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Breaking from multiple media outlets, Israel is saying it has killed Hezbollah Leader Hassan Nasrallah, first it was pagers, then walkie-talkies now the leader of Hezbollah has been killed, things are certainly heating up in that part of the world

Former bandmate Johnny Marr revealed that Rourke's death comes after a "lengthy illness with pancreatic cancer"Andy Rourke, bassist for The Smiths, has died. He was 59. Rourke’s death was announced today (May 19) by former bandmate Johnny Marr on social media. Per Marr’s statement, Rourke died following “a lengthy illness with pancreatic cancer”. Marr also paid tribute to his former bandmate, writing: “Andy will be remembered as a kind and beautiful soul by those who knew him and as a supremely gifted musician by music fans.” Rourke was best known for being the main bassist for The Smiths between 1982...

Peter Thiel has warned citizens about his own AI technology that is now being used in Ukraine, describing it as a “communist totalitarian technology.” Ukraine’s defense ministry has started using AI facial recognition technology from the controversial company, Clearview. Their supposed objective is to uncover Russian assailants, combat misinformation, and identify the dead. However, as reported previously at RAIR Foundation USA, Ukraine is the Global Tech Elite’s Great Reset Laboratory. Bringing about the Great Reset will require citizens to embrace and trust in Globalists’ invasive technologies and surveillance. They position their technology as “crisis-relevant” technology, which is alleged to be...

Fr. Jude DeAngelo’s departure comes after the Franciscan priest took fire last year for blessing an icon that depicted George Floyd as Jesus.WASHINGTON (LifeSiteNews) — The Catholic University of America (CUA) announced Tuesday that Fr. Jude DeAngelo, OFM Conv., will no longer serve as university chaplain starting this summer. In a letter to the university community, CUA President John Garvey wrote that Fr. DeAngelo, a Conventual Franciscan who has served as chaplain for 12 years, “will be concluding his time as University Chaplain this summer.” “In his order it is customary to move priests to new assignments after a set...

Is the Biden administration's messy withdrawal from Afghanistan incompetence, or is it exactly as planned? Is there a hidden globalist plan aimed at empowering Islamic governments in the Mideast? If yes, how would empowering the Taliban fit in the larger plan of globalists and believers in the New World Order? Socialists and globalists, whose home today is in the Democrat party, have been speaking about their lofty plans for decades, constantly testing the waters of public opinion and speaking from both sides of their mouths. They insert insane ideas in the American psyche, then quickly deny they really said what...

Pope ends first leg of his three-nation South American tour with impassioned plea to safeguard the environmentDelivered message in Ecuador, which has one of the world's most diverse ecosystems but is also reliant on oil He said: 'As stewards of these riches, we have an obligation toward society and toward future generations' (...) 'As stewards of these riches which we have received, we have an obligation toward society as a whole and toward future generations,' Francis said. 'We cannot bequeath this heritage to them without proper care for the environment, without a sense of gratuitousness born of our contemplation...

It’s been twenty years, but people still recall what happened in Manchester. This documentary was shot during that era. Video

For months, the family values wing of the Republican Party has been protesting the inclusion of GOProud, a right-wing gay group, at this year's Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). You won't hear any protesting, however, from conservative media mogul Andrew Breitbart. "We're going to have a big ol' gay party," he said on a radio show Wednesday. Breitbart says gays deserve a place within the Republican Party and he's been "offended" by efforts to exclude them. Therefore, he's throwing an 80's-themed gay party to welcome them on board. If this sounds like uncharacteristic behavior for Breitbart, his additional remarks should...

President Soeharto proclaimed a "New Order" in Indonesian politics and dramatically shifted foreign and domestic policies away from the course set in Soekarno's final years. The New Order established economic rehabilitation and development as its primary goals and pursued its policies through an administrative structure dominated by the military but with advice from Western-educated economic experts. In 1968, the People's Consultative Assembly (MPR) formally selected Soeharto to a full five-year term as President, and he was reelected to successive five-year terms in 1973, 1978, 1983, 1988, 1993, and 1998.

Manufacturers suffer record declines in activity By Krishna Guha in Washington, Michael Mackenzie in New York and Chris Bryant in Berlin Published: January 2 2009 19:23 | Last updated: January 2 2009 19:23 US manufacturing activity contracted at its sharpest pace for nearly 30 years in December, a closely watched survey suggested on Friday, underscoring the downward momentum in the economy at the turn of the year. The Institute for Supply Managers survey index declined in November from 36.2 to 32.4, much worse than expected, while new orders and production measures hit their lowest level since the survey began in...

On leaving a theater, have you ever been tempted to yell at the other moviegoers, "Hey, guys: Do ya get it? Do you know what this is about?" That's what I wanted to do when the lights came up and the credits started to roll for Michael Bay's just-released sci-fi block-buster "The Island." "Cloning! Embryonic stem cell research! Abortion! Euthanasia!" I wanted to shout. Still, "The Island's" pro-life message is unmistakable. Liberal critics are grumbling about it. Writing in the Hollywood Reporter, Kirk Honeycutt complains that "These filmmakers have, perhaps unwittingly, delivered a film certain to give succor to the...

“There is only one force of history that can break the reign of hatred and resentment, and expose the pretensions of tyrants, and reward the hopes of the decent and tolerant, and that is the force of human freedom.” George W. Bush, January 20, 2005. As noteworthy as what President Bush said in this and similar passages of his remarkable second inaugural is what he did not say. In particular, he did not declare the force upon which we must increasingly depend for “the survival of liberty in our land” to be the United Nations or multilateralism or supranational government....

ON A hot dusty Baghdad morning this week Iyad Allawi stepped out of his black bullet-proof limousine on to the tarmac of an American military helicopter pad.The top two US military officers in Iraq crisply saluted the country’s first postwar Prime Minister and one even embraced his bear-like figure. Moments later a pair of Blackhawk helicopters swooped down and Dr Allawi, surrounded by a phalanx of American bodyguards and a Pentagon liaison officer, climbed aboard. Door gunners loaded their machineguns and the aircraft skimmed over the city’s rooftops, setting down moments later at the Baghdad police academy. The distance was...