Muslim entrepreneurs in the Kurdish region of northern Iraq are marketing anti-Christian footwear that lets the wearer trample on the Cross. The Christianophobic shoes have a cross embossed on their soles.
In other Iraq news, a top Iranian general, the leader of Iran’s elite Quds Force, was killed in an airstrike in Iraq.
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Dow Jones Starts ‘20 With a 330-Point Bang as Stock Market Rushes to New High
The stock market started 2020 with a bang as the Dow Jones Industrial Average knocked out a brand-new high with a 330-point gain. The Nasdaq and S&P 500 also made fresh highs.
The Nasdaq surged 1.3%, the Dow Jones industrials rallied 1.2%, and the S&P 500 advanced 0.8% in today’s trading. Small caps tracked by the Russell 2000 lagged, down 0.4% after paring sharp earlier losses. Preliminary data showed higher volume on both exchanges vs. Tuesday.
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Andrew McCabe Said He Lied to FBI About Wall Street Journal Leak
Former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe apologized for lying to agents who spent weeks investigating the source of a leak to the Wall Street Journal that actually came from him, new documents reveal.
Shortly before the 2016 election, The Journal reported that an FBI investigation was underway involving then-candidate Hillary Clinton and the Clinton Foundation.
McCabe in May 2017 denied that he was the source of the leak — but later fessed up, angering bureau investigators who had been spinning their wheels trying to identify the source of the leak.
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Breaking: Julian Castro Drops Out of Democrat Primary
On Thursday morning, Julian Castro announced on Twitter that he would be dropping out of the 2020 Democratic presidential primary. “It’s with profound gratitude to all of our supporters that I suspend my campaign for president today,” he tweeted.
“I’m so proud of everything we’ve accomplished together,” Castro added. “I’m going to keep fighting for an America where everyone counts—I hope you’ll join me in that fight.”
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Head of Robotics Company Warns of Catastrophic Consequences if AI is Used in Conflicts
Compares technology to chemical, biological weapons.
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An explosive new report has asserted that deceased sex criminal Jeffery Epstein and his alleged ‘madame’ Ghislaine Maxwell were foreign intelligence ‘assets’, and that she is currently hiding in a safehouse in Israel.
‘Ghislaine is protected. She and Jeffrey were assets of sorts for multiple foreign governments. They would trade information about the powerful people caught in his net — caught at Epstein’s house,’ a unnamed source told Page Six.
Maxwell, 58, has been accused in lawsuits of procuring underage girls for Epstein to sexually traffick among his wealthy and powerful friends, and is reportedly the subject of an ongoing FBI probe.
She has always denied any wrongdoing. Her attorney did not immediately respond to an inquiry from DailyMail.com on Wednesday evening.
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Marianne Williamson Lays Off Entire Campaign Staff
The day’s big election “news” is Julian Castro dropping out of the 2020 presidential race. Which is a helpful reminder that Julian Castro was running for president. Most Americans still get him confused with his twin brother Joaquin, who beat him to the punch by not running for president in the first place. (It would’ve been funny if they both ran and then switched places on the campaign trail, just to see if anybody noticed.) The Democratic field just got even less diverse. And the day isn’t even over yet.
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Nearly $3.2m in Legal Cannabis Sold in Illinois on First Day, State Says
More than 77,000 transactions netted nearly $3.2 million in marijuana product sales on the first day of legal cannabis in Illinois, the state announced Thursday.
The Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation reported 77,128 transactions took place at cannabis dispensaries around Illinois, generating $3,176,256.71 on Day 1.
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Retirement Home Worker Claims to Have Helped Kill 11 Trump Supporters
A person purporting to be a retirement home worker claimed in a Reddit post to have helped kill 11 people as revenge for them being Trump supporters.
The user, who used the handle ‘LoveThisLife0101’, said that they refused to resuscitate, withdrew medicine and tampered with the food of elderly residents.
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This is Not 1979, And Donald Trump is Not Jimmy Carter
The whole world has now seen images of Shiite militants smashing their way into the U.S. embassy, vandalizing U.S. property, and setting a reception area on fire.
Trump cannot let that go without a response, because if he allows the Iranians and their proxies to get away with this, they will just be emboldened to conduct more attacks.
So Trump is going to hit Iran, and then the Iranians and their proxies will almost certainly retaliate. And unless one side decides to back down, a series of escalations could very easily lead us into a cataclysmic war that would not benefit anyone.
This is a very tough test for Trump.
If he does nothing, he will look weak, indecisive, and the comparisons to Jimmy Carter will begin.
But if he hits Iran too hard, we could literally find ourselves in the middle of World War 3.
2020 was shaping up to be a chaotic year anyway, but this crisis threatens to start it with a real bang.
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Trump Issues Fewest Regs in 44 Years, Three Years Running
The Trump administration, under orders to slash Obama-era regulations, has also issued the fewest new rules since the government began counting them in 1975.
For a third year, Trump’s administration has broken the record for issuing the fewest regulations and rules, a radical departure from the eight years of former President Barack Obama.
According to Clyde Wayne Crews, the regulation expert and policy vice president at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, the Federal Register published 2,964 final rules.
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Why is the UN Hiring English-Speaking Disarmament Officers in New York?
Is this in response to the Virginia crisis?
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Yale Offering ‘Bouncy Castle,’ ‘Cookies and Coloring’ Activities for Students
Adult students encouraged to play children’s games to relieve anxiety.
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Austria: Sebastian Kurz Announces Coalition Deal With Green Party
Leader of the conservative Austrian People’s Party (ÖVP) Sebastian Kurz has announced a coalition agreement with the Green Party that will see several green policies but no changes to migration policy.
Mr Kurz, along with Green Party leader Werner Kogler presented their new government programme at a joint press conference on Thursday, with Kurz claiming the new government would be “the best of both worlds” and that its priorities would be tax reform and fighting illegal immigration, Kronen Zeitung reports.
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Diversity Celebrates New Years in Holland by Burning Down Historic Ceres Windmill
After receiving a strong dose of diversity, the ‘new normal’ for New Years celebrations in the Netherlands involves downplaying death, riots, arson, violent attacks, and where even the torching of an iconic Dutch windmill is barely worth mentioning amid all the other mayhem…
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France: Hundreds of Cars Torched and Police Attacked Over New Year’s
Hundreds of cars were set on fire across French cities on New Year’s Eve, with some cities seeing an even larger number of cars burned than the previous year.
Police arrested at least 400 people across France on New Year’s Eve, according to the French Interior Ministry. A total of 100,000 police were deployed, with one source claiming that the level of violence on the night was relatively calm compared to previous years, Le Parisien reports.
Although the general violence was allegedly less than previous years, a 27-year-old man in Haguenau was killed in an accident involving fireworks.
Car burnings have become common across France over New Year’s Eve in recent years, with at least 220 cars set on fire in the city of Strasbourg alone. The city also saw two incidents in which firefighters were ambushed and attacked.
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France: Fresh Strike Call After Macron Fails to Calm Pension Fears
French union CGT called on Wednesday for more strikes in France, after president Emmanuel Macron pledged in his New Year’s Eve speech to push through the pension-system reform — despite weeks of nationwide strikes by trade unions. Macron said he expected his government to quickly find a compromise with unions, but without backing down on key principles, Reuters reported. Another day of mass protests is set for 9 January.
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German Greens Plan Car Ban From All City Centres by 2030
The German Green Party has vowed to ban all vehicles from driving in city centres by the year 2030 in order to cut down on traffic jams, engine noise, and exhaust emissions.
The plan was initially developed by the Green Party in Berlin who have demanded that the German capital become a zero-emission zone within the next ten years, along with policies that would make it more expensive for residents to park their cars and a city toll for other motorists, Bild reports.
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New statistics yearbook shines light on the good side of Poland
Poland’s Central Statistical Office (Glówny Urzad Statystyczny) has released its Yearbook for 2019 and there is a lot to celebrate.
The number of people registered as unemployed has halved since 2015. Four years ago 1.3 million Poles were registered as unemployed but that number has now fallen to 659,000. This drop in unemployment has coincided with a growth in the number of people employed across a variety of sectors. Since 2015 the number of people employed in manufacturing has risen by 200,000, in logistics, officially termed transport and storage, by 100,000, while “retail and wholesale”, “construction” and “professional, scientific and technical activities” sectors have all seen a rise of about 50,000 each.
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Mayhem in Brussels as Cars Torched, Over 200 Arrested
Authorities proud to have prevented ‘major riots’.
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New Law to Ban Petrol and Diesel Cars in Ireland to Avoid ‘Climate Apocalypse’
The government of Ireland is preparing to ban the registration of new petrol and diesel cars by the year 2030 as a part of its “Climate Action Plan”.
Drivers in Ireland will be forced to buy electric vehicles within ten years according to a new law by the left-wing government in Dublin.
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North Stream 2 Pipeline Continues to Cause Geopolitical Upheaval
by Thomas O. Falk
After the United States prevented Congress from completing the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline and slapped sanctions on it in mid-December, Russia stepped in. Moscow has now vowed to unilaterally complete the project by 2020, utilizing a Russian pipe-laying ship. Ukraine, like most other Eastern European countries, has criticized the project and also warned Germany of Russia’s expansion of power and further dependence on Moscow.
US Sanctions Have Temporarily Derailed North Stream 2
Nonetheless, Russia’s energy minister Alexander Novak said last Friday that he expects the project to be completed in late 2020 despite the temporary halt to construction. Originally, Nord Stream 2 was scheduled for completion in early 2020, with commissioning expected to start a few months later. Around 80 percent of Nord Stream 2 has already been completed. So far, Russian leadership had only spoken of a delay of a few months.
US sanctions had stopped the project when they caused the contracted Swiss company Allseas to pull its ships out of the project. Allseas was unwilling to be punished by the US for its involvement. Unfortunately, particular and specially-designed ships are required to lay the tubes on the bottom of the Baltic Sea, which left the project in temporary shambles…
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Populist Leader Tops Confidence Poll in Sweden for First Time
Swedish populist leader Jimmie Åkesson, the leader of the Sweden Democrats (SD), is now tied with Christian Democrat leader Ebba Busch-Thor as the party leader with the most confidence of Swedish voters.
The survey, conducted by polling firm Novus, is the best result ever for the SD leader showing him tied with Ms Busch-Thor at 31 per cent, and three points ahead of second-place winner and leader of the Left Party Jonas Sjöstedt, broadcaster SVT reports.
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German state broadcaster WDR2 faced protests after it broadcast a video in which a group of children were taught to sing about how their grandmas were “environmental pigs” for driving non-electric vehicles and eating meat.
The controversy began after WDR2 aired the clip in which the kids sing, “My grandma drives in the chicken coop with her motorcycle…that’s thousands of gallons of gas every month, my grandma is an old environmental pig!”
In another part of the song the children sing, “Every day my grandma fries herself a pork chop…she does it because discount meat costs nearly nothing, my grandma is an old environmental pig!”
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London Bridge killer Usman Khan had attended a deradicalisation programme after being released on licence. A psychologist said some offenders regress due to who they mix with.
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UK: Anti-Brexit Sir Keir Starmer Labour Favourite to Succeed Corbyn
The shadow Brexit secretary Sir Keir Starmer is Labour members’ preferred candidate to replace Jeremy Corbyn as party leader.
Jeremy Corbyn announced that he would be stepping down in the spring after Britons rejected his socialist-progressive policies and handed Labour its worst election defeat since 1935.
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UK: Khan Backs Free Academy for Black Women as Scholarships for Poor White Boys Rejected
Mayor London Sadiq Khan has thrown his weight behind a free “Black Girl Fest Academy” programme, in association with Apple, just as it emerges that elite schools are rejecting privately-funded scholarships for poor white boys.
The Black Girl Fest Academy “aims to equip Black women with knowledge around budgeting, fundraising and promoting an event with limited resources, as well as creative design and pitching ideas with confidence”, according to its website, and “will run alongside monthly networking events” — key to making contacts for many people without an existing foothold in the creative sector through family or friends.
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UK: Loser Labour Party Pushes for Two Year Brexit Delay to Stop Clean Break
Jeremy Corbyn and Keir Starmer have tabled an amendment to Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Brexit bill that would force a two-year delay if the UK does not agree on a new trade deal with the EU.
The current leader of the Opposition and the shadow Brexit minister tipped to replace him have put forward the amendment calling for a two-year extension to the transition, or ‘implementation’, period if London and Brussels do not agree to a new trading arrangement by June 2020.
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Labour’s hard-left candidate for Home Secretary Diane Abbott’s privately educated son has appeared in court over a raft of charges including allegedly assaulting staff at London hospitals and exposing himself over the course of 2019.
James Abbott-Thompson was granted bail at the hearing at Wood Green crown court on Tuesday after the court heard about 11 separate charges related to attacks and other alleged offences which are said to have taken place between July and Christmas 2019.
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Putin and Erdogan Fight for Dominance in Libya
by Mutaher Khan
Ever since the forced demise of Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi in 2011 through NATO’s half-hearted operation, the country has been plunged into intense instability and chaos. Instead of introducing democracy to the North African country, the events of 2011 created a power vacuum which two alternative factions — backed by different global and regional players — are trying to fill.
Libya In A Nutshell: The GNA Versus The LNA
On the one hand, there is the UN-recognized Government of National Accord (GNA) with control over Tripoli and the surrounding areas while the oil-rich east is ruled by the rebel leader Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar and his Libyan National Army (LNA), which earlier in April launched an offensive to take the capital.
The events since then have led to polarization not only within the country but also in the international arena as Libya’s conflict was quickly co-opted by other players—in the neighborhood and beyond—who are trying to secure their own interests. For example, the GNA government — given its Islamist inclinations — has its key allies in Turkey and Qatar, two countries that have previously thrown their weight behind the Muslim Brotherhood in other states too. Beyond that, the GNA also draws some verbal support from the US and other major powers such as Libya’s former colonizer Italy.
In contrast, Egypt—under Abdel Fateh al-Sisi, a ruthless opponent of the Brotherhood—and the United Arab Emirates are backing Haftar’s militia given its anti-Islamist (and dictatorial) ideology. Then there is Russia, which has an on-ground presence through its mercenary forces, the so-called Wagner Group, aiding Haftar’s rebel group…
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Report: Ghislaine Maxwell is a Foreign Asset, May be Hiding in a ‘Safe House’ In Israel
The Sun reported on Monday that Ghislaine Maxwell believes she will escape prosecution because of all the dirt she has on powerful people.
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Fake News 2020: Washington Post, NY Times, CNN All Call Terrorists ‘Protesters’
Violent Islamists stormed the US embassy in Iraq and were labelled ‘protesters’ and ‘mourners’ by the US media
The leftist media in the US started off 2020 with a cacophony of fake news Wednesday by labeling Hezbollah terrorists who attempted to storm the US embassy in Baghdad as ‘protesters’.
The pictures from the mob attack clearly show that it was led by members of Tehran’s militia units in Iraq which have been absorbed into the Iraqi security forces.
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Iran Says Powerful General Killed in US Airstrike in Iraq
BAGHDAD (AP) — An airstrike killed Gen. Qassem Soleimani, head of Iran’s elite Quds Force and architect of its regional security apparatus, at Baghdad’s international airport Friday, Iranian state television and three Iraqi officials said, an attack that’s expected to draw severe Iranian retaliation against Israel and American interests.
The strike also killed Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, deputy commander of Iran-backed militias in Iraq known as the Popular Mobilization Forces, or PMF, the officials said. The PMF media arm said the two were killed in an American airstrike that targeted their vehicle on the road to the airport.
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Iraqi Muslims Caught Selling Shoes Made to ‘Trample the Cross’
Shops in a Kurdish region of northern Iraq have been selling shoes with a Christian cross embossed on the sole, allowing wearers to “trample the cross,” according to the Assyrian International News Agency (AINA).
Drawing on a story recently published on the Polish website Szlomo, AINA reports that Kurdish authorities have allowed the “anti-Christian shoes” to be sold in north Iraq, including a shopping center in Erbil called Mega Mall where the footwear was on display in store windows prior to Christmas.
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WikiLeaks Exposes Phony Claims About Douma
by Nidal Kabalan
Systematic misleading information and doctoring of documents relating to what was supposed to be evidence of a chemical attack that never took place in Douma, east of the Syrian capital Damascus in 2018, have revealed a chain of scandalous practices and malpractice at the highest levels. The fact that this wrongdoing occurred at the head of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW)—the organization supposed to protect civilians not to have them killed over false claims, rigged documents and fabricated evidence—is all the more shocking and outrageous.
Leaked Documents Reveal OPCW Lies
Batches of leaked internal documents from the OPCW published by Wikileaks this past Friday further exposed the fraudulent nature of an official report on an alleged 2018 chemical weapons attack in Douma—then held by CIA-backed Islamist terrorist factions—revealing the report as having been altered and rigged in order to justify an attack by the United States, Britain and France against the Assad-led Syrian government.
Wikileaks latest round of documents included an email from the Chief of Cabinet at the OPCW, Sebastien Braha, sent on February 28, 2019, just ahead of the release of the final report on the investigation of the Douma incident, demanding deletion of dissenting engineering assessment on the attack. The e-mail also demands the removal of any trace of the report produced by veteran OPCW inspector and ballistics expert Ian Henderson from the organization’s internal registry because it dissents from the view that the Assad government was responsible for a chemical attack at Douma.
“Please get this document out of DRA (Documents Registry Archive). And please remove all traces, if any, of its delivery/storage/whatever in DRA,” the internal e-mail from Braha reads…
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Towns are running out of fuel and water, shops are selling out of basic supplies and more fatalities are expected as fires raging across southern Australia are set to get worse by Saturday.
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A homeless man has been charged with sparking a bushfire in Victoria’s devastated East Gippsland region.
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Kanwaljit Singh and his wife Kamaljit Kaur own the Desi Grill Bairnsdale in East Gippsland where fires have destroyed homes.
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Leading Climate Alarmist Freaks Out Over Australia Bushfires
Michael Mann, arguably the world’s no. 1 climate alarmist, writes Wednesday that he is “watching climate change in action” while on holiday in Australia.
In a Guardian essay titled “Australia, your country is burning — dangerous climate change is here with you now,” Mann, best known for his debunked “hockey stick” graph showing unprecedented 20th-century global warming after centuries of supposed level temperatures, says he is witnessing the devastating effects of climate change “first hand.”
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A seven-day state of emergency has been declared in NSW, as officials warn residents and holidaymakers to flee the fire-ravaged east coast.
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Two teenagers were charged with the murder of a 37-year-old man in Aurukun, about a 13-hour drive north of Cairns, on New Year’s Day.
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Residents in western Sydney spent the early hours of 2020 defending their homes from a grassfire believed to be started by teenagers setting off illegal fireworks.
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Number of Migrants Trying to Cross English Channel Up 400% Over 2018
The number of migrants attempting to cross the English Channel has risen by nearly 400 per cent over the previous year.
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Professor: Sweden’s Society May be ‘Dissolving’ Due to Mass Migration
Swedish political science professor Tommy Möller has warned that the unprecedented mass migration into Sweden in the last decade could unravel the country’s “democratic welfare society.”
Professor Möller, who teaches at Stockholm University, has claimed that political stability in Sweden has been greatly affected by mass migration, stating that it could be relegated to a museum in an op-ed published by Swedish newspaper Dagens Industri.
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U.S. Bishops Call for Greater Solidarity With Migrants
Bishops in the U.S. have released a statement calling for solidarity with immigrants in preparation for the observation of National Migration Week from January 5-11, 2020.
“Globally, there are more than 70 million people who have been forcibly displaced from their homes due to political instability, violence, and economic hardship,” reads the January 2 statement, which has been posted in the website of the Bishops’ conference (USCCB).
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UK: Study: Boris’s ‘Points-Based Immigration’ Plan Could See Numbers Rise
The Migration Watch UK think tank has warned that Boris Johnson’s proposed “Australian-style points-based immigration system” may well lead to a sharp rise in immigration if it does not come with an annual cap on incomers.
“Major decisions on immigration are now imminent and the government are already coming under strong pressure from the many groups that have been profiting from the massive levels of immigration that Labour let loose and the Conservatives have, so far, failed three times to reduce,” the think tank observed in a press release seen by Breitbart London.
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Former Vatican Chief Slams Globalist Dreams of ‘World Unity’ Religion
Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Müller, the Vatican’s former doctrinal czar, warned against Catholics who long for a “meta-religion” of world unity in a January 1 homily in Phoenix.
Some Catholics want the Church to modernize, abandoning its doctrines for the sake of building a “new religion of world unity,” Müller warned thousands of Catholics gathered in Phoenix for the 2020 Student Leadership Summit hosted by the Fellowship of Catholic University Students (FOCUS).
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Liberals Accuse Hallmark Movies of Fascism Because of Keeping Away From LGBTQ
When Hallmark pulled ads featuring lesbian wedding couples, the network was denounced as ‘homophobic.’ But even after agreeing to woke activist demands, its movies were equated with ‘fascist propaganda’ by the media.
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No, Greenland’s ICE Sheet Isn’t Nearing a Melting ‘Tipping Point’
An article on the climate activist website Inside Climate News claims Greenland is perilously close to a tipping point that will destabilize the Greenland ice sheet and result in substantial ice melt and sea-level rise.
The ice sheet’s stability through much warmer temperatures that lasted several thousand years during early human civilization, however, strongly contradicts the assertion.
Even climate alarmists have long acknowledged that temperatures would need to continue rising for many centuries before threatening a substantial melting of the Greenland ice sheet.
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https://www.friatider.se/polisen-ska-utbildas-i-att-bli-snallare-mot-invandrare-0
The police should be trained to be kinder to immigrants
The police in the Järva area in Stockholm, will undergo a new training to learn how to be more human in how they view the residents of the districts.
The aim is to increase trust between the police and those living in the immigrant-tight neighborhoods.
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Forget Sweden. Those Swedes are completely lost and beyond salvation.
hmmmm
“Indian Restaurant Hands Out Free Curry and Rice Dishes to Hundreds of Bushfire Victims — Saying ‘It’s Our Duty to Serve Them’” It’s important to note they are sikhs.
“Swedish political science professor Tommy Möller has warned that the unprecedented mass migration into Sweden in the last decade could unravel the country’s “democratic welfare society.” Oh no, who would’ve thought!
“No, Greenland’s ICE Sheet Isn’t Nearing a Melting ‘Tipping Point’” It’s called Greenland for a reason…
The Medieval times and even the Bronze Age were significantly warmer than today and somehow humanity didn’t perish, bees didn’t perish, … If anything, humanity flourished in those periods!
And whoever is worried about CO2 levels should read up on soil fertility. Long story short: raising cattle provides manure -> manure prodives food for soil microbes -> soil microbes bind CO2 into the soil (that’s where that rich black soil comes from) -> carbon rich soil binds water really well and so hence enough moisture and nutrients for plants to grow -> plants feed cattle -> cattle provides more manure. It’s a cycle, literally a self-sufficient cycle. Dropping cattle production because they produce CO2 destroys the land, causing it to be less productive and to dry out.
Single trees draw clouds to themselves and small ponds on the field help retain moisture. They also feed the small water cycle, causing soft local rains (as opposed to thunderstorms from the big water cycle).
The only solution to avoid extremes in the environment is to farm in the same way our ancestors did a century ago.
I don’t think anybody is against the use of better filtration systems in factories to avoid polution. That doesn’t mean production has to go down to meet emisions or whatever.
It’s saddening that the actual solutions don’t require climate change conferences and don’t cost millions of dollars, yet people packing their pockets full dare to claim otherwise (and that includes Greta)!
Wow! AK, you brought back great memories of being the “hand” on my great dad’s little retirement farm, 7 decades ago, at the end of my first decade. We used fresh or bagged manure, production was incredible, all those lessons you quoted were learned, observed, practiced for a few years, as well as a hard working little guy could, (spading, plowing, tilling, etc.). Canning, all kinds of fresh vegetarian foods, fruits, plus full learning on a small commercial chicken operation, even candling the eggs. I did it all, guided, taught, watched over by my dad. Spring seeds in flats, or ground, potting, setting out from the greenhouse, etc. Plowing, cultivating (tilling), waiting for right soil moisture, doing what nature permitted us in due course, on and on.
Had forgotten all this, more, your remarks are spot on, and everyone would benefit from this knowledge, in detail. Factory farms have many dangers, microbially, and many more ways. but cheap!
General Soleimani has American, Syrian, Iraqi, Yemeni, Kurdish, Israeli, and Iranian blood on his hands.
Well done US Armed Forces and President Trump.
+ 6.022 x 10²³
Iran promises retaliation.
I think they will be in the Russian style: when, in response to sanctions and losses in international courts, the authorities raise taxes and lower the standard of living of ordinary Russians.
Iran will hit first by Iranian supporters of secularization.
Yes, good job. I sincerely mean it. President Trump and his men demonstrated some spine after several decades.
I believe what President Trump tweeted a few hours ago is more accurate than APN reporter assumption about the popularity of Soleimani among locals:
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/trump-tweets-after-u-s-strike-iran-never-won-war-n1109906
I wonder what will happen to the billions of US dollar notes Soleimani stockpiled in the basement of his house. Who will get them?
Are you saying you’re a mole?
Pretty sure you know he cheers up for US president to that number. So I presume you are beating him to frighten me. That’s very clever of you but it’s unfair. I’m not a mole. haha.
Sweden never paid for siding with Hitler and deserves what it’s getting in spades, and seem to accept this just punishment.
they sided with the allies just as much (No swedish intelligence no Bismarck getting sunk)
“Brilliant” St. Petersburg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqTxISEPCe4&feature=emb_title
https://twitter.com/BasedPoland/status/1213227904395612161
culture enrichers put french boy in his place
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCvDqFhMQvI
window to the past