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Today's video is a reflection on the 40th anniversary of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s chilling speech, "Men Have Forgotten God." There are many sobering parallels between the collapse of spiritual life in Soviet Russia and today’s cultural crisis in America like how the rise of materialism, scientific atheism and nihilistic worldviews are contributing to a decline in faith especially among Gen Z. If you've ever wondered why belief in God seems to be fading, and what can be done about it, this is a conversation you can’t afford to miss... As a special gift Dr. Meyer would like you to download his...

In Florida, where I live, there were reports from Communist China saying that, for weeks on end, the entire population were forcibly locked in their homes. Anyone outside his home on unauthorized business was arrested. What some of our neighbors did not know is that the exact same thing was occurring in some American states. It was on the news, but some media downplayed it, and if people in the free states did not watch other media, they might not know the extent of what really happened. People were literally confined to their homes. Anyone outside his home on unauthorized...

🇺🇸Pray For The Peace of Jerusalem 🇮🇱(8/2/25)[Prayer]Water, Rivers, and Streams in the BibleMark 1:4-54 And so John the Baptist appeared in the wilderness, preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins. 5 The whole Judean countryside and all the people of Jerusalem went out to him. Confessing their sins, they were baptized by him in the Jordan River.Holy Bible, New International Version®, NIV® Copyright ©1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.® Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.________________________

Planned Parenthood Advocates of Virginia has partnered with several democratic lawmakers to launch Bros for Repro.’ The group includes male lawmakers running in tight races who are committed to “amplifying the voices of men who champion reproductive rights and bodily autonomy—not just as allies, but as active leaders in the movement.” Specifically, they want to see a surge in Democratic voters so that once they win, they can pass a constitutional amendment to entrench abortion rights in the state. One of these ‘bros’ is Del. Joshua Cole, who told MSN: “I would just ask that we speak up, we show...

The recently published New York Times list of “The 100 Best Films of the 21st Century” is that paper’s most significant cultural diktat since the 1619 Project, and it’s equally fallacious. Compiled from votes by more than 500 influential filmmakers, actors, and other film-industry “professionals,” these Times rankings pretend to reflect the films that have left a significant artistic, cultural, or emotional impact since January 1, 2000.

Tulsi Gabbard’s bombshell revives the question: was Russiagate a fraud orchestrated by Clinton, Comey, and Brennan to legitimize spying on Trump and bury a DNC leak? After Tulsi Gabbard’s recent revelation that President Obama ordered a false, politicized Intelligence Community Assessment (“ICA”) following Trump’s 2016 victory, the questions again arise about whether Putin interfered with the election to help Trump. The triumvirate of former FBI Director James Comey, former CIA Director John Brennan, and Hillary Clinton has contended since 2016 that Russian President Vladimir Putin “hacked and leaked” embarrassing internal DNC emails showing Clinton cheating rival Bernie Sanders in the...

The leader of the secretive Gloriavale Christian Community on New Zealand’s South Island, Howard Temple, 85, has pleaded guilty to 12 charges of indecency and sexual assault against young members of the group, according to an AP report. Founded in 1969 by traveling fundamentalist evangelist Neville Cooper, who was later arrested and jailed for multiple sex crimes, the isolated commune of over 500 members is nearly self-sufficient and located in one of New Zealand’s most remote areas. Often compared to the Amish for its strict dress code, large families, and rigid gender roles, Gloriavale has faced allegations of widespread sexual...

"This trade generated as much as $70 billion for Iran, propping up the regime and its nuclear weapons program." China is reportedly using a “dark fleet” to conduct secret ship-to-ship transfers of Iranian oil in an effort to evade U.S. sanctions on Tehran’s tankers. CBS News sent a crew to scout an area roughly 80 nautical miles from Singapore and found four ship-to-ship transfers occurring; all the “dark fleet” tankers had their transponders switched off, and “clearly do not want to be identified,” the outlet reported. “Both ships have a net or something, a tarp, deployed over the stern, covering...

The deranged 15-year-old accused of slaughtering all but one of his family members in their ritzy lakeside Washington mansion was kept isolated from the world and raised under a “rigid, militant survivalist ideology,” his lawyer claims. Mark and Sarah Humiston drove their future killer son to the heinous crime after hammering him and his siblings with years of religious extremism and government paranoia, according to court documents filed last week. Prosecutors say their oldest son — whose identity has been kept under wraps — shot his parents, brothers Benjamin, 13, Joshua, 9, and sister Katheryn, 7, in the middle of...

A Miami jury decided that Elon Musk’s car company Tesla was partly responsible for a deadly crash in Florida involving its Autopilot driver assist technology and must pay the victims more than $200 million in punitive damages. The federal jury held that Tesla bore significant responsibility because its technology failed and that not all the blame can be put on a reckless driver, even one who admitted he was distracted by his cell phone before hitting a young couple out gazing at the stars. The decision comes as Musk seeks to convince Americans his cars are safe enough to drive...

A Kansas grandpa is desperately searching for his four grandkids after their mom was brutally murdered and dumped in a shallow grave — allegedly by her husband, a self-proclaimed Mississippi cult leader called the “Silver Creek Messiah.” One of the last things La’Datra Williams, 26, told her grief-stricken dad, U.S. veteran Eddie Williams, on May 20 was she was “determined” to leave Charles Sims and his polygamous cult, which believes he’s a true vessel for the Holy Spirit and ordained by God almighty to fix the world’s problems. Sims is charged with first-degree murder for La’Datra’s killing. “I don’t know...

Malware bytes just issued a warning that FR is harboring dangerous software. What gives?

Daily Readings from the USCCBHerod the tetrarch heard of the reputation of Jesus and said to his servants, “This man is John the Baptist. He has been raised from the dead; that is why mighty powers are at work in him.” Matthew 14:1–2Herod the tetrarch was one of three brothers and a sister who became 1st-century rulers to succeed their father, Herod the Great, when he died in 4 B.C. Herod governed much of the territory west of the Sea of Galilee, which was the territory in which Jesus spent most of His time during His public ministry. He also...

The Jaguar CEO is stepping down months after leading a controversial "woke" rebrand campaign for the auto company. Jaguar Land Rover CEO Adrian Mardell is set to retire after three decades at the luxury car company and serving as CEO for three years, a spokesperson for the automaker announced on Thursday, Reuters reported. The British car brand turned heads last year with its release of a new ad, which featured a reimagined logo under the slogan "Copy Nothing." The ad featured androgynous models in brightly colored, over-the-top outfits, including one man wearing a dress, along with other slogans such as...

Some obese Americans on Medicare and Medicaid could get access to expensive weight loss drugs under a five-year experiment being planned by the Trump administration. Under the proposed plan, state Medicaid programs and Medicare Part D insurance plans would be able to voluntarily choose to cover Ozempic, Wegovy, Mounjaro and Zepbound for patients for “weight management” purposes, according to Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services documents obtained by The Washington Post. It’s a strong signal that the administration is open to more broadly covering GLP-1 drugs — lauded by many as a miracle solution to Americans’ long-standing struggle with weight...

Sheriffs are concerned. Florida’s Governor is griping about the Department of Homeland Security looking to “poach” local and state law enforcement for Immigration and Customs Enforcement. “Sheriffs losing deputies who are in this fight to just wear a different jersey, basically, but still be in the fight, that doesn’t necessarily add to what we’re doing. It’s just moving someone over,” Gov. Ron DeSantis said Friday. However, there are salient material reasons why someone would put on a “different jersey,” given the sweet deal D.C. is dangling in front of current cops. ICE is offering benefits that can’t be matched locally,...

That's not cheese you're smelling in the Wisconsin air. It's Astroturf. Friday's Morning Joe played an extended clip from a town hall held by Republican Congressman Bryan Steil in his 1st Congressional District of Wisconsin (Paul Ryan's old seat in the southeast corner of the state). Steil was unfailingly polite, to the point of saying that he welcomed disagreement. But that didn't earn him an ounce of grace from the audience, which was raucously hostile to him, with repeated booing and jeering. He couldn't get through his first sentence aired without being interrupted by the Democrat crowd. Every single comment...

2 August 2025 Saturday of week 17 in Ordinary Time St Peter Julian’s Church, SydneyReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: C(I).First readingLeviticus 25:1,8-17The law of the jubilee yearThe Lord spoke to Moses on Mount Sinai. He said: ‘You are to count seven weeks of years – seven times seven years, that is to say a period of seven weeks of years, forty-nine years. And on the tenth day of the seventh month you shall sound the trumpet; on the Day of Atonement you shall sound the trumpet throughout the land. You will declare this fiftieth year sacred and proclaim...

Slovenia has become the first country in the European Union to ban all weapons trade with Israel over its war on Gaza. The move by the government comes two weeks after the Central European nation declared Israeli ministers persona non grata. The arms embargo was announced by Prime Minister Robert Golob after a government session on Thursday. *** Amid the devastating war in Gaza, where “people … are dying because humanitarian aid is systematically denied them”, it was the “duty of every responsible state to take action, even if it means taking a step ahead of others”, the statement said....

No, I am not talking about statues celebrating the likes of Letitia James or Stacey Abrams. At least you could understand why the left would want to celebrate these women and try to make them icons. Rather, I am talking about a truly mysterious trend of Blue cities erecting statues of anonymous women whose only discernible reason for being is the celebration of obese black women as a class of people. Erecting a statue to celebrate someone's achievements deserves no criticism, regardless of the subject's attractiveness. If someone wanted to erect a statue to celebrate Stephen Hawking, who was never...