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While many of us were in church this past Sunday, listening to our pastor open the Scriptures and rightly apply them to our lives, some unfortunate souls were sitting in Koinonia Christian Center in Greenville, North Carolina, being subjected to Kamala Harris delivering what could only be described as blasphemous drivel wrapped up in a thin veneer of faux piety. Harris—who, despite sitting under the bright leadership of Amos C. Brown, clearly isn’t known for her theological insight—decided to preach this Sunday where she quoted Galatians 6:9, “Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time...

The owner of Time magazine called out Vice President Kamala Harris for turning down multiple interview requests with the prominent publication as the campaign for the White House enters the homestretch. Marc Benioff, who has owned Time since 2018, criticized the Democratic nominee on Sunday while pointing out that ex-President Donald Trump and President Biden — before he dropped out — both sat down for interviews during their campaigns. “Despite multiple requests, TIME has not been granted an interview with Kamala Harris — unlike every other Presidential candidate,” tweeted Benioff, who is best known as the founder of Salesforce.com. “We...

How are these ballots generated? A voter ID# within the internet-connected voter-roll database is temporarily inflated to generate a fake ballot which is sent out. Same process can be done on an industrial scale behind closed doors by the hundreds of thousands guided by corrupt NGOs. Rolls are then purged in microseconds to cover bad actors’ tracks. Who is behind this? The Department of Homeland Security via their unregulated and unaccountable shadow agencies, the Center for Internet Security and the Atlantic Council. You aren’t up against democrats. You are up against your own government. .... Until People Understand you have...

Everyone was out of the home, and no injuries were reported in the fire, according to fire crews on the scene. The fire was in the attic. It wasn't immediately clear what caused the flames or how extensive the damage was

The Israeli military uncovered an underground Hezbollah bunker near its border with Lebanon that was stocked with weapons and motorcycles for a planned invasion of Israel, officials said Monday. Israel Defense Force spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari said in a video tour of the tunnel that Israeli forces located the subterranean terrorist command center in southern Lebanon, with the base stretching across nearly half a mile of land — and set to be used for “a larger scale of a massacre than Oct. 7.” Inside, the IDF soldiers found helicopter missiles, mortar shells, files, ammunition, motorcycles and enough food and...

At least 206 Jewish anti-Israel protesters were arrested Monday after hundreds rushed the New York Stock Exchange and staged a sit-in outside the Manhattan landmark, police said. Scores of pro-Palestinian protesters wearing red shirts stormed toward the building on Broad Street in Lower Manhattan — then chained themselves to the doors just before the stock market’s opening bell at 9:30 a.m., footage shows. A handful of demonstrators, who hail from the Jewish Voices for Peace group, could be seen removing their jackets as they set up shop outside the building — jackets they wore in a possible bid to conceal...

[Catholic Caucus] Top Jesuit supports ‘LGBTQ Catholics’ event held at order’s headquarters in RomeFather Johan Verschueren, the general counsellor and delegate for the Interprovincial Houses and Works of the Society of Jesus in Rome, expressed his support for the “LGBTQ Catholics” event held recently at the general house of the Society of Jesus in the Eternal City.Within the context of the Synod on Synodality, the Jesuits hosted an event Oct. 8 in which a group of LGBTQ-identifying people (lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transsexuals, and queer) shared their testimonies and requested greater participation in the ecclesial community.Verschueren expressed to ACI Prensa, CNA’s...

Products are displayed at a Bath & Body Works store on June 12, 2024 in Hayward, California. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) Retailer Bath & Body Works is apologizing and rushing to pull a holiday-themed candle from its shelves after online users highlighted its label being reminiscent of the white hoods synonymous with the Ku Klux Klan. The Columbus, Ohio-based company, known for its personal care and home fragrance products, is apologizing to those it offended after the product label on its "Snowed In" candle mistakenly drew comparisons to the White supremacist group, which formed after the Civil War. Team...

VIDEO Navy Shipbuilder SABOTAGED Dozens of Warships Combat Veteran Reacts 385K subscribers 10-13-2024 Minutes 10:45 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTwkdhMnnl4 "US Navy has discovered that dozens of its ships have been sabotaged while under construction in an American Shipyard. Just how did the US Navy's ship builder fail so epically? and why is the Navy still praising the company that allowed this to happen? I'm Paul US Army Combat veteran let's talk about it..."

Convenience store chain 7-Eleven will close hundreds of stores as the company faces declining sales at its U.S. stores.7-Eleven operates more than 13,000 stores across the United States and Canada. The company plans to shut down 444 “underperforming stores” as part of improving efficiency and managing cost, according to an Oct. 10 financial forecast presentation from the firm. The closures represent more than 3 percent of the company’s U.S. and Canadian stores. This is expected to generate approximately $30 million in operating income benefit for the retail chain this year.7-Eleven is looking to boost capital efficiency and ensure sustained business...

This week, Elton John publicly renounced the Rocket Man - no, not the 1972 song, but Elon Musk, whom he called an “a**hole” in an awards ceremony.Sir Elton, 77, is only the latest among celebrities and pundits to denounce Musk for his support of former president Donald Trump and his opposition to censorship. Musk-mania is so overwhelming that some are calling for his arrest, deportation and debarment from federal contracts.This week, the California Coastal Commission rejected a request from the Air Force for additional launches from Vandenberg Air Force Base. It is not because the military agency did not need...

-Justin Bingham, 40, died when he accidentally fell near Heaps Canyon at Zion National Park. -Bingham was canyoneering with three others on Oct. 5 when the tragic accident took place. -The three other canyoneers were rescued the following morning, according to the National Park Service. A man is dead after an accidental fall at Zion National Park, according to the National Park Service. The man was identified as 40-year-old Justin Bingham, CEO of Utah tech software company Opiniion, which confirmed the news of his death. According to the NPS, Bingham was canyoneering with three other people the evening of Oct....

Russian President Vladimir Putin has formally requested that the State Duma ratify the treaty on comprehensive strategic partnership with the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. The treaty was signed during Putin's trip to Pyongyang in June and includes pledges by Russia and the DPRK to assist each other in case of foreign aggression. The Russian media reported on Monday that the ratification proposal had been registered in the legislature's docket. -snip- The document includes an article that states that "if one of the parties is subjected to an armed attack by any state or several states and thus finds itself...

File this under Too Good to Check, although it's now clear that Hezbollah has written figurative checks that it can't cash. Now the Voice of America reports that Hezbollah literally can't cash checks either, thanks in large part to Israeli attacks on its financial infrastructure. In other words, all of those strikes in Dahiyeh didn't just target Hassan Nasrallah and Hashem Safidienne. The IDF also apparently vaporized Hezbollah's ATMs, and more:Hezbollah has been allegedly faced with severe financial difficulties as a result of Israeli military actions that have targeted their funding sources, according to an exclusive Voice of America report....

Wind turbine blades continue to cause pollution problems for the people living around them. A farm in eastern Iowa has dust and debris from shattered wind turbine blades spread out over 240 acres, and they say the wind farm owner won’t clean it up.Steve and Teresa Weets, according to The Gazette, agreed in 2012 to an easement allowing Acciona Wind Power to install two turbines on their family farm near Mechanicsville, Iowa. Both turbines have been struck by lightning – one of them twice – over the past 18 months.The last time it happened was on Aug. 15, and a...

The holy wars have not been canceled yet, despite what you may have heard on cable news. In New York City, the largest Catholic school in the Big Apple recently canceled the celebration of Columbus Day. That would be St. John's University , which you may have thought would be the one place where such traditions might be honored. That's not the case, however. At issue is the university's decision to "cancel" Columbus Day. Why? Because it doesn't pay sufficient homage to Native Americans Day, of course. So Columbus has been politicized out of existence at St. John's. (NY Post)St....

After inheriting the most secure border in American history, the Biden-Harris administration essentially rolled out the welcome mat for illegal immigrants, triggering an unprecedented border crisis. For years, the administration refused to even acknowledge the situation and dismissed concerns as political noise. But once the polls made it clear that Americans view immigration as seriously as the economy, the White House was forced to admit that the crisis was real — only to then turn around and try to pin the blame on Trump and the GOP....On Sunday, the Border Patrol Union unanimously endorsed President Trump during a campaign rally...

There's a trend growing in the commonwealth of Virginia that indicates the Old Dominion might actually be in play for Donald Trump, which is very bad news indeed for Kamala Harris and the Democrat Party. If Democrats aren't screaming "Assume crash positions!" right about now, they might want to think about starting. Early voting in Virginia, which Democrats tends to dominate, began back on September 25, and Republicans seem to be turning out in far greater numbers than expected. As of Monday, October 14, 2024, the early voting/absentee ballot numbers looked something like this: 693,662 votes cast Democrats: 52.8% Republicans:...

Russia's Foreign Ministry accused South Korea on Monday of boosting tension in its relations with the Communist North and called for diplomacy in restoring calm and security on the Korean peninsula. -snip- Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova on ministry website: "Such acts are a blatant encroachment on (North Korea's) sovereignty and internal affairs with the aim of destroying its legal state and political framework and denying it the right to its own development". -snip- Interfax news agency said Putin on Monday submitted to the State Duma lower house of parliament a text on ratifying a treaty on strategic partnership...

I need to start this piece with a confession: I have made — on more than one occasion — decisions that, in hindsight, were rather unwise. But I suppose that's why they call it hindsight, no? I'm not certain, had I fully comprehended the scope and implications of a surveillance state at the time, that I would have so willingly spit into a test tube and sent my DNA off to some lab for testing, but indeed, I did. And the reason I did is rather petty. Portrait of a Man, Said to be Christopher Columbus (born about 1446, died...