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Sir Keir Starmer’s grooming gang inquiry does not go far enough, victims and campaigners said on Tuesday. Four people affected by the rape gangs scandal joined Kemi Badenoch, the Conservative leader, as she held a press conference in central London. It comes after Sir Keir bowed to pressure to commission a national inquiry into the historic sexual exploitation of thousands of girls, predominantly by men of Pakistani origin. The Prime Minister’s commitment followed a report by Baroness Casey which found that police and council leaders covered up the scale of Asian grooming gangs because they feared being called racist. Marlon...

17 June 2025 Tuesday of week 11 in Ordinary Time Church of St. Albert Chmielowski in Zielona Góra, Poland Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: C(I).First reading2 Corinthians 8:1-9The Lord Jesus was rich but became poor for your sakeNow here, brothers, is the news of the grace of God which was given in the churches in Macedonia; and of how, throughout great trials by suffering, their constant cheerfulness and their intense poverty have overflowed in a wealth of generosity. I can swear that they gave not only as much as they could afford, but far more, and quite spontaneously,...

Within the span of a week, what was begun by Israel on June 13 could easily be a replay of Sept. 12, 1683 when Poland's Winged Hussars, as led by King Jan Sobieski III, broke the siege of Vienna and saved Central Europe from Ottoman subjugation. Israel is about to put an end to more than forty-five years of regional and worldwide state-sponsored terrorism by Iran's theocrats, although the very people whom Israel saves are unlikely to thank them for it. Israel's role is in fact similar to margraves, voyevodes, and similar border lords who, often at high costs to...

In today’s video, discover how a tiny horse that couldn’t even stand on his own legs took his first steps—and ran straight into our hearts. Peabody’s fight for life is one you’ll never forget.

Sobering footage has captured a massive traffic jam as thousands frantically tried to flee Tehran — with President Trump ominously warning that Israel wouldn’t be slowing its attacks on Iran any time soon. The president urged “everyone to evacuate” the Iranian city late Monday as Israel appeared to be expanding its air assault five days after launching its surprise attack on Iran’s military and nuclear program. He predicted, too, that Israel was showing no signs of relenting. “You’re going to find out over the next two days,” Trump said when asked if Israel would slow down its onslaught. “You’re going...

The pervasive talking point of the Left since President Trump returned to office is that he is trying to make himself into a “dictator.” Starting in the early weeks of his new term, the main evidence for the “dictator” claim was said to be Trump’s actions to make the government respond to his policies, via actions like large-scale lay-offs, issuance of Executive Orders, and cancellation of grants and contracts. (Here for example is a piece from the Guardian from February 13, complaining of what they called Trump’s “illegitimate power grab” by, among other things, cancelling grants and downsizing agencies from...

Elon Musk has revealed the results of a drug test in an effort to defuse claims that he was routinely taking ketamine in the run-up to the US election. The world’s richest man shared a report from a drug testing lab that contained a set of negative results for illegal and medical substances, including ecstasy, cocaine and ketamine. Published on his social media platform X, Mr Musk revealed results from a urine sample submitted to an Austin medical lab on June 13. It comes after the billionaire denied claims of drug-taking following a New York Times report in May. In...

Fewer than 10 ballistic missiles were launched from Iran at Israel overnight, according to IDF assessments. The missiles came in three overnight attacks just after midnight, at 3:30 a.m., and 4:30 a.m. There were no reports of impacts in urban areas or injuries. The number of missiles marks a significant dip after three consecutive nights in which scores of missiles were fired.

Broadband and Heathrow’s third runway are to be counted as defence spending under Sir Keir Starmer’s plans to redraw the definition of national security. The Government’s national security review, due to be published before a Nato summit next week, will expand the definition to include economic stability, food prices, supply chains, crime and the internet. It could allow the UK to hit Nato’s new defence spending target of five per cent of GDP without committing any further public money. Mark Rutte, Nato’s secretary general, has proposed member states spend 3.5 per cent on core defence activities and a further 1.5...

June 5, 1967 was a day that will live in glory in the annals of Jewish history. On that day in 1967, the Israeli air force destroyed on the ground and in the air the Arab air forces, and gained full supremacy in the air, and ultimately on the ground and at sea. This was the Six Day War—52 years ago. It was one of the greatest victories in Jewish history, and a seminal event in Israel’s history. It all began a month earlier. The Egyptian dictator Gamal Abdel Nasser made bellicose statements on the Voice of the Arabs radio...

Israel's Ambassador to the U.S. Yechiel Leiter said there will be some surprises amid the Jewish State's conflict with Iran that will make Israel's explosions of pagers and walkie-talkies used by members of Hezbollah in Lebanon and Syria last year look "simple." "We've pulled off a number of surprises," Leiter said during a Tuesday appearance on the TV network Merit Street. "When the dust settles, you're going to see some surprises on Thursday night and Friday that will make the beeper operation almost seem simple," he continued. ... Leiter on Tuesday also posted a video message on X that was...

"Realize where we are." — Oilfield Rando on "X". Saturday morning, we toodled over to the next town, Salem, New York, (pop. 2,612, per capita income $19,499) fifty miles northeast of Albany, to catch one of the hundreds of “No Kings” demos across the nation sponsored by Shanghai-based software billionaire Neville Roy Singham, Walmart heiress Christy Walton, Paypal partner (and Linked-in founder) Reid Hoffman, and father-and son team, George and Alex Soros. Speaking of Alex Soros, Saturday also happened to be his wedding day, to Huma Abedin, former Hillary Clinton sidekick and BFF (and ex-wife of disgraced congressman and convicted...

Sergei Shoigu, secretary of Russia’s Security Council, traveled to Pyongyang on Tuesday under the direct orders of Russian President Vladimir Putin, signaling a deepening of strategic military cooperation between North Korea and Russia. The visit, Shoigu's second in less than two weeks and third meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in just three months, comes as Moscow seeks to draw Pyongyang closer in its protracted war effort in Ukraine. Observers say the visit suggests a bid by Russia to leverage shifting global attention — particularly the West’s growing preoccupation with escalating tensions between Israel and Iran — to secure...

The migrant riots were about causing chaos, not about advocating for illegal aliens. The "Summer of Love" of 2020 refers to the period of social unrest, protests, riots, and billions of dollars in property damage following the death of George Floyd that May. It involved widespread demonstrations against law enforcement and perceived racial injustice, fueled by the Black Lives Matter movement and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Five years later, just a few weeks before summer officially begins, we are kicking off the “Summer of Cloward-Piven.” Cloward-Piven is rarely mentioned by corporate media and is seldom heard from the lips of...

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President expresses confidence in Israel's actions, hints at potential diplomatic moves.

“‘For in the way you judge, you will be judged; and by your standard of measure, it will be measured to you’” (Matthew 7:2). Most people feel free to judge other people harshly because they erroneously think they are somehow superior. The Pharisees considered themselves exempt from judgment because they believed they perfectly measured up to the divine standards. The problem was that these weren’t divine standards—they were mere human standards they had established far short of God’s holy and perfect law. When we assume the role of final, omniscient judge, we imply that we are qualified to judge—that we...

Less than a week after the elimination of his predecessor, Ali Shadmani, the new commander of Iranian forces in the current war, was bombed in a command center in Tehran earlier today.

If you search “shrimp Jesus” on Facebook, you might encounter dozens of images of artificial intelligence (AI) generated crustaceans meshed in various forms with a stereotypical image of Jesus Christ. Some of these hyper-realistic images have garnered more than 20,000 likes and comments. So what exactly is going on here? The “dead internet theory” has an explanation: AI and bot-generated content has surpassed the human-generated internet. But where did this idea come from, and does it have any basis in reality? What is the dead internet theory? The dead internet theory essentially claims that activity and content on the internet,...