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Friday 18 October 2024 Saint Luke, Evangelist Feast St Luke's Catholic Parish, Woolloongabba, Australia Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Red. Year: B(II).First reading2 Timothy 4:10-17Only Luke is with meDemas has deserted me for love of this life and gone to Thessalonika, Crescens has gone to Galatia and Titus to Dalmatia; only Luke is with me. Get Mark to come and bring him with you; I find him a useful helper in my work. I have sent Tychicus to Ephesus. When you come, bring the cloak I left with Carpus in Troas, and the scrolls, especially the parchment ones. Alexander the...

The power generation sector is looking at numerous ways to provide enough electricity to satisfy demand from data centers. Bloomberg Intelligence research shows data centers, buildings filled with servers and other computing equipment for data storage and networking that supports operations and artificial intelligence, could be responsible for as much as 17% of all U.S. electricity consumption by 2030. The U.S. Dept. of Energy has said one data center can require 50 times the electricity of a typical office building. Several technology groups are looking at nuclear power, including the use of small modular reactors, to meet their electricity needs....

Israel claims to have killed the Hamas leader in Gaza during an ‘operation’. Israel claims to have killed Hamas’s political and military leader Yahya Sinwar in Gaza. Hamas has yet to confirm the claim. The Israeli military said on Thursday that Sinwar had been positively identified after he was killed the day before. Commentators spoke about Sinwar and what he means to the Palestinian resistance movement. Iran’s mission to the United Nations spoke of Sinwar as a “martyr”. Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud spoke from Gaza about how Palestinians were viewing the reported incident. “The way it’s been perceived, even by...

Former Florida House District 23 progressive Rep. Richard Rowe Jr., who boasted about getting vaccinated while wishing death on those who refused the shots, has died unexpectedly. In 2021, “Rowe hatefully wrote in a Facebook post: “Let me be real clear … I do not give a **** what happens to anti-vaxxers. I don’t.” “Let Darwin do his work. They helped to kill 700,000 Americans. I do not have the pity or tears to spare for any of them. It’s all dried up now.”

Democrats, still hurting after two losses in which their candidates won the popular vote but not the Presidency, have been making noise about eliminating the Electoral College (EC). Recently Tim Walz came out in favor of eliminating the EC, but he was quickly cautioned to not say the quiet part out loud again. Many believe this to be sour grapes, another ploy to obtain the real desire; a one-party Democrat nation. Short of actual takeover by a foreign nation, or a nuclear holocaust, there is nothing that would be more damaging to our nation. There exists a constitutional alternative worth...

Lawyers for would-be Trump assassin Ryan Routh asked Judge Cannon to recuse herself because she was appointed by Trump and praised her for her rulings, according to a 10-page motion filed on Thursday.Federal prosecutors last month charged Ryan Routh with attempted assassination of a major presidential candidate after he pushed the muzzle of his rifle through the fence line at Trump’s West Palm Beach golf course.(snip)“Although Mr. Trump is the alleged victim here, he previously served as President of the United States. While in office, he nominated Your Honor to her current position as a U.S. District Judge on the...

Transcript of a very important FACT CHECK. I have not seen this DoD change come up here on FR yet, although several other sites have been talking about it. While her answer here we all know is 'projection' there is a dangerous reality afoot. 52:21 It gets more. He's the one who talks about an enemy with in with in an enemy with in talking about the American people. Notice that the pitch of her voice is changing. It is is is higher. The enemy with in with it. That is a bit of nervousness. And she is just losing...

He committed a fowl. A hunter in the Canadian Arctic ruffled the feathers of a group of student “goose detectives” after he killed and ate one of the birds the youngsters were tracking from more than 3,500 miles away. Devon Manik, an Inuit hunter, made a meal of the goose after shooting it dead, unaware that students in Dungarvan, Ireland had tagged about 100 brent geese for a school project to monitor the species’ flight path as it migrated between Ireland and the polar region, according to The Irish Times. Manik said the waterfowl trek to the area in June...

The most serious allegation concerns Wikipedia. Harris’ book contained roughly two paragraphs copied from Wikipedia without citation.”.. The New York Times immediately pounced on Christopher Rufo’s report about instances of plagiarism in VP Kamala Harris’s book Smart on Crime: A Career Prosecutor’s Plan to Make Us Safer. The publication showcased its own plagiarism expert, who shrugged off the examples given to him: “This amount of plagiarism amounts to an error and not an intent to defraud.” The NYT didn’t give Jonathan Bailey of Plagiarism Today the complete dossier. The expert tried to cover for the NYT because the article stated...

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Kamala Harris told supporters Thursday that she “stood up to veterans” in a brutal gaffe that capped off a long day of campaigning in Wisconsin. Harris, 59, was in the middle of touting her tenure as California’s attorney general when she mistakenly bragged about standing up to America’s war heroes. ... Some in the crowd appeared to groan, while others laughed at the blunder. ... Jim Ridderbush, a local union leader, introduced Harris as “the president of the United States” before she took the stage — in another apparent gaffe. ... Harris told her Green Bay supporters that her plan...

This is a summary generated by ChatGPT. RethinkX reveals the shocking exponential growth of battery storage worldwide (00:00) Battery storage is growing faster than any other industry worldwide, driven by demand from solar and wind energy. (00:35) Tony Seba and RethinkX reveal that battery storage is expanding at an unprecedented pace, positioning companies in the sector for potential billions in profit. (01:04) The combination of solar and batteries is now the cheapest energy source globally, surpassing traditional fossil fuels. (02:05) By 2030, it will be possible and affordable to meet 100% of global electricity demand through solar, wind, and batteries,...

"1,699 murders, 7,780 rapes, 33,459 robberies, and 37,091 aggravated assaults". The recurring joke was that under Obama and Biden, the economic projections always had to be revised downwards and under Trump, they had to be revised upwards. Now the reverse is happening to crime statistics. Democrats and their media have been hyping false claims that crime is down. Biden claimed that crime was at a 50-year low. I’ve dissected some of these false claims in the past, but a key point in the debate was that some of the FBI crime data was missing because the way data was reported...

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A Honduran illegal immigrant deported from the U.S. two times was sentenced to 37 years in prison after being convicted of engaging in organized criminal activity in North Texas. Collin County, Texas District Attorney Greg Willis’ office announced the sentencing Thursday of Sergio Cardenas-Salinas, 30, of Houston, for leading an organized criminal operation responsible for a series of high-profile home burglaries.... ... the Houston-based burglary ring was made up of individuals from Guatemala, Honduras and Venezuela. The suspect targeted residents who were of Middle Eastern, South Asian and Asian descent, as the burglars believed they stored large amounts of cash...

RTX Corp., the defense contractor formerly known as Raytheon, agreed Wednesday to pay more than $950 million to resolve allegations that it defrauded the government and paid bribes to secure business with Qatar. The company entered into deferred prosecution agreements in separate cases in federal court in Brooklyn and Massachusetts, agreed to hire independent monitors to oversee compliance with anti-corruption and anti-fraud laws and must show good conduct for three years.... The biggest chunk is a $428-million civil settlement for allegedly lying to the government about its labor and material costs to justify costlier no-bid contracts and drive the company's...

On the first day of early voting in North Carolina, Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz hit the campaign trail in Durham on Thursday evening, making a personal revelation about his mother. During his campaign rally, Walz said that his mother has to wait for her social security check every month to feed herself. According to Forbes, Walz has an estimated net worth of over $1 million.... "When my mom looks for that Social Security deposit to be made in her bank account, that's how she's going to feed herself. That's how she's going to get things done..." Walz claimed.

Video of interview embedded. Mosab Hassan Yousef, the son of a founding member of Hamas, says to Chris Cuomo om 'News Nation' that the U.S. should now pressure Egypt to send troops into Gaza. "Sinwar is dead but the war is not over", Yousef lafter wrote on social media, "Those who call for the end of war are disconnected from reality". "The United States must give Israel all the necessary support to take over Rafah immediately", he added, "And the U.S. government must remove Ayatollah from power". .....

With Sinwar dead, the Biden Team is scrambling for a Hamas and Hezbollah victory assisted by Israeli talking heads. Even before final confirmation of the death of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, the talking heads on Israeli television began to press to leverage this development for a deal which would end Israeli operations in the Gaza Strip and Lebanon. Now the Biden team, including Secretary of State Blinken, has announced that they are redoubling their efforts to end Israeli operations in the Gaza Strip and Lebanon. To be clear: the window dressing of freeing the hostages is front and center. But...

Illegal aliens now have an on-ramp to Medicaid – as many as 22 million of them. This budding crisis is a major danger to our health care system and American taxpayers...The Biden-Harris White House is shattering a system that was already cracking... When people apply, states typically check their citizenship status with the federal sources, but if the data doesn’t match, states give applicants a 90-day grace window, known as a "reasonable opportunity period" to collect documentation. .. Once the 90 days end, the state is no longer empowered to stop them from getting another grace period. In other words,...