I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have. - Lincoln. Thomist. No DM’s.
A year ago, we announced our plan to rebuild, rearm, and reinvest in the Canadian Armed Forces.
Since then, we’ve increased recruitment by 13%, given our service members the biggest pay raise in a generation, and hit the 2% NATO spending target — and we’re not slowing down.
“I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness...
The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance”
― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
Disgraceful how rude & obnoxious he is to all female journalists. There’s no way I would ever refer to him as “Mr. President.” I won’t even refer to him as a President. He’s nothing but a criminal felon & a rap#*t! Thats why he treats all women like dirt beneath his feet. Thats not masculinity, it cowardly weakness! Sickening 🤮
@mariashriver That is because he is a cowardly, reactionary control freak that is intimidated by strong women. He panics, shits his pants, slings insults and lies and leaves. He can't handle it. He is a massive loser.
@mariashriver There is something uniquely jarring about watching the most powerful office in the world turn a press interaction into a schoolyard outburst.
Not disagreement.
Not debate.
Just name-calling and dismissal where accountability questions used to be answered.
Journalist Katie Phang's lawsuit against Todd Blanche and the Justice department over the withholding of Epstein files, may force Todd to comply in releasing the remaining files. Watch her do it. She is fearless.
In 2016, Trump was asked why he had repeatedly attacked the press.
His answer:
“I do it to discredit you all and demean you all so that when you write negative stories about me, no one will believe you.”
When someone tells you exactly who they are and exactly what they’re doing, pay attention. Believe them.
She lost her leg to a russian strike. She didn’t lose her dream.
Ukrainian gymnast Oleksandra Pascal won gold at the “Carla’s Rhythmic Cup” in Romania — competing with a bionic prosthetic leg.
In 2022, she survived a russian strike on Zatoka, spent weeks in intensive care, and underwent amputation.
Today, she stands on the podium.
Stronger than war. Stronger than what tried to break her.
The image of the Virgin Mary near a private school in General Santos City remained unharmed after the magnitude 7.8 earthquake that struck on Monday, June 8.
- Catholic Tradition & Evangelisation.
- Giorgia Meloni
Prime Minister of Italy:
"Peace cannot be achieved through Ukraine's defeat or the surrender of its territories. That would be extremely dangerous for peace in Europe and a precedent for the entire world.
We will achieve peace only when Russia stops its aggression and withdraws its troops from Ukrainian territory."
It should be clear enough ..!🤷♀️
Elina Valtonen, Foreign Minister of Finland:
“NATO is not a threat to Russia. Russia is a threat to world peace. We would like nothing more than a peaceful relationship with Russia. We demand that Russia return to respecting international law & withdraw its troops from Ukraine.”
BREAKING: Dozens of Christians were massacred in Ethiopia over the course of the last week by Islamists.
Tens of thousands of Christians have been slaughtered by Islamists across Africa, and the world doesn’t seem to care.