European country, but the Pandora Papers reveal he and his close circle were the beneficiaries of a network of offshore companies, including some that owned expensive London property. Key Findings >Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and his partners in comedy production owned a network of offshore companies related to their business based in the British Virgin Islands, Cyprus, and Belize. >Zelensky’s current chief aide, Serhiy Shefir, as well as the head of the country’s Security Service, were part of the offshore network. >Offshore companies were used by...

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According to the pro-life legal group Abortion On Trial, Curtis Boyd’s Albuquerque late-term abortion mill, Southwestern Women’s Options, is no longer performing late-term abortions, only offering patients abortions throughout 23.6 weeks. Boyd, a former Baptist minister, left the church to commit abortions at a back-alley abortion mill in Athens, Texas. When word got out about his chop shop, he was forced out of Athens and reopened in Dallas, where he continued to rally support for ‘abortion rights.’” In total, he has personally killed 250,000 children in the womb, according to attorneys who have interviewed him. Throughout his abortion mills, he...