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Current News Commentary
November 30th, 2012 [St.
Andrew - Apostle]
News
Report No. 1
[our highlights]
The stars are beginning to go out.
(1)
They really are!
The universe is apparently well past its prime in terms of making
stars, and what new ones are being made now across the cosmos will
never amount to more than a few percent on top of the numbers already
come and gone.
This is the rather disquieting conclusion of a new and significant
study of the rate at which stars have been produced through cosmic time.
The main conclusions come in two parts. First, 95% of all the stars we
see around us today were formed during the past 11 billion years, and
about half of these were formed between roughly 11 and 8 billion years
ago in a flurry of activity. But the real shocker is that the rate
at which new stars are being produced in galaxies today is barely 3% of
the rate back 11 billion years ago, and declining. This
indicates that unless our universe finds a second wind (which is
unlikely) it will only ever manage to produce about 5% more stars than
exist at this very moment.
This is, quite literally, the beginning of the end.
However, despite the provocative title of this post you shouldn’t actually expect to
see the stars start to disappear from view too soon. The great
majority of stars in the universe are less massive than the Sun,
and in the Milky Way about
75% of all stars are less than half as massive.
Contributor's
comments: This testimony to the aging and the winding down of
the created order seems to be an "on schedule" item - if not for the
pending End of These Times, then certainly for the events to come in
2832.
miguel
de
Portugal comments: Following is a quote from one of our
documents
(2) where we have
said what we could regarding the
real end on the world in the year 2832.
To avoid theological double talk - when
we speak of a Messianic Earthly Kingdom we speak of a long period in
Time in which man will live on Earth in accordance to the Law of God as
delivered, explained and exemplified by Jesus Christ.
This Messianic Earthly Kingdom was intended by God to be
established by the spread of the Good News through love and acts
thereof. This was obviously not done. Therefore, God will now directly
intervene. Through pain, He will lead mankind, for its own good, to
live according to His Laws. This "God will directly intervene"
phenomena is what we call the Second Coming of Christ - which should
not be confused with the Final Judgment and the end of creation as
spoken of in the Holy Scriptures.
At the end of this lengthy period, the world - that is -
creation, as we know it - will come to an end. As we have stated else
where, that would be on or about ca. 2832 AD. No further clarification
from us regarding this issue will be forthcoming any time in the near
future.
Of course, scientists claim that the end of the Universe will not come
about any time soon and we understand their limitations. However, in no
way that changes our certainty that the end of the World - not of These
Times but of the World - will take place on or about the year 2832.
Without going into any details, the reason I was given was because, and
I quote, "the universe will run out of energy".
But.... should we be surprised?
We
wish to remind our readers of an entry which appeared in one of our
past documents (3):
On page 45 of March 1995 issue of
ASTRONOMY magazine there is an article by Robert Zimmerman entitled: POLARIS,
the Code-Blue Star : The North Star's variable heart pulsed regularly
for over a century, until it mysteriously stopped beating last year
This is the famous North Star which
"...since the beginning of written history..." has remained in the same
position as viewed from "...the Northern Hemisphere and so has come to
represent faithfulness, dependability, and constancy in most cultures."
Another "mystery" which is full of
symbolism to mankind. The one "unchangeable" astronomic land mark to
all mankind has "mysteriously" changed.... Like a Beating Heart which
has stopped Beating....
_________________
(1)
Scientific
American Reports
(2)
Remaining
Prophecies to be
fulfilled in Time.
(3)
Planex X Notes
November 29th, 2012
Comments
on a
recent News
Report
The following
was reported in a newspaper in Spain:
The U.S. NSA informed the authorities in Spain that it appeared that
child pornography files were being uploaded from Spain to servers in
Russia. The NSA gave the Spanish authorities enough information so that
the investigation is Spanish soil could commence.
Upon a thorough investigation, the Spanish autorities found out that:
a. The images were being uploaded by an
adolescent from a small town outside Alicante.
b. The adolescent was pirating the Wi-Fi connection from a neighbor to
access the internet and upload the images.
c. Many of the images were of children who were left in the care of the
young man's mother who ran an unofficial day care service for the
children of working mothers.
d. The woman was fully aware of what her son was doing.
miguel
de
Portugal comments: There are many benefits to Big Brother when
it is properly used. The problem, of course, lies when it is improperly
utilized. If our NSA had not detected this situation there is no
telling for how much longer children would have been spiritually
damaged, for life, in that allegedly "safe environment".
What are my qualifications to make such a statement? My
"qualifications" are that I live in a glass bowl to the point that I do
not even know if I have any privacy in the rest room of my living
quarters - which really does not matter to me. I have nothing to hide
in what
we write, say or do. I just wish "they" would move in and pay for the
rent. It would be easier for "them" and cheaper for me (assuming that
they do not interrupt my work, of course).
_________________
(1) ABC, November
27th, 2012 Edition.
News
Report No. 2
[our highlights]
Suit targets
'locator' chips in Texas student ID's.
(1)
To 15-year-old Andrea Hernandez,
the tracking microchip embedded in her student ID card is a "mark of
the beast," sacrilege to her Christian faith — not to mention
how it pinpoints her location, even in the school bathroom.
But to her budget-reeling San Antonio school district, those chips
carry a potential $1.7 million in classroom funds.
Starting this fall, the fourth-largest school district in Texas is
experimenting with "locator"
chips in student ID badges on two of its campuses, allowing administrators to track
the whereabouts of 4,200 students with GPS-like precision.
Hernandez' refusal to participate isn't a twist on teenage rebellion,
but has launched a debate over privacy and religion that has forged a
rare like-mindedness between typically opposing groups.
miguel
de
Portugal comments: This seems to be Big Brother being taken one
step too far, although we do not really know why the school authorities
want to do this. Is that a school which has a brisk "drug business"?
What about an environment where "bullies rule"?
Oh, yes. Until recently, when it fell off accidentally, I had a
microchip in my
bridge work. Naturally, in the car I drive, it has been "standard
equipment" for years. Do I lose sleep
over it? Of course not! I just wish "they" paid for my bridge work and
for the auto maintenance bills. Is the least "they" can do if they are
going to use them!
No; I am not joking.
_________________
(1)
News
Report
November 28th, 2012
News
Report No. 1
[our highlights]
Supermarket owner gives away stores to his 400 Employees.
(1)
'Tis the season of giving, and a
grocery-store owner is doing just that. Joe Lueken.... is retiring at
age 70. Instead of selling his stores to the highest bidder, though, he will transfer ownership to the
stores' 400 or so employees.
The employees will participate in
an employee stock ownership program, receiving shares of
Lueken's Village Foods based on length of service and salary -- and at no cost to them. The
program to transfer ownership from the Lueken family to the employees
will begin on January 1, 2013.
He explained his reason for turning
over ownership to his employees: "My employees are largely responsible
for any success I've had, and they deserve to get some of the benefits
of that."... "You can't
always take," Lueken says. "You also have to give back."
Lueken will be leaving his employees in
trusted hands: Last week, he
named longtime employee Brent Sicard as the company's new president and
CEO. Sicard started
out as an overnight janitor at Lueken's Village Foods in 1998
and has worked his way up.
miguel
de
Portugal comments: It is a pleasure to share some of the few
good news available these days. What a beautiful gesture
and motive -
100 % Jesus Christ!
Now, if we could get the Roman Catholic Church to do the same on a
country by country basis, the number of
sincere conversions to
Catholicism, as the result of such awesome example of the teachings of
Jesus Christ, would overwhelm the Baptismal Fonts throughout the world.
If any of our readers wonder why we keep "harping" on this subject
matter, I will be charitable and explain why.
If you had to face every day, wherever you would turn, the reality of
the vast real
estate holdings of "the Church", mostly empty, while people are being
evicted by the hundreds of thousands from their homes for not being
able to keep up the mortgage payments are sleeping and dying on the
streets, you would chastise us for not bringing this situation up
more often!
It is expected that the unemployment rate in Spain will top 27 % in
short notice, while the economy in Portugal is in an even worse state,
not to mention that in Greece.
Blessedly, just a few hours ago we heard on the news of a couple in
Spain who is giving up their vacation home so that a newly homeless
family have a roof over their heads. The charitable move is beginning
to catch on.... another couple just followed suit. Tragically, it will
be a cold day in hell when "the Church" uses their immense wealth,
accumulated over the centuries - in not a very Christian manner, we may
add - to assist the victims of their failed Evangelization
effort. It is not the failed Economy that is causing this worldwide
crisis; it is the failed Evangelization which logically would lead to a
predatory behavior in society which will eventually, as it is doing,
trigger an
economic disaster.
What? Do we hear a Hierarch accusing us of using "the Church" as a
whipping boy? Well, friend, that is the price that you all have to pay
for playing God and acting like satan.
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(1)
News
Report
[our
highlights]
This Thanksgiving, I (that is, Mr. Mike Adams of Natural News fame) am
thankful for all the Natural News readers, supporters and bloggers.
(1)
This year, the overriding object of my
gratitude is none other than the
fast-expanding numbers of Natural News
readers and advocates who
share our news with others.
Beyond the millions of
monthly readers who visit NaturalNews.com, we also have dozens of top blog sites and news
sites that link to our headlines, including www.in5d.com, www.SteveQuayle.com, www.InfoWars.com, www.SpiritDaily.com, www.DavidIcke.com, www.SGTreport.com www.DailyPaul.com, www.GodLikeProductions.com,
and many others.
These websites, by
linking to Natural News articles and content, and helping spread the truth on all
the topics we cover: Natural cures, dangers of vaccines and
fluoride, liberty, health freedom, farm freedom, spirituality and more.
miguel
de
Portugal comments: Those who need to "hear" our message
associated with above post will do so automatically. As for the rest,
they must not have been meant to spiritually profit from it.
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(1)
Source
News
Report No. 2
[our highlights]
Natural News
headlines: "Cuba, Venezuela,
Russia and China now more free than America in notable ways".
(1)
In reviewing all the breaking
news over the last few months and looking for the "big picture" of
where America is headed, one pattern has emerged with striking
regularity: America has quietly become less free in many ways than
nations like Cuba, China and even Venezuela.
This is especially true in California, where "justice" has become a
joke, and the power of the state is unleashed in personal vendettas
against innocent citizens who have done absolutely nothing wrong other
than refuse to bow down to state-run tyranny.
miguel
de
Portugal comments: The vastness of Mr. Adams' ignorance of
global affairs is amazing. If he had published that same full article
in any
of those countries he claims to be freer than the U.S., replacing the
US (the target of his vitriolic
criticism) by the country where it was published, chances are that he
would not have witnessed the next dawn in the same way he did before
the
publication of the article.
We are not denying the direction that we are going, as a matter of fact
we published a lengthy document
(2a)
covering such tendency, and the reasons for it, back on September 23,
2001
(2b) -
just
12 days after the September 11 tragedy and 11 years ago. The problem
lies in the
comparisons and generalizations made, as well as descriptive terms Mr.
Adams used
in the article.
Once again, those who need to "hear" our message associated with both
posts will
do so automatically. As for the rest,
they must not have been meant to spiritually profit from it.
We consider the Mr. Adams and his Natural News case,
Closed.
_________________
(1)
Source
(2a)
The Real
Objective of the
Terror Campaign
(2b) Almost four years before Natural New had an
internet presence (Feb. 19, 2005)
November 26th, 2012
News
Report No. 1
[our highlights]
Pope's book debunks Christmas traditions.
(1)
Pope Benedict XVI has a new book coming
out this week in which he offers a closer look at the early life of
Jesus, including his birth. The book shines a light on many Christmas myths Christians
believe to be true, but in fact are not historically accurate.
Is the Pope the next Grinch?
The Pope's purpose in writing this book is not so much to debunk
Christmas, but: "The pope was not so much aiming to debunk myths
as trying to show that the
Jesus depicted in the Gospels is a real historical figure, who walked
on earth and talked to people like anyone else." says Alessandro
Speciale, Vatican correspondent for Religion News.
miguel
de
Portugal comments: At a time when the faith in the Christian
world has reached the point Jesus referred to through Luke -
But yet the Son of man, when he cometh,
shall he find, think you, faith on earth? [Luke 18:8] - the last thing
the figure
adored by most
Catholics,
Maledict
the
Blasphemer,
(2)
needs to do is to trample upon the little faith they have left. But of
course, we know that he must do so
to
serve their
evil purposes.
We have read a quote in the Spanish press which insinuates that after
the birth of Jesus, Mary and Joseph led a normal marital life.
As a true sacrifice we have ordered the book so that we may read it -
regardless of the level of disgust that it will cause us - and report
to our readers what other blasphemies he is pandering on the poorly
Evangelized faithful.
_________________
(1)
News
Report 1 and
News
Report 2
(2) Henceforth
that shall
be the name with which we will refer to Ratzinger. If anyone has an
objection, we sincerely regret it while advising him/her to move on
since he/she do not belong with us.
November 25th, 2012 [Feast of Christ the
King]
Comments
on Recent News
Reports
It seems that all we hear about these days are news about democratic
elections to elect this one or that one, in this country and that
country. But is it really "People Power" or is it just another mirage?
Look at the situation in Egypt - the birthplace of the so
called Arab Spring, for example. The erstwhile humble and quiet
"democratically
elected" Egyptian president is being called the President Pharaoh,
inside and outside Egypt, while the people and institutional leaders
are manifesting themselves against his power grabbing techniques.
(1)
Do you hear a loud cackling? That is satan laughing humanity into
despair. His
"democratic"
processes are certainly giving much fruit;
bad fruit, but that is the kind of fruit satan likes.
_________________
(1)
Protests
continue in Egypt
November 24th, 2012 [Observance of Ashura amongst certain Muslims]
News
Report
[our highlights]
Ashura
recalls an event circa
on October 20, 680 A.D., in Iraq when an army of the Umayyad regime
martyred a
group of 70 individuals who refused to submit to the Caliph. One of the
martyrs was Imam Husain, the youngest grandson of Prophet Muhammad.
How such day is observed may be seen by
Clicking
Here.
miguel
de
Portugal comments: Such behavior brings to mind the Catholic
practice of self-flagelation, wearing a cilice and any other self
mutilation which, in turn, brings to mind the scene of Elijah vs the
prophets of Baal.
(1)
It is interesting to note - as pointed out by a reader -
that:
(a) Iranian Defence
Minister Mostafa Mohammad-Najjar announced that Iran had built a new
missile with a range of 2,000 km, the Ashoura missile. (2)
and
(b) In Assyrian mythology, the chief diety - the god of war
- is called Ashur. (3)
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(1) 1 Kings 18:
25-29
(2) The
Ashoura Missile
(3)
Ashur is the
head of the
Assyrian pantheon
November 22nd, 2012 [Thanksgiving Day (in the U.S.) and
Anniversary of Assassination of President J. F. Kennedy]
News
Report No. 1
[our highlights]
US abortions fall 5 pct, biggest drop in a decade.
(1)
U.S. abortions fell 5 percent
during the Great Recession in the biggest one-year decrease in at least
a decade, according to government figures released Wednesday.
The reason for the decline
wasn't clear, but some experts said it may be due to better use of
birth control during tough economic times. Their theory is that
some women believe they can't afford to get pregnant.
"They stick to straight and narrow ... and they are more careful about
birth control," said Elizabeth Ananat, a Duke University assistant
professor of public policy and economics who has researched abortions.
While many states have aggressively restricted access to abortion, most
of those laws were adopted in the past two years and are not believed
to have played a role in the decline.
Abortions have been dropping slightly over much of the past decade. But
before this latest report, they seemed to have leveled off.
The new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found
that both the number and rate of abortions fell 5 percent in 2009, the
most recent statistics available from most states.
miguel
de
Portugal comments: What a lie! What they are seeing is the
results of the "Morning After pill".
(2)
_________________
(1)
News
Report
(2)
About
the Morning After pill
News
Report No. 2
[our highlights]
Pope calls Virgin
birth "unequivocal" truth in new book.
(1)
Pope Benedict published the last part
of his trilogy on the life of
Jesus on Tuesday, delivering an early childhood narrative which
strongly reaffirms the
doctrine of the virgin birth as an "unequivocal" truth of faith.
In the book, 137 pages in its English version, Benedict also urges his
readers to stop seeing God
as someone who limits personal freedom.
Benedict says that while he believes in the story of the adoration of
the Magi, no foundation of faith would be shaken if turned out to be an
invention based on a theological idea.
In his two previous volumes on the life of Jesus, issued in 2007 and
2011, Benedict condemned
violence committed in God's name and exonerated Jews of responsibility
for the death of Jesus.
miguel
de
Portugal comments: It seems that, against the popular saying
that "one cannot teach new tricks to old dogs", we have managed to
teach
a thing or two (mentioned in this particular article: four items) to
Ratzinger which, undoubtedly will be improperly used by him and his
handler. The other two key items he has admitted to are: (a) The Rock
upon which the Church was founded is Christ; and (b) There is Salvation
outside the Roman Catholic Church.
_________________
(1)
Source
November 21st, 2012 [The
Presentation of Mary]
News
Report No. 1
[our highlights]
New push for most in US to get at least one HIV test.
(1)
There's a new push to make testing for the AIDS virus as
common as cholesterol checks. Americans ages 15 to 64 should get
an HIV test at least once - not just people considered at high risk for
the virus, an independent panel that sets screening guidelines proposed
Monday.
The draft guidelines from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force are
the latest recommendations that aim to make HIV screening simply a
routine part of a check-up, something a doctor can order with as little
fuss as a cholesterol test or a mammogram.
"It allows the doctor to say, 'This is a recommended test that we
believe everybody should have. We're not singling you out in any
way,'" said task force member Dr. Douglas Owens of Stanford University
and the Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System.
And if finalized, the task force guidelines could extend the number of
people eligible for an HIV screening without a copay in their doctor's
office, as part of free preventive care under the Obama
administration's health care law.
miguel
de
Portugal comments: We could not think of a more clever way to
establish a nationwide DNA bank without people objecting to it.
Of course, there is not enough time unless it would become mandatory
and immediately under Martial Law.
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(1)
News Report
News
Report No. 2
This is what a live
"Take cover immediately siren" action and reaction in Israel looks
like. It is not an acted out sequence. In less than two minutes
you
can get a real "feel" for what is like living under those
conditions.
November 20th, 2012
News
Report No. 1
[our highlights]
Southern Israel tries to dodge rockets from Gaza. (1)
It is the cities in southern Israel
that are bearing the brunt of missiles launched by Palestinian
militants. At least five
Grad rockets landed in Ashkelon on Sunday. The city is less than
fifteen kilometres north of Gaza.
When the sirens sound, around
one million Israelis living within 25 kilometres of Gaza run to their
bomb shelters - that includes the people of Ashkelon. However,
the sirens do not always go off.
miguel
de
Portugal comments: These are the printed and video news that are
hard to find as the effort to demonize Israel for defending its people
continues to build up in all fronts.
How would the citizens of any other First World country react if one
million of them would have to be adrenalin-ready to make a sprint to
the nearest bomb shelter at a moment's notice?
As we have said before - the blame for the Palestinian-Israeli
tit-for-tat rests squarely upon the
United Nations who seem to be only good at convening conferences,
hosting lunches and dinners for world leaders and sending peace keeping
missions that mostly fail everywhere.
Palestinians - and the rest of the Arab community - who have a
legitimate problem with the State of Israel, should press,
without relenting for one minute,
the United Nations to step in and correct their past mistakes or
dissolve itself and stop wasting the world citizen's money and giving
false hope to those in need - whether Palestine or Haiti.
________________
(1)
Euronews
Reports
News
Report No. 2
[our highlights]
Public nudity ban
eyed in fed-up San Francisco.
(1)
San Francisco may be getting ready to
shed its image as a city where anything goes, including clothing. City lawmakers are scheduled to
vote Tuesday on an ordinance that would prohibit nudity in most public
places, ....
Supervisor Scott Wiener's
proposal would make it illegal for a person over the age of 5 to
"expose his or her genitals, perineum or anal region on any public
street, sidewalk, street median, parklet or plaza" or while using
public transit.
"I don't think having some guys taking their clothes off and hanging
out seven days a week at Castro and Market Street is really what San
Francisco is about. I think it's a caricature of what San Francisco is
about," Wiener said.
The proposed ban predictably has produced outrage, as well as a
lawsuit. San Francisco lawyer Christina DiEdoardo filed a federal
lawsuit last week on behalf of Taub and three men that seeks to block
Weiner's ordinance...., The complaint alleges that the ban infringes on
the free speech rights of nudists and discriminates against those who
cannot afford to obtain a city permit.
miguel
de
Portugal comments: A magnified replay of the1906 event is order
lest the Elect amongst them be lost too. This is not black humor; it is
a sincere prayer.
_________________
(1)
News
Report
(2)
The
1906 San
Francisco Earthquake
November 19th, 2012
News
Report No. 1
[our highlights]
These are the results from a nonscientific poll Euronews ran for its
readers. They
will give our readers a feel for Europe's Pulse.
[Note: Only the better
educated Europeans are in tune with Euronews. The average
man-on-the-street is not aware that it exists.]
Do you support the anti-austerity
strikes and protests across Europe?
yes
(64% - 808 votes)
no (32% - 407 votes)
i don't know (4% - 42 votes)
Do you think the Syrian opposition
coalition deal will hasten the fall of the Assad regime?
yes (30% - 263 votes)
no (63% - 562 votes)
i don't know (7% - 61 votes)
Who do you believe will have the
greater influence over world affairs in the next four years?
Barack
Obama (57% - 612 votes)
Xi Jinping (34% - 359 votes)
i don't know (9% - 99 votes)
Do you think the re-election of
Barack Obama is a good thing for the US?
yes
(76% - 3634 votes)
no (16% - 773 votes)
i don't know (8% - 384 votes)
Which presidential candidate would
you like to see win the US elections?
Barack
Obama (71% - 1296 votes)
Mitt Romney (19% - 352 votes)
None of the above (10% - 190 votes)
Which US presidential candidate will
benefit from Hurricane Sandy?
Barack
Obama (72% - 1060 votes)
Mitt Romney (10% - 144 votes)
None of the above (18% - 270 votes)
miguel
de
Portugal comments: Obviously President Obama is still well loved
in Europe.
_________________
(1)
Source
News
Report No. 2
[our highlights]
In unusual CIA case, FBI detoured from usual path.
(1)
The way the FBI responded to Jill
Kelley's complaint about receiving harassing emails, which
ultimately
unraveled or scarred the careers of ex-CIA Director David Petraeus and
Marine Gen. John Allen, is
the exception, not the rule.
The FBI commonly declines to
pursue cyberstalking cases without compelling evidence of serious or
imminent harm to an individual, victims of online harassment, advocacy
groups and computer crime experts told The Associated Press.
But in the sensational episode that uncovered the spy chief's
adulterous affair, the FBI's cyberdivision devoted months of tedious
investigative work to uncover who had sent insulting and anonymous
messages about Kelley, the Florida socialite who was friendly with
Petraeus and Allen - and
friends with a veteran FBI counterterrorism agent in Tampa.
miguel
de
Portugal comments: As we were saying....
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(1)
News Report
November 18th, 2012 [Consecration of the two Basilicas
honoring St. Peter and St. Paul]
News
Report No. 1
[our highlights]
Film defrocks church hierarchy over handling of sex abuse.
(1)
Four deaf Wisconsin men were some of
the first to seek justice after suffering childhood sexual abuse at the
hands of a priest, and a new documentary about the Catholic Church's
poor handling of such cases stemming from the Vatican seeks to make
their voices heard.
"Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the
House of God" explores the impact of the Roman Catholic Church's
protocol as dictated from the Vatican for dealing with pedophile
priests. It opens in U.S.
cinemas on November 16, and will air on cable channel HBO in February.
"A lot of individual stories had been done about clerical sex abuse,
but I hadn't seen one that
really connected the individual stories with the larger cover-up by the
Vatican, so that was important," documentary director Alex
Gibney told Reuters in an interview. The film centers on the group of
deaf men and their experiences as young boys attending St. John's
School for the Deaf in St. Francis, Wisconsin.
In a letter to the Vatican in 1998, the late Rev. Father Lawrence Murphy
admitted abusing some 200 deaf boys over two decades beginning
in the 1950s. Murphy claimed he had repented, and asked to live out his
last years as a priest, and was never defrocked or punished by civil
authorities. He died in 1998.
miguel
de
Portugal comments: All of this can only be understood under only
two circumstances:
Abuses are
carried out by individuals possessed by satan,
and allowed only under an Administration subject to satan. Only
Divine action will correct
this since fallen man has proven to be incapable of doing so.
Blessedly, it will be soon!
_________________
(1)
Reuters
Reports
News
Report No. 2
[our highlights]
German Chancellor
Merkel provokes Putin over Pussy Riot punishment.
(1)
There's been what was described as a
frosty encounter between Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel and Russian
President Vladimir Putin during a business forum in Moscow. The Russian
leader was clearly irritated by Merkel's questioning of a two-year jail
sentence for the anti-Kremlin punk band Pussy Riot.
Chancellor Merkel told the forum : "… Whether it was necessary to send
two girls to (prison) camp, I don't know, but in Germany that would not be
the case. And that's not against Russia, it's just my opinion?"
President Putin fired back
making the allegation : "The German Chancellor refers to the
girls who sit in prison for their performance in a church. But is she aware that before, one of
(the girls) hung a mannequin of a Jew and said that we need to get rid
of these kind of people in Moscow? We can't support the kind of
people who hold anti-Semitic views."
miguel
de
Portugal comments: It seems that Chancellor Merkel thought that
she could slap around President Putin as she does her European Union
partners.
She seems to forget that Putin predecessors once turned Berlin, the
fourth
largest city in the world then, into a parking lot.
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(1)
Euronews
Reports
General
comment on Israel - Gaza News
Reports
[our highlights]
Acknowledging the fact that Israel took more land by force than it was
granted to them by the United Nations and that United Nations continues
to look the other way as if it never happened, giving its de-facto
approval to such act, this
does not justify the continuous barrage of rockets from the Gaza Strip
upon civilian Israeli territory on a daily basis.
If the United Nations continues to look the other way - which is what
they do best
in any situation
- the Israeli government has a responsibility to protect its people to
the extent and in the manner they think most expedient.
The mainstream news in Spain - as one would expect - are painting the
Israelis as the proverbial bad actors. In case you may have forgotten,
Opus Dei does not necessarily have a soft spot for Jews in their
collective heart. This "bad blood" started when the "Catholic" Monarchy
in Spain expelled all Jews, who would not convert to Catholicism, in
1492.
(1)
_________________
(1)
Spanish
and
Portuguese Jews Expelled
November 17th, 2012 [Mary,
Mother of Divine Providence]
News
Report No. 1
[our highlights]
Abandoned boy meets Texas fireman who saved him.
(1)
When fourth-grader Koregan Quintanilla
was talking with his classmates about where they wanted to go more than
anyplace else in the world, his answer wasn't an amusement park,
sporting event or kids restaurant. It was "his" fire station.
Koregan was abandoned in 2002
at an Arlington fire station when he was just a few hours old.
Texas' Baby Moses law (2) allows a parent to leave an
unharmed infant up to 60 days old at a fire station or hospital with no
questions asked. Child Protective Services then takes custody of
the babies.
On Thursday evening, Koregan got his wish for his 10th birthday. He met
the Arlington firefighter who saved him, rode on a fire truck and
toured the station. He hugged Arlington firefighter Wesley Keck and
said he was "very nice."
Koregan's mother, Rebecca Quintanilla, said her son, who turned 10 last
week, always has known he was adopted and has watched TV news footage
from when he was found at the fire station. This year, when Koregan
began showing more interest in meeting the firefighter, she tracked
Keck down and planned a reunion.
"He's a very good kid, kind, shy and he's always giving things away to
people," Quintanilla said. "After talking to Mr. Keck, I think he's
like that. I do believe Koregan has some traits from Mr. Keck, although
he just spent a few hours with him."
Since 2009, 43 babies have
been dropped off at fire stations and hospitals in Texas, said
Marissa Gonzales, a spokeswoman for the Texas Department of Family and
Protective Services. All
states have similar laws, but Texas was the first to create the
Baby Moses law, signing it into law in 1999. It took effect in 2001.
miguel
de
Portugal comments: It was yesterday when I heard,
for the first time, about
the existence of this life saving law. Why don't the Pro Choice
proponents inform their potential victims about this option? If only 43
babies have been dropped off at fire stations and hospitals in Texas in
the las three years, obviously this law is a well kept secret.
Having become aware of this law, we are left with no other choice but
to believe that the Pro Choice movement
is more
interested in killing babies than in helping mothers. These
people need
more prayers than the souls of the aborted babies. If they do not
repent and make the appropriate amends,
make no mistake, they will
go
to hell. What a waste!
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(1)
News
Report
(2)
Baby Moses Law in Texas
and
Safe Haven Law
in Wikipedia
News
Report No. 2
[our highlights]
Hey General
Petraeus, How's That 'Spiritual Fitness' Stuff Working For You?
(1)
I hate hypocrites. And the first word
that came to mind when I heard about David Petraeus's extramarital
affair was "hypocrite."
Gen. Petraeus first came on Military Religious Freedom Foundation's
(MRFF) radar back in 2007, when we were looking into the completely
unconstitutional practice of soldiers
being forced to attend mandatory Christian concerts during basic
training at several of the Army's largest training installations.
That's when we found Petraeus's
photo and endorsement of these concerts on the Eric Horner Ministries
website, praising Horner's military base concerts.
Then, in August 2008, Mikey Weinstein, the founder and president of
MRFF, noticed a half-page ad
in the Air Force Times for a book by Army chaplain Lt. Col. William
McCoy. Chaplain McCoy's book, Under
Orders: A Spiritual Handbook for Military Personnel, a manual
promoting Christianity and asserting that non-religious service members
had no defense against sin and could therefore cause the failure of
their units, was endorsed by
none other than Gen. Petraeus, whose blurb on the book's cover read:
"Under Orders should be in every rucksack for those moments when
Soldiers need spiritual energy."
This completely inappropriate
endorsement of a book that denigrated the 21% of our military who don't
happen to be religious led Keith Olbermann to name Petraeus one
of his "Worst Persons."
But not everybody found Petraeus's eagerness to promote religion to be
inappropriate. In November 2011, Army Chaplain (Col.) Brent Causey,
who had been the top chaplain to Petraeus in Afghanistan, told the
Baptist Press that "Gen.
Petraeus played a leadership role in stressing the importance of
spirituality," and that it was "a
reflection of Gen. Petraeus and his leadership in placing importance on
spirituality" that "85 percent
of our leadership were active in dynamic Bible study" and so
many were "making first-time
commitments to Christ."
miguel
de
Portugal comments: There is nothing that we need to add that we
have not said already about "Christians" of this caliber. If the man
had tripped and had a proverbial "one night stand" in a moment of
weakness and stress, that is one thing. An ongoing affair with a
married woman - double adultery - is another story altogether.
Regarding the mandatory attendance to Christian concerts - These fools
just will not learn, will they? 1,600 years later and they still think
that Evangelization means shoving the Good News down the people's
throats.
_________________
(1)
Report
November 16th, 2012
News
Report No. 1
[our highlights]
New Microsoft Voice Translator Makes Futuristic 'Star Trek' Technology
Seem Plausible.
(1)
Microsoft may boldly go where no one
has gone before.
At a demonstration in China on Oct. 25, Microsoft's chief research
officer Rick Rashid revealed a new technology seemingly straight out of
"Star Trek." In the classic sci-fi television show, a gadget known as
the "universal translator" (as seen here) was used to decipher
languages in the 22nd century. And now, Microsoft has created a
program that takes spoken English and translates it to spoken Chinese
in real time.
"In other words, we may not have to wait until the 22nd century for a
usable equivalent of Star Trek's universal translator," Rashid said.
"[A]nd we can also hope that
as barriers to understanding language are removed, barriers to
understanding each other might also be removed."
miguel
de
Portugal comments: The last hurdle God placed upon humanity
during the initial stages of the construction of
the tower of Babel, for humanity's own benefit, has been overcome and,
considering why he placed
such hurdle
(2),
it is obvious that our time is up.
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News
Report
(2) [1] And the earth was of one tongue, and
of the same speech.... [4] And they said: Come, let us make a city and
a tower, the top whereof may reach to heaven: and let us make our name
famous before we be scattered abroad into all lands. [5] And the Lord
came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of Adam
were building.
[6] And he said: Behold, it is one
people, and all have one tongue: and they have begun to do this,
neither will they leave off from their designs, till they accomplish
them in deed. [7] Come ye, therefore, let us go down, and there
confound their tongue, that they may not understand one another's
speech. [9] And therefore the name thereof was called Babel,....
[10] These are the generations of Sem: Sem was a hundred years old when
he begot Arphaxad, two years after the flood. [Genesis 11]
November 15th, 2012
News
Report No. 1
[our highlights]
Security hole
allows anyone
to hijack your Skype account using only your email address.
(1)
A new security hole has
been discovered in Microsoft's Skype that allows anyone to change your
password and thus take over your account. The issue was first posted on a Russian forum
two months ago and has been confirmed by The Next Web.
We've been in touch with Skype over the past few hours to give them a
chance to address this vulnerability. The company has informed us it is
currently conducting an internal investigation.
To exploit this flaw, all you need to know is your victim's email
address tied to their Skype account. To protect yourself, you would
have to change your email address to one that nobody knows or could
easily guess.
Fortunately (we have
been informed) that Skype
has just fixed the issue, overhauling its password reset
process.
miguel
de
Portugal comments: The point is that the security flaw
had been published for two months
and it is now that Microsoft fixed it, and only after The Next Post
contacted
them. What other security flaws are in existence, known by hackers and
unknown by users as well as the providers of the product?
We do not wish to fan the fires of paranoia. We just want to make sure
that those who read our pages know that the Internet is not as safe
as
most wish to believe it is.
____________
(1)
The
Next Web Post dated November 14, 2012
November 14th, 2012
News
Report No. 1
[our highlights]
We have just learned that Gen. John Allen was dubbed the "warrior
monk".
(1)
So the news that Allen, a 36-year
veteran of the Marine Corps, had been snared in the same investigation
that prompted the resignation of Petraeus as CIA director last week was
greeted with surprise at the Pentagon and elsewhere in Washington.
John Ullyot, who served under Allen at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina
in 1993, said he was all about "setting the example" for those under
him and it was "hard for anyone who ever served under Allen" to believe
he had been pulled into the probe.
Allen, who is married
and has two daughters, "was
known as a kind of warrior monk," said Ullyot, who was a
spokesman for former U.S. Senator John Warner, a Republican who chaired
the Senate Armed Services Committee.
miguel
de
Portugal comments: It now makes sense why Gen. Allen was drawn
into the Gen. Petraeus scandal. "Warrior monk" is an Opus Dei friendly
moniker and if we are seeing a "cleaning house of Opus Dei" operation
by the F.B.I., as we firmly believe, Gen. Allen would also be a logical
F.B.I. target.
___________________
(1)
News
Report
News
Report No. 2
[our highlights]
Benedict XVI
starts new Vatican department to promote Latin.
(1)
Pope Benedict on Saturday started a new
Vatican department to promote the study and use of Latin in the Roman Catholic
Church and beyond.
The old-style Latin Mass was phased out more than 40 years ago in favor
of local languages, but the pope is giving it another try. Latin
remains the official language of the universal church.
The Vatican said the pope had
instituted the Pontifical Academy for Latin Studies, placing it
under the auspices of the Vatican's ministry for culture.
In his letter announcing the new department, the pope said that Latin was the
subject of renewed interest around the world and the purpose of
the academy was to encourage further growth.
miguel
de
Portugal comments: Use of Latin in the Roman Catholic Church
and beyond? We
presume that they want it to be the official language of the
New Holy Roman Empire.
The alleged renewed interest must be its usage by the higher echelons
of the Escrivites.
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(1)
News Report
November 13th, 2012
News
Report - Concluding the Petraeus Saga
Yesterday
the New York Times published a more comprehensive article
(1) to the Petraeus saga -
full of "nofacts and disfigures" as they quoted many unidentified
sources who can only speak "on condition of anonymity".
Between the media trying to sell their "wares", the "passing the buck"
syndrome within the agencies and the "friends of the friends" trying to
get "their moment of glory", only God knows the full story. The only
part that was of interest to us, He already revealed it.... and we, in
turn, shared it with our readers already.
No new revelation in this saga would cause us to change the already
made statements. After all, we have the best non anonymous source: God.
The only comment that we will add is that: The entire operation fully
exemplifies,
in great detail,
what Mr. Tim Weiner covered in his book
Enemies: A History of the F.B.I. (2), which we again
recommend
(3).
[One clarifying note we wish to make regarding Mr. Weiner's evaluation
of the performance of the F.B.I.:
It is our opinion that most
of the problems could be traced to faulty leadership - upper echelons
- and not necessarily because the operatives who, most of the
time, were pressured into walking the very fine line dividing the legal
from the illegal activities and/or were ill trained for what was
expected of them.]
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(1)
New
York Times Reports
(2)
Enemies:
A History of the F.B.I. a Review
(3) No; we are not "on
commission". We just like to freely share what we consider to be good,
just as Jesus taught all of us to do.
News
Report No. 2
[our highlights]
Researchers build
'perfect' invisibility cloak.
(1)
Duke University scientists say they've
succeeded for the first time
in building a truly effective invisibility
cloak.
When the team first developed a cloaking device back in 2006, one of
the biggest problems was the appearance of minor reflections around the
edges. Now, though, they say they've cracked the problem.
"In order to create the first cloaks, many approximations had to be
made in order to fabricate the intricate meta-materials used in the
device," says graduate student Nathan Landy.
"We built the cloak, and it worked. It split light into two waves
which
traveled around an object in the center and re-emerged as the single
wave with minimal loss due to reflections."
The researchers are now
working to apply the principles learned in the
latest experiments to three dimensions - much more difficult
than two.
miguel
de
Portugal comments: [symbolically speaking] Considering the
degree of blindness which afflicts most of the world population, who
now
reside in Denial (a virtual Planet Earth), what would be the
purpose of an "effective invisibility cloak"? Most could
not see a brightly painted freight train speeding towards them on a
clear day, blowing its
whistle and flashing its light.
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(1)
TrendWatch
Reports
November 12th, 2012
News
Report - the Petraeus Saga
[our highlights]
Biographer's e-mails to woman led F.B.I. to Petraeus. (1)
The F.B.I. investigation
that led to the sudden resignation of David H. Petraeus as C.I.A.
director on Friday began
with a complaint several months ago about "harassing" e-mails sent by
Paula Broadwell, Mr. Petraeus’s biographer, to another woman who knows both of
them, two government officials briefed on the case said Saturday.
When F.B.I. agents
following up on the complaint began
to examine Ms. Broadwell's e-mails, they discovered exchanges
between her and Mr. Petraeus that revealed that they were having an
affair, said several officials who spoke of the investigation on the
condition of anonymity.
miguel
de
Portugal comments: There is so much more on this case than meets
the eye, that we
will simplify it for our readers.
The story is full of holes as we would expect, since the truth is
something else. For example - Do you think that the F.B.I. will drop
what
is doing to investigate non terrorist (or non drug trafficking) related
"harassing" e-mails received by some Jane Doe? Of course not!
Second - We now have the F.B.I examining Ms. Broadwell's e-mails. With
her consent? Hardly! If it was with her consent, she would have
known from that very moment that the extramarital affair would be in
the open. She
would have warned Petraeus immediately and he would have, in turn,
started damage control. We do not believe that she was aware that her
e-mails were being scrutinized, which brings to mind Hoover-style
investigation.
Having said that,
we
can surmise,
with
a very high level of certainty, that the objective was to get
rid
of Petraeus as the Director of the CIA. It was a matter of finding
"some dirt" to
use so that he would be forced out by the scandal. Such is the hallmark
of Hooverism.
The proverbial frosting on the cake is that there seems to be
a very strong link between
Petraeus and Opus Dei.
(2)
Could forcing Petraeus' resignation be yet another blow to OpusDeism,
this time in the U.S. National Security matrix? If that is the case,
then it seems that Opus Dei has also lost the grip they had on the
F.B.I.
(3) .
We shall see what God highlights next.
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(1)
News
Report
(2)
US
Military
and Africom: Between the rocks and the crusaders
(3) Opus
Dei in the F.B.I.
November 11th, 2012
News
Report No. 1
[our highlights]
CIA Director, General Petraeus, Quits; Evidence of Extramarital
Affair Was
Found by F.B.I.
(1)
David H. Petraeus, the director of the
Central Intelligence Agency and one of America's most decorated
four-star generals, resigned on Friday after an F.B.I. investigation
uncovered evidence that he had been involved in an extramarital affair.
Government officials said that the F.B.I. began an investigation into a
"potential criminal matter" several months ago that was not focused on Mr. Petraeus.
In the course of their inquiry into whether a computer used by Mr.
Petraeus had been compromised, agents discovered evidence of the
relationship as well as other security concerns. About two weeks
ago, F.B.I. agents met with Mr. Petraeus to discuss the investigation.
Administration and Congressional officials identified the woman as
Paula Broadwell, the co-author of a biography of Mr. Petraeus. Her
book, "All In: The Education of General David Petraeus," was published
this year.
The Federal Bureau of
Investigation did not inform the Senate and House Intelligence
Committees about the inquiry until
this week, according to Congressional officials, who noted that by law the panels - and especially
their chairmen and ranking members - are supposed to be told about
significant developments in the intelligence arena. The Senate
committee plans to pursue the question of why it was not told, one
official said.
miguel
de
Portugal comments: I pray to God that we are seeing the spirit
of J. Edgar
Hoover at work and not that of
Louis Freeh!
_________________
(1)
New
York Times Reports
News
Report No. 2
[our highlights]
From Mammon to God:
Ex-oil
man must unite troubled church.
(1)
He has met murderous warlords, survived
death threats and brokered multi-million pound deals on the financial
markets. Now the next
Archbishop of Canterbury faces what many see as the near impossible
task of uniting an Anglican church that risks tearing itself
apart over gay marriage and women bishops.
Justin Welby, a self-deprecating figure who called himself "one of the
thicker bishops in the Church of England", inherits a bitterly divided
institution struggling to find a role in an increasingly secular
society.
Seen as a more conservative figure than the outgoing Rowan Williams, Welby was educated at the same
elite school as British Prime Minister David Cameron and Prince William,
second in line to the throne.
miguel
de
Portugal comments: Brilliant he is not considering that it took
him this long to find out where the real money is at. We are not
impressed.
_________________
(1)
News
Report
November 10th, 2012
News
Report No. 1
[our highlights]
FEMA centers in New York City 'closed due to weather'.
(1)
Many New Yorkers likely think Craig
Fugate, who runs the Federal Emergency Management Agency, is doing a
"heckuva job." But he may have some explaining to do after FEMA disaster centers in several
sections of New York City suddenly closed up shop Wednesday.
Salon reported that Fugate
told reporters on a Wednesday conference call that some
post-Sandy FEMA facilities
and services "had to be secured or postponed during the [current] storm.
… We are going to resume
when weather permits."
miguel
de
Portugal comments: What next? A recording answering 911 phones,
telling the caller how many minutes before the call is answered by an
operator, then, place the caller on hold with music to soothe their
nerves?
No. We are not trying to be amusing. We are reminding each one of you
that
the only One we can
really count with is God, and it is best that
we work very hard to keep "our lines" with Him open. In other words:
Make sure that you always have on hand an ample supply of
oil!
_________________
(1)
News
Report
News
Report No. 2
[our highlights]
Twitter triggers
hacking alarms by unintentionally changing passwords of some users.
(1)
Twitter says it mistakenly reset the
passwords of some users as part of a routine security check-up.
Twitter sought to clear up the confusion with a post on its website a
few hours after it sent out emails alerting some users that their
accounts had been compromised. Twitter says its security specialists
had reset a larger number of passwords than they intended. Despite the
mistake, Twitter says only a very small percentage of its more than 140
million users had their passwords affected.
Twitter, which is based in San Francisco, regularly resets the
passwords of accounts believed to have been infiltrated by hackers or
suspicious websites.
miguel
de
Portugal comments: The real moral of the story is: As connected
the world is today and as dependent the world has become to those
connections, it can all come to an immediate halt by an unauthorized or
authorized password
reset.
Once again.... We are
reminding each one of you that
the only One we can really
count with is God, and
it
is best that we
work very hard to keep "our lines" with Him open. In other
words:
Make sure that you always
have on hand an ample
supply of oil!
_________________
(1)
News
Report
November 9th, 2012 [Dedication of Basilica
of St. John of Lateran]
News
Report No. 1
[our highlights]
Czech Parliament approves landmark religious compensation law.
(1)
The lower house of Parliament
has overruled an upper house veto and gave a green light to a plan by
the center-right government to pay billions of dollars in compensation
for property seized by the former totalitarian Communist regime.
Under the plan approved in a 102-1 vote early Thursday, the country's 17 churches would
get 56 percent of their former property now held by the state -
estimated at 75 billion koruna ($3.8 billion).
They would also get 59
billion koruna ($3 billion)
in financial compensation over the next 30 years. The state,
meanwhile, will gradually stop covering their expenses over the next 17
years.
Parliament's upper house, which is controlled by the left-wing
opposition, rejected the plan in August.
miguel
de
Portugal comments: The unseen information in said news report
illustrates what we have addressed in the past regarding the wealth of
the RCC in Europe. Czechoslovakia was, nor is, among the affluent
countries in Europe yet the property seized by the communists was $6.78
billion (of which 56 % is $3.8 billion).
We have no idea what the communists did not confiscate but we assume
that some was left untouched as it has happened in other communist
countries. Therefore the wealth we are talking about is $6.78 billion
plus.... and that is in a relatively poor country. Now imagine the
holdings of the Roman Catholic Church in just Spain, Portugal and Italy.
Placing that wealth in perspective....
According to The World Food Program
(2)
- 870 million people do not have enough to
eat and 98 percent of them live in developing countries.
- Asia and Oceania are home to around 564 million
of the world's hungry people.
- Women make up a little over half of the world's
population, but they account for over 60 percent of the world's hungry.
- Almost 15% of the population among developing
countries is undernourished, or about 850 million people.
- Undernutrition contributes to five million
deaths of children under five each year in developing countries.
- One out of four children - roughly 146 million - in developing
countries is underweight
- More than 70 percent of the world's underweight children (aged
five or less) live in just 10 countries, with more
than 50 per cent located in South Asia alone;
- 10.9 million children under five die in
developing countries each year. Malnutrition and hunger-related
diseases cause 60 percent of the deaths;
We presume that they justify such horrific figures with:
For the poor you have always with you:
but
me you have not always.
[Matthew
26:11] just as the Spanish Cardinal blames the Faithful
for the failed Evangelization.
Brethren, this just another reminder as to the reason for level of
Divine
Justice that awaits the World. We do not make the rules, nor pass
the laws nor dispense justice; we just help all in understanding why
God allows what He does.
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(1)
News
Report
(2)
Source
Commentary
on "Invisible" News
Spain is a very
elitist country and the political parties function as Royal Courts. The
system is a far cry from the way they work in the US.
If you are a member of say, the Partido Popular (center-right-right),
and you hold office - including in Congress and Senate - each member
will vote the "party line"
in
everything. It is not like a US Republican voting for a Democrat
sponsored bill or vice versa. Were that to happen in Spain, the
individual would be blackballed by his party..... eternally....
It would logically follow that the head of a government in Spain would
appoint as cabinet ministers
very
loyal members of his/her party, even
if they are not necessarily luminaries in the field at hand.
With
that as a background....
We came across an article, on Spain's equivalent of
TIME Magazine
(1),
which contained some very interesting information confirming who is the
true unseen power
behind the proverbial throne in Spain. It turns out that the following
key ministers
are not
members of the Party in
power (and certainly not from the opposition parties!)
Mr. J. I. W. - Minister of
Education, Culture and Sports
Mr. P. M. - Minister of Defense
Mr. L. de G. - Minister of the Economy
There is only one group in Spain who could trump the "Party card
carrying"
requirement
in Spanish politics, and that group is Opus
Dei. This does not mean that they are the only ones. What is
amazing is that one never hears in the news about such anomaly in
Spanish politics and,
God forbid!,
the opposition parties even pronounce the the words Opus Dei in such
context. They would fare better if they were to insult Islam!
_________________
(1)
TIEMPO,
p.16
November 8th, 2012 [Feast of Mary, Our Shelter]
News
Report
[our highlights]
Brazil's Truth Commission to investigate church.
(1)
The Truth Commission investigating
human rights abuses committed by Brazil's former dictatorship will also
look into the role Catholic and evangelical churches played during the
1964-1985 military government.
Established last year by President Dilma Rousseff, the commission will investigate
whether pro-dictatorship clergy committed human rights abuses or
supported members of the military responsible for such abuses.
Rousseff herself is a former leftist guerrilla who was imprisoned for
more than three years and tortured during the dictatorship.
Brazil has never punished
military officials who committed human rights abuses, unlike Argentina,
Chile and Uruguay, which also had repressive military regimes.
"The activities of the clergy who opposed the dictatorship as well as
the actions of religious groups that backed the regime will be
analyzed," said commission member Paulo Sergio Pinheiro, who will head
the investigation.
The church saw the coup d'etat as a strike against communism, which
they feared President Joao Goulart would install in Brazil, said
Fernando Altemeyer, a theologian at the Catholic University of Sao
Paulo. "The Roman Catholic
hierarchy was involved in preparing the 1964 coup d'etat and at first
openly backed the military regime," Pinheiro said.
miguel
de
Portugal comments: Sooner or later the ones who have been
exploiting the Holy Name of Jesus for their personal benefit for 1,600
years, will find out that everything He said
is indeed true. For example:
For
nothing is covered that shall not be revealed: nor hid, that shall not
be known. That which I tell you in the dark, speak ye in the light: and
that which you hear in the ear, preach ye upon the housetops. [Matthew 10:26-27]
and
And he shall say to you: I know you
not, whence you are: depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity.
[Luke 13:27]
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News
Report
November 7th, 2012
News
Report
[our highlights]
As voters headed to polls,
reports
of problems started pouring in.
(1)
An unexpected glitch almost caused one
central Pennsylvania voter to cast his ballot for the wrong candidate,
highlighting concerns about voter fraud in a number of states on an
already tense Election Day. The
Election Protection coalition, for instance, has reported ballot
scanning problems in Ohio in Cleveland, Dayton, and Toledo.
"I initially selected Obama
but Romney was highlighted," writes Centralpavote on YouTube, of
the glitch in central Pennsylvania. "I assumed it was being picky so I
de-selected Romney and tried
Obama again, this time more carefully, and still got Romney."
The man, a software developer, tried troubleshooting the screen,
selecting different names. But "the top of Romney's button down to
the bottom of the black checkbox beside Obama's name was all active for
Romney." A few more taps, and he discovered that the only way to
select Obama was to click on a small sliver of the screen. All of the buttons for the other
candidates seemed to work fine.
Other voters at the precinct didn't have the same problem, he said, and
the volunteer didn't seem
concerned. "She him hawed for a bit then calmly said, 'It's nothing to
worry about, everything will be OK,' and went back to what she was
doing," he wrote.
There are other problems occurring as well. In some minority neighborhoods in
Galveston, Texas, polling places opened late, making it impossible for
people to vote earlier in the day. (The Galveston County Daily
News reports that those 45 voting centers will stay open two hours
later, until 8:54 p.m., to make up for the delay.)
And thanks to a different kind of technological glitch, there were also some voters in
Pinellas County, Fla., who received phone calls on Tuesday morning
reminding them to vote on Wednesday - the day after Election
Day.
miguel
de
Portugal comments: I pray to
God that we are not still arguing
about the vote count when next Easter rolls around... assuming it
does...! (as of 4:00 PM EST) ....and He granted our request with no
room for arguments! (as of 2:00 AM EST on Nov. 7th)
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News
Report No. 1
[our highlights]
Italy's Catholic Church will
be forced to pay taxes starting in 2013 after the EU pressured the
country's government to pass a controversial law stripping the
Church of its historic property tax exemption. (1)
The Catholic Church in Italy is
excluded from paying taxes on its land if at least a part of a Church
property is used non-commercially - for instance, a chapel in a
bed-and-breakfast.
"The regulatory framework will be
definite by January 1, 2013 - the start of the fiscal year – and will
fully respect the [European] Community law," Italian premier
Mario Monti's government said in a statement on Tuesday.
The move could net Italy revenues of 500 million to 2 billion euros
annually across the country, municipal government associations said.
The extra income from previously
exempt properties in Rome alone - including hotels, restaurants and
sports centers (!!!!) - could reach 25.5 million euros a year,
La Repubblica daily newspaper reported.
On Monday, the Council of
State, Italy's highest ranking court for administrative litigation,
ruled against the new law. Authorities stepped in, arguing that
everyone in Italy should pay property tax, including the Church.
The measure came after the country's leadership decided in February to
alter Italy's property tax code, ending the Churches long standing
privileges due to the severe debt crisis.
miguel
de
Portugal comments: They should be thanking God that all the real
estate property owned by the Church
and not actively used for the cult
and/or education has not been confiscated and used to feed the
hungry and educate the poor of the world, as Jesus would have done.
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(1) News
Source
Election
News
Commentary
Regarding the outcome of the Presidential Elections in the U.S. - You
may be assured that
the
outcome will be in accordance to the Active
Will of God. It may not be understood at first but it will be
later on.
November 5th, 2012
News
Report No. 1
[our highlights]
Opus Dei has published (on November 2nd) a You Tube version of a
Wikipedia page "proving" to the listener/viewer that they are
not, and have never been, involved in politics in spite of the
"unfounded" accusation made to the contrary.
We were able to barely tolerate about 3
minutes
of it. We have never heard so many untruths in such short a time, with
the
exception of Fidel Castro's political litanies.
We are sharing the information with you so that you may see for
yourself to the extent
that they are going to get Mr. Ryan into the White House.
The You Tube page may be accessed by
Cliking Here.
News
Report No. 2
[our highlights]
Catholic church
mobilises against gay marriage in France. (1)
The French Roman Catholic Church has
voiced its opposition to government plans to legalise same-sex
marriage. The country's left-wing government is to present its draft
bill on the subject on Wednesday.
Church leaders are concerned about the provision to allow gay couples
to adopt children. The church now intends to crank up its campaign
against any changes to matrimonial law in France.
miguel
de
Portugal comments: When will the Catholic Church - or for that
matter,
any monotheistic
faith - leaders realize that no matter what any civil court,
even a Supreme Court, calls a civil union,
it is not a marriage?
A marriage is a Biblically established institution that
no civil court can ever effect;
that is such a mystical impossibility as dehydrated water is a physical
impossibility.
We must assume that the whole thing is just a smoke screen to pass
themselves as
God fearing holy
people.
Now, regarding the allowing of
homosexual couples to adopt
children - with the exception of either partner having already a child
from a previous heterosexual relationship -
they should make a real effort to
prevent it, even though it really doesn't matter anymore since
it
is too late
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(1)
Euronews
Reports
News
Report No. 3
[our highlights]
New cell phone surveillance method raises privacy concerns.
(1)
The FBI is using a new method to access
cell phone customer data, but the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
contends that the method is overly invasive.
The method, known as "stingrays," uses a person's international mobile
subscriber identity (IMSI) secretly to track someone's location using
stingray devices, known as IMSI catchers. The catcher mimics a cell
phone tower, but stingrays track the locations of all mobile devices in
a given area,including those which are not being targeted.
NBC reports that a big reason
this scares privacy groups is that an IMSI catcher can be built at home
for about $1,500, exposing a weakness in cell phone security to
which most consumers are oblivious.
miguel
de
Portugal comments: Here you may see what we often talk about -
not a real problem
if legitimate governmental authorities use it, but.... what about if
"Thy
neighbor" who has a vendetta with you, or "Thy business competitor" who
would sell his/her mother to get ahead in the business world wants to
invest
$1500 to "get to you"? But then again.... it is really too late for it
to become commonplace.
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(1)
Homeland
Security Reports
November 4th, 2012
News
Report No. 1
[our highlights]
Syria tanks enter Israel controlled Golan DMZ.
(1)
Three Syrian tanks entered the
demilitarized zone in the Golan Heights on Saturday, prompting Israel
to complain to U.N. peacekeepers, a military spokesman said. The foray would be the first such
violation in 40 years and hikes concerns that violence from
Syria's civil war could heat up a long-quiet frontier.
Israel's relatively
low-key response of turning to the U.N. suggested it did not see the Syrian armor as an
immediate threat.
But the entry marks the most serious spillover of Syria's turmoil at
the frontier to date. Misfired Syrian shells have exploded inside
Israel on several occasions and a tourist site was temporary shut after
armed Syrians were spotted near by recently.
The three tanks entered the DMZ on Saturday and Israel lodged a
complaint with the peacekeepers, an Israeli military spokeswoman said,
speaking on condition of anonymity in line with military protocol. She
did not elaborate on what the tanks were doing.
miguel
de
Portugal comments: Just in time for the Presidential Election in
the U.S.
_________________
(1)
News
Report
News
Report No. 2
[our highlights]
Israel Planning A Military College on Mount of Olives
(1)
Israeli plans to build a military
academy on the Mount of Olives in annexed east Jerusalem have
been deposited for approval, taking the project a step forward, the
Peace Now settlement watchdog said on Saturday.
"In the last few days, ads were hung up on the Mount of Olives in east
Jerusalem announcing the depositing of plan no. 51870 for the
construction of an Israeli military college," Peace Now's Hagit Ofran
wrote on her blog.
miguel
de
Portugal comments: [tongue in cheek] Why not? There is nothing
better to treat old
festering wounds with a mixture of salt and vinegar.
_________________
(1)
News
Report
November 3rd, 2012 [First Saturday
of the Month
and Our Lady of All Graces]
News
Report No. 1
[our highlights]
Scientists to simulate human brain inside a supercomputer
(1)
There's no escaping the fact that the
Human Brain Project, with its billion-dollar plan to recreate the human
mind inside a supercomputer, sounds like a science fiction nightmare.
But those involved hope their ambitious goal of simulating the tangle
of neurons and synapses that power our thought processes could offer
solutions to tackling conditions such as depression, Parkinson's
disease and Alzheimer's.
If their current bid for 1
billion Euros (1.3 billion USD) of European Commission funding
over
the next 10 years is successful, Markram predicts that his computer
neuroscientists are a decade
away from producing a synthetic mind that could, in theory, talk and
interact in the same way humans do.
miguel
de
Portugal comments: (tongue in cheek).... We would consider their
effort a complete success if the created synthetic mind would never be
so
stupid as to think that it can create itself.
(serious as a block of granite).... The capacity of human stupidity -
specially that of some scientists - is beginning to approach infinity.
There is no doubt - whatever God will allow upon hmanity
will always be
less than what we truly deserve. That is what Divine Mercy is
all about.
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Report
News
Report No. 2
[our highlights]
Girls of 13 given
birth control jab at school without parents'
knowledge
(1)
Schoolgirls in Great Britain, as young
as 13, are being
given contraceptive injections and implants during lunch-breaks without
their parents' knowledge.
School nurses have given
implants or jabs to girls aged between 13 and
16 more than 900 times in the past two years, a survey by The
Daily
Telegraph has found. Girls aged 13 have been given contraceptive jabs
and implants on more than 20 occasions.
A further 7,400 girls aged 15 and under have been given contraceptive
injections or implants at family planning clinics.
Under the patient
confidentiality rules, nurses are banned from seeking the permission of
parents beforehand, or even informing them afterwards, without the
pupil's permission.
miguel
de
Portugal comments: As we were saying.... whatever God will allow
upon hmanity will always be less than what we truly deserve.
Step on it, Lord! which is the street, and universally
understood version of
Maranatha!
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(1) News
Report
News
Report No. 3
[our highlights]
In Crisis, Public Officials Embrace Social Media.
(1)
With Hurricane Sandy, public
officials and government agencies have embraced social media to a
greater degree than ever. For proof, look no further than the
Twitter feed of Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo of New York: 400 messages on
Tuesday, 300 on Wednesday and well over 100 on Thursday, featuring
everything from photos of storm surge damage to updates on power
restoration.
It is usually Mr. Cuomo’s aides, not the governor, typing the messages.
But he and his staff recognize that social media “is a highly effective
method of communicating information in a time of crisis,” said Joshua
Vlasto, Mr. Cuomo’s deputy communications director. The governor’s followers have
increased to 50,000 from 20,000 last Friday
Although phone service has been spotty in some places across the
Northeast, people with
working signals have been reliant on texting and social networking to a
degree not seen during previous disasters.
But, then again....
Not all of the reports carried by the social network proved accurate,
with the crisis spawning a flurry of fake stories.
(2)
These included tweets claiming
that the New York stock exchange was under water and photoshopped
images sharks in the streets.
The tweet about the stock
exchange was widely circulated and reported on air by CNN.
miguel
de
Portugal comments: It is not difficult to see how evil minds -
which seem to be multiplying like the black plague - can (and will)
create mass panic scenarios at will.
A simple battery operated radio or the radios built in the mobile
phones
would be the safest bet for transmission of emergency instructions.
Yes indeed, someone can block the original transmission and replace it
with bogus information, but that will require some elaborate and
sophisticated technical
work while any idiot can have a Twitter account and transmit bogus
information at will.
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(1)
N.Y.
Times Report
(2)
BBC Reports
November 2nd, 2012 [Solemnity
of All Souls (in Purgatory)
and
First
Friday of
the Month]
News
Report No. 1
[our highlights]
As blackouts linger, Northeasterners try to adjust.
(1)
Homes grew chilly without heat.
Food spoiled in refrigerators. Televisions remained silent. And people everywhere scurried for a
spot to charge their cellphones.
Sandy blacked out some of the nation's most densely populated cities
and suburbs, instantly
taking away modern conveniences from Virginia to Massachusetts and as
far west as the Great Lakes.
For power companies, the scale of the destruction was unmatched - more widespread than any
blizzard or ice storm and worse than the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
Initially, about 60 million people were without power
in 8.2 million homes and businesses. By Wednesday night, that
number had fallen to roughly 44 million people in 6 million households
and businesses.
Even as power slowly returned to some pockets, a new headache emerged: Backup batteries and generators
running cellphone towers were running out of juice. One out of
every five towers was down, according to the Federal Communications
Commission.
For others, the outage had graver consequences.
"I have several hundred dollars' worth of insulin in the refrigerator,"
said Joan Moore of New York's Staten Island, who is diabetic.
miguel
de
Portugal comments: Just another reminder. Will you be able to
function,
indefinitely,
without all
the conveniences we "just need" nowadays?
Don't get caught without oil for your lamps - literally and mystically
speaking.
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(1)
News
Report
Commentary on "Sandy" News
Reports
You may rest assured that the main purpose of "Sandy" was to
alter the outcome of the upcoming Presidential Elections.
Second purpose was what we stated in
the
above comments - a reminder.
Third purpose was to serve as God's Megaphone.
November 1st, 2012 [Solemnity
of All Saints]
Comments
on a
TV News
Report
There is a case, currently in the Spanish courts, which involves an
uncle who sexually abused his two nephews and his niece (all
siblings) fifteen years ago. One of the boys - now a man -
committed suicide because of the horrific trauma he endured for years.
This gave courage to the other two siblings to acuse the uncle and take
him to court.
It is an "open and closed" case even though the uncle denies the
accusations. The lawsuit does not seek any financial benefits - they
just want the uncle to pay (in the form of a jail term) for the death
of their brother.
According to the attorneys and the court, all that they can do is
only convict the uncle for abusing the girl because, now, take a deep
breath:
Fifteen years ago, in (super
Catholic) Spain, sexually
abusing a boy was not a
crime.
miguel
de
Portugal comments: Do we really have to? I hope not since I am
practically speechless with just anger; only the thought of such
infamous legal loop hole is revolting.
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