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Source: JonathanTurley.org
International Judo Federation (IJF) has suspended a Serbian judo champion for five months from any international competitions for making the sign of the cross after his match in the Paris Olympic games this year. It is another bizarre controversy from the games, including France barring French Muslim athletes from wearing hijabs in competition.
Continue reading “Olympian Suspended for Making Sign of the Cross – Jonathan Turley 9/20/24”
Source: LifeSiteNews.com
The Vatican’s press office released details of the upcoming Synod on Synodality starting later this month, which includes a “penitential vigil” that will see the “confession” of sins against “synodality,” “migrants” and “participation of all,” among other things.
Source: ZeroHedge.com
Official Lebanese Health Ministry figures are that nine people were killed in the simultaneous pager explosions, including a young girl, and some 2,750 wounded. The Lebanese government has identified “Israeli aggression” as being behind the attack, while Hezbollah also says it holds Israel “fully responsible”. Israel has yet to issue official comment, but there are several reports from the region that war preparations are underway. There are reports of evening Israeli shelling of Hezbollah positions in south Lebanon.
Source: korybko.substack.com
Putin warned last week that letting Ukraine use Western long-range weapons to strike deep inside of Russia “will mean that NATO countries, the United States, and European countries are parties to the war in Ukraine. This will mean their direct involvement in the conflict, and it will clearly change the very essence, the very nature of the conflict dramatically. This will mean that NATO countries – the United States and European countries – are at war with Russia.”
Source: TheEpochTimes.com
A military court in Congo sentenced three U.S. citizens to death on Sept. 13 for their alleged involvement in a failed coup attempt targeting the government of Congolese President Félix Tshisekedi.
Continue reading “3 Americans Sentenced to Death in Congo Over Failed Coup – Tom Ozimek 9/14/24”
Source: ZeroHedge.com
Venezuela has announced the arrest of three Americans, two Spaniards and a Czech citizen, accusing them of plotting to assassinate President Nicolas Maduro. The arrests were first announced Saturday by the country’s Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello, who said that one of the Americans is Wilbert Joseph Castañeda Gomez – a Navy SEAL – who state television said served in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Colombia.
Source: LifeSiteNews.com
Former New York Democrat Gov. Andrew Cuomo personally edited state COVID-19 statistics to downplay deaths caused by his placement of contagious people in nursing homes, a new congressional investigation found.
Source: LifeSiteNews.com
While most state health bureaucracies prepare for the fall flu season with fresh encouragement to take COVID-19 boosters, the Florida Department of Health (DOH) is instead urging residents to stay informed about the reasons not to take them.
Source: JonathanTurley.org
Below is my column in The Hill on the controversial role played by the ABC moderators in the presidential debate. Three false claims in the debate continue to be repeated in what is now our post-truth political environment. (ABC later challenged another claim by Harris on the deployment of U.S. troops).
Here is the column:
Source: VictorHanson.com
After the September 10, 2024, presidential debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris, the Harris campaign became giddy.
And why not?
Continue reading “An Anatomy of the Post-Debate Detritus – Victor Davis Hanson 9/16/24”
Source: TheGrayzone.com
Before he was caught with an AK-47 on a golf course near Trump, Ryan Routh went to Kiev to fight for Ukraine’s military and recruit for its International Legion. Routh told US media he “had partners meeting with [Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense] every week.”
Source: VigilantCitizen.com
At the 2024 MTV Video Music Awards, Katy Perry performed for over 10 minutes and was given the Lifetime Achievement Award. And the entire thing was highly symbolic. The main message: Despite winning a trophy, she’s still an industry slave….
Source: LifeSiteNews.com
The Holy See Press Office has released a misleading English translation of Pope Francis’ controversial comments about all religions leading to God, as criticism of Francis’ words continues to grow.
Addressing an inter-religious group of young people in Singapore on September 13, Pope Francis drew heavily on the nation’s multi-religious nature:
Source: TheLastAmericanVagabond.com
Just before midnight on Sunday, Israel began launching waves of unprovoked airstrikes against Syrian targets in the center of the country. The attack was the largest committed by Israel against Syria since 2018, killing at least 18 and injuring around 40 people. Despite the hundreds of attacks perpetrated against Syrian civilian and military infrastructure, Damascus has chosen not to respond in years and instead takes its appeals to the United Nations.
Source: Mondoweiss.net
When a foreign government and its citizens kill American nationals, it usually raises media outrage in the U.S. But, Israel’s recent spate of violence against Americans, including the killing of Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi, has barely received coverage.
Source: ChildrensHealthDefense.org
Makers of drug and medical devices target doctors early in their careers, through payments, free meals and sponsored education, to “cultivate long term, reciprocal relationships,” according to the authors of an editorial published Monday in The BMJ.
Source: Brownstone.org
There is a lack of public comment and debate about Kamala Harris’s call for price controls on groceries and rents, the most stunning and frightening policy proposal made in my lifetime.
Continue reading “Grocery Rationing within Four Years – Jeffrey A. Tucker 9/14/24”
Source: Mondoweiss.net
The UN Secretary-General condemned Israel’s massacre of dozens of Palestinians in Nuseirat after six UNRWA workers were among the slain. Meanwhile, Israeli forces killed 11 Palestinians in the West Bank within two days.
Casualties
Source: Antiwar.com
If there is one eternal rule in Washington, it is that “politics makes for strange bedfellows.” If you were to presume twenty years ago, that former Vice President Dick Cheney would one day endorse a progressive Democrat from California for president, you would be sent to an insane asylum. The idea that a diehard neoconservative and perhaps the biggest war criminal in recent American history would one day endorse someone like Kamala Harris would have been laughable. But due to the prevalence of “Trump derangement syndrome” amongst many neoconservatives, this has become the political reality.
Source: MishTalk.com
For the first time in EU history, Germany is at the forefront of immigration suspension. Other EU countries will follow.
Schengen Zone
The Schengen Area (English: /ˈʃɛŋən/ SHENG-ən, Luxembourgish: [ˈʃæŋən]) is an area encompassing 29 European countries that have officially abolished border controls at their mutual borders.
Source: TheAmericanConservative.com
The second Trump administration must bring to heel State Department’s Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration.
It is remarkable how many well-informed conservative foreign policy strategists have never even heard of the State Department’s Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration (PRM). Even those who closely follow immigration and border issues rarely understand the role PRM plays in accommodating and promoting the worldwide movement of illegal migrants.
Source: WallStreetOnParade.com
Both Bloomberg News and the Wall Street Journal have now reported that it’s not just presidential candidate Donald Trump that is proposing a U.S. Sovereign Wealth Fund, but that President Joe Biden’s administration is also exploring the idea.
The Wall Street Journal reported as follows on the Biden plan late Sunday night:
Source: WallStreetOnParade.com
Last Thursday, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump spoke before the Economic Club of New York. During the speech, Trump revealed that if he wins the election he will create a U.S. Sovereign Wealth Fund.
Source: Malone.news
True Story: The Health app built into iPhones is now collecting as much personal information on the mental health of each and every one of us as they can get a hold of.
Continue reading “iPhone Mental Health Assessments – Robert W. Malone MD 9/12/24”
Source: TheEpochTimes.com
Researchers at the University of California San Francisco have identified fibrin, a natural protein involved in blood clotting, as a major driver of the COVID-19 disease, according to a new study.