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With recent public appearances prompting concerns for the US president’s health, here’s what the experts think Was it the way President Joe Biden confused the Ukraine and Iraq wars twice in 24 hours, claiming “Putin is losing the war in Iraq”, that had the world worrying about his health again? Or the horizontal indentations on both sides of the 80-year-old president’s face, on show as he left the White House this week, which revealed he had slept wearing an air mask - a device to ease sleep apnea?

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met Thursday with Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg and prominent European figures who are forming a working group to address ecological damage from the 16-month-old Russian invasion.

The filings also show that Pence has earned big sums on the speaking circuit, collecting a total of $3.4 million for 32 speeches between January 2022 and the end of April this year. Pence announced his candidacy for the White House in early June. The most lucrative engagement: A $550,000 honorarium for a February 2022 appearance at a world summit underwritten by the Universal Peace Federation in Seoul, South Korea. The group was established by the late Rev. Sun Myung Moon – the Korean evangelist and businessman who founded the Unification Church – and his wife, Hak Ja Han. According...

Pauline Hanson has called for an inquiry into the gender reassignment treatment of Australian children and rallied against gender identity ideology being taught in schools. The One Nation leader demanded authority figures 'leave the children alone' in a fiery address to Parliament last week. 'Keep your LGBTIQ to yourselves behind your own bloody closed doors. Leave the children alone!', Senator Hanson said, describing it as 'gender madness'. She added: 'This is to do in their own homes, not for you to be pushing your own agenda on innocent children's minds on what they should be or whether you're a girl...

Kiev’s Great Offensive has been unimpressive, to say the least. Ukrainian Defense Minister Aleksey Reznikov has claimed that he has yet to deploy the bulk of its Western-trained forces he keeps in reserve for this much-touted counteroffensive against Russian forces. They have only been able to capture a few small villages quite some distance from the major Russian defensive lines. The notorious Neocon, Lindsey Graham, says the counteroffensive is moving slowly but steadily. Reznikov boasts, “When it [the major push] happens, you will all see it… Everyone will see everything.” These are supposed to be the main troop reserves, including...

"For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven." "Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth! And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell. "For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed,...

A trans chaplain and the NHS faced a backlash from parents of terminally and gravely ill children after a prayer room was covered with LGBT flags for Pride month. Maxwell Reay, a transgender man, activist and minister at a United Reformed Church in Edinburgh is also in charge of 'spiritual care' at the city's famous Sick Kids hospital. A spokesman for NHS Lothian said: 'The flags were used as temporary decoration in the sanctuary to mark the Pride day of celebration.' But one practising Christian family - who is related to a terminally ill toddler that uses the facility -...

[Catholic Caucus] Saint Hildegard of Bingen about the Antichrist: A Pontifical Warning for our TimesIf there is a gift that Heaven has given to us through the pontificate of Pope Benedict XVI, that was not, in any case, the apostolic letter Summorum Pontificum (2007). Actually, such a gift could be a completely different and astounding one. It was the recognition of Saint Hildegard of Bingen a Doctor of the Church, an event that happened on October 7, 2012. But why would such an event be a heavenly gift? If we wish to comprehend the crisis in which not only our...

Students as young as eight years old are set to be taught about the nuances of being transgender in schools in Massachusetts - thanks to a proposed revision to the state's health and physical education framework. The new proposal is being pushed by the state's governor, and serves as the first update to the state public school curriculum since 1999. Now, five years in the making, it does not require any state approval to be passed. As to its contents, the draft includes a set of new guidelines for teachers of kids as young as four - who would learn...

Heart-pounding bodycam video shows the moment a Texas cop gunned down a neo-Nazi shooter who killed eight people and wounded seven others during a bloody rampage at a shopping mall. The video, released late Wednesday by the Allen Police Department, came a day after the unnamed officer was cleared of wrongdoing in the May 6 takedown of gunman Mauricio Garcia at the Allen Premium Outlets near Dallas. In the footage, the officer is first seen talking to a woman with two children on a sunny afternoon in the parking lot of the shopping center — when multiple shots suddenly go...

A handcuffed suspect managed to free himself from the back of a Colorado police cruiser and steal the vehicle, leading officers on a high-speed chase that only ended when he fatally crashed into a parked semi, dramatic new footage released Wednesday showed. The video showed police stopping Anthony Sanchez III after an initial chase by ramming the back of his car. That spun him around and allowed police to surround his vehicle. He was being chased after nearly hitting other cars on the road, when police stopped him they found a gun in his vehicle. Officers put Sanchez into the...

Young people who think they’re woke don’t really believe the things they think they do. They’re just hungry for purpose. I’ll give that to them. I’m the first-ever millennial GOP candidate for President & I take that seriously. #GMA3 https://t.co/upZX6ubq0k— Vivek Ramaswamy (@VivekGRamaswamy) June 29, 2023. @VivekGRamaswamy discusses his decision to be the first ever millennial Republican to run for the office of the president. #GMA3 pic.twitter.com/LZgP76Ol1T— GMA3: What You Need To Know (@ABCGMA3) June 29, 2023

The former sheriff's deputy who fled to safety during the Parkland school massacre broke down in court today when a jury found him not guilty. Former Broward County Deputy Scot Peterson wept as the verdicts were read. The jury had deliberated for 19 hours over four days. The campus deputy at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, Peterson had been charged with failing to confront shooter Nikolas Cruz during his six-minute attack inside a three-story 1200 classroom building on February 14, 2018, that left 17 dead. He could have received nearly 100 years in prison, although a sentence even approaching that...

In 1776, patriots in the USA declared independence from England. In July, we honor those who started the ball rolling to give us the freedoms we enjoy today. We remember those heroes on July 4th. But with everything else we celebrate in America, is one day enough to honor the men and women who sacrificed their all that we might have our freedom? Hardly. Let’s declare the whole month of July to honor those patriots, living and dead, who made sacrifices for us. Let’s make July “Patriot Pride Month!” We owe it to them. Here’s what you can do to...

An avowed nerd, I first read about Raiders of the Lost Ark through the official Star Wars Fan Club newsletter, Bantha Tracks. That’s how I learned about a sneak preview showing — remember those? — a few days or maybe a week before the movie’s official release on June 12, 1981. Bantha Tracks gushed that the new movie — starring Harrison Ford, directed by Steven Spielberg, and co-written by George Lucas — was a thrill-a-minute throwback to serial flicks from the 1930s. I convinced my best friend Kevin to come with me, despite neither one of 12-year-old selves having much...

The notorious Wagner mercenary group that grabbed headlines over the weekend did more than carry out an attempted mutiny, it drew a serious psychological blow to Russia’s elite airborne command and control, the U.K. defense ministry assessed Thursday. In its move to advance north of Rostov-on-Don towards Moscow Saturday, Wagner forces shot down a "high value" Russian IL-22M airborne command post aircraft outside the town of Bugaevka, killing its crew and destroying one of the 12 "special mission aircraft." "The loss of this aircraft is likely to have a negative impact on Russian air and land operations. In the short...

Former President Donald Trump holds a commanding 34-point lead over his nearest competitor in the Republican primary field, Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL), according to a Fox News poll. Most of the registered voters self-identified GOP primary voters sampled, 56 percent, support Trump for the nomination, while 22 percent back DeSantis. The margin between the pair had grown 19 percentage points since February when Trump led 43 percent to DeSantis’s 28 percent.Entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy has climbed to third place in this poll with five percent after tying for fourth place in May and not being included in February’s survey. Former Vice...

Readers have now been warned. Anyone in our enlightened age who is crazy and daring enough to read Ernest Hemingway, an author who is not a person of color, not trans, and not a victim of white patriarchal oppression, will now be waved off by Hemingway’s own publisher. New editions of the work of the man who was once considered one of America’s greatest writers, before such things came to be measured solely by the author’s race, gender, and political proclivities, contain a “trigger warning” alerting fragile wokesters to the fact that if they are actually so foolish as to...

As if on cue, here comes another billionaire group by well-established political control agents in yet another multimillion effort to block President Trump. This time it’s Koch and his Americans for Prosperity network.The Koch groups are planning to spend $70 million in their effort to eliminate the support of Donald Trump in 2024.However, what will be interesting will be to watch how the downstream media networks attack Trump in order to get a piece of the spending allotment. That’s where knowing where the Koch money flows comes in handy.

Comments made on 6/29/23