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Catholic Dark Money: The Pandora Papers

The October 5, 2021, revelations show that senior operatives of the Legion of Christ Order set up a trio of trusts in New Zealand to hide the group’s money. At the time “victims of sexual abuse of its priests were seeking financial compensation from the Order through lawsuits,” noted theworldnews.net.

IATSE Contract Vote

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The voting for the camera local ended last night. I do not know the schedule for the other 12 local unions, but the final tabulation should be completed within a few days. Although predictions are worth basically nothing, I cannot resist playing pundit and I predict the contract will pass by a total vote of around 70%, with the lower paying classifications going over 80% YES.

Flying On The Ground Is Wrong

making birds.pngOnce upon a time, in this here tube, or some such like it, I would occasionally have speaks, with a fellow a commercial airline pilot. And he would try to sell me on the wonder of planes. But, I was not buying. It was and is my position that all the planes, they should be grounded. At once. And. Forevermore. For, if humans, they want to fly, they should do so—my view—without machines. Otherwise, they have no business, none whatsoever, being up there.

But, you don’t understand, the pilot, he would say. It’s really magic, flying.

Of course it is, I’d say. But that is the province of the wonder of birds. And you just can’t have magic, in machines. To machines, magic, it is allergic. That, is just, a Law.

“What about a heart defibrillator?” one day this guy at me snapped. “Someday you might think that machine, pretty fucking magic.”

Yeah, well, okay, I admitted. Always, there are exceptions. And these. Just. Proving. The rule.

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