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When 100,000 Christians Died for the Bible
Post Date: 2018-11-29 22:39:16 by A K A Stone
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“Don’t Eat the Fish:” This might have been the headline of The Paris Times in the autumn of 1572, if such a newspaper had existed. On Aug. 24, 1572 – St. Bartholomew’s Day – and several days thereafter, Frenchmen slaughtered 100,000 of their Huguenot countrymen throughout France – 10,000 in Paris alone. The favorite disposal site, the Seine, the Rhone, and the rivers of France were stained red by the oozing corpses left rotting. Another 6,000 slain downriver in Rouen would have injected the Seine with a fetid ribbon of crimson as it meandered towards the Atlantic. The Loire River valley, so strewn with corpses, brought normally shy and unseen packs of ...
Chinese Priest: The Holy See Should Concern Itself with Bishops in Prison
Post Date: 2018-11-29 22:17:44 by A K A Stone
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Peter, who has undergone several years of imprisonment because of the faith, advises the Vatican to take also to heart the situation of the "brothers who are still suffering". The Sino-Vatican agreement produces confusion. Some doubts about the morality of the illegitimate bishops, who are now reconciled. Esteem for Pope Francis. Beijing (AsiaNews) - "The Holy See should concern itself with bishops who are still in prison", comforting "the brothers who are still suffering": says Fr. Peter, a priest from central China, who in the past also suffered prison. While appreciating the mission of Pope Francis, Fr. Peter confesses to being confused by the Sino-Vatican ...
Family who buried their dead bearded dragon were stunned when the reptile reappeared on their front lawn five weeks later.
Post Date: 2018-11-29 22:04:12 by A K A Stone
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A family who buried their dead bearded dragon were stunned when the reptile reappeared on their front lawn five weeks later. Rachel Haspell, 42, from Cheshire, could barely believe her eyes when she saw her beloved pet Nala, sunning itself in her garden, having seemingly returned from the dead. The family were distraught when their beloved lizard fell ill, with a vet later confirming that Nala had passed away. Mrs Haspell said: 'The whole family was absolutely devastated when we thought Nala had passed away. However, the reptile was simply in a state of hibernation and on awaking from its slumber, managed to claw its way out of his shallow grave. 'After noticing that Nala ...
GOP cancels votes on judges amid standoff over Mueller bill
Post Date: 2018-11-29 18:19:55 by Justified
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate Judiciary Committee has canceled a Thursday vote on more than 20 federal judge nominations amid a standoff between Republican Sen. Jeff Flake and GOP leaders over legislation to protect special counsel Robert Mueller. The Arizona senator, who is retiring from Congress, is a frequent critic of President Donald Trump. Flake has said he won't vote for any federal judges until Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell holds a Senate floor vote on the special counsel bill. The Judiciary panel, with an 11-10 Republican majority, doesn't have enough votes to advance nominees without Flake's support. Confirming more judges before the end of the year is a ...
Ann Coulter: Trump’s Great Wall Becomes Trump’s Great Stall
Post Date: 2018-11-29 12:43:48 by Deckard
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For those of us who were ecstatic the night Donald Trump was elected president, who watch election night videos over and over again, it used to be easy to defend him against the charge that he is just a BS-ing con man who would say anything to get elected. It’s getting harder. Trump was our last chance. But he’s spent two years not building the wall, not deporting illegals — “INCREDIBLE KIDS!” — and not ending the anchor baby scam. Within 10 seconds of Trump’s leaving office, there will be no evidence that he was ever president. Laws will be changed, executive orders rescinded, treaties re-written and courts packed. Trump will leave no legacy at all. Only ...
Cohen pleads guilty in new deal with Mueller
Post Date: 2018-11-29 12:05:12 by Jameson
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Cohen appeared in federal court in Manhattan Thursday where he entered a guilty plea for misstatements to Congress in closed-door testimony last year about his contacts with Russians during the presidential campaign. Cohen has now promised to “put family and country first” by cooperating with prosecutors, becoming perhaps the most pivotal public witness against his former boss. Cohen’s earlier plea deal with federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York implicated President Trump in campaign finance felonies. Since then, Cohen has spent more than 70 hours in interviews with Mueller's team. The questioning has focused on contacts with Russians by Trump ...
10 Reasons The Death Penalty Should Be Legal
Post Date: 2018-11-29 11:12:51 by IbJensen
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Should the death penalty be legal? To listen to some people in favor of the abolition of the death penalty or organizations such as Amnesty International the United States, by executing criminals, stands alongside such countries as China and Saudi Arabia in its barbarity. Many countries in the world, including most of Europe have rescinded their death penalties. The decision to do so is often lauded as the choice of a rational, modern, mature and humane society There was a time, in living memory, when there was a moratorium on executions in the United States (see below) but the death penalty was reinstated in 36 states. Recent problems with botched executions including a 2014 execution ...
The Costs of the Confederacy
Post Date: 2018-11-29 10:24:47 by Willie Green
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In the last decade alone, American taxpayers have spent at least $40 million on Confederate monuments and groups that perpetuate racist ideology With centuries-old trees, manicured lawns, a tidy cemetery and a babbling brook, the Jefferson Davis Home and Presidential Library is a marvelously peaceful, green oasis amid the garish casinos, T-shirt shops and other tourist traps on Highway 90 in Biloxi, Mississippi. One gray October morning, about 650 local schoolchildren on a field trip to Beauvoir, as the home is called, poured out of buses in the parking lot. A few ran to the yard in front of the main building to explore the sprawling live oak whose lower limbs reach across the lawn like ...
Blacklisted Feminist: Saying Men Aren’t Women Used to Be ‘Banal,’ Today It’s ‘Heresy’
Post Date: 2018-11-29 08:39:04 by Deckard
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Meghan Murphy, a prominent feminist who was recently banned from Twitter for stating that men aren’t women, wrote an article for Quillette on Wednesday explaining how formerly “banal” facts have become “heresy — akin to terrorist speech.” Murphy, who accused Twitter of “censoring basic facts and silencing people,” was permanently suspended from the social network last week for stating, “Women aren’t men,” and “How are transwomen not men? What is the difference between a man and a transwoman?” After Twitter made Murphy delete the posts, she made another post calling out Twitter, and was subsequently blacklisted. ...
Indiana Solicitor General: It's Constitutional to Seize a Car for Driving 5 MPH Over the Speed Limit
Post Date: 2018-11-29 06:49:39 by Deckard
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Civil asset forfeiture is such a farce that it took Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer only about 100 words to twist Indiana's solicitor general into admitting that his state could have the power to seize cars over something as insubstantial as driving 5 miles-per-hour over the speed limit. Yes, really. But let's back up. On Wednesday morning, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Timbs v. Indiana, a case that could have huge ramifications for the way states and local governments use civil asset forfeiture to target the property of suspected criminals. As most Reason readers are probably aware, asset forfeiture is the process by which law enforcement can seize cars, cash, ...
Question: What is all this HOOPLA concerning Jeremy Corsi & Roger Stone
Post Date: 2018-11-28 20:16:51 by buckeroo
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It is so confusing about any significance there is nothing but HOTAIRE!
Mainstream Media Now Normalizing ‘Conspiracy Theory’ of Geoengineering Through Aerosol Spraying
Post Date: 2018-11-28 11:32:01 by Deckard
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The controversial subject of climate engineering or weather modification – which was popularized, and oversimplified with the term “chemtrails” – is stepping from the shadows and into the light of public scrutiny. What was once a conspiracy theory is now the subject of congressional debate and peer-reviewed studies. This month, a new study published in Environmental Research Letters, normalizes geoengineering and planes spraying particulates into the atmosphere to curb global warming. The study recommends that a fleet of 100 planes make 4,000 worldwide missions per year to “save the world from climate change.” The planes would be spraying sulphate particulates ...
New Bill to Require Gov’t Review of Social Media Accounts, Search Engine History to Buy a Gun
Post Date: 2018-11-28 11:24:09 by Deckard
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In one of the most Orwellian bills to date, lawmakers in New York have drafted and proposed a bill that will require a review of a citizen’s social media as well as their search engine history, going back years—just to buy a gun. Senate Bill 9191 would establish an official investigation officer who would scour the social media posts and search engine history of anyone attempting to purchase a gun. It also applies to current gun owners who want to renew their licenses. According to the bill, when a person attempts to purchase a gun, an investigating officer would then be given the password to the gun buyer’s social media accounts. The officer would go back three years ...
The Counterinsurgency Paradigm: How U.S. Politics Have Become Paramilitarized
Post Date: 2018-11-28 11:20:11 by Deckard
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Donald Trump ran a campaign promising to refill the notorious Guantanamo Bay prison, to “bring back a hell of a lot worse than waterboarding,” to “take out” the families of suspected terrorists, to ban Muslims from entering this country, and to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. Yet these policies didn’t start with Trump: Torture, indefinite detention, extraordinary renditions, record numbers of deportations, anti-Muslim sentiment, mass foreign and domestic surveillance, and even the killing of innocent family members of suspected terrorists all have a recent historical precedent. Trump’s predecessor, Barack Obama, continued some of the worst policies ...
(MORE) Clintons’ speaking tour event in Toronto had 83% of the seats empty
Post Date: 2018-11-28 10:17:54 by IbJensen
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Apparently the Clintons’ political life is set to end not with a bang but a whimper. I wonder what kind of envy Bill and Hillary Clinton experienced over the jam-packed arenas -- with thousands listening outside – that President Trump always has, as they gazed out at the more than 15,000 empty seats facing them last night in Toronto on their stadium speaking tour. Even though curtains were erected cutting the arena in half, the vacant seats far outnumbered the occupied ones. The UK Daily Mail reports 3,300 tickets were sold in the Scotiabank Arena, which holds 19,800, 16.6% of capacity. Perhaps even more humiliating, while ticket prices began at $53 (Canadian), the UK Daily ...
Trump Drops Bomb on Obama – Illegal Surveillance May Be Considered Treason
Post Date: 2018-11-28 10:16:03 by A K A Stone
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President Trump has slammed Barack Obama and his lawless administration for “spying” on his presidential campaign, claiming that the surveillance abuse committed by Obama, John Brennan and James Clapper may be considered “treason,”, according to audio tapes obtained by the Daily Mail. According to President Trump, Barack Obama was fully aware his appointed CIA chief John Brennan and director of national intelligence (DNI) James Clapper were conducting surveillance on citizens, specifically members of his campaign. “Personally, I think he knew. Yeah. Just remember what they did.” “Let me put it this way: if the shoe were on the other foot, and the same ...
Ignorance Of The Law Is No Excuse, Court Tells Cop
Post Date: 2018-11-28 10:09:20 by Deckard
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from the one-small-stopgap-in-a-torrent-of-unearned-forgiveness deptWe've grown accustomed to law enforcement being given a pass for not knowing the laws they're enforcing. A 2014 Supreme Court decision made being ignorant precedential, providing cops with an out citizens can't use. Ignorance of the law can be the best excuse when it's a cop trying to keep his evidence from being thrown out of court. With rare exceptions, courts have said it's okay for officers to predicate stops on perceived traffic violations, rather than actual traffic violations. Officers really have to make an effort to run afoul of the Supreme Court-created Fourth Amendment loophole. Another rare ...
Yes, You Have the Right to Talk Back to the Government, But It Could Get You Killed
Post Date: 2018-11-28 09:07:28 by Deckard
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“The freedom of individuals verbally to oppose or challenge police action without thereby risking arrest is one of the principal characteristics by which we distinguish a free nation from a police state.”— Justice William J. Brennan, City of Houston v. Hill What the architects of the police state want are submissive, compliant, cooperative, obedient, meek citizens who don’t talk back, don’t challenge government authority, don’t speak out against government misconduct, and don’t step out of line. What the First Amendment protects—and a healthy constitutional republic requires—are citizens who routinely exercise their right to speak truth to ...
VIDEO: Hillary suffers massive coughing fit during first tour stop
Post Date: 2018-11-28 07:52:35 by IbJensen
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(Watch video at link) The Clintons kicked off their speaking tour with Hillary suffering from an uncontrollable coughing fit. While addressing a half-empty crowd at Scotiabank Arena in Toronto, Canada, on Tuesday night, the former secretary of state During the first stop of “An Evening With The Clintons,” Hillary was asked a question about Russian President Vladimir Putin allegedly interfering in the 2016 presidential election. Before she could begin her usual spill about how Russia cost her the election, Clinton was completely overtaken by an uncontrollable cough. As Clinton couldn’t shake the cough for several seconds, the moderator asked her husband, former ...
Do Alabama Police Who Killed the Wrong Man Know What 'Brandished' Means?
Post Date: 2018-11-28 06:58:54 by Deckard
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Police in Hoover, Alabama, are still trying to get their story straight days after an officer shot and killed the wrong man at a mall last week. It's still unclear what exactly happened on Thanksgiving night that led police working security to shoot and kill Emantic "EJ" Bradford Jr. There was a prior shooting that injured two people, though police now say Bradford was probably not responsible. Still, Bradford was shot and killed by an officer who saw him holding a gun. While all the facts have yet to come out, the Hoover Police Department's seemingly ever-changing explanations haven't helped clear things up. In a joint statement sent to media outlets yesterday ...
A Pact with a Thief, a Deal with the Devil: The Vatican’s Pending Agreement with China
Post Date: 2018-11-27 22:29:58 by A K A Stone
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The Vatican should not cede selection of bishops in China to the Communist Party. Under Chinese Communist Party (CCP) control, China has shown itself to be an extraordinarily dictatorial and authoritarian nation. All kinds of freedoms that are taken for granted in the West—freedom of expression, of the media, of religion—are not only denied under CCP rule but routinely and often violently repressed. Human rights activists and lawyers disappear and are tortured, while alternative political parties are crushed. Calls for justice are met with the iron hand of the state. Muslims have been rounded up in the hundreds of thousands and forced into re-education camps in China’s ...
Study: White liberals perform ‘competence downshift’ when talking to a black person
Post Date: 2018-11-27 22:21:08 by A K A Stone
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This article on Yale’s website was published almost two weeks ago. The author of the article, Cydney Dupree, is one of two researchers who started out looking at how white presidential candidates talk when they are addressing a mostly black audience compared to when they are speaking to a mostly white audience. Dupree, who is black, and co-researcher Susan Fiske of Princeton found the candidates were less likely to use words that expressed competence and more likely to use words that expressed warmth when talking to a minority audience: The team found that Democratic candidates used fewer competence-related words in speeches delivered to mostly minority audiences than they did in ...
Holiday windfall for Houston patrons of ATM that mistakenly dispensed $100 bills
Post Date: 2018-11-27 11:21:57 by Deckard
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Some people in Houston will have some extra spending money for the holidays after an ATM mistakenly dispensed $100 bills in place of $10 bills on Sunday night.A man went to the Bank of America ATM in the evening to withdraw cash, but instead of getting $20, the machine spit out a $100 bill, authorities told NBC affiliate KPRC.After the man posted about it on social media, a crowd rushed to the bank machine, KPRC reported, adding that several arguments and even a few fights ensued among people in line at the ATM.The bank machine dispensed the large bills for about two hours, deputies told KPRC. Officers were called to secure the ATM at around 11 p.m. local time, the Harris County ...
PC Police Attack Kevin Hart for Son’s ‘Cowboys and Indians’ Birthday Party
Post Date: 2018-11-27 11:06:36 by Deckard
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People are "outraged" Kevin Hart and his wife threw a "Cowboys and Indians" themed birthday party for their baby. A current search of Kevin Hart and cowboy returns over 44 million results on Google. Hart and his wife Eniko are facing "backlash," "under fire," getting "flak," being "slammed," and "called out" for their "culturally insensitive" party, according to reports. Yahoo News reported "it's possible" the comedian and his wife "were thinking of nothing" but having a fun themed birthday party for their one-year-old child. "When Eniko and Kevin Hart planned their son ...
The Texas bullet train now looks likely. Here’s what to expect
Post Date: 2018-11-27 10:53:50 by Willie Green
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The Japenese bullet train, known there as the Shinkansen, is coming to Texas, if all goes as planned. But the question persists: Is Texas ready for high-speed rail? TOKYO — Texas Central will break ground next year on the first bullet train line in the United States, which will connect Dallas to Houston, and the train, technology and much of the know-how is coming from Japan.“We will start the construction next year,” said Masaru Yosano, Chief General Manager of Central Japan Railway Company. Yosano flies to Texas once a month to help coordinate the project with partners at Texas Central Railway Company, the private firm that’s developing the United States’ ...
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