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We are going green with the buck passed onto us bring your own devices to work the message from my employer. They make your paystub digital, so they save on paper and pass any printing cost onto you. Get it.... Last month a veteran airline pilot in Australia called it quits and retired early sort of like what I did earlier this year. Some want people to go to work regardless of a vax mandate and then get dragged out forced out carried out... A STORY I MAY TOLD BEFORE ABOUT FEAR OF ANTI-SEMITISM Back in the 1970's I was...

Source: Jonathan FeldsteinI’ve read many great books, but it’s rare that I have the urge to thank the author. In the case of “Hidden Heroes,” I wanted to do so on two levels: to thank Pam Cohen for her outstanding recounting of details of the struggle to free Soviet Jews, and for her incredible role in making so much of the outcome about which she’s recounted possible to begin with. One of the beautiful things about “Hidden Heroes” is that while recounting her experiences, Pam interweaves stories of the lives of many of the refuseniks on whose behalf she advocated....

The Speaker of the House of Commons has said he is working "at pace" with police and the home secretary to find ways to improve safety for MPs. Sir Lindsay Hoyle, who oversees MPs' security, said he had reflected on their vulnerability but did not want them to stop meeting constituents. He also called for a "kinder" political discourse "based on respect". It comes after the killing of Conservative MP Sir David Amess at his Essex surgery on Friday. Sir David, 69, was stabbed multiple times at Belfairs Methodist Church in Leigh-on-Sea, where he had been meeting members of the...

'They'll take your liver and you won't even know': China's real-life Squid Game: How organs are harvested from THOUSANDS every week for a 'kill to order' market - and why the world is powerless to stop it China has a real-life Squid Game harvesting the organs of political dissidents Thousands of prisoners are slaughtered for hearts, kidneys, livers and corneas UN experts recently released a statement about the 'kill to order' organ program But the international community are powerless to stop the terrifying trade Since it first hit Netflix last month South Korean horror series Squid Game has captivated audiences...

The killer of Tory MP Sir David Amess planned the murderous assault more than a week in advance, security sources have told The Mail on Sunday. As police continued to question a 25-year-old British man of Somalian descent last night, sources revealed that the attacker had booked an appointment at Sir David's constituency surgery before stabbing the politician 17 times. The suspect was named last night as Ali Harbi Ali, the son of a former communications adviser to the prime minister of Somalia. Harbi Ali Kullane, confirmed that his son was in police custody following the stabbing and said he...

Author’s Note: Interested readers can find all previous volumes of this series here. News Flash: The first 56 volumes are compiled into a book titled “Bible Study For Those Who Don’t Read The Bible.” More details at the end. Now back to our regular programming. Thanks for joining our study, especially if you are a first-timer. Today we will focus on passages in 2 Peter 1: 3-8. If you are striving to become a better person (and who isn’t?), consider embracing these verses as you would a self-help manual.Peter, often known as St. Peter, was one of Christ’s apostles and...

The NFL has betrayed us again, this time with the God-awful firing and public lynching of Las Vegas Raiders head coach Jon Gruden. But why should the way the NFL treated Gruden surprise anyone? After all, the NFL is always wrong about everything. Actually, it's clear the NFL's whole goal in life is to throw their own customers under the bus while courting people who have never watched NFL football and never will. Remember the recent TV ads reporting that "(t)he NFL is gay ... lesbian ... bisexual ... transgender." Really? Is that who sits in the stands? Is that...

A Roman Catholic priest has accused police of preventing him from giving Conservative MP Sir David Amess his last rites as he lay dying in his Essex constituency. Father Jeffrey Woolnough arrived at the police cordon stretching across tree-lined Eastwood Road North in Leigh-on-Sea, offering to administer the last rites to the devout Catholic, 69, on Friday afternoon after he was allegedly stabbed multiple times by a suspected terrorist. But he told the Mail: 'The officers said that because it was a crime scene, and also the nature of the scene, it just wasn't possible.' MailOnline has contacted Essex Police,...

Empathy is an important human emotion, but sometimes people keep repeating the same stupid mistakes that make it nearly impossible to continue to give a damn about them. Someone suffering severe headaches, for example, can cause a serious empathetic response from people, but that goes away quickly, and likely forever, if you discover that person continually hits themselves in the head with two-by-four. There comes a certain point when any emotion – empathy, sympathy, whatever – becomes counterproductive. When it comes to Democrat voter groups, I’m long past that point. The odds of you knowing someone who is or was...

It isn’t hard to point out the failures of Democrats. They’re so numerous it would be difficult to compile a comprehensive list of them. But two recent political gambits by congressional Democrats are falling flat on their face. Biden’s SCOTUS Commission and the congressional J6 commission have completely failed in their purpose of hiding their incompetence in managing anything larger than a fundraising dinner. Democrats successfully managed to whip their base into a frenzy over the appointment of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. It seems like ages ago now, but the #MeToo crowd that trashed Kavanaugh was nowhere to...

A woman carrying a baseball bat near the Capitol's West Front on Friday morning "became combative" and bit a Capitol Police officer, the department said. According to the Capitol Police, a woman identified as Olivia Romano, 25, "appeared agitated" and "started yelling at our officers" around 9:30 a.m. Romano allegedly then attacked the Capitol Police officers...

With societal turbulence all around us, many people feel that we are locked in some great and portentous struggle. But because it is so pervasive and multifaced, the nature of this struggle is not readily obvious. There are many fronts on which this struggle is being fought: racial relations, education, healthcare, popular culture, financial system, and freedom of speech, among others. It is not easy to make sense of it all, especially since the battles are highly pitched and emotions are running very high. What characterizes these battles, besides their intensity, is deep polarization. The possibility of the warring camps...

© Provided by Benzinga The world’s richest man keeps getting richer. This week, Tesla Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA) CEO Elon Musk passed another significant milestone with a wealth greater than two executives who once topped the list. What Happened: Musk is worth $236 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. That total puts Musk ahead of Amazon.com Inc (NASDAQ: AMZN) founder Jeff Bezos, who Musk superseded in January. Bezos topped the list from 2017 to 2021. More impressive, Musk is now worth more than Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) co-founder Bill Gates and Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRKA)(NYSE: BRKB) founder Warren Buffett combined....

Mark Twain famously said, “In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.” If you ever doubted the wisdom of this observation, the conduct of the Loudoun County School Board, the National School Boards Association, and Attorney General Merrick Garland should put paid to your skepticism. A more patent a collection of idiots it would be hard to find. The heroes in this story are Scott Smith, father of a young girl who had been sexually assaulted in a Loudoun County school bathroom by a “gender fluid” boy wearing a skirt, with an...

“A reproof entereth more into a wise man than an hundred stripes into a fool” (Proverbs 17:10).

In the Sunday Gospel, the Lord Jesus speaks of crosses and crowns. The apostles have only crowns in mind, but Jesus knows the price of the crown. So, He must teach them and us that crowns—the things we value most—come only through the cross.It may help to review the context of this Gospel. Jesus is making His final journey to Jerusalem. He is on his way to the cross and has already announced this to His disciples on two occasions. Throughout Jesus’ final journey, the apostles prove unwilling and/or incapable of grasping what He is trying to teach them.This Sunday’s...

October 17th, 2021Memorial of Saint Ignatius of Antioch L'Église de la Madeleine, Paris, France Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green First readingIsaiah 53:10-11 ©If he offers his life in atonement, what the Lord wishes will be doneThe Lord has been pleased to crush his servant with suffering.If he offers his life in atonement,he shall see his heirs, he shall have a long lifeand through him what the Lord wishes will be done.His soul’s anguish over,he shall see the light and be content.By his sufferings shall my servant justify many,taking their faults on himself.Responsorial PsalmPsalm 32(33):4-5,18-20,22 ©May your love be upon us,...

MOSCOW, Oct 17 (Reuters) - A Russian MiG-31 fighter jet has been scrambled to escort a U.S. B-1B strategic bomber over the Sea of Japan, TASS news agency reported on Sunday citing the Russian military, just days after an incident with a U.S. naval destroyer in the same region. It said the bomber had not breached the Russian border....

We all know why mercury is extremely hot and have a valid reason. But It is also proved that its surface is extremely cold also like temperature fell up to -170degrees.On the day its temperature is around 840-degree Fahrenheit (451-degree Celsius) but at night it goes minus 275 Fahrenheit (-170 degrees Celsius.) You can see a change of temperature of nearly 1100 degrees Fahrenheit (600-degree Celcius). It’s all because of Mercury’s thin atmosphere that can not maintain the heat that it gets in the day and because of its huge day and night.

Ransomware gangs attacked even more water treatment plants across the US than previously known, according to a new report. Water plants in Nevada, Maine, and California were all hit with ransomware in 2021 — and all three incidents went unreported until Thursday, when the attacks were disclosed in a joint advisory published by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, the FBI, the NSA, and the Environmental Protection Agency... ...In all three attacks, cybercriminals took over the water treatment plants' supervisory control ....