The Chinese spy balloon; CA minimum wage hike already costing jobs...more

Top 10 COVID Events of the Year: Revealing the Facts Unspoken and Unknown

COVID-19 in 2023 has been full of revelations and controversy.

Most health leaders involved in the U.S. pandemic response have resigned or been replaced, with one leaving his agency with a study that received much fanfare for a somewhat controversial take on vaccines.

Compared to 2022, the science on the effectiveness and risks of masking and vaccinations has become increasingly clear with the release of highly authoritative studies this year.

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Armenian Christians attacked in Jerusalem, some in serious condition  

Armenian Christians in Jerusalem were violently attacked by more than 30 masked Arab Muslims in Jerusalem on Thursday.

“Armenian clerics in Jerusalem are fighting for their lives,” the Armenian Patriarchate told the Jerusalem Post.

Several of the Armenian priests were “seriously injured.”

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The Chinese spy balloon: what's a little national security breach between enemies?    Remember the Chinese spy balloon?  The one that flew the length of America while somehow mysteriously hovering over many sensitive military installations? The one that could not be shot down over Alaska, Montana or Wyoming, because it might land on a protected toad or snail? There’s not much else out there in large parts of the West. That Chinese spy balloon, the one as big as two buses, the one that was finally shot down over the Atlantic after it had gathered and transmitted to the Chinese all the data the Chinese Communist Party wanted? The one that insulted and humiliated America? That one? Oh yes, there were earlier balloons the government hid from us.

Now we discover we only know about that particular spy balloon because a few Americans, on commercial airliners, and on the ground, saw it and decided it was something about which Americans ought to know.

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California’s Minimum-Wage Hike Hasn’t Even Happened But It’s Already Killing Jobs  Already, with California’s looming minimum-wage tax on fast-food chains in the state, employers are tweaking costs by reducing hours, laying off workers and charging you more for that cheeseburger, fries and a drink that you crave.

Though the calendar says it’s still 2023, franchisees of the Pizza Hut chain have announced this week they’re laying off 1,200 drivers who used to deliver their piping-hot pies door-to-door. With the new higher wages, they can’t afford to keep drivers working.

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Biden Admin Spends Taxpayer Dollars On Ballroom Dancing Program To ‘Uplift Transgender’ Youth In Peru   Ballroom dancing for LGBTQIA+ youth in Peru isn’t the first LGBT program the State Department has supported.

The State Department funded an LGBTQ+ film festival in Portugal that showed movies depicting incest and a minor having sex with an adult. The department stood by its decision to support the festival, citing its support for “protecting and promoting the human rights of LGBTQI+ persons,” the Washington Free Beacon reported.

  

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Half the cargo ships that regularly use the Suez Canal are now avoiding it due to the risk of Iran-backed attacks There is also a drought that is affecting how many ships can pass through the canal. Flexport says this, combined with the Houthi attacks, might reduce global maritime shipping capacity by 20%.

For the globalized world, but especially for import-reliant nations like the United States, free and open oceans are essential for life.

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Life expectancy in the U.S. is now DROPPING in the aftermath of COVID-19 vaccines   Life expectancy has been declining in the U.S., and the timing coincides with the introduction of COVID-19 vaccines.

The average expected lifespan for Americans in 2021 was 76.4 years, which represents a drop of 0.6 from 2020. Men can expect to live an average of 73.5 years overall, while women's life expectancy is 79.3 years.

The leading cause of death in the U.S. in 2021 was heart disease, which is something that has been connected to COVID-19 vaccines.

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THE WEEK IN PICTURES: HAPPY NEW YEAR EDITION 

Why So Many Are Choosing Couches Over Pews; If you don’t have a border, you don’t have a country ...more

Why So Many Are Choosing Couches Over Pews  

Apparently, large numbers of people who once identified as Christians have decided they no longer need to attend church. While COVID may have been the impetus behind this exodus, the root causes are preexisting and go much deeper. Too many Christians think of church as they would an event, concert, or TED Talk, optional experiences that can just as easily be consumed remotely.  

When combined with pastors and leaders who view the core purpose of church as evangelism rather than discipleship or worship and are therefore willing to do whatever seems to “work,” success is just as easily measured by logins and views after the pandemic as it was by attendance numbers and growth size before the pandemic.

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"We Have Reached A Breaking Point"...If you don’t have a border, you don’t have a country.   We really are being invaded, and the government of Mexico is actively facilitating this.

Cities all over America are being absolutely packed with extremely desperate illegal invaders just as we enter the most chaotic election year in U.S. history.

Anyone can see that this is a recipe for widespread chaos.

We are in so much trouble, but our politicians in Washington continue to refuse to secure our borders.

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After Two Decades, the 9/11 War Cry Is Heard Again at the Scene of the Crime Twenty-two years after the 9/11 jihad attacks, it has come to this: on Thursday, as anti-Israel protesters stormed the World Trade Center site in lower Manhattan, screams of “Allahu akbar” could be heard among the crowd. After two decades, the war cry of those who took down the Twin Towers has returned to the scene of the crime.

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Major Scandal Rocks the Italian Catholic Church: Bishops Accused of Funding Illegal Immigration     

A significant scandal has recently emerged within the Italian Catholic Church, implicating high-ranking church officials, including cardinals and archbishops, in a scheme of organizing and financing illegal migration from Africa to Europe. Investigations led by the prosecutor’s office in Ragusa, Sicily, have uncovered troubling connections between several Italian dioceses and the George Soros-tied NGO “SOS Mediterranea,” accused of aiding and abetting human trafficking under the guise of refugee aid.

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New FOIA'ed Data Reveal NY Vaccine Clinics Called Ambulances to be "On Standby"  Are you kidding me? Employees at vaccine clinics in Westchester County, as early as Feb 21, 2021, were calling EMS “to be on standby?” For “vaccine detail?” One caller informed EMS dispatch that they “will be administering vaccines to 220 people today?” Note they did that as early as February 21, 2021. That is how fast some front-line workers knew how dangerous the vaccines were.

Also note how, on 5/20/21, two calls from the Mamaroneck High School clinic asked for ambulances to be on standby, the first call was made at 9:07 AM and a later one was made at 2:09 PM. For a “safe and effective” vaccine?

Ten New Year’s Resolutions to Restore Medical Freedom  Advocates for civil rights in general, and for medical freedom in particular, should be deeply disturbed by this attempt to cast the whole Covid-19 catastrophe down the memory hole. Medical freedom is rapidly developing as a philosophical, intellectual, and ethical concept. However, theoretical efforts to promote medical freedom – and by extension, to re-enforce all fundamental civil liberties – will come to naught if the greatest assault on freedom in modern history is allowed to be forgotten, and the perpetrators are allowed to continue as if nothing happened.

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New EV Deemed Total Loss After Battery Replacement Costs More Than Car Itself 

Fiducia Supplicans Pushback; America is unprepared to fight a war on three fronts...more

Pope Francis Faces Growing Worldwide Pushback Against His ‘Same-Sex Blessing’ Doctrine   All over the world, prelates and faithful alike have vigorously opposed the new directives from Francis, as a growing number of Catholic bishops in Africa and Europe are publicly voicing their rejection of the new document by the Vatican.

The Pope, Same-Sex Blessings, and Protestants 

This will also affect Protestants. Whether we like it or not, the officer class of our culture cares little for debates about transubstantiation and papal authority. It makes no real distinction between Catholics and Protestants. In its eyes we are all Christians and thus the shenanigans of the pope will put pressure on us all. The argument will be that, if Rome can change, why can we all not change? The possibility of sheltering under that broad cultural umbrella that Rome has provided will be withdrawn on this issue and we will feel the pain of that. -First Things

Pope Francis, LGBTQ, and Semi-Pelagianism 

So, pastors should not treat goats like sheep. They should love the goats by telling them they’re goats. They should show them the true spiritual food of the sheep and tell them that—if they repent of their sin and believe in Jesus Christ—this food is for them, too. At the end of the day, as much as I’d like to say otherwise, Reformed Pastors should do something relatively similar to what the Pope suggests: We should pray for people in same-sex unions. Prayer asks for God’s favor without endorsing the behavior of the one prayed for. Indeed, prayer often asks for favor despite the behavior of the one prayed for. The difference, however, is that the primary objective of the prayer should not be that God would “bless” these people but that God would save them by gifting them conviction, repentance, and true faith in Jesus Christ.

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The Methodist Church of Great Britain Labels Terms ‘Husband‘ and ‘Wife‘ Offensive  The Methodist Church of Great Britain has called on its ministers, deacons, and elders to stop using offensive terminology such as “husband” and “wife” to avoid making assumptions that are not “the reality for many people.”

The church added the changes to its “Inclusive Language Guide,” an initiative aimed at preventing the use of “hurtful language” directed at groups the Methodist Church believes have been “marginalised and/or demonised by common culture.” The church plans to update the Inclusive Language Guide every six months to avoid using language that could offend groups it perceives as marginalized.

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America is unprepared to fight a war on three fronts...The democratic world is sleepwalking once again towards military disaster  The democratic world is sleepwalking towards disaster yet again. Just as we need them most, it’s nigh-on impossible to find anyone in the West who resembles Churchill, Roosevelt, Truman or even Nixon or Reagan. The EU bureaucracy certainly is no substitute for De Gaulle. The West cannot win, or even stay relevant, in the “clash of civilisations” if it does not believe in itself, and continues to neglect the physical means to protect its interests.

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“The Times viewed photographs of one woman’s corpse…with dozens of nails driven into her thighs and groin”...NY Times bears witness to evidence of Palestinian sexual savagery on October 7   The sexual crimes committed by Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and Gaza “civilians” on October 7 have been well-documented and reported on by a range of media. Nonetheless, there is a concerted effort at rape denialism at websites like the “Electronic Intifada” and various social media accounts

Yet of the hundreds (maybe thousands) of international journalists, diplomats, public officials, and others who have been privately shown the video and photo evidence, including a 45-minute compendium taken mostly from Hamas’ own body cams, not one has claimed Israeli is lying.

Freed Gaza Hostage: 'Everyone Over There is a Terrorist'   “It’s important to understand that I went through a Holocaust and that everyone there is a terrorist,” Schem said. “These are families under Hamas. In retrospect, I suddenly realized that I was with a family, suddenly, I started asking myself questions, why am I in a family’s house? Why are there children here? Why is there a woman here?”

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If trans athletes can compete in female events, then women's sport is finished   How is any young girl going to feel inspired to take up sport if she knows she'll be competing against – and losing to – biological males?

And how can any parent feel their daughter is safe in a changing room where biologically-intact male athletes are dressing and showering alongside?

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Canada on track to let doctors offer assisted suicide to mentally ill people   Canada is set to offer assisted suicide to Canadians with mental illnesses, The New York Times reported on Wednesday.

The law would make Canada one of the few countries that allow individuals struggling with mental illness to seek assisted suicide through a doctor, according to the NYT. It is set to go into effect in March, and has drawn condemnation from lawmakers and mental health professionals, the latter of whom fear it will undercut their efforts to help their patients and prevent them from committing suicide.

“I’m trying to keep my patients alive,” Dr. John Maher, an Ontario-based psychiatrist, told the NYT. “What does it mean for the role of the physician, as healer, as bringer of hope, to be offering death? And what does it mean in practice?”

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 Bald Eagle Lands on Man’s Shoulder 

After Man Prayed for a Closer Look

Which Way, Western Man? Satanic Idols or Christian Morality?; 'DEI programs in the tech industry are in broad retreat' ...more

Which Way, Western Man? Satanic Idols or Christian Morality?  Evil is pervading and corrupting the West — from pornography and 1,000 different stripes of sexual deviancy to contraception and the horrors of the abortion chamber. Consent-based libertarian ethics will not stem the tide. Moral relativism is what has led to the domination of America by perverse, radical agendas; clinging to that methodology will only result in the death of the nation’s soul. The quaint idea of saying, “I have my morality, which is different than yours, so let’s create a neutral space so that ne’er the twain shall meet,” has been tried and has failed. It has failed because the leftist ideology takes no quarter. If a vacuum is created, leftism will fill it and still maintain an appetite for expansion.

Conservatives and, perhaps more to the point, Christians face a choice: whether to reclaim civilization and base its laws on objective, absolute moral good or to kid themselves that they’re making a shrewd compromise while everything they hold dear is suppressed, shattered, and stripped away. Liberty is a fine thing, but it’s not something the ideologies antithetical to the West do or will respect. They will use it to seek and gain ascendancy and then pry it from the cold, dead fingers of the fools they conquer. Unless someone stands up against them.

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‘How Tyranny Says, “Merry Christmas!”’: Kathy Hochul Ripped For Big Change To Local Elections In New York   Governor Kathy Hochul (D-NY) is being heavily criticized for signing a bill that moves most local elections to even-numbered years, aligning with federal elections.

While Hochul argued the change is a step toward a “more inclusive democracy,” critics say the move “effectively ends local elections” in New York state, significantly shifting power over to Democrats.

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Giant Hordes Of Illegal Immigrants Are Being Brought Into The U.S. Just In Time For The Societal Meltdown Of 2024  What’s becoming increasingly evident is that a network of NGOs funded partly by the US taxpayer but by other countries and corporations are covertly facilitating the invasion of illegals at the US southern border, as well as distributing them across the US into progressive metro areas.

According to an August report by progressive left-leaning media watchdog organization Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting, President Biden’s Department of Homeland Security allocated $363 million to NGOs to assist illegal aliens once in the US.

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Today They Are Blocking Airports and Storming Government Buildings — Tomorrow They Will Do Far Worse Radical Islamic activists are increasingly causing major problems all over the United States.  They are blocking airports, storming government buildings and causing all sorts of chaos in the streets.  Unfortunately, thanks to the Biden administration more Muslim extremists continue to pour into this country with each passing day.

They have learned how to game the system just like hordes of other illegal immigrants have.  We are literally committing national suicide, but as long as Joe Biden is in the White House our borders are going to continue to be wide open.

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'DEI programs in the tech industry are in broad retreat'  Critical Race Theory offshoot “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion” captured and imprisoned most of academia and many corporations in the aftermath of George Floyds death.

It was a frenzy to virtue signal and throw money at …. well that was the problem. What exactly were they trying to fix? The DEI industrial complex, fueled by tens of billions of dollars, had no actual solutions. I have argued endlessly that DEI makes things worse by focusing on group identity rather than individual merit, by setting groups against each other in zero-sum games, and by demoralizing and demeaning the very people (loosely, ‘non-whites’) DEI purported to help. And it is now widely recognized that the oppressor-opressed false narrative pushed by many if not most DEI programming is a leading contributor and instigator of antisemitism.

Can anyone point to any measurable accomplishment of the billions of dollars spend on DEI? And by accompishment, I don’t mean job creating for a DEI bureaucracy that adds zero economic value.

DEI Resistance Is Advancing    

The next time you are trying to find a surgeon, will you pick the one who was licensed because she was the right minority or the one who earned her position the old-fashioned way? Now substitute auto mechanic and electrician for surgeon. How do you respond? And do you want your favorite basketball team to be comprised of players of various ethnicities and genders, or the team that had the best damned players money could buy?

Harvard has been destroyed by DEI 

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Syracuse prof claims critiques of Claudine Gay are rooted in bigotry against black women Jenn Jackson, an assistant professor of political science at Syracuse, called criticisms of Claudine Gay’s scholarship 'attacks on Critical Race Theory and Black women academics.'  On Dec. 17, Jackson wrote on X that, 'Black people (like Indigenous people) cannot be racist against white people.'

Education isn’t the priority in public schools. Competing agendas are  Are students, particularly high school students, believing that their academic performance is irrelevant because the “government” will take care of their debts, health care, food, lodging and more? Are they succumbing to popular culture’s image of school as being useful only as a place to meet to plan weekend parties?

All I feel is fury at the bankruptcy of academia decades ago  To fix academia today is no longer doable, without throwing out the baby with the bath water. It is so poisoned with these ideas — from faculty to administration — that it is difficult to imagine a simple fix. Simply cleaning out the Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity departments will accomplish little, because all other departments are now run by professors and administrators who buy into this empty ideology and will enforce it regardless.

Instead, it appears that the entire system has to be dumped, a drastic action with consequences so terrible it is hard to imagine. No civilization can prosper if it doesn’t have a viable education system. We don’t have one now, but we can no longer reform it, which means we need to rebuild from the bottom up, a task that will take many decades. In the interim all society will be plunged into a dark age of ignorance, foolishness, and ruin.

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Britain BANS PRAYER Near Abortion Clinics  

England’s High Court has upheld a local government order establishing a so-called “buffer zone” against prayers being said near an abortion clinic. Livia Tossici-Bolt, who heads the pro-life group 40 Days for Life Bournemouth, and Christian Concern had attempted to overturn the ban, arguing it “criminalized prayer and reading from the Bible”.

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Banks Terminate 60,000 Workers In One Of The Bleakest Years For The Industry Since 2008  The collapse of three US regional banks - First Republic Bank, Silicon Valley Bank, and Signature Bank - marked some of the largest failures in the banking system since 2008. Central banks contained the "mini-crisis" earlier this year with forced interventions and the mega-merger of Credit Suisse and UBS. Despite the interventions, global banks still axed the most jobs since the global financial crisis.

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THIS IS BIG: Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger Refuses to Testify Under Oath About Secretary of State's Dominion Voting Machines 

The report confirms that votes can be altered in the Dominion voting machines.  In fact, the report reveals that the Dominion software is vulnerable and can be hacked.

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'Experts' now predict an epidemic of heart failure   

U.S.-based cardiologist Dr. Anish Koka has reported seeing an “undeniable” rise in heart conditions after COVID vaccines were rolled out, while Department of Defense whistleblower Lieutenant Ted Macie recently claimed heart failure soared by 973 percent among “fixed-wing pilots and helicopter pilots on active duty” following vaccination.

“Vaccine” Side Effect? Swiss Health Insurer’s Data Shows 73% Increase in People Receiving Cancer Treatment Since 2020   Since the increase in cancer cases in 2020 was very small, Beck reasoned that the pandemic couldn’t have caused the massive jump in number in the succeeding years. Only Switzerland’s COVID vaccination campaign coincided with the sudden rise in cancer cases among the Swiss population.

The Failure of Holocaust Education; Largest Migrant Caravan In Over a Year Heading to Open US Border ...more

The Failure of Holocaust Education...Another day, another onslaught on diaspora Jews. The fact that more than 1200 Israelis were slaughtered on October 7 by the supposedly “oppressed” Palestinians and more than 230 taken hostage, with an unknown number subsequently tortured, raped and murdered by those “oppressed” Palestinians while more than 100 remain captive in the hell-holes of Hamas, gets in the way of that narrative.

So the evidence of Jewish victimhood has to be torn down. Conscience and decency must be erased. The most persecuted people in the history of the world, who have remained under relentless attack ever since October 7 by Palestinians and their Iranian puppet-masters bent on completing Hitler’s Final Solution, must be turned into Nazis. To the west’s poster-tearing Jew-haters, genocide has become resistance while resistance to being wiped off the face of the earth has become genocide.

A culture that in the 1940s fought for civilisation against barbarism has itself now become depraved.

The violent animals on the left who support Hamas 

We now live in 1930s Germany. The thugs and bullies have free rein, and too many Americans look the other way, refusing to see the evil that these goons do, or if aware are too timid or frightened to challenge them. With such willful blindness, the likelihood of any election changing things is becoming increasingly doubtful, as these modern Nazi storm-troopers gain more power with little forceful opposition.

Gaza’s ‘Hitler 2’ Store with Knife-Wielding Mannequins Reportedly Destroyed  Some of the young customers who applauded the shop’s tribute to knife-wielding Palestinian terrorists also expressed an eagerness to carry out attacks against Jews themselves.

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Nigerian Governor After Christmas Massacre: Jihadis Occupying Dozens of Christian Communities 

The Nigerian government has historically done little to protect Christian communities from Fulani terrorists; federal officials initially announced the death toll of the Christmas attacks in Plateau to be just 16 people.

“Fundamentalist Muslims are in control of all the security organs of State including the police, the military, and intel agencies,” Jeff King, president of International Christian Concern (ICC), explained to Breitbart News in December. “Fundamentalist Muslim actors embedded in the security apparatus of the Nigerian State in Nigeria have aided and abetted the Muslim Fulani’s slow-moving anti-Christian genocide and/or jihad for two decades now.”

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The Fall of France...Any guesses why? 

Already some retired French military men have warned of “civil war.” It must not come to this. The French, instead, must take control of their demographic destiny, calling a halt to Muslim immigration, and making life distinctly more difficult for Muslim economic migrants already in the country. That can be achieved by a law that would deny all state benefits to migrants during their first five years of residence in France Such a law should cause quite an outflow of those economic migrants, almost all of them Muslims from the Maghreb, who have been costing the French government billions of dollars a year. Not any more.

Was the Dublin Riot a Watershed Moment? 

Meanwhile, many of these migrants exhibit Islam’s natural hostility for all things and persons non-Islamic.  Wherever there is a significant presence of migrants, crimes, rapes, and general insecurity soar.  This is to be expected: the migrants’ Islamic upbringing -- which is regularly nurtured by European subsidized mosques -- is inherently tribal, and sees in the “other” nothing but walking prey. 

Finally, the “guardians” of what western people are allowed to know and talk about -- media, politicians, “experts,” and the elites who own and control them -- have done everything to conceal these facts: the names and identities of criminals and rapists are generally suppressed; a rise in crimes is blamed on anything and everything -- from a lack of “equity” to European “racism” -- but the obvious.

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Largest Migrant Caravan In Over a Year Heading to Open US Border – 15,000 Illegal Migrants in Christmas Caravan and It's Growing Every Day  This is a planned invasion of America.

29K Migrants Apprehended at Border During Christmas Weekend 

Open Borders – Why Not Just Invite the Entire World to the U.S.? At the rate we are going, soon the entire world may migrate to America for free food, shelter, education, health care, and even voting rights. The latter perk is the real reason Democrats want open borders as Americans won’t vote for their nonsensical proposals and candidates.

Leprosy, Polio, Malaria, TB, Measles … and Massive Unscreened Illegal Immigration  “The recent polio and leprosy cases are almost certainly imports to the U.S.,” said Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, a physician and scientist at Stanford University, one of the most outspoken critics of official COVID-19 narratives in the last pandemic that later proved flawed.

And the Biden administration, an aggressive promoter of often mandatory vaccination last time, now is offering little public comment on the connection between disease and the porous borders with which its immigration policy has become widely identified.

Your tax dollars are paying for the 'rights for migrants' legal scam The New York City Council this month passed Resolution 556, calling on the state Legislature to guarantee, as a right, that all migrants have lawyers paid for by taxpayers when they go to immigration court. It would be a “first in the nation” guarantee.

Resolution 556 would give migrants more rights

 than American citizens have.

No one else is guaranteed a publicly funded lawyer in civil court matters, such as housing court issues or divorce.

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Comedian Tom Smothers, one-half of the Smothers Brothers, dies at 86  Tom Smothers, half of the Smothers Brothers and the co-host of one of the most socially conscious and groundbreaking television shows in the history of the medium, has died at 86.

The National Comedy Center, on behalf of his family, said in a statement Wednesday that Smothers died Tuesday at home in Santa Rosa, California, following a cancer battle.

“Tom was not only the loving older brother that everyone would want in their life, he was a one-of-a-kind creative partner. I am forever grateful to have spent a lifetime together with him, on and off stage, for over 60 years,” his brother and the duo’s other half, Dick Smothers, said in the statement. “Our relationship was like a good marriage — the longer we were together, the more we loved and respected one another. We were truly blessed.”

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The Naval Academy Frets Over Gender Studies as a Russia-China Alliance Grows  Did you know that the U.S. Naval Academy has a course in gender studies? Even if this is new information, at this point, you probably aren't surprised. The stories of the U.S. Army's efforts to transform itself into a massive drag brunch in fatigues are legion. Couple that with what amounted to Joe Biden's massive giveaway of arms and equipment in Afghanistan and donations to Ukraine, and you have a military that is unequipped, unprepared, and possibly uninterested in the nation's defense.

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You’d Be Surprised Which States Persecute Religious Schools And Charities  States throughout the country, including some red states, are breaking the law by persecuting religious schools and charities.

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Over 36,000 gallons of water used for electric vehicle fire on I-65  According to the Pine Level Fire Department, units were called to a traffic accident with a vehicle fire around 11:15 p.m.

At the scene, firefighters found a Tesla Model Y in flames. The Alabama Law Enforcement Agency was already on the scene and had closed the interstate.

The driver was uninjured and had escaped the vehicle before the fire department arrived, officials say.

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The Underground People 

Billionaire bunkers are in, it seems, to protect the world’s oligarchs from an impending apocalypse that they have conspired to bring about. “A number of companies around the world are meeting a growing demand for structures that protect from any risk, whether it’s a global pandemic, an asteroid, or World War III – while also delivering luxurious amenities,” says CEO Robert Vicino of Vivos, an underground shelter company.

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A Real Man Educates Snowflakes 

Who Think They Support Murdering Babies

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The Cost of “Making a Mess” -Charles J. Chaput; Christmas attack in Nigeria: 140 dead, 100s injured in Plateau State...more

Fiducia Supplicans: The Cost of “Making a Mess”: by Charles J. Chaput   Over the past decade ambiguity on certain matters of Catholic doctrine and practice has become a pattern for the current pontificate. The pope’s criticism of American Catholics has too often been unjust and uninformed. Much of the German Church is effectively in schism, yet Rome first unwisely tolerated Germany’s “synodal path,” and then reacted too slowly to preclude the negative results. At a time when fatherhood and male Christian spiritual leadership are in crisis, the Holy Father has asked his International Theological Commission to work on “de-masculinizing” the Church. The most urgent challenge that Christians face in today’s world is anthropological: who and what a human being is; whether we have some higher purpose that warrants our special dignity as a species; whether we’re anything more than unusually smart animals who can invent and reinvent ourselves. And yet our focus for 2024 is a synod on synodality.

Saying these things, of course, will invite claims of “disloyalty.” But the real disloyalty is not speaking the truth with love. And that word “love” is not some free-floating balloon of goodwill. It’s an empty shell without the truth to fill it. In Brazil in 2013, the Holy Father encouraged young people to “make a mess.” That’s come to pass in ways surely unintended by the pope. But in the end, pastoral leaders are accountable for their words and their actions. Because, as St. Paul said so long ago, “God is not the author of confusion but of peace.” Read it all

Can the Pope Overrule God? A reflection on where the Catholic Church is headed.  As for the notion that these blessings were possible as long as they “do not transmit a wrong conception of marriage,” my response is short and sweet: Are you kidding me?

Really now, is the Pope telling us a gay couple can live together, can be emotionally and physically intimate, and can commit to lifelong faithfulness without transmitting a wrong conception of marriage? What is the big difference between the two – other than the obvious fact that two men or two women cannot marry in God’s sight?

In August, I addressed the Church of England’s decision to allow Anglican clergy to “bless” same-sex couples, yet another apostate step made by this rapidly declining faith group.

 

What will now happen with the Catholic Church? -Dr. Michael Brown

'Fiducia supplicans' appears to have failed spectacularly  -The Catholic World Report

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2024—the Year of our Reckoning 

We should remember the now modern proverb of Nixon-era economic advisor Herb Stein to the effect that what cannot go on (without destroying the nation), simply will not go on.

In some sense, the country for recent years has been cruising on the fumes from prior and likely better wiser generations and institutions. In 2024, the tab for our current apathy, toxic politics, and incompetence will come due.

So next year we will likely see the climax to a number of current dangerous ideas, events, and forces, which finally will either overwhelm us or be addressed and remedied. We live in a Neronian age but can recover if we first understand how we got here and the nature of the suicide we are committing.

America’s Forgotten History and Heroes 

Did you know that according to the American Bible Society, 2022 was the lowest year for biblical literacy in its 120-year polling history? On today’s edition of Family Talk, David Barton, the founder and president of WallBuilders, highlights American heroes whose convictions were firmly planted in the Bible. He also stresses the need for biblically-minded Christians to engage in politics at the local levels, because then we will be able to influence culture at the national level. Proverbs 29:2 says, “When the righteous thrive, the people rejoice; when the wicked rule, the people groan.” Excellent podcast!

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Christmas attack in Nigeria: Leaves 140 dead, 100s injured in Plateau State The area, situated on the border between the predominantly Muslim northern region and the predominantly Christian southern region of Nigeria, has a history marred by ethnic and religious tensions.

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Hitler Wasn't Available: New York Times Runs Article by Hamas Official   Why is the New York Times publishing Hamas propaganda? Because doing so is consistent with its longstanding editorial policies. Ninety years ago, on July 9, 1933, just over five months after Adolf Hitler became chancellor of Germany and years after his virulent anti-Semitism and propensity for violence had become internationally known, the Times published a fawning puff piece on the Führer.

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Cayuga County sheriff: Rep. Williams 'swatted' with report of shooting  U.S. Rep. Brandon Williams was the victim of a "swatting" incident on Christmas Day, Cayuga County Sheriff Brian Schenck told The Citizen.

  Members of Schenck's office and the New York State Police responded to a report of a shooting at 2 p.m. at Williams' home in Sennett, Schenck said. The call was made to the Cayuga County E-911 Center.

  However, officers quickly confirmed the incident to be false, Schenck continued. His office believes the report was made to solicit an immediate response from law enforcement, a crime known as "swatting."

  "It is unfortunate that someone would make such a false report on Christmas Day and cause Congressman Williams and his family such an inconvenience on this important holiday," Schenck said.

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Biden Border Crisis: Illinois Paying for Hotel Rooms for Chicago's Illegal Immigrants  Gov. J.B. Pritzker announced on Christmas Eve that the state would send money to Chicago to “temporarily” house the illegal immigrants in hotel rooms.

Of course Pritzker announces the move on Christmas Eve. No one is paying attention!

I put quotes around temporarily because who knows how long it will last. Nothing is temporary when it comes to government.

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Italian Church Nativity Scene Features Baby Jesus With Two Mothers — 'Saint Joseph, Sacrificed on the Altar of Political Correctness'   The offensive nativity is on display at the Church of Saints Peter and Paul, in Capocastello di Mercogliano, in the province of Avellino.

“I wanted to show with this scene that families are no longer just the traditional ones,” Father Vitaliano Della Sala told Reuters. “In our parishes we see more and more children from the new types of families that exist and are part of our society, children of separated and divorced people, gay couples, single people, young mothers.”

According to the report, Father Della Sala is known for supporting the LGBT community and far-left causes.

Joe Biden Leaves Jesus Out of His Christmas Message Biden made a Christmas Eve post and the pro-abortion president didn’t mention Jesus there either.

“Jill and I hope you are able to spend time with your loved ones this holiday season. During this time, we’re also thinking of the brave women and men in uniform who defend our nation, many of them away from their families. We wish you joy and happiness this Christmas Eve,” he said.

That’s a nice message about family but the supposedly “faithful Catholic” twice forgot that Jesus is the reason for the season.

Pro-Palestinians disrupt Christmas fundraiser for blind children Pro-Palestinians ambushed a Christmas community fundraiser for blind children in Australia as a stage for their anti-Israel activities.

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Danish study finds that cross-sex hormones cause heart disease rates to ‘soar’ — but especially in males  A new study published in the peer-reviewed European Journal of Endocrinology revealed that male transvestites taking feminizing hormones are 93% more likely to suffer heart disease than other men.

Female transgenders taking male testosterone are also 63% more likely to suffer heart disease than other women.

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Heartwarming video of man helping thirsty squirrel drink water from bottle pic.twitter.com/uz0O2L4mwz

— Gabriele Corno (@Gabriele_Corno) December 24, 2023

He has come! the Christ of God...

He has come! the Christ of God;—

Left for us His glad abode;

Stooping from His throne of bliss,

To this darksome wilderness.

 

He has come! the Prince of Peace;—

Come to bid our sorrows cease;

Come to scatter, with His light,

All the darkness of our night.

 

He, the Mighty King, has come!

Making this poor world His home;

Come to bear our sin’s sad load,—

Son of David, Son of God.

 

He has come whose name of grace

Speaks deliverance to our race;

Left for us His glad abode,—

Son of Mary, Son of God!

 

Unto us a Child is born!

Ne’er has earth beheld a morn

Among all the morns of time,

Half so glorious in its prime.

 

Unto us a Son is given!

He has come from God’s own heaven;

Bringing with Him, from above,

Holy peace and holy love.

...Horatius Bonar

76 Christian Universities Caught Promoting Abortion and Planned Parenthood...more

76 Christian Universities Caught Promoting Abortion and Planned Parenthood 

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Family of autistic Jewish teen who had swastika carved on his back by classmates sues school 

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Judge Orders Teen Who Allegedly Plotted Terror Attack Against Synagogue To Do ‘Book Report’ 

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(GALLUP) American health plummets  after Covid pandemic 

Key physical health metrics have notably worsened since before the Covid-19 pandemic, including obesity, diabetes and eating habits.

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COVID Vaccines Integrate Into Human DNA, Study Finds...The much-ridiculed "antivax trope" proved to be true Summary: a study of humans suffering from Long Covid analyzed their cellular DNA. The authors unexpectedly found genes uniquely specific to the Pfizer COVID vaccine in human blood cells. This finding proves that mRNA COVID vaccines permanently integrate into the DNA of some COVID-vaccinated people.

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The Week in Pictures: Don't Say Gay Edition 

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Defrocked Catholic Priest Slams "Woke" Pope

Fiducia Supplicans: an exercise in smoke and mirrors; Economist: 2024 Will See ‘Biggest Single Crash’ of Our Lifetime..more

Fiducia Supplicans: an exercise in smoke and mirrors, where spin becomes substance and appearance reality  -Gavin Ashenden  On one hand the Church teaches that a same sex union cannot be blessed, but on the other hand, same sex people who are in a relationship are invited to present themselves for a blessing. 

This blessing is of a very particular and finessed kind. It blesses the two people as individuals, but not as a couple. Yet, they are invited to present themselves as a couple. They ask for this as a couple; they arrive as a couple, they leave as a couple. They appear to be blessed as a couple, and yet, very clearly, Fiducia Supplicans states they are not being blessed as a couple. Their disordered union has not been blessed. How could it be without changing Church teaching? 

At this point, in some act of metaphysical subtlety, too swift for the eye to follow or the mind to understand, they have been blessed as “individuals who presented as a couple”.

To some this may seem a little Jesuitical. Is it a distinction without a difference, or a distinction with a difference?

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Economist: 2024 Will See ‘Biggest Single Crash’ of Our Lifetime  Economist Harry Dent was unfortunately not full of holiday cheer in his comments to Fox News Digital. “Since 2009, this has been 100% artificial, unprecedented money printing and deficits; $27 trillion over 15 years, to be exact. This is off the charts, 100% artificial, which means we're in a dangerous state,” Dent argued. “I think 2024 is going to be the biggest single crash year we'll see in our lifetimes.” Of course, as we all know, economists can be wildly wrong in their predictions. But it’s undeniable that America is deeply in debt, over-printing money, and, under Biden, laboring under disastrous economic and financial policies.

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The Great Escape, starring Kathy Hochul...New York’s population plunged more than any other state in the country over the past year  Almost 102,000 people fled the Empire State from July 2022 to July 2023, the United States Census Bureau revealed in a Tuesday report.

It was one of eight states to face a net-decline in residents over the period, while red states, including Texas and Florida, saw the largest growth in population.

Defund the Police Advocate Asks for More Cops 

Casar’s defunding efforts in Austin have backfired just as similar movements around the rest of the nation have. Austin’s crime rates are now 46% higher than the national average and they are feeling the effects of the border crisis just like the rest of Texas.

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Hamas terror tunnels were built with your money 

All of this money was used by Hamas leaders to buy themselves luxury condos in Qatar and other foreign climes. Inside Gaza, almost none of this money went to help Palestinians in Gaza. Rather Hamas used the funds they didn’t pilfer to build this underground terror network which comes out in hospitals, mosques, and other places that the international community regards as sacred, but which Hamas does not.

And why do I say “we”? Because American taxpayers are among the people who were fooled into sending money to these terrorists.

Since 2007, the US has sent over $400 million in taxpayers’ money to Gaza. That is all after the coup where Hamas seized power. These are the official figures released by USAID (United States Agency for International Development. USAID also says that it has paid more than $500 million between 2021 and the end of this year.

The Hamas-American Bund...Worse than the Nazi collaborators of WWII 

“During the October 7th attack on Israel,” Dawn Perlmutter explains,

“Hamas terrorists raped, gang-raped, beheaded, burned, mutilated, disfigured, and tortured men, women, children, the elderly and the disabled. Hamas terrorists chopped off fingers, arms and feet, gouged out eyes, obliterated faces and tied up dozens of people – including children before burning them alive. They cut an unborn baby out of a pregnant woman, stabbed the baby with a knife and shot the mother in the head.”

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Open Borders Leads to Massive Surge in Baby Syphilis  Who knows why the massive outbreak in congenital syphilis cases was clustered around border states during the same period when a mass migration of illegal aliens was underway.

You don’t have to be a public health expert to solve this one. It actually helps if you’re not.

None of the billions we spend on the CDC, the NIH and all the other acronym public health bureaucracies could explain why congenital syphilis in the Northeast only amounted to 121 cases in 2021, 296 cases in the Midwest, but 939 cases in the West and 1,499 cases in the South.

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Netflix’s Top Kids Show "CoComelon Lane" Features Boy In Tutu Dancing For His Two Dads  “The left not only wants to add its radical agenda to kids entertainment, they want to remove good values from kids entertainment,” Boreing added.

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Harvard Caught Off-Guard by Drop in Early Admissions Rejections   On Wednesday, college admissions counselor Christopher Rim, who is the CEO of New York and Miami-based Command Education, told "FOX & Friends First":

"Virtually every student I've ever worked with who got into Harvard early pretty much stopped [looking elsewhere] This is the first time and first application season where I've seen a student who got into Harvard early that I've worked with for almost three and a half, four years now, starting in ninth grade — we're seeing them say, ‘You know what? I want to apply to other schools because what if I graduate and this stigma and this reputation of Harvard stays the same?’ That's their true concern."

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NASA releases amazing image of star cluster which looks 'like Christmas tree' https://t.co/QEakQm8Alv pic.twitter.com/TC8R5DGap2

— The Mirror (@DailyMirror) December 22, 2023