What effect do corporate sponsorships from food companies have on the American Academy of Family Physicians and the Registered Dietitian organization (formally known as the American Dietetic Association)?

Here’s something you probably never saw or heard about in the west. This is Putin answering questions regarding ISIS from a US journalist at the Valdai International Discussion Club in late 2014.

Nothing new here but thief getting caught.

A 60-year-old church usher was allegedly filmed pinching money from offering baskets while the congregation bowed their heads in prayer.

Deputies set up a surveillance camera in the Blessed Trinity Catholic Church in Ocala, Florida after officials told them they believed someone might be stealing cash. MORE

RENNES: A French village priest who smashed a statue of Jesus in his church has blamed the stress and fatigue of his job for an act which shocked his congregation.

Jean-Jacques Le Roy, 55, a priest in Plestin-les-Greves in Brittany, shouted out “one less!” as he threw the statue to the ground last Thursday during a visit by a sacred art commission. Continue reading →

Oklahoma is now the No. 1 earthquake area in the world, an Oklahoma Corporation Commission spokesman said Monday. MORE

Les Brigandes – The Jacobin Lodge is mocking freemasonry & the infiltrators of the Catholic Church. They’re Traditional Catholics.

IDK…Asking too much of my precious time to put up with their atheistic attitude and too much of my well earned money to be bothered w/Starbucks

What’s the problem with California?

For the past forever, high-speed rail in the United States has existed as a sugarplum dream, sweet to think about, but dissolving instantly upon contact with reality. One of the sweetest and fastest of these dreams is maglev trains, a super-high-speed rail system that already exists in other parts of the world,reaching speeds of 373 miles per hour in Japan. Soon, our high-speed aspirations might become reality thanks to new funding for maglev research here in the United States. MORE

Pope Francis had to be helped up the steps to an altar at a Rome basilica on Monday after stumbling in public for the second time in three days.

Two church officials flanked the 78-year-old pontiff and took him by the arm as he faltered on his way up the steps during a service in the Basilica of St. John Lateran.  MORE

For those San Franciscans who happened to be looking skywards on Saturday evening this was the ethereal and somewhat terrifying sight that greeted them shortly after 6pm. MORE VIDEO- continue reading Continue reading →

The administration’s Trans-Pacific Partnership treaty legislation is 5,554 pages long, twice that of Obamacare and nearly 3 feet high, a legislative nightmare highlighted in a tweet from Sen. Jeff Sessions Monday.

The Alabama Republican used his photo to alert critics that because the bill is fast-tracked, it cannot be filibustered or amended.

Not only is the legislation filled with 2 million words, it measures exactly 2 feet high and weighs an amazing 100 pounds.

The TPP is a trade agreement among 12 Pacific Rim countries. SOURCE

This is a truth that could not make good fiction in a low budget B movie, much less a policy issue in the once most dignified and morally advanced nation the world has ever known.

My first inclination was to title this piece, “Obama threatens to spank school district for not favoring a single transgender student.”

Too crass, I thought; but along came an article before I got to write word one. It was entitled “Complete Anarchy’ as Obama Invades girls’ Showers.” The subtitle was even more scathing and reads: “Feds force school to comply with ‘profoundly stupid’ rule.” MORE

DNA-laced security mist, chemical, biological and nuclear-proof panic rooms and superyacht getaway subs. The paranoid world of London’s super-rich rivals anything you see in Spectre, as John Arlidge reports  MORE -VIDEO#2 continue reading

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China’s Navy pulled into Naval Station Mayport for its first official visit to an East Coast U.S. base, a 5-day goodwill visit that will include a crew trip to Disney World. Times-Union reporter Dan Scanlan was there when the guided-missile frigate Yiyang, guided-missile destroyer Jinan and Chinese fleet oiler Qiandao Hu pulled into port with pomp, circumstance and some Chinese dragons.