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German planners propose immigration framework for "climate refugees," as efforts to consolidate the whole establishment political programme around climate change mitigation continues Western liberal democracies, with their widely distributed and complex institutional apparatus, have serious problems with coordination, and increasingly rely on press-fuelled hysteria to rouse themselves to action. They were never so powerful as during the great Covid panic, and as that wave of excitement recedes ever further, one thing has become clear: The locus of this coordinating hysteria is very important. Whatever the ambitions of the globalist vaccinators, the pandemic activated national bureaucracies and sidelined the global climate...

A full 60% of Republican primary voters say they back former President Donald Trump, while 19% say they favor Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, according to a new Morning Consult poll.Trump's lead is the largest yet over the potential rivals for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination since Morning Consult began tracking the race in December.Poll results, released Tuesday:5% say they support former Vice President Mike Pence.5% say they favor entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy.3% say they back former Nikki Haley, former U.S.. ambassador to the United Nations.Six other candidates failed to get 3% or more.79% of Republican primary voters say they have a...

VIDEODonald Trump most definitely BROKE Liz Cheney. She once had grand dreams of becoming President but such hopes are now in the dustbin of history. As a result, a very bitter Cheney has become infected with terminal TDS to the point of releasing an anti-Trump ad which relies heavily on imagery of January 6. Remember, she tried (and FAILED) to destroy Trump in her role as member of the laughable January 6 Committee whose much hyped STAR WITNESS last summer turned out to be someone with just second hand testimony quickly refuted by first hand witnesses. And now that President...

All three of Marcia Gay Harden’s children are queer. The Oscar winner, 63, felt compelled to share the revelation during the “Drag Isn’t Dangerous: A Digital Fundraiser” live telethon over the weekend. “What drives me is because it’s right, and what’s happening right now is wrong,” Harden, 63, told co-host Adam Shankman, according to People. “What drives me is — my children are all queer. “My eldest child is non-binary. My son is gay. My youngest is fluid,” she continued. “And you know, they are my kids, and they

The United States on Tuesday announced a new $1.2 billion security assistance package for Ukraine to boost the country’s air defenses and provide it with additional artillery ammunition. Ukraine is readying for a highly anticipated spring offensive against invading Russian troops, but the latest assistance will not immediately arrive on the battlefield as it must still be procured from the defense industry or partners. This avoids depleting US stocks, but means the assistance will take longer to reach Kyiv than equipment drawn directly from existing American military inventories.

St. Pius V is a model for defending traditional Catholic teaching in troubled timesPope St. Pius V boldly defended the Church against the Protestant reformation and successfully implemented the reforms of the Council of Trent, which included the establishment of the Tridentine Mass and the Roman Breviary.We have already met with the names of several pontiffs on the Paschal calendar. They form a brilliant constellation around our risen Jesus, who, during the period between His resurrection and ascension, gave to Peter, their predecessor, the keys of the kingdom of heaven.Anicetus, Soter, Cauis, Cletus, and Marcellinus, held in their hands the...

Robert De Niro now has a septet of children. When an interviewer mentioned De Niro’s “six kids” recently, the two-time Oscar winner had a late-breaking update: “Seven, actually.” “I just had a baby,” De Niro added in the ET Canada interview, which was published online on Monday. There’s no word on the newborn’s name or age or the partner with whom he became a dad again. The “Raging Bull” star has six other kids with three former partners, per People. With his first wife, Diahnne Abbott, he has daughter Drena, 51, and son Raphael, 46. With ex-girlfriend Toukie Smith he...

Presbyterian Church (USA) lost more than 100 congregations and over 53,000 members in 2022, reflecting the yearslong trend of decline for the mainline Protestant denomination. The PCUSA Office of the General Assembly released its annual statistics for 2022 this week, which found that the denomination dropped from having approximately 1.193 million members to approximately 1.140 million members. Additionally, PCUSA saw the number of member congregations decline from 8,813 in 2021 to 8,705, as well as their number of ministers drop from 18,458 in 2021 to 18,173. Its membership is now around 160,000 lower than the approximately 1.302 million reported in...

Pope Francis belittles devotion to the Latin Mass as a ‘nostalgic disease’ during Jesuit meetingIn Pope Francis’ latest attack on the traditional liturgy he argued that his Latin Mass restrictions were a response to the ‘danger’ of ‘indiestrism.’BUDAPEST, Hungary (LifeSiteNews) –– Pope Francis has once more issued strong criticisms of Catholics devoted to the traditional liturgy and practice of the Church, stating that the “incredible support for restorationism” is a “nostalgic disease.”The pope’s comments came as part of the private conversation he held with Jesuits in Hungary on April 29, as part of his now-customary meeting with Jesuits of the...

Patients needing a fecal microbiota transplant for recurrent Clostridioides difficile (C. diff) infections now have the option of getting stool in pill form.Fecal transplant pills (artistic rendering) (Marc Bruxelle/Shutterstock)The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently approved Vowst, the first oral biologic drug for fecal microbiota that was shown in clinical trials to be as effective as fecal microbiota transplants given rectally. Biologic drugs are derived from blood, proteins, bacteria, and other living organisms.In a traditional fecal microbiota transplant or FMT, healthy donor stool is transferred into the colon of a patient, usually via colonoscopy or retention enema. Late last...

Emily Yoffe: Good afternoon, everyone. I look forward to your questions. Q. Gender Render: My wife owns a dance school and recently received an unusual request for private ballet lessons. At first, she believed the inquiring father was seeking instruction for a male child (around 10) who self-identifies as female. No problem in that case. However, the father revealed that the boy (let’s call him Daniel) is being raised as a girl for two years as a “project” so he’ll be a more enlightened adult. The ballet lesson experience was to include dressing him in a pink tutu and calling...

A rebelling Nashville-area teenager stole a school bus and tried to run over a person at a service station moments before police say they could break into the bus and tase him. The unidentified 14-year-old took the bus from Kipp College Prep in an Antioch neighborhood and went on a joy ride in West Nashville on Saturday around 4pm. He made his way to a gas station where he collided with a diesel fuel pump and attempted to run over a pedestrian, according to Metro Nashville Police Department. It's unclear when police started chasing the teenager but he then went...

National Institute of Health (NIH) officials have re-activated a previously terminated $576,290 federal grant to EcoHealth Alliance to study how outbreaks of deadly viruses like SARS, MERS, and now COVID-19 originate from wildlife and transfers to humans.The move has prompted one Republican lawmaker to demand that NIH explain the decision she described as “absolutely reckless.”“Most emerging human viruses come from wildlife, and coronaviruses in particular represent a significant threat to public health and biosecurity in the U.S. and globally, as was demonstrated by the SARS, MERS, and COVID-19 outbreaks,” is how the NIH describes the purpose of the renewed grant.The...

A Nebraska high school sports star has died after he collapsed during track practice on Friday. Hunter Palmer, 18, was a student at Wisner-Pilger High School in Wisner. He played basketball and was an all-district running back committed to Midland University in Nebraska, which plays in the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics, according to the Omaha World-Herald.

The New York Post revealed Monday that The White House is blocking its reporters from attending Joe Biden’s public appearances, suggesting that it is doing so in retaliation for the outlet reporting on “his relatives’ foreign dealings.”The New York Post reported that despite there being 20 empty seats in the South Court Auditorium on Monday at Biden’s only public appearance, the outlet’s request for a press credential was denied.Today's cover: White House bans The Post from Biden event as Hunter indictment looms https://t.co/qspXoDAoI7 pic.twitter.com/8ZFDVjufal — New York Post (@nypost) May 9, 2023The Newspaper intimated that it was due to it...

Republicans who complain about the ‘culture war’ have no idea what time it is, or what kind of leadership this moment demands.The more obvious it becomes that our domestic political struggles are in fact part of a much larger spiritual war over the fate of western civilization, that we are today engaged not so much in a political fight as a religious battle between good and evil, the stronger the urge seems to be among Republican politicians to deny this reality and take refuge in the comforting political narratives of the past.A perfect case in point was a tweet last...

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) is calling for Congress to reform the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) in an effort to prohibit the purchases of junk food with federal benefits. In a Wall Street Journal op-ed published Tuesday, the senator cited U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) data that 20 percent of the program’s spending goes toward unhealthy foods and drinks. HOUSE Rubio calls for Congress to bar SNAP purchases of soda, junk foods BY OLAFIMIHAN OSHIN - 05/09/23 10:43 AM ET SHARE TWEET Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) Greg Nash Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) arrives for an all-Senators briefing on Wednesday, April...

Pray for Another Pope St. Pius VMay 5, 2023Feast of Pope St. Pius VDear Friends of Catholic Tradition,May is a month full of celebrations and devotional opportunities. The feasts of the Ascension and Pentecost will occur within this month. The entire month is dedicated to our Blessed Mother and many churches will hold May crownings and processions in her honor. May 13 marks the anniversary of the first apparition of Our Lady of Fatima. The month is crowed with the Feast of the Queenship of Our Lady (May 31). Yet, there is a very important feast that seems placed...

Useful legislative steps are being taken to ensure election integrity, but the reality is that the GOP needs to increase ballot harvesting.Joe Biden has announced he will seek reelection as president. This comes as he is experiencing the lowest approval ratings of his presidency — 37 percent, according to Gallup. Former President Donald Trump or Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis will almost certainly be the GOP nominee. The blunt reality, however, is that regardless of who the GOP puts up against Biden, they will lose if the party isn’t prepared to get down in the mud and beat the Democratic National...

Harvard Law School’s bonafide leftist Laurence Tribe didn’t see the ethics issue in advising President Joe Biden to ignore standing law on the debt ceiling in order to … uphold the law. Tribe penned an idiotic May 7 op-ed pontificating that it is supposedly the “essence of constitutional leadership, not the action of a tyrant” for Biden to ignore the law on the debt ceiling created by Congress. How is using carte blanche authority to cherry-pick which laws to uphold and which to ignore not the actions of a “tyrant?" Tribe piggy-backed off a nutty reading of the 14th Amendment...