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things at the CCHD have gone beyond mere Marxist materialism into fully occult directions, Lepanto reports. Not only does CCHD fund groups that flagrantly violate the church’s pro-life and other moral teachings. It also supports neo-pagan groups engaged in witchcraft. Lepanto’s latest report:A few weeks ago, the Lepanto Institute proved that a recent grantee called CUSH collected homosexual pornography with the intent to provide it to children. Then, the Lepanto Institute proved that the CCHD provided grants to Unchained, a pro-abortion, pro-LGBT organization with intimate ties to Marxist entities.

Shrugging off higher interest rates, America's consumers spent enough to help drive the economy to a brisk 5.2% annual pace from July through September...The government had previously estimated that the economy grew at a 4.9% annual rate last quarter...the unemployment rate has come in below 4% for 21 straight months, the longest such streak since the 1960s..."We continue to forecast ongoing expansion in economic activity, but the pace should slow quite significantly in Q4..."

BREAKING: terror attack in Jerusalem. Two Palestinian terrorists open fire at innocent Israeli civilians waiting at a bus stop in Jerusalem. They slaughtered a 24 year-old woman and injured eight others, five of which are in critical condition. Another innocent man who was injured at the Jerusalem terror attack this morning succumbed to his injuries. Two people senselessly murdered by Palestinian terrorists

EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: OMG Goes Undercover Into Congressional Staffer to Report on Chinese Funded Bio Lab Nov 29, 2023 US Congressman Jim Costa's top congressional staffer, Daniel Sepulveda, admits the illegal Chinese biolab poses a grave risk to public health and national security. Asked if his boss, thinks the lab endangered public safety. “Yes, he does,” Sepulveda stated into a button cameras: "I saw they had a secret recording the Lab Owner saying he was doing it to benefit the Chinese government" "I knew months before anybody else did" "How many other people are creating labs within the United States?" …”There...

Liran Tamari Einav Halabi, Yoav ZItun Three people were killed, including a 24-year-old woman, a 60-year-old woman and a 70-year-old man, and at least 11 people have been injured in a shooting attack at a bus stop near the entrance to Jerusalem. Two terrorists, one armed with an M-16 rifle, were neutralized at the scene. Police are scanning the area to make sure there are no more terrorists at large.

The Pentagon blocked members of President Joe Biden’s incoming administration from gaining access to critical information about current operations, including the troop drawdown in Afghanistan, upcoming special operations missions in Africa and the Covid-19 vaccine distribution program, according to new details provided by transition and defense officials.The effort to obstruct the Biden team, led by senior White House appointees at the Pentagon, is unprecedented in modern presidential transitions and will hobble the new administration on key national security matters as it takes over positions in the Defense Department on Wednesday, the officials said.Biden openly decried the treatment his aides were...

University of Minnesota Duluth football player Reed Ryan has died at the age of 22 after collapsing during a workout, his family have announced. Reed - a 6ft 3in, 241-pound defensive end - was training in a weight room on November 21 when he suddenly went into a cardiac arrest. After school officials regained his pulse and he was rushed to the ICU, he tragically passed away a week later. In an obituary written by his family members, the UMD star was said to have died 'doing what he loved'. 'This was the result of an undetected genetic heart condition...

With a potential rematch of Donald Trump versus Joe Biden, advertising spending is expected to hit records for the 2024 election cycle.This could be bad news for the Republican National Committee, which has reported lower political donations.What Happened: Donald Trump leads many national polls ahead of President Joe Biden and has a commanding lead over his Republican competition for the GOP nomination for the presidential election in polls.The Republican National Committee might not be able to help Trump or other candidates out as much as they have in recent elections, based on the size of its current war chest.According to...

Early in 2023, genomics scientist Kevin McKernan made an accidental discovery. While running an experiment in his Boston lab, McKernan used some vials of mRNA Pfizer and Moderna Covid vaccines as controls. He was ‘shocked’ to find that they were allegedly contaminated with tiny fragments of plasmid DNA. McKernan, who has 25 years’ experience in his field, ran the experiment again, confirming that the vials contained up to, in his opinion, 18-70 times more DNA contamination than the legal limits allowed by the European Medicines Agency (EMA) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). In particular, McKernan was alarmed to...

House and Senate conservatives on Wednesday sounded the alarm on a potential move by congressional leadership to extend a deep state surveillance law in a defense bill. “Reauthorization of FISA can’t be hooked to anything. The federal GOV has spied on Americans [who] decided to go to Church or you went to a school board meeting. This needs to end. Reauthorization needs to stand on its own, and have significant reform,” House Freedom Caucus Chairman Scott Perry (R-PA) said during a press conference with the House Freedom Caucus and Senate conservatives. The conservatives held their press conference as congressional leaders...

Henry Kissinger, the former U.S. secretary of state during the Nixon and Ford administrations who was said to be one of the most influential and controversial foreign policy framers in postwar United States, has died. He was 100. The news was confirmed by Kissinger's consulting company on Wednesday night. "Dr. Henry Kissinger, a respected American scholar and statesman, died today at his home in Connecticut," Kissinger Associates, Inc. said in a statement Wednesday. Kissinger will be interred at a private family service and there will be a memorial service at a later date in New York City, the company said....

Daryl Hall has accused his longtime music partner John Oates of committing the “ultimate partnership betrayal” by planning to sell his share of the Hall & Oates duo’s joint venture without the other’s permission, Hall said in a court declaration supporting his lawsuit to keep the transaction paused. In the declaration filed Wednesday in a Nashville chancery court, Hall also lamented the deterioration of his relationship with and trust in his musical partner of more than a half-century. The joint venture in question includes Hall & Oates trademarks, personal name and likeness rights, record royalty income and website and social...

The North American wolverine will receive long-delayed threatened species protections under a Biden administration proposal released Wednesday in response to scientists’ warnings that climate change will likely melt away the rare species’ snowy mountain refuges and push them toward extinction. Across most of the U.S., wolverines were wiped out by the early 1900s from unregulated trapping and poisoning campaigns. About 300 surviving animals in the contiguous U.S. live in fragmented, isolated groups at high elevations in the northern Rocky Mountains. Wolverines join a growing number of animals, plants and insects — from polar bears in Alaska to crocodiles in southern...

Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger died at the age of 100. Late on Wednesday evening, Kissinger died at his Connecticut home, according to Kissinger Associates, Inc. Advertisement Kissinger, a Jewish refugee from Nazi Germany, was the top U.S. diplomat for two presidents as well as a prominent figure in U.S. foreign policy for the second half of the 20th century. He also won a Nobel Prize for brokering negotiations to end the Vietnam War, as well as being significantly remembered for his part in the U.S. bombing of Cambodia. More from USA Today on Kissinger: Kissinger, was the most...

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) I urge, then, first of all, that requests, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for everyone: for kings and all those in authority that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness. ~ 1 Timothy 2:1-2 Religion Forum Threads labeled [Prayer] are closed to...

I just upgraded to Premium+ on there and it got me wondering if they could survive this way if all these advertisers pull out? Others have mentioned the late Rush Limbaugh faced a similar boycott but Twitter/X is another level as it's quite a complex system and requires many employees/resources, etc. With Musk telling advertisers to GFY and warning that X could be killed it seems obvious this situation is critical. One thing he's launching is an AI assistant called Grok which will tap into Twitter's vast network. ChatGPT has been hugely successful so maybe this will be a way...

The horrific moment when a white high school student rained down blows on a black student was caught on video, with the administration's reaction prompting a mass walkout from classes on Monday. In the clips, first published by The Kansas City Defender, a black student can be seen talking with two white girls as she alleges that one of them called her a 'slave.' It occurred at Shawnee Mission East High School, just south of Kansas City, close to the Missouri border earlier this month. Both students are sophomores. The white students walk away with the black student calling them...

A teacher with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) reportedly held an Israeli hostage taken captive by Hamas on Oct. 7 in an attic. The teacher, a father of 10 children, kept the hostage for almost 50 days, barely provided food, and neglected the hostage's medical needs, Israeli Channel 13's Almog Boker reported Wednesday. A Gazan doctor also held another hostage, according to Boker. A spokeswoman for the UNRWA acknowledged the allegations but declined to comment. There have been multiple reports of Gazan civilian involvement in Hamas's military operations. One Israeli...

Some of proceeds from 2017 Chinese loan, flagged by a bank investigator for potentially money laundering and political influence, ended up in Joe Biden's account, congressional investigators say. money laundering investigator for a bank raised serious concerns in 2017 about a $5 million loan that the Biden family received from the arm of a Chinese energy firm, flagging the transaction as "high risk" and possibly tied to efforts by the communist government to gain influence through Hunter Biden, according to an explosive new memo released by congressional investigators Wednesday. The unnamed examiner specifically raised concerns that the loan had no...

New York Attorney General Letitia James’s office responded to testimony by a Deutsche Bank executive that could have torpedoed her civil fraud case against Trump. Radical Marxist New York Attorney General Letitia James is seeking $250 million in ‘damages’ when there is no victim in this fraud case and she is also seeking to ban Trump and his sons from operating any businesses in New York. She accused Trump of inflating his assets and defrauding lenders and insurance companies. A Deutsche Bank executive who worked to approve at least one of Trump’s loans testified on Tuesday that it is “atypical,...