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Mexican officials in Tijuana placed a three-ton section of the former Berlin Wall near the U.S. border with a message to “build a society that knocks down walls and builds bridges.” The message ignores the stark difference in purpose between the two barriers. During a ceremony in August, Tijuana Mayor Montserrat Caballero and former Mexican Foreign Secretary Marcelo Ebrard installed the 12-meter high segment of the fallen Berlin Wall — a wall designed by the former Soviet Union to keep communist-controlled German citizens locked inside and became an icon of the Cold War-era. Guards would frequently use deadly force to...

;Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) said Sunday on MSNBC’s “Inside” that former President Donald Trump’s movement was causing “the glorification and endorsement of violence.” Anchor Jen Psaki said, “The FBI director has been saying for years, that racially motivated violent extremism is the largest threat to our country. I know you’ve talked about this. Unfortunately, we have seen white supremacy as a primary motivator at a number of mass shootings in the last few years, including recently in Jacksonville. But the violent rhetoric from not just Trump, but some of the other leading candidates continues to escalate. In addition to what...

GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy doubled down on his comments regarding voting for former President Trump if he is the Republican nominee in 2024, even if Trump is convicted in one of his four ongoing legal battles. ABC’s George Stephanopoulos asked Ramaswamy on “This Week” why he believed it was “OK for a convicted felon to be president,” should Trump both be a nominee and be convicted as he faces 91 charges in four cases. Ramaswamy responded by reiterating that the prosecutions against Trump are “downright politicized persecutions.” “I do not want to see us become a ‘banana republic’ where...

Some elementary school kids don’t even know what a landline is. Take a trip down memory lane and remember the type of phone you used to use.

Dr. Phil claimed that extremist factions within U.S. politics are responsible for dividing the nation rather than the conventional “Left versus Right” conflict. During a featured appearance on Sen. Ted Cruz’s (R-TX) “Verdict” podcast, McGraw illuminated certain areas that could lead to individuals being “canceled” by society. “Whether you’re talking about science, history, biology, you pick it,” he began. “What’s happening right now, in my opinion, is the narrative in America is being hijacked. “And it’s being hijacked by the fringe. It’s not even, it’s not like the Left versus the Right,” he explained. “It’s the fringe. And I call...

It is now clear that Ukraine’s eagerly anticipated counteroffensive has been a colossal failure.[1] After three months, the Ukrainian army has made little progress pushing back the Russians. Indeed, it has yet to get beyond the so-called “grey zone,” the heavily contested strip of land that lies in front of the first main line of Russian defenses. The New York Times reports that “In the first two weeks of the counteroffensive, as much as 20 percent of the weaponry Ukraine sent to the battlefield was damaged or destroyed, according to U.S. and European officials. The toll included some of the...

[Catholic Caucus] Synod on Synodality X/Twitter account shows youth want ‘a return to orthodoxy and tradition’Catholic youth desire from the Synod on Synodality a “return to orthodoxy and tradition” and a continuation of the Traditional Latin Mass (TLM), according to prayer intention snapshots highlighted by the Vatican.The Vatican’s Synod on Synodality X/Twitter account shared pictures this week of handwritten prayer intentions from youth “for the Synod and the Church,” showing that a considerable number called for the preservation of, and return to, the Traditional Catholic faith and Latin Mass.World Youth Day attendees in Lisbon, Portugal scrawled on post-it notes intentions...

I first encountered DEI in exercise science in 2017. That year, the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) published a position paper titled “Achieving equity in physical activity participation: ACSM experience and next steps.” Because ACSM is the leading professional body of exercise-science professors, students, and practitioners in the U.S., the organization has significant influence over higher-education curricula for exercise-science students. If ACSM was weighing in on a new topic, exercise-science faculty had little choice but to listen. ACSM’s position paper declared the need to establish “equity in physical activity.” By this, the organization meant that the field should seek...

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Sunday touted President Biden’s accomplishments and stressed his confidence in the president’s ability to win reelection, as long as he runs on a strong progressive platform. In an interview on CBS News’s “Face the Nation,” Sanders stressed what he saw as the importance of running on a “strong” and “progressive agenda” and said if Democrats do so, it could guarantee that wing of the party will back Biden. Sanders touted raising Social Security benefits, expanding Medicare and dealing with student debt as areas of priorities for his wing of the party. “If we come up...

An 18-year-old Guatemalan migrant could face capital punishment if found guilty of the death of his 11-year-old next-door neighbor. Authorities believe the Pasadena, Texas, preteen was sexually assaulted and strangled by the neighbor, whom police say tried to deflect blame from himself by using a familiar racial trope: It was two Police say to hide the child’s body, the youth, whose name is Juan Carlos Garcia-Rodriguez and entered the country illegally in January, stuffed it in a hamper and hid it underneath her father’s bed. whom police say tried to deflect blame from himself by using a familiar racial trope:...

Under Bidenomics, there is still too much Fed monetary stimulus in the form of >$8 trillion on its balance sheet. While the biggest surge in Fed activity occurred with Covid, The Fed has added 10% to its balance sheet under Billions Biden. Despite not backing off the assets purchases by The Fed, conforming 30Y mortgage rate is still up 155% under Bidenomics. Yes, The Fed is raising its target rate to cool inflation, but doing little with its balance sheet. The Case-Shiller national home price index is up 32% under Vacation Joe! It seems prices are out of control and...

Certainly that logical fallacy, a superficial ignorant parroted polemic (such as invokes everything from the Flood to AIDS as a moral argument against God), can be answered.There simply is no contradiction btwn God being omnipotent (and omniscient) and all good (from whom all good has come, as the creator of an exceedingly vast, systematicity ordered universe, exquisitely fine-tuned for our physical life), and the allowance of evil,For unless you want a world in which mankind is like a cloud or a robot, then allowing evil is a necessary good if:Man is to be a being with the ability to make...

I am a bit embarrassed to admit that I am taking a perverse pleasure in watching this catfight between Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna play out. Not to gloat, but I find it validating and rather satisfying to watch these companies file lawsuits and counter lawsuits that boil down to a schoolyard squabble over who came up with the ideas and initial proof of concept for using mRNA for developing drugs and vaccines – when neither actually did the initial “proof of concept” work. Companies that have exploited and unethically weaponized my early work and ideas for enormous profit while also seeking...

[H/T Grey_Whiskers]In a world where reality often seems stranger than fiction, the machinations behind global events can be an enigma wrapped in mystery. One such intrigue revolves around Deagel.com, an obscure online entity known for its exhaustive data on military capabilities and eyebrow-raising depopulation forecasts for 2025. We can reveal that recent findings appear to link Deagel directly to significant players on the world stage: The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), and The Rockefeller Foundation. And current real-world data on excess deaths in the West strongly suggest Deagel’s depopulation forecast is not just an estimation...

While the Ukrainian army has demonstrated that it's capable of fighting Russian forces on the ground, the air-war in Ukraine has always been far more asymmetric. In this episode we look at the changing nature of that war, including the emergence of behind-the-lines strikes, and the upcoming arrival of the much awaited F-16s for Ukraine's air force.

everyone is running from the lockdowns they once supported, and that includes former presidents and governors, and probably mayors too. Apologies would be better so we can at least have an honest accounting rather than an attempt to rewrite the history that everyone knows. Jack Phillips of Epoch Times alerts readers in his article of August 31, 2023, of Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds’ recent statement on the subject of lockdowns. The Iowa State Government’s website says the following: “Since news broke of COVID-19 restrictions being reinstated at some colleges and businesses across the U.S., concerned Iowans have been calling my...

Have you been infected yet?What was it like?How long did it last?Did you take anything (ivermectin) to combat it?Can you share any information with us?Thanks.

Kirk and Spock must save their ship's crew when they are declared all killed in action in a bizarre computer-simulated war where the actual deaths must nevertheless occur.

There is a clear need for a new approach to the treatment of cognitive loss in older adults that takes little effort but is highly effective and affordable (Swedish Council on Health Technology Assessments, 2008). Environmental enrichment has long been studied in rats and mice, which can be enriched by placing them in a large cage with conspecifics, a running wheel, and regularly changing physical elements, rather than their restrictive box cage (Kempermann, 2019). The enrichment stimulates neuroplasticity that improves their human-like neurological symptoms in more than two dozen animal models of human neurological disorders (Nithianantharajah and Hannan, 2009; Hannan,...