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In these last few day many people have asked me what I think about the new Pope Leo XIV? As a priest and pastor, one of my most important priorities is to protect the sheep from the wolf, that is, to try to be a “good shepherd” ready to “lay down my life for the sheep” (Jn 10:11; 1Pt 5:1-4), and thus to warn the souls of the many dangers and traps today in this period of the great apostasy before the manifestation of the Antichrist (2Thess ch2) when “if possible, even the elect” (Mt 24:24) will be led astray....

The troll on wikipedia, recently:Anti Jewish hater TFP 'Tech for Palestine' "iskandar323" even messed with a simple Jewish Sabbath dish.[After some edit about a great Mosque...].[2025-03-20]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cholent&diff=prev&oldid=1278482904Because you know: "free Palestine" whatever.He is the one creating the page: "Ongoing Nakba[sic]" [2022-12-19]And [2023-10-20] creating the page "nakba denial[sic]" to play on / and dininish 'Holocaust denial'.[https://xtools.wmcloud.org/pages/en.wikipedia.org/Iskandar323]And more infamous for leading the campaign to ban ADL in 2024.Antisemitism is a disease. Islandar323 began the 'ongoing nakba[sic]' page based on: Joseph Massad, Elias Khouri and Hannan Ashrawi, all three known for dirty bigotry. He even mentioned the infamous hatefest 2001 Durban, as if it...

The Justice Department’s (DOJ) reported probe into former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D), the front-runner for the Democratic nomination for mayor of New York City, is drawing accusations of political interference. The U.S. attorney’s office in Washington, D.C., has launched an investigation into the former governor over his testimony last year concerning his nursing home policies during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to multiple reports. The move, which The Hill has reached out to confirm, comes after the Trump administration had bribery charges dropped against sitting Mayor Eric Adams, who is running as an independent in the same race. The...

Los Angeles’ deputy mayor for public safety has pleaded guilty to calling in a fake, anti-Israel bomb threat to himself in October. Brian Williams, who was charged by federal prosecutors Thursday, faces up to 10 years in federal prison. Mayor Karen Bass announced in December that Williams had been put on administrative leave, meaning he likely has been collecting his $245,143 combined salary and benefits without any official duties. As deputy mayor for public safety, Williams would have overseen the city’s fire and police response during the devastating January wildfires. The Department of Justice reports that during an online government...

The European Commission has told Hungary to scrap its Transparency of Public Life bill or face possible legal consequences. “The Commission has great concerns with this draft. If adopted as it is, it would constitute a serious breach of EU principles and law,” said a commission spokesperson, in an email on Friday (23 May). ”Therefore, we ask that this draft be withdrawn from the legislative process. We will not hesitate to take the necessary action if this draft is adopted,” he added. The statement comes a day after over 300 civil society organizations demanded the Brussels-executive intervene after Hungary had...

Unmasked! Here are photographs of the unmasked faces of many of the criminals who were arrested at Columbia University.

Multiple people have been shot near the Rustic Hills Shopping Center on Potter Drive. The shooting occurred at the Olympic Gardens apartments, just south of Palmer Park Boulevard.

Nine EU states are targeting the Strasbourg-based European Court of Human Rights in a wider bid to deport unwanted migrants. A letter spearheaded by Denmark, which is set to take over the rotating EU presidency from July, is demanding more leeway on deporting people who have committed crimes. Published on Thursday (22 May), the letter was signed by leaders of Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Italy, and Poland. It faults the court for placing rights restrictions on deportations of "criminal foreign nationals". They are also unhappy on how the court interprets the European Convention on Human Rights,...

Newsdump Alert: US Justice Department Cuts Non-Prosecution Deal With Boeing Over Deadly 737Max Crashes... Close to President Trump lately US Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina where Boeing has major interests... I took a call last week on behalf of this charity in Israel and made a donation to it as I have in the past... Back in the 1990's Rush Limbaugh became a major personality he got an almost week-long tour of Israel meeting top officials on the Left and Right... Its Easy To Get Angry About Politics On The Internet And Everywhere Else I read incitement to hate...

the International Monetary Fund has urged governments to encourage fit, older workers to delay retirement. Its recommendation is that people of the baby boomer generation should stay in work for longer to help balance public finances amid fiscal pressures caused by an ageing global population. The IMF said: “The 70s are the new 50s,” and released data that suggested a person aged 70 in 2022 had the same cognitive function as the average 53-year-old in 2000. Physical health had also significantly improved, the IMF found. Governments burdened with historically high levels of public debt, the IMF said, could not afford...

Planned Parenthood North Central States announced it plans to close four clinics in Iowa amid financial challenges. The organization said it will close its clinics in Ames, Cedar Rapids, Sioux City and Urbandale in addition to four of its clinics in Minnesota in the coming year. It will also layoff 66 staff members and offer 37 others reassignments. Planned Parenthood said in a press release that the decision to restructure and close the clinics "comes as patient needs and preferences have changed, the broken aspects of our health care system have intensified, the organization’s Minnesota Title X funds have been...

In summary Catholic hospitals run 20% of California’s maternity wards. Their policies generally prohibit abortion, even in miscarriage, as long as a heartbeat can be detected. Anna Nusslock never wanted to be the face of a new kind of reproductive rights battle in California, but when a small Catholic hospital refused to provide an abortion that would end her miscarriage, Nusslock girded herself for a long and difficult conflict. Nusslock felt her civil rights were being violated, she said, even as she lay in the hospital bed curled in on herself, bleeding and mourning the loss of her twin girls....

Los Angeles is hosting the 2028 Summer Olympics. The games were awarded to the city back in 2017 and since then it is preparing for the arrival of tens of thousands of visitors. They city was already struggling a bit because of the deadly wildfires which destroyed significant portions of two neighborhoods in January.No one is suggesting that the Games be postponed or canceled in response to the fires. But there is rising concern that an already difficult endeavor for both Los Angeles, the main host city, and LA2028, the private committee in charge of raising most of the money...

84 years ago today, Bob Dylan was born. At his Nobel Prize winning best, from 1961 to 1966, he challenged us to rethink everything with everything he wrote. Donald Trump, born about 5 years after Dylan, in 1946, looks to me like he is just entering into a period of his Dylanesque best. Trump forces us to revealuate this modern world all the time. Bob Dylan mastered and elevated American music twice to great literature in a few short years, first as a folkie but then as a great rock n roller. Potus 45 surprised everyone to come down a...

A cat carrying a massive amount of crack cocaine and marijuana into a jail in Costa Rica was taken into custody by prison guards with the stash tied to its back, according to authorities. The black-and-white kitty was used as a drug mule and loaded up with over 230 grams of marijuana and 67 grams of crack cocaine that was meant for prisoners of the Pococi prison, Costa Rica’s justice ministry said in a statement posted to Facebook. “Thanks to the quick actions of acting officers, the cat was able to be caught… thus preventing them from reaching their final...

In his new memoir, Sonny Boy, Al Pacino describes how Shakespeare was central to his early development as a young actor. “I would bellow out monologues as I rambled through the streets of Manhattan,” Pacino writes. “If the hour was late and you heard someone in your alleyway with a bombastic voice shouting iambic pentameter into the night, that was probably me, training myself on the famous Shakespeare soliloquies.”... Pacino “always felt at home on a stage,” and an early performance in a school play literally brought his divorced parents “back together again,” if only for a post-show ice cream....

Donald Trump addressed the graduates of West Point on Saturday during their commencement, giving credit where due, saying, the experience at West Point had been "anything but easy" and he also gave out pardons for cadets with minor offences. Civilian @cherylinperil gave Trump a shoutout over on X, where she wrote in a post: "President Donald Trump giving commencement address to one thousand officers joining the best military, outfitted by President Donald Trump. He also bestowed customary pardon to all West Point Cadets!" As Trump walked to the podium, wearing a black suit, white shirt and purple tie, the crowd...

Recently US President Donald Trump said the notorious Alcatraz Island prison in the waters off San Francisco was to reopen again. But there is a prison just as notorious in fact more so the system of penal colonies in French Guiana on the northeast coast of South America... Gerald Darmanin's tough prison proposal is clearly linked to his presidential aspirations in 2027... Early this morning power knocked out in and around Cannes France hours before the closing ceremonies of the Cannes Film Festival. It's considered sabotage... Late Saturday afternoon Prime Minister Francois Bayrou received representatives of taxi drivers angered by...

On the night of May 25, Russia attacked Ukraine using several types of weapons: drones, Kalibr missiles, and missiles launched from strategic aviation. Where the air raid alert was declared On the evening of May 24, the launch of kamikaze drones by Russian forces toward Ukraine was recorded. Enemy attack UAVs entered Ukrainian airspace from the northern and southern directions. Just a few minutes later, the Ukrainian Air Force reported a threat of ballistic missile use from the northeast of Ukraine. At present, there are also reports of launches from strategic aircraft. As of now, a nationwide air raid alert...

I chose the name: Mazelit Liel Yocheved, and I converted last night before shabbat services in Delray, Florida.Dear friends,Last night, on the Shabbat of Behar-Bechukotai, the 26th of Iyyar, 5785, I officially converted to Judiasm. After studying Judiasm in Brooklyn for 2 years when I lived in Manhattan and Brooklyn, I moved to an area without a temple for almost 4 years to recover from anorexia. But after October 7th happened, I knew I needed to go back.There are many reasons why I’ve converted, some of which I’ll cover in a following essay when the dizzyness and excitment of the...