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Bloomberg reports Signature Bank has been closed by state authority

A Florida woman crashed a city planning meeting to call for March 10 to be 'Sugar Daddy and Mommy Appreciation Day' to 'honor those who have given us so much.' The woman, identified as Ashley Cream, took to the public speaker podium during a Boca Raton city planning meeting about flammable liquid storage. Cream, who wore ski-like sunglasses and styled platinum blonde hair, wheeled her elderly sugar daddy to the mic and told officials the sunny state, especially Palm Beach, Boca Raton and Miami, had the most sugar daddies in the nation. 'Sugar daddies both gay and straight, and yes,...

Stanford has been a leader in going woke. It dropped its Indian mascot in 1972, and never replaced it. Maybe administrators anticipated that any 3-dimensional “thing” would be considered controversial so Stanford is just a color. Cardinal. Cardinal – as in on the RGB value scale – 196,30, 58. Remember that “cardinal’ isn’t a “color” on the alphabet soup flag. Something the wokest of the woke can now complain about. In the several-minute-long speech, the associate dean launched into the usual talking points that Duncan was “literally denying the humanity of people”. She said: Although she was “uncomfortable”, with law...

Kern River Conservancy Executive Director Gary Ananian said warm rain from an atmospheric river system caused rapid melting of snow in the southern Sierra Nevada mountains. Ananian noted the snowmelt resulted in a swollen river on Friday.

At Los Angeles County’s troubled juvenile halls and probation camps, it’s sometimes hard to distinguish between imminent rescue and impending collapse. For example, the Probation Department is transferring 100 less-experienced officers from the field to supplement a juvenile hall staff so diminished by vacancy, injury, fear and contempt for management that barely 11% of officers come to work. Also, 16 “credible messengers” — trained volunteers who as preteens or teenagers spent time under probation’s jurisdiction, or who have other relevant experience — will report this week to the dangerous Barry J. Nidorf Juvenile Hall in Sylmar and the newer, safer,...

Pope celebrates Women's Day as he and Jesuits protect nun abuser Father Rupnik. And he protected his homosexual friends and abusers Zanchetta, Pineda and many others. Beautiful hypocrisy! Cathcon: And entirely contradicting the supporters of Pope Francis who suppose no one has done more. "In ten years of Papacy, there have been no gestures of reparation from Francis or the Argentine bishops' conference, which has never publicly summoned the victims or set up an independent investigation commission. Despite the proclaimed "zero tolerance" on abuses in the Church, the pope has never done anything concrete: "Many times, in recent years, victims...

“Continuous ‘Aggiornamento’” and Revolution World without End?After months of “listening to the People of God” and reviewing reports prepared by dioceses and episcopal conferences around the globe, the General Secretariat for the Synod of Bishops in Rome has produced a “Working Document for the Continental Stage” (DCS), the next phase of the three-year Synod on Synodality (Oct. 2021—Oct. 2024).[1]The 49-page text, released last fall on Oct. 27, 2022 via a Vatican press conference, consists of four chapters and centers around a theme drawn from Scripture: “Enlarge the space of your tent” (Isa. 54:2). “This image and narrative,” the document states,...

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Prince Andrew has reportedly been complaining to friends that has been left none of Queen Elizabeth's reported £650million fortune, with King Charles now fully in control of the royal purse strings. Sole inheritor Charles is not required to pay any tax on the money and has so far avoided handing any out to his younger sibling. .....

The New York Times ran a lengthy hit piece, titled, “Inside Ron DeSantis’s Politicized Removal of an Elected Prosecutor,” that demonstrates how fearful Democrats are of his appeal in an era when crime is on the mind of so many voters. So potent is the crime issue that President Biden and a significant number Congressional Democrats are overriding a soft-on-crime law passed the by the DC City Council over the veto of the District’s Mayor Muriel Bowser. Only a deep fear of voters’ wrath over spiraling crime would motivate these Democrats to anger their SJW pro-crime base. Thus, it fell...

Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-ND) advocated for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to be the lead 2024 presidential candidate, arguing he has earned the right to be “at the head of the class.” Cramer argued the Republican Party is “in desperate need of some new leadership” and that former President Donald Trump may struggle to achieve the GOP nomination depending on “who else is in the race,” he said during his appearance on NBC's Meet the Press. “Gov. DeSantis … has certainly earned the right to be at the head of the class … not just through his political rhetoric, but through...

"And he sat down, and called the twelve, and saith unto them, If any man desire to be first, the same shall be last of all, and servant of all. "And he took a child, and set him in the midst of them: and when he had taken him in his arms, he said unto them, "Whosoever shall receive one of such children in my name, receiveth me: and whosoever shall receive me, receiveth not me, but him that sent me." Mark, Chapter 9 1 And he said unto them, Verily I say unto you, That there be some of...

There is something very amusing about Catholics talking about beliefs that have no scientific consensus. I was raised in the church and, although I’m not religious any more, I still believe in God. I believe in something greater than us, shaping our lives in ways that we cannot even begin to understand. I’m out here, all the live-long day, praying to my guardian angels for help with parking spots and to ensure the plane doesn’t crash in the middle of particularly nasty turbulence. However, I have absolutely no proof that any of these things exist, outside of my belief in...

Has Fernand Amandi been binge-watching Joe Scarborough? You have to wonder, given his attack vocabulary on Ron DeSantis on Jonathan Capehart's MSNBC Sunday Show this morning. Amandi—an MSNBC analyst and Florida-based Democrat consultant—borrowed one of Scarborough's signature moves: riding a favorite phrase into the ground. No fewer than four times, Amandi described DeSantis, with full stops between each word, as a "MAGA. Extremist. Bully."For good measure, Amandi employed another tired Scarborough trope: referring to DeSantis as a "fascist." Get the rest of the story and view the video here.

The US Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation offered Silicon Valley Bank employees 45 days of employment and 1.5 times their salary, reports say. An FDIC official did not comment on the details to CNN, but said it is standard practice and one of the first steps the independent government agency takes after being named receiver. US workers also received their annual bonuses on Friday, just hours before FDIC took over the collapsed lender, Axios reported.

An emerging concern flowing from the dramatic collapse of California’s Silicon Valley Bank is the extent to which settlement risks are set to impact ecommerce transactions involving Australian-based merchants, consumers and payments gateways. The operations of Silicon Valley Bank were seized by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation last week after a customer run on its US$170 billion deposit base. SVB came under extreme liquidity pressure following the release of its full year accounts in late February in which it reported sharp falls in the market value of investment portfolios that were skewed to long-term mortgage-backed securities. The collapse of depositor...

Andy Ngô @MrAndyNgo *** Extreme language warning. *** Convicted murderer Charleston White, who is now a criminal justice reform advocate & YouTuber, recorded an extremely racist anti-Asian tirade calling for Chinese stores to be robbed & the people to be raped & murdered. (Video and discussion at link )

The three announced Republican 2024 presidential candidates weighed in over the weekend on the shocking collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), with former President Trump's campaign blaming the Biden administration’s "anti-America policies," and former Ambassador Nikki Haley and entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy sounding off against a possible taxpayer bailout. The SVB, which had been the 16th-largest bank in the U.S., based in Santa Clara, California, collapsed last week and is now under the control of federal regulators. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) only insures deposits up to $250,000, and some investors are saying a government bailout is necessary to protect...

This is an article that originally appeared in 2010 in Brussels. It is a clear indication of the origins of the sexual abuse crisis in the ecclesiastical world fostered by the Council. It is always difficult to judge the degree of abuse before the Council as the culprits would be long dead. However, the penitential and disciplinary rigours of pre-conciliar manuals on seminary training indicate that the culprits would never have had much diminished chances of making it through seminary before the Council. The Devil in the Church From the desk of Alexandra Colen 2010. Were you surprised when it...

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