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November 2009
November 2009
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Published on November 27th, 2009
...Roman Catholic Church leaders in Dublin spent decades sheltering child-abusing priests from the law and most fellow clerics turned a blind eye, an investigation ordered by Ireland's government concluded Thursday? (1)
[our highlights]
The report in May sought to document the scale of abuse as well as the reasons why church and
state authorities didn't stop it, whereas Thursday's 720-page report focused on why church
leaders in the Dublin Archdiocese — home to a quarter of Ireland's 4 million Catholics
— did not tell police about a single abuse complaint against a priest until 1995.
Dublin Archbishop Diarmuid Martin, who handed over more than 60,000 previously secret church files to the three-year investigation, said he felt deep shame and sorrow for how previous archbishops presided over endemic child abuse — yet claimed afterward not to understand the gravity of their sins.
Martin said his four predecessors in Ireland's capital, including retired Cardinal Desmond Connell, must have understood that priests' molestation and rape of boys and girls "was a crime in both civil and canon law. For some reason or another they felt they could deal with all this in little worlds of their own.
"They were wrong, and children were left to suffer."
There was a similarly shocking investigation into decades of unchecked child abuse in Irish schools, workhouses and orphanages run nationwide by 19 Catholic orders of nuns, priests and brothers.
Dublin Archbishop Diarmuid Martin, who handed over more than 60,000 previously secret church files to the three-year investigation, said he felt deep shame and sorrow for how previous archbishops presided over endemic child abuse — yet claimed afterward not to understand the gravity of their sins.
Martin said his four predecessors in Ireland's capital, including retired Cardinal Desmond Connell, must have understood that priests' molestation and rape of boys and girls "was a crime in both civil and canon law. For some reason or another they felt they could deal with all this in little worlds of their own.
"They were wrong, and children were left to suffer."
There was a similarly shocking investigation into decades of unchecked child abuse in Irish schools, workhouses and orphanages run nationwide by 19 Catholic orders of nuns, priests and brothers.
The M+G+R Foundation Comments: We could never make enough reparation to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary for such horrendous offenses were it not through an appeal to His Mercy; a Mercy which we do not deserve but humbly, and with a heart full of Thanksgiving, will accept.
(1) News Report
Published on November 26th, 2009
...not even the trash will escape Big Brother? (1)
What if we knew exactly where our trash was going and how much energy it took to make it
disappear? Would it make us think twice about buying bottled water or "disposable" razors?
A team of MIT researchers today announced a major project called Trash Track, which aims to get people thinking about what they throw away. Trash Track relies on the development of special electronic tags that will track different types of waste on their journey through the disposal systems of New York and Seattle.
The project will monitor the patterns and costs of urban disposal and create awareness of the impact of trash on our environment - revealing the last journey of our everyday objects.
A team of MIT researchers today announced a major project called Trash Track, which aims to get people thinking about what they throw away. Trash Track relies on the development of special electronic tags that will track different types of waste on their journey through the disposal systems of New York and Seattle.
The project will monitor the patterns and costs of urban disposal and create awareness of the impact of trash on our environment - revealing the last journey of our everyday objects.
The M+G+R Foundation Comments: Of course - as all is - for our own good...
(1) News Report
and that...
...Bishop Rick Painter has been convicted by the city on two counts of disturbing the peace for ringing his church’s bells? (1)
One man’s joyful noise is another’s aural pollution. Ask Bishop Rick Painter of the Cathedral
of Christ the King in Phoenix. He has been convicted by the city on two counts of disturbing the
peace for ringing his church’s bells.
“It’s upsetting, obviously, that something that started out as a civil complaint got picked up by the city and taken to court,” says Painter, 68. “Church bells were rung in this nation since before it was a nation.”
“It’s upsetting, obviously, that something that started out as a civil complaint got picked up by the city and taken to court,” says Painter, 68. “Church bells were rung in this nation since before it was a nation.”
The M+G+R Foundation Comments: Yes, ...one Nation, under God, indivisible... and other myths.
(1) News Report
Published on November 25th, 2009
...reincarnation does not exist even though it appears that it does? (1)
(1) Private Forum dated November 25th, 2009
and that...
...if President Bush, father, was the Godfather of the New World Order (1) we can attest that M. Gorbachev was its father?
Excerpts of Address by the then Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev at the 43rd U.N. General Assembly
Session December 7, 1988 (2)
Further world progress is now possible only through the search for a consensus of all mankind, in movement toward a new world order. We have arrived at a frontier at which controlled spontaneity leads to a dead end. The world community must learn to shape and direct the process in such a way as to preserve civilization, to make it safe for all and more pleasant for normal life. It is a question of cooperation that could be more accurately called "co-creation" and "co-development."
.....
We acknowledge and value the contribution of President Ronald Reagan and the members of his administration, above all Mr. George Shultz. All this is capital that has been invested in a joint undertaking of historic importance. It must not be wasted or left out of circulation. The future U.S. administration headed by newly elected President George Bush will find in us a partner, ready -- without long pauses and backward movements -- to continue the dialogue in a spirit of realism, openness, and goodwill, and with a striving for concrete results, over an agenda encompassing the key issues of Soviet-U.S. relations and international politics.
Further world progress is now possible only through the search for a consensus of all mankind, in movement toward a new world order. We have arrived at a frontier at which controlled spontaneity leads to a dead end. The world community must learn to shape and direct the process in such a way as to preserve civilization, to make it safe for all and more pleasant for normal life. It is a question of cooperation that could be more accurately called "co-creation" and "co-development."
.....
We acknowledge and value the contribution of President Ronald Reagan and the members of his administration, above all Mr. George Shultz. All this is capital that has been invested in a joint undertaking of historic importance. It must not be wasted or left out of circulation. The future U.S. administration headed by newly elected President George Bush will find in us a partner, ready -- without long pauses and backward movements -- to continue the dialogue in a spirit of realism, openness, and goodwill, and with a striving for concrete results, over an agenda encompassing the key issues of Soviet-U.S. relations and international politics.
The M+G+R Foundation Comments: Do note that this speech was delivered almost a full year before the (surprise!, surprise!) fall of the Berlin Wall.
(1) Presidet Bush and the New World Order
(2) Gorbachev at the 43rd U.N. General Assembly Session December 7, 1988
Published on November 24th, 2009
...John Paul II would punish himself and in particular just before he ordained bishops and priests? (1)
...before passing on the sacraments he wanted to prepare himself.
As part of the Vatican’s investigation, thousands of documents have been examined by officials from the Congregation for the Causes of Saints. Among them is the testimony of Polish nun Tobiana Sobodka, a member of the Sacred Heart of Jesus order.
She worked for Pope John Paul in his private Vatican apartments and at his summer residence in Castel Gandolfo near Rome.
Sister Sobodka said: “Several times he would put himself through bodily penance.
“We would hear it – we were in the next room at Castel Gandolfo. You could hear the sound of the blows when he flagellated himself. He did it when he was still capable of moving on his own.”
The whipping is also confirmed by Bishop Emery Kabongo, for several years a secretary for Pope John Paul.
As part of the Vatican’s investigation, thousands of documents have been examined by officials from the Congregation for the Causes of Saints. Among them is the testimony of Polish nun Tobiana Sobodka, a member of the Sacred Heart of Jesus order.
She worked for Pope John Paul in his private Vatican apartments and at his summer residence in Castel Gandolfo near Rome.
Sister Sobodka said: “Several times he would put himself through bodily penance.
“We would hear it – we were in the next room at Castel Gandolfo. You could hear the sound of the blows when he flagellated himself. He did it when he was still capable of moving on his own.”
The whipping is also confirmed by Bishop Emery Kabongo, for several years a secretary for Pope John Paul.
The M+G+R Foundation Comments: It would have been a far greater sacrifice if he had cleaned out the Hierarchy of pedophile protectors and forced Cardinal Law and others into retirement in some secluded monastery - of which they have thousands in Europe.
As much as we liked him, we are not impressed.
(1) News Source
and that...
...to fully understand Chile’s oligarchs, it is best to direct the reader to Maria Olivia Monckeberg’s “The Opus Dei Empire in Chile”, among others? (1)
Why does a country as diverse as Chile have such a uniformly somber and ultra-conservative media
establishment? That’s the question that National Journalism Prize winner (2009) Maria Olivia
Monckeberg tackles with her latest book, “The Press Magnates.”
Monckeberg says it is partly about the cozy reciprocal relationship the Edwards clan (owners of the El Mercurio media group) and the Copesa business holding (owners of La Tercera) had with the military regime of Gen. Augusto Pinochet: the media kept mum about the disappearances and torture that characterized the dictatorship, and the general kept competitors at bay.
The self-censorship by these two media was rewarded, too, with multi-million dollar government bailouts during the economically trying 1980s: state credits and very easy terms were given to both El Mercurio and La Tercera. After surviving those tough years with a generous helping hand from the dictatorship, the El Mercurio and La Tercera duopoly now receive an astounding 82.7% of all print media advertising sold in Chile.
The M+G+R Foundation Comments: The problem - of course - continues to
be the identification, by the general public, of Opus Dei with anything Catholic when there could
be nothing further from the truth. The Jesus' truth, that is.Monckeberg says it is partly about the cozy reciprocal relationship the Edwards clan (owners of the El Mercurio media group) and the Copesa business holding (owners of La Tercera) had with the military regime of Gen. Augusto Pinochet: the media kept mum about the disappearances and torture that characterized the dictatorship, and the general kept competitors at bay.
The self-censorship by these two media was rewarded, too, with multi-million dollar government bailouts during the economically trying 1980s: state credits and very easy terms were given to both El Mercurio and La Tercera. After surviving those tough years with a generous helping hand from the dictatorship, the El Mercurio and La Tercera duopoly now receive an astounding 82.7% of all print media advertising sold in Chile.
(1) News Report
Published on November 23rd, 2009
...the appointed (not elected) powerful new European Union President "fits the bill to a T" for the individual called for on the schedule of events associated with the End of These Times? (1)
[our highlights]
“The ‘ideal candidate,’ said Nicolas Sarkozy, the French President, for bring “consensus
and cohesion” to a fractious EU of 27 member states. In reality, and behind his harmless,
eccentric and literary persona, Mr Van Rompuy, 62, is a sharp political operator who is not
above using dirty tricks to stymie his opponents. Europe’s leaders may find to their cost that
the man they chose to chair their EU summits possesses dark arts that will be turned against
anyone, such as an incoming Conservative prime minister, who challenges the Brussels
consensus.
Last year, six months before becoming prime minister, he abused his position as speaker of the Belgian parliament to cancel a politically inconvenient debate. To make doubly sure that MPs would be silenced, he had the locks on the plenary chamber’s doors changed so deputies could not get into their own parliament. The tactic was described by opposition MPs as a ‘coup d’etat.’
On another occasion, Mr Van Rompuy did not turn up in his office for a week to avoid opening a letter from opposition MPs demanding a debate. His skill as camouflaging himself as essentially harmless disarmed Gordon Brown who dropped British concerns over his federalist politics to allow him into the EU President post. Mr Van Rompuy is a supporter of the creation of an EU federal state, with its own anthem, flag and with powers to collect taxes on car fuel or financial transactions from Europe’s citizens.”
Last year, six months before becoming prime minister, he abused his position as speaker of the Belgian parliament to cancel a politically inconvenient debate. To make doubly sure that MPs would be silenced, he had the locks on the plenary chamber’s doors changed so deputies could not get into their own parliament. The tactic was described by opposition MPs as a ‘coup d’etat.’
On another occasion, Mr Van Rompuy did not turn up in his office for a week to avoid opening a letter from opposition MPs demanding a debate. His skill as camouflaging himself as essentially harmless disarmed Gordon Brown who dropped British concerns over his federalist politics to allow him into the EU President post. Mr Van Rompuy is a supporter of the creation of an EU federal state, with its own anthem, flag and with powers to collect taxes on car fuel or financial transactions from Europe’s citizens.”
The M+G+R Foundation Comments: Every day that goes by, another "piece" falls in its place.
(1) The London Telegraph
Plus other sources such as...
The
U.K. Independent quotes a colleague of van Rompuy who says, “He... operates in the
shadows.”
Time magazine calls van Rompuy’s rise to power a case of “the bland leading the bland,” notes that 11 months ago, even few in Belgium knew who he was But the European Voice notes he is a “shrewd political operator” who outfoxed Tony Blair for the top post
Sky News: Blair loses out to Rompuy as EU president
Lady Ashton to Replace Solana as EU foreign policy chief
Time magazine calls van Rompuy’s rise to power a case of “the bland leading the bland,” notes that 11 months ago, even few in Belgium knew who he was But the European Voice notes he is a “shrewd political operator” who outfoxed Tony Blair for the top post
Sky News: Blair loses out to Rompuy as EU president
Lady Ashton to Replace Solana as EU foreign policy chief
and that...
...atheist student groups flourish on college campuses? (1)
The sign sits propped on a wooden chair, inviting all comers: "Ask an Atheist."
Whenever a student gets within a few feet, Anastasia Bodnar waves and smiles, trying to make a good first impression before eyes drift down to a word many Americans rank down there with "socialist."
Bodnar is the happy face of atheism at Iowa State University. Once a week at this booth at a campus community center, the PhD student who spends most of her time researching the nutritional traits of corn takes questions and occasional abuse while trying to raise the profile of religious skepticism.
As the stigma of atheism has diminished, campus atheists and agnostics are coming out of the closet, fueling a sharp rise in the number of clubs like the 10-year-old group at Iowa State.
Campus affiliates of the Secular Student Alliance, a sort of Godless Campus Crusade for Christ, have multiplied from 80 in 2007 to 100 in 2008 and 174 this fall, providing the atheist movement new training grounds for future leaders. In another sign of growing acceptance, at least three universities, including Harvard, now have humanist chaplains meeting the needs of the not-so-spiritual.
Whenever a student gets within a few feet, Anastasia Bodnar waves and smiles, trying to make a good first impression before eyes drift down to a word many Americans rank down there with "socialist."
Bodnar is the happy face of atheism at Iowa State University. Once a week at this booth at a campus community center, the PhD student who spends most of her time researching the nutritional traits of corn takes questions and occasional abuse while trying to raise the profile of religious skepticism.
As the stigma of atheism has diminished, campus atheists and agnostics are coming out of the closet, fueling a sharp rise in the number of clubs like the 10-year-old group at Iowa State.
Campus affiliates of the Secular Student Alliance, a sort of Godless Campus Crusade for Christ, have multiplied from 80 in 2007 to 100 in 2008 and 174 this fall, providing the atheist movement new training grounds for future leaders. In another sign of growing acceptance, at least three universities, including Harvard, now have humanist chaplains meeting the needs of the not-so-spiritual.
(1) News Report
Published on November 22nd, 2009 [Feast of Christ, The King]
...on August 4th, 1961, the Castro Regime in Cuba changed - without prior notice - all of the paper currency overnight?
Whatever an individual had in a bank was automatically exchanged without a problem. All the currency stashed away in mattresses, buried and in safes - which was most of it - became useless overnight.
The M+G+R Foundation Comments: It has been effectively done before and it can be just as effectively done elsewhere again. This is the most effective way to, through a single act, "wash" what a regime considers "black money".
May those who have ears, hear and eyes, see.
(1) Fidel y Raul - Mis Hermanos : La historia oculta [Fidel and Raul - My Brothers : The hidden story] by Juanita Castro, 2nd Edition; AGUILAR, ISBN 13: 978-1-60396-701-3 p302
and that...
...the Roman Catholic Church lost all their money in Cuba then because they did not keep their money in banks? (1)
Perhaps a worse regime - that of Italian Republicans in mid 19th century - allowed, encouraged and sometimes assisted financially the work of Don John Bosco. (2) Why? Because Don Bosco did exactly what Jesus taught and practiced, and, even being 1,000 % loyal to the Vatican in Faith matters, he stayed out of any political activity. He focused in Evangelizing and educating upright and honest citizens.
What a difference it makes when we live what we claim to be but are not!
Again... May those who have ears, hear and eyes, see.
(1) Fidel y Raul - Mis Hermanos : La historia oculta [Fidel and Raul - My Brothers : The hidden story] by Juanita Castro, 2nd Edition; AGUILAR, ISBN 13: 978-1-60396-701-3 p302 (2) Don Bosco Miraculous Trajectory
Published on November 21st, 2009 [The Presentation of Mary]
...when men are not allowed to adore other men - even if adorees are the ones refusing to be adored - the adorers loose respect for them and become aggressive?
A quick review to the Acts of the Apostles 14: 6-18 (1) will provide a shining example of this fallen-nature behavior - a behavior which has been used by religious leaders from time immemorial to exploit the masses.
What sets men of God apart from the masses - even if said masses proclaim to be believers - is precisely what Barnabas and Paul did in Lystra.
May those who have ears, hear and eyes, see.
(1) Acts of the Apostles ch. 14
and that...
...Black Metal Music is now being glorified by the "vissionary intelligentia"?
[our highlights]
...some of the best modern popular music being recorded and released today is coming from
extreme Metal musicians.
I rate this music highly not only because it is technically accomplished, artistically honest, and multifarious in style, but also because both in form and content, it is as European as Beethoven, Berlioz, Holst, and Wagner.
.....
This lack of age correlation results perhaps from the fact that the themes of contemporary extreme Metal have little to do with those that are commonly associated with traditional Heavy Metal. While the latter is largely defined by a youthful preoccupation with rebelling against parents, the former is largely defined by a young generation’s yearning for the values of their grandparents—or, perhaps more accurately, the values of their great-great-great-grandparents. On a symbolic level, Heavy Metal fans think that their parents are too conservative; Black Metal fans think that their parents are nowhere near conservative enough. The parents of Heavy Metal fans feel betrayed by their sons, whom they regard as embarrassing hooligans; fans of Black Metal feel betrayed by their parents, whom they regard as embarrassing liberals. Heavy Metal fans want to drink beer, have sex, and smash hotel rooms.
Black Metal fans want to smash the system—but not out of a brainless, juvenile impulse. They believe the system is rotten; they have an elitist contempt for mass society; and they desire a new order, one founded on radically traditional, heroic, spiritual, or mystical values.
.....
This type of music appeals to individuals from all walks of life, who, nevertheless, share a common turn of mind: one that is inegalitarian, neo-pagan, non-manichean, neo-Romantic, and anti-modern; one that is, in other words, Nietzschean and Darwinian, or, perhaps more accurately and succinctly, völkisch. I submit that in times when the liberal project has proven itself a catastrophic failure; when it is increasingly obvious to many that its premises are false, its scholarship a fraud, its politics a sham, and its utopia impossible; when it is revealed that the only possible future it leads to is political oppression and a managed descent into universal poverty, manifestations within popular culture of an anti-liberal, counter-cultural current are of particular interest. They may, after all, point to what could one day replace our present liberal establishment, once it comes crashing down around our ears.
I rate this music highly not only because it is technically accomplished, artistically honest, and multifarious in style, but also because both in form and content, it is as European as Beethoven, Berlioz, Holst, and Wagner.
.....
This lack of age correlation results perhaps from the fact that the themes of contemporary extreme Metal have little to do with those that are commonly associated with traditional Heavy Metal. While the latter is largely defined by a youthful preoccupation with rebelling against parents, the former is largely defined by a young generation’s yearning for the values of their grandparents—or, perhaps more accurately, the values of their great-great-great-grandparents. On a symbolic level, Heavy Metal fans think that their parents are too conservative; Black Metal fans think that their parents are nowhere near conservative enough. The parents of Heavy Metal fans feel betrayed by their sons, whom they regard as embarrassing hooligans; fans of Black Metal feel betrayed by their parents, whom they regard as embarrassing liberals. Heavy Metal fans want to drink beer, have sex, and smash hotel rooms.
Black Metal fans want to smash the system—but not out of a brainless, juvenile impulse. They believe the system is rotten; they have an elitist contempt for mass society; and they desire a new order, one founded on radically traditional, heroic, spiritual, or mystical values.
.....
This type of music appeals to individuals from all walks of life, who, nevertheless, share a common turn of mind: one that is inegalitarian, neo-pagan, non-manichean, neo-Romantic, and anti-modern; one that is, in other words, Nietzschean and Darwinian, or, perhaps more accurately and succinctly, völkisch. I submit that in times when the liberal project has proven itself a catastrophic failure; when it is increasingly obvious to many that its premises are false, its scholarship a fraud, its politics a sham, and its utopia impossible; when it is revealed that the only possible future it leads to is political oppression and a managed descent into universal poverty, manifestations within popular culture of an anti-liberal, counter-cultural current are of particular interest. They may, after all, point to what could one day replace our present liberal establishment, once it comes crashing down around our ears.
Comments: . The author of this article is saying - in effect - that Black Metal is Nazi music for the 21st century ... volkisch, Nietschean, Darwinian, inegalitarian, anti-modern.
According to Wikipedia: "As part of this, many artists write lyrics that could be seen to promote atheism, antitheism, paganism and Satanism. Other themes that are commonly explored include depression, nihilism, misanthropy and death. However, many black metal artists write lyrics that are inspired by winter, nature, mythology, folklore and fantasy narratives."
So there! Anything goes... it is just a matter of "spinning it" just right.
(1) Article
Published on November 20th, 2009
...the US government has learned nothing in the last 50 years regarding how to crack "tough nuts"?
"Obama Takes Stern Tone on North Korea and Iran : President Obama said Thursday that North Korea
and Iran risked further sanctions and isolation if they did not rein in their nuclear ambitions."
(1)
The M+G+R Foundation Comments: ...and such sanctions and isolation
will work as "well" as they did with Cuba's Castro who has thumbed his nose to more US
Administrations that we can remember.We are beginning to wonder if political leaders and heads of state are highly educated individuals who could not get a job elsewhere.
Considering that we believe that the US - with all its faults and failings - still is the best system in the world and is worth protecting and working at, can you imagine the ranking we would assign to the politicians and heads of other states worldwide?
(1) News Report
and that...
...Bishops are discussing their authority over Catholic colleges? (1)
Fallout continues from the summer controversy over the University of Notre Dame awarding an
honorary degree to President Barack Obama, who supports abortion rights.
The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops went behind closed doors at their fall meeting Wednesday to discuss, among other issues, what action they should take to increase oversight of the nation's more than 200 Roman Catholic colleges and universities.
Chicago Cardinal Francis George, president of the bishops' conference, revealed this week that he had formed a task force charged with reviewing the issue. Its research included a look at what church law says about bishops' authority over the schools.
The Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities has planned a similar discussion of canon law and bishops' authority at the group's annual meeting, set to begin Jan. 30 in Washington.
"Can bishops just pull the plug on us? It's not that simple," said Richard Yanikoski, president of the Catholic college association. He attended a meeting of the bishops' education committee last Sunday that briefly touched on higher education. He expected the bishops' would more fully examine the issue in their executive session.
The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops went behind closed doors at their fall meeting Wednesday to discuss, among other issues, what action they should take to increase oversight of the nation's more than 200 Roman Catholic colleges and universities.
Chicago Cardinal Francis George, president of the bishops' conference, revealed this week that he had formed a task force charged with reviewing the issue. Its research included a look at what church law says about bishops' authority over the schools.
The Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities has planned a similar discussion of canon law and bishops' authority at the group's annual meeting, set to begin Jan. 30 in Washington.
"Can bishops just pull the plug on us? It's not that simple," said Richard Yanikoski, president of the Catholic college association. He attended a meeting of the bishops' education committee last Sunday that briefly touched on higher education. He expected the bishops' would more fully examine the issue in their executive session.
The M+G+R Foundation Comments: In spite of our opinion about the Church Administration (2), we believe that if an educational institution is going to brandish the "Catholic" identity, the US Episcopal Conference should have the final word on matters which may cause scandal (scandal = harmful to the Faith of the innocent). If they do not, who will?
(1) News Report
(2) About the Roman Catholic Church Administration
Published on November 19th, 2009
...a new ocean or sea is forming in the African continent? (1)
A 35-mile rift in the desert of Ethiopia will eventually become a new ocean or sea, researchers
now confirm.
The crack, 20 feet wide in spots, opened in 2005. Some geologists believed then that it would spawn a new ocean. But that view was controversial, and the rift had not been well studied.
A new study involving an international team of scientists and reported in the journal Geophysical Research Letters finds the processes creating the rift are nearly identical to what goes on at the bottom of oceans, further indication a new sea is in the region's future
The crack, 20 feet wide in spots, opened in 2005. Some geologists believed then that it would spawn a new ocean. But that view was controversial, and the rift had not been well studied.
A new study involving an international team of scientists and reported in the journal Geophysical Research Letters finds the processes creating the rift are nearly identical to what goes on at the bottom of oceans, further indication a new sea is in the region's future
The M+G+R Foundation Comments: As long as the Ethiopian Orthodox Church does not claim that this proves that they indeed hold the Ark of the Covenant (God through Moses parted the Red Sea and now they would claim that by means of the Ark God is parting the African continent), it is nothing more than an intersting geological development.
(1) News Report
and that...
...Texas supreme court affirms special rights for religion?
[our highlighting]
The Texas state supreme court ruled unanimously on Friday that a town which had altered its
zoning to ban two church-sponsored halfway houses in a residential neighborhood was in violation
of the Texas Religious Freedom Restoration Act.
That act, which was passed in 1999 and endorsed by then-Governor George W. Bush, affords greater legal protection to religious operations than to equivalent secular operations.
Under its provisions, cities have to prove that zoning regulations — like the one passed by the town of Sinton to ban jails and rehabs within 1000 feet of a home, school, or church — further a “compelling” interest, such as protecting public safety, and do not place a “substantial burden” on the free exercise of religion.
That act, which was passed in 1999 and endorsed by then-Governor George W. Bush, affords greater legal protection to religious operations than to equivalent secular operations.
Under its provisions, cities have to prove that zoning regulations — like the one passed by the town of Sinton to ban jails and rehabs within 1000 feet of a home, school, or church — further a “compelling” interest, such as protecting public safety, and do not place a “substantial burden” on the free exercise of religion.
Applied "religion" is about using the Holy Name of God to "get away with murder".
(1) News Report
Published on November 18th, 2009
...Ukraine flu outbreak is caused by a virus which is a mixture of H1N1 and parainfluenza, which causes cardiopulmonary failure? (1)
Based on autopsies, we have come to the conclusion: it’s not pneumonia, but cardiopulmonary
insufficiency and cardiogenic shock... The virus enters directly into the lungs, there is
bleeding... Antibiotics should not be used...
The Head of the Chernivtsi regional forensic bureau, Professor Victor Bachinsky M.D. makes a strong statement: all the victims of the virus in Bukovina (22 persons aged 20 to 40 years) died not from bilateral (double) pneumonia, as previously thought, but as a result of viral distress syndrome, i.e. the total destruction of the lungs. We caught up with Professor Bachinsky, to find out how he came to this conclusion, and how people can protect themselves from this disease.
The Head of the Chernivtsi regional forensic bureau, Professor Victor Bachinsky M.D. makes a strong statement: all the victims of the virus in Bukovina (22 persons aged 20 to 40 years) died not from bilateral (double) pneumonia, as previously thought, but as a result of viral distress syndrome, i.e. the total destruction of the lungs. We caught up with Professor Bachinsky, to find out how he came to this conclusion, and how people can protect themselves from this disease.
The M+G+R Foundation Comments: Please note that Dr. Bachinsky is not selling any products. This seems to be a strictly professional report - not a sales pitch for the latest cure all "snake oil". [Vitaimin D-3 is certainly not included in the list of "snake oil".]
(1) News Report
and that...
...the working relationship between the URI (1) and the UN goes far beyond prayer services and good wishes from former UN officials?
In December 1999, the URI signed an “international partnership” agreement with UNESCO
(2), and in August 2000 the URI assisted in planning the World Millennium
Peace Summit of Religious and Spiritual Leaders at the UN.
The URI has a Cooperation Circle at the UN, and seeks “to bring the principles and visions of the URI Charter into the work of the UN, and to integrate the voices of the world’s faith communities into the arena of governance.” (3)
The URI has a Cooperation Circle at the UN, and seeks “to bring the principles and visions of the URI Charter into the work of the UN, and to integrate the voices of the world’s faith communities into the arena of governance.” (3)
(1) About the URI
(2) URI-UN History
(3) The One Universal Religion
Published on November 17th, 2009
...the US Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from a student who complained that high school officials violated her constitutional rights when they turned off her microphone during her religion-tinged graduation speech? (1)
The justices said Monday they will not revive a lawsuit filed by Brittany McComb of Henderson,
Nev. challenging the actions of Clark County school officials. A federal appeals court ruled
previously ruled against her.
During McComb's speech at the Foothill High School graduation in 2006, officials turned off McComb's microphone when the school valedictorian strayed from an approved text to provide a graphic account of Jesus' crucifixion and credit God for her success in school.
During McComb's speech at the Foothill High School graduation in 2006, officials turned off McComb's microphone when the school valedictorian strayed from an approved text to provide a graphic account of Jesus' crucifixion and credit God for her success in school.
The M+G+R Foundation Comments: We hope that the US Supreme Court does not ask "Where was God?" (a la Ratzinger) after Step No. 1 (2) because God could allow things to get even worse.
(1) News Report
(2) Sequence of Events leading to the End if These Times
and that...
...we are finally getting through to some Apocalyptic publications?
On the front cover of last issue of one of the most important Apocalyptic style publications in Spanish, the banner accompanying the cover story read: The End of These Times, whereas the usual banner or headline has been up to now The End of the World.
Martin Luther King, Jr. said: “The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in
moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands in times of challenge and
controversy.”
miguel de Portugal says: “The ultimate measure of a man's faith is not how he acts in moments of comfort and convenience, but how he acts in times of personal and global upheaval.”
miguel de Portugal says: “The ultimate measure of a man's faith is not how he acts in moments of comfort and convenience, but how he acts in times of personal and global upheaval.”
Published on November 16th, 2009
...when the Benedict XVI (0) agrees with George H. Bush (1), Mikhail Gorbachev (2), George Soros (3), Tony Blair (4), and other secular leaders on the need for a new world order (5), we can be certain that the world has indeed experienced a “harmonic convergence” of some sort and entered a new age?
The M+G+R Foundation Comments: This is going to be the next to the greatest upcoming show on Earth.
Why the "next to the greatest" category? you may ask.
Because the greatest of them all will come right afterwards... For in those days shall be such tribulations, as were not from the beginning of the creation which God created until now, neither shall be. [Mark 13:19]
(0) Benedict XVI and the New World Order
(1) George H. Bush and the New World Order
(2) Mikhail Gorbachev and the New World Order
(3) George Soros and the New World Order
(4) Tony Blair
(5) About the New World Order
and that...
...every day we offer at least a decade of the Rosary seeking the guidance, consolation and protection of God for the members of the clergy, religious orders and hierarchy who are truly of God and are trying to serve Him as He Wills it in spite of attacks from within (right and left flanks) and the world?
We certainly do, and encourage all to do the same. There are many children of God thirsting for the Holy Sacraments throughout the world and we need to assist those members of the clergy, religious orders and hierarchy who are trying to do their best in doing so.
Yes - the Catholic Church Administration is overrun with scoundrels but there are a few of the likes of Patriarch John Chrysostom, Don John Bosco and Sister Faustina in the world who need all the spiritual help we can secure for them... and the fewer they are, the more help they need!
Oremus...
Published on November 15th, 2009
...the oldest permanent US city is St. Augustine, Florida, and the first US Catholic parish was established there? (1)
[our highlights]
The earliest documents detail the births, confirmations, marriages and deaths of the Spanish
residents in St. Augustine from 1594 to 1763, when the British took over Florida.
Dated Jan. 24, 1594, and handwritten by Father Diego Escobar de Sambrana, the record held by Bitzer details the marriage of soldier Gabriel Hernandez to Catalina de Valdes in St. Augustine, some 26 years before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock.
Other treasures in the archives include the records, headboard, and a piece of the coffin belonging to Pedro Menendez de Aviles, the Spanish Navy admiral who founded St. Augustine in 1565.
There are also records of the diocese's nine bishops and the Spanish colonial government, and microfilm of records on explorations, the attacks of English and French corsairs, the development of slavery and reports on Indian customs and languages.
Missing from the collection are the documents from the first 29 years of Catholic life in St. Augustine. Gannon believes they may have been destroyed by Sir Francis Drake, the English privateer, who sacked the town in 1586.
Dated Jan. 24, 1594, and handwritten by Father Diego Escobar de Sambrana, the record held by Bitzer details the marriage of soldier Gabriel Hernandez to Catalina de Valdes in St. Augustine, some 26 years before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock.
Other treasures in the archives include the records, headboard, and a piece of the coffin belonging to Pedro Menendez de Aviles, the Spanish Navy admiral who founded St. Augustine in 1565.
There are also records of the diocese's nine bishops and the Spanish colonial government, and microfilm of records on explorations, the attacks of English and French corsairs, the development of slavery and reports on Indian customs and languages.
Missing from the collection are the documents from the first 29 years of Catholic life in St. Augustine. Gannon believes they may have been destroyed by Sir Francis Drake, the English privateer, who sacked the town in 1586.
miguel de Portugal Comments: Divine Providence had it that my two last extended stays in the US were precisely in St. Augustine. It was then when I found out about the civil and religious significance of the city. We had the joy of frequently praying by spot where the first ever Mass was offered in St. Augustine.
(1) News Report
Published on November 14th, 2009 [Mary, Mother of Divine Providence]
...St. John Chrysostom (347 - 407) was literally ran out of Constantinople after he became its Patriarch (in 397 AD) and started cleaning out the already corrupt Church?
"In 397 John Chrysostom was transferred to Constantinople to be the new patriarch. The previous
patriarch had been easygoing and lax but John was not. He insisted on holiness from his clergy. He
did not give or attend lavish social parties. He sold some of the new furniture in the patriarchal
residence to build a hospital. He preached against luxury and greed. Many opposed him. including
the empress. The patriarch of Alexandria. Theophilus, also resented him and conspired to ruin
him." (1)
Eventually he was banished to the Caucasus in Armenia.
It was only in the year 313 AD that the Edict of Milan legalized Christianity in the Roman Empire - a legalization which paved the way to make it the de facto
official Imperial Religion after the Council of Nicaea in 325 AD.(2)
It had barely taken 72 years [397 AD minus 325 AD] for the formerly Holy Church Administration to go to the proverbial dogs... almost 1600 years before the "Blame-it-all on Second Vatican Council" took place. (3)
If anyone ever needs prove of the reality of God and the reality that even satan must serve Him, whether he likes it or not, is the fact that the Pristine Catholic Faith (4) has reached us today - when we most need it - is spite of the vandals (5) who have been Administering the Catholic Church - both East (Orthodox) and West (Rome)!
Note: It is not our intention to promote and/or defend and/or justify the results of the Second Vatican Council; our intention is to underscore the reality that the problems which have cause a failed - yes, we said "failed" - Evangelization date back to the end of the 4th century.
(1) A Daily Calendar of Saints by Lawrence R. Farley; ISBN 1-880971-24-0; pgs. 248-249
(2) Constantine Presides the Council of Nicaea
(3) The "Blame It All On" Council
(4) The Pristine and Truly Rich Catholic Faith
(5) We are being overly charitable in using this adjective in describing those scoundrels.
and that...
...if you thought that modern music - if most of that could be called "music" - was from satan... will you be surprised with the latest? (1)
The List Member Comments: It seems anyone can rationalise corrupting influences...
(1) Meet Brother Cesare Bonizzi, also known as Frate Cesare and Fratello Metallo
Published on November 13th, 2009
...Sweden's Lutheran church consecrated its first openly gay bishop, just two weeks after it gave clergy the right to wed same-sex couples? (1)
Eva Brunne became bishop of Stockholm's diocese in a ceremony Sunday.
She lives in a "registered partnership" with another woman, a civil union between gays used in Sweden before same-sex marriages were legalized this year. The couple also has a child.
"It is very positive that our church is setting an example here and is choosing me as bishop based on my qualifications, when they also know that they can meet resistance elsewhere," the 55-year-old Brunne told The Associated Press by phone.
She lives in a "registered partnership" with another woman, a civil union between gays used in Sweden before same-sex marriages were legalized this year. The couple also has a child.
"It is very positive that our church is setting an example here and is choosing me as bishop based on my qualifications, when they also know that they can meet resistance elsewhere," the 55-year-old Brunne told The Associated Press by phone.
The M+G+R Foundation Comments: Our position about homosexuality (2) is as clear as it is compassionate; our position regarding the great importance of women (3) leaves no room for doubt about it; our position about who God allows in the priesthood (4) should leave no doubt either; and our respect and support for civil unions among members of the same gender should be, by now, legendary. However, what we read in the above news report is little short of an abomination.
We must pray without ceasing for "the Titanic" is just about to hit the bottom of the sea.
(1) News Report
(2) Homosexuality - A Biblical Perspective
(3) The natural importance of women
(4) The only changes that God will not allow in the Church
Published on November 12th, 2009
...an asteroid passed just 8,700miles from Earth - with only 15 hours warning? (1)
Although no one noticed at the time, the Earth was almost hit by an asteroid last Friday.
The previously undiscovered asteroid came within 8,700miles of Earth but astronomers noticed it only 15 hours before it made its closest approach.
Its orbit brought it 30 times nearer than the Moon, which is 250,000 miles away.
But before you head for the nuclear bunkers you will be relieved to learn the tumbling rock was only 23ft across. Similar sized objects pass by this close to Earth about twice a year and impact on the planet about once every five years.
The previously undiscovered asteroid came within 8,700miles of Earth but astronomers noticed it only 15 hours before it made its closest approach.
Its orbit brought it 30 times nearer than the Moon, which is 250,000 miles away.
But before you head for the nuclear bunkers you will be relieved to learn the tumbling rock was only 23ft across. Similar sized objects pass by this close to Earth about twice a year and impact on the planet about once every five years.
The M+G+R Foundation Comments: Do you realize that when "the one which has our name" will hit without advance warning? Let us "cozy up" to God before is too late. Do notice - we said "when" and not "if".
(1) News Report
and that...
...Rev. Gianfranco Ghirlanda presented the official logic behind the Vatican's handling of the sexual abuse within its ranks? (1) (2)
The M+G+R Foundation Comments: It was published in the year 2002. That is why we see "business as usual" within the Roman Catholic Church and explains the promotion of Cardinal Law (3) and Archbishop Levada (4) - Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
Not only they have set the standard for Cafeteria Catholicism but have taken the Relativism they denounce to levels never attained. We truly feel sorry for those who believe in "the Church" (meaning the Administration of the Church) at the expense of believing in God and living the Catholic Faith. We assure you - few, if any, will make it.
(1) News Report
(2) More on Rev. Gianfranco Ghirlanda
(3) Cardinal Law's Promotion
(4) The Guardian of the Faith
Published on November 11th, 2009
...we may have "found" the Tabernacle and Ark of the Covenant claimed by the Ethiopian Orthodox Church to be in Axum (1)?
We did not have to travel outside of our Private Chapel where we were reviewing a book originally published in 1906. A hidden (2) reference in that book led us to where the Holy Scriptures tell us of the final disposition of the Tabernacle and Ark of the Covenant. In the Second Book of the Maccabees we read in Chapter 2:
[our highlighting]
1 Now it is found in the descriptions (3) of
Jeremias the prophet, that he commanded them that went into captivity, to take the fire, as it
hath been signified, and how he gave charge to them that were carried away into captivity. 2 And
how he gave them the law that they should not forget the commandments of the Lord, and that they
should not err in their minds, seeing the idols of gold, and silver, and the ornaments of them. 3
And with other such like speeches, he exhorted them that they would not remove the law from their
heart. 4 It was also contained in the same writing, how the prophet, being warned by
God, commanded that the tabernacle and the ark should accompany him, till he came forth to the
mountain where Moses went up, and saw the inheritance of God. 5 And when Jeremias came thither he
found a hollow cave: and he carried in thither the tabernacle, and the ark, and the altar of
incense, and so stopped the door.
6 Then some of them that followed him, came up to mark the place: but they could not find it. 7 And when Jeremias perceived it, he blamed them, saying: The place shall be unknown, till God gather together the congregation of the people, and receive them to mercy. 8 And then the Lord will shew these things, and the majesty of the Lord shall appear, and there shall be a cloud as it was also shewed to Moses, and he shewed it when Solomon prayed that the place might be sanctified to the great God.
6 Then some of them that followed him, came up to mark the place: but they could not find it. 7 And when Jeremias perceived it, he blamed them, saying: The place shall be unknown, till God gather together the congregation of the people, and receive them to mercy. 8 And then the Lord will shew these things, and the majesty of the Lord shall appear, and there shall be a cloud as it was also shewed to Moses, and he shewed it when Solomon prayed that the place might be sanctified to the great God.
The Second Book of the Maccabees was the last book of the Old Testament. It was written in Koine Greek, probably in Alexandria, Egypt, c 124 BC. It presents a revised version of the historical events recounted in the first seven chapters of 1 Maccabees, adding material from the Pharisaic tradition, including prayer for the dead and a resurrection on Judgment Day. Catholics and Orthodox consider the work to be canonical and part of the Bible. Protestants and Jews reject most of the doctrinal innovations present in the work. (4)
"Knowing" as we know Jeremiah as well as his relationship with God, what we read in " Maccabees 9:1-8 is the most theo-logical explanation of what happened with the Tabernacle and Ark of the Covenant.
Of course, if we emulated the Media's technique (too keep the issue going indefinitely) we could say that someone came after and stole them and took them to Ethiopia. This scenario is highly improbable since there would have been some record of it - after all, we are talking about the Holiest physical items for the Jewish Faith and not a couple of old wine jugs.
As far as we are concerned, that settles the issue: The Ark of the Covenant is not in Axum, Ethiopia.
(1) The Ethiopian claim
(2) "Hidden" meaning following a reference buried in a multitude of references at the foot of a page.
(3) "The descriptions"... That is, the records or memoirs of Jeremias, a work that is now lost. (4) More about the Second Book of the Maccabees
Published on November 10th, 2009
...the fundamental reason for which applied Christianity has failed is clearly stated in the New Testament just as the fact that it would fail?
First - The prophecy that it would fail...
...But yet the Son of man, when he cometh, shall he find, think you, faith on earth?
[Luke 18:8]
In modern English [NIV] (to avoid misunderstandings):
...However, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on the earth?[Luke
18:8]
Second - What man has not done... which has caused applied Christianity to fail...
If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and
brethren, and sisters, yea and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple. [Luke
14:26]
Of course, Jesus is not using the word "hate" as we understand it. "Hate" is an impossible attribute for God. So then, what is He referring to?
This is what He is referring to...
...Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart, and with thy whole soul, and with all
thy strength, and with all thy mind: and thy neighbour as thyself. [Luke
10:27]
We shall now rewrite Luke 14:26 as it was meant...
If any man come to me, and does not place me before his father, and mother, and wife, and
children, and brethren, and sisters, yea and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.
[Luke 14:26]
It is that simple! Once the proverbial "chips are down" God is placed on the back seat by most while everyone else is given priority.
A personal note from miguel de Portugal
(The "I" refers to the man who later became miguel de Portugal)
Tragically, in 24 years of journey, I have only recognized precious few individuals (the first and foremost of them I call Mother Elizabeth) who would selflessly place God before all.
Mother Elizabeth was the (financially) poorest individual with whom I have interacted on a personal/spiritual and continuous basis for years - a childless widow nearing ninety years old who lived in a house which was literally falling down, with no air conditioned in a 90+ ºF and 90% humidity environment, yet, she is the richest individual I ever met.
So rich that when God tested my loyalty and faith by allowing me to reach a penniless state (1) she offered me all her life savings so that I could get from under a crushing debt, (2) (a debt which was beyond her comprehension). Her life savings totaled just under 500 US dollars. (3) It was then and there that I met in person the widow of the much talked about "widow's mite" [Mark 12:43].
I have no doubt that the soul of Elizabeth Carter Garza (4) is now basking in the revealed Glorious Presence of God.
miguel de Portugal
Tragically, in 24 years of journey, I have only recognized precious few individuals (the first and foremost of them I call Mother Elizabeth) who would selflessly place God before all.
Mother Elizabeth was the (financially) poorest individual with whom I have interacted on a personal/spiritual and continuous basis for years - a childless widow nearing ninety years old who lived in a house which was literally falling down, with no air conditioned in a 90+ ºF and 90% humidity environment, yet, she is the richest individual I ever met.
So rich that when God tested my loyalty and faith by allowing me to reach a penniless state (1) she offered me all her life savings so that I could get from under a crushing debt, (2) (a debt which was beyond her comprehension). Her life savings totaled just under 500 US dollars. (3) It was then and there that I met in person the widow of the much talked about "widow's mite" [Mark 12:43].
I have no doubt that the soul of Elizabeth Carter Garza (4) is now basking in the revealed Glorious Presence of God.
miguel de Portugal
(1) No income whatsoever, a bank balance of $50 and with monthly payments for past debts totaling $5,000. After this severe test, the "financial Gates from Heaven" opened so that when He said some years later: "Leave all behind and follow Me" the proverbial grain stores were overflowing, but dealt with as He indicated.
(2) By not going against Divine Law a number of financial reverses were accepted thus driving me to such financial state.
(3) Naturally, the offer was not accepted, however, less than an hour later the first "financial drop" from Heaven fell - to later turn into the above mentioned torrent.
(4) Meet Mother Elizabeth (a montage using her photo and two other items given to me by her over eighteen years ago).
and that...
...whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.
[Mark 11:24]
Published on November 9th, 2009
[our highlighting]
...Mikhail Gorbachev (1) last Tuesady said: "Only in cooperation with Russia and the United States can Europe play its role in the global process of creating a new world order"? (2)
Gorbachev praised US President Barack Obama, who has sought to improve the United States' image
and repair US-Russian relations that were damaged under his predecessor George W. Bush.
Comparing Obama's efforts with his own attempt to reform the Soviet Union in the 1980s -- which was called "perestroika", or "restructuring" -- Gorbachev said that Obama faced the harder task.
"I do not envy Obama, because I think changing and 'restructuring' America is not easier than changing the Soviet Union," Gorbachev said.
"I wish the Americans luck. I think the president's steps need the support of the American people," he added.
Gorbachev, a winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1990, also said he approved of Obama's unexpected Peace Prize victory last month, saying it could help push the United States towards greater multilateralism.
The M+G+R Foundation Comments: Allow us to remind you that the version
of the NWO that Gorbachev speaks of is not the same President Bush the First launched in his State
of the Union Address of February 1991(3).Comparing Obama's efforts with his own attempt to reform the Soviet Union in the 1980s -- which was called "perestroika", or "restructuring" -- Gorbachev said that Obama faced the harder task.
"I do not envy Obama, because I think changing and 'restructuring' America is not easier than changing the Soviet Union," Gorbachev said.
"I wish the Americans luck. I think the president's steps need the support of the American people," he added.
Gorbachev, a winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1990, also said he approved of Obama's unexpected Peace Prize victory last month, saying it could help push the United States towards greater multilateralism.
Thus, the "Family Problems" we have announced years ago. (4)
(1) Mr. Gorbachev's NWO Background
(2) News Report
(3) President Bush's version of the NWO
(4) The "Saviors" of the World are having Family Problems
...fear paralyzes the immune system? (1)
Getting caught up in all the panic and hype surrounding H1N1 is a good way to get sick.
Fear changes the body chemistry in destructive ways and suppresses immunity. The ominous title of “swine” flu may be one reason people have flocked to get medicine and vaccines for a flu that is less debilitating than the regular flu.
Scare tactics coming into your living room, in living color also takes its toll. When you watch this horrifying news, pay close attention to what is advertised on television.
The M+G+R Foundation Comments: Please note that the above is applicable to any state of fear - not only the induced almost mass panic over the H1N1 manufactured pandemic.
(1) News Report
Published on November 8th, 2009
...the priests of the Lyon Diocese are donating a month of their salary to aid the poor, joining in an initiative of their brothers in Spain? (1)
The diocesan Council of the Presbyterium invited all the priests to donate one month's salary,
which amounts to some $1,340, to a charitable organization that supports victims of the economic
crisis.
Even though "individually and discreetly, numerous priests contribute to the financing of charitable organizations," a statement on the diocesan Web site acknowledged, "we wish to express our closeness by a particular financial commitment."
The M+G+R Foundation Comments: Some good news for a change!Even though "individually and discreetly, numerous priests contribute to the financing of charitable organizations," a statement on the diocesan Web site acknowledged, "we wish to express our closeness by a particular financial commitment."
The merit is even greater than it appears since those priests really know how immensily wealthy the Roman Catholic Church (including the religious orders) is, yet they are reaching into their own pockets to help the poor.
An inside look at the true wealth of the RC Church in Europe would make the wealth of the RC in the US - for example (2) - simply pale.
(1) News Report
(2) For Example
and that...
...Google unveiled a new service called Google Dashboard that summarizes the data that Google collects in users’ accounts? (1)
[our highlighting]
“For the most part, the data was accessible to you in a piecemeal fashion,” Shuman
Ghosemajumder, business product manager for trust and safety, said in an interview Wednesday.
“This is about providing you with a one-stop shop to see all of the data about you in various
products.” (such as: Gmail, Picasa Web Albums, Web History, Checkout, Reader and YouTube)
Mr. Ghosemajumder said Dashboard would offer users more transparency and control. The dashboard for Gmail, for example, will list the number of conversations in your inbox and the total number of conversations in your account, as well as how many chat sessions it has stored. Links for changing settings will be easily accessible.
Dahsboard provides information only about users’ Google accounts for products that require them to log in or for products in which the log-in is optional. It does not address the search records of people who are not logged into Google or the cookie data that Google uses to aim ads at people.
Mr. Ghosemajumder said Dashboard would offer users more transparency and control. The dashboard for Gmail, for example, will list the number of conversations in your inbox and the total number of conversations in your account, as well as how many chat sessions it has stored. Links for changing settings will be easily accessible.
Dahsboard provides information only about users’ Google accounts for products that require them to log in or for products in which the log-in is optional. It does not address the search records of people who are not logged into Google or the cookie data that Google uses to aim ads at people.
The M+G+R Foundation Comments: We recommend that after using any of the Google or Yahoo accounts, for example, you sign out from the service.
However, that is not 100% fool proof and they say so in a convoluted way:
The dashboard "...does not address the search records of people who are not logged into Google
or the cookie data that Google uses to aim ads at people. While such data, which typically
includes a computer's Internet Protocol (IP address) is not associated with personally
identifiable information like names and addresses, it can often be linked with
individuals."
How "it can often be linked with individuals."? Since they link all information gathered to your computer IP and you sign in to the Google services using that IP protocol - Voilá! - They have it all!
(1) News Report
Published on November 7th, 2009 [First SaturdayDevotion]
...a ruling by the European court of human rights said the display of crucifixes in Italian public schools violates religious and education freedoms? (1)
[our highlighting]
In a decision that could force a review of the use of religious symbols in government-run schools
across Europe, the court ordered Italy to pay a $7,390 fine to a mother in northern
Italy who fought for eight years to have crucifixes removed from her children's public school
classrooms. The Italian government said it would appeal.
Vatican spokesman the Rev. Federico Lombardi said the crucifix was a fundamental sign of the importance of religious values in Italian history and culture and was a symbol of unity and welcoming for all of humanity — not one of exclusion.
He said a European court had no right intervening in such a profoundly Italian matter and said "it seems as if the court wanted to ignore the role of Christianity in forming Europe's identity, which was and remains essential."
The M+G+R Foundation Comments: The same situation is brewing in other
predominantly Catholic countries within the EU. Of course, the EU will have its way since they
live by the "Golden Rule": He who owns the gold makes the rules and those countries are
heavily indebted to the EU.Vatican spokesman the Rev. Federico Lombardi said the crucifix was a fundamental sign of the importance of religious values in Italian history and culture and was a symbol of unity and welcoming for all of humanity — not one of exclusion.
He said a European court had no right intervening in such a profoundly Italian matter and said "it seems as if the court wanted to ignore the role of Christianity in forming Europe's identity, which was and remains essential."
(1) News Report
and that...
...Texas churches help paved way for new Vatican plan? (1)
[our highlighting]
At Saint Mary the Virgin Catholic Church, the 75-year-old priest is married, members sing from an
Episcopalian hymnal and parishioners kneel at the altar to receive Communion.
Years ago, the Texas parish and a handful of other conservative Episcopal churches in the U.S. decided to become Roman Catholic. Though they were confirmed by the Vatican, they were still allowed to practice some of their Anglican traditions, including having married priests.
Now, these churches may have helped pave the way for Anglicans worldwide, or Episcopalians as they are known in the U.S., to become Catholic under a new Vatican plan created to make it easier for such conversions. The surprise move revealed in October is designed to entice traditionalists opposed to women priests, openly gay clergy and blessing of same-sex unions.
Years ago, the Texas parish and a handful of other conservative Episcopal churches in the U.S. decided to become Roman Catholic. Though they were confirmed by the Vatican, they were still allowed to practice some of their Anglican traditions, including having married priests.
Now, these churches may have helped pave the way for Anglicans worldwide, or Episcopalians as they are known in the U.S., to become Catholic under a new Vatican plan created to make it easier for such conversions. The surprise move revealed in October is designed to entice traditionalists opposed to women priests, openly gay clergy and blessing of same-sex unions.
The M+G+R Foundation Comments: The Vatican Cafeteria humming along. If the under Evangelized Faithful was confused by the Second Vatican Council imagine to what level of confusion they will now ascend.
(1) News Report
Published on November 6th, 2009 [First Friday Devotion]
...Barclays Plc Chief Executive Officer John Varley stood at the wooden lectern in St. Martin-in-the- Fields on London’s Trafalgar Square last night and told the packed pews of the church that “profit is not satanic.”? (1)
[our highlighting]
Varley joins Goldman Sachs International adviser Brian Griffiths and Lazard International Chairman
Ken Costa as London bankers who’ve gone into London churches in recent weeks and invoked
Christianity to defend a banking system that critics say has created wealth and inequality in the
U.K.
“The injunction of Jesus to love others as ourselves is an endorsement of self-interest,” Goldman’s Griffiths said Oct. 20, his voice echoing around the gold-mosaic walls of St. Paul’s Cathedral, whose 365-feet-high dome towers over the City, London’s financial district. “We have to tolerate the inequality as a way to achieving greater prosperity and opportunity for all.”
“It seems like the bankers aren’t listening to society,” said Jacob Needleman, a professor of philosophy at San Francisco State University and author of “Money and the Meaning of Life.” Needleman said Griffiths should make “an immediate donation of some several million pounds to a beautiful charity” to show he can “walk the talk.”
For Richard Chartres, the bishop of London, Varley, Griffiths and Costa are men of “high moral integrity and they know what a danger it is” to speak about banking in church.
The M+G+R Foundation Comments: It looks like the "theology" espoused
by Opus Dei (2) continues to gain adepts. About the donation suggested by
Mr. Needleman... we would not wait for it while standing up... after all, the proverbial freezing
of hell will take place first.“The injunction of Jesus to love others as ourselves is an endorsement of self-interest,” Goldman’s Griffiths said Oct. 20, his voice echoing around the gold-mosaic walls of St. Paul’s Cathedral, whose 365-feet-high dome towers over the City, London’s financial district. “We have to tolerate the inequality as a way to achieving greater prosperity and opportunity for all.”
“It seems like the bankers aren’t listening to society,” said Jacob Needleman, a professor of philosophy at San Francisco State University and author of “Money and the Meaning of Life.” Needleman said Griffiths should make “an immediate donation of some several million pounds to a beautiful charity” to show he can “walk the talk.”
For Richard Chartres, the bishop of London, Varley, Griffiths and Costa are men of “high moral integrity and they know what a danger it is” to speak about banking in church.
(1) News Report
(2) Opus Dei "theology"
...VeriChip Corporation, a provider of radio frequency identification (RFID) systems for healthcare and patient-related needs, and Steel Vault Corporation, a premier provider of identity security products and services, announced today that VeriChip has agreed to acquire Steel Vault and form PositiveID Corporation to offer identification tools and technologies for consumers and businesses? (1)
[our highlighting]
"VeriChip will be able to market its personal health record offerings to the rapidly growing
customers of Steel Vault, while Steel Vault should be able to further expand its customer base
by offering a unique suite of both security and healthcare offerings. As we focus on securing
consumers' financial information and addressing the critical need for secure, online personal
health records, we believe we are well positioned to benefit from federal stimulus funding.
We will keep patients involved in their health care as medical records migrate to the
Internet."
The M+G+R Foundation Comments: Now we have Facebook... what next? Medbook? But not to worry... it will be as secure as the records of those 25 millions UK citizens which one government office "misplaced" by mailing them stored in CD's to another government office (2)... a mailing which never reached their intended destination... but not to worry, the appropriate Minister apologized on TV... what a relief!
(1) News Report
(2) News Report
Published on November 5th, 2009
...there is a significant and increasing body of evidence for a link between mobile phone usage and certain brain tumors? (1)
For the study, researchers from the University of California, Berkeley, and a consortium of Korean
institutions examined 465 articles published in major journals, focusing on 23 case-controlled
studies involving a total of 37,916 patients for their final analysis. Some of the patients
(controls) had no history of brain tumors, while the others had been diagnosed with brain
tumors.
Considered as a group, the studies showed no link between cell phone use and brain tumors. But separated into subgroups and reanalyzed, eight of the “higher quality” studies, most conducted by the same research team in Sweden, found cell phone users to have a 10 to 30 percent increased risk for developing a brain tumo
Considered as a group, the studies showed no link between cell phone use and brain tumors. But separated into subgroups and reanalyzed, eight of the “higher quality” studies, most conducted by the same research team in Sweden, found cell phone users to have a 10 to 30 percent increased risk for developing a brain tumo
But the mobile communications industry argues that cell phones have been shown to be safe, and
should be considered so until they are shown conclusively to be unsafe.
The M+G+R Foundation Comments: If anyone expects the mobile
communications industry to ever admit to such danger, do so sitting down for the wait is going to
be very, very long. Almost as long as it will take the entertainment industry and video game
industry to admit that wanton sex and violence in programs, movies and games are literally
destroying the souls of our young. Blessedly it no longer matters - time is very short.(1) News Report
and that...
...Cardinal Kasper joins Protestants in planting trees to celebrate the Reformation led by Luther? (1)
[our highlighting]
"It is possible for us today to together learn from Martin Luther," said Cardinal Walter
Kasper, president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity as he planted the first
of 500 trees on 1 November in a landscaped Luther Garden, forming part of the celebrations for
2017.
"This is a reformation event, the nailing of the theses in 1517. It is also an ecumenical event," Nyomi told ENI. "1517 has to do with the renewal of the whole church family and therefore needs to be commemorated ecumenically, affirming our common heritage."
Cardinal Kasper told ENI that he hoped the 500th anniversary of the Reformation would be marked jointly by Catholics and Protestants.
"This is a reformation event, the nailing of the theses in 1517. It is also an ecumenical event," Nyomi told ENI. "1517 has to do with the renewal of the whole church family and therefore needs to be commemorated ecumenically, affirming our common heritage."
Cardinal Kasper told ENI that he hoped the 500th anniversary of the Reformation would be marked jointly by Catholics and Protestants.
The M+G+R Foundation Comments: Being that the case, wouldn't it be appropriate for the Roman Catholic Church Administration to publicly endorse to all 95 theses (2) that Luther posted on the door of the church in 1517, and what followed later?
We are not downplaying the importance of harmonious relationship amongst different faiths; we are only highlighting that "let's cause scandal" seems to be the by-line of the Ratzinger Administration. A logical by-line...
As always - It is never the Faith (3); it is always the Administration (4) that drives away the faithful from God.
Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; because you go round about the sea and the land
to make one proselyte; and when he is made, you make him the child of hell twofold more than
yourselves. [Matthew 23:15]
We could not invent these things even if we tried it!
(1) News Report
(2) The Ninety-Five Theses
(3) About the Pristine Catholic Faith
(4) About the soiled Roman Catholic Church Administration
Published on November 4th, 2009
...God continues to apply His policy of "Divine Mercy demands of warning individuals and/or institutions of consequences should inappropriate action is taken."
One paramount example of such policy were the visits to, and instructions through, Fatima with the appropriate warnings about the consequences if ignored.
On a more subtle manner, but with consequences of even greater import if not heeded, another example was our letter (*) to Joaquin Navarro-Valls the Opus Dei "handler" of H.H. John Paul II.
Yesterday, adhering to the same Divine policy, the following letter was e-sent to Cardinal William Levada (**), Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
Cardinal William Joseph Levada, Prefect
CONGREGATION FOR THE DOCTRINE OF THE FAITH
The Vatican
November 3, 2009
Pax Vobis!
It has been brought to our attention (1) that Australian Cardinal George Pell is being considered as Prefect for Congregation for Bishops.
In an effort to avoid yet another embarrassment to the current Vatican Administration with the consequential damage to whatever little faith is left amongst Catholics we wish to bring up to your attention the following quote from a document (2) prepared by Mr. Lee Penn:
CONGREGATION FOR THE DOCTRINE OF THE FAITH
The Vatican
November 3, 2009
Pax Vobis!
It has been brought to our attention (1) that Australian Cardinal George Pell is being considered as Prefect for Congregation for Bishops.
In an effort to avoid yet another embarrassment to the current Vatican Administration with the consequential damage to whatever little faith is left amongst Catholics we wish to bring up to your attention the following quote from a document (2) prepared by Mr. Lee Penn:
==============================
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• In Australia, Cardinal George Pell - “ much beloved by the Vatican and by
conservative Catholics for his loyalty to the papal Magisterium - “ wrote in February 2003 to
Anthony Jones, an adult victim of priestly rape, that his accusations could not be true because
the Church had received no other sexual assault complaints against the alleged offender. [1]
The same day, Cardinal Pell wrote another letter to another victim of the same
priest, accepting his claim that he had been assaulted as a boy by Fr. Terence Goodall. The
two letters came to light due to civil and criminal suits, and Fr. Goodall was convicted in 2005
of indecent assault against Jones. Unsurprisingly, Mr. Jones says that Pell's deceitful denial
"destroyed my faith. Ripped it to pieces. I now hate Catholicism because of what Cardinal Pell has done to me."
[1] Information in this paragraph is from Conor Duffy and Tim Palmer, " Exclusive documents reveal church ignored abuse allegations, " Australian Broadcasting Corporation, July 7, 2008, http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/content/2008/s2297016.htm, viewed 10/09/08.
"destroyed my faith. Ripped it to pieces. I now hate Catholicism because of what Cardinal Pell has done to me."
[1] Information in this paragraph is from Conor Duffy and Tim Palmer, " Exclusive documents reveal church ignored abuse allegations, " Australian Broadcasting Corporation, July 7, 2008, http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/content/2008/s2297016.htm, viewed 10/09/08.
==============================
I pray that more prudence and less haste is utilized in bringing Cardinal Pell under additional
public scrutiny. As you well know through personal experience, that is not a good idea these
days.
May the Holy Spirit of God guide you.
miguel de Portugal through The M+G+R Foundation
(1) http://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/otn.cfm?id=526
(2) http://www.www.mgr.org/B16_Record.html
May the Holy Spirit of God guide you.
miguel de Portugal through The M+G+R Foundation
(1) http://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/otn.cfm?id=526
(2) http://www.www.mgr.org/B16_Record.html
(*) Letter to Navarro-Valls
(**) Cardinal Levada's Trajectory
and that...
...nearly 200,000 Americans die every year from medical mistakes that could have been prevented, while the number of deaths due to auto accidents is onçly 40,000 - only one fifth? (1)
Ten years ago, a highly publicized federal report [“To Err is Human”] called the death toll
shocking and challenged the medical community to cut it in half -- within five years.
Instead, federal analysts believe the rate of medical error is actually increasing.
A national investigation by Hearst Newspapers found that the medical community, the federal government and most states have overwhelmingly failed to take the effective steps outlined in the report a decade ago.
Consequently, over that period, as many as 2 million Americans have died needlessly of preventable medical mistakes.
Instead, federal analysts believe the rate of medical error is actually increasing.
A national investigation by Hearst Newspapers found that the medical community, the federal government and most states have overwhelmingly failed to take the effective steps outlined in the report a decade ago.
Consequently, over that period, as many as 2 million Americans have died needlessly of preventable medical mistakes.
The M+G+R Foundation Comments: H1N1 vaccine, anyone? After all, the Federal authorities (CDC) recommend it and many MD's (2) do too.
You know our borrowed motto: In God we trust and everyone else must pay in cash - although in this case, it is not a matter of faith - it is a matter of common sense!
(1) Report
(2) Physicians Are Talking About: Is It Worth Getting the H1N1 Vaccine?
Published on November 3rd, 2009
...the one-person-one-vote concept, in a world ran by the Media, is not a true democracy?
Those who control the Media control the future of the nations and not the poor people who think that they do have a choice. They do not even have a choice as to what media outlet to tune in for truth in the news since now they seem like media clones delivering the same subliminal message to the masses.
As you will see (1), the little hope that the average citizen had left during the Vietnam war era... is gone.
(1) The "makings" of "The Most Dangerous Man in America" - is no more.
and that...
...thousands awaited Knock's new Virgin Mary apparition? (1)
They came from Wexford, Manchester and even India, driven on by the hope that in this rain-soaked
corner of western Ireland the mother of God would appear to them this weekend.
All along Knock's main street the pilgrims slept in vans and motor homes, all hoping to book a space near the site where a Dublin-based spiritual healer predicted the Virgin Mary would materialise.
Joe Coleman's visions of a Marian apparition on the exact spot where villagers claimed they saw the Virgin Mary in 1879 have created a fervour across the Catholic world.
All along Knock's main street the pilgrims slept in vans and motor homes, all hoping to book a space near the site where a Dublin-based spiritual healer predicted the Virgin Mary would materialise.
Joe Coleman's visions of a Marian apparition on the exact spot where villagers claimed they saw the Virgin Mary in 1879 have created a fervour across the Catholic world.
The M+G+R Foundation Comments: satan is certainly covering all the bases.
Since the MMP was "sunk" by the year 2000 (2) he has to come up with alternate bogus Marian manifestations to pave the way for his grand entrance as the False Christ.
Let us not forget that She has now "gone away" as prescribed in the Scriptures: And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she had a place prepared by God, that here they should feed her a thousand two hundred sixty days. [Rev. 12:6] (3)
(1) News Report
(2) MMP - In Conclusion
(3) Step 4 of Sequence of Events
Published on November 2nd, 2009 [All Souls Day] (1)
...we continue to detect frequent anomalies in the reporting of world wide earthquakes? (2)
For example, we received...
== PRELIMINARY EARTHQUAKE REPORT ==
***This event supersedes event AT00683827.
Region: HINDU KUSH REGION, AFGHANISTAN
Geographic coordinates: 36.466N, 70.716E
Magnitude: 6.0 Mw
Depth: 202 km
Universal Time (UTC): 29 Oct 2009 17:44:31
Time near the Epicenter: 29 Oct 2009 22:14:31
Location with respect to nearby cities:
72 km (45 miles) S (169 degrees) of Feyzabad, Afghanistan
131 km (81 miles) WNW (301 degrees) of Chitral, Pakistan
ADDITIONAL EARTHQUAKE PARAMETERS
--------------------------------
event ID : US 2009niba
This event has been reviewed by a
seismologist at NEIC
For subsequent updates, maps, and technical information, see:
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/Quakes/us2009niba.php
National Earthquake Information Center
U.S. Geological Survey
http://neic.usgs.gov/
***This event supersedes event AT00683827.
Region: HINDU KUSH REGION, AFGHANISTAN
Geographic coordinates: 36.466N, 70.716E
Magnitude: 6.0 Mw
Depth: 202 km
Universal Time (UTC): 29 Oct 2009 17:44:31
Time near the Epicenter: 29 Oct 2009 22:14:31
Location with respect to nearby cities:
72 km (45 miles) S (169 degrees) of Feyzabad, Afghanistan
131 km (81 miles) WNW (301 degrees) of Chitral, Pakistan
ADDITIONAL EARTHQUAKE PARAMETERS
--------------------------------
event ID : US 2009niba
This event has been reviewed by a
seismologist at NEIC
For subsequent updates, maps, and technical information, see:
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/Quakes/us2009niba.php
National Earthquake Information Center
U.S. Geological Survey
http://neic.usgs.gov/
And then... twenty eight minutes later we received its
"Cancellation"...
DELETED: Event US 2009niba
== EVENT DELETED NOTIFICATION ==
***This event has been deleted after review by a seismologist.***
Geographic coordinates: 36.466N, 70.716E
Magnitude: 6.0
Universal Time (UTC): 29 Oct 2009 17:44:31
Time near the Epicenter: 29 Oct 2009 22:14:31
Location with respect to nearby cities:
72 km (45 miles) S (169 degrees) of Feyzabad, Afghanistan
131 km (81 miles) WNW (301 degrees) of Chitral, Pakistan
DISCLAIMER: https://sslearthquake.usgs.gov/ens/help.html?page=help#disclaimer
This is an update to a previous notification for this event
This situation is happening far too often not to raise a series of red flags, which coupled with...
...the fact that it appears that past earthquake data has been pulled out or has become next to impossible to locate, spells "trouble".
When we did our first quantification of the "energy released by an earthquake" study back in 2002 (3) we could access data back many decades, and we did.
When we attempted to update the study in 2009 (4) we could not find the past data needed. Blessedly we had stored the original pages accessed when the 2002 study was made, thus we had the information we needed and which was no longer on line.
Brethren - when "they" frequently keep "deleting" records of earthquakes with a magnitude of 5.0 and above - earthquakes hard to miss or not picked up by mistake by seismometers; when we have seen the news reports of damage done by earthquakes which were pronounced "deleted" - with a notice like the one above; when we receive a tsunami advisory report (always issued when there is an earthquake) stating whether there is a tsunami danger or not, then, we receive the notification of the earthquake from the appropriate department, only to then receive a deletion of the earthquake but NOT a word from the tsunami center... something is really amiss.
At the risk of being called alarmists we can only conclude that "something" out of the ordinary is causing an ever increasing amount of earthquakes and the authorities are going to great lengths to cover it up.
Of course - that would be consistent with "the schedule"... for which the only remedy continues to be... Let us continue to pray!
(1) Devotions
(2) Worldwide Earthquake Reporting Center
(3) Logic behind Study in 2002
(4) Updated Study
Published on November 1st, 2009 [All Saints Day] (1)
...the Vatican said Saturday that married Anglican priests will be admitted to the Catholic priesthood on a case-by-case basis? (2)
A Holy See statement Saturday quoted Cardinal William Levada, the Holy See's guardian of doctrinal
correctness, as saying the Vatican would consider accepting married Anglican priests into the
Roman Catholic priesthood as it has in the past – evaluating each case on its own merits.
The Roman Catholic church requires its priests to be celibate, except in the case of the Eastern
rite Catholics, who are allowed to be ordained if married. But over the last decades, it has also
quietly allowed married Anglican clergy to stay priests when converting to Catholicism.
In no case could a married man become a bishop, and the new rules would exclude any married Anglican bishop from retaining that post.
In no case could a married man become a bishop, and the new rules would exclude any married Anglican bishop from retaining that post.
(1) Devotions
(2) News Report
and that...
...there are many bogus news circulating in the internet which are so well crafted that many very well intentioned and informed individual fall for them?
The "latest" is about: Guns listed on your next tax return IMPORTANT
As you will see (1) this issue seems to be a hoax originating from a real proposal dating back to the year 2000 - a proposal which failed to make it; however, it has enough facts to make it believable within the Alice in Wonderland background we are living through today.
Let us face it - given the government sponsored and manufactured swine flu mega-scare, having to list guns in the tax report does not sound too out of line.
Remember... the Faithful must be ...wise as serpents and simple as doves. [Matthew 10:16]
(1) SB-2099 - Diabolical Conspiracy to Tax Handguns - Urban Legends
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