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California public school leaders – including an elected school board member, senior administrators and ethnic studies teachers – are behind a “liberation” consulting agency whose curriculum glorifies communism, including one activist who expressed support for Osama bin Laden, according to a Friday report. “These agendas can damage the United States internally by instilling hostile and inaccurate views of American democracy into school kids, erroneously portraying our democratic system as fundamentally racist, violent, and oppressive,” the Institute for Liberal Values said in its report. It blasted the curriculum’s “radical anti-American and anti-Western ideas.” Liberated Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum Consortium (LESMCC) –...

Democrat President Joe Biden’s administration has signed a global agreement with 12 other nations to crack down on farming to “save the planet” from “climate change.” The agreement, led by the United States, has been signed by several major cattle and food-producing states including Australia, Germany, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Spain. The nations signed onto a commitment to place farmers under new restrictions to reduce emissions of methane gas. Biden’s “climate czar” John Kerry is representing America in the pledge. The Global Methane Hub announced in a press release that agriculture and environmental ministers and ambassadors from 13 countries, including...

Now isn't THAT strange! I guess these huge companies just don't have enough "pride" to virtue signal in places that dig Sharia law and throw homosexuals off of rooftops. 🤷‍♂️

CHICAGO (WLS) -- At least 52 people have been shot, 10 fatally, in shootings across the city over the weekend, police said. Another violent weekend in Chicago comes with Mayor Brandon Johnson set to attend the Chicago Police Department recruit graduation ceremony here at Navy Pier Monday morning.

Democrat President Joe Biden’s administration signed a global agreement with twelve other nations, including Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Chile, and Spain, to crack down on farming to “save the planet” from “climate change.” If it’s like the plan implemented throughout the Western World, it will crush American farmers. As the World Bank warns of famines, they plan to restrict farmers over methane gas emissions. The UN and World Economic Forum also warn of famines. It’s the famine they seem sure to cause if we abide by these agreements. Symbols of American farming: tractor and flag on summer day Biden’s “climate czar,”...

On March 3, 2022, a lawsuit was filed against the City and County of Honolulu. The plaintiff, Michael Santucci, was a naval officer (an LTJG, or O2) with a top-secret clearance, working as a Cryptologic Warfare officer. In Hawaii, all firearms must be registered except for firearms made before 1899 or which are designed to use loose black powder.During the registration process, in early July of 2021, Santucci truthfully answered that he had seen a medical provider for feelings of depression and homesickness. Santucci was not diagnosed with any significant “behavioral, emotional, or mental disorder.” Because Santucci truthfully answered the...

When researchers set out to study the canvas preparation practices of the Danish masters, they were searching for traces of proteins that indicated the use of animal-based glue—and in eight of the ten paintings they studied, that's what they found...Seven of the paintings also contained the byproducts of brewing beer, according to a recent study published in the journal Science Advances. Researchers examined works made by Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg (sometimes called the "father of Danish painting") and Christen Schiellerup Kobke during the Danish Golden Age, a time of cultural revitalization in the early 19th century when painters were known for...

"Let everyone be . . . slow to anger; for the anger of man does not achieve the righteousness of God" (James 1:19-20). If you resent God’s Word, you cannot grow in righteousness. Have you ever started reading your Bible, thinking everything was fine between you and the Lord, only to have the Word suddenly cut deep into your soul to expose some sin you had neglected or tried to hide? That commonly happens because God seeks to purge sin in His children. The Holy Spirit uses the Word to penetrate the hidden recesses of the heart to do His...

WASHINGTON, Thursday, June 4. Unofficial, but reliable dispatches received here today from our army, dated near Vicksburgh, May 31, represent no material change in affairs. There had been no fighting for several days, but the siege works were being energetically pushed forward. Our army is in good condition and fine spirits. WASHINGTON, Thursday, June 4 -- Midnight. A telegram was received to-night extracted from the Richmond Sentinel, June 3, as follows: "JACKSON, Monday, June 1. Gen. GRANT demanded the surrender of Vicksburgh on Thursday, giving three days to Gen. PEMBERTON to consider the demand. Gen. PEMBERTON replied that he did...

In this video, James Lindsay explains in very simple terms why all the insanity we are confronted with in our country is nothing more than a feature of Marxism.

This is the FULL Summary / SITREP of Day 465-466's development in the Ukraine-Russia war as we start off the day in the morning (ukraine time) of Day 467 of Russian's "Special Military Operation" against Ukraine.

All of a sudden, the obsession with whites as a Satanic collective has become a national fad. One of the tenets of the early civil rights movement some 65 years ago was ending racial stereotyping. When Martin Luther King, Jr. called for emphasizing the “content of our character” over “the color of our skin,” the subtext was “stop judging people as a faceless collective on the basis of their superficial appearance and instead look to them as individuals with unique characters.” It is tragic that King’s plea for an integrated, assimilated society, in which race became incidental, not essential to...

A prayer request for all Freeper prayer warriors for children emotionally/ psychologically abused by a sociopathic malignant narcissist parent. That parent lost custody a couple years ago for that abuse, but had since continued the abuse and harassing petitions because the judge didn't rule in her favor. ...

In a dramatic decision, Saudi Arabia announced Sunday that it will take a unilateral step to slash its oil output by 1 billion barrels per day in order to boost global oil prices. ... Saudi Energy Minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman, who reportedly made the call, said the cut would be for the month of July but could be extended, describing the measure as a “Saudi lollipop” for the oil-producing cartel. (The subtext: What’s good for us is good for you!) The US and EU, for their part, have accused the Saudis of manipulating oil prices and causing global economic...

5 June 2023Saint Boniface, Bishop, Martyr on Monday of week 9 in Ordinary TimeSt. Boniface Church, High altar, Elmont, L. I., N. YReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Red. Year: A(I).Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst readingTobit 1:3,2:1-8 ©Tobit defies the law by burying the deadI, Tobit, have walked in paths of truth and in good works all the days of my life. I have given much in alms to my brothers and fellow countrymen, exiled like me to Nineveh in the country of Assyria. At our feast of Pentecost (the feast of Weeks) there...

There's never been a communist revolution that did not devour itself. Why should ours be different? Before the Woke Wars began in earnest, I once naïvely thought that men's professional sports would remain a small redoubt from the insipid idiocy of "political correctness." Stadiums where rowdy fans cheer on strong men engaging in physical acts of confrontation — and sometimes bloody violence — seemed like sturdy cultural ramparts capable of keeping leftist indoctrination at bay. Alas, owner-imposed ideology across leagues and organized intimidation campaigns against individual players have combined with enough force to crash through the gates. Now grown men...

Neoliberalism is out and neo-mercantilism in as US decoupling from China abandons adherence to rules-based, free market trade Speaking at the Brookings Institution in April 2023, US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan declared national security and industrial policy as the guiding lights for US trade. Sullivan couched his prescriptions in soft tones and catchy phrases. “Decoupling” is out, “de-risking” is in. The goal is to “forge a new consensus” — something different to the market-oriented Washington Consensus of yesteryear. National security restrictions have their limits set in a “small yard, high fence.” US security is not trying to engage in...

In an unprecedented step, gay couples and single men whose infants are born via surrogate will be hospitalized in the maternity ward at Beilinson Hospital in Petah Tikva, Israel Hayom reported. As part of the new initiative, one of the homosexual male partners will be hospitalized in the maternity ward, while the other will be the escort. The surrogate mother will not be hospitalized in the maternity ward but in the Gynecology Department. The homosexual partners will receive close support and guidance from the medical staff, as do all other couples who arrive at the hospital for a birth. According...

... Economist Stephen Jen at Eurizon SLJ Asset Management notes that “exceptional actions” — including sanctions imposed by the US and its allies against Moscow — have made all too many nations less willing to hold dollars. Jen is quoted saying that the dollar suffered a “stunning collapse” in its market share as a reserve currency in 2022, “presumably due to its muscular use of sanctions.” He calculates that the dollar’s share of official global reserves fell to 47% last year, down from 55% in 2021 and a marked collapse from the 73% in 2001. Its loss of market share...

The captured Lieutenant-Colonel identified himself as Roman Venevitin, commander of Russia's 72nd Brigade. Venevitin, who appeared to have a broken or wounded nose, confessed that he 'opened fire on a Wagner PMC [private military company] vehicle while intoxicated from alcohol'. He did so due to 'personal animosity', he claimed. The Russian soldier admitted shooting at Wagner group vehicles while drunk It is latest report of infighting between Wagner mercenaries and Russian army Mercenaries from Russia's Wagner group have taken captive a Lieutenant Colonel from Vladimir Putin's regular forces in the latest example of bitter infighting in Russian ranks. The captured...