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[Catholic Caucus] STRICKLAND REMOVED - Francis Peron attacks again: to my enemies not even JusticeRemoval of bishop of Tyler, U.S.A., and appointment of apostolic administratorThe Holy Father has removed Bishop Joseph E. Strickland from the pastoral care of the diocese of Tyler, United States of America, and has appointed Bishop Joe Vásquez of Austin as apostolic administrator of the same diocese, rendering it sede vacante. [source] If only Bishop Strickland had been a member of Uncle Ted McCarrick's clique of abusers of minors, or used bodily fluids in chalices (Rupnik) after raping sisters, he might have been named a Cardinal...

Photo: AlamyShortly before taking the stage for his campaign rally in New Hampshire, President Donald Trump received a large batch of endorsements from Granite State groups and officials.The president received the endorsement of the 603 Alliance, New Hampshire’s largest coalition of conservative activists, shortly before his Veterans Day campaign rally Claremont.President Donald J. Trump Announces Additional New Hampshire Endorsements“There is only one candidate in the race for President in 2024 who can provide a solution to our nation’s economic, foreign policy and social crises, and most importantly, beat Joe Biden at the ballot box” pic.twitter.com/8WRBque52W— Liz Harrington (@realLizUSA) November 11,...

Five U.S. service members were killed Friday evening after their aircraft suffered a mishap and crashed into the eastern Mediterranean Sea, the Pentagon revealed Sunday. The mishap took place “during a routine air refueling mission as part of military training, U.S. European Command (EUCOM) said in a brief statement... that the aircraft crash “was purely related to training and there are no indications of hostile activity.” The command gave no further details on the type of aircraft involved in the crash, the military service it belonged to, or the exact location or timing of the accident.

As we witness the despicable treatment of Jews around the world, we start to wonder if this is what 1930s Germany was like. The Holocaust did not start with deportations and mass murder. It started with a slow and gradual process of exclusion and persecution of Jewish people. But let’s not forget, the measures were deemed legal. The Nazi-led German government, through the legislative process, gradually excluded Jews from public life, the professions, and public education. Of course, the goal of Nazi propaganda was to demonize Jews and to create a climate of hostility and indifference toward their plight, therefore...

Researchers have identified that a transient inflammatory pain causes mitochondrial and redox changes in sensory neurons that persist beyond pain resolution. These changes appear to predispose to a failure in resolving pain caused by subsequent inflammation. Additionally, targeting the cellular redox balance prevents and treats chronic inflammatory pain in rodents. Pain often persists in patients with an inflammatory disease, even after the inflammation has subsided. For some time, there have been clues that mitochondrial dysfunction may be involved. In a clinical study, approximately 70% of patients with heritable mitochondrial diseases develop chronic pain. To unravel the role of mitochondria in...

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[Catholic Caucus] Full text of Bishop Strickland’s “letter from a friend”… I hope he reads it again todayThe following text was read out by Bishop Strickland two weeks ago at the beginning of his speech at the Rome Life Forum. He called it a “letter from a deeply Catholic friend” and prefaced it by saying it applied not only to him, but to all the Bishops. I hope he reads it again today, and I hope all the Bishops and Cardinals of the world do so as well. I hope they look in the mirror and ask themselves, why are...

Republican National Committee boss Ronna McDaniel sparred with CNN host Dana Bash on Sunday over the GOP’s position on abortion, while calling for a messaging recalibration. During a discussion on CNN’s “State of the Union” about GOP setbacks in the off-year elections Tuesday, McDaniel slammed Democrats’ position on late-term abortions, prompting pushback from Bash. “We now know, through science from 50 years ago, a baby feels pain as its life is being taken at 15 weeks,” McDaniel claimed. “Why are Democrats continuing to double down on 39 weeks, 38 weeks?”

Updated data from the southern border of the United States has been released, further emphasizing the alarming situation at the United States-Mexico border under President Joe Biden’s leadership. The report highlighted a record-breaking number of border encounters in September, reaching 269,735, and the highest number of encounters in a fiscal year at 2,475,669. “Of course Customs and Border Patrol waits until Saturday morning to release the new disastrous border numbers so that no one is paying attention,” he wrote. It also noted the apprehension of 18 individuals on the FBI terror watchlist, bringing the total for the fiscal year to...

The nation will be pushed toward “social and economic turmoil,” if a reelected President Donald Trump tries to enforce Congress’s border laws, the New York Times claimed on November 11. “Sweeping Raids, Giant Camps and Mass Deportations: Inside Trump’s 2025 Immigration Plans,” declared the headline for an article about President Donald Trump’s campaign promises to enforce border policies if he is elected.

Young people attending a New York City anti-Israel rally have admitted that they learned to hate Israel by watching pro-Palestinian videos on Chinese-owned app TikTok and Mark Zuckerbeg’s Instagram. More than a dozen young protesters who skipped school to join an anti-Israel rally in Manhattan on Thursday told the New York Post that their opinions about the Israel-Hamas war were shaped mainly by China’s TikTok and Facebook-owned Instagram, as well as their teachers. [cut] Another 17-year-old who identified herself as Adama told the New York Post that she follows Palestinian accounts on TikTok who are based in Gaza, saying, “Places...

1. "The 'customer is always right' excuse, and not allowing employees to adequately defend themselves. The customer is the CUSTOMER. The service you get is a privilege, not a right, and you better believe you can be denied service." 2. "The 'workhorse' mentality they want in employees. My job does not need to be my life when I’m getting paid a Medicare wage. My sanity is worth more to me than my work. Quit asking your employees to give all of their energy to their jobs."

Just diagnosed... I have 20/40 or 20/50 in the eye... They are advising a Vitrectomy with Membranectomy... and som laser on perimeter lattice to avoid retina tear in the future... If anyone has had this done, please let me know your thoughts... Prayers for discernment welcomed as well...

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Jezebel, a feminist US news site, was shut down by its owners on Thursday, with 23 people laid off and no plans for the outlet to resume publication. G/O Media, which owns Jezebel and other sites including Gizmodo and the Onion, announced the closure in a memo to staff, which was obtained by the Guardian. “Unfortunately, our business model and the audiences we serve across our network did not align with Jezebel’s,” Jim Spanfeller, the chief executive of G/O Media, wrote in the memo, which was sent to staff on Thursday morning. “And when that became clear, we undertook an...

Climate activist Greta Thunberg was briefly interrupted today by a man who approached her on stage, after she invited a Palestinian and an Afghan woman to speak at a climate protest in Amsterdam. Ms Thunberg was talking to a crowd of tens of thousands when she asked the women to join her on the stage. 'As a climate justice movement, we have to listen to the voices of those who are being oppressed and those who are fighting for freedom and for justice. Otherwise, there can be no climate justice without international solidarity,' she said. After the Palestinian and Afghan...

Even eating breakfast under Bidenomics is more expensive. Particularly if you like orange juice like I do. To save money, I am probably going to have to switch to nasty-tasting Tang. Food CPI is up 3.69% year-over-year. The rate of growth in food prices is slowing. But do I trust BLS data on CPI? Of course not. Orange juice prices are up 47% under Biden. Tang is the taste I hate and I can get Vitamin C from a multi vitamin. But I just don’t like having government policies (or follycies) dictate my food consumption. Or auto choice (I refused...

Interactions among microorganisms within the human gut may be associated with increased anxiety levels in people with depression, according to research. Using advanced bioinformatics tools like 16S rRNA gene sequencing, researchers analyzed stool samples from 178 patients with a current or past diagnosis of depression who are part of an ongoing Texas Resilience Against Depression (T-RAD) study. The analysis revealed three networks of gut microbial communities, one of which was correlated with anxiety. While the early findings raise the possibility that gut bacteria could affect anxiety levels, further validation is needed to confirm whether there is a relationship and how...

'Mom I'm fine. It's just for the cameras.' Nov 12, 2023https://twitter.com/dudi_dolev/status/1723680858874298654

Results from a clinical trial show that a new combination of drugs doubles overall survival for patients with bladder cancer that has spread (metastatic bladder cancer). The findings show that giving people with metastatic bladder cancer enfortumab vedotin (an antibody drug conjugate) and pembrolizumab (an immunotherapy drug) can stop their disease getting worse and helps them live twice as long compared to those given just chemotherapy. These findings were presented at a plenary session at the European Society of Medical Oncology (ESMO) conference. Life expectancy for people with metastatic bladder cancer is just one year, and the treatment they are...