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“Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.” –Vladimir Lenin PORTSMOUTH, OH – Just when you think the college-educated crowd couldn’t become more insane – they do. The University of Pennsylvania’s Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies program is hosting a “radical playdate” for 5-through-9-year-olds in April to explore social justice, gender ideology, and skin color, according to the institution, as reported by MSN. “Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.” –Joseph Stalin Read the disturbing flyer on...

Update from Ukraine | Wagner struggles in Bakhmut | Prygozhyn wants to lose the War https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIhWcZduAG8 ****NEW SUMMARY Military MAPS & COMMENTS here: Invasion Day 416 – Summary April 15, 2023 Jerome News The summary of the situation of Russian re-invasion to Ukraine covering the last 48 hours, as of 2023 – 22:00 (Kyiv time). *** Appreciate the viewer controlled magnification tool on each Front map site!

How Doubting Thomas should Inspire us. 14 min YouTube Video link below: .Agents Of Divine Mercy

NEW YORK – China’s exports jumped 23% from the year-earlier month, breaking a five-month series of declines, China’s Customs Administration reported on April 13. Shipments to China’s neighbors in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) led growth with a 34% year-on-year gain, reaching a new monthly record of US$54 billion seasonally adjusted. China’s leadership in digital infrastructure is an import driver of the export boom in developing Asia, we reported earlier this year (“Digital infrastructure propels new SE Asian Tigers,” February 5, 2023). Exports to India rose in lockstep with shipments to Southeast Asia, reflecting China’s growing presence in...

... So we’re caught up on the furor over ChatGPT, the most widely publicized information on the subject of AI in Japan – but in the process that furor has distracted us from more significant applications across a range of industries. Examples include: Pharmaceuticals: Astellas Pharma has created a cellular drug discovery platform integrating humans, AI and robotics that it claims can shorten the time of drug candidate compounds acquisition by approximately 70% in successful cases. It is now being used in a joint research project with the Center for iPS Cell Research and Application of Kyoto University to “promote...

The number of children and teens killed by gunfire in the United States increased 50% between 2019 and 2021, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of the latest annual mortality statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). In 2019, before the coronavirus pandemic, there were 1,732 gun deaths among U.S. children and teens under the age of 18. By 2021, that figure had increased to 2,590. The gun death rate among children and teens – a measure that adjusts for changes in the nation’s population – rose from 2.4 fatalities per 100,000 minor residents in 2019...

I always loved Wings Wild Life, Mumbo was and is sexier than John Lee Hooker or Elmore James. Tomorrow - a beautiful little bit of pop. Dear Friend - an enigmatic hymn to yearning for reconciliation with John Lennon. It was recorded for Ram but I'd be guessing the intense emotions of the breakup delayed it. The Lovely Linda underpinned both albums. A marriage that lasted. Ram on. Read on ........ for more ...... please .......

A California state judge on Thursday ordered Calvary Chapel Church, San Jose, in Santa Clara County to pay $1.2 million in fines for violating COVID-19 restrictions on masking, social distancing, and gatherings. And one reason the county knew the church ran afoul of those rules was that its employees tracked the congregation by their phones.

Theo Khelfoune Ferreras cared passionately about environmental issues and had recently been helping out Greenpeace as a fundraiser before his life tragically ended A teenager’s worries over climate change and environmental issues ultimately caused him to take his own life, according to his heartbroken sister. ‘Passionate activist’ Theo Khelfoune Ferreras, from Walthamstow, died on March 29, 2023, less than two months before his 20th birthday. Now his sister Lisa, 18, has spoken out about the troubles that were affecting her older brother, who recently became a Greenpeace fundraiser, and what led to him ending his life so abruptly. Lisa told...

The term “transphobia” is incredibly loaded, as most accusatory modern terms are. It wrongfully suggests that the person arguing against the idea of gender fluidity is only doing so because they are uncontrollably afraid of people with gender dysphoria. I’ve yet to see anyone’s fight-or-flight instincts get triggered when someone who is transgender gets near them, but there’s an incredibly strong possibility that the people who are transgender haven’t had that experience with anyone either. While I have no doubt that they’ve encountered emotionally-based resistance, I’m betting it’s never been a complete and total panic that resulted in violence or...

If virtually everyone is expecting a recession, and most people start acting accordingly, do you think that will make an economic downturn less likely or more likely? Needless to say, the answer to that question is obvious. Right now, banks all over the country are getting really tight with their money, large corporations are laying off workers at a frightening pace, and consumers are cutting back on their spending. In other words, it really is starting to look a lot like a recession out there, and economic conditions are only going to get even more harsh in the months ahead....

After announcing which acts are going to play at the festival, now Lollapalooza fans know when their favorite artists are going to play this summer.On Tuesday, the organizers announced the day-by-day lineup for the event in Grant Park from August 3-6. This announcement comes as single-day and two-day tickets go on sale on Wednesday at Noon central time. Prices for one day start at $125 with the two-day passes starting at $250. Full festival passes have already been on sale and start at $365.

UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, said joining Muslims as they fast during Islam's holy month of Ramadan showed him "the true face of Islam", Anadolu News Agency reports. "The sense of peace, the sense of solidarity, the sense of generosity that I witnessed in the communities hosting refugees, and also the resilience, the courage of the refugees themselves was extremely inspiring," he said. His remarks came during an interview with UN News's Arabic service on Wednesday, ahead of his visit to Somalia next week as part of the UN Chief's annual tradition of visiting a Muslim-majority country during Ramadan. "And it...

A Delaware judge delayed the start of the eagerly anticipated trial on a voting-machine company’s defamation claims against Fox News, an announcement that came as the network is looking for a possible way to settle the case. Superior Court Judge Eric Davis said late Sunday that he was delaying the start of the trial by one day, moving it from Monday to Tuesday. He didn’t explain the reasons for the move.

(CP) A new motion from the largest teacher's union in the United Kingdom demands schools support drag queen story time to help create safe spaces for LGBT students. During its annual conference in Harrogate, England, last week, the National Education Union passed Motion 34, titled "Raising the aspirations of LGBT+ students in our schools." The conference highlighted what it says is an apparent lack of "LGBT+ inclusive education" and spaces for students to discuss their gender or sexuality. The motion claimed that some schools have not allowed LGBT authors to visit and that the "far right" has attacked "[c]reative initiatives"...

KHARTOUM — While excavating an archaeological site in the Old Dongola region of northern Sudan, Polish researchers discovered stone artifacts dating back to the Middle Ages including ancient murals inscribed with drawings and pictorial motifs of Christ, the Virgin Mary, and the archangel Michael. The researchers described the discovery as unique and unexpected because the images were painted in an unusual way compared to other Christian archaeological discoveries in northern Sudan. The Polish archeologists said the unique archaeological discovery has great artistic and historical significance for the Old Dongola region. They explained the murals have retained their natural colors and...

NORTH CONWAY. N.H.—Vivek Ramaswamy isn’t making much of a dent in the polls yet, but judging from the audience reaction at a packed Masonic lodge in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire, it won’t be long. Everyone was paying close attention. There was no sense in the room of skepticism over why this 37-year-old guy—out of nowhere and standing there with his doctor wife—had the temerity to run for president. They got it. He had done his homework and then some. Several people during the lengthy question session prefaced theirs with “I voted for Trump but I’m going to vote for you.” Others...

Yeah, that's not a typo. 688. There have been 688 homicides in Chiraq in the past 12 months. The Chicago Sun-Times keeps track of every victim in a morbid list that's updated every day.

Vatican City, Apr 12, 2023 / 04:10 am Pope Francis has told “keyboard warriors” to put aside online polemics and get out from behind their desks to proclaim the Gospel. Speaking in St. Peter’s Square on April 12, the pope urged Christians to go out and “get moving” to share the good news of the Gospel with the world. “One does not proclaim the Gospel standing still, locked in an office, at one’s desk or at one’s computer, engaging in polemics like ‘keyboard warriors’ and replacing the creativity of proclamation with copy-and-paste ideas taken from here and there,” Pope Francis...

In a new speech held at the Republican National Committee on Saturday evening, 45th President and leading 2024 Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump declared that “the old Republican Party is gone, and it is never coming back.”In his speech to the committee, held in Nashville, Trump emphasized his record of accomplishments during his first term and outlined his various policy proposals for a second term in the White House come 2024, according to Politico.Trump emphasized his role in transforming the party in 2016 to a focus more on right-leaning national populism rather than the Republican Party during the Bush era...