December 16, 2025
Today, when I tried looking up something on Google search engine, I found the search field like this:
Tuesday, December 16, 2025
What happened to Google AI Mode?
Monday, December 15, 2025
Why do some people stay in their religion and others leave? A new Pew report has some clues.
(RNS) — Americans who had a good experience as children were likely to keep their faith. Those with bad experiences left, according to a new study from Pew Research Center.
Religious pluralism means more than living around people of different faiths. (Thai Noipho/iStock via Getty Images Plus)
Bob Smietana
December 15, 2025
(RNS) — Americans who had a positive religious experience as kids are most likely to keep the same faith as adults. Those who had negative experiences are most likely to change faiths or give up on religion. And while a majority (56%) of Americans still identify with their childhood faith, a third (35%) have switched — including 20% who now say they have no religion.
Those are among the findings of a new report from Pew Research Center, based on data from Pew’s 2023-24 U.S. Religious Landscape Study and a survey of 8,937 American adults conducted between May 5 and May 11.
Researchers asked Americans what religion they’d been raised in as well as their current religion, then asked those who switched or left their childhood faith about why things changed. They also asked Americans who are religious why they remain part of that faith.
Brown University shooting victims identified...
Brown University shooting victims identified as Ella Cook, Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov
Story by Sarah Lynch Baldwin
Updated on: December 15, 2025 / 2:21 PM EST / CBS News
The two people who were killed in a shooting at Brown University on Saturday have been identified as students Ella Cook and Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov.
The shooting took place in a classroom on the university's campus in Providence, Rhode Island, on Saturday evening, according to authorities. At least nine other people were wounded.
The two people who were killed in a shooting at Brown University on Saturday have been identified as students Ella Cook and Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov.
The shooting took place in a classroom on the university's campus in Providence, Rhode Island, on Saturday evening, according to authorities. At least nine other people were wounded.
Authorities have released photos and videos of a possible suspect and offered a reward as the manhunt continues. The school said in a statement that "local police have advised they do not believe there is any immediate threat to Brown or the local community."
Many students stopped by a makeshift memorial to remember the victims before leaving for winter break.
"It's just heartbreaking for the community, we're all really in shock right now," student Jack Cox told CBS News Boston.
Source: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/brown-university-shooting-victims-ella-cook-mukhammad-aziz-umurzokov/
“I Helped Build It!” A WEF-Davos Insider EXPOSES The Great Reset
“I Helped Build It!” A WEF-Davos Insider EXPOSES The Great Reset
Dec 13, 2025
Former investment banker and ESG “whistleblower” Desiree Fixler joins The Winston Marshall Show to expose what she says is one of the biggest financial scams of the modern era.
Fixler explains how she helped build the ESG and stakeholder capitalism framework from inside Wall Street before discovering it was being used to mislead investors, overcharge consumers, and rebrand powerful elites after the financial crash. Drawing on her time as Chief Sustainability Officer at Deutsche Bank’s trillion dollar asset manager, she reveals how ESG labels were slapped onto funds with no evidence, no data, and no accountability.
She describes how ESG became mandatory through regulation, how net zero and DEI targets distorted corporate decision making, and why trillions were diverted into unprofitable green projects while energy prices soared. Fixler recounts blowing the whistle internally, being fired, smeared, and forced to rebuild her life from scratch before US and German authorities later confirmed widespread ESG fraud
We discuss Klaus Schwab, the World Economic Forum, stakeholder capitalism versus shareholder capitalism, the role of consultants and regulators, and why Fixler believes ESG has undermined growth, trust, and democracy across the West.
A rare inside account of how ESG really worked, who profited, and why the whole system is now beginning to collapse.
Sunday, December 14, 2025
What I Learned During My Visit to an Immigration Detention Center
What I Learned During My Visit to an Immigration Detention Center
A migrant being detained by ICE outside of Immigration Court in Harlingen, Texas. (Brian Strassburger, SJ)
Note: The names and countries of origin of those mentioned have been changed.
“Look for the red car in the parking lot behind the metro station.”
That’s where I met the other people with whom I traveled to an immigration detention center in rural Virginia, several hours from my own home. A friend of mine who works with immigration attorneys invited me to go and interpret between English and Spanish speakers and to assist the lawyers. I jumped at the opportunity. I’d never been to a detention center before and have rarely been to jails or prisons.
I was especially interested since the news this past year has been so filled with stories of immigrants being detained and deported. The government says that they are all criminals and the “worst of the worst.” Advocates say that they are mostly innocent mothers, fathers, teens and beloved community members. One thing everyone agrees on is that the number of migrants in detention is the most it’s ever been, and that the number of people being deported is sky high.
I wanted to see for myself who was actually being detained.
Jesuits were among those who gathered outside the Broadview Detention Facility in Broadview, Illinois, on November 1, requesting to offer Communion to migrants:
Saturday, December 13, 2025
Friday, December 12, 2025
Ilhan Omar's former husband surfaces in South Africa amid Trump's attacks: Report
Story by India Today World Desk
Ilhan Omar's former husband surfaces in South Africa amid Trump's attacks: Report
Ilhan Omar, the Minnesota congresswoman who has long been the target of politically charged rumours about her personal life, is once again in the spotlight following news about her former husband, Ahmed Elmi. According to a report by the New York Post, Elmi, whom Omar was legally married to from 2009 to 2017, has reappeared online after years of public absence.
The paper states that Elmi, 40, now presents himself on social media as a self-described "dirty dandy," posting flamboyant fashion photos, nightlife snapshots, and images alongside friends in upscale London cafes.
He has spent recent years studying in the United Kingdom, earning a doctorate at Bristol University before becoming a research assistant there, with academic interests reportedly including "critically queer studies," decolonisation, gender research, and Black humanities. More recent posts show him visiting Witwatersrand University in Johannesburg, South Africa.
FORGOTTEN HISTORY
From Refugee to Power - The Controversial Journey of Ilhan Omar
Ilhan Omar, the Minnesota congresswoman who has long been the target of politically charged rumours about her personal life, is once again in the spotlight following news about her former husband, Ahmed Elmi. According to a report by the New York Post, Elmi, whom Omar was legally married to from 2009 to 2017, has reappeared online after years of public absence.
The paper states that Elmi, 40, now presents himself on social media as a self-described "dirty dandy," posting flamboyant fashion photos, nightlife snapshots, and images alongside friends in upscale London cafes.
He has spent recent years studying in the United Kingdom, earning a doctorate at Bristol University before becoming a research assistant there, with academic interests reportedly including "critically queer studies," decolonisation, gender research, and Black humanities. More recent posts show him visiting Witwatersrand University in Johannesburg, South Africa.
FORGOTTEN HISTORYFrom Refugee to Power - The Controversial Journey of Ilhan Omar
Trump news at a glance: president ‘sick of meetings’ as Ukraine-Russia peace deal talks drag on
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Trump news at a glance: president ‘sick of meetings’ as Ukraine-Russia peace deal talks drag on
Trump’s press secretary suggested Trump was growing weary of process as Ukraine’s president under immense pressure to sign US deal – key US politics stories from 11 December 2025
Guardian staff
Thu 11 Dec 2025 21.08 EST
When it comes to Ukraine peace talks, Donald Trump is “sick of meetings just for the sake of meetings”, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters on Thursday.
Leavitt added that the White House may send a representative to meet with European and Ukrainian officials this weekend if it feels like a meeting is “worthy” of the US’s time, adding that Trump is “extremely frustrated with both sides of this war”.
“He wants this war to come to an end, and the administration has spent more than 30 hours [on] this just in the past couple of weeks, meeting with the Russians and Ukrainians and the Europeans,” Leavitt said.
Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelenskyy has been under immense pressure from Trump to sign up to the US peace plan. In recent days Trump has attacked Zelenskyy, claiming he “has not even read” the draft peace plan, suggesting he lacks legitimacy and Ukraine should hold an election.
Zelenskyy said the Ukrainian negotiating team had sent their revised plan to Washington on Wednesday, and that questions over territory and control of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant were two of the remaining sticking points.
Leavitt said Trump was “aware” of Ukraine’s updated peace proposal, but offered no further comment.
When it comes to Ukraine peace talks, Donald Trump is “sick of meetings just for the sake of meetings”, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters on Thursday.
Leavitt added that the White House may send a representative to meet with European and Ukrainian officials this weekend if it feels like a meeting is “worthy” of the US’s time, adding that Trump is “extremely frustrated with both sides of this war”.
“He wants this war to come to an end, and the administration has spent more than 30 hours [on] this just in the past couple of weeks, meeting with the Russians and Ukrainians and the Europeans,” Leavitt said.
Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelenskyy has been under immense pressure from Trump to sign up to the US peace plan. In recent days Trump has attacked Zelenskyy, claiming he “has not even read” the draft peace plan, suggesting he lacks legitimacy and Ukraine should hold an election.
Zelenskyy said the Ukrainian negotiating team had sent their revised plan to Washington on Wednesday, and that questions over territory and control of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant were two of the remaining sticking points.
Leavitt said Trump was “aware” of Ukraine’s updated peace proposal, but offered no further comment.
Lone Democrat's effort to impeach Trump fails miserably — because of his own party
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Rebeka Zeljko
December 11, 2025
'We can't just impeach someone with no process.'
Dozens of House Democrats turned their back on their colleague who led the latest impeachment effort against President Donald Trump.
Texas Democratic Rep. Al Green's effort to force a vote to impeach Trump failed miserably on Thursday in a 237-140 vote. Forty-seven Democrats, including all of the Democratic leadership, voted present, while 23 Democrats joined Republicans to table to motion altogether.
'None of that serious work has been done.'
Although Democrats are typically enthusiastic when given the opportunity to kneecap the administration, both the leadership and the rank-and-file blocked the vote.
"We can't just impeach someone with no process, without any investigation," Democratic Rep. Ted Lieu of California said following the vote.
Rebeka Zeljko
December 11, 2025
'We can't just impeach someone with no process.'
Dozens of House Democrats turned their back on their colleague who led the latest impeachment effort against President Donald Trump.
Texas Democratic Rep. Al Green's effort to force a vote to impeach Trump failed miserably on Thursday in a 237-140 vote. Forty-seven Democrats, including all of the Democratic leadership, voted present, while 23 Democrats joined Republicans to table to motion altogether.
'None of that serious work has been done.'
Although Democrats are typically enthusiastic when given the opportunity to kneecap the administration, both the leadership and the rank-and-file blocked the vote.
"We can't just impeach someone with no process, without any investigation," Democratic Rep. Ted Lieu of California said following the vote.
Thursday, December 11, 2025
The Curious Case of Ilhan Omar & Her Family
August 08, 2019 JW INSIDE REPORT
The Curious Case of Ilhan Omar & Her Family
On this episode of Judicial Watch’s “Inside Report,” Investigative Journalist and former editor of PJ Media, David Steinberg discusses Representative Ilhan Omar & her family–along with potential fraud she may have committed.
Read about our ethics complaint against Rep. Omar HERE
Read David Steinberg’s article HERE
Wednesday, December 10, 2025
Tuesday, December 09, 2025
“A Counterfeit Kingdom”: Adventists Confront Christian Nationalism at Religious Liberty Summit
Natalie Bruzon| November 25, 2025| Reports![]()
Just days after writing about Adventism and Christian nationalism, I was sitting in the newly-built Paradise Adventist church. The compound—completed this year after the congregation’s previous building was destroyed in the 2018 Camp Fire, the deadliest wildfire in California history—stands as a testament to the community’s resilience. Still, I doubted whether the large sanctuary would fill. Butte County, recently reshaped by California’s Prop 50 redistricting, is a traditionally Republican stronghold in an otherwise Democratic state; in 2024, it voted red on nearly every ballot measure, including for US President Donald Trump.
Yet on November 15, three Adventist scholars made the case not only that our theology still has something vital to say about religious liberty, but also that the current administration poses real dangers to the separation of church and state. The Religious Liberty Summit—hosted by the Church State Council—was less a political conference and more a return to basic Adventism, a reminder that our roots and prophetic identity were always meant to prepare us for precisely this moment.
Just days after writing about Adventism and Christian nationalism, I was sitting in the newly-built Paradise Adventist church. The compound—completed this year after the congregation’s previous building was destroyed in the 2018 Camp Fire, the deadliest wildfire in California history—stands as a testament to the community’s resilience. Still, I doubted whether the large sanctuary would fill. Butte County, recently reshaped by California’s Prop 50 redistricting, is a traditionally Republican stronghold in an otherwise Democratic state; in 2024, it voted red on nearly every ballot measure, including for US President Donald Trump.
Yet on November 15, three Adventist scholars made the case not only that our theology still has something vital to say about religious liberty, but also that the current administration poses real dangers to the separation of church and state. The Religious Liberty Summit—hosted by the Church State Council—was less a political conference and more a return to basic Adventism, a reminder that our roots and prophetic identity were always meant to prepare us for precisely this moment.
Attendees fill the sanctuary for the Religious Liberty Summit on November 15 at the Paradise Adventist Church in Paradise, California. Image: Natalie Bruzon/Spectrum
Devon and Dawn Horning—local to Paradise since 2010—were the duo responsible for bringing the Religious Liberty Summit to the Paradise Church. Devon described his long-standing interest in religious liberty: “I have had this very big interest in separation of church and state and how that relates to current events,” he said, adding that studying “liberty of conscience and Roger Williams and the history of the Adventist Church” has shaped his convictions.
Devon and Dawn Horning—local to Paradise since 2010—were the duo responsible for bringing the Religious Liberty Summit to the Paradise Church. Devon described his long-standing interest in religious liberty: “I have had this very big interest in separation of church and state and how that relates to current events,” he said, adding that studying “liberty of conscience and Roger Williams and the history of the Adventist Church” has shaped his convictions.
Pacific Union Conference Jewish Ministry Launches Beth Ohr: Urban Center of Influence
By: David Gardner | April 18, 2023
The dream of starting a Jewish-Adventist congregation began more than 20 years ago in the hearts of several Jewish Adventists. Alan Reinach, Director of Public Affairs and Religious Liberty for the Pacific Union Conference, has long shared that dream and held the conviction that a permanent ministry must be established for our 800,000 Jewish neighbors in the greater Los Angeles basin.
Reinach, who is Jewish, has long been an inspiration for this project. “For decades, some of us who are Jewish Adventists have prayed and dreamed of congregations where Jews can be part of the Advent hope without giving up our culture or way of worship,” Reinach shares. “Such congregations are necessary if we are to fulfill Paul’s admonition that the gospel belongs ‘to the Jew first.’”
The hearts of the founders are on fire and burn with a passion to share with others the light Reinach and others of have found in the Torah and the prophets, as Leon Brown, executive vice president of the Pacific Union Conference, spoke about in his devotional message at the ministry launch.
The name of the congregation officially planted in Glendale, Calif., on February 28, 2023, is Beth Ohr. That name is inspired by the words found in Isaiah 60:1, which reads: “Arise, shine, for thy light is come and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee.”
Monday, December 08, 2025
Churchill & Islam
Photo: The Churchill Book Collector
February 27, 2021
By JAMES W. MULLER
The long-awaited definitive edition of Winston Churchill’s book The River War has now been published. The roots of the conflict in which young Lt. Churchill charged with the 21st Lancers at Omdurman went back to a revolt in Sudan initiated by the Mahdi, a charismatic leader in the Muslim world. The newest issue of Finest Hour explores the subject “Churchill, Race, and Religion” and includes the observations of the Mahdi’s grandson about how the River War affected Churchill. In his introduction to the new scholarly edition of The River War, editor James W. Muller also examines how Churchill’s views about Islam were formed by his early experiences in Asia and Africa. Here follow extracts.
In The River War, Churchill calls Islam “Mohammedanism” and Muslim law “Mohammedan,” terms used by analogy with “Christianity” and “Christian” and more in favor among non-Muslims than among Muslims, who see them as misnaming Islam and the Muslim faithful as if Muhammad were analogous in Islam to Christ in Christianity. In fact, for Muslims the Qur’an as God’s word is the better analogy to Christ for Christians; in Islam true religious devotion belongs to God, who is divine, not to his Prophet, who is human, and whose followers therefore worship not Muhammad but only God. Few would be glad to think that they were fanatics.
The effects of both the “frenzy” and the “apathy” Churchill imputes to Muslims are hardly complimentary. He finds them in the thrall of “a degraded sensualism,” spoiling their lives both in this world and the next. He argues that they confuse women and slaves with property. Despite his acknowledgment that “individual Moslems may show splendid qualities,” that thousands of Muslims are “brave and loyal soldiers of the Queen,” and that all Muslims “know how to die,” he judges them paralyzed in their “social developement” and Islam the strongest “retrograde force…in the world.”
What The Bible Says About When To Obey And Ignore The Government
By: Amanda C. Bauch
December 04, 2025
Amanda C. Bauch
The following is an excerpt from the newly published One Nation Under God: 40 Devotions for Patriotic Women, by Amanda C. Bauch.
Our original parents, Adam and Eve, were the first to receive the gracious gift of God’s law written on their hearts. Yet they chose to disobey and do the one thing they’d been commanded not to do: “And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, ‘Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat; but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die’” (Genesis 2:16–17).
Even though Adam and Eve ate of the fruit, the natural law remained on their hearts, but sin obscured it. So it remains to this day.
Government, or some type of earthly authority, is needed because of man’s sinfulness. God’s law, as epitomized in the Ten Commandments, shows us our sin, which Paul wrote about in Romans 7:7: “What shall we say then? Is the law sin? Certainly not! On the contrary, I would not have known sin except through the law. For I would not have known covetousness unless the law had said, ‘You shall not covet’” (cf. Romans 3:20).
December 04, 2025
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Whether we’re resisting or obeying civil authorities, our actions must reflect God’s love, mercy, and truth, doing as Jesus commanded.
Whether we’re resisting or obeying civil authorities, our actions must reflect God’s love, mercy, and truth, doing as Jesus commanded.
Amanda C. Bauch
The following is an excerpt from the newly published One Nation Under God: 40 Devotions for Patriotic Women, by Amanda C. Bauch.
Let every soul be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and the authorities that exist are appointed by God. Therefore whoever resists the authority resists the ordinance of God, and those who resist will bring judgment on themselves. … For he is God’s minister to you for good. But if you do evil, be afraid; for he does not bear the sword in vain; for he is God’s minister, an avenger to execute wrath on him who practices evil.Scripture tells us that we’re all created with the natural law: “For when Gentiles, who do not have the law, by nature do the things in the law, these, although not having the law, are a law to themselves, who show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness” (Romans 2:14–15).
—Romans 13:1–2, 4
Our original parents, Adam and Eve, were the first to receive the gracious gift of God’s law written on their hearts. Yet they chose to disobey and do the one thing they’d been commanded not to do: “And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, ‘Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat; but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die’” (Genesis 2:16–17).
Even though Adam and Eve ate of the fruit, the natural law remained on their hearts, but sin obscured it. So it remains to this day.
Government, or some type of earthly authority, is needed because of man’s sinfulness. God’s law, as epitomized in the Ten Commandments, shows us our sin, which Paul wrote about in Romans 7:7: “What shall we say then? Is the law sin? Certainly not! On the contrary, I would not have known sin except through the law. For I would not have known covetousness unless the law had said, ‘You shall not covet’” (cf. Romans 3:20).
Sunday, December 07, 2025
How a (Jesuit) Priest Became a Confidant of Venezuela’s Maduro
ANALYSIS: Father Numa Molina’s close ties to Venezuela’s president have inflamed friction with the nation’s bishops, who accuse the regime of persecution and economic devastation.
Jonah McKeown World December 5, 2025
Tensions remain high between the United States and Venezuela amid numerous boat strikes in the Caribbean by the U.S. military that have killed more than 80 people since early September. Though the Trump administration says the strikes are intended to stop drug smuggling, U.S. Catholic leaders have sharply opposed the alleged targeting of civilians and survivors.
Nicolás Maduro, who has led Venezuela into a 12-year tailspin that has included rampant inflation, numerous human rights abuses and the departure of millions of emigres, reportedly believes he can cling to power despite the crisis.
Pope Leo, speaking during a recent press conference on the papal flight from Lebanon to Rome, said the Holy See is working with the Venezuelan bishops’ conference and the nuncio to calm tensions after Trump’s recent threats to take further military action in Venezuela. As of Dec. 3, Trump and Maduro reportedly spoke by phone about a possible meeting.
Amid the geopolitical uncertainty, an obscure but influential figure has the ear of Venezuela’s autocratic president: a Jesuit priest, whose openly socialist views have put him at odds with the nation’s Catholic hierarchy.
Jesuit Father Numa Molina, 68, became a confidant of Maduro’s after previously meeting and gaining the trust of his predecessor, President Hugo Chávez, who ruled Venezuela from 1998 until his death in 2013 and whom Father Molina has called a “prophet.”
Left: Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro gestures during a meeting at the Eurobuilding Hotel in Caracas on Nov. 14. Right: Father Numa Molina, whose association with President Maduro has drawn attention. (photo: Federico Parra / AFP via Getty Images and X/@numamolina)
Jonah McKeown World December 5, 2025
Tensions remain high between the United States and Venezuela amid numerous boat strikes in the Caribbean by the U.S. military that have killed more than 80 people since early September. Though the Trump administration says the strikes are intended to stop drug smuggling, U.S. Catholic leaders have sharply opposed the alleged targeting of civilians and survivors.
Nicolás Maduro, who has led Venezuela into a 12-year tailspin that has included rampant inflation, numerous human rights abuses and the departure of millions of emigres, reportedly believes he can cling to power despite the crisis.
Pope Leo, speaking during a recent press conference on the papal flight from Lebanon to Rome, said the Holy See is working with the Venezuelan bishops’ conference and the nuncio to calm tensions after Trump’s recent threats to take further military action in Venezuela. As of Dec. 3, Trump and Maduro reportedly spoke by phone about a possible meeting.
Amid the geopolitical uncertainty, an obscure but influential figure has the ear of Venezuela’s autocratic president: a Jesuit priest, whose openly socialist views have put him at odds with the nation’s Catholic hierarchy.
Jesuit Father Numa Molina, 68, became a confidant of Maduro’s after previously meeting and gaining the trust of his predecessor, President Hugo Chávez, who ruled Venezuela from 1998 until his death in 2013 and whom Father Molina has called a “prophet.”
The Biden Autopen Presidency: Decline, Delusion, and Deception in the White House Full Committee on Oversight and Government Reform
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THE BIGGEST POLITICAL SCANDAL IN AMERICAN PRESIDENTIAL HISTORY
Chairman James Comer and Oversight Republicans have released a bombshell report exposing the truth behind Joe Biden’s cognitive decline and who was really running the show.
Through transcribed interviews and depositions with Biden’s own former senior staff, we uncovered that while Biden struggled to perform his duties, critical decisions were made behind closed doors without a clear chain of command. That included using an autopen to sign executive actions, pardons, and major policy directives without clear approval from Joe Biden.
Staffers close to Biden admitted his decline was real. Shockingly, some did not even know who was authorizing signatures in his name or using the autopen. Others invoked the Fifth, refused to testify, and stonewalled the Committee at every turn.
This isn’t just a cover-up—it’s the biggest political scandal in American presidential history.
The Biden Autopen Presidency will go down as one of the biggest political scandals in U.S. history.
As Americans saw President Biden’s decline with their own eyes, Biden’s inner circle sought to deceive the public, cover-up his decline, and took unauthorized executive actions with the autopen that are now invalid.
CHAIRMAN JAMES COMER
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As part of the Oversight Committee’s investigation into The Biden Autopen Presidency, Chairman James Comer and Committee staff conducted transcribed interviews with several of Joe Biden’s former senior aides and advisors. These witnesses who worked closest to the former president painted a disturbing picture of a White House in decline and denial.
Their testimony revealed that President Biden’s cognitive deterioration was real, visible, and widely discussed inside the West Wing. Senior staff admitted the President was shielded from unscripted events, major policy meetings, and medical evaluations that could expose his condition.
Political operatives, like Anita Dunn, interfered in medical decisions, blocking cognitive tests to protect Biden’s reelection prospects.
Witnesses further confirmed that critical executive actions and even presidential pardons were executed without Biden’s direct authorization, signed instead by an autopen. Several aides confessed they did not know who was approving or controlling its use.
The Committee’s findings are clear: Biden’s top aides concealed his decline, exercised presidential authority without him, and misled the American people.
William Miller's 14 Rules of Bible Interpretation
By The Watchman
Those who are engaged in proclaiming the third angel’s message are searching the Scriptures upon the same plan that Father Miller adopted. In the little book entitled “Views of the Prophecies and Prophetic Chronology,” FatherMiller gives the following simple but intelligent and important rules for Bible study and interpretation:– {RH,
November 25, 1884 par. 23}
“1. Every word must have its proper bearing on the subject presented in the Bible; 2. All Scripture is necessary, and may be understood by diligent application and study; 3. Nothing revealed in Scripture can or will be hid from those whoask in faith, not wavering; 4. To understand doctrine, bring all the scriptures together on the subject you wish to know, then let every word have its proper influence; and if you can form your theory without a contradiction, you cannot be in error; 5. Scripture must be its own expositor, since it is a rule of itself. If I depend on a teacher to expound to me, and he should guess at its meaning, or desire to have it so on account of his sectarian creed, or to be thought wise, then his guessing, desire, creed, or wisdom is my rule, and not the Bible.” {RH, November 25, 1884 par. 24} The above is a portion of these rules; and in our study of the Bible we shall all do well to heed the principles set forth. {RH, November 25, 1884 par. 25}
RULES OF INTERPRETATION
IN studying the Bible, I have found the following rules to be of great service to myself and now give them to the public by special request. Every rule should be well studied, in connexion with the scripture references, if the Bible student would be at all benefited by them. {1842 WiM, MWV1 20.1}
End of Climate Catastrophism Is Good for Prosperity
Fré Sonneveld
Is the American Left finally waking up from its decadeslong climate catastrophism stupor? For years, climate alarmism has reigned as political catechism: The planet is burning, and only drastic action -- deindustrialization, draconian regulation, even ceasing childbearing -- could forestall certain apocalypse. Now, at least some signs are emerging that both the broader public and leading liberal voices may be recoiling from the doom and gloom.
First, recent polling shows that the intensity of climate dread is weakening. According to a July 2025 report from the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication, while a majority (69%) of Americans still say global warming is happening, only 60% say it's "mostly human-caused"; 28% attribute it mostly to natural environmental changes. A similar October 2025 study from the University of Chicago's Energy Policy Institute found that "belief in human-driven climate change declined overall" since 2017. Interestingly, Democrats and political independents, not Republicans, were primarily responsible for the decline.
Moreover, public willingness to countenance personal sacrifice in the name of saving the planet seems to be plummeting: An earlier October 2024 poll from the Pew Research Center found that only 45% said human activity contributes "a great deal" to climate change. Another 29% said it contributes "some" -- while a quarter said human influence was minimal or nonexistent.
The moral panic is slowly evaporating. Millions of Americans may still believe warming exists, but far fewer view it as an imminent existential threat -- let alone embrace sweeping upheavals in energy policy and personal lifestyle.
Saturday, December 06, 2025
AU applauds congressional resolution supporting church-state separation
November 2025 Church & State Magazine
November 3, 2025
Americans United welcomed the introduction of a resolution in Congress honoring the separation of church and state.
Rep. Yassamin Ansari
U.S. Reps. Yassamin Ansari (D-Ariz.), Jared Huffman (D-Calif.) and Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) introduced the resolution — H. Res. 773 — on Sept. 30. It references two important speeches in church-state history: President John F. Kennedy’s speech to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association on Sept. 12, 1960, and President Ulysses S. Grant’s Sept. 29, 1875, speech to Army veterans in Des Moines.
Both presidents strongly endorsed church-state separation in their speeches. Kennedy famously said, “I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute — where no Catholic prelate would tell the President (should he be Catholic) how to act, and no Protestant minister would tell his parishioners for whom to vote, where no church or church school is granted any public funds or political preference and where no man is denied public office merely because his religion differs from the President who might appoint him or the people who might elect him.”
Kennedy continued, “I believe in an America that is officially neither Catholic, Protestant nor Jewish — where no public official either requests or accepts instructions on public policy from the Pope, the National Council of Churches or any other ecclesiastical source, where no religious body seeks to impose its will directly or indirectly upon the general populace or the public acts of its officials — and where religious liberty is so indivisible that an act against one church is treated as an act against all.”
U.S. Reps. Yassamin Ansari (D-Ariz.), Jared Huffman (D-Calif.) and Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) introduced the resolution — H. Res. 773 — on Sept. 30. It references two important speeches in church-state history: President John F. Kennedy’s speech to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association on Sept. 12, 1960, and President Ulysses S. Grant’s Sept. 29, 1875, speech to Army veterans in Des Moines.
Both presidents strongly endorsed church-state separation in their speeches. Kennedy famously said, “I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute — where no Catholic prelate would tell the President (should he be Catholic) how to act, and no Protestant minister would tell his parishioners for whom to vote, where no church or church school is granted any public funds or political preference and where no man is denied public office merely because his religion differs from the President who might appoint him or the people who might elect him.”
Kennedy continued, “I believe in an America that is officially neither Catholic, Protestant nor Jewish — where no public official either requests or accepts instructions on public policy from the Pope, the National Council of Churches or any other ecclesiastical source, where no religious body seeks to impose its will directly or indirectly upon the general populace or the public acts of its officials — and where religious liberty is so indivisible that an act against one church is treated as an act against all.”
Friday, December 05, 2025
Global Refuge (Formerly Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service)
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Global Refuge
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Founded 1939; 86 years ago
Legal status Non-profit
Affiliations Evangelical Lutheran Church in America,
Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
Revenue US$3 00 million (2017)[1]
Employees 550
Website www.globalrefuge.org
Formerly called Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service
Global Refuge, formerly known as Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service,[2] is a non-profit organization that supports refugees and migrants entering the United States. It is one of nine refugee resettlement agencies working with the Office of Refugee Resettlement[3] and one of two that serves unaccompanied refugee minors.[4] Global Refuge also advocates for policies and practices relating to immigration and detention.[5][6]
As an organization, Global Refuge originates from the response of American Lutherans in 1939 to the needs of Europeans displaced because of World War II,[7] but the roots of the organization reach back to the 1860s when the New York Ministerium and the Pennsylvania Ministerium joined together to help and protect Lutheran immigrants in the US.[8] Since then the organization's scope has expanded to include any refugees entering the US, support for asylum seekers[9] and migrants,[10][11] and services to unaccompanied children (UACs).
Global Refuge continues to be a faith-based organization and maintains collaborative relationships with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and the Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.[12]
As of 2019 the president and CEO is Krish O'Mara Vignarajah.[13]
Alleged Haitian gang leader sentenced to life in prison in kidnapping of 16 American missionaries
December 3, 2025 / 5:29 PM EST / CBS/AP
A man alleged to be the founder and leader of a Haitian gang was sentenced on Wednesday to life in prison for orchestrating the 2021 kidnapping of 17 people — 16 of them Americans — including five children, who were on a missionary trip to the Caribbean country.
Joly Germine declined to say anything before U.S. District Judge John Bates in Washington, D.C., sentenced him.
"No remorse has been shown by Mr. Germine. No acceptance of responsibility," the judge said.
Some of the kidnapping victims chose to speak in court, telling Germine they forgive him for his role in their ordeal.
Ray Noecker, whose wife, Cheryl, and five children were held hostage, said it was a "life-changing experience" for their family. He turned to Germine and told him that he hopes he finds "God's peace."
"True freedom is not found outside of prison walls. True freedom is found inside your own heart," Noecker said.
The victims — 16 U.S. citizens and one Canadian citizen — were kidnapped by gang members near Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Oct. 16, 2021. Two hostages were freed in November 2021 and three more were released in early December. The remaining 12 escaped later in December after being held at gunpoint for 62 days.
'A nice geek from the Midwest': Leo's brand emerges during first foreign trip as pope
Pope Leo XIV
'A nice geek from the Midwest': Leo's brand emerges during first foreign trip as pope
The new American pontiff has been far more reserved than his outspoken predecessor. But many of their underlying progressive messages are the same.
Dec. 3, 2025, 9:00 AM EST
By Alexander Smith
After a quiet start, the first American pope appears to be finding his voice.
During his debut foreign trip, to Turkey and Lebanon, Pope Leo XIV projected a papal brand more guarded and less polarizing than that of his predecessor, Pope Francis.
But many Vatican watchers have nonetheless been impressed with his ability to deliver powerful messages — particularly on issues such as climate change, artificial intelligence, poverty and immigration — albeit in a subtler way than the man he replaced.
“Pope Leo is certainly growing into the role,” said Massimo Faggioli, a world-leading Vatican expert and professor at Trinity College Dublin. “He has resisted the temptation to give a sound bite that’s easy to use as a headline,” but “when he speaks, he says things that are quite courageous.”
For all the warm reviews, some Vatican watchers have sounded a note of caution: Leo has yet to stake out concrete positions, let alone sharp critiques, on any major issue. Doing so will almost certainly mean disappointing at least one faction in this church of 1.4 billion that he has so deftly kept onside.
Thursday, December 04, 2025
Christian OU student flunked after calling gender ideology 'demonic'
By Jon Brown, Christian Post Reporter Wednesday, December 03, 2025
A Christian pre-med student has gone viral in recent days for filing a religious discrimination complaint with the University of Oklahoma after a trans-identified teaching assistant allegedly flunked her for an essay stating that gender ideology is "demonic."
Samantha Fulnecky, a junior at the University of Oklahoma who is majoring in psychology, received a zero out of 25 for a 650-word opinion essay she was told to write in her "Lifespan Development" class in response to an article about social gender expectations, according to The Oklahoman.
According to a copy of her essay published by the local outlet, Fulnecky asserted that God created two distinct genders with different roles, and that the idea of changing one's gender is a satanic assault against that design.
"I strongly disagree with the idea from the article that encouraging acceptance of diverse gender expressions could improve students' confidence," she wrote. "Society pushing the lie that there are multiple genders and everyone should be what they want to be is demonic and severely harms American youth."
Graduate teaching assistant William "Mel" Curth, who uses "she/they" pronouns, took apparent offense at Fulnecky's claims in the essay, and was especially upset at her use of the word "demonic" to describe gender ideology.
"To call an entire group of people 'demonic' is highly offensive, especially a minoritized population," Curth reportedly wrote in an online grading portal.
"Please note that I am not deducting points because you have certain beliefs, but instead I am deducting point [sic] for you posting a reaction paper that does not answer the questions for this assignment, contradicts itself, heavily uses personal ideology over empirical evidence in a scientific class, and is at times offensive," Curth also said.
"I implore you [to] apply some more perspective and empathy in your work," Curth added.
Samantha Fulnecky, a junior at the University of Oklahoma who is majoring in psychology, received a zero out of 25 for a 650-word opinion essay she was told to write in her "Lifespan Development" class in response to an article about social gender expectations, according to The Oklahoman.
According to a copy of her essay published by the local outlet, Fulnecky asserted that God created two distinct genders with different roles, and that the idea of changing one's gender is a satanic assault against that design.
"I strongly disagree with the idea from the article that encouraging acceptance of diverse gender expressions could improve students' confidence," she wrote. "Society pushing the lie that there are multiple genders and everyone should be what they want to be is demonic and severely harms American youth."
Graduate teaching assistant William "Mel" Curth, who uses "she/they" pronouns, took apparent offense at Fulnecky's claims in the essay, and was especially upset at her use of the word "demonic" to describe gender ideology.
"To call an entire group of people 'demonic' is highly offensive, especially a minoritized population," Curth reportedly wrote in an online grading portal.
"Please note that I am not deducting points because you have certain beliefs, but instead I am deducting point [sic] for you posting a reaction paper that does not answer the questions for this assignment, contradicts itself, heavily uses personal ideology over empirical evidence in a scientific class, and is at times offensive," Curth also said.
"I implore you [to] apply some more perspective and empathy in your work," Curth added.
Wednesday, December 03, 2025
EXCLUSIVE: Somali Terrorists STOLE OVER $1 BILLION from Minnesota Taxpayers
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Somalis in Minnesota are stealing BILLIONS in taxpayer cash and smuggling it to al-Shabaab terrorists. Why are Tim Walz and Democrats covering it up?
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Brief introduction to the foundation of the AIDLR
History of the Association
Brief introduction to the foundation of the AIDLR
1. Its founder
Jean Nussbaum, a French physician of Swiss origin, founded the International Association for the Defense of Religious Liberty, abbreviated as A.I.D.L.R., in Paris, in 1946. His wish was to give a legal basis to the actions he had been taking on behalf of religious liberty, since the end of World War I.
Jean Nussbaum, the founder.
Jean Nussbaum was born in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland, on November 24, 1888. He had a medical practice in Chamonix, France, when World War I broke out. Serbia, plagued by a strong outbreak of typhus from the very beginning of hostilities, made a desperate appeal to foreign countries to secure the help of physicians. Jean Nussbaum volunteered and was appointed to the hospital of Nis, Serbia, near the end of 1914. The management of the hospital gave him a young Serbian nurse, Milanka Zaritch, as an assistant and interpreter. Soon after their first meeting, she became the superintendent of the hospital.
They married in the fall of 1915. Milanka Zaritch was the niece of Voyislav Marinkovic, who later became the prime minister of the Serbian government. This family link soon introduced Dr Jean Nussbaum into the diplomatic and international circles.
While he was in Serbia, circumstances led Jean Nussbaum to an intervention with an officer of the Serbian army, to allow an Austrian prisoner of war, appointed to serve in the Nis hospital, to practice the principles of his faith. Out of lack of tact and narrow-mindedness, this prisoner had placed himself in a situation which might have cost him his life by refusing, as an enemy prisoner and in time of war, to obey orders. This event may have been instrumental in the awakening of the interest Jean Nussbaum was taking in the promotion and defense of liberty of conscience and religion for the rest of his life.
Brief introduction to the foundation of the AIDLR
1. Its founder
Jean Nussbaum, a French physician of Swiss origin, founded the International Association for the Defense of Religious Liberty, abbreviated as A.I.D.L.R., in Paris, in 1946. His wish was to give a legal basis to the actions he had been taking on behalf of religious liberty, since the end of World War I.
Jean Nussbaum, the founder.
Jean Nussbaum was born in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland, on November 24, 1888. He had a medical practice in Chamonix, France, when World War I broke out. Serbia, plagued by a strong outbreak of typhus from the very beginning of hostilities, made a desperate appeal to foreign countries to secure the help of physicians. Jean Nussbaum volunteered and was appointed to the hospital of Nis, Serbia, near the end of 1914. The management of the hospital gave him a young Serbian nurse, Milanka Zaritch, as an assistant and interpreter. Soon after their first meeting, she became the superintendent of the hospital.
They married in the fall of 1915. Milanka Zaritch was the niece of Voyislav Marinkovic, who later became the prime minister of the Serbian government. This family link soon introduced Dr Jean Nussbaum into the diplomatic and international circles.
While he was in Serbia, circumstances led Jean Nussbaum to an intervention with an officer of the Serbian army, to allow an Austrian prisoner of war, appointed to serve in the Nis hospital, to practice the principles of his faith. Out of lack of tact and narrow-mindedness, this prisoner had placed himself in a situation which might have cost him his life by refusing, as an enemy prisoner and in time of war, to obey orders. This event may have been instrumental in the awakening of the interest Jean Nussbaum was taking in the promotion and defense of liberty of conscience and religion for the rest of his life.
Tuesday, December 02, 2025
Archaeology Just EXPOSED the Black Stone’s Pre-Islamic Use!
Archaeology Just EXPOSED the Black Stone’s Pre-Islamic Use!
Nov 9, 2025
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Monday, December 01, 2025
Pope Leo XIV doubles down on insistence for 2-state solution to resolve Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Pope Leo XIV talks to reporters aboard an aircraft on his way to Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, Nov. 30, 2025. (Andreas Solaro/Pool Via AP)
By Nicole Winfield | Associated Press
PUBLISHED: November 30, 2025 at 1:08 PM CST | UPDATED: November 30, 2025 at 1:14 PM CST
ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE — Pope Leo XIV doubled down Sunday on the Holy See’s insistence on a two-state solution to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, saying in his first airborne news conference that it was the “only solution” that could guarantee justice for both sides.
Leo made the comments as he flew from Istanbul to Beirut for the second and final leg of his maiden voyage as pope. Though Leo has been fielding journalists’ questions at informal gatherings at his country house, the brief encounter marked his first news conference as pope and followed the tradition of his predecessors of using his foreign trips to engage with the media.
Because of the short flight, the news conference was limited to two questions from Turkish journalists. When Leo returns to Rome on Tuesday, the encounter will presumably be longer.
Sunday, November 30, 2025
The Inevitable Rabbit Hole: Countering Satan’s Impact on Young People Through Social Media
The Inevitable Rabbit Hole: Countering Satan’s Impact on Young People Through Social Media
by Christian Standard | 3 July, 2025
By Ricky Altmiller
“Social media. It’s just a tool, right? It is not bad in and of itself. The issue is how you use it.” But what if social media and cultural influences are having a greater impact than we realize?
We have all been there. Seconds turn into minutes, minutes turn into hours, and down the inevitable rabbit hole we go. We fall into a digital information and social spiral that takes us places we never thought we would go, landing in a foreign metaverse. We spend vast amounts of time on clicks, videos, articles, and reels, ending up in an unknown realm. Everything looks the same but feels very different. Sometimes we come out feeling discombobulated and other times we come out feeling empowered and enlightened. Most Generation Z teens (born between 1999 and 2015), many of whom are in middle school and high school, take this journey multiple times a day.
The Battle of the Mind
The primary battle zone resides in the mind. This makes sense, as the mind is the communicator and controller of all aspects of our bodies. Control the mind, control the body. In Genesis 3, Satan proposed a thought of doubt or distorted truth. The serpent said, “Did God really say?” Eve confirmed the statement, but Satan replied, “You will not certainly die.” It was at this moment Eve shifted from a foundation of truth to a foundation of a perversion of truth. “When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it. Then the eyes of both of them were opened” (Genesis 3:1-7, New International Version).
Is this not the same spiritual war we are facing today? Satan’s conniving ways have not changed. Teens are engulfed in a culture and landscape the Barna Research Group describes as “Digital Babylon.” This is where we find ourselves as we attempt to make disciples of teens who will also make disciples.
When we think of spiritual warfare, the spectrum can run from subtle questioning of truth to the extremes of demonic possession and Satan worship. All are prominent in our culture and world. We need to be prepared to face all fronts. But the broader, more detrimental impact on our teens today is psychological manipulation through social media platforms. Here is where culture, politics, fluidity of truth, pornography, misinformation, greed, and so much more collide.
How cult leader ‘Commander Butcher’ plotted to sow mayhem across US
Far right (US)
Guilty plea by far-right activist lays bare plans for bombings, school shootings and Santas handing out poisoned candies
Edward Helmore in New York
Sun 23 Nov 2025 10.00 EST
Michail Chkhikvishvili, a self-described cult leader who called himself “Commander Butcher”, did not look like a Hollywood vision of a contemporary terrorist, despite the bizarre, almost made-for-TV extremist actions he planned, such as having people dressed as Santa Claus hand out poison candies on the streets of New York.
Chkhikvishvili appeared in a Brooklyn court last week as one might find an office IT tech: close-cropped hair and black-rimmed glasses, attentive, clear-spoken and cooperative as he was questioned about his understanding of a plea that could see him imprisoned for up to 18 years at his March sentencing.
The 23-year-old Georgian neo-Nazi was in US federal court to plead guilty to charges of soliciting bombings, school shootings and other acts of hate-motivated violence across the US.
It marked the end of an astonishing saga of plans for inciting and carrying out outlandish and appalling crimes. Chkhikvishvili was the leader of the aptly named Maniac Murder Cult, an international racist violent extremist group. He recruited people to commit violent acts, including plotting a mass casualty attack in New York City.
Michail Chkhikvishvili, a self-described cult leader who called himself “Commander Butcher”, did not look like a Hollywood vision of a contemporary terrorist, despite the bizarre, almost made-for-TV extremist actions he planned, such as having people dressed as Santa Claus hand out poison candies on the streets of New York.
Chkhikvishvili appeared in a Brooklyn court last week as one might find an office IT tech: close-cropped hair and black-rimmed glasses, attentive, clear-spoken and cooperative as he was questioned about his understanding of a plea that could see him imprisoned for up to 18 years at his March sentencing.
The 23-year-old Georgian neo-Nazi was in US federal court to plead guilty to charges of soliciting bombings, school shootings and other acts of hate-motivated violence across the US.
It marked the end of an astonishing saga of plans for inciting and carrying out outlandish and appalling crimes. Chkhikvishvili was the leader of the aptly named Maniac Murder Cult, an international racist violent extremist group. He recruited people to commit violent acts, including plotting a mass casualty attack in New York City.
Why Gen Z protesters worldwide are flying an anime pirate flag
Updated October 5, 20256:00 AM ET
Heard on Weekend Edition Sunday
By
Kate Bartlett
2-Minute Listen
Transcript
A number of human rights activists carry posters and wave the Straw Hat Pirates' Jolly Roger flag from the anime One Piece during the 873rd Kamisan Action in Jakarta, Indonesia, on August 14, 2025.Claudio Pramana/NurPhoto via Getty Images
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — Gen Z-led protests are making waves from Africa to Asia, and while the issues spurring them are different, the symbol they're using is the same: a grinning skull and crossbones wearing a straw hat.
It was there when young people angry with the lavish lifestyles of the elite brought down Nepal's government last month. It was visible in the Indonesian and Philippine protests this year, and again when Madagascan youth marched against chronic water and electricity shortages over the past 10 days. Right now, it's being waved at protests raging over poor healthcare in Morocco.
Why are frustrated youth taking to the streets worldwide raising this particular Jolly Roger?
The flag comes from a long-running Japanese anime and manga series called One Piece, about a rag-tag band of pirates dubbed "the straw hats," who are led by a cheerful character named Monkey D. Luffy and are fighting an oppressive world government.
It's become a global pop culture phenomenon, translated into multiple languages, and is now also a live-action Netflix series.
Saturday, November 29, 2025
Friday, November 28, 2025
Trump: Suspend 'Third World' Migration After Troop Dies
Friday, 28 November 2025 06:52 AM EST
President Donald Trump said on Thursday he would suspend migration from what he called "third world countries," a day after an Afghan national allegedly shot two National Guard soldiers in Washington, killing one.
His social media post, which also threatened to reverse "millions" of admissions granted under his predecessor Joe Biden, marked a new escalation in the anti-migration stance of a second term that has been marked by Trump's large-scale deportation policies.
Trump said earlier that Sarah Beckstrom, a 20-year-old West Virginia National Guard member deployed in Washington as part of his crackdown on crime, had died from her wounds.
The FBI has launched an international terror investigation as new details emerged about the alleged gunman, a 29-year-old Afghan national who was a member of the "Zero Units" – a CIA-backed counterterrorism group, according to multiple U.S. media reports.
Thursday, November 27, 2025
THANKSGIVING, QATAR & CARLOS THE JACKAL - Chris Pinto - 11.27.2025
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Today's Show: THANKSGIVING, QATAR & CARLOS THE JACKAL
Chris discusses the history of Thanksgiving, comparing the original story of the Pilgrims meeting with American Indians in 1621, alongside the attempts to reject our national history in favor of a Marxist re-write of what happened. We show how the colonist's relationship with the Indians changed as a result of King Philip's War in 1675. Also discussed is the relationship of Qatar with the Jesuits at Georgetown University, and the well known saying of Carlos the Jackal concerning the Red/Green Axis.
Hunter Biden’s laptop. The full story. | If You're Listening
Hunter Biden’s laptop. The full story. | If You're Listening
Dec 13, 2024 If You're Listening | ABC News In-depth
Hunter Biden has been a main character in far-right conspiracy theories for years, and Donald Trump’s associates spent a lot of effort in search of proof that could lead to his prosecution.
Hunter Biden has been a main character in far-right conspiracy theories for years, and Donald Trump’s associates spent a lot of effort in search of proof that could lead to his prosecution.
In the end, Hunter allegedly provided the only proof that has mattered: a laptop full of terribly embarrassing and potentially incriminating material.
The truth of how that laptop found its way to Trump’s favourite lawyer Rudy Giuliani is almost too bizarre to believe.
But the Biden family story has been improbably tragic for decades, and it was those tragedies that have seemingly steered the outgoing president to pardon his son despite the very real cost to his own reputation, and the country.
Matt Bevan takes a look.
Who Were the Pilgrims Who Celebrated the First Thanksgiving?
Photo caption
The Landing of the Pilgrims in 1620, a tapestry by Mabelle Linnea Holmes.
—Jamestown-Yorktown Educational Trust, Virginia / Bridgeman ImagesAn NEH-funded film revisits the Puritan Separatists who arrived aboard the Mayflower.
HUMANITIES, November/December 2015, Volume 36, Number 6
In 1620, the Mayflower plowed across the Atlantic through headwinds and ocean currents at an incredibly slow two miles per hour. The overcrowded vessel’s crossing took more than two harrowing months. On the way, its 102 passengers witnessed an astonishing scene. During a fierce storm, an indentured servant named John Howland had come topside for fresh air when the ship rolled violently, casting him into the raging sea. He sank well beneath the waves. Such a fate almost certainly meant death by drowning. Yet, somehow, Howland had managed to grab a halyard on his way overboard, and desperately clung to it long enough for the crew to haul him back to safety.
CIA In Soup! Watch Pics Of Shooter Rahmanullah Lakanwal From US Military Days In Afghanistan
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Wednesday, November 26, 2025
Society of Jesus in the United States Applauds U.S. Bishops’ Special Message on Immigration
November 13, 2025
Memorial of St. Frances Xavier Cabrini
The Society of Jesus in the United States applauds and thanks our bishops for their Special Pastoral Message issued at their Fall Plenary Assembly in Baltimore. We echo their concerns, we join them in prayer, and we stand with them in the defense of the dignity of our migrant brothers and sisters in Christ.
We encourage everyone in the Jesuit network to read the bishops’ message and to join us in participating in their You Are Not Alone initiative, such as by signing the Cabrini Pledge. Alongside the bishops and in solidarity with our migrant brothers and sisters, the Jesuit Conference will continue to advocate for the reform of our immigration system. As the bishops wrote, “Human dignity and national security are not in conflict. Both are possible if people of good will work together.”
Media contact:
Mike Jordan Laskey
Director of Communications, Jesuit Conference of Canada and the United States
jccucommunications@jesuits.org | 202.629.5933
Memorial of St. Frances Xavier Cabrini
The Society of Jesus in the United States applauds and thanks our bishops for their Special Pastoral Message issued at their Fall Plenary Assembly in Baltimore. We echo their concerns, we join them in prayer, and we stand with them in the defense of the dignity of our migrant brothers and sisters in Christ.
We encourage everyone in the Jesuit network to read the bishops’ message and to join us in participating in their You Are Not Alone initiative, such as by signing the Cabrini Pledge. Alongside the bishops and in solidarity with our migrant brothers and sisters, the Jesuit Conference will continue to advocate for the reform of our immigration system. As the bishops wrote, “Human dignity and national security are not in conflict. Both are possible if people of good will work together.”
Media contact:
Mike Jordan Laskey
Director of Communications, Jesuit Conference of Canada and the United States
jccucommunications@jesuits.org | 202.629.5933
Ukraine asks Vatican to formalise role in return of captive children
Patrick Hudson
25 November 2025, The Tablet
President Zelenskyy made the request in a letter ahead of Pope Leo’s audience with a group of women and children returned from Russian captivity.
President of Ukraine
Cardinal Pietro Parolin said ‘the path to negotiation will be an uphill battle’ and urged that ‘Europe should participate and make its voice heard’ in discussions of the US peace plan.
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy asked the Pope to formalise the Vatican’s role in negotiations for the return of children and civilians detained by Russia since it invaded Ukraine in 2022.
Zelenskyy made the request in a letter ahead of Pope Leo’s audience on 21 November with a group of women and children returned from Russian captivity. Iryna Vereshchuk, the deputy head of the president’s office who led the group, said they thanked the Pope “for understanding the depth of our wounds and hearing our pleas for help, as well as for his daily humanitarian efforts that enable Ukrainian families to reunite”.
During the visit, Vereshchuk presented the Ukrainian Order of Merit Second Class to the Archbishop of Bologna Cardinal Matteo Zuppi, who has led the Vatican’s humanitarian mediation since Pope Francis appointed him as his peace envoy in May 2023. However, Vereshchuk said the Vatican needed to formalise this work “to achieve more”.
“Once the process is formalised we can have proper communications with the Russians, and when we submit a letter through the [Vatican] platform they will have to respond,” she said.
The group also attended a Mass said by the Vatican’s Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin, organised by the Ukrainian Embassy to the Holy See to commemorate the victims of the Holodomor famine of 1932-33. The cardinal condemned “attacks on electrical infrastructure” which are “forcing thousands of people to live in darkness and cold”.
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