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[Catholic Caucus] Deconstructing John XXIII’s Opening Address of Vatican II to Understand Satan’s BlueprintAlmost sixty years after the completion of the Second Vatican Council, it may seem, at first glance, like a pointless exercise to examine John XXIII’s October 11, 1962 speech to open the Council. After all, we would expect that any useful insights from the speech would have been fully revealed by now. And yet, if we carefully deconstruct his speech in light of all that has transpired since the Council opened, we can see the foundation and framework for so much of the crisis in the Church...

The Netherlands is working "intensively" with other European countries to supply Ukraine with F-16 fighter jets. However, there are no concrete commitments yet, as it turned out today at the joint press conference of Ukrainian President Zelensky, Prime Minister Mark Rutte and Belgian Prime Minister De Croo in the Catshuis in The Hague. "There are no taboos and we are working intensively on it," said Rutte. "But we're not there yet". The three other countries are Belgium, the United Kingdom and Denmark...

Jenny Craig will close its doors after four decades in the weight loss and nutrition business, according to internal communications to employees reviewed by NBC News. In an email sent to employees late Tuesday, the company said it will close “due to its inability to secure additional financing.” Jenny Craig corporate and salaried field employees' last day will be Friday, and hourly center employees’ last day working was Tuesday. The company operated about 500 company-owned and franchised stores in the United States and Canada, according to H.I.G. Capital when it acquired Jenny Craig for an undisclosed amount in April 2019....

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor reportedly accepted nearly $2 million from Penguin Random House in a book deal, and then went on to sit in judgment of a copyright case involving that same company the following year. According to a report in the Daily Wire, she received $1.9 million from the publishing house in 2012. In 2013, she helped decide whether the court should take up a legal dispute between the company and a classmate of Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg, who said his book proposal was stolen and used to make the movie “The Social Network.” The conservative outlet reported that...

Geraldo Rivera on Thursday announced his appearances on Fox’s “The Five” have been canceled. “My appearances today and tomorrow on The Five have been canceled. I’m sure there’s a good reason. Never fear, I’ll be back week after next. Stay safe and happy. Thanks 🙏” Geraldo said. Geraldo last week attacked Tucker Carlson after the top-rated Fox host was ousted. “I don’t wish ill on anybody, but there is no doubt-as I said at the time-Tucker Carlson’s perverse January 6 conspiracy theory was “bullshit.”” Geraldo said. “Having lost the election President Trump incited an insurrection that sought to undermine our...

Have you ever wondered why so many companies have been going "woke?" Taking a page from the All The President's Men playbook, "follow the money." Virtually every major corporation and industry receives money from the major investment firm, BlackRock, who is notorious for pushing ESG and woke ideology on its investment recipients. As Glenn said on this week's Glenn TV special: Big Finance like Blackrock has its tentacles into nearly every major corporation in the country. Their main goals appear to be for two things: to force compliance and force transformation. Is it any wonder that Fox fired its anti-establishment...

After successfully defusing the Cuban Missile Crisis, President John Kennedy warned against ever again forcing Russia to choose between national humiliation and nuclear war. We should heed his advice.#Kennedy24

Republican state senators in Oregon didn't show up to work on Wednesday, denying the Democrats who control the chamber a quorum and casting doubt on planned votes later this week on legislation pertaining to gun safety, abortion rights and sex reassignment health care. The boycott comes as several statehouses around the nation, including in Montana and Tennessee, have been battlegrounds between conservatives and liberals. Oregon has been increasingly divided between the liberal population centers like Portland and Eugene, and its mostly conservative rural areas. The office of Oregon Senate President Rob Wagner said 10 Republican senators and the chamber's lone...

At the end of the day, have you ever wanted to pick low-hanging fruit with a large needle outside a box?If so, then you’ve probably attended way too many meetings in your lifetime. According to warnings from medical experts – and these are unverified, by the way – meetings are bad for your health because they are comprised of diets of elephants, cows and ducks.Indeed, we have heard all sorts of slang, corporate buzzwords and business-related words that make us want to get beat up by 800-pound gorillas, poked in the eye with a moving needle and thrown out the...

Lesser-known cable channels are itching to build a new brand around him. Industry experts think he could make a mint in podcasting. But Tucker Carlson — who was fired by Fox News last week at the height of his popularity and influence in right-wing punditry — has aspirations of moving into a larger role that doesn’t limit him to a single medium, according to people familiar with his thinking. And he is willing to walk away from some of the millions that Fox is contractually obligated to pay him, if that would give him the flexibility to have a prominent...

Candidates for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination may not get their opportunity to go toe-to-toe with the front-runner, fueling concerns about diminishing the importance of televised primary debates. Former President Donald Trump has publicly soured on attending the debates, drawing taunts from his rivals and cheers from his backers. His absence risks backfiring against him but is likely to draw fewer eyeballs to the key event and could be a drag on the party. "It's definitely more damaging for the RNC in their legitimacy," veteran Republican strategist John Thomas told the Washington Examiner. "One of their main jobs is to...

Interesting little PSA about types of propaganda from 1949

After the Civil War, we told recently freed black men and women that they couldn’t own guns to defend themselves. It is embarrassing to see Democrats appeal to those same discriminatory laws as they disarm honest citizens today.

Update from Ukraine | Ukraine is Cutting supplies for Ruzzia using Drones before Counterattack https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkQLykpF-Jo ****NEW SUMMARY Military MAPS & COMMENTS here: Invasion Day 434 – Summary May 3, 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). https://militaryland.net/news/invasion-day-434-summary/ *** Greatly appreciate the viewer controlled Map magnification tool to use on each Front map!

The US is hurtling towards an entirely preventable economic crisis, and a trillion-dollar coin could solve all of its problems — if the Biden administration decides to take it seriously. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said that the government could run out of money to pay its debts as soon as June 1, triggering a never-before-seen debt-ceiling crisis. Even a short default could cost the country almost a million jobs and trigger a recession. But Republicans and Democrats are still waiting for the other to blink. The House GOP narrowly passed a bill last week that would tie massive budget cuts...

A recruitment email sent by Mike Morell, co-author of the infamous Hunter Biden laptop letter, wanted former intelligence officials to become signatories to help give Joe Biden a “talking point” during a crucial presidential debate against Donald Trump...The revelation comes after Morell, the former Obama CIA acting director, admitted that now-Secretary of State Antony Blinken “triggered” him to write the October 2020 laptop letter.Morell's email explained that both he and Polymeropoulos believed Russia was involved in the Hunter Biden laptop stories and that Trump likely planned to attack Biden over the laptop revelations in the upcoming debate.“We want to give...

A group of 14 Republican senators wrote a letter Wednesday to Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro asking why the Navy enlisted a 'TikTok drag queen' to beef up recruitment numbers. Sens. Ted Cruz, Rick Scott, Marco Rubio and others told Del Toro that 'we are concerned about both the promotion of a banned app and behavior that many deem inappropriate in a professional workplace.' Their letter follows media coverage this week of how Yeoman 2nd Class Joshua Kelley had been named a 'Digital Ambassador' for the Navy as part of a pilot program that started in November and...

Although God the Son had visited earth during certain periods of the Old Testament (Genesis 14:18-20, 16:7-14, 18:1-31, 22:11-18, 31:11-13, 32:22-32, Exodus 3:2-6, Joshua 5:13-15, and Hebrews 7:3), God the Son did not take on His permanent form until the virgin birth Incarnation (Isaiah 7:14, Luke 1:26-38). His mother and stepfather hailed from the region of Nazareth, but a mandatory imperial requirement during the reign of Caesar Augustus required the expecting parents to make the arduous journey to Bethlehem to be counted in the census (Micah 5:2, Luke 2:1-6). Thus, it was here at the turn of the fourth millennium...

Karine Jean-Pierre on Thursday continued gaslighting the American people by claiming Joe Biden has taken the border crisis “very seriously” since day one. Title 42, a Trump-era program forcing migrants seeking asylum to remain in Mexico is expiring next week. Illegal immigration is already out of control thanks to Joe Biden. More than 6 million illegal aliens have crossed over the US border since Joe Biden was installed in January 2021. KJP told reporters on Thursday that Joe Biden takes the border crisis seriously even though 700,000 to one million illegals have assembled at the border ready to surge across...

OAKLAND, Calif. - Oakland teachers went on strike Thursday after seven days of negotiations failed to produce a new contract for the 3,000 members of the Oakland Education Association.