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SIXTH WEEK OF EASTER John 15:26-27, John 16:1-4aFriends, in today’s Gospel, Jesus predicts that his disciples can expect violence from their world. “They will expel you from the synagogues; in fact, the hour is coming when everyone who kills you will think he is offering worship to God. They will do this because they have not known either the Father or me.”The “world” is that collectivity of persons, institutions, armies, and nations predicated upon the loss of friendship with God. That network will hate the followers of Jesus because it cannot frighten them, and its success depends upon fear. Jesus...

The Council on Foreign Relations is truly the power behind the throne of American politics, and has been for over a century. Richard Haass, the head of the CFR, is stepping down in June — but fear not, his replacement, Michael Froman, will continue the CFR’s influence over Washington, leading the United States into the new world order. In this episode of Behind the Deep State, Alex Newman documents some of our leaders’ dependence on the CFR and introduces us to longtime insider Froman, who pledges to extend the CFR’s reach even further and continue the group’s influence over...

Gigantic explosion in Khmelnitskiy may have been semi-nuclear Russians seem to have detonated a major nato/hoho stockpile of DU ammo for the tank guns of the UK Challengers... The prevailing winds in the area are such that there is a real possibility that hohos and brits might have succeeded in poisoning Poland and Germany. Russians were just trying to protect themselves and could in no wise be blamed for any such consequences.

On this date in 1946, the British hanged 10 convicted war criminals at Hameln Prison, notably including seven for the “Dreierwalde Airfield murders” of four Allied prisoners of war. In that case, two British and three Australian airmen had been captured after bailing out during a March 21 raid. Taken to the nearby aerodrome between Dreierwalde and Hopsten in Westphalia, they were marched out the next day ostensibly for transport to a POW compound. Instead, they all ended up shot by their guards — although Australian Flight-Lieutenant Berick was able to escape, wounded, and survive the war. The nub of...

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When the winds of war are blowing as they are now, it is essential to recognize new developments and extraordinary activities by the enemy. Since Joe Biden’s inauguration on January 20, 2021, most Americans have been dumbfounded by his open border policy and its administration by DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, who has continued to gaslight us with the claim right up to the present that, “the southern border is secure.” In fact, the records show anything but a secure border. In just 28 months since Biden’s inauguration, over six million illegal aliens have entered the United States—including criminals, terrorists, and...

The report further highlights that Brennan specifically informed the group of then-candidate Hillary Clinton's approval of a plan to paint Trump as being in league with Moscow. Joe Biden was made aware of the Clinton campaign's plans to insinuate a relationship between the Russian government and the Trump campaign while serving as vice president, the Durham report revealed. Special Counsel John Durham on Monday published a 300+ page report on the origins of the Trump-Russia collusion investigation, representing the end of a years-long investigation. Included in the report are the details of a White House briefing on Aug. 3, 2016,...

The Obama administration possessed no real evidence that then-candidate Donald Trump colluded with Russian government officials when it launched its investigation into the Trump campaign leading up to the 2016 election, according to a new bombshell report. On Monday, Special Counsel John Durham released the findings of his years-long investigation into the origins of the FBI’s surveillance of the Trump campaign in the months before, during, and after the 2016 presidential contest. Despite the agency’s claims that the inquiry — commonly referred to as Crossfire Hurricane — was predicated on the belief that Trump’s campaign was colluding with Russian officials...

Those still using Windows 10 version 21H2 have about a month until support ends, which means there will be no more security updates or other measures after that. Their options essentially are to upgrade to Windows 10 22H2 or make the move to Windows 11, which would make Microsoft happy. Servicing and support for the Windows 10 21H1 Home, Pro, Pro Education, and Pro Workstation editions ends June 13, with the June 2023 security update – due out that same day – being the last one for those editions. "After this date, devices running these versions will no longer receive...

Country 404 (the former 'ukraine') is a state sponsor of terrorism

WASHINGTON — The IRS on Monday removed the “entire investigative team” from its long-running tax fraud probe of first son Hunter Biden in alleged retaliation against the whistleblower who alleged a coverup, The Post has learned. The purge allegedly was done on the orders of the Justice Department, the whistleblower’s attorneys told Congress in “Today the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Criminal Supervisory Special Agent we represent was informed that he and his entire investigative team are being removed from the ongoing and sensitive investigation of the high-profile, controversial subject about which our client sought to make whistleblower disclosures to Congress....

An early Hebrew inscription from Mount Ebal near Nablus that was found on a folded lead tablet during an excavation in the 1980s recently underwent x-ray tomographic measurements to reveal hidden text.Epigraphic analysis of the data revealed a formulaic curse written in a proto-alphabetic script likely dating to Late Bronze Age that predates any previously known Hebrew inscription in Israel by at least 200 years.

LOS ANGELES (CBS) -- Three men from Chicago are awaiting extradition back to California – charged in a triple homicide outside a Los Angeles home back in January. Two Chicago women and a Bolingbrook woman were killed in the "ambush-style" shooting, in which six others were injured. Daries Stanford, 28, Dontae Williams, 22, and DeJean Thompkins, 28, were all arrested in the past few weeks, police said. Thompkins and Williams are both in custody in Chicago, while Stanford is in custody in New York. All are awaiting extradition. A representative from the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office said the...

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA), the oldest pro-Israel organization in the U.S., is slamming Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) for hosting an antisemitic event commemorating the so-called Palestinian "Nakba." ...an annual observance by Palestinians that denies the right of the State of Israel to exist, thus denying political self-determination to Jews — and only Jews — in their own homeland...The term refers to the defeat in 1948 of the Palestinians and other Arab forces who tried to crush the newly-formed Jewish state as it declared independence. They failed, and about 700,000 Palestinians fled as refugees.The Arab world, which had encouraged...

Video of the commercial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NtBQWZqaHoBud Lite made a terrible mistake when it used Dylan Mulvaney as a pitchman (pitch thing?) to market its product. While that was happening, though, a Miller Lite advertisement was floating under the radar. To its credit, it was pandering to actual women, not mentally delusional fake women. However, it is one of the most disgusting, vulgar, crude ads I’ve ever seen—and, ironically, it’s all framed as giving women their due. The ad’s narrator/central figure is a busty young woman in her 20s or 30s, dressed in a loose-fitting sweater and a short skirt. She looks...

It’s clear that the Democrats and their corporate media partners believe President Biden’s best chance of remaining in the White House after 2024 is to assure that his Republican opponent in the general election is former President Trump. To that end, they have launched the political equivalent of the old “pump and dump” investment scam in which fraudsters disseminate false information to artificially drive up the price of a stock and suddenly sell off their own shares when its “value” peaks. The process of pumping up Trump’s stock began on March 30, when the news broke that Manhattan District Attorney...

Special Counsel John Durham’s investigation – an inquiry into government corruption, lies to secret courts, the weaponization of the US intelligence apparatus, the FBI’s attempt to take down a sitting president – has concluded. The Durham Report has been released. Here are some of the main findings: “The FBI discounted or willfully ignored material information that did not support the narrative of a collusive relationship between Trump and Russia.” Crossfire Hurricane “was opened as a full investigation without [the FBI] ever having spoken to the persons who provided that information.” Days after it was opened, Peter Strzok was telling a...

...an international research team led by scientists from the University of Tübingen and the Senckenberg Center for Human Evolution and Paleoenvironment presents the earliest human footprints known from Germany. The tracks were discovered in the roughly 300,000-year-old Schöningen Paleolithic site complex in Lower Saxony. The footprints, presumably from Homo heidelbergensis, are surrounded by several animal tracks—collectively, they present a picture of the ecosystem at that time.In an open birch and pine forest with an understory of grasses sits a lake, a few kilometers long and several hundred meters wide. On its muddy shores, herds of elephants, rhinoceroses, and even-toed ungulates...

San Diego Diocese Plans to File for BankruptcyWill be third California diocese to do so this yearSAN DIEGO (ChurchMilitant.com) - The diocese of San Diego is set to file for bankruptcy later this year under a siege of new lawsuits alleging sexual abuse by clergy.Cdl. Robert McElroy Over 400 people say they were sexually abused by clerics in past decades in the Southern California diocese. As a result, the diocese plans to file for bankruptcy protection by November. This comes in the wake of the state's Assembly Bill 218, which reopened a three-year window for filing claims of sexual abuse....

ast fall, on a mink farm in Spain, H5N1 (avian influenza) likely spread across the animals. The outbreak resulted in the death or culling of the entire group of 50,000 minks. Why should you care? Because it may have marked the first known case of mammal-to-mammal transmission of the deadly virus known as the bird flu, according to a new study. And that doesn’t portend anything good for humans.