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Argentinian proposal to cut ties with Vatican given the totalitarian spirt of Francis regime and friendship with dictators "Amazed", the response of the Buenos Aires archbishop to the proposal of Milei's party to break relations with the VaticanJorge Ignacio García Cuerva said he was "surprised" with the proposal to cut diplomatic relations with the Vatican, while the Argentine Jorge Bergoglio is the Pope, expressed yesterday during the closing of the La Libertad Avanza campaign.I have no idea what the Archbishop is doing. I am not the only one. He probably doesn't either.The Archbishop of Buenos Aires Jorge Ignacio García Cuerva...

Research published yesterday by several European media outlets has revealed that an international campaign in support of the EU’s proposed child sexual abuse regulation has been largely orchestrated and financed by a network of organisations with links to the tech industry and security services. The controversial “chat control” regulation would require providers to indiscriminately scan and automatically disclose allegedly suspicious private messages and photos. EU Parliament lawmaker Patrick Breyer (Pirate Party), negotiator for the Greens/European Free Alliance group on the proposed regulation, expresses shock: “As negotiator for my group, many of the organisations mentioned in the report, which call themselves...

Join with fellow FREEPERS to pray for AMERICA: For those in Authority in Government, Family, Military, Business, Agri-Business; End to Sex Slavery; Healthcare, Education, Churches, and the Media. This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. (1 John 5:14)Forum threads labeled [Prayer] are closed to debate of any kind.

In the wake of The New York Times’ false reporting , claiming the Israel Defense Forces bombed a hospital in Gaza, a report which was later totally debunked, X, formerly known as Twitter, removed the Times’ verification badge. The Times ran an article on October 17 that trumpeted, “Israeli Strike Kills Hundreds in Hospital, Palestinians Say.” The New York Times and CNN were also caught using images from different incidents that showed buildings that had been completely destroyed. Footage from ground level showed that none of the buildings were destroyed and that there were no impact craters from an aerial...

I know a total vanity, but a priest died in 2006 in my parish and seeing his wake, his open coffin, had his shoes promiently displayed. The only wake priest's I ever attended, and my dad said, look that his shoes, would be prominent in his coffin. Looked like Buster Brown shoes.

Israel declared war against Hamas after the terrorist group launched a sneak attack on October 7. Since the war started, at least 5,600 lives have been lost, including 1,400 Israeli civilians and soldiers and 32 Americans, along with as many as 250 civilians held hostage, including young children. As a result of this unprecedented attack, which many call Israel’s 9/11, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has pledged to defeat Hamas and “wipe them off the face of the Earth.” So what happens when Hamas is destroyed? Well, on Friday, Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant outlined a three-phase plan for the...

"Early voting has begun in Ohio and new data shows that Ohioans are favoring the passage of two major statewide issues, according to Baldwin Wallace University’s research institute. An Ohio Pulse Poll was conducted by the university that shows both Issue 1 and Issue 2 would pass if the election was held today. This time, 850 Ohioans were surveyed on how they would vote on Issue 1 and Issue 2, which are both on November’s ballot. Issue 1 would “establish in the Constitution of the State of Ohio an individual right to one’s own reproductive medical treatment, including but not...

Podcaster Dan Bongino blasted House members Friday for not producing a speaker after 17 days. "PICK A SPEAKER ALREADY YOU CHILDISH NITWITS!" Bongino wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter. Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) has failed in three elections for speaker as of Friday. The previous two elections happened back to back on Thursday. Former Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) was ousted when eight Republicans voted to oust him along with the rest of the Democratic members. "McCarthy, of all people, was just on the floor nominating Jordan, which makes these whining crybaby wussbags in Congress look even...

Fire! Yes, Biden and Congress created a fire with it reckless Federal spending leading in 40-year highs inflation, prompting The Fed to counterattack with rapid rate hikes. We now see the 10-year Treasury yield passing 5%. And the REAL 10-year Treasury yield passing 2.46%. And Freddie Mac’s 30-year mortgage rate survey is at 7.63%, the highest since 2000. Washington DC’s rampant spending is going to hurt you for a long, long time. And Biden is now prposing $100 BILLION MORE for Ukraine and Israel. Face it, that’s all Democrats and RINOS know what to do … throw money at problems....

WASHINGTON — President Biden received a $200,000 check in 2018 from his younger brother James on the same day that he received the same amount from a US hospital chain by promising to secure a Mideast investor, bank records obtained by Congress show. “This summer, Joe Biden said: ‘Where’s the money?‘ Well, we found some,” House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) said in a video posted Friday afternoon to X. Comer said James Biden wrote his check to his powerful brother as a “loan repayment,” without providing further context. “Even if this was a personal loan repayment, it’s still...

The Gateway Pundit reported earlier today Jordan lost a third bid to be Speaker of the House. After Jordan’s latest unsuccessful bid, the House GOP voted in a secret ballot at 1 PM regarding whether Jordan should remain the party’s nominee for Speaker. Jim Jordan lost a secret ballot to remain the GOP’s nominee for Speaker, according to Jake Sherman. And it was not close either. The final margin was 122-86. Of course, we will never know who betrayed the GOP base because these members were too scared to vote in public. The House GOP will now be heading home...

Curtis Bay Energy, LP, a Baltimore company, has been fined $1.7 million after pleading guilty to more than 40 environmental violations concerning the improper disposal of medical waste. Curtis Bay Energy is known for collecting medical waste from a Washington, D.C., abortion facility owned and operated by Cesare Santangelo. In March 2022, pro-life activists obtained a box from a Curtis Bay Energy driver which were later found to contain the bodies of 115 aborted children. Five of those children appeared to have been killed late in pregnancy at the Washington Surgi-Clinic, and their images shocked the nation. The investigation into...

SAN FRANCISCO — Campbell Brown, Facebook’s top news executive, left the company this month. Twitter, now known as X, removed headlines from the platform days later. The head of Instagram’s Threads app, an X competitor, reiterated that his social network would not amplify news.Even Google — the strongest partner to news organizations over the past 10 years — has become less dependable, making publishers more wary of their reliance on the search giant. The company has laid off news employees in two recent team reorganizations, and some publishers say traffic from Google has tapered off.If it wasn’t clear before, it’s...

The European Union (EU) sent formal requests to Meta and TikTok on Thursday for details about their handling of disinformation and illegal content, as the bloc ramps up pressure on social media companies to comply with its new online regulations. Both companies received warning letters from EU Commissioner Thierry Breton last week, following the outbreak of the conflict between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas and a resulting deluge of misinformation and graphic content online. Neither company responded to a request for comment Friday. The formal request marks a more aggressive step by the EU, which noted in Thursday’s...

Rep. Kevin Hern, a Republican representing Oklahoma's 1st Congressional District, announced his campaign for the position on social media Friday afternoon.

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), a key ally of Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), declared Friday that President Biden’s $100 billion foreign aid and national security funding request is “dead on arrival” on Capitol Hill. “President Biden’s slush fund proposal is dead on arrival, just like his budgets,” Cotton said in a statement. “We will not spend, for example, $3.5 billion to address the ‘potential needs of Gazans,” he added, arguing that humanitarian assistance to Gaza could inadvertently fund “a resupply line for Hamas terrorists.”

Representative Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) said Friday on CNN’s “New Central” that Republicans were in a “very bad place” after Rep. Jim Jordan’s (R-OH) bid for the speakership failed a third time. Reporter Manu Raju said, “This went in the wrong direction for Jim Jordan. He clearly does not have the votes. Is it time for him to withdraw?” McCarthy said, “That’s a question for him. I think we’ll go to conference here shortly and see which direction we go in.”

Some members of the U.S. military, especially those serving at some of the most expensive duty assignments, are set to receive a cut in monthly allowance designed to offset the high costs of living. According to a report from Military.com, the Defense Department will make a second round of cuts to troops’ overseas cost-of-living allowances (OCOLA) next month, with the final cut coming on Nov. 15 and affecting members’ Dec. 1 paychecks. It seems a bit odd — unfair, even — that those who are already sacrificing to protect their country are being asked to take multiple cuts in pay...

Oregon high school students won’t have to prove basic mastery of reading, writing or math to graduate from high school until at least 2029, the state Board of Education decided unanimously on Thursday, extending the pause on the controversial graduation requirement that began in 2020.

Republicans dropped Rep. Jim Jordan on Friday as their nominee for House speaker, making the decision during a closed-door session after the hard-edged ally of Donald Trump failed badly on a third ballot for the gavel. The blocked-House impasse deepening, Republicans have no realistic or workable plan to unite the fractured GOP majority, elect a new speaker and return to the work of Congress that has been languishing since hard-liners ousted Kevin McCarthy at the start of the month. Majority Leader Steve Scalise said they’re going “come back and start over” on Monday. In all, Jordan lost 25 Republican colleagues...