That Christianity gives joy and breadth is also a thread that runs through my whole life. Ultimately someone who is always only in opposition could not endure life at all.
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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent reportedly asked finance ministers not to mention the oil price cap in a joint statement
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent requested the omission of “explicit language” on lowering the price cap for Russian oil from the joint statement of G7 finance ministers last week, the Financial Times has reported, citing officials briefed on the meeting.
During the gathering in the Canadian town of Banff, rotating chair Canada reportedly proposed including clear wording on tightening the oil price restrictions. The move was backed by France, Germany, Italy, the UK, and the EU. However, it was dropped at the request of Bessent, the FT claimed on Tuesday.
The final communiqué pledged only to “continue to explore all possible options, including options to maximize pressure such as further ramping up sanctions” if no ceasefire in the Ukraine conflict is reached.
Brussels is currently drafting its 18th sanctions package against Russia since the escalation of hostilities in 2022. The European Commission has reportedly proposed reducing the current $60 per-barrel cap on Russian crude to $45 – a change that would require unanimous EU approval and coordination with G7 partners.
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US senator pushes mega-tariffs on Russia’s partners
The New York Times reported on Monday that US President Donald Trump is reluctant to tighten sanctions against Russia after holding a phone call with President Vladimir Putin last week. Meanwhile, the paper claimed, citing sources, that Trump is considering a complete withdrawal from the Ukraine peace process due to a lack of progress. According to Axios, the US president told European leaders that he believes “Putin wants a deal” and that diplomacy remains possible.
Kiev and its European backers have called for additional restrictions after Moscow rejected a Ukrainian demand for an unconditional 30-day ceasefire earlier this month, an idea viewed in Russia as an attempt by Kiev to gain a military advantage. Russian officials are currently working on a peace framework that could set the stage for an eventual halt to the fighting.
READ MORE: Trump claims Putin ‘has gone absolutely crazy for no reason’
Russia has repeatedly dismissed EU sanctions as ineffective and illegal. Following the announcement of the bloc’s 17th package last week, Russian state defense conglomerate Rostec condemned the bloc as “a champion of meaningless measures.”
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Allegations of cover-up and inaction… but are they true?
Leo XIV and the Sexual Abuse Crisis:
How Did Robert Prevost Deal With Misconduct Cases?
Then-‘Cardinal’ Robert F. Prevost prays the Rosary for Francis in St. Peter’s Square (Mar. 3, 2025)Since his election as ‘Pope Leo XIV’, there has naturally been a flood of information published about Robert Francis Prevost, the new occupant of the Vatican’s Apostolic Palace. The man has a formidable resume as an Augustinian priest, later prior of the order, then bishop in Peru, and finally curial cardinal in the Vatican as head of the so-called Dicastery for Bishops — until the conclave chose him to be the head of the Vatican II Church (‘Pope’) on May 8, 2025.… READ MORE
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Site: Novus Ordo Wire – Novus Ordo Watch
Allegations of cover-up and inaction… but are they true?
Leo XIV and the Sexual Abuse Crisis:
How Did Robert Prevost Deal With Misconduct Cases?Then-‘Cardinal’ Robert F. Prevost prays the Rosary for Francis in St. Peter’s Square (Mar. 3, 2025)Since his election as ‘Pope Leo XIV’, there has naturally been a flood of information published about Robert Francis Prevost, the new occupant of the Vatican’s Apostolic Palace. The man has a formidable resume as an Augustinian priest, later prior of the order, then bishop in Peru, and finally curial cardinal in the Vatican as head of the so-called Dicastery for Bishops — until the conclave chose him to be the head of the Vatican II Church (‘Pope’) on May 8, 2025.… READ MORE
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Site: Zero HedgeThe Justices Must At Long Last Deal With Chronic InjunctivitisTyler Durden Tue, 05/27/2025 - 14:25
This week, the Supreme Court continued to deliberate over what to do with the growing number of national or universal injunctions issued by federal district courts against the Trump Administration.
The court has long failed to address the problem, and what I have called “chronic injunctivitis” is now raging across the court system. Justices have only worsened the condition with conflicting and at times incomprehensible opinions.
Both Democratic and Republican presidents have long argued that federal judges are out of control in issuing national injunctions that freeze the entire executive branch for years on a given policy. For presidents, you have to effectively sweep the district courts 677-to-0 if you want to be able to carry out controversial measures. Any one judge can halt the entire government.
Under President Barack Obama, Justice Elena Kagan expressed outrage over the injunctions in public comments at Northwestern University School of Law. Kagan lashed out at the obvious “forum shopping” by then conservative advocates to get before favorable courts, insisting “It just cannot be right that one district judge can stop a nationwide policy in its tracks and leave it stopped for the years it takes to go through the normal [appellate] process.”
In his first term, Trump faced a more than 450 percent increase in the number of such injunctions over the number issued under Obama — a rise from 12 to 64. The number then went down to just 14 under former President Joe Biden. With Trump back in office, district courts have now outstripped that record and may surpass the total from the first term in the first year.
However, when the pending case came up before the Supreme Court on one of the Trump injunctions, Kagan suggested that this was “different,” because Trump was clearly wrong.
In oral argument, Kagan snapped at the Solicitor General: “Every court is ruling against you.”
It was a curious point coming from a justice who had previously acknowledged that challengers were forum-shopping by going to favorable judges, as with the current cases coming out of largely blue states.
Kagan did not explain where the line should be drawn, leading to speculation on when something would be viewed as “just sorta wrong” or “really, really wrong.”
This week, the Supreme Court enjoined the Maine House of Representatives from denying State Representative Laurel Libby her right to speak and vote on the floor. In an outrageous action, the Democratic majority had effectively taken Libby’s constituents hostage by telling her that, unless she apologized for identifying a transgender athlete in public comments, she could not vote. The Supreme Court voted 7-2 to lift the ban, with Kagan joining the more conservative justices.
However, in her dissent, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson (who has favored the injunctions in the Trump cases) stressed that there was no need for an injunction here because there were no “significant legislative votes scheduled in the upcoming weeks” or where Libby’s lack of a vote would “impact the outcome.”
It again left many scratching their heads on what Jackson would consider a “significant vote.” Moreover, thousands of Maine residents have been denied representation on the state House floor. That would seem significant even if the justice did not find certain bills to be sufficiently weighty.
These different approaches only deepen the uncertainly over the standards for lower courts.
Just in case the Supreme Court doubted the need for greater clarity on the use of these injunctions, Boston District Judge Myong J. Joun, perfected the record this week.
The Biden appointee had just been reversed by the Supreme Court last month when he issued a temporary restraining order for the Trump Administration to pay out frozen grants worth more than $65 million. The administration had raised questions about the basis for the grants and ordered a review.
Usually, a temporary order freezes the parties from changing the status quo to allow for review.
It is difficult to appeal such an order, and the parties generally wait for a couple of weeks to seek review after the court issues a preliminary injunction.
But Judge Joun wanted to use the temporary restraining order to force the payments to happen, changing the status quo permanently.
This did not seem like temporary relief, since money is not likely to come back after it is paid out.
This week, Joun was back with another injunction. This time he enjoined an effort of Education Secretary Linda McMahon to initiate a reduction-in-force and prepare for the potential elimination of the Department of Education.
Despite the false claims that Trump’s underlying executive order actually shut down the department, it stated that McMahon should, “to the maximum extent appropriate and permitted by law, take all necessary steps to facilitate the closure of the Department of Education.”
While Joun admits that this was not a department shutdown, he still enjoined these efforts in an 88-page decision full of sweeping, dramatic language that sounds more like a policy paper than a restrained judicial order.
The court simply declared that even a reduction in force would make it “effectively impossible for the department to carry out its statutorily mandated functions.”
Many on the left again celebrated a judge effectively micromanaging the executive branch. Michael Mann, a climate professor and senior administrator at the University of Pennsylvania, even seemed to add a threat — that “If Trump doesn’t comply, we’re in second amendment territory.”
Insurrection aside, it is clearly time for the Supreme Court to do something about this.
Despite a majority of justices harrumphing for years about these injunctions, lower court judges continue to issue them with abandon. In the meantime, presidents like Trump are looking at two years of litigation before they can make meaningful changes, including downsizing the government.
For the Supreme Court, it has become madness as emergency motions pile up every morning after executive programs are frozen overnight.
The solution to chronic injunctivitis is simple: You give district judges a dose of clarity and tell them not to call you in the morning.
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Jonathan Turley is the J.B. and Maurice C. Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at the George Washington University Law School, where he teaches a course on the Supreme Court and the Constitution.
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Site: AsiaNews.itVatican Museums Director Barbara Jatta and Auxiliary Bishop Andrea Lembo of Tokyo explained the symbol of hope lent by the Vatican to the world expo currently underway in Japan. The painting is on display for six months in a dedicated area inside the Italian Pavilion. For the prelate, 'Caravaggio does not ask us to believe. He only asks us to look and try to recognise that that body could be ours'.
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Site: Zero HedgeRussia Launches Large-Scale Naval War Drills In Baltic SeaTyler Durden Tue, 05/27/2025 - 14:05
Russia has initiated large-scale naval exercises in the Baltic Sea, which feature at least 20 warships and 3,000 troops along with air support, the Baltic Fleet of Russia confirms as cited in Interfax.
"As part of the exercise, the crews of the fleet's ships will solve anti-submarine tasks in combat training areas, practice defense against unmanned boats, and conduct practical artillery fire at sea and air targets," a Russian military statement indicates. This appears to be a mirroring response to provocative NATO drills currently happening in Finland, near the Russian border.
Prior exercises in Baltic Sea, Anadolu Agency
This drills further include frigates, corvettes, small missile and anti-submarine ships, as well as minesweepers, regional media details. There's also air coverage, with up to 25 aircraft and helicopters taking part.
"Currently, the ships have left their bases and deployed to designated areas of the Baltic Sea to perform combat training missions," the Russian Baltic Fleet further says.
The Baltic Sea has remained a regional maritime flashpoint due to the still raging war in Ukraine, and the past year has seen Baltic Sea countries affected by the destruction of undersea telecom cables, which were promptly blamed on Russia, but in some instances have been declared accidents. Also, a Chinese vessel in at least one case was also accused.
Tensions in the Baltic Sea also grew hotter after Scandinavian countries Finland and Sweden abandoned their historic neutrality and became the newest NATO members.
The potential for more undersea cable-cutting incidents remains amid heightened concerns of potential sabotage by agents of China and or Russia, raising alarms about hybrid warfare tactics targeting Western telecommunication infrastructure worldwide.
NATO has also held drills in both regional waters and along Russia's border with Scandinavia of late. Finland only entered the North Atlantic alliance in April 2023.
Significantly, the country shares a 1,340-kilometre (830 mi) border with Russia, and Moscow has previously warned that this could result of the greater militarization of the Baltic region. President Putin in 2023 had brushed off Finland and Sweden entering NATO as but a "meaningless" move which will in the end only harm their own national interests.
Both had previously economically benefited from their positive relations with Russia, but now border closures and worsening relations have been the trend.
TASS images featuring start of new drills.
It goes without saying that tit-for-tat mirroring drills in these Baltic and northern European regions do little to foster Ukraine peace talks and dialogue. The warring sides are currently feeling the pressure from the Trump administration to continue 'direct' negotiations in the wake of the last Istanbul meeting.
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The Charlotte Lozier Institute (CLI) released a new pivotal peer-reviewed article published in the journal BioTech. This article challenges and disproves the baseless claim that “abortion drugs are safer than Tylenol” because it lacks scientific credibility and evidence. It examines the prolific claim that has been a heavily relied upon talking point for the abortion lobby.
The new research exposes the claim’s origins and highlights the abortion lobby’s ignorance of the FDA’s established drug safety communication standards. Comparisons between the two drugs combine unrelated data, ignoring their distinct purposes, risks and contexts. This oversimplification led to the creation of a catchy phrase aimed at reducing abortion drug regulations and minimizing concerns from women considering an abortion.
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Key Findings:
- Flawed methodology: To validate the claim, there must be a controlled, scientifically appropriate study comparing abortion drugs to Tylenol. No such study exists, and it would be impossible to do so because these drugs are used for entirely different purposes.
- Overlooked risks: The FDA assesses drug safety based on a range of factors, not just death rates. The comparison ignores serious adverse events of abortion drugs, such as sepsis and hemorrhage.
- Context misrepresentation: While Tylenol-related deaths often result from misuse in a much larger user base, deaths from abortion drugs occur under prescribed use.
Cameron Louttit, Ph.D., director of life sciences at CLI and author of the article, said:
“For years now, the abortion lobby’s claim that abortion drugs are ‘safer than Tylenol’ has dominated public discussion, propelled by the illusion of scientific consensus. However, no such support exists. This baseless claim, repeated by medical societies, politicians, media pundits and researchers, has profoundly influenced public opinion and policy. But as this paper details, those spreading it lack the evidence they routinely claim.”
To learn more, read the peer-reviewed article in its entirety HERE.
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Site: Catholic ConclaveDiocesan Committee Criticizes Awarding of Josef Pieper Prize to US Bishop BarronFrom the website of the Josef Pieper Foundation"The Josef Pieper Prize is awarded every five years for exemplary publications and works on the Christian view of humanity that meet academic standards and deserve broad interest due to their linguistic design."Pieper was a fabulous author and Thomist who regretted his Catholic Conclavehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06227218883606585321noreply@blogger.com0
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Beijing traditionally marks Japan’s 1945 surrender with commemorations in September
Russian President Vladimir Putin will visit China to attend events marking the 80th anniversary of its victory over Imperial Japan in World War II, Security Council Secretary Sergey Shoigu has said.
Shoigu made the announcement on Tuesday during talks in Moscow with Chen Wenqing, the head of the Chinese Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission. Chen is visiting Russia for the 13th International Meeting of High Representatives for Security Issues, a three-day forum running through May 29, which has drawn delegations from more than 100 countries.
“The Russian president will pay a return visit to China in September…” Shoigu said.
China officially commemorates the defeat of Imperial Japan each year on September 3, marking Tokyo’s surrender in 1945 and the end of World War II in Asia.
Shoigu’s announcement follows Chinese President Xi Jinping’s state visit to Moscow earlier this month, where he joined other world leaders for the May 9th Victory Day celebrations marking the Soviet Union’s defeat of Nazi Germany.
During the talks with his Chinese counterpart, Putin emphasized that both Russia and China remain committed to preserving historical truth and remembering the wartime sacrifices of their nations.
“The Soviet Union gave 27 million lives, laid them on the altar of the Fatherland and on the altar of Victory. And 37 million lives were lost in China’s war for its freedom and independence. Under the leadership of the Communist Party, this victory was achieved,” Putin said, stressiing the sacrifices “should never be forgotten.”
READ MORE: Russia and China will never forget WWII victims – Putin
The two leaders held wide-ranging discussions and signed multiple agreements aimed at expanding bilateral cooperation. The sides also issued a joint declaration on global strategic stability. Chinese Foreign Ministry described Xi’s visit to Moscow as “a complete success.”
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Site: Zero HedgeIntel Officials Warned COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates Could Spur Violence: Declassified ReportTyler Durden Tue, 05/27/2025 - 13:45
Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times,
A U.S. intelligence document declassified on May 23 shows the government warned that COVID-19 vaccine mandates could lead to violence.
The FBI, Department of Homeland Security, and National Counterterrorism Center said in the Dec. 31, 2021, joint assessment that vaccine mandates for children and workers—which had begun being imposed by the federal government—as well as “perceptions of unfair healthcare treatment for the unvaccinated” could trigger violence from domestic violent extremists (DVEs) or foreign actors.
“Given these conditions, DVEs would most likely plot violent acts to intimidate healthcare workers and officials charged with implementing COVID-19 mitigation measures as well as, possibly, killings or kidnappings of state, local, or federal government personnel,” the officials stated.
Plotting had already occurred in the United States and other countries, according to the intelligence agencies. That included a plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, although some of the men charged in that matter were acquitted after they argued they were entrapped by government agents.
The joint assessment also said that COVID-19 vaccines becoming available for children “might spur conspiracy theories and perceptions that schools will vaccinate children against parents’ will and may increase the potential for violence.”
Some health care workers did vaccinate children despite opposition from parents, including in North Carolina.
U.S. intelligence agencies define a domestic violent extremist as a person based in the United States or U.S. territories who acts without direction or inspiration from a foreign terrorist group or country and who “seeks to further political or social goals, wholly or in part, through unlawful acts of force or violence dangerous to human life.”
The assessment stated in a footnote that U.S. individuals opposing COVID-19 mandates were “likely engaging in First Amendment-protected activities, unless they are acting in concert with a threat actor,” and that related topics “should not be assumed to reflect DVE activity, absent information specifically attributing the content to DVE threat actors.”
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard ordered the declassification of the document.
“It really talks about people who may likely turn out to be domestic violent extremists or those who may turn to violence because of these specific ‘ideologies’ that they hold,“ Gabbard said about the document during an appearance on Fox News.
”And there’s a consistent thread through here that these ideologies that they are characterizing as potentially turning into potentially violent activities happen to be people who were using their First Amendment rights to oppose certain policies of the Biden Administration.”
She added, “Some of the examples that are focused on there have to do with those who oppose the COVID vaccine mandates, those who oppose the mask mandates, parents who were concerned that their children going to school may be forcibly vaccinated with the COVID vaccine without the consent or awareness of parents.”
The FBI and Department of Homeland Security did not respond to requests for comment.
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Site: Zero Hedge"Just Gone. Like It Never Existed": YouTube Nukes Top Canadian Political Account After State-Funded Media ComplainsTyler Durden Tue, 05/27/2025 - 13:35
A Canadian YouTube channel that was dominating the platform during the country's recent election has vanished, after the state-funded Canadian Broadcasting Corporation reached out to the social media giant, and branded it a 'content farm' in a Friday hit-piece.
The channel, "Real Talk Politiks," had over 300,000 subscribers and more than 70 million views in the month of April, according to ViewStats.com - making it the third-most viewed Canadian news and politics channel over the past three months.
In a Sunday thread on X, Real Talk Politiks explained:
CBC, Canada’s state-funded media just got YouTube to terminate my channel — not for breaking rules, but for having the wrong political views.
CBC couldn’t compete with the content… so they tried to erase it. This is censorship in Canada.
I didn’t break any rules. No strikes. No deception. Just political commentary. And yet — YouTube terminated the entire channel shortly after CBC reached out with hit-piece questions.
Here’s what’s wild: I was pulling more views than CBC, which really bothered them. They clearly don’t understand how YouTube works with most of the audience outside Canada. But CBC — desperate for relevance — couldn’t stand that.
So what did they do? They contacted YouTube. And not long after… the channel vanished. No real explanation. No public process. Just gone. Like it never existed.
CBC and YouTube clearly don’t understand how the internet works. They think they can silence people with opposing views. But all they’ve done is expose their own fear — and their willingness to crush speech they don’t like.
When state media and Big Tech team up to silence a creator because of political ideology, it’s not just censorship — it’s tyranny with a smile.
Apparently CBC pointed to an AI video of Ronald Reagan that was not properly labeled as such, prompting YouTube to justify the takedown for violations of its policies on "spam, deceptive practices and scams," which - they could have simply issued a warning for and allowed Real Talk Politiks to correct instead of completely disappearing the account.
The CBC cited University of Ottawa associate professor Elizabeth Dubois...
...who said "These types of accounts are presenting themselves as the way to get informed and they are embedding partisan perspectives typically within that information delivery," adding "So it's really causing this shift in what information people are receiving, and it's also going to force us to really reconsider what we think of as media literacy."
Heaven forbid people consume whatever media they want and form their own opinions.
The CBC is openly bragging about it - uploading a video to YouTube (comments off, of course), titled "How we shut down one of Canada's biggest news 'content farms'"
Openly bragging about getting the channel shut down too. https://t.co/SMwuiWnayT pic.twitter.com/U8jCL0k1fQ
— L (@SomeBitchIIKnow) May 27, 2025I’m actually shocked.
— Mario Zelaya (@mario4thenorth) May 27, 2025
CBC is straight up bragging: “How we shut down one of Canada’s biggest news content farms”
This is literally the description on their YouTube channel and it shows that they get more views than them and CTV news.
Unbelievable. pic.twitter.com/8rDSshIZQgInsane!
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Site: Zero HedgeYields Near Session Lows After Strong 2Y Treasury Auction Stops ThroughTyler Durden Tue, 05/27/2025 - 13:29
After several weeks of very ugly bond action, overnight Japan finally panicked and in a coordinated trial balloon through both Reuters and Bloomberg, the MOF announced that it would trim ultra long-dated supply, reduciing the amount of 30Y and 40Y bonds Japan would sell... and not a moment to soon since yields had hit record highs in what was a bidless market, sparking record paper losses among life insurers.
In the aftermath of the announcement, yields both in Japan and across the globe have tumbled, and that certainly helped today's US Treasury auction of $69BN in 2Y paper pass smoothly.
At exactly 1:01pm, the US Treasury announced it completed the week's first coupon auction when it sold $69BN in 2 Year notes at a high yield of 3.955%, up from last month's 3.795% if below the march 3.984% and the five consecutive prior auctions all of which priced above 4%. The auction also stopped through the 3.965% When Issued by 1bps, the 3rd stopping through auction in the past four.
The bid to cover was 2.567 slightly higher than last month's 2.515 if below the six auction average of 2.648.
The internals were also solid, with Indirects awarded 63.3%, up from 56.2% in the ugly April 2Y auction; and with Directs taking 26.2%, the second highest this decade, Dealers were left holding 10.5%, down from 13.7% in April and just below the 10.9% six-auction average.
Overall, this was a very solid auction yet one which undoubtedly good a boost from Japan's panicking Ministry of Finance whose "bond put" has been triggered and from now on, the choice of whether to short JGBs or yen will almost surely point toward the latter. And, sure enough, after trading around 4.65% just two trading days ago, the yield on benchmark US paper was near session lows ahead of the auction and at 4.45% at last check, some 20 bps lower in two days.
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Rick Wiles says, An easy way to know you are controlled is who can't you criticize??It doesn't even occur to Rick Wiles to mention Freemasonry which is the rubricused by Organized Jewry (Rothschilds) to recruit traitors (i.e. our "leaders.")We are experiencing a social breakdown partly because we don't have the cajonesor brains to analyze the problem properly. It's not just "the Jews."Wiles--"In Nazi Germany. USSR. N Korea you couldn't criticize Nazis or Communists. In America, who can't you criticize??The power of the Israeli lobby AIPAC which Wiles called the "third rail of US politics" "They control America. They control free speech."-New Penn State poll confirms Jewish Israeli Society is Completely Unredeemable, and a Dire Threat to Humanity-82% support the forced expulsion of residents of Gaza-56% support the forced expulsion of Arab citizens of Israel
-47% believe the Israeli army should "act like the biblical Israelites under Joshua in Jericho--killing all inhabitants of a conquered city"-65% "believe in a modern-day incarnation of Amalek, a biblical enemy of the Jews"-93% of those who believe in "Amalek" believe the biblical command to "erase Amalek" still applies today-69% of secular Israelis support expelling Gaza's population,-and 31% support mimicking the biblical destruction of Jericho -Just 9% of men under 40 oppose all genocide scenarios for Palestinians---Michael Hoffman does not understand that Hitler was a British Agent"The Plain Truth: Everyone in Germany was Hitler's Slave
It is at this juncture where a plain fact which many of Hitler's admirers flee, must be faced: everyone in Germany was Hitler's slave. With his ascent to power in 1933 the rule of law in the ancient Teutonic nation--cradle of art, music, literature, philosophy, science and technology--had been crushed, in what was a revival of primitive, absolute rule by one man."
The "plain truth" is that Hitler was immensely popular in Germany and that Nazism, although a trap, represented a national renaissance.---TORONTO Bans Protests Outside Synagogues"Toronto did it. It passed a non-sensical bylaw because Zionists want to be comfortable when they shill for genocide. That's what bubble legislation is first and foremost. People were protesting outside of synagogues because there were settlement properties, stolen Palestinian land, being sold inside them. This is what the councillors never talked about in the council chambers. The root causes.Anyway, this ridiculous legislation will have zero effect. All it does is cost tax payers 2 million dollars and clog up our courts. Keep in mind that according to the public consultation 77 percent of Toronto did not want this bylaw.-
Viewer--This is not just the fall of Minneapolis; this is the beginning of the fall of America. Films like this can bring a change. I want to thank the author, producer, and the whole team for the truth. Truth is the biggest deficit of our time.Minneapolis resident--"When the George Floyd event took place, we were wrestling with the COVID pandemic and life was disrupted everywhere. People were on edge just because of the threat of the pandemic with the wearing of masks, public building closings and fear of actually getting sick. A spark was all it took to ignite the whole city on fire. George Floyd was that spark and Minneapolis burned.We would watch the riots on the local news. It was so outrageous at the time, one wondered if it was made up or exaggerated. It was reported that men would use crow bars and just knock out windows of store fronts in Minneapolis. There was looting as well. (A bad joke was that work boots and work gloves were never looted from stores.) I felt a betrayal by our elected officials when the 3rd Street Police Precinct was burned. If they cannot protect their police stations, what can they protect? I realized then that this burning was done for political gain. Law and order were sacrificed for the Democratic Party's gain. Then again, I don't even remember any Republican response.There was a lot of disinformation circulating at the time. One of the more curiouser stories was that the George Floyd was actually a respiration training dummy when he was on the ground. They even showed pictures of the look-alike dummy used in classes for respiratory training. Another story was he and Chauvin knew each other from working at a night club a few years ago. After a while, one didn't know what to believe. Even the trial was suspicious because it did leak out that not all information was being reviewed by the court. One could wonder if the whole thing was a political put on without the majority of participants having a clue of it being so.It served the Democrats well with the memorials, the funeral, the tearing down of Christopher Columbus statue at the State Capitol and so on. It was a time of a breakdown of law and order. The video clearly shows that the entire matter should be reviewed again."-
The Muslim Brotherhood are FreemasonsFrance Has Fallen to the Muslim Brotherhood: A Government Report Exposes the Islamic Network Within"A landmark French intelligence report has revealed that the Muslim Brotherhood has constructed a vast, foreign-funded, ideologically driven infrastructure across France - spanning mosques, schools, digital media, and parallel local governance systems - with the ultimate goal of replacing secular democratic rule with Sharia, and warns that this same model is being replicated in Western nations, including the United States."The Muslim Brotherhood in France operates through a dual system: a legal, publicly visible structure of associations and mosques, and a clandestine ideological command guided by a "Council of Judges." This duality allows the Brotherhood to avoid scrutiny while executing long-term strategies for societal transformation. The core leadership comprises an estimated 400 to 1,000 committed members who direct over 280 affiliated associations and 139 mosques across France.-
Canadian heroes, Tamara Lich and Chris BarberFreedom Convoy Leader Still Fighting in Court, says 'This is Not Canada'Viewer--"Every person in Canada should help this man, if we allow this to happen our rights to protest ( unless you are from or for Palestine ) are gone. I urge everyone with a sense of Justice write or call your MP."-EYRE: The 'Propaganda Module' that's taken hold at the University of SaskatchewanThat's how such programs fester. They're planned in stealth, delivered by mandatory enforcement, and pitched as "free and open discourse"--when they're anything but.-Fully Vaccinated Billy Joel Diagnosed With 'Sudden Onset' Brain Disorder"...the brain disorder is a known side-effect of COVID mRNA vaccines, and Joel was a prominent supporter of the experimental vaccine roll out."-
We are controlled by Christian Zionist MoronsWhy was the Secretary of Homeland Security in Israel? Someone should inform Kristi Noem that 'homeland' in her job title means the United States, not Israel. Doesn't she have more pressing matters to attend to at home?-Iranian President Pezeshkian And Iranian Regime Mouthpiece 'Kayhan' Threaten Closure Of Strait Of Hormuz; Senior Regime Official Ali Larijani, Associate Of Iranian Supreme Leader Khamenei, Threatens Attacks On Washington, D.C. And On American Interests In The RegionIn light of the significant gaps emerging in the U.S.-Iran nuclear negotiations - Iran insists on the right to enrich uranium on its territory however it wishes, while the U.S. wants to prohibit it from doing so in any way, shape, or form - senior Iranian officials are threatening the U.S. and Western interests.In a speech at the Tehran Dialogue Forum on May 18, 2025, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian threatened to block the passage of oil from the Persian Gulf to the West, in response to the U.S., which, he said, seeks to steal other countries' resources and to foment conflict among the Islamic nations.Mohammad Javad Larijani, Former Iranian Judiciary Human Rights Council Secretary, May 19, 2025: "If We Are Attacked, We Will Attack Not Only Washington, But American Interests And Bases Everywhere - In The Air, On The Sea, And On Land, Anywhere From Which An Attack On Iran Originates - Will Be A Legitimate Target For Us"-Zionist psychos are blackmailing humanity
-Gabbard Declassifies Docs Showing Biden Classified Opponents of COVID Mandates "Domestic Violent Extremists"-A massive new preprint study of over a million Czech women aged 18-39 claims women vaccinated for COVID-19 had 33% fewer successful pregnancies than unvaccinated women. If the study is correct, the vaccines are having a catastrophic effect on fertility.-"israel is a dictatorship de facto" sign raised in a protest in tel aviv demanding an end to the war in gazaIsraeli protesters demand end to Gaza warDemonstrators gathered in Tel Aviv urging the Israeli government to stop the fighting in Gaza. Some called for a ceasefire deal that could secure the return of hostages, while others want to see Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu resign.-
The Democrat Mayor of Seattle, Bruce Harrell, issued a statement regarding the concert and arrests where he labeled the event a "far-right rally."Harrell also accused the Christian group of trying "to provoke a reaction by promoting beliefs that are inherently opposed to our city's values, in the heart of Seattle's most prominent LGBTQ+ neighborhood."The mayor then ordered the city's parks department to explain why a permit was granted for the concert and launched an investigation into the response of the police department."I am grateful for those who make their voices heard in support of our neighbors without resorting to violence. In the face of an extreme right-wing national effort to attack our trans and LGBTQ+ communities, Seattle will continue to stand unwavering in our embrace of diversity, love for our neighbors, and commitment to justice and fairness," Mayor Harrell wrote. -
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The poll on the Traditional Latin Mass has been up for a week and the results are in. Not a ton of optimism out in TradLand about Pope Leo XIV’s election in terms of a freeing of the TLM, and of the optimists, most think the current unjust putative legal framework will remain, but that more “indults” (I use the term intentionally) will be granted when asked for.
Only about 29% think any positive decree or legislation will be forthcoming. And the number who see an abrogation of TC and/or restoration of Summorum Pontificum hovers at 20%.
Nearly half (47%) think it will remain the same or, worse, that the TLM will be subject to further putative restrictions or suppression.
I leave this whole effort here for the historical record. Let’s pray that the minority is right.
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Site: Mises InstituteFrom Reconstruction to George Floyd, the left‘s guilt industry has run at full speed. As Murray Rothbard wrote, it is time to stand up to those that use guilt as a social weapon.
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Site: Mises InstituteFrom Reconstruction to George Floyd, the left‘s guilt industry has run at full speed. As Murray Rothbard wrote, it is time to stand up to those that use guilt as a social weapon.
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Site: Rorate CaeliDear faithful,It has unfortunately come to my attention over the years that an unscrupulous individual “ambulance chaser” type with a canon law degree has been approaching unsuspecting traditional Catholics with promises of aiding in canonical redress with their bishops after their local TLM has been canceled.It has fallen to me, in the absence of any interest in covering this issue by reputable Father Kevin M Cusick http://www.blogger.com/profile/04460394747724581336noreply@blogger.com
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Site: RT - News
Will Berlin start giving Kiev Taurus missiles and risk becoming a direct target for retaliation?
Chancellor Friedrich Merz, from Germany’s mainstream CDU/CSU conservatives, has caused a stir. This time with statements about German weapons in Ukraine. Or to be precise, how exactly Kiev’s troops may use weapons provided by Berlin.
Speaking at a public forum organized by a major German TV station, Merz declared that there are no range limits anymore on how far the Ukrainian military can shoot German weapons into Russia.
Merz’s statements managed to be both sensational (sort of) and a muddle. He implied that they mark a change, but by now his Social Democrat coalition partners and even Merz himself are saying the opposite: That he wasn’t telling us anything new.
It seems Merz has been improvising without thinking things through. In that case, no biggie. That’s just the way he is: Not as dissimilar from the American impulse monster Donald Trump as the dour chancellor from orderly Germany may wish to imagine.
Moreover, the weapons – the MARS II system and the Panzerhaubitze 2000 – that Ukraine currently has from Germany only have modest ranges (84 and 56 kilometers). Removing political limits on them is largely militarily irrelevant.
But what if Merz has been more devious? That is an interpretation popular with those German politicians who want to drag Germany even deeper into the great Western proxy war against Russia via Ukraine. For his fellow conservative – and head of the Defense Committee of the German parliament – Thomas Roewekamp, Merz’s explicit ‘no’ to any range restrictions for German weapons is meant to prepare the ground for delivering the powerful Taurus cruise missile to Kiev.
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Ukraine can strike deep inside Russia using German weapons – Merz
According to Roewekamp, under Merz’s predecessor, Olaf Scholz, the Taurus’ long range of over 500 kilometers was used as an argument against handing it over to Ukraine. By that logic, dropping range limits means facilitating the Taurus transfer, long the wet dream of German bellicist politicians, as well as some very high-ranking officers. Unsurprisingly, Germany’s militaristic camouflage Greens have already renewed their habitual calls for further escalation by delivering the Taurus to Kiev.
The great risks of this step are well known, but large parts of Germany’s elite seem to be in denial about them: Not only can the Taurus strike deep into Russia – or at least try, against Russia’s air defenses – and even hit Moscow, it is also a fact – as the head of the German air force admitted when feeling unobserved – that the Ukrainian military cannot handle the Taurus on its own. The complexity of its guidance, programming, and launching require that Germans will play a direct role in its use against Russia.
Therefore, even if fired from Ukraine, a Taurus would also be fired by Germany. Moscow – whether it intercepts the missile or not – will then have little choice but to consider Germany not ‘merely’ an important proxy force behind Ukraine, but a direct opponent. Russia would, simply put, be at war with Germany. A major Russian defense expert has already appeared on Russia’s most popular political show – 60 Minutes – arguing that in this case, Moscow should, at a minimum, conduct a limited, non-nuclear but certainly painful missile strike against the Taurus production facilities in Germany.
Delivering the Taurus to Kiev has always been an awful idea, especially because even German officers have long acknowledged that it cannot even make a decisive difference in Ukraine’s favor. All the Taurus can do is help a desperate Ukrainian regime escalate the war to a higher level by involving NATO member Germany directly. That is certainly a Kamikaze option that the most reckless hawks in NATO-EU Europe would welcome, insane as it would be.
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So why has Merz sent this odd signal now? Is he one of those hawks? Does he want a direct war with Russia? Probably not, at least not too soon. For Merz is obsessed with the idea of massively remilitarizing Germany, precisely because he argues – and probably even believes – that it is far too weak right now. At the same time, he knows that this re-armament – with the explicit aim of providing Germany with the strongest army, at least in conventional terms, “in Europe” (let’s not dwell on his clearly politicized notion of ‘Europe’) – will take years. If, that is, it should ever succeed.
Merz claimed that his statement was the proper response to a wave of Russian drone and missile attacks last weekend. The German politicians who support the chancellor’s latest sally agree with this claim and depict these Russian attacks not only as large-scale, which they were and as Russia’s Defense Ministry has publicly recognized, but also as targeting civilians, which they clearly were not.
Yet the evidence contradicts both charges: First, it is obvious that Moscow was not aiming at civilians. How do we know that? No, you do not have to take Russia’s word for it. Instead, treat the question empirically and consider the following figures, reported not by Russian media, but by the important and reliable Ukrainian news site Strana.ua:
Over the last weekend, beginning Friday night and ending Sunday night, Russia launched a total of 92 missiles and over 900 drones at Ukraine. The Ukrainian military admits almost 30 direct hits on unspecified locations. Since Ukraine has a policy of not disclosing military losses while maximally exploiting civilian losses for information war purposes, we can assume that these locations were military or military-production sites, precisely as Russia has claimed. In addition, according to the Ukrainian Air Force and German mainstream media, during Monday night, Russia launched 60 drones at Ukraine.
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Europeans once again rallying under Nazi flag against Russia – Lavrov
What about civilian losses during these attacks then? Let’s be clear: Every human life is precious, every death terrible, and every injury deplorable. Yet proportions do matter. For the Russian weekend attacks, we find the following Ukrainian and Western (again, not Russian) figures about civilian losses: As of Saturday, the BBC reported “at least 13 people” killed and “56 civilians” injured in all of Ukraine.
According to Strana.ua, Russian air attacks during Sunday night left 16 dead, including three children, (a total of 12 deaths according to the Washington Post); Monday night – ten cases of injuries.
These figures aren’t perfectly clear. When the number of those killed, for instance, is reported as simply ‘people’ (not specifically ‘civilians’), it makes sense to assume that this does refer to civilians (because, again, Ukraine follows a policy of not disclosing military losses). There are some discrepancies; there may be overlaps.
On the other hand, unlike in the case of Israel’s genocidal bombardment of Gaza – a textbook case of actually targeting civilians – we do know that there is no significant difference between the numbers we see and the actual numbers of victims. For Gaza, all figures we currently have are certain to be substantial undercounts.
The crucial point is as clear as can be: The figures from Ukraine do not constitute the footprint of attacks targeting civilians – especially if these attacks involved almost 100 missiles and nearly 1,000 drones. Indeed, these figures are not even evidence of Russian indifference to civilian losses. If anything, tragic as they are, they show that Russia must have taken care to avoid civilian ‘collateral damage’. In Ukraine, this may be a painful fact to acknowledge – in the West, a politically inconvenient one – but any other reading of the available statistics makes little sense.
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Here’s what they don’t tell you about ‘massive Russian strikes on Ukraine’
It is not only Friedrich Merz, but also Donald Trump who urgently needs to get real about the above. Trump has posted that “a lot of people” are being killed. If he means Ukrainian officers and soldiers, then we simply don’t know. In any case, that is not a crime in war. And Americans have certainly never shown the slightest hesitation to kill combatants in spades (or civilians, for that matter).
If Trump means civilians – as his phrase “in cities” may imply – then he is simply wrong. One is one too many, as always, but if the US president wants to see what ‘a lot of’ killed civilians look like, again, he should look at Israel’s deliberate slaughter of the Palestinians. A slaughter he is supporting, aiding, and abetting no less than his predecessor, Joe Biden.
But back to Merz. There he is, making an escalating statement that seems to make an important difference, but then does not. Or will it, in the end? And his main reason for making it – or at least the main reason he has shared with us – is simply nonsense based on disinformation. What can we make of all that, except that Bismarck this is not? Not even Helmut Kohl or Angela Merkel, really. Maybe this is supposed to be an exercise in ‘strategic ambiguity’, a silly French habit recently proudly claimed by German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius? If so, Berlin needs to become much more discerning about the Parisian fashions it imports.
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Of course I am speaking about Bishop Shawn McKnight who issued a very good document banning certain heterodox and just plain stupid music at Mass in his diocese. But there was a heterodox backlash and he relented. Not sure that was good, but he had common sense about which tree he wanted to die upon and heterodox music wasn’t it.A bishop in my province has issued an incredibly stupid document and more incredibly, stupendously stupid talking points about doing away with a liturgy of the Church that has more than 1,500 years of tradition and the talking points suppose to give his logic for an incredibly and stupendously stupid decision
Perhaps this neophyte Bishop could learn from Bishop McKnight and rescind what is really a stupid decision and burn the talking points which are incredibly and stupendously condescending.
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The initiative aims to fund European weapons production and procurement in order to reduce dependence on the US
The Council of the European Union has formally endorsed a plan to fund military buildup efforts across the bloc through a €150 billion ($170 billion) borrowing mechanism. The initiative comes after Washington announced it would ramp down its involvement in Europe’s defense.
The financing arrangement will allow the European Commission to raise funds for military purposes without direct European Parliament approval. It was finalized last week and received formal backing from foreign and European affairs ministers on Tuesday. Hungary reportedly abstained from the vote.
Originally proposed in March, the Security Action for Europe (SAFE) initiative was presented as a way to reduce reliance on US weaponry and a response to what Brussels claims to be a threat from Russia. Moscow has repeatedly denied any aggressive intent, accusing EU leaders of “irresponsibly stoking fears” to justify increased military expenditures.
Several member states have already unveiled plans to expand their military capabilities under the SAFE framework while others have reportedly been considering using the program to provide additional arms assistance to Kiev.
Under the rules of the agreement, at least 65% of a military project’s value must originate from EU countries or select partners such as the United Kingdom, South Korea, Japan, and Ukraine in order to qualify for funding.
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NATO chief fears Trump-Zelensky conflict could derail summit – NYT
Efforts to boost European military production and procurement comes as US President Donald Trump has urged European NATO members to take the matter of defense into their own hands and increase military spending. Trump has threatened to pull American protection from countries that fail to pay up.
The German newspaper Handelsblatt has also recently claimed that Washington is planning to announce a reduction of its US military presence in Europe in the “coming months.” The potential scale of such a pullout is unclear.
Meanwhile, Moscow has condemned the EU’s new debt initiative as a continuation of the bloc’s hostile policies and increasing militarization. Russian officials have said that the EU’s military spending hikes amount to an “incitement of war on the European continent” and are evidence that the economic bloc has “has degraded into an openly militarized entity.”
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Site: Zero HedgeTrump Admin Pauses All Student Visa Interviews, May Include Social Media Vetting: ReportTyler Durden Tue, 05/27/2025 - 12:25
The Trump administration has paused all new interviews for foreign student visa applicants, and is may institute social media vetting, according to a cable obtained by Politico.
The Harvard University logo is displayed on a building at the school, April 15, 2025, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. | Charles Krupa/AP
In the Tuesday cable signed by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the administration has ordered US embassies and consular sections to pause scheduling new interviews - a move that could severely slow down student visa processing, and hurt many universities such as Harvard which rely heavily on foreign students.
"Effective immediately, in preparation for an expansion of required social media screening and vetting, consular sections should not add any additional student or exchange visitor (F, M, and J) visa appointment capacity until further guidance is issued septel, which we anticipate in the coming days," reads the cable. ("Septel" is short for "separate telegram.")
According to the report, the administration has already imposed some social media screening requirements largely aimed at returning students who may have participated in protests against Israel's actions in Gaza.
The administration has been trying to crack down on universities, especially elite ones such as Harvard, that it sees as too liberal and accuses of allowing antisemitism to flourish on their campuses. At the same time, it is carrying out immigration crackdowns that have swept up a number of students as well. -Politico
Earlier Tuesday, the NY Times reported that the Trump administration is set to cancel the federal government's remaining federal contracts with Harvard University - worth some $100 million.
In a letter to the university, the administration instructs agencies to "find alternative vendors" for future services.
Contracts with about nine agencies would be affected, according to the administration official.
Examples of contracts that would be affected, according to a federal database, include a $49,858 National Institutes of Health contract to investigate the effects of coffee drinking and a $25,800 Homeland Security Department contract for senior executive training. Some of the Harvard contracts under review may have already been subject to “stop work” orders. -NY Times
"Going forward, we also encourage your agency to seek alternative vendors for future services where you had previously considered Harvard," the letter states.
The latest cuts represent what one administration official told the outlet amounted to a 'complete severance' of the government's longstanding business relationship with Harvard.
The Trump administration has demanded that universities reject students who are "hostile to American values."
Harvard, meanwhile, has filed a lawsuit seeking the restoration of more than $3 billion in federal funding. In a separate lawsuit, the university has asked a federal court to reinstate its right to enroll international students - which Judge Allison D. Burroughs temporarily reinstated. A hearing on Thursday has been scheduled to determine whether the order should be extended.
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Site: Mises InstituteState-funded media has been a hallmark of the Soviet Union and of all other oppressive, totalitarian regimes in history.
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Site: Mundabor's blogYou might say that it is not good for me to keep harping on how bad Francis was. De mortuis nihil nisi bonum, parce sepultis, and all that stuff. However, I have often expressed the opinion that such charitable attitude should be reserved to those who are not public figures, lest their evil acts have […]
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Site: RT - News
Chancellor Friedrich Merz has warned Slovakia and Hungary over their opposition to the bloc’s Russia policy
Germany would consider supporting a suspension of EU funding to Slovakia and Hungary if the countries continue to oppose the bloc's sanctions policy against Russia, Chancellor Friedrich Merz has warned.
Bratislava and Budapest have also taken a critical stance towards Western policies regarding the Ukraine conflict. On Monday, the German chancellor lifted Kiev’s restrictions on firing long-range German weapons deep inside Russia, a move the Kremlin has described as a “serious escalation.”
Referring to Hungary and Slovakia, Merz warned that EU member states violating the rule of law could face infringement proceedings, adding that “withdrawing European funds is always an option…If it is necessary, then we will deal with it.”
Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban have repeatedly criticized EU leaders and argued that the West’s military and financial backing of Kiev only prolonged the conflict, without yielding any progress. Fico survived an assassination attempt in May 2024, when he was shot at close range by a pro-Ukraine activist.
”We will not be able to avoid this conflict with Hungary and Slovakia if we continue on this course,” Merz said. “We cannot allow the decisions of the entire EU to depend on a small minority. And there could certainly be clearer words and possibly also harder conflicts.”
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Anti-Russia sanctions are a ‘plague’ – EU nation’s PM
Fico rejected Germany’s threat to cut funding, calling it unacceptable and a breach of the bloc’s democratic values.
”If someone wants to push a policy where only one opinion is allowed, that’s the end of democracy in Europe,” Fico told reporters on Tuesday during a visit to Armenia.
Slovakia took what Fico calls a “constructive” and pragmatic approach towards Russia since he came to power in 2023. Under his leadership, Bratislava has cut military assistance to Kiev and pledged to veto any new EU sanctions that could harm Slovakia's economy. Fico has visited Moscow twice since December to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin, drawing criticism from both the EU and NATO.
“Europe needs Russia, and Russia needs Europe,” he said in a video message last week, reflecting on his visit to Moscow earlier this month.
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Site: Rorate CaeliThis was sent to us yesterday, and also first posted online by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf: the talking points shared by the Bishop of Charlotte, Bp. Martin, to explain to the faithful his monstrous anti-traditional actions.They are so grotesque, and so absurd for any bishop, that it pains us to believe they are real -- but they indeed are. So we leave them here for the record of current events, New Catholichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04118576661605931910noreply@blogger.com
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Site: AsiaNews.itAt least four waves of arrests have decimated the leadership of the Istanbul municipality. In addition to the mayor and opposition leader, more than 200 people are in jail. The CHP accuses the government of weaponising the judiciary. In the background, the president's overtures to the PKK are an attempt to win over the Kurds in his plan to change the constitution.
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Site: Zero HedgeJapan Panicks As Yields Explode, Will Trim Super-Long Bond Issuance To Calm MarketTyler Durden Tue, 05/27/2025 - 11:25
One of the most famous modern aphorisms on Wall Street belongs to Bank of America Chief Investment Strategist, Michael Hartnett, who a decade ago wisely said that "markets stop panicking when policymakers start panicking." Last night, Japan's policymakers - faced with record long-end rates and record paper losses on insurer books - finally panicked.
Just hours after we reported that Japan's life insurance companies are facing staggering losses...
... first Reuters and then Bloomberg reported (which means that this was not a "scoop" but a premeditated trial balloon by Tokyo meant to hit all major news outlets) that Japan will take a page right out of Janet Yellens' Activist Treasury Issuance playbook and will "consider" trimming issuance of super-long bonds in the wake of recent sharp rises in yields for the notes, in an attempt to remove long-dated supply which has slammed prices for long-dated bonds to record low as policymakers seek to soothe market concerns about worsening government finances.
Predictably, super-long bond yields slumped on the report, pushing down the Japanese yen and U.S. Treasury yields along the way, as markets cheered Tokyo's readiness to arrest spikes in long-term interest rates by shifting duration from the long-end to the short-end.
According to Reuters, Japan's Ministry of Finance (MOF) will consider tweaking the composition of its bond program for the current fiscal year, which could involve cuts to its super-long bond issuance, said the sources who had direct knowledge of the plan. This is very similar to the ATI Yellen unveiled a little over two years ago when she shifted much of the bond issuance from coupons to bill, in order to keep funding the US deficit through Bills, and the draining of the Reverse Repo account, which is now almost empty.
The MOF will make a final decision after discussions with market participants around mid- to late-June, the sources said.
The plan followed the recent record surge in super-long bond yields to never before seen levels due to a freeze in demand from traditional buyers such as life insurers and global market jitters over steadily rising debt levels.
The yield on the 30-year Japanese government bond (JGB) fell 18 basis points to 2.85% after the report, its lowest since May 4. The benchmark 10-year yield dropped 7 points to 1.43%.
The slide in super-long JGB yields also helped push long-dated US Treasury yields, which were set for their biggest one-day fall since mid-April. The yield on 30-year bonds was down 7 basis points at 4.963% in early London trading on Tuesday.
"We've been arguing that something had to give to correct the supply-demand imbalance in long-end JGBs. The market is thinking it will be the MOF," Societe Generale said in a note, echoing what we in turn have been saying for weeks.
If the MOF were to reduce issuance of 20-, 30- or 40-year JGBs, it would likely increase issuance of shorter-dated debt instead, the sources said; As such, the total planned size of JGB issuance for the current fiscal year that ends March 2026 will remain unchanged from 172.3 trillion yen ($1.21 trillion), they said.
Such a move would also mean that any marginal demand for duration would have to head to the US, which thanks to the Trump Big, Beautiful, Budget Busting Deal will have lots of long-dated supply for years to come.
Global markets have been rattled by sharp bond sell-offs recently, including for US Treasuries, as President Trump's sweeping tariffs and erratic policies heightened worries about the status of U.S. sovereign debt as the world's safest haven. In Japan, super-long bonds were also sold off as Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba faced political pressure for tax cuts and big spending ahead of an upper house poll in July, policies that could add to the country's already huge public debt.
Japan's government is considering compiling another spending package, though ruling coalition executives agreed on Tuesday to avoid issuing fresh deficit-financing bonds. The clash over fiscal policy prompted Japan's PM to say the quiet part out loud, admitting last week that Japan's financial condition was worse than Greece.
The JGB collapse has also turned investors' attention to whether the MOF, which oversees debt issuance, and BOJ could take measures to tame rises in super-long yields.
The BOJ, for its part, is unlikely to make any big tweaks to its current bond-taper (or QE) program, sources told Reuters. But the recent market rout could affect its taper plans for fiscal 2026 onward, which will be decided at next month's policy meeting, they said.
"Issuance of super-long JGBs could decline in July at the earliest," which would ease concern over the outcome of Wednesday's 40-year JGB auction, said Katsutoshi Inadome, senior strategist at Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Asset Management.
"But this offers only temporary relief and won't lead to a decline in Japan's debt balance," he said. "With the MOF likely doing its part, politicians now need to make efforts to avoid increasing debt."
Separately, Bloomberg reported that a Japanese government advisory panel urged authorities to step up fiscal consolidation efforts, as the Bank of Japan’s ongoing monetary tightening efforts raise the risk of higher debt-servicing costs for the world’s most indebted developed nation.
The Fiscal System Council warned that the BOJ’s interest rate hikes and scaled-back bond purchases are fueling a steady rise in government bond yields, and the country’s finances need more attention, according to a proposal submitted to Finance Minister Katsunobu Kato on Tuesday.
“We must manage finances with a heightened sense of urgency to prevent rising debt costs from crowding out essential policy spending,” the panel said. The call for fiscal prudence came as the BOJ continues to unwind its ultra-loose policy, following its first interest rate hike in 18 years in March last year.
The panel cautioned that Japan could face a sovereign credit rating downgrade if fiscal discipline continues to erode.
"A downgrade of government bonds is not a far-fetched scenario,” the proposal said, referencing Moody’s Ratings’ recent downgrade of US sovereign debt as a precedent. “If trust in Japan’s public finances erodes, it could trigger a downgrade, sharp interest rate hikes, market turmoil and ultimately negative consequences for households and businesses,” it said.
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Commenting on the MOF's trial balloon, Goldman's head of EMEA Delta-One trading Rich Privorotsky said that the Japanese strategy would be short-term helpful "but if this is the long term solution then the issue will be the FX."
Sure enough, the yen - which at last check saw record long hedge fund exposure - is sliding, with Privorotsky listing the following reasons for the currency weakness:
- yields mechanically come lower in the end of curve, compressing yield differentials
- more of debt will be owned by the domestic population hence less demand for yen
- not being able to sell debt is not a generally a good thing as a larger percentage gets owned by your CB.
Privo's conclusion is that while for now it remains "a small overall move for the JPY... it's worth but worth watching if this becomes a theme outside US, as a result of the near record pile up of dollar shorts recently."
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Conservative and pro-life groups are again asking the Department of Justice (DOJ) to investigate five aborted babies found near a Washington, D.C. clinic in 2022 now that President Donald Trump is back in office.
Nine organizations sent a letter Tuesday to U.S. Attorney Jeanine Ferris Pirro sounding the alarm about pro-life activists’ discovery of the bodies in containers from the Washington Surgi-Clinic. Some of the babies discovered were so large that they brought suspicion of illegal partial-birth or post-birth abortions, and the Biden administration only prosecuted those who protested at the clinic in 2020.
“In 2022, pro-life activists in Washington, D.C., discovered possible violations of the Partial-Birth Abortion Act and the Born-Alive Infant Protection Act,” reads the letter from Advancing American Freedom, Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, Students for Life, Concerned Women for America, Family Research Council, Live Action, Human Coalition, Catholic Vote and American Family Association.
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“Being vigilant citizens, they alerted the D.C. police,” the letter said. “Tragically, rather than investigate the incident properly, the Biden Administration worked to sweep the allegations under the rug and silence the individuals involved by prosecuting them.”
Pirro and the Washington Surgi-Clinic did not respond to requests for comment from the Daily Caller News Foundation.
Activists with Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising (PAAU) found more than 100 aborted babies in toxic waste containers from the Washington Surgi-Clinic in March 2022, including the five that sparked concerns of possible infanticide.
“The horrific wounds on the bodies of these innocent children — some who were nearly full-term, and all may have been able to survive outside the womb — indicate destructive violations of federal law,” Live Action President Lila Rose previously told the DCNF.
Former President Joe Biden’s DOJ filed criminal charges in March 2022 against PAAU leader Lauren Handy, who spoke out about the five abortions, and others over a 2020 protest at the clinic. Handy was sentenced to 57 months in prison under the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act, but Trump pardoned her and several other pro-life protesters in January.
The letter to Pirro also noted that Biden’s DOJ was accused of ordering Washington, D.C., officials to incinerate the bodies, but they held off amid pressure from Republicans in Congress. Members of Congress continued to call for a proper investigation into the matter throughout Biden’s presidency.
“As the Interim United States Attorney for Washington, D.C., it is your responsibility to follow the facts where they may lead and enforce federal law to protect those most vulnerable in our nation’s capital: the unborn,” the advocacy groups told Pirro.
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Site: Fr. Z's BlogNOTE: Today a question arrived in my email box which cited this post. I took at look and thought that it would be good to share gain. ___ Originally Published on: Feb 2, 2022 I received a somewhat convoluted note about … Read More →
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Budapest police have denied permission for a Pride event, citing a law prioritizing the right of children to “adequate mental development”
The Hungarian authorities have denied permission for an LGBTQ parade in Budapest, invoking for the first time recent legislation that seeks to protect children from malignant influence.
In a statement on Monday, Budapest police shot down a request for a pro-LGBTQ event planned for this weekend and supported by five human rights groups, including Amnesty International Hungary. They cited a recent amendment that prioritizes the right of children to “adequate physical, mental, and moral development” over other freedoms.
The authorities were acting based on a law adopted in March, which prohibits pride events and authorizes the use of facial recognition technology to identify participants, with potential fines of up to $500. In April, the Hungarian parliament also passed a constitutional amendment recognizing only two genders – male and female – while defining marriage as the union of one man and one woman.
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Seven sentenced for harassing LGBTQ Olympic organizer
The legislation was supported by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, an ardent critic of “woke policies.” While advocating for the law banning LGBTQ pride events, Orban said it is necessary to protect minors from “the international gender network” and “harmful agendas” promoted by bureaucrats in Brussels.
In response to the ban, 17 EU countries released a joint declaration saying they “are highly alarmed by these developments which run contrary to the fundamental values of human dignity, freedom, equality and respect for human rights,” while urging Hungary to revise the legislation.
READ MORE: Apple slapped with $93,000 LGBTQ propaganda fine in Russia
EurActiv reported on Monday that the office of EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen privately recommended that commissioners not attend the much larger Pride march scheduled for late June in Budapest, so as not to “provoke” Hungary. The EU Commission has dismissed the report, saying von der Leyen “stands firmly for a true Union of Equality.”
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NATO critic Calin Georgescu’s victory in last year’s election first round was annulled by the country’s Constitutional Court
Former Romanian presidential candidate Calin Georgescu has stated that he will be withdrawing from politics, following the victory of a pro-EU candidate in a presidential election rerun from which he was banned, earlier this month.
Georgescu, a former UN official, ran as an independent in Romania’s November 2024 presidential election, campaigning on national sovereignty, criticism of Bucharest’s involvement in NATO and the EU, and opposition to continued military aid for Ukraine. Having won the initial round of voting, his victory was annulled by the country’s Constitutional Court, citing “irregularities” in his campaign along with intelligence reports alleging Russian interference—claims Moscow has denied.
The election was rerun on May 18 without Georgescu on the ballot.
In a video address published on Monday, Georgescu stated that he has chosen to become a “passive observer of public and social life” and to end his “active involvement in the political process, considering that this stage of the sovereignist movement has ended from my point of view.”
He also stated that he would not join or lead any political party or attempt to hold “any position in the Romanian state in the current situation.” Instead, Georgescu said he will focus his attention and energy on his family.
Georgescu left open the possibility of returning to public life, if he sees that “the rights of those who have chosen differently are being violated or injustices and abuses arise.”
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Romanian presidential candidate calls for protests without Ukraine-style ‘bloodbath’
Romania’s electoral authorities banned Georgescu from taking part in this month’s rerun - a decision that was also upheld by the Constitutional Court, citing alleged violations of campaign finance rules and national security concerns.
He was replaced on the ballot by Euroskeptic candidate George Simion - the leader of the Alliance for the Union of Romanians (AUR) party. Simion lost in the second round of voting to Bucharest Mayor and EU supporter Nicusor Dan. The right-wing candidate has since refused to recognize the results, citing a “coordinated international interference” campaign.
Moscow has described Romania’s latest election as “strange, at the very least,” noting that Dan did not secure victory until Georgescu - the frontrunner - was disqualified.
Telegram founder Pavel Durov also claimed last week that Nicolas Lerner, the head of French foreign intelligence, personally urged him to censor conservative voices on the platform ahead of the Romanian election.
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During the last five decades it is estimated that 65+ Million babies have been slaughtered throughout the United States, the great majority of these surgeries took place at Planned Parenthood Clinics. Over 20 Million were dead black babies, just as its founder, Margaret Sanger, had planned. [Blacks are only 13% of the US population.] Under Roe v. Wade such clinics were legal in all 50 states, and, with some exceptions, slaughtering full-term babies who were in the process of coming down the birth canal was also legal.
Following the Dobbs v. Jackson decision handed down by the US Supreme Court in June 2022, the legislatures of each state decideing when a pregnancy can legally be terminated. Thus, Planned Parenthood, Inc. is seeing fewer & fewer abortion clients in many of their clinics. To keep the money rolling in, their executives rich, their employees employed and the savagery continuing, they have adopted a new marketing plan: mutilating* the perfect bodies of “older babies.”
TARGETING EIGHT-YEAR-OLDS, CREATING LIFELONG PATIENTS
In its cartoon ad, designed for children, not for adults, Planned Parenthood is telling pre-teens and teens that they can change their bodies at whim. The ad lies when it claims that puberty blocking drugs are safe and they can be used “like a stop sign” to halt puberty.
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“There are medicines you can take to delay puberty for a while, they’re called puberty blockers and they work like a stop sign.” “Puberty blockers are safe and can give you more time to figure out what feels right for your body and your gender identity.”
The ad pushes the gender ideology scam as it pushes puberty blockers AND surgical mutilation: “some people decide on hormones or surgeries to help their body match up to their gender identity.”
Planned Parenthood’s website claims, “Your gender identity is real, and there are medical treatments you can use to help your body better reflect who you are.” It specifically cites leuprolide acetate, AKA Lupron, as a drug that is used to block puberty. Lupron has been used to chemically castrate sex offenders.
Children who are abused in this fashion will need medical care THEIR ENTIRE LIVES. They will never be able to live a full life without continual medical assistance. They will have Planned Parenthood on speed dial. Money, it is all about money, for the ghouls who abuse children this way.
DESTROYING A WHOLE GENERATION
This is a horrible time to be a child even IF he/she makes it out of the womb. Democrat policies have dummied down public school education for decades, depriving children of their full potential. Democrat-run states are teaching school children to hate each other based upon skin hue, robbing them of their self-respect. For the last decade, the Dems have been USING TAX DOLLARS, to destroy children’s very souls.
President Trump is taking steps to protect children: PROTECTING CHILDREN FROM CHEMICAL AND SURGICAL MUTILATION
Planned Parenthood was recently caught giving 16-year-olds cross-six hormones behind their parents’ backs, without examination by competent doctors and without short or long term follow up by competent doctors. This exposé starts at the 2-minute mark of Matt Walsh’s podcast.
*I am using the term “mutilate” when referring to puberty blockers because, even though body parts are not being cut off or cut out YET, this patient’s body will not develop naturally, leading to medical problems his/her entire life.
^Even after Roe v. Wade was overturned, Planned Parenthood managed to slaughter 402,200 babies in 2023 and 2024.
LifeNews Note: The author, Diane L. Gruber, is a First Amendment advocate who writes for Substack. She calls her Substack newsletter America First Re-Ignited. Reprinted with permission form AFNN.
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Site: Catholic Conclave"The structure must change"Psychologist Hans Zollner is fighting for the prevention of sexual violence. He is calling for a restructuring of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors.Priests wait in St. Peter's Basilica for the arrival of Pope Francis's body. The high number of unreported cases of abuse in the Catholic Church will remain.taz: Mr. Zollner, did Pope Leo XIV cover up Catholic Conclavehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06227218883606585321noreply@blogger.com0
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Potential US involvement in mining is “problematic,” a minister has said, as the autonomous Danish island reassesses global ties
Greenland is weighing the possibility of inviting Chinese investment to develop its mining sector in light of tensions with the US and limited engagement with the EU, the island’s business and mineral resources minister, Naaja Nathanielsen, told the Financial Times on Tuesday.
An autonomous territory of Denmark, Greenland holds vast but hard-to-exploit reserves of minerals such as gold and copper. Foreign capital is essential for developing the resources, yet recent geopolitical tensions have made it difficult to secure reliable partnerships.
“We are trying to figure out what the new world order looks like,” Nathanielsen said, adding that Greenland was “having a difficult time finding [its] footing” in evolving relationships with its Western allies.
The Arctic island signed a memorandum of understanding with the US on mineral development during President Donald Trump’s first term. However, according to Nathanielsen, it’s coming to an end. The government in Nuuk had tried, unsuccessfully, to renew it during the administration of former US President Joe Biden.
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Ex-NATO chief warns Trump to stay away from Greenland
Following Trump’s return to office in January, Greenland hoped to revive discussions of renewing the memorandum. Instead, the US president talked about purchasing the island and refused to rule out using military force to assert US sovereignty over it.
Nathanielsen called such statements “disrespectful and distasteful,” adding that Greenland “has no wish to be American.”
China has shown interest in the Arctic’s mineral wealth, including oil, gas, and minerals. It has invested in Russian energy projects and has expressed interest in Greenland's mining sector. No Chinese companies, however, are currently operating active mines in Greenland, although one firm holds a minority stake in an inactive project.
According to Nathanielsen, Chinese investors might be holding back because they don’t want “to provoke anything.”
“In those terms, Chinese investment is of course problematic, but so, to some extent, is American,” she said.
Greenland would prefer closer cooperation with the EU, which aligns more closely with its environmental priorities, the minister said. However, the bloc’s engagement has been slow, with only one project, led by a Danish-French consortium, currently in development. The mine is expected to begin operations within five years.
READ MORE: Greenland awards major mining contract to Danish-French firm
At present, Greenland has two functioning mines: one for gold, operated by the Icelandic-Canadian firm Amaroq Minerals, and another for anorthosite, a light-colored industrial rock, managed by a subsidiary of Canada’s Hudson Resources.
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The only certainties in this world, a famous quip says, are death and taxes. No group in America weds the two like Planned Parenthood. The indisputable head of the abortion industry, they boast of more than 400,000 abortions a year – at least ten times the capacity of Times Square. And they do it while raking in nearly 40% of their $2 billion in income from taxpayers.
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act that just passed the House of Representatives is the best opportunity to stop forced taxpayer funding of Big Abortion since 2017, when a similar effort fell short by one vote. As the Republican majority works through budget reconciliation, all the Democrats’ old lies are re-emerging: “Women will lose critical health care.” “Planned Parenthood does more than abortion.” More than ever, they fall flat.
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For the longest time, it seemed certain Planned Parenthood was “too big to fail” and politically untouchable. At over a century old, they’ve outlived scandal after scandal: multi-million-dollar payouts to settle Medicaid fraud charges. Dozens of employee lawsuits alleging racial discrimination. Their eugenics-driven foundress, Margaret Sanger, getting cast under the bus during 2020’s summer of unrest. Even – horrific as it is – the revelation of their selling freshly harvested organs of aborted babies for thousands of dollars apiece in incentives.
The abortion giant not only survived – the subsidies taxpayers were forced to pay increased to more than $700 million, including about half a billion from Medicaid.
They’ve survived in part by grossly exaggerating their importance as a health care provider of last resort for poor women – for instance, allowing the public to think they provide mammograms (they never have). They cling to this fiction as a shield, even while their own reports show massive declines in everything from contraception to pap smears. Except abortions, of course. Those are at record level. When a pregnant woman enters Planned Parenthood looking for help, 97% of the time she is sold an abortion, rather than supported in parenting or planning for adoption.
Now, a new analysis by the Charlotte Lozier Institute estimates community health centers offering women’s health care outnumber Planned Parenthood locations (in-person and virtual) 15 to one nationwide. These include 5,500 federally qualified health centers, which provide comprehensive health care services to low-income and underserved populations, and 3,300 rural health clinics serving Medicaid and Medicare patients in areas particularly vulnerable to care shortages. That’s on top of thousands of pregnancy resource centers that provide free baby supplies, education and assistance.
Women have real choices. Community health centers are vastly more available than Planned Parenthood, and more women choose them already. When Medicaid patients choose these centers, Medicaid dollars stay with them.
At last, scandal-plagued Planned Parenthood is poised to collapse under its many detriments. The New York Times, no pro-life outlet, acknowledged Planned Parenthood botches procedures and subjects patients to inhuman treatment. In one case, sewage was allowed to leak into a recovery room for days. NPR highlighted “dysfunction” between rank-and-file employees and management, with one former employee stating she was repeatedly expected to break protocol to assist surgical abortions despite being the sole nurse on duty.
Moreover, billions of dollars in donations go not to fix their appalling conditions, but to fund the organization’s constant litigation and political activism. OpenSecrets found Planned Parenthood spends more to lobby the federal government than any group on either side of the abortion issue. Supposedly in a financial crisis, they’ve just taken out a full-page ad in The New York Times – the outlet they feel betrayed them – signed by some of the richest people in America.
But the media won’t save them. The courts won’t bail them out. Even Gavin Newsom is cutting them off.
Enter a new administration focused on rooting out waste and fraud. In March, the Trump administration halted millions in Title X funds to Planned Parenthood, citing a review of their DEI policies. In any case, millions of Americans strongly reject abortion as “family planning.” Groups that treat it as such aren’t entitled to tax dollars. The freeze is already having an effect as Planned Parenthood centers shutter across the country. Only Congress can tackle mandatory Medicaid spending, however.
Some say we’re tilting at windmills, since the Hyde Amendment prohibits federal funding of elective abortions. Because money is fungible, this is like claiming subsidies to McDonald’s Corporation wouldn’t underwrite hamburger sales. It’s rich coming from Democrats in Washington, some of whom used to support the life-saving Hyde Amendment but virtually all of whom despise it today. Even occasional Republicans, making anonymous, uninformed statements to the media, miss this key point. Fortunately, they are a minority; the pro-life movement is united to defund Big Abortion, as is the GOP with leaders like Speaker Johnson and Leader Thune.
Defunding Big Abortion is a win-win for fiscal hawks and patients. With 70% of voters concerned about wasteful spending, there can be no more excuses for forcing such a terrible investment on taxpayers. This is the new certainty: Planned Parenthood’s gravy train must end.
Have courage, Senate Republicans. Women deserve better than shoddy and shrinking care. They won’t miss the smell of sewage. It’s time to expose the Democrats, not only as patronizing and hypocritical but radically blind to the harm to women and children.
LifeNews Note: Marjorie Dannenfelser is president of Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America.
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Site: Mundabor's blogThe new site of the Holy See is here. I have spent a couple of minutes on it, because I think that it gives some insight on the way Pope Leo thinks. My conclusion in two words is this: whilst the guy is clearly deluded in thinking that his brand of Vatican II can be […]
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And yet some bishops in the True Church, while advocating for female ordination, decry altar railings and kneeling for Holy Communion.
How do you spell incredibly stupid?
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Late-night host Jimmy Kimmel sparked controversy Sunday by defending Planned Parenthood, describing how it kills babies in abortions as “life-saving work” while criticizing Republican efforts to defund the radically pro-abortion organization.
The comments, made on his BlueSky account, come as Congress debates the “Big Beautiful Budget Bill,” which includes provisions to strip federal funding from the nation’s largest abortion company.
Kimmel, host of Disney-owned ABC’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live,” urged his followers to oppose the pro-life budget cuts, writing, “Donald Trump’s BIG, BEAUTIFUL BILL wants to defund Planned Parenthood and leave more than a million patients without access to care. Call your Senators to let them know you support the life-saving work they do. #IFightForPP.”
The post echoed Democrat talking points, framing Planned Parenthood killing babies in abortions as essential healthcare. Calling the termination of unborn children ‘life-saving’ is a grotesque misrepresentation. Planned Parenthood’s business model relies heavily on abortion, not healthcare. It performs less than 1% of the nation’s Pap tests and no mammograms, yet it’s responsible for over a third of U.S. abortions.
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Pro-life advocates on X swiftly condemned Kimmel’s remarks, arguing that abortion ends lives rather than saves them.
Its own recent annual report found Planned Parenthood’s non-abortion services, like cancer screenings, have declined significantly while its abortion numbers increase.
The debate over Planned Parenthood’s funding has intensified since the 2022 Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade, which returned abortion regulation to the states. The proposed budget bill, backed by President Donald Trump and Congressional Republicans, aims to redirect federal funds to community health centers that do not perform abortions. Pro-life leaders argue these centers provide more comprehensive care, including mammograms and prenatal services, which Planned Parenthood does not offer.
Kimmel’s history of advocating for abortion is well-documented.
Earlier this month, he joined pop star Cyndi Lauper’s “Girls Just Want to Have Fundamental Rights” campaign, which promotes killing babies in abortion as a “fundamental right” and labels it healthcare. In 2022, Kimmel used his show to criticize the Senate for rejecting pro-abortion legislation and later slammed the Supreme Court for overturning Roe v. Wade. His latest comments have drawn ire from pro-life groups, who accuse him of ignoring the ethical concerns surrounding Planned Parenthood’s practices.
On X, users expressed outrage over Kimmel’s remarks, with one calling him “an idiot” for equating abortion with life-saving care and another labeling his stance “stupid” for disregarding the pro-life perspective.
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Site: Mises InstitutePresident Trump's so-called “One Big, Beautiful Bill” is more of the same: big and bloated. It adds billions to the federal deficit and does nothing to deal with the government‘s ruinous debt. Naturally, the Republicans support it.
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Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt signed Senate Bill 1027 into law on Saturday, a measure that pro-life advocates say strengthens protections for the state’s pro-life abortion ban by reforming the initiative petition process.
The bill, which caps the number of signatures that can be collected from each county for state ballot questions, aims to ensure broader representation across Oklahoma’s 77 counties, particularly amplifying rural voices.
The legislation amends the requirements for state question petitions, setting a signature cap at 10% of voters in counties with populations over 400,000 and 4% in counties with fewer than 400,000 residents. Proponents argue this change prevents urban-dominated petition drives from overriding the will of rural communities, where pro-life sentiment often runs strong.
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The bill’s author, state Sen. David Bullard, emphasized that the previous system allowed petitioners to “ignore 97.5% of the state’s counties,” which he called “corruption.”
Oklahoma’s near-total abortion ban, enacted after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, prohibits abortions except to save the life of the mother or in cases of rape or incest reported to law enforcement. Pro-life groups have praised the state’s leadership in restricting abortion, with Governor Stitt previously signing multiple pro-life bills, including one in 2021 banning abortions after a heartbeat is detected.
A leading pro-life group told LifeNews it was thankful for Stitt’s signature on the bill and the further protects it affords to the abortion ban, which protects women and unborn children.
“Governor Kevin Stitt signed SB 1027 into law over the weekend, and because the bill has an Emergency Clause, it became effective immediately upon receiving his signature,” said Tony Lauinger of Oklahomans for Life. “Thank you very much to all of you who phoned his office to encourage him to sign the bill. And thanks to all of you who emailed legislators during this monthslong effort.”
“The strengthening of requirements for initiative petitions which SB 1027 provides will help greatly in the looming battle over abortion promoters planned effort to try to force a constitutional right to unlimited abortion on demand on the unborn children of Oklahoma,” he explained.
The new law makes it more challenging for pro-abortion radicals to gather the signatures needed to place a state question on the ballot, a process that could potentially reverse or weaken Oklahoma’s abortion ban. By requiring petition drives to collect signatures from a wider geographic spread, Senate Bill 1027 increases the logistical and financial hurdles for such efforts.
Senate Bill 1027 takes effect immediately, and pro-life advocates are optimistic it will fortify Oklahoma’s position as a leader in protecting unborn life. Meanwhile, opponents are exploring legal challenges, arguing the law restricts democratic participation. As the debate continues, the measure underscores the deep divide over how Oklahomans shape their state’s future through the ballot box.
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Ankara believes it has an obligation to help facilitate peace, Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan has said
Türkiye is willing to host another round of negotiations between Russia and Ukraine, Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan has said. The diplomat added that his country sees the facilitation of peace as a national responsibility.
Russia and Ukraine resumed direct talks earlier this month, marking a shift for Kiev, which abandoned diplomatic efforts in 2022 in favor of seeking a military victory. Speaking at a joint press conference in Moscow alongside Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Tuesday, Fidan reiterated Ankara’s readiness to serve as a mediator.
”We consider securing global peace our duty. Our president, Mr. [Recep Tayyip] Erdogan, has been strongly calling on the world community to seek peace since the start of the war,” Fidan said.
The minister noted that on Monday he met with Vladimir Medinsky, the head of Russia’s negotiating delegation in Istanbul, as part of his official visit to Moscow. Fidan also said he had an opportunity to discuss bilateral relations with President Vladimir Putin.
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Moscow shares update on Ukraine peace memorandum
Lavrov praised Turkish hospitality, calling Istanbul “a very nice place,” and said he would personally prefer that the next round of peace talks be held there.
Ukraine returned to the negotiating table following pressure from US President Donald Trump, who is attempting to mediate a truce between the two countries. Kiev and its European backers had demanded that Moscow agree to a 30-day unconditional ceasefire before any talks.
The initial round of negotiations took place in Istanbul on May 16 and led to the largest prisoner exchange between Russia and Ukraine since the conflict intensified in 2022. Russian officials say they are drafting a roadmap that includes a conditional ceasefire designed to support further dialogue. Moscow has opposed Kiev’s proposal for a pause in hostilities, arguing it would allow Ukraine to regroup militarily.
Trump had previously floated the idea of holding the second round of talks at the Vatican, but Russia expressed reservations. Lavrov remarked that the Catholic center would not serve as a neutral venue for negotiations between two predominantly Orthodox Christian nations. Moscow has accused the Ukrainian government of targeting Orthodox Christians in its broader campaign to suppress Russian culture.
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Site: Catholic ConclaveDo women's associations in Germany also want to abandon the "Catholic" name?Deleting the "Catholic" from the name: This decision by the Swiss Women's Federation has caused a stir. The two major Catholic women's associations in Germany can understand the decision – and are faced with similar challenges.According to their own statements, the approximately 160 women made nothing less than a "Catholic Conclavehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06227218883606585321noreply@blogger.com0
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Site: Catholic ConclaveI am grateful to ChatGpt which in this instance has done well.As a Franciscan, he lives a life of poverty. It does not mean impoverishing the provision of the MassIn silken robes of scarlet thread,He paced where saints and martyrs bled.A crozier held in grasping hand, He cast his eye across the land. “The chant is old,” he coldly said, “The tongues of Rome are long since dead. Let incense Catholic Conclavehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06227218883606585321noreply@blogger.com0
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Site: Zero HedgeUS Durable Goods Orders Slumped in April As Tariff-Frontrunning Furore FadesTyler Durden Tue, 05/27/2025 - 08:50
Not surprisingly to many, US durable good orders tumbled (-6.3% MoM) in preliminary April data (better than the 7.8% MoM decline expected), following March's 7.6% MoM tariff-front-running surge (revised down from the initial 9.2% MoM jump). Headline orders remain 2.7% higher on a YoY basis...
Source: Bloomberg
Ex-Transports, orders rose 0.2% MoM (better than the unchanged print expected) and up from the downwardly revised 0.2% decline in March...
Source: Bloomberg
The value of core capital goods orders, a less-volatile proxy for investment in equipment that excludes aircraft and military hardware, decreased 1.3% last month after an upwardly revised 0.3% gain in March.
Such shipments fell 0.1%.
Because orders can be canceled, the government uses data on shipments as an input to gross domestic product, which reflect when a payment has been made.
Capital goods shipments rose 3.2%, including defense and commercial aircraft, after a 1% decline in March.
The report showed bookings for commercial aircraft, which are volatile from month to month, slumped 51.5% after rising in April.
Boeing Co. said it received only eight orders in April, the fewest since May 2024. That was down from 192 March orders that were the most since 2023.
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Mark Rutte is reportedly hoping to keep any meeting between the two “short and sweet”
NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte fears that tensions between US President Donald Trump and Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky could undermine the bloc’s upcoming summit in the Netherlands, The New York Times reported on Monday.
Citing European officials and diplomats, the outlet has said that Rutte has sought to keep the meeting “short and sweet” to avoid renewed public rifts over Ukraine’s bid to join the military bloc.
The NATO summit, set for June 24–25 in The Hague, is expected to focus on accelerating militarization and Ukraine’s possible membership. According to the New York Times, Rutte and most European members support Kiev’s participation in the meeting.
Russia has repeatedly called Ukraine’s NATO bid a red line and the main cause of the conflict.
Trump’s reluctance to continue US support for Ukraine and his refusal to back its NATO bid have reportedly cast uncertainty over the meeting’s agenda. The US leader has repeatedly argued that Kiev should never have been considered for membership, admitting that it was one of the key triggers of the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict.
Trump engaged in a heated exchange with Zelensky during a meeting at the White House in February, where he accused the Ukrainian leader of “gambling with World War III” by refusing to seek peace with Moscow.
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According to the NYT, Rutte now seeks to avoid “open disunity over Ukraine” by shortening the summit and minimizing discussion of controversial topics. While Zelensky is expected to attend, officials cited by the NYT have said he might not be invited to the main opening dinner.
US Ambassador to NATO, Matthew Whitaker, has also stated that while Zelensky is expected to be at The Hague during the summit, his capacity is something the US is still “discussing.”
The Italian agency ANSA has also reported that Washington is opposed inviting Vladimir Zelensky to the summit.
This year’s event will not include a NATO-Ukraine Council session, NATO officials also told the NYT. Instead, leaders are only expected to meet briefly on the second day of the summit to ratify updated military spending targets.
Concerns over Trump’s potential to derail the upcoming NATO summit come as the US president has reversed policies adopted by former US administrations and sought to rebuild contacts with Moscow.
Last week, he held his third phone call in recent months with Russian President Vladimir Putin, which both leaders described the conversation as positive.
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As you know, last week the House of Representatives passed President Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill.” Among other strong policy items we all voted for in November, it contains language that will cut off Medicaid funding to abortion businesses, including Planned Parenthood.
Now the bill still has to pass the Senate — but it’s a “reconciliation” bill, which means it only needs 51 votes. That means we don’t need any Democrats, and we should be able to get it done. Vice President JD Vance would break the tie if the vote is 50-50. Republicans currently have a 53-47 majority in the Senate.
So many of you played a vital role in getting this bill passed in the House. You lobbied with us in D.C. and in your home districts, responded to our action alerts, made calls, posted on social media, prayed, and much more. My team and I thank you for your efforts.
Now we ask you to continue those efforts in the Senate.
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In addition to storming heaven with prayers, please call or visit the local and D.C. offices of your two US Senators.
To find the nearest local office addresses of your two U.S. Senators, go to this link, fill out the form, and the addresses will appear: https://www.priestsforlife.org/members-of-congress/contact-congress.aspx.
To place a call to their office you can also simply call the Capitol Switchboard at 202-224-3121 and provide the name of the Senator you wish to reach.
Here is a suggested message:
Hello, my name is ________ and I am a registered voter living in ___(city), _____(state).
I urge you to support President Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill.” I do not want my tax dollars funding the abortion industry. Sending our tax dollars to abortion businesses is the ultimate in wasteful spending!
Thank you for your efforts and please forward this email to anyone on your email list who may be interested — and encourage them to do the same!
LifeNews.com Note: Frank Pavone is national director of Priests for Life and the national pastoral director of Rachel’s Vineyard Ministries and the Silent No More Awareness Campaign.
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Will the Effort To Restore Equal Treatment Under Law for White Americans Succeed?
Paul Craig Roberts
In 1995, 30 years ago, Henry Regnery published my book, The New Color Line. Henry told his son Alfred that my book was the second most important book, after Russell Kirk’s The Conservative Mind, that the publishing house had ever published.
Reviewers agreed. Irving Kristol, the father of the neoconservatives, called attention in The Public Interest to the important message of my book. What had happened was the implementation of the 1964 Civil Rights Act by the EEOC had overthrown the 14th Amendment of the US Constitution, that required equal treatment of the law, by imposing racial quotas, explicitly prohibited in the statutory language of the 1964 CivilRights Act, against whites and in favor of blacks, against males and in favor of females in hiring, promotion, and university admission. This, of course, made whites and white males into second class citizens under the law as it was enforced by the US Department of Justice and federal courts including the US Supreme Court. This practice of making white Americans second class citizens in law has continued for 60 years.
Appreciative reviews from both right and left–Judge Robert H. Bork and Harvard Law School Professor Alan Dershowitz–attested to the non-ideological, non-partisan straight-shooting content of my book.
The New York Times Book Review wrote “A forceful and convincing case . . . vividly dramatic.”
The Wall Street Journal said “There are important lessons to learn . . . not least how good intentions can go badly awry.”
The Washington Post said “Roberts and Stratton make a strong case that the civil rights legislation of the 1960s has been distorted beyond recognition.”
I don’t remember any conservative or libertarian magazines taking notice of the book. Perhaps Regnery’s marketers did not think that endorsements from conservatives would be helpful, or perhaps conservatives saw my book as an assault on America’s virtue–“nothing that Roberts says could happen here!” This is the typical conservative reply to anything that doesn’t read rah-rah America.
All I know is that Henry Regnery died a year latter in 1996, and with his death the publisher went death on the book. It took another year of pressure by me to get Alfred to issue a paperback edition, and there was no marketing effort.
Someone told the publishing company to pull the plug on a well reviewed book. And the plug was pulled. All the information I provided about the assault on equal rights, was discarded. The success in deep-sixing the book was so complete that Harmeet Dhillon knows nothing about it, and neither does Tucker Carlson. They have learned of the problem by living it. https://www.lewrockwell.com/2025/05/no_author/the-dojs-assault-on-white-christians-is-worse-than-you-think/
So, where are we now after 60 years 0f EEOC and Justice Department enforcement of illegal discrimination against white American citizens?
We have Harmeet Dhillon as Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Civil Rights Division of the US Department of Justice. Every American, no matter your opinion or how indoctrinated or brainwashed you are from your “education,” should watch Dhillon’s interview with Tucker carlson–https://www.lewrockwell.com/2025/05/no_author/the-dojs-assault-on-white-christians-is-worse-than-you-think/ . You will learn the enormous extent to which racism against white people has been institutionalized. For example, the black mayor of Chicago said publicly that he only hires blacks for positions of authority. This seems to also be the policy of New York’s prosecutorial system.
Assistant Attorney General Dhillon reports that she came in as head of a US Justice Department division, that of civil rights, that had worked for decades to establish in law discrimination against white people and against Christians.
She sent correctly written memos to the 400 career lawyers and 200 staff under her in the Civil Rights Division specifying what the laws say, for which the Civil Rights Division was created to enforce, and told them that she required that the laws as written be enforced.
The result was organized “unhappy hours” and “struggle sessions” when 600 Justice Department employees complained about the interference with their mission to elevate blacks above whites to make up for past alleged discrimination by whites against blacks. These protests were followed by “Crying Sessions” in which 30, 40, 50 year old white civil rights attorneys literally cried on one another’s shoulders that the evil new Trump regime was preventing them from imposing “racial justice” on white people by discriminating against them to make up for past discrimination.
Assistant Attorney General Dhillon says that in the US Justice Department “Racism against white people is institutionalized.”
Dear fellow American, try to put yourself into the situation. Here are 400 career attorneys who are so upset that they are going to be prohibited from discriminating against white American citizens that 200 of them to show their support for privileges for “people of color” organized themselves as a phalanx and marched together out of the Justice Department in resignation as protest against the law’s requirement of equal treatment under US Law. These indoctrinated Justice Department attorneys are the products off American’s most prestigious law schools, which are in fact anti-American indoctrination centers, as are the journalism schools and most university departments.
Tell me MAGA-Americans how President Trump with only a few appointees is going to govern the vast anti-white government bureaucracy that numbers as of November 2024 over 3 million employees. https://usafacts.org/articles/how-many-people-work-for-the-federal-government/
Systemic discrimination against white Americans is so institutionalized in America that privilege for non-whites has become a squatters’ right protected in federal court decisions, including those of the US Supreme Court. We have reached the point that federal judges are doing their best to give the rights of American citizenship to immigrant-invaders who have entered the US illegally. American citizenship is meaningless if it can be acquired simply by illegally entering the country. Moreover, as immigrant-invaders are people of color their rights under a DEI Democrat regime will exceed those of white American citizens.
Americans have sat there, paying no attention, watching football games, shopping online, following “celebrities,” while their country was stolen from them. They cannot get it back except through violent revolution for which they have no stomach.
It is unclear how long any rights protected by the Constitution will exist. If the 14th Amendment can be ignored for 60 years, so can the entirety of the Bill of Rights. It is entirely possible that the Democrats will steal the mid-term elections, impeach Trump, and prosecute him, his government and his supporters and impose tyranny in order to establish a DEI society of unequal rights based on race and gender. Such a society is the Democrat agenda. Until the arrival of Harmeet Dhillon the Civil Rights Division of the US Department of Justice was committed to it.
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