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Wednesday 18 December 202418 December Cathédrale Saint-Gatien, Tours, FranceReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Violet. Year: C(I).First readingJeremiah 23:5-8I will raise a virtuous Branch for DavidSee, the days are coming – it is the Lord who speaks –when I will raise a virtuous Branch for David,who will reign as true king and be wise,practising honesty and integrity in the land.In his days Judah will be savedand Israel dwell in confidence.And this is the name he will be called:The-Lord-our-integrity.So, then, the days are coming – it is the Lord who speaks – when people will no longer say, “As the Lord lives who...

Over the last 2 years the famous Linux project has attacked and mass-banned non-Leftists. Now there's nobody left to run openSUSE.

This lady tries her best to zoom her camera onto a very weird point of light in the sky. Weird stuff. She did a better job than our government at using a camera phone.

Judas and Jesus scene Here is a clip from Season 5 ! What do you think ? Very interesting plausible conversation with Judas. Not from scripture as I can tell but captures the heart of the matter between Judas and Jesus. The acting is superb! And the expressions are so meaningful because we already KNOW what Judas will do, however there is now doubt that Jesus wants Judas to follow HIM and stop trying to give Jesus “advice” on what He should do or not do ! https://youtu.be/0uKkjLhBsFU

espite his obvious innocence, it’s a race against time, as the prosecutors seem determined to ensure that he is murdered in prison. Conservatives do not doubt that Derek Chauvin was railroaded, a sacrifice at the BLM altar. However, his martyrdom—which almost ended with his death in prison—may finally end. Chauvin has appealed the judgment against him, and, in an excellent turn of events, he’s just been granted an order by Federal Judge Magnuson to be given blood for testing and heart tissue for examination from George Floyd’s autopsy. The blood tests and tissue examinations may help establish Floyd’s actual cause...

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Russia's security service says a 29-year-old man from Uzbekistan has been detained over the killing of senior general Igor Kirillov and his assistant in Moscow. Lt Gen Igor Kirillov, head of the Radiation, Chemical and Biological Protection Forces, was outside a residential block early on Tuesday when an explosive device hidden in a scooter was detonated remotely. The Russian security service said the unnamed suspect was recruited by Ukrainian intelligence, according to state media agencies. Ukraine's security service had already claimed it was behind the killing, a source told the BBC on Tuesday.

History appears to be repeating itself this week as Congress has brokered an agreement on a massive year-end catch-all spending bill... “It’s a total dumpster fire. I think it’s garbage,” GOP Rep. Eric Burlison of Missouri, who is a member of the conservative Freedom Caucus, said. “...people that celebrate DOGE [Department of Government Efficiency] coming in, and yet we’re going to vote for another billion dollars to be added to the deficit. It’s ironic,” added the lawmaker, who probably meant to say trillion dollars, given the legislation would fund the entire government until March 14.... Fellow Freedom Caucus member Rep....

COVID-19 vaccines for children never made any sense. Which is why many sane countries in Europe never offered or recommended them to children at all. Some even specifically banned them from use for most under the age of 30. Presumably since "The Science™" is an immutable state of inarguable consensus among every expert, medical doctor and public health professional on earth, that same standard would be applied in the United States as well. Right? Of course not. The Science in the United States was different than The Science in Europe, because there is no such thing as "The Science," just...

President-elect Donald Trump promised mass deportation on the campaign trail, and while the scale of it remains vague, the elements of the plan are an unlikely call back to former President Barack Obama who was billed the “deporter-in-chief” by Democrats and immigrant advocates. While Trump’s allies have floated draconian measures to detain and deport people residing in the US illegally, the plans are, in many ways, consistent with the way Immigration and Customs Enforcement has often carried out operations... During his first term, Trump deported more than 1.5 million people, according to Kathleen Bush-Joseph, a policy analyst at the Migration...

TORONTO, Dec 17 (Reuters) - Four Canadian ministers publicly unveiled on Tuesday a border security plan they had privately presented to U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's incoming administration, with an emphasis on surveillance, intelligence and technology. Canadian ministers had an "encouraging" meeting with Trump's border czar Tom Homan, Public Safety, Finance and Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Dominic LeBlanc told reporters.... LeBlanc and his colleagues announced Tuesday a plan to beef up the U.S.-Canada border with helicopters, drones, surveillance towers and sniffer dogs, as well as a "joint strike force" ...

A man from Trimont, Minnesota, was severely injured when his rechargeable heated insoles exploded inside his boot. Mikaela Morris shared images online Friday of her husband Tyler’s injured foot and is urging people not to buy rechargeable heated apparel products, KENS 5 reported on Monday. Mikaela said the insoles were not turned on when the incident happened and she rushed him to an emergency room for medical attention. Doctors later contacted the burn center at Hennepin County Medical Center (HCMC) regarding the case. Tyler bought the insoles from Amazon in 2023 for outside activities. The insoles were sold by a...

Nine people were injured and one killed in a mass shooting that took place on the 8500 block of Loch Raven Blvd. in Towson on Tuesday evening, Baltimore County Police said. Around 7:12 p.m., officers were dispatched to the intersection of Loch Raven Boulevard and White Oak Avenue, at the Johnson-Fosbrink Funeral Home, where they found a car flipped and on fire, and multiple victims, Baltimore County Police Chief Robert McCullough said during a news conference following the incident. Police were still determining how many people had been shot Tuesday night, McCullough said. Multiple gunshots were visible in the facade...

The Republican leader began by nominating Herschel Walker as his choice for U.S. ambassador to the Commonwealth of the Bahamas. Walker, a staunch Trump ally, ran for the U.S. Senate in 2022 as a candidate from Georgia.

An expert on the international criminal group Tren de Aragua (TdA) is warning that if sanctuary city and state policies are allowed to continue, the U.S. will soon be facing a slate of targeted assassinations across the U.S. "The next step is targeted assassinations," said Jose Gustavo Arocha, a senior fellow for the Center for a Secure Free Society and former lieutenant colonel in the Venezuelan army. "That is what has happened in Venezuela, what is happening in Latin America and that will happen here in the U.S." Tren de Aragua, which means "Train from Aragua," is a massive criminal...

i'm requesting prayer for my 95 year old mom. she broke her hip (very common i know) and had successful surgery (praise God) but is having trouble waking enough for therapy which is necessary for her complete recovery. the medical problem is complicated by dementia. please pray that she becomes alert enough as she recovers to receive her physical and speech therapy, and get released form the hospital with me so i can continue her care at home.

NASA on Tuesday announced that it would delay its rescue mission for two astronauts who have been stranded on the International Space Station (ISS), in order to “complete processing” on a new SpaceX spacecraft that will be used in the operation. Astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore, who were only expected to be on the station for a week, have been stranded in space since June because of safety issues related to their Boeing spacecraft. The two Americans were expected to be rescued in February, but the operation will now be delayed until at least late March. If they are...

Five Palestinian families on Tuesday (Dec 17) sued the State Department over Washington's billions in military aid to Israel, demanding the enforcement of US rules to curb arms flows due to allegations of human rights abuses. The complaint, filed on Tuesday and to which the State Department has 60 days to respond, calls for the implementation of the so-called Leahy Law, which the plaintiffs and rights group say Israel has been illegally exempted from. The law prohibits the provision of security assistance to units facing credible allegations of human rights abuses. Since the start of Israel's war against Hamas in...

Donald Trump is stoking political mayhem in Canada ...

Two men from New York died from pneumonia they contracted from bat feces — after they used the excrement as fertilizer to grow marijuana, a new study found. The unidentified men from Rochester, ages 64 and 59, smoked pot that had been tainted with a fungus found in the bat droppings, known as guano, that caused fatal lung infections, according to a study published in Open Forum Infectious Disease earlier this month. Their deaths were not connected to each other, which the researchers said highlights a growing trend of using bat waste to produce marijuana since the drug has been...