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As Kids Dabble In Witchcraft, Neutrality Toward The Occult Isn't Enough

When I read “Harry Potter,” it made me more interested in what I saw my grandma and cousin do. I asked for a Ouija board and tarot cards for my birthday. I started checking my horoscope every day and tried learning spells.

Eventually, things took a darker turn, and we decided to put the Ouija board and tarot cards away for a while. After converting to Catholicism several years later and starting to experience what some call “spiritual warfare,” the biblical concept of fighting against evil spiritual forces, I decided to stay far away from anything related to witchcraft or the occult.

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YouTube stands by decision to slap age restrictions on Catholic League video slamming Disney | Just The News

Google-owned YouTube placed age restrictions on a documentary from the Catholic League that was critical of Disney earlier this month but has yet to explain the rationale behind their decision, or what specific aspects of the video triggered the move.

You can watch the documentary here: https://youtu.be/r5kj_5Lx9Ho

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MTG calls for 'national divorce' between red and blue states | Washington Examiner

Instead of celebrating the birthdays of America's Founding Fathers, George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, the Georgia GOP firebrand is calling for a "national divorce," tweeting that red and blue states need to separate and go their own ways. She is also advocating shrinking the federal government.

"We need a national divorce," Greene tweeted. "From the sick and disgusting woke culture issues shoved down our throats to the Democrats' traitorous America Last politics, we are done."

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This infuriates me!

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Synchron backed by Bezos and Gates tests brain-computer interface

Synchron is part of an emerging crop of companies testing technology in the brain-computer interface industry.
The system is implanted through the blood vessels and allows patients to operate technology using only their minds.
“It helps them engage in ways that we take for granted,” Synchron CEO Tom Oxley said.

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Communism/socialism is Satan's counterfit of the United Order. Communism in practice is a kleptocracy.

Just Like 'Real' Socialism, 'Real Feudalism' Has Never Been Tried

The influential political thinker Noam Chomsky, for example, published a 1986 essay titled “The Soviet Union Versus Socialism,” in which he claimed that the USSR did not have a socialist, but rather, a “state capitalist” system. The Daily Beast has previously claimed that “Cuba Is A Kleptocracy, Not Communist.” And Newsweek, in a 2017 article, cited several thinkers who insisted that North Korea, perhaps the best example of the horrors wrought by Marxism, had “rejected Communism decades ago.”

These excuses are dangerous because they make it seem like communism is a noble philosophy that only gets a bad reputation because of bad people who failed to correctly implement it. But to realize how wrong this approach is, imagine if Marx’s apologists gave such get-out-of-jail-free cards to any other political system: feudalism, for instance.

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It's about time! No knock warrants are dangerous and unconstitutional. There should not be warrants issued based on confidential informants or anonymous 911 calls. Swatting should be ended.

New Hampshire Bill Would Ban No-knock Warrants - The New American

House Bill 135, currently pending before the House’s Criminal Justice and Public Safety Committee, is co-sponsored by a bipartisan trio of legislators: Representatives Kristina Schultz (D), Matthew Santonastaso (R), and Glenn Bailey (R).

The text of the measure makes its purpose very clear: “No law enforcement officer shall seek, execute, or participate in the execution of a no-knock search warrant.” In the text of the bill, a no-knock warrant is defined as “a warrant authorizing a law enforcement officer to enter a premises to execute a warrant without first knocking or announcing his or her presence.”

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No knock warrants should be illegal. It disgusts me they are even considered legal under our constitution.

They needlessly put people at risk of tragedy and traumatize innocent family members including children.

From the police perspective....why would the want to go charging into a home turning every grandma, grandpa, wife, teenager into a potential shooter?

And long term on the PR battle, fear is not respect.
How many of those kids the police traumatize will grow up honoring and respecting law and order?

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In theory, this will also make butchering livestock for food illegal. We deserve the punishment that God is going to poor out on the world.

Spain Legalizes Bestiality But Imposes Jailtime For Injuring A Rat And Other ‘Vertebrate Animals’ – winepressnews.com

The nation of Spain has now officially decriminalized bestiality, sometimes known as zoophilia, as long as the individual does not cause injury to the animal it has relations with. Furthermore, the country will also be criminalizing those who are caught injuring or killing “vertebrate animals,” the law reads, creating a paradox in the legal system that allows Spaniards to have sex with their pet but be imprisoned for harming or killing a wild animal.

The two new pieces of legislature titled the “Project Law for the protection of animal rights and welfare,” and “Project of the Organic Law to modify Organic Law 10/1995, of November 23, of the Penal Code, regarding animal abuse” – were both presented in August, 2022, and then later qualified on September 8th. They recently passed in the Spanish Parliament over a week ago. They both passed with relatively thin margins, voting 174 votes in favor, 167 against and 7 abstentions; and 178 votes in favor, 165 against and 5 abstentions.

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Latter-day Saints church fined millions for allegedly using shell companies to hide assets: SEC - TheBlaze

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, commonly referred to as the Mormon church, has been fined millions of dollars for supposedly hiding the size and scope of its actual investments, which now likely total more than $40 billion.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission announced on Tuesday that it had conducted an extensive investigation into the finances of the LDS church that stretched back decades. According to the SEC, between 1997 and 2019, the church and its investment firm, Ensign Peak, funneled funds through 13 shell companies in order to obscure the extent of the church's assets, which are currently estimated to be close to $44 billion. The LDS church manages to maintain such a well-stocked treasury because it asks its members to donate a tenth of their earnings, a biblical practice known as "tithing."

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‘It’s OK to be white,’ agree 72%, including 53% of black people | Washington Examiner

What’s more, when asked if voters agreed or disagreed with the statement, “Black people can be racist, too,” 79% agreed, including 66% of black people.

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Report: Kinetic attacks on US power grid spiked 71% in 2022 - TheBlaze

NewsNation noted that Duke Energy Florida experienced several "substation intrusion events' in September. For instance, on Sept. 21, an intruder busted into the Zephyrhills North substation in Pasco County, Florida, sabotaging equipment that resulted in a nine-minute-long outage.

Substations convert high-voltage electricity into lower voltages for use by businesses and residences.

According to Central Oregon Daily, one of the Bonneville Power Administration's substations in Clackamas County, Oregon, was hit on Nov. 24.

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German Government Official Labels People Who Flee ‘Multicultural’ Cities As ‘Extremists’ – winepressnews.com

“People think they are decent people, hard-working young people with children. In this way, the right-wing extremists gain acceptance.”

Head of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution in Saxony, Dirk-Martin Christian recently sounded-off on Germans who want to live outside the hustle and bustle of “multicultural” cities as being “right-wing extremists.”

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Putin confirms Xi visit to Moscow amid fears of Chinese intervention in Ukraine War | Just The News

Russian President Vladimir Putin confirmed this week that Chinese President Xi Jinping would visit Moscow amid fears that Beijing may soon expand its support for the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

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Suicide?!

Arkansas police rule death of Epstein-linked Clinton aide a suicide | Just The News

"Upon reaching the back of the cottage she pointed towards the rear of the property and asked if that was a person," the report read, per the Mail. "I could see what at first appeared to be a man sitting near a tree, as my eyes focused better, I could see a rope of some type going from the tree limb to the male."

"I could see that he had a gunshot wound to the chest and that he had a knot tied in an extension cord that was around his neck and it was attached to the limb directly above him," he continued. Authorities never recovered a weapon though the report rules the death a suicide, nonetheless.


Arkansas Police Rule Suicide in Death of Clinton Aide Found Hanging From Tree with Shotgun Blast to Chest - Despite No Sign of Gun! | The Gateway Pundit

The investigation into the so-called ‘suicide’ was reopened after Middleton was found dead on an 1,100 acre Perryville farm linked to Bill Clinton.

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More than 800 big box retail stores are set to close across the nation this year | Daily Mail Online

Many of America's most iconic retail stores are set to close locations this year
Over 800 big box retailers are planned to be closed down throughout 2023
Bed Bath & Beyond leads the way in closing down at least 416 stores this year, followed by Tuesday Morning, Gap and Walmart

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It was the virus? Yeah, right!

Healthy 22-Year-Old Woman Collapses During Lunch with Friends - Had 7 Cardiac Arrests over 11 Days - Experts Suspect Virus Caused Heart Inflammation | The Gateway Pundit

A 22-year-old woman from Eglinton, County Londonderry suddenly collapsed while out for lunch with her friends.

Aoife Boyle, who has no family history of heart conditions, suffered seven cardiac arrests in eleven days and needed to be restarted after collapsing during lunch with her friends in a pub last month.

“Aoife was meeting her friends for lunch at a pub, they just got in through the door, they didn’t even make it to sit down, and the next thing she just collapsed and started taking seizures,” Aoife’s mother, Tanya Boyle told BBC News NI.

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Not just ivermectin: New FDA authority to ban off-label uses alarms doctors | Just The News

Doctors are speaking out against a new law that arguably paves the way for the FDA to prohibit treatments for purposes it hasn't expressly authorized, going far beyond highly politicized subjects such as treating COVID-19 with ivermectin.

The authority to ban off-label uses was buried on page 3,542 of the 4,155-page omnibus appropriations bill signed into law at year's end, though it's specifically applied to "banned devices."

The FDA requested this "very unprecedented" update after a string of court losses, Endpoints News senior editor Zachary Brennan told WBUR earlier this month, while cautioning that it's not clear whether the agency could broadly interpret "devices" to cover drug treatments.

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Catholic Bookstore Files Lawsuit Challenging Jacksonville Law Requiring it to Speak Against Religious Beliefs | The Gateway Pundit

The city passed a Human Rights Ordinance in 2017 that added sexual orientation and gender identity to the civil rights law.

“Thus, they affirm that men and women are different and cannot use pronouns or titles that don’t align with a customer’s sex,” the statement continued. “DeTrude also wants to explain this policy and her Catholic beliefs about gender and sexuality in her store and on the store’s website. However, doing so is illegal under Jacksonville’s Human Rights Ordinance, which forbids communications that could lead someone to feel ‘unwelcome’ based on various protected traits. The law threatens Queen of Angels with unlimited fines and damages if it doesn’t comply.”

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Wartime-style rationing of food, fuel, flights needed to 'rapidly and fairly' fight climate change, researchers claim - TheBlaze

A recently released academic paper suggested that governments should implement wartime-style rationing policies on goods, including food, fuel, and flights, to reduce the impacts of climate change, Fox News Digital reported.

Researchers at the University of Leeds in England argued that rationing policies similar to those imposed during World War I and II "could help states reduce emissions rapidly and fairly."

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WHO Calls for Global Surveillance to Ensure No One Escapes Vaccination - The New American

That’s right. The WHO is calling on member states to deploy more robust surveillance systems in order to identify people with any disease whatsoever so that the “infected” person can be identified and vaccinated “as quickly as possible.”