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Half a Cloak..

 

 Saint Martin of Tours 

According to tradition, while Martin was a young Roman soldier stationed in Gaul (modern-day France) during a harsh winter, he encountered a nearly naked beggar at the city gates of Amiens. In a well-known act of charity, Martin used his sword to cut his military cloak (Latin: cappa) in two, giving half to the destitute man.

That night, Martin had a vision of Jesus wearing the same half-cloak and heard him say to the angels, "Martin, who is still but a catechumen, has clad me with this garment" [1]. This experience is said to have solidified his Christian faith and his eventual decision to leave the military, become a monk, and ultimately serve as the Bishop of Tours. 

The remaining half of the cloak became a revered relic, kept by the kings of France in a special sanctuary called a chapel (from the Latin cappella for "little cloak"), which is the origin of the modern English word for a place of worship. 

Fiasco..

Mission Accomplished

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Former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers said he was stepping back from all public commitments amid fallout from the release of emails between him and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

• "I am deeply ashamed of my actions and recognize the pain they have caused. I take full responsibility for my misguided decision to continue communicating with Mr. Epstein," Summers said.

• Summers is a board member of OpenAI, the artificial intelligence company, and is a former president of Harvard University.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren said Harvard University should sever ties with Larry Summers, the school’s former president and one of its most prominent faculty members — putting new pressure on the elite university to hold Summers accountable for his close friendship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
New details of Summers’ relationship with Epstein emerged last week when a House committee released emails showing years of personal correspondence between the two men, including Summers making sexist comments and seeking Epstein’s romantic advice.
Comment:
The saddest thing about betrayal is that it never comes from your enemies." 

Golden Toilet...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has close ties to individuals named in a sprawling “golden toilet” scam that saw tens of millions of dollars siphoned from wartime energy programs, according to reports.

At least two people with ties to Zelensky were named in the investigation from the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine, which was unveiled Monday and alleged about $100 million meant to protect power plants from Russian sabotage was actually siphoned by officials beginning in 2022.

Among them was businessman Tymur Mindich, who co-founded the entertainment company Kvartal 95 with Zelensky and was allegedly the ringleader of the scheme.

The two even had apartments in the same building, with Zelensky stopping by Mindich’s for a birthday celebration in 2021.

And it was that apartment – where Mindich was found to have bags of cash, the Financial Times reported –

“Tymur had an apartment with golden toilets that was in the same building as Zelensky’s,” a former Ukrainian government official told Fox News.

Cohesion..

The social democrat Mette Frederiksen won Denmark’s 2019 elections on a platform of radical reforms to reach climate targets, lowering the pension age for manual workers – and stricter migration policies.

Denmark has some of the strictest asylum legislation in Europe. The country grants only temporary asylum to refugees, regardless of their need for protection. It has tightened laws on family reunion, and introduced policies focused on prioritizing deportation, rather than integration.

Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has justified such policies by pitting the challenges of immigration against the affordability of public services and the welfare state.

 In her own words, migration “is challenging Europe, affecting people’s lives, and the cohesion of our societies”.

Now, Frederiksen’s approach has become a model for other left-wing governments in Europe, including the UK, struggling to address voter concerns about immigration.

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