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Pray For The Peace of JerusalemJohn 14Jesus Promises the Holy Spirit 15 “If you love me, keep my commands. 16 And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another advocate to help you and be with you forever— 17 the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be[c] in you. 18 I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you. 19 Before long, the world will not see me anymore, but you will see...

WASHINGTON — When Colleen Shogan, the new archivist of the United States, pulled up in front of the Obama Presidential Library in Hoffman Estates for the first time, “I thought it looked like a wedding center.” The gray brick exterior of 2500 Golf Rd. in the northwest suburb, once a Plunkett Furniture showroom and warehouse, has decorative front and side portico entrances. But there’s no grand architectural detail or even a sign to suggest that inside, for the past seven years, it’s been the temporary home of the official Barack Obama Presidential Library. Shogan oversees the National Archives and Records...

There has been criticism of President Joe Biden’s rambling performance at his Hanoi press conference and not just from partisan outlets. But there was also substance, both good and bad, in his remarks that indicate two important aspects of the administration. The use of diplomatic boilerplate to cover actions that speak louder than words, and the obvious differences in policy agendas within the executive branch which Biden merely repeats without being able to reconcile, giving the impression he is merely a placeholder and not the true leader. Biden raised eyebrows with his claims about not wanting to “contain” or “hurt”...

An armed man accused of impersonating a U.S. Marshal was taken into custody at a Robert Kennedy Jr. campaign event in Los Angeles, California, Friday afternoon, according to the Los Angeles Police Department. A spokesperson from the LAPD said in a statement to ABC News that a radio call was generated around 4:30 p.m. PT reporting a man with “a loaded gun in a shoulder holster and a badge stating he was a U.S. Marshal.” LAPD officers arrived shortly after and arrested the man. The FBI was also present at the scene. In a post on X, formerly known as...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas will no longer change transgender people’s birth certificates to reflect their gender identities, the state health department said Friday, citing a new law that prevents the state from legally recognizing those identities. The decision from the state Department of Health and Environment makes Kansas one of a handful of states that won’t change transgender people’s birth certificates. It already was among the few states that don’t change the gender marker on transgender people’s driver’s licenses. Jaelynn Abegg, a 38-year-old Wichita resident, said her heart breaks for fellow transgender Kansas residents who won’t be able to...

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If “democracy” can’t survive without mass internet censorship, then it seems to me that democracy is not a valid system. The entire concept of modern democracy, which is universal suffrage democracy (as opposed to a traditional American-style system where only land-owners can vote) – is that every person in society are totally actualized human beings capable of absolute rationality. However, if the only way these citizens are capable of making decisions is if the government regulates their exposure to the free flow of information, then why on earth are they allowed to vote? It doesn’t make sense. Take your pick:...

'The big lie' is the phrase Democrats ironically have chosen to hang onto Trump's unwillingness to accept his 2020 election 'loss.' Why is this choice ironic? Two reasons. First, Democrats also don't accept election results. Second, Democrats lie. First, Democrats, in 2004, challenged George W. Bush's victory by citing false and baseless conspiracy theories about voting machines. They defend Hillary Clinton's refusal to accept her loss in 2016 based on a conspiracy theory that Russians stole her election. Stacey Abrams continues to deny election result because of, she claims, a massive behind-the-scenes conspiracy to prevent blacks from voting. Lying Democrats...

A large nationwide study of more than 4 million people in New Zealand identified a statistically significant association in two adverse events following vaccination with Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine. In the post-marketing safety study recently published in Springer, researchers examining 12 specific adverse events found an increase in myopericarditis during the 21-day period following both Pfizer vaccine doses. Myopericarditis describes two distinct inflammatory heart conditions that occur simultaneously, myocarditis and pericarditis. The highest rate of myopericarditis was observed in the youngest participants under 39 years of age following the second vaccine dose—with an estimated five additional myopericarditis cases per 100,000 persons...

... Public discussion about possible Chinese retaliation against additional US export controls has focused on a possible ban on the use of Apple handsets by Chinese government officials. However, American vulnerability is evident in the form of thousands of critical components used in critical infrastructure and the US defense industry. The US imported US$33 billion in capital goods from China for electricity generation and distribution in 2022, items that are no longer manufactured in the US. Substituting domestic production for these items would entail long lead times and exorbitant costs, industrial officials say. In the event of a full-scale trade...

NASA on Thursday evening released the name of its new point person for UFOs, hours after refusing to do so over concerns he would be harassed. The announcement of the newly created position came the same day the agency published a report by a group of experts calling for a “government-wide approach” to collect data on UFOs, urging the public to use smartphone apps to help identify mysterious aerial craft. Mark McInerney, who was previously NASA’s liaison to the Defense Department, will become the research director for UAP — unidentified anomalous phenomena, the government’s preferred term — overseeing the space...

As a part time cashier I have noticed, the past two or so weeks, that people are not as careful to avoid hands to contact during the exchange of cash or receipts. Anyone else noticed similar behavior?

I always seek to help any person I meet to get to heaven, trying to adapt my words to each person. Recently I found myself in a car with my car mechanic who does not frequent the Church, the Sacraments or prayer, as do the great majority of Italians today. I said to him: “Giampaolo, when your children were small, did you give them advice and guidance for their good or for their harm?” Giampaolo responded: “For their good”. (Note: When pasting this document into Free Republic, it seems that most of the special formatting is lost, such as bold,...

EUGENICS WAS USED BY HITLER TO ELIMINATE THE WEAK AND THE UNDESIRABLE RACES AND TO PROMOTE THE ARIAN RACE. Margaret Sanger worked with Hitler and then founded Planned Parenthood in the USA to diminish the population by promoting artificial birth control and abortion. It is interesting that even though the blacks or African Americans in the USA comprise only about 12% of the population, 40% of the abortions are done on black women who are targeted with many abortion clinics by Planned Parenthood in black neighborhoods. With the technology today, eugenics is now called TRANSHUMANISM, in which the rich super...

I distributed hundreds of copies of the following at the March for Life at Rome, on May 20, 2023. - - - - - - - Pastors, Protect Your Flock! Dear friends, As a priest, one of my most important jobs is to PROTECT the souls entrusted to me as a good pastor. In this period of the world, there are more dangers for souls and more confusion in the world and in the Catholic Church than ever before. (Note: When pasting this document into Free Republic, it seems that most of the special formatting is lost, such as bold,...

I find it rather interesting the recent great increase of the promotion of UFOs on the Web and on YouTube. Maria Simma e Padre Amorth - Gli UFO sono opera di satana (Maria Simma e Padre Amorth – The ufo are the work of Satan) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKbVgGo7odY (Note: When pasting this document into Free Republic, it seems that most of the special formatting is lost, such as bold, italics, underlined words and embedded links. To read the document with the formatting and embedded links go to the link of the document.) The True Purpose of NASA One can find information on...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - The official death toll from the Lahaina wildfire disaster has been revised down from 115 to 97 amid new DNA analysis and a painstaking effort to catalog remains, many of which are incomplete and in a very degraded state, Maui police announced Friday. Of the 97, authorities said 74 people have been officially identified. Meanwhile, police said the number of unaccounted for stands at 31. Each of those people has a missing persons report filed with the Maui Police Department, said Maui Police Chief John Pelletier. He added the new accounting helps to paint a clearer picture...

I hear over and over how we are and will be controlled electronically. Smart meters running appliances, information sucked out of cars and transmitted... So are there ways of shielding meters and cars from passing along information? Just like there are people who change power settings on trucks with chips are there people who are designing items for protection of our privacy in consumer goods? Or do we just cover everything in tinfoil?

The Group of 77 developing countries (G77) called for a new global order at a two-day summit in Havana, Cuba, which wrapped up on Saturday. The G77 was established in 1964 to advance the collective economic interests of the Global South. The bloc has since expanded to include 134 members. "After all this time that the North has organized the world according to its interests, it is now up to the South to change the rules of the game," said Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel, who currently chairs the organization. Diaz-Canel said that developing countries were the main victims of a...

Thinking machines that are being built in a 50-square-mile speck of dirt we call Silicon Valley by a few hundred men (and a handful of women) who write in a language only they and computers can speak. And whether we understand what it is they are doing or not, we are largely left to the whims of their creation. We don’t have a say in the ethics behind their invention. We don’t have a say over whether it should even exist in the first place. “We’re creating God,” one AI engineer working on large language models (LLMs) recently told me....