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The left-wing Labour Party will reportedly establish a new bureaucracy to push forward the ‘net zero’ green agenda if it wins the July 4th general election. In the mad dash towards eliminating carbon emissions in Britain, Labour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer’s transition team, headed by former top bureaucrat and Starmer’s chief of staff Sue Gray will look to establish an “Office of Net Zero”, Sky News reports.

Last week, President Vladimir Putin made an official state visit to the Democratic Peoples’ Republic of Korea (DPRK) – North Korea, his first for almost a quarter of a century. As part of that visit Putin and Kim Jong Un signed a so-called defense pact in the North Korean capital on June 19. The military treaty states: “In the event that any one of the two sides is put in a state of war by an armed invasion from an individual state or several states, the other side shall provide military and other assistance with all means in its possession...

[Catholic Caucus] Bishop Schneider hopes Pope Francis won’t excommunicate Abp. Viganò: ‘It would be imprudent’While criticizing Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò and his theological positions, Bishop Athanasius Schneider maintained in comments to Religion News Service on Monday that Pope Francis would “increase divisions” in the Church if he were to excommunicate the former Apostolic Nuncio to the United States.“I think the pope would be wise and prudent if he were to not excommunicate Archbishop Viganò,” Schneider remarked in the interview while also asserting that Viganò “is in error, because he is voicing a new theory of the probably invalid theory of...

The 2024 election is Donald Trump's to lose. Right now, he is running even with Joe Biden in all the national polls. He's running ahead in Arizona, Georgia and Nevada; he's running even in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin; he's closing within striking distance in Minnesota and New Hampshire. The map has radically expanded for him. Meanwhile, Biden's approval ratings are stagnant: he's stuck at below 40%. Americans' view of the economy remains dim, as does their view of Biden's foreign policy. What's more, Americans' perceptions of the two candidates are unlikely to change dramatically before the election. Biden has been...

A respected philosophy professor who plunged to his death amid an investigation over historical sexual assault allegations led an “extremely kinky, illicit drug taking” double life behind closed doors, according to an escort who entered into a “sex contract” with the 77-year-old promising to “make her daddy happy.” Dr John Forge, an honorary professor at the University of Sydney who authored numerous books on morality and ethics, was found dead at the base of Cataract Gorge in Launceston, Tasmania on May 2, hours after a detective knocked on his door to request he attend a police station for questioning. It’s...

NATIONAL CHOCOLATE PUDDING DAY Each year on June 26, National Chocolate Pudding Day gets us all excited for a serving of this creamy dessert. Children and adults alike love chocolate pudding and have done so for generations. Usually eaten as a snack or dessert, chocolate pudding is also used as a filling for chocolate crème pie. #NationalChocolatePuddingDay Chocolate pudding is usually made with milk and sugar, flavored with chocolate and vanilla then thickened with flour or cornstarch. However, some recipes do use eggs when making the pudding. Historically, chocolate pudding is a variation of chocolate custard, using starch as a...

The nation lacks the processes and systems to conduct a military draft in response to a near-peer conflict, according to a new report by a think tank based in Washington, D.C. The United States ended conscription in 1973, relying since on the all-volunteer force. But all U.S. males ages 18 to 25 are still required to register with the Selective Service System in case a draft is ever needed again. "To be clear, this report is not advocating for implementation of a draft," states the Center for a New American Security report, which was released June 18. "Rather, it is...

A group of 16 Nobel prize-winning economists have issued a stark warning that inflation would be worse under Donald Trump. The former president would reignite inflation and cause lasting harm to the US economy, the Nobel laureates said in a letter first obtained by Axios. 'While each of us has different views on the particulars of various economic policies, we all agree that Joe Biden's economic agenda is vastly superior to Donald Trump,' the letter read. The warning was spearheaded by American economist Joseph Stiglitz, who won the prestigious honor for economics in 2001. Inflation remains a hot topic for...

LOS ANGELES, CA — In an act of rebellion against the men who have repeatedly kept her down throughout her life, singer Taylor Swift spelled out "F--- The Patriarchy" in contrails with her $10 million private jet. "Yeah! That'll show ‘em!" Swift could be heard yelling as she zoomed her giant plane around the skies above L.A. "The patriarchy has held me down long enough. Sure I have millions of dollars and hundreds of millions of fans, but I could have even more of it all if it weren't for systemic sexism and patriarchal societal repression." Swift's fans were...

Think about it. How pathetic is it when we've reached a state when even Democrats admit that if Joe Biden can "remain upright" and "make sense" in Thursday's presidential debate with former President Donald Trump, it will be a "massive victory." Are we talking "tallest midget contest," here, or what? Even better, the admonition went down on MSNBC's laughable "Morning Joe." On Tuesday's cartoonish episode, Washington Post columnist and MSNBC analyst Eugene Robinson made the obvious observation, after TDS-riddled MSNBC host Jonathan Lemire kicked off the festivities with this beauty (emphasis, mine):

Galaxy cluster SPT-CL J0615−5746, the foreground object that created the gravitational lens. Image Credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, L. Bradley (STScI), A. Adamo (Stockholm University) and the Cosmic Spring collaboration =============================================================================== Astronomers have discovered the most distant, and so the oldest, known stellar clusters. This is the first time astronomers have seen star clusters from before the first half a billion years of the Universe. The light of these gravitationally bound groups of stars comes to us from just 460 million years after the Big Bang. Two factors have been crucial to the discovery. The extremely keen infrared eye of...

June 25 (UPI) -- The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation apologized for a highway sign that misspelled the world "Central" as "Cenrtal." Drivers on Cottman Avenue in Northeast Philadelphia noticed the new sign directing travelers to southbound Interstate 95 read, "Cenrtal Phila," and photos of the sign quickly went viral Monday. PennDOT apologized Tuesday on social media. "We were so focused on getting this done and reopening the 95 Cottman ramp that we moved a little too quickly... and forgot to proofread. Sorry, Philadelphia," the post said. The post was accompanied by a photo of the corrected "Central Phila" sign.

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This is despite Robin Vos’ attempts to intimidate recall circulators with surveillance and police investigations and to sabotage efforts using unknown individuals from across the nation. Wisconsin Elections Commission (WEC) staff released a 223-page memo Tuesday, recommending that “the Commission find the petition sufficient, and that the Commission formally attach a certificate of sufficiency to the petition.” The Wisconsin Election Commission just announced that Assembly Speaker Robin Vos will now face a recall election. Vos has angered many GOP voters in the state by refusing to support election integrity measures introduced after the rigged 2020 election. — Emerald Robinson ✝️...

It is widely accepted that humans have been heating up the planet for over a century by burning coal, oil and gas. Earth has already warmed by almost 1.2 degrees Celsius (2.2 degrees Fahrenheit) since preindustrial times, and the planet is poised to race past the hoped-for limit of 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming. But fewer people know that burning fossil fuels doesn’t just cause global warming — it also causes global cooling. It is one of the great ironies of climate change that air pollution, which has killed tens of millions, has also curbed some of the worst effects...

[Catholic Caucus] Pope Francis’ errors are causing ‘many invalid confessions’: Italian priest and theologianVATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews) — Pope Francis’ errors regarding sacramental absolution and contrition are causing “many invalid Confessions,” an Italian priest and theologian is warning.Don Tullio Rotondo, author of the book Betrayal of sound doctrine through “Amoris Laetitia,” is raising the alarm that any attempt by a priest to grant absolution in Confession without the penitent expressing sorrow for all mortal sins committed – which must all be confessed – or without the penitent’s firm intention to avoid sin in the future, are not valid confessions. Don Rotondo...

[Catholic Caucus] Vatican Document Further Restricting TLM said to Exist, Backed by Cardinal Parolin A Remnant Exclusive VATICAN CITY, June 25, 2024 — Having made several inquiries regarding recent reports, I have been informed by reliable sources that a new Vatican document more restrictive than Traditionis Custodes does indeed exist, is backed by Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin, and has been presented to Pope Francis. Well-informed sources have confirmed that the new document, if published, would prohibit all priests other than those belonging to approved ex-Ecclesia Dei institutes from offering the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass in the...

Some of the 51 intelligence officials who signed on to a letter in the final weeks of the 2020 presidential campaign that the New York Post's story about Hunter Biden's laptop had "all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation" were on the CIA's payroll as contractors and had special access to CIA facilities. The disclosure means those signatories were likely earning taxpayer dollars from their work with the intelligence community headed by President Donald Trump while simultaneously working with Joe Biden's presidential campaign to influence the outcome of the 2020 election. The House Judiciary Committee, its Select Subcommittee...

Dravidians are an ethno-linguistic people group predominantly found in southern India, Sri Lanka, but also Pakistan, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, and the Maldives. The historical origin of Dravidians is a highly contested topic with theories that are often heavily politically motivated. But an increasing number of archaeological, linguistic and genetic studies seem to slowly uncover an ever-developing yet consistent story. Dravidians probably started out from the southwest of Iran (around Zagros mountains) when migrants from the Proto-Elamite period of the Elam civilization, probably in a bid to escape the increasingly domineering Sumerian civilisation and to spread their own culture (proto-elamite scripts are...

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — The Norwegian government on Tuesday signed a deal to start stockpiling grain, saying the COVID-19 pandemic, a war in Europe and climate change have made it necessary. The deal to store 30,000 tons of grain in 2024 and 2025 was signed by agriculture and food minister Geir Pollestad, finance minister Trygve Slagsvold Vedum and four private companies. The wheat, which will belong to the Norwegian government, will be stored in already existing facilities by the companies in facilities across the country. Three of the companies will store at least 15,000 tons this year. Norway has 5.6...