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16 November 2022 Wednesday of week 33 in Ordinary Time St Margaret of Scotland, Lowell, MA Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: C(II).First readingApocalypse 4:1-11 ©He was, he is, and he is to comeIn my vision, I, John, saw a door open in heaven and heard the same voice speaking to me, the voice like a trumpet, saying, ‘Come up here: I will show you what is to come in the future.’ With that, the Spirit possessed me and I saw a throne standing in heaven, and the One who was sitting on the throne, and the Person sitting there...

Kevin Spacey is being charged with another seven sex offenses in the UK, where he is already fighting a slew of similar allegations, prosecutors announced Wednesday. Rosemary Ainslie, head of the Criminal Prosecution Service (CPS) Special Crime Division, said her department agreed to the added charges “for a number of sexual assaults against one man between 2001 and 2004.” The new charges include three each for indecent assault and sexual assault, as well as one of causing a person to engage in sexual activity without consent and others of indecent and sexual assault. The CPS gave no further info, citing...

The Zambian student was serving a jail sentence at a medium security prison on the outskirts of Moscow after being convicted of contravening Russian law, Kakubo said, without specifying the offense that occurred in April 2020. “The Zambian government has requested the Russian authorities to urgently provide information on the circumstances under which a Zambian citizen, serving a prison sentence in Moscow, could have been recruited to fight in Ukraine,” Kakubo said. It was not clear how the prisoner was recruited and by whom.... ussia’s defense ministry did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the circumstances of...

Bankman-Fried and another FTX executive gave the vast majority of donations received by a group that gave exclusively to Democrats... ...The majority of his political givings, though, went to the Protect Our Future PAC, a group founded in January that is dedicated to boosting candidates committed to preventing future pandemics.... ...While Protect Our Future PAC appears to be a bipartisan group based on its website, it exclusively supported Democratic campaigns....

The most dangerous use of a serial number on a firearm is as a registration number. In effect, gun registration is gun confiscation. It was not the intent for which serial numbers were made. They were created to track firearms with production changes and as a way for government arsenals to track the production and military use of weapons. A federal court recently held a law passed in 1990, which makes possessing a firearm with a removed serial (registration) number illegal, is unconstitutional.This is an important decision. It has relatively minor effects at this time. The law was a step...

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American and Bahamian authorities are discussing the possibility of bringing FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried to the United States for questioning, Bloomberg News reported on Tuesday, citing three people familiar with the matter. SBF's collapsed crypto exchange FTX, which filed for bankruptcy in the United States last week, has fanned fears about the future of the crypto industry after it outlined a 'severe liquidity crisis'. Since then regulators have opened investigations and lawmakers have called for clearer rules on how the industry operates.

A shortage of the common antibiotic Amoxicillin continues across the US as an increasing number of kids are diagnosed with seasonal illnesses and more parents are forced to call out of work to care for them. As pharmacies struggle, due to an ongoing shortage that the FDA warned about several weeks ago, to keep up with the demand from parents for Amoxicillin, more and more Americans have been required to stay home from work to tend to their sick children. More than 100,000 Americans missed work last month - an all time high - because of child-care problems, many of...

Now we’re learning, or at least we’re starting to connect the dots.We’re still in the early stages here so this is still speculation at this point, but the puzzle pieces are all starting to fit together.Here is most likely how it went.The U.S. takes billions upon billions of taxpayer dollars and funnels those over to Ukraine. Ukraine then puts those billions into FTX (remember, it appears to not be a real company, more like a government plant).Now, in case you did not know, FTX is owned by Sam Bankman-Fried.Bankman-Fried takes billions of dollars invested into the company and donates them...

When I heard the immediate news reports across the board about how Trump endorsed candidates were losing, and given my general distrust of the press, I did some searches for reports on how many Trump endorsed candidates won. Search results were all articles about how Trump endorsed candidates lost. So I looked at those thinking I would see some numbers such as number lost over the total run. But that critical factoid was missing, interestingly enough, from the ones I checked. This told me that the fix was in and as I always do with subjects I actually have interest...

I believe the attack on Prezwodow, Poland was actually intended for cross-border transmission power line located at 50°24'38.93"N 24° 1'0.11"E. A cruise missile simply followed the power lines up into Ukraine and kept going after it missed its target.I do not believe an S300 missile was involved in the event because the missile would be going the wrong way. Surface to Air missiles expend all of their energy in the first few seconds of flight and do not have the ability to execute a U-turn.It is possible, however that a cruise missile may have been shot down if coming from...

The buzzy company called FTX that he co-founded made him worth $15.6 billion — and celebrities wanted in on the profits. Gisele Bündchen and Tom Brady co-starred in a $20 million ad campaign for FTX, receiving an equity stake in the company along with cryptocurrency in return. NBA legend Steph Curry was made a global ambassador for the company in exchange for an equity stake and even entangled his Eat.Learn.Play. charity with the platform. Tennis star Naomi Osaka was given an equity stake. Angels pitcher Shohei Ohtani and Aaron Jones of the Green Bay Packers both signed on as global...

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Once upon a time, in a far-distant world we called 1980, Frederik Pohl came out with a novel called Beyond the Blue Event Horizon as the middle book of a trilogy. (I’ve not yet read it, actually, but surely one of the catchiest book titles ever. So, stolen.) And if, like our regular commenter and that vignette character, we think of ourselves (and our country if not our whole world) as having recently passed through some sort of political or historical event horizon (a surface which by definition can be crossed only once moving forward in time), we wouldn’t likely...

Nov 16 (Reuters) - Initial findings suggest that the missile that hit Poland was fired by Ukrainian forces at an incoming Russian missile, Associated Press reported on Wednesday, citing U.S. officials.

Join with fellow FREEPERS to pray for AMERICA: For those in Authority in Government, Family, Military, Business, Healthcare, Education, Churches, and the Media. This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. (1 John 5:14)Forum threads labeled [Prayer] are closed to debate of any kind.This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. 1 JOHN 5:14Religion Forum Threads labeled [Prayer] are closed to debate of any kind.

Little is known about the Yunhai 3 satellite. SAST and Chinese state media have said that it's designed to perform atmospheric and marine environment surveys, space environment surveys, disaster prevention and reduction work, and scientific experiments. Yunhai 3 is now orbiting at an altitude of around 520 miles (840 kilometers) above Earth in a sun-synchronous orbit, or SSO, which means it passes over the poles and particular spots on Earth at the same time every day. One part of the mission that did not go according to plan, however, is the performance of the rocket’s upper stage after it released...

The left is doing everything it can to foil those who are calling for election integrity as a major race for governor has just been called.The election for Arizona governor has been called for Democrat Katie Hobbs, who is literally the AZ Secretary of State and oversaw the counting processes. The voting procedures saw massive failures, especially in Maricopa County, shockingly, where there were major problems in the 2020 presidential election.The ultra-left Media Matters for America (MMfA) did a hit piece on Steve Bannon who just called for the Arizona governor’s race not to be certified.Here’s the garbage that MMfA...

Viola Davis and Justin Trudeau are among the people who shared a viral mistruth about Iranian protesters in the past several days. A false claim that Iran plans to execute thousands of people has gone viral in the wake of the first death sentence for a protester tied to the demonstrations against the country’s clerical rulers over women’s rights. An image that has circulated widely on social media falsely says 15,000 protesters have been sentenced to death. That claim is not true, but it has been amplified by major public figures, including the actors Viola Davis and Sophie Turner and...

The White House announced yesterday that as one of the results of the G20 meeting, Indonesia is set to receive $20 billion to transition from coal to green energy. According to the press release/fact sheet, a coalition of nations all signed on to the Just Energy Transition Partnership. Those nations include “the Government of the Republic of Indonesia (GOI) and the Governments of Japan, the United States of America, Canada, Denmark, the European Union, the Federal Republic of Germany, the French Republic, Norway, the Republic of Italy, and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (together the “International...