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BBC presentation of 2018's "RAF Centenary Service". Westminster Abbey service, Troop Parade & 100 plane fly by. 3 Hrs 49 minutes.

STUTTGART, Germany — The Navy said it never received an order to halt warship maneuvers in the Black Sea earlier this year, despite testimony in a congressional impeachment hearing that President Donald Trump asked for the cancellation after he heard about it on television. “U.S. 6th Fleet conducted our naval operations in the Black Sea region as scheduled in January and February 2019,” Cmdr. Kyle Raines, a spokesman for Naval Forces Europe-Africa, said Wednesday. The question about a disruption in the Navy’s mission emerged during Congress’ impeachment inquiry into whether Trump withheld military support for Ukraine to pressure Kyiv into...

The (massacre) of nine Americans by a Mexican drug cartel this week creates yet another excellent opportunity for the U.S. government to finally designate the sophisticated criminal operations as Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTO). Judicial Watch has long advocated for this and earlier this year published a massacre of nine Americans by a Mexican drug cartel this week creates yet another excellent opportunity for the U.S. government to finally designate the sophisticated criminal operations as Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTO). Judicial Watch has long advocated for this and earlier this year published a https://www.judicialwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/JWWhitePaperCartelFTOdesigationMarch2019-003.pdf?V=1">(WHITE PAPER) providing comprehensive documentation that Mexican drug cartels...

The pneumonic plague is “almost always fatal,” and spreads quickly, as it did with the Black Death outbreak in the 14th century Two people in China were diagnosed with the pneumonic plague, sparking fears of an outbreak of the highly contagious and deadly disease among Chinese citizens. Government officials said that the two cases came from Inner Mongolia, and they are now being treated in a hospital in the Chaoyang District in Beijing, CNN reported. Amid concerns that the two cases could spur the spread of the plague, as it did in the 14th century with the Black Death, the...

[Catholic Caucus] Papal Litmus Test US bishops' fidelity to Pope Francis challenged The papal nuncio to the United States is imposing a papal litmus test on U.S. bishops. In his remarks at the bishops' fall assembly in Baltimore, Maryland Monday, Abp. Christophe Pierre claims the bishops' fidelity to Pope Francis will be measured by how well they implement his reforms. That mercy, as critics have noted, has manifested itself by reversing longstanding Church teaching and discipline, including offering Holy Communion to the divorced and civilly remarried, being more welcoming to the homosexual agenda such as that promoted by Fr. James Martin, promoting a globalist vision of the world, including open...

Democratic Illinois Rep. Mike Quigley claimed during Wednesday’s impeachment hearing that hearsay could be better than direct evidence. Quigley, while questioning Deputy Asst. Secretary of State George Kent and acting Ambassador to Ukraine Bill Taylor attempted to make the case that their impressions of secondhand information could potentially be more valuable than direct evidence of what had occurred. “I guess to close, a primer on hearsay, I think the American public needs to be reminded that countless people have been convicted on hearsay,” Quigley said. “Because the courts have routinely allowed and created, needed exceptions to hearsay. Hearsay can be...

How long does Deval Patrick have to run for president before he wins the bet? I mean, surely this is some kind of gag, a practical joke of sorts — it’s too late for trick-or-treat so April Fool’s Day must have come early. Deval Patrick will be the fourth candidate from Massachusetts to announce for president this cycle — after the fake Indian, Bill Weld and Seth Moulton. Who’s next? Stanley Rosenberg? Bryon Hefner? Felon Finneran? Sal DiMasi? 00:08 / 00:15 SKIP AD Why not recycle some Massachusetts losers of yesteryear — Mike Dukakis, John Kerry, Willard M. Romney. Like...

[Catholic Caucus] UK Investigation: Cdl. Nichols Hid Predators to Protect Church’s Reputation Independent Inquiry finds Birmingham archdiocese repeatedly failed to notify police of abuse LONDON (ChurchMilitant.com) - A quasi-governmental inquiry has accused the archdiocese of Birmingham in the United Kingdom and Cdl. Vincent Nichols, its former archbishop, of protecting pedophile priests and allowing child sex abuse to continue in order to preserve its reputation. Birmingham archdiocese, responsible for half a million Catholics, "repeatedly failed to alert the police when an allegation of child sex abuse was made," the report of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) released on Thursday found....

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Wednesday that the Senate cannot dismiss the articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump, meaning there will be a trial. “I don’t think there’s any question that we have to take up the matter. The rules of impeachment are very clear, we’ll have to have a trial. My own view is that we should give people the opportunity to put the case on,” McConnell told reporters after being asked about dismissing the articles of impeachment. Most Republican senators refused to rule out voting to remove Trump from office in an impeachment trial over the...

Department of Justice Office of Public Affairs FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Wednesday, November 13, 2019 Former U.S. Army Range Director Pleads Guilty in Bribery Scheme A former senior U.S. Army civilian employee pleaded guilty yesterday to conspiracy to accept over $100,000 in bribes while serving as the director of the range at Hawaii’s Schofield Barracks and to a related firearms offense. Assistant Attorney General Brian A. Benczkowski of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney Kenji M. Price for the District of Hawaii, Special Agent in Charge Ray Park of the Pacific Field Office for the U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Command...

Hearing Titled “Unprecedented Migration at the U.S. Southern Border: The Year in Review” Remarks as prepared for delivery Mr. Chairman, Ranking Member Peters, and other distinguished Members of the Committee, thank you for the opportunity to speak with you today. As the Director of the Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) at the Department of Justice (Department), I welcome this opportunity to share with you the progress that EOIR has made in adjudicating cases in Fiscal Year (FY) 2019, the continuing challenges it faces, and the overall impact of the unprecedented levels of illegal immigration on its operations. The primary...

[Catholic Caucus] Cardinal pressured bishops to stay quiet on abuse case so as not to harm Pope’s image November 12, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) — Today is a very special episode of the John-Henry Westen Show. We have documents and testimony directly from two Bishops and a Cardinal admitting to refusing to issue a public statement supporting a clergy sexual abuse victim for fear of tarnishing the reputation of Pope Francis. Recent hearings at the UK government-established Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) has elicited testimony from two bishops replete with incriminating evidence on Cardinal Vincent Nichols, the Archbishop of...

Set Up Straw Companies to Hide Client’s Income A Charlotte, North Carolina, man was sentenced to 46 months in prison today for conspiracy, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard E. Zuckerman of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney R. Andrew Murray for the Western District of North Carolina.​In September 2018, a jury convicted Arthur Joseph Gerard, III, of conspiring to defraud the United States. According to the evidence presented at trial, between October 2007 and May 2016, Gerard conspired with his client, Reuben DeHaan, to hide from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) over $2.7 million in gross receipts DeHaan earned through his holistic medicine business. To conceal DeHaan’s income...

A Russian national made his initial appearance in federal court today on charges related to his alleged operation of two websites devoted to the facilitation of payment card fraud, computer hacking, and other crimes.Assistant Attorney General Brian A. Benczkowski of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney G. Zachary Terwilliger for the Eastern District of Virginia, and Special Agent in Charge Matthew S. Miller of the U.S. Secret Service’s Washington Field Office made the announcement.Aleksei Burkov, 29, arrived at Dulles International Airport this morning after being extradited from Israel.  The indictment unsealed today charges Burkov with wire fraud, access...

Inattentional blindness occurs when you fail to notice an object or even a person that’s right in front of you because your attention was focused on something else, such as a task or an event or some other object. In aviation security, for example, an airport police officer might fail to discern a fully visible traveler who’s accidentally crossed through an equally visible portal into a non-public area because the police officer is engaged in another task. Both activities – the traveler entering a non-public area and the task the officer is performing – are plainly evident to him, but...

Albuquerque, NM ~ Tuesday, November 12, 2019 Remarks as Prepared for Delivery Thank you to my federal partners in law enforcement and, especially, to our state and local law enforcement partners for joining me this afternoon. I don’t think it’s a secret to anyone here that New Mexico, generally – and Albuquerque, specifically – is experiencing a violent crime crisis. Unlike many cities in the United States that have seen violent crimes rates fall over the past few years, violent crime rates in Albuquerque remain stubbornly high. In the months ahead, the federal government is going to be stepping up...

Has anyone received the 2020 Census mailer yet? I received a note on my door saying I failed to return the survey and a card to call the person for an in-home survey. Is this legit?

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was absent from oral arguments before the high court Wednesday morning due to an illness.The court said Ginsburg, 86, remained home because of a stomach bug. While not having the opportunity to question attorneys during the arguments, she will be involved in deciding the cases. * * * Ginsburg has had two separate bouts with cancer in the past year. Her recovery from lung cancer surgery caused her to miss court sessions in January. They were her first absences from arguments in a quarter-century as a justice. (My emphasis.)

Former Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick is telling friends and allies in phone calls on Wednesday that he has made a decision to run for president, two people familiar with the matter say. Plans for the timing of his formal announcement are still in flux, with attention on impeachment, but Patrick is likely to reveal his bid for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination by video or social media message on Thursday, with a formal appearance in New Hampshire on Friday to file his papers for the primary there with the secretary of state's office, one person familiar with the plan says.

Prof Daniel Bausch, director of the UK Public Health Rapid Support Team, is one of the scientists leading the trial. He said there was "no contest" between the two vaccines, and both had their advantages and disadvantages. Merck's, which is given to those who come into direct and indirect contact with an Ebola patient, could be best used in the middle of an outbreak - while the J&J vaccine could be used to protect people not yet exposed to Ebola. Prof Bausch said: "The J&J vaccine is not ideally suited to an outbreak setting, primarily because it requires two doses...