The Daily Populous

Monday December 11st, 2023 evening edition

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Republican House speaker Mike Johnson is evil and being controlled by the devil in his mission to create “division through fear”, a liberal Christian minister has said.

In an op-ed for Salon, titled ‘Mike Johnson claims to hate the devil.

Maybe he should look in the mirror’, Reverend Nathaniel Manderson hit out at “hypocrites” among evangelical Christian leaders and Republican politicians.

He wants to control and mislead people and get them to do evil things,” the minister wrote, in reference to progressive causes being pushed aside.

The liberal minister added that “people who loudly claim to be pure and good” are more likely to actually be evil.

Just weeks before he was voted in as House Speaker, Johnson said that LGBTQ+ youth have turned American culture “dark and depraved”.

Despite a long track record of anti-LGBTQ+ comments and advocacy, he has insisted he can’t be a hateful person because he’s a Christian. »

US will ‘lose face before world’ if it abandons Kyiv, says ex-Ukraine president

Authored by theguardian.com
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Kuchma – a Russian-speaker from Ukraine’s industrial south-east and the ex-director of a Soviet rocket factory – was president of Ukraine between 1994 and 2005.

Putin, Russia’s new president, laid claim to the small island of Tuzla in the Black Sea, between Crimea and the Russian mainland.

Russia was able to seize further territory in the eastern Donbas region, he explained, beginning an almost decade-long Russo-Ukrainian war. »

SmileDirectClub shuts down after filing for bankruptcy

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SmileDirectClub, the international direct-to-consumer dentistry and orthodonistry company that sold teeth aligners, has shut down less than three months after filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

Because a typical SmileDirectClub teeth-straightening course takes 4-6 months, some existing customers may be stranded in the middle of treatment.

On Friday, SmileDirectClub took part in a scheduled hearing “to consider conditional relief” at US Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas, according to court documents. »

No Man's Sky lead says Light No Fire will let you climb mountains that are "miles high, taller than Everest"

Authored by gamesradar.com

That includes all the climbable mountains, some of which are “miles high, taller than Everest,” according to the project lead.

“For No Man’s Sky, we generated a whole universe of sparse alien-looking planets and that wasn’t easy,” explains founder Sean Murray during The Game Awards.

But Murray seemed more excited about the prospect of scaling huge mountains, despite all the flying in the trailer. »

Watch: Lost tomato found aboard International Space Station after eight months

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Dec. 8 (UPI) -- Members of an International Space Station crew said astronaut Frank Rubio has now been cleared of allegations he ate one of the first tomatos harvested in space.

NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli said during a live streamed event celebrating the 25th anniversary of the station that the remains of the tiny tomato had been found eight months after being misplaced by Rubio.

"Our good friend Frank Rubio, who headed home [already], has been blamed for quite a while for eating the tomato. »