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This year’s gathering of the BRICS represents the largest group of world leaders traveling to Russia in decades, Al Jazeera reports. The original BRICS countries — Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa — will be joined by several others interested in discussing global finance.It is widely believed that the group aims to challenge American financial control and replace the dollar with a different currency.“BRICS, which represents countries containing nearly half the world’s population, has been described by some as a potential rival to U.S. global dominance,” writes Kelsey Ables for The Washington Post.Russia and China have already been working...

Changing Constitutions over obscure gender/family issues: A direct attack on the Irish Constitution (the attack miraculously lost) is now being followed with a similar attack on the New York State Constitution.The trick in Ireland was to say 2 Constitutional Amendments were needed to better support nontraditional families: it was all about supporting women and families, nothing more. But then, why didn’t the language specify how it would help them?The language was confusing and ambiguous, as it so often is. However, seven parties supported it and two opposed it. The Parliament voted in favor. The media were all for it. Then,...

Unions and their affiliates think they can still break through with the Democrats’ worst demographic, white working-class voters, by hustling on the ground. But it has been a slog.Vice President Kamala Harris’s allies in organized labor have begun a late drive to help her with white working-class voters, her weakest demographic, in the face of great skepticism over inflation, old grudges about free trade, new ones about student-loan forgiveness, and a profound blue-collar affinity for Donald J. Trump. Working America, a political affiliate of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. built to reach nonunion workers, has around 1,600 paid canvassers knocking on doors in...

I have some questions for Christians of the "instant glorification" theological belief after death. Do the departed Christians retain some conscious awareness of the goings-on in creation, on Earth, and popular entertainment often depicts? Do they "look down on us," particularly their loved ones? Are they even able to? Are they able to see, and grieve over, how truly bad the ones still remaining really are? I know this opens a lot of theological questions regarding the nature and fate of the dead, but it has intrigued me for a long time. Personally, I think they are unaware of the...

A professor of medicine has claimed that, through scientific progress, humans will soon be able to reverse the effects of death, the Telegraph reported . Sam Parnia, an associate professor of medicine at New York University’s Langone Medical Center, told the publication that what we collectively believe about death today—that it is a final end to life—is “fundamentally wrong.” According to Parnia, death is a “reversible state.” People only believe that death is irreversible because they have been conditioned to think so, and to stifle scientific progress, he claimed. “People used to think you could never go beyond the boundaries...

Democrats and Never Trumpers are spending the closing days of the 2024 presidential election attacking the sister of a slain Hispanic U.S. Army soldier because she said she voted for former President Donald Trump. Mayra Guillén — the younger sister of U.S. Army Spc. Vanessa Guillén, who was killed by a fellow soldier in 2020 — has spoken out in recent days after an anonymously sourced hit piece in the Atlantic claimed that former President Donald Trump called her sister a “fucking Mexican.” Guillén said in a post on X immediately after the piece published that Trump has shown nothing...

The twice failed Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams has complained that black men are both sexist and racist against Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris. In an interview with CNN’s Erin Burnett, Abrams was asked to comment on remarks by the prominent Georgia pastor Jamal Bryant saying that black men are misogynistic and that this had prevented Abrams from winning the governorship. “Full stop misogyny is still real in our community,” Bryant said. “We’ve got to address it head-on and not act like it doesn’t exist. The reality is if black men had voted, Stacey Abrams would be a governor.” Abrams...

MSNBC’s Morning Joe co-host Mika Brzezinski claimed Thursday on “Morning Joe” that President Donald Trump was “killing” women because his appointees for the Supreme Court helped overturn Roe v. Wade. Brzezinski said, “Important as Trump’s fascism is, and is the lead story every day, his cozying up to dictators, his obsession with Hitler that has now come out. What he has said about our veterans and what he wants to do with the military against his political adversaries. It’s all huge news. This is the future that we’re looking at in the next Trump term, if there is one. But...

As the 2024 U.S. presidential race heads into the final stretch, the Republican nominee announced Wednesday that he will be in Texas on the same day this week as his Democratic challenger. Former President Donald Trump is scheduled to be in Austin on Friday, where he will discuss border security and immigrant crime at a 12:30 p.m. press conference at a private jet terminal in East Austin, his campaign said. News of Trump’s visit comes a day after Vice President Kamala Harris announced that she would hold a rally in Houston on Friday with U.S. Rep. Colin Allred, who is...

Oct. 23 (UPI) -- The U.S. Space Force and Roscosmos are tracking potential threatening debris from a Boeing-built satellite that exploded in orbit. Intelsat said an anomaly triggered the explosion earlier this week and the cause is under investigation. According to the British company Spaceflux, the fragments might still be a danger to other satellites. "The problem is that there is a lot of uncertainty regarding the orbits of these fragments at the moment," said a Spaceflux spokesperson. "They can be potentially dangerous for other satellites but we do not know that yet." The breakup of the satellite interrupted power...

NPR reported today on the Southern Florida-based child detention center, Homestead, a for-profit facility run by Comprehensive Health Services (CHS). Public Accountability Initiative Director Kevin Connor spoke to NPR about the SEC disclosures of CHS’s parent company, Caliburn(Now Acuity International), which is in the process of going public:“Caliburn’s SEC filings make it clear that they understand the controversial nature of the policies that they are benefiting from.”DC Capital Partners has an advisory board stacked with former top military and intelligence officials with revolving door ties to the NSA, CIA, and Department of Defense. Trump’s former Chief of Staff, John Kelly,...

Kamala has changed her slogan from one communist manifesto (what can be unburdened by what has been) for another. “We are not going back. We are going forward.”

-snip- Belarus has played a part in Russia’s war. In February 2022 Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine was launched, partly, from Belarusian territory. Why did the country’s leader allow the Kremlin to do that? “How do you know I gave permission for Belarusian territory to be used?” Lukashenko asks me. “Because Belarusian territory was used [for the invasion].” “There were exercises going on involving several thousand Russian soldiers. Putin started withdrawing these troops from where they were in southern Belarus, down a road, along the border with Ukraine. "At one point he redirected some of these troops to Kyiv. I’m...

[Catholic Caucus] A Jacobin “Synodality”Don’t be fooled. Just because hot-button issues are not on the Synod's agenda, it doesn’t mean that the revolution is not in full swing.Is it any coincidence that the leaders of the Catholic Church discovered in 1962 that the Catholic Church must be more “participatory” and less “clerical”—in other words, more democratic? After 2,000 years the Holy Spirit, we are to believe, came upon Holy Mother Church and decided that it was time for this ancient institution to reflect modern political trends? We are being told the same thing today, that the Church must continue on...

Editor-in-chief of The Atlantic Jeffrey Goldberg said Wednesday on CNN’s “The Lead” that the “truth is the truth” in response to the Gold Star Family of Vanessa Guillén. Host Jake Tapper said, “You begin you article with a story related to Donald Trump and Vanessa Guillén. Vanessa was a 20-year-old army private. She was murdered at Fort Hood. Trump invited her family to the Oval Office in July of 2020. He offered to pay for her funeral.” He added, “We should note that Mark Meadows has denied this. Guillén sister posted on Twitter, ‘Wow, I don’t appreciate how you’re exploiting...

Carla ‘Bluechecked’ Marinucci @cmarinucci For the SECOND time here in Oakland, thieves have drilled a hole in my husband's truck parked in driveway and drained the gas from the tank. Can someone explain: is this an Oakland thing? A CA thing? Is there anything you can do to prevent it? WTF @OaklandPoliceCA

“I hope to learn what the vice president does with all this downtime,” journalist Mark Halperin said about Vice President Kamala Harris’s “late start” Thursday on the campaign trail. Harris’s light campaign schedule comes after she spent two days away from the campaign trail to prepare for an interview with NBC News and a town hall with CNN. Halperin, who doubles as an analyst and attempts to report data without spin, questioned why Harris would get such a “late start” on Thursday with only 12 days until election day. “Today, the vice president, once again, not doing anything until –...

Sebastian gives his thoughts on former Chief of Staff John Kelly, who recently made the baseless claim that President Trump is "scared" of his federal indictment.

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Florida sued the Biden-Harris administration’s Department of Justice (DOJ) Wednesday for allegedly blocking the state’s investigation into the second Trump assassination attempt. Federal officials almost immediately began “taking steps to halt the state’s investigation” into Ryan Wesley Routh, who was indicted for attempting to assassinate former President Donald Trump at his Florida golf course in September, the lawsuit states. “Every day that Florida is prevented from investigating, the State’s case becomes harder to prove at trial,” the lawsuit states. “By contrast, the federal government suffers no injury from Florida investigating state law crimes, as the State has no intention of...