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15 March 2023Wednesday of the 3rd week of Lent St. Clement Mary Hofbauer Church, Baltimore, MD Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Violet. Year: A(I).First readingDeuteronomy 4:1,5-9 ©Keep these laws and observe themMoses said to the people: ‘Now, Israel, take notice of the laws and customs that I teach you today, and observe them, that you may have life and may enter and take possession of the land that the Lord the God of your fathers is giving you. ‘See, as the Lord my God has commanded me, I teach you the laws and customs that you are to observe in the...

We can’t punish the J6 Committee members for their lies from the dais, but they did something far worse. They concealed the evidence by refusing to let anyone but their chosen allies see it. They even tried to lock it up for fifty years. There’s a term for this: Obstruction of Justice. We are all familiar with the fact that members of Congress are constitutionally immune from prosecution over what they say during the time they are debating in the House or Senate (Article 1, §6, clause 1). So, Pencil Neck Schiff was free to lie through his teeth about...

Argentina's inflation rate has soared past 100% for the first time since the end of hyperinflation in the early 90s. Inflation hit 102.5% in February, the country's statistics agency said, meaning the price of many consumer goods has more than doubled since 2022. Argentina has been in economic difficulty for years, and most of the population now live in poverty. Its government has being trying to stem price rises by capping the prices of food and other products. But the food and drink sectors saw the most dramatic increase recent, with prices growing by 9.8% in February compared to January....

WASHINGTON — The White House is exploring additional ways to ensure accountability for those who were responsible for the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, administration officials said Tuesday. Pointing to the bonuses some bank employees got last week and stock sales made by senior executives in recent years, a White House official said, “All of those are worthy of a deeper look.” Biden privately told his advisers in meetings over the weekend that he wants tougher regulations on banks to prevent future failures, the second official said. Biden wants Congress to reverse the deregulatory actions lawmakers took during the Trump...

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Shares of embattled bank Credit Suisse on Wednesday hit another all-time low for a second consecutive session, dropping by more than 21% shortly before being halted from trade. Credit Suisse’s largest investor, Saudi National Bank, said it could not provide the Swiss bank with any further financial assistance, according to a Reuters report. “We cannot because we would go above 10%. It’s a regulatory issue,” Saudi National Bank Chairman Ammar Al Khudairy told Reuters Wednesday. Several Italian banks were also subject to automatic trading stoppages after sharp declines, including UniCredit, Finecobank and Monte Dei Paschi. The embattled Swiss lender disclosed...

Criminal charges have been dropped against a white couple charged in 2020 after one of them was captured on video pulling a handgun on a Black woman and her daughters outside a Michigan restaurant. The trial had been set to start Monday for Eric Wuestenberg and Jillian Wuestenberg, but Oakland County Circuit Court Judge Mary Ellen Brennan dismissed the case after the alleged victims did not show up to provide witness testimony, The Oakland Press reported. The Wuestenbergs were each charged with one count of felonious assault for the July 1, 2020, incident in the parking lot of a Chipotle...

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Tegucigalpa (AFP) – Honduras will establish diplomatic relations with China, President Xiomara Castro said Tuesday, a move that would result in the severing of longstanding official ties with Taiwan. The switch -- which Castro pledged to make while on the campaign trail -- comes weeks after her government announced it was negotiating with China to build a hydroelectric dam. Under Beijing's "One China" principle, no country may maintain official diplomatic relations with both China and Taiwan. Castro, who became her country's first woman president in 2022, wrote on Twitter that she had instructed Foreign Minister Eduardo Reina "to undertake the...

TOKYO -- The increasingly global nature of intellectual property development could provide Beijing some protection from the U.S.-led push to cut China out of supply chains, as companies worry about losing access to key technology in such areas as electric vehicles. American entities jointly applied for 125 patents in China with Chinese universities or companies over the three years through 2022. Japanese-Chinese joint applications were close behind, at 115. Though U.S. and Japanese applicants account for fewer than 1% of all patent filings in China, many cover advanced technologies in areas such as batteries, telecommunications or key industrial metals, for...

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It really begs the question, what does this Prime Minister have to hide?' asked Conservative MP Michael Cooper. OTTAWA — Liberal MPs once again spent hours Tuesday filibustering a parliamentary committee meeting to prevent Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s chief of staff, Katie Telford, from testifying about allegations of Beijing’s interference in past elections. ... Conservative MP Michael Cooper.. It’s been now more than 14 hours over four days that the Liberal MPs on this committee have been filibustering for hours and hours and hours on a very simple motion to have the prime minister’s chief of staff, Katie Telford, testify...

TROY, Ill. (WKRC) — A woman in Illinois made a horrific discovery in her home while looking for Christmas decorations. Eight months after her husband disappeared, Jennifer Maedge found his body inside a closet, according to KTVI. Richard Maedge, 53, was reported missing on April 27, 2022. Jennifer told investigators he had called her to say he was leaving work early. When she got home, he was gone, but his wallet, keys, and car were still there. Police did search the house at the time, but found no trace of Richard. They described it as a “hoarder home" with a...

Wipe personal debt, provide $97K guaranteed incomes and homes for just $1 - and no one asks how city will foot the bill Plans to provide a $5 million lump sum and $1 homes to black residents of San Francisco as reparations were given vociferous support on Tuesday at a public hearing of the Board of Supervisors - despite the un-costed plan likely to sink the struggling city, where a $728 million deficit is already predicted over the next two fiscal years. Black residents are eligible if they meet two of eight criteria - among them, being locked up or...

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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’s State Department of Business will strip the Hyatt Regency Miami of its liquor license for hosting a sexually explicit drag show with children in attendance. The Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation announced in December they were investigating the “Drag Queen Christmas” all-ages drag show which took place in Fort Lauderdale and Miami. Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration is revoking the Hyatt Regency Miami’s alcohol license for hosting a “sexually explicit show with children present,” according to governor’s office Tuesday. “A Drag Queen Christmas” performed Dec. 27 at the James L. Knight Center, which is reportedly...

“You’ll never get a clue what’s being done to, and within, this country from the complicit “mainstream” media. But a KGB expert who defected to the good guys was explaining it for us back in the 80s. Yuri Bezmenov tried to warn us” Former KGB Officer Yuri Bezmenov Explains Our Four Stages, The Conservative Treehouse, Feb. 2013)KGB defector Yuri Bezmenov was a foreign correspondent for Soviet media in the West and a KGB officer who defected to Canada. In compelling language he lays out the process of ideological subversion that the United States has been undergoing for more than 50...

The U.S. Air Force this month launched an effort to hire a handful of senior-level diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) managers and is hoping to place these officials in posts across the country, from Washington, D.C., to Alaska. Each post pays at least $82,000 per year, and the top position at the Pentagon could pay more than $180,000 per year. The Air Force declined to respond to questions for Fox News Digital about how many senior-level DEI officials work for the Air Force or how many more positions it’s looking to fill this year. But the Air Force has put...

President Biden participated in a second reception this week for the Democratic National Committee in Las Vegas, Nevada, where he urged those in attendance to take climate change more seriously. Just one day after a fundraiser in Rancho Santa Fe, California, where Biden accidentally revealed a previously unknown detail about former President Jimmy Carter’s health, he made a number of off-the-cuff comments about climate change including one about the Colorado River drying up. "You’re not going to be able to drink out of the Colorado River," Biden said to a crowd of about 60 people. He also likened climate change...

Everyone knows Tucker Carlson has been driving the left crazy for a very long time. Recently he has been filling his bio with things to troll the left and his updated bio may have reached the level of master-class trolling. Tucker Carlson’s new Twitter bio is 🔥 pic.twitter.com/4515sAIoks — Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) March 14, 2023 We cackled like Kamala. Yeah, that really awful witch-type of cackling. Don’t judge us. Lmao, it's real! — TheMilchMan (@TheMilchMan) March 14, 2023 This user must have thought the screenshot was fake. We are not sure if they are delighted or sad to find out...