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Rep. Adam Schiff on Thursday delivered a last-minute pitch to have witnesses in President Trump’s Senate impeachment trial. Schiff said that he wants one week devoted to closed-door depositions from witnesses in the trial as senators prepare to vote on the matter Friday. “I will make an offer to opposing counsel, who says this will stretch on indefinitely if you decide to have a single witness,” Schiff, the lead House impeachment manager, told senators. “Let’s cabin the depositions to one week. I think we can. I think we should. I think we must,” the California Democrat added. Trump’s legal team...

VERNON — A presentation of a draft resolution Monday night to the Vernon Township Council in support of creating a Second Amendment-supporting community, led to a debate among members of the audience, taking sides on various angles of this type of resolution. As several communities within Sussex County have adopted this type of resolutions, members of the Skylands Tea Party — a group that encompasses Sussex, Morris, Warren and Passaic counties — and other individuals in support, approached Vernon’s council with it, in hopes it would be included on an upcoming meeting. Vernon resident Jessica Bennet read a form letter...

Thank you Dan Bongino, who grabbed the Rasmussen Poll, we see that black support has now reached a high with a 42% approval rating. We also see 29% of black voters say that they STRONGLY APPROVE of the President and the job that he is doing. to Trump’s economic policies, we have seen a black approval rating double. Trump’s tax cuts, regulation rollbacks have driven black unemployment and poverty rates to an all-time low. Trump has increased “Opportunity Zones” in predominately black neighborhoods that are primarily controlled by the do-nothing Democrats. Opportunity zones allow private capital to come into low-income...

ATLANTA (WJBF) – Thirty-three new troopers with the Georgia State Patrol are out of a job after it was discovered they allegedly cheated on exams, authorities said at a press conference Tuesday. Col. Mark McDonough, commissioner of the Department of Public Safety and head of GSP, said that students with the 106th trooper school cheated during an online test for speed detection in October of 2019. The investigation began just days after testing and included interviews with each of the students. Top DSP officials learned about the scandal from the girlfriend of one of the cadets, Demon Clark, WJBF reported....

Kanye West is kicking off Super Bowl Sunday with his weekly worship. On Tuesday, the rapper shared he would be bringing his Sunday Service Experience to Miami on Feb. 2 ahead of the big game. West will be partnering with Miami’s VOUS church to put on the service at the FPL Solar Amphitheater at Bayfront Park, he announced on Twitter. His weekly worship will begin at 11 a.m. just hours before the San Francisco 49ers and Kansas City Chiefs 6:30 p.m. kickoff at the Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida. Sunday Service Experience Bayfront Amphitheatre Miami Sunday February 2nd...

Wuhan was the testbed for full 5G implementation https://banned.video/watch?id=5e335e772f3c020019a423f8 

GRESHAM, Ore. (KOIN/CNN) - A former employee for U.S. Bank says she lost her job for helping a cash-strapped customer who was worried he wouldn’t be able to afford Christmas presents for his kids. Emily James, a senior banker at the U.S. Bank call center in Gresham, Ore., says she was working Dec. 23 when a customer called because the bank had put a hold on his paycheck. He said his bank account was empty, and he wouldn’t be able to buy his kids presents or afford living expenses for several days. James says she tried for two days to...

Representative Stefanik has been one of the GOP champions of Trump during this Shampeachment. I have two videos to post. Click the pics to see the short YouTubes: Outside Senate Hearing Jan 28, 2020 Rep. Stefanik steps in to TAKE DOWN a reporter, in a manner like Trump shut down Katy Tur. The reporter was a royal pain and wouldn't shut up. Stefanik bombarded her with facts so fast and so clear, the reporter was reduced to incoherent babbling. Trump 2020 Video Ad The BullSchiff-O-Meter Nov 22, 2019 The rapid-fire cadence (yet excellent control) of Rep. Stefanik's voice was perfect...

“Despite the many challenges and opposition from ill-wishers, the past year witnessed the birth of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church,” Epifaniy said on December 14, 2019, at Kyiv’s St. Sophia Cathedral. “As such, a centuries-long struggle for autocephaly, establishing historical justice by freeing Ukraine from the unsanctioned control of the Russian Church over Ukraine, was accomplished.” The move to establish the OCU heralded a historic break with the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate (UOC-MP), ending more than three centuries of Russian spiritual and temporal control of the dominant faith in Ukraine. It also sparked one of the biggest rifts...

Journalism professor Jason Johnson claimed President Trump could threaten to end voting in blue states if the Senate acquits him. "Imagine Donald Trump deciding, sometime in June, 'Well, I heard this conspiracy theory that a whole lot of illegal immigrants voted in California. So, I've decided that, during the presidential election, California has to undergo extreme vetting,'" the MSNBC pundit said Thursday. "This is literally the kind of thing he will do now. We’re not talking hypotheticals, anymore."

Are we before the Spectacle of a Church Disintegrating? It is a cry expressing heartbreak leading to the loss of hope, if the Grace of God were not sufficient and  strength made perfect in weakness (1 Corinthians 12:9). This heartbreak comes from the current schisms in our Orthodox Church and the great distance of her behavior from the image her theology wishes to project, of being the Early Church. After examining the characteristics of the early Christian community and the deviations to which it has been subjected, past and present, we can examine the problems that are tearing our Church...

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s decision to allow Huawei to provide the United Kingdom’s next generation of wireless technology has prompted nervous U.S. officials to raise a new question: How soon can they be replaced? "These decisions about technology are continuous," Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Thursday in London. "Two, three, five years later, you rip them out and put new systems in. You constantly upgrade software — real time. And so, the decision was made on Tuesday, but I am confident as we work together to figure out how to implement that decision that we’ll work to...

Lead impeachment manager Adam Schiff (D-CA) kept a straight face on Thursday as he complained on the Senate floor about Republicans using an "unsubstantiated press article" to "smear" members of his staff. Rep. Schiff, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, is the same person who used the debunked Steele Dossier for years to promote his Russia Collusion myth in order to smear Trump and the president's allies. Schiff also attempted to smear Rep. Nunes (R-CA), as well as current and former members of Nunes' staff, by including their personal phone records in Mr. SchiffÂ’s 300-page impeachment report. Furthermore, Schiff lied...

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Searching for analogues to explain this sudden preoccupation with national sovereignty, our intelligentsia have reached about as far back in history as our culture still seems able to remember, to the clash of Great Powers in the First World War and the clash of civilizations in the Second. But to understand the motivations driving the tectonic realignment of our politics today, and the long-awaited Brexit that now seems set to rapidly become reality, we must look a bit further back—to the original Brexit that helped birth what Yoram Hazony has called “the Protestant construction of the West” and the order...

<p>In October 2017, I was one of roughly 70 men included in the Shitty Media Men list, a crowdsourced spreadsheet of anonymous, unvetted allegations of sexual misconduct and assault. No words can describe my astonishment and horror at finding myself accused of “harassment,” “stalking” and “physical intimidation.” In the decade leading up to the list, my work was regularly published by more than a dozen outlets and I was frequently offered work. After the leak, that work screeched to a stop.</p>

Meghan Markle was long “troubled” by disgraced royal Prince Andrew — and is glad to be free of “the ultimate embarrassing uncle,” it was claimed Thursday. “Meghan is not enamored of Andrew at all,” a royal source told the Sun. “Put it this way, she doesn’t view Andrew as one of the family’s great assets and he’s not going to be one of the people she’s going to miss on her time away from the Windsors,” the source said of Markle’s new life in Canada after quitting the royal family with husband Prince Harry. The relationship never took off, according...

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) on Wednesday released a plan to fight “digital disinformation,” promising to “push for new laws that impose tough civil and criminal penalties” for disseminating false information related to U.S. elections. “Disinformation erodes our democracy, and Democrats must have a plan to address it,” she details in a Medium post, proclaiming President Trump “welcomed foreign interference in our elections, inviting interference from a host of countries that have an interest in the outcome, including Iran and China.” “He’s currently facing impeachment for putting his own political interests over the national interests of the United States – and...

[Catholic Caucus] German bishops’ secretary: There’s ‘no ban’ on discussing female priests The comments make it clear that the German 'synodal path' aims at discussing matters that have already been ruled in a definitive manner by the Magisterium.  January 29, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – Father Hans Langendörfer, the secretary of the German Bishops' Conference, has given an interview about the German “Synodal Path” which critics say aims at overturning the Church's teaching and discipline regarding the topics sexuality, celibacy, and priestly ordination. In it, he makes it clear that there is “no ban on discussing the priesthood of women,” adding...

Research presented at the ACM FAT 2020 conference in Barcelona today supports the notion that YouTube’s platform is playing a role in radicalizing users via exposure to far-right ideologies. The study, carried out by researchers at Switzerland’s Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne and the Federal University of Minas Gerais in Brazil, found evidence that users who engaged with a middle ground of extreme right-wing content migrated to commenting on the most fringe far-right content. A March 2018 New York Times article by sociologist Zeynep Tufekci set out the now widely reported thesis that YouTube is a radicalization engine. Followup reporting...