by | Jul 26, 2024 | Fox News
The 2024 Olympics opening ceremony in Paris has sparked international outrage with drag-queen themed imagery of religious and historical figures.
In between listing all the countries participating in the Olympic Games, there have been several performances riffing on France’s history and culture, such as a headless Marie Antoinette, the last queen prior to being executed amid French Revolution, singing with her severed head in her hands sporting drag-style makeup. This was part of numerous drag queens that appeared to be a recurring theme throughout the ceremonies. Three drag queens were among the 10,000 torchbearers who relayed the Olympic flame as it started in Greece, passed through French territories and made its way to Paris.
One new display on Friday showed what appear to be numerous performers, including drag queens and a large woman in an aureole halo crown, parodying “The Last Supper,” a universally recognizable painting by renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci of Christ and his apostles.
Many internationally known political figures, particularly from American politics, condemned the display as a sign of the cultural rot in Western Civilization.
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“Men in wigs front & center at the Olympic Games,” OutKick’s Riley Gaines wrote in a social media post. “No one ever tell me this group is ‘oppressed’ or ‘marginalized’ again.”
Tesla founder Elon Musk who bought the X platform criticized the display, saying, “This was extremely disrespectful to Christians.”
Harrison Butker, an NFL football player who made headlines with his speech about Catholic faith quoted scripture to condemn the display, writing, “Be not deceived, God is not mocked. For what things a man shall sow, those also shall he reap. For he that soweth in his flesh, of the flesh also shall reap corruption. But he that soweth in the spirit, of the spirit shall reap life everlasting.’ Galatians 6:7-8.”
Ex-transgender influencer Oli London described the scene, “Olympics openly mocks Jesus’ Last Supper as drag queens dressed as women play the role of disciples while a plus size woman appears in the middle symbolising Jesus wearing a giant crown.”
“The Olympics has basically turned into one long drag show,” anti-woke cultural commentator Libs of TikTok wrote. “The Olympics has gone completely woke.”
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“What the hell is going on at the Olympics?” video journalist Nick Sortor wrote. “No wonder nobody bothers watching anymore.”
“The transnational Left have contempt for Western civilization,” Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton wrote.
“This is crazy. Opening your event by replacing Jesus and the disciples at the The Last Supper with men in drag,” radio host Clint Russell said. “There are 2.4 billion Christians on earth and apparently the Olympics wanted to declare loudly to all of them, right out of the gate NOT WELCOME.”
Canadian conservative commentator Harrison Faulkner asked, “Wtf is going on at the Olympics opening ceremony?”
Juanita Broaddrick, the former nursing administrator who accused former President Bill Clinton of raping her, responded to the display at the Olympics, “Paris had fallen before the Olympics. This is just a continuation of it.”
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Finance and culture commentator Wall Street Silver argued this represents the worst aspects of modern France.
“At least China showed the best of their country during their Olympics,” he noted. “France seems determined to show the weakest and worst parts of their country during their Olympics.”
Army veteran and radio host Bob Lonsberry wrote “Some of this might explain why so many people left Europe to settle in the United States.”
Conservative French politician and European parliament member Marion Maréchal, who has spoken at CPAC in the United States, warned international viewers that this polarizing display does not represent French people like herself.
“To all the Christians of the world who are watching the #Paris2024 ceremony and felt insulted by this drag queen parody of the Last Supper, know that it is not France that is speaking but a left-wing minority ready for any provocation. #notinmyname,” she wrote.
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by | Jul 26, 2024 | Fox News
A missing 12-year-old Georgia girl last seen in May was found in Ohio, and a suspect has been arrested.
Maria Gomez-Perez was found in Dover, Ohio, Thursday, Fox Atlanta reported.
She was found at a shopping center with 31-year-old Antonio Agustin, a citizen of Guatemala.
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“Maria had indicated that she was unhappy, and she would like to leave home,” Hall County Sheriff Gerald Couch said. Agustin allegedly drove to Georgia to meet Gomez-Perez at her home May 29.
Investigators said a break in the case came last week when the girl contacted her father on a new social media account. She told him she was OK and to stop looking for her, the sheriff said.
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Detectives tracked the IP address to a phone in Ohio. Agustin was arrested on suspicion of rape, but more charges are possible, Couch said.
“Technology can be a wonderful thing. It helped us locate Maria” said Couch. “But technology can also be used for evil. It’s why Maria was able to leave Gainesville with a stranger and travel nine hours from her home.”
Fox News Digital has reached out to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement regarding Agustin’s legal status.
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by | Jul 26, 2024 | Fox News
Brooklyn residents took to the streets this week, after two men were fatally shot and another injured in separate shootings over the weekend, to insist upon the closure of 47 Hall Street, a migrant shelter housing thousands near where the violence took place.
“There is simply no universe where you can cram 4,000 vulnerable people together safely,” resident Tim Walker told Fox 5. “Do you believe us now? How many more murders will it take?”
New York mayor Eric Adams said the administration had gotten wind of a “dangerous gang coming out of Venezuela” and that its possible connection to the killings was still under investigation.
“They’re extremely dangerous. And the person who was connected to the rape in Queens appears to have been part of that gang, and the person who shot the two police officers appeared to be part of that gang,” Adams said.
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“We’re dealing with violent individuals that are not representative of the overwhelming number of people who are coming here as migrant asylum seekers. So, we are currently investigating that shooting,” he continued.
At a press conference held by the mayor’s office yesterday, it was revealed that the various shootings might be connected to a “turf war” between two gangs.
Adams’ team has responded to the potential threat by sending First Deputy Commissioner of the New York City Police Department, Tania Kinsella, to Columbia to “get an analysis” of the gang.
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The recent acts of violence in communities neighboring the migrant shelters of 47 Hall Street and 29 Ryerson Street spurred residents into action to fight against the increased levels of crime.
“We are here today because there is an attempt to put our neighborhood back 30 years in time when there were stabbings, drugs, assaults, fights, fear and killings,” Renee Collymore told FOX 5 at the rally.
“It used to be called ‘Murder Avenue,'” she added.
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According to FOX 5, law enforcement reported that Arturo Jose Rodriguez-Marcano, a man in his 30s, was shot in the head by a suspect before opening fire again on 29 Ryerson Street, a migrant shelter within walking distance from Hall Street.
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Enny Dejesus-Urbina Mendez, a 21-year-old shelter resident, was killed. A member of the local police told The New York Post that the victims of the shooting were migrants.
“We’re still investigating if this was connected to a gang. That is still unclear at this moment, but we are on top of it. We’re not going to allow a gang to take a stronghold or foothold here,” Adams said.
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by | Jul 26, 2024 | Fox News
The face of U.S. men’s track and field is reminding everyone that that is still the case.
Noah Lyles is the overwhelming favorite to win the 200-meter race at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris (he’s even going for the world record), and he’s very likely to medal in the 100-meter, as well.
The 27-year-old Gainesville, Florida, native has yet to bring home Olympic gold (he earned bronze in the 200-meter in 2021), but he tore it up in the world championships recently to make himself a force to be reckoned with.
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Lyles has taken home six golds in worlds, including three last year in Budapest (100-meter, 200-meter and 4×100-meter relay). Understandably, he’s confident in what he can do in Paris.
So, prior to heading out on Team USA’s boat for the Opening Ceremony, he put one word on his fingernails: “ICON.”
Lyles garnered controversy last year when he quipped that NBA champions cannot call themselves “world champions,” but despite receiving backlash, he stuck to his guns.
Now, he’s trying to make history by hopefully winning four gold medals, as he has also thrown his name in the hat for the 4×400-meter relay, in which he won silver at the World Athletics Indoor Championships in March.
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“When you want to talk about being the greatest, that’s what you have to achieve. So, I announced that that is a goal of mine to complete; why not do it on the biggest stage, the Olympics?” Lyles told Fox News Digital earlier this year.
However, the aforementioned world record in the 200-meter is his “dream goal.”
“It’s the first world record that I kind of put up as ‘I want that to be mine,’” Lyles said. “The 100, I’ve still been learning, but the 200 is my favorite event, and it’s the time I’ve put the most into. So, when I look at it, I’m like, ‘Yeah, that’s the world record I want to be mine first.’”
Current record holder Usain Bolt ran his 19.19 at the 2009 World Championships in Berlin. Lyles’ current personal best is 19.31, the third-fastest ever and current U.S. record.
He ran a personal-best 9.81 100-meter last week at a Diamond League meet.
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by | Jul 26, 2024 | Fox News
Marine archaeologists have discovered the wreckage of a schooner that sank in Lake Michigan in the late 1800s.
The Wisconsin Underwater Archaeology Association announced this month that its searchers found the Margaret A. Muir in 50 feet (15.2 meters) of water off Algoma, Wisconsin, on May 12.
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The Muir was a 130-foot (39.6 meters), three-masted schooner that was built in 1872. The ship was en route from Bay City, Michigan, to South Chicago, Illinois, with a cargo of bulk salt. It had almost reached Ahnapee, which is now known as Algoma, when it sank during a storm on the morning of Sept. 30, 1893.
According to the association, the six-member crew and Captain David Clow made it to shore in a lifeboat, but Clow’s dog went down with the ship. Clow remarked that “I would rather lose any sum of money than to have the brute perish as he did,” according to an association news release.
The association’s president, Great Lakes shipwreck researcher Brendon Baillod, persuaded the organization to undertake a search for the Muir last year after narrowing the search grid to about five square miles using historical records. Searchers were making their final pass of the day on May 12 and were retrieving their sonar equipment when they ran over the wreck.
Images of the wreck show the vessel’s deck has collapsed, and the sides have fallen outward.
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