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Could this be the Perfect Geo-storm? October is off to a hot start: The sun unleashed a massive X-class solar flare — the “strongest of its kind,” according to Space.com — that has the potential to pummel our planet with a powerful geomagnetic storm this week. The supercharged sunburst erupted from sunspot AR3842 on Tuesday evening. It clocked in at X7.1, making it the second most powerful in the last seven years after the monster X8.7 magnitude in May, Live Science reported. This also triggered a coronal mass ejection (CME) — when plasma and magnetic particles burst forth from the...

What seemed like a fanciful conspiracy has been revealed as a sickening fact. While most people agree that human trafficking is an evil that should be fought, America’s ruling elite are abetting the abuse of unaccompanied alien children. Since the Biden family moved into the White House, more than 8 million illegal aliens have crossed into the United States from Mexico. Most of these are military-aged men, yet a sizable number are unaccompanied children. Nearly 520,000 unaccompanied children have shown up on America’s doorstep in the past 44 months, about 400 kids per day. What happens to these children? And...

I became Executive Director of Miami Right to Life in June 1989—a small but well-funded and incredibly organized group affiliated with Florida Right to Life. I was in my 20s, and it was my first foray into pro-life advocacy. On Thursday, September 14, 1989, I was alone at the office when I received an anonymous call from a labor and delivery nurse at Miami’s Baptist Hospital. She began the conversation by emphatically stating, “I’m pro-choice, but what I witnessed last night was wrong.” She went on to explain that she had seen a live birth during an abortion attempt, that...

Kamalama Ding Dong traveled to Ripon, Wisconsin Thursday to deliver a full 16 minute speech to a mixed crowd of supporters, paid attendees, and people who just wanted a good laugh. She was joined onstage by Liz Cheney, leader of the MRGA party (Make RINOs Great Again).

This will result in the loss of supplies of about 6 bln cubic meters of natural gas to the EU in the first quarter of 2025 alone, the International Energy Agency noted MOSCOW, October 3. /TASS/. The International Energy Agency (IEA) views the risk of full stop of Russian gas supplies to Europe via Ukraine as significant after 2024 and includes it into its forecast for the gas market in the next year. "The future of Russian gas transit via Ukraine is a key uncertainty ahead of the 2024/25 winter, as Russia’s gas transit contract with Ukraine expires at the...

We at Twitchy spend A LOT of time telling you guys about the media and their ridiculous behaviors, but even we were shocked when we found this post from CBS News. A Yazidi woman kidnapped from her home by ISIS terrorists in Iraq when she was just 11 years old has been reunited with her family after years stranded in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip, Iraqi and Israeli officials said Thursday. https://t.co/r1jQzHxxO3 — CBS News (@CBSNews) October 3, 2024 SERIOUSLY!??! They chose to say the woman who was KIDNAPPED by ISIS was 'stranded'? STRANDED!?!?! We just have no words to adequately...

One of the proudest moments I have had as a Black Catholic parent is when my two boys received the sacrament of baptism. As a convert along with my wife, who entered the Church in 2020, transmitting the sacredness and beauty of our faith was a remarkable moment. When I crossed the Tiber, my thought thereafter was, “What’s next for me in the Church?” When I think about the future of our children and their faith, I wonder the same. I have always been one to think of the long road. “Begin with the end in mind” is what I...

John Patrick Shanley’s superb 2005 drama “Doubt: A Parable” explored the scandal of abuse within the Catholic priesthood through the lens of a suspicious and determined sister in charge of a Catholic school in the Bronx in New York. The supremely concise play took place entirely through the lens of what for children are authority figures: a principal, a priest, a parent, a teacher. Kids were neither seen nor heard. Just discussed. The new play by Omer Abbas Salem, “Happy Days are Here (Again),” which is set at a Catholic elementary school in Chicago in about 1980 and had its...

What do you get when you have a gaggle of female pastors in support of Kamala Harris? The answer is numerous attempts at justifying abortion. In a recent Evangelicals For Harris women’s “prayer call,” abortion became a top priority on why Evangelicals should support Kamala Harris for president. Evangelical Dark Web infiltrated the prayer call and has clips to unveil. The call was hosted by Lisa Sharon Harper who is a theologically liberal author with pronouns in bio. She runs the company Freedom Road which conducts struggle sessions. Panelists include Sandra Van Opstal, a female pastor; Patricia Ruiz Cantu, a...

Former Republican Rep. Liz Cheney called Donald Trump 'depraved' and mocked his 'spray-tanning' as she campaigned for the first time for Democratic nominee Kamala Harris. Cheney joined Harris onstage in Ripon, Wisconsin - considered the birthplace of the Republican Party - and asked her fellow Republicans to cross the aisle and vote for a Democrat, one she previously called a 'radical leftist.' 'I tell you, I have never voted for a Democrat, but this year, I am proudly casting my vote for Vice President Kamala Harris,' Cheney said, then echoed the Harris-Walz campaign slogan, 'we're not going back.'

Michael Jennings, a pastor arrested while tending his out-of-town neighbors’ yard, can sue the city of Childersburg, Alabama, and three police officers involved in the case. On Friday (Sept. 27), a three-judge panel of the U.S. 11th Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously reversed a lower-court ruling that had dismissed Jennings’ lawsuit. The officers aren’t protected by qualified immunity, the panel said, because they had no probable cause to arrest Jennings. Jennings, who is Black, was confronted by police in May 2022, after a white woman called 911 to report a “suspicious individual” in a neighboring yard. The pastor, who identified...

A dying man has been awarded more than $500,000 in damages in a landmark case involving the Catholic Church. The Catholic Diocese of Maitland-Newcastle was found to be directly and vicariously liable for the man's abuse at the hands of a priest who taught scripture 55 years ago. The man, who for legal reasons can only be referred to as AA, alleged he was abused by Father Ron Pickin at Wallsend High School in the Hunter Valley. Father Pickin died in 2015. In a judgement published this week, Acting Supreme Court Justice Monika Schmidt said AA left school in year...

The penitential liturgy with Pope Francis in St. Peter’s Basilica Oct. 1 opened with testimonies of those who have faced great suffering, among those a survivor of clergy sexual abuse. Laurence Gien, who was 11 when he was sexually abused by a priest in his native South Africa, told OSV News that standing in front of bishops, cardinals and Pope Francis himself, giving testimony about his lifetime trauma, was his way of “just trying to appeal to their better selves.” The penitential liturgy concluded a two-day retreat for the 368 members of the Synod of Bishops on Synodality, which opened...

A former professor of Brite Divinity School in Fort Worth, Texas, has been arrested for alleged possession of child pornography and remains jailed. Charles Bellinger, 62, was taken into custody on Oct. 2, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported. He remains in the Tarrant County Jail on Thursday waiting for a bond to be set. Internet Crimes Against Children Unit detectives, Texas Christian University (TCU) police, and United States Secret Service special agents searched Bellinger’s house in Arlington and at his university office on campus, the newspaper reported. By Thursday afternoon, Bellinger’s name and biography had been removed from the school’s...

Trump has made concerted attempts to win over Hispanic and black voters, traditionally Democratic constituencies, though his 2020 results with those groups only slightly improved upon his 2016 tallies. Vice President Kamala Harris is struggling to maintain support among the key voting blocs of the Democratic coalition as polling data suggests that former President Donald Trump’s efforts to win over minority voters are succeeding to some degree. Throughout his political career, Trump has made concerted attempts to flip Hispanic and black voters, traditionally Democratic constituencies, though his 2020 results with those groups only slightly improved upon his 2016 tallies. Now,...

Additional details are becoming known concerning the adultery and recent disqualification of former Trinity Bible Church pastor Steve Lawson. According to inside sources speaking to Protestia on condition of anonymity, the fixture in conservative, reformed evangelicalism was “living a double life in the heart of the reformed community.” The young woman Lawson developed an “inappropriate relationship” with is an alumnus of The Master’s University (TMU). However, the two did not meet because of Lawson’s role as head of the Doctor of Ministry program at The Master’s Seminary (TMS, which resides inside Grace Community Church, 17 miles south of the university),...

Kamala Harris had nothing but kind words for the Cheney family as the disgraced former Congresswoman Liz Cheney joined her on the campaign trail in Wisconsin on Thursday.Both Liz and her father, who served as vice-president for eight years under George W. Bush, have endorsed the Democratic ticket in November in a move that many believe will help rather than hinder her chances of defeating Donald Trump.Nevertheless, Liz Cheney was invited to join Kamala Harris at a rally in Ripon, Wisconsin and the Democratic nominee spoke of her “profound honor” at receiving the Cheney seal of approval.“Liz Cheney really is...

City leaders, along with law enforcement officials gathered to announce the launch of a program that will install 100 license plate reading cameras in the San Fernando Valley that authorities believe will help police track criminals down. Officials said that some neighborhoods north of Rinaldi Street in Porter Ranch have some of the highest crime rates in the city, which is why several cameras have already been installed in the area. “Last year, the Devonshire District reported that homes north of this very street experienced a 103% jump in home burglaries,” District 12 Councilman Jon Lee said at the event....

It took Biden 10 seconds to register that the “storm” a reporter asked about was Hurricane Helene. Kamala knew Biden’s condition when she decided to fly to San Francisco right before the hurricane hit. Biggest political scandal in recent history.

Once again, Lahaina comes to mind.. It's not just the piddly $750 being handed out by FEMA to residents in North Carolina and other states whose homes were destroyed in Hurricane Helene. (A similar amount was handed out to residents of Lahaina, Hawaii, after their town was destroyed by fire.) It's the lethal incompetence. Just as cops taking orders from state government officials blocked Lahaina residents in cars from escaping the inferno -- the only survivors were those who defied them and drove through the blockades -- FEMA officials from the federal government are doing all they can to block...