Remember when Maria Esperanza said "it" will begin in Venezuela. And we've been watching that poor country go down now for years w/ so much suffering for the people. Perhaps now we're seeing the beginning of the further accomplishment of that prediction. This article is formed from a secular analysis of causes but today one can speculate to the growing chaos as perhaps organized by the same world controllers for their own grand plan and purpose. Part of the "Great Awakening" as well.....as a rush by Satan due to his time being short? The beginning of the tribulation on the grand scale? And add the prophesied coming natural disasters to the mix and one might imagine we're starting the times "when they will be at their worst"....prior to the Warning!! Latin America Is Coming Apart At The Seams The region’s competing models of government—leftist populism and market-oriented liberalism—are both under threat. In Chile, it was sparked by a minor increase in the capital’s subway fare. In Ecuador, it was the end of fuel subsidies, and in Bolivia, a stolen election. Latin America, which a decade ago harnessed a commodities boom to pull millions out of poverty and offer what many saw as a model of modernization, is in revolt. It’s not another pink tide, nor is it a lurch to the right; the movement is more a non-specific, down-with-the-system rage. Furious commuters are looting cities, governments are on the run, and investors are unloading assets as fast as they can. With almost three dozen countries and more than 600 million inhabitants, Latin America defies easy generalization, which makes it difficult to predict what will come next. A few weeks ago, Evo Morales, the longstanding president of Bolivia, seemed headed for reelection. Today, he and his top aides are in exile in Mexico while some in his country have taken to the streets again to protest what they say was the military coup that removed him. An indigenous woman wears a mask during a protest in Ecuador on Oct. 9. PHOTOGRAPHER: DAVID DIAZ ARCOS/BLOOMBERG In that sense, there are parallels with the Arab Spring, which began in 2010, and the collapse of the Soviet Union two decades earlier. Both were unforeseen and moved in surprising directions, yet they offer lessons in retrospect. “There were a lot of cracks, but no one saw it coming,” says Javier Corrales, a professor of political science at Amherst College in Massachusetts, of events in Bolivia and across the region. Two common factors stand out, he suggests: commodity dependence and the middle income trap, referring to the stagnation that often sets in after a population climbs out of extreme poverty and then struggles to achieve further development. Latin America is the most unequal, lowest-growth major region in the world right now, offering a cautionary tale for other parts of the globe with similar dynamics. “Inequality is the main cause of the disenchantment being felt by citizens throughout the region in the face of a stunned political establishment yet to understand that the current development model is unsustainable,” wrote Alicia Bárcena, the executive secretary of the United Nations’ Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, in a recent essay. The people want to eradicate the culture of privilege, she added. The region is caught between competing models of government: leftist populism and market-oriented liberalism. Governments of each type have been plagued by incompetence, corruption, and a failure to meet social demands. The result has been a growing fury toward the ruling classes, leading people to the streets. In Chile, almost a month of violent protests over the suspended fare rise have caused deaths and extensive property damage, challenging its image as South America’s stablest and richest nation. “People are angry at their political systems,” says James Bosworth, author of the weekly newsletter Latin America Risk Report. “There’s an anti-incumbent wave and governments haven’t dealt with the roots of the problem, and those problems aren’t going away.” Demonstrators gather at Santiago’s Plaza Baquedano on Oct. 25. PHOTOGRAPHER: CLAUDIO SANTANA/GETTY IMAGES SOUTH AMERICA Political leadership remains in the hands of a few, who somehow keep cycling back. Morales had run Bolivia for 14 years. Chile’s Sebastian Pinera and Michelle Bachelet have alternated in power since 2006, and Argentina’s Cristina Fernandez is coming back as a vice president after ruling from 2007 to 2015. Having left jail on Nov. 9, Brazil’s Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who ruled from 2003 to 2011, is an early front-runner for the opposition in 2022, despite having been convicted on multiple charges of corruption. Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro has been in power almost seven years, heading the Socialist movement founded by Hugo Chavez that has led the oil-rich country since 1999. Technology is also playing a role. As smartphones and internet access spread, more people are tuning into real-time developments across the world and organizing quickly, often without leadership. In Chile, for example, it wasn’t clear with whom the government could sit down to negotiate. On Nov. 15, lawmakers in Santiago announced they’d reached an agreement to rewrite the constitution, meeting one of the protesters’ demands. The authoritarian regimes in Cuba and Venezuela should be feeling nervous, Corrales says. “All of a sudden, Bolivia collapsed in this way, and it involved two groups that were loyal to the government—a certain union and the military,” he says. Venezuela’s Maduro has relied on his military in the face of numerous rallies protesting the rigging of last year’s election. Members of Bolivia’s Police Special Operations Tactical Unit wave the national flag during a police mutiny on Nov. 9. PHOTOGRAPHER: MARCELO PEREZ DEL CARPIO/BLOOMBERG Centrists—such as just-defeated Argentine President Mauricio Macri—have little support in Latin America at the moment, just as in the rest of the world. One of the reasons investors expected Macri to be reelected was his advantage as the incumbent, with the power of the state and public coffers on his side. But he lost in the first round of voting, a referendum on his failure to control inflation, protect purchasing power, lower poverty, and maintain jobs. Eventually the tide of anti-incumbency may hit even outsiders, such as Brazil’s rightist President Jair Bolsonaro. If seeing Macri lose wasn’t enough to spook him, the raging protests and unrest in Chile should be. His government is doubling down on a reform agenda after already pushing through a pension overhaul and is counting on growth next year to cement support as he faces a challenge from Lula. Like Bolsonaro, Mexico’s Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador won in 2018 as an insurgent. The condition almost a year into his six-year term—low growth, rising crime, and declining investment—will complicate his plans and likely dent his still-high approval ratings. Ecuador’s Lenin Moreno is treading lightly after violent protests that forced him to move the government out of the capital temporarily. After winning election as the successor to leftist Rafael Correa, he pivoted 180 degrees to rule from the center-right and investigate his former allies for graft. But popular pressure is forcing him to recalculate as he struggles to meet terms under an International Monetary Fund aid program, which required the elimination of popular fuel subsidies. Recognizing social inequality and attempting to fix it, however belatedly, is no guarantee that protests will die down. Venezuela's opposition leader, Juan Guaidó, organized the largest street demonstration in months on Nov. 16 in what he’s dubbed a “permanent protest” against Maduro. In Colombia, unions and students called for a nationwide strike on Nov. 21. Some in Chile maintain that they’ll only be satisfied if Pinera resigns. “Anger at the political systems isn’t going away and, in many ways, governments are trapped,” says Bosworth, the risk report author. “There will be more protests, and they’ll be more violent in 2020.” https://www.bloomberg.com/businessweek cont'd below
cont'd from above: And from the latest translated messages to Luz de Maria: PRAY, MY CHILDREN, PRAY FOR MY CHURCH, SO THAT INNOVATIONS DO NOT INFILTRATE HER, DISTORTING THE WILL OF OUR TRINITY. Pray, People of God, pray. The warning is approaching and you are not prepared. Pray, People of God. The United States suffers from economic, social and political instability. Pray, People of God. Do not forget to pray for Mexico. It suffers due to a strong shaking of the earth. Pray children of God, pray for Mexico. It is strongly shaken. This people suffer from the stench that the sin of crazed youth is pouring out upon this land. Pray, My children, pray for the Church so that, as the Mystical Body of My Son, she resists the onslaught of innovations that are not the Divine Will. Pray, My children, pray for each one of you, so that you do not depart from faith, hope and charity. Pray, children, pray for Bolivia. It is shaken. Pray, My children, pray for the United States. It continues to suffer through nature. Pray, My children, pray. Chaos is coming to Argentina. Within the "Reflections of or from Luz de Maria" which is awaiting translation is this: We are feeling the apostasy, the signs are obvious. THOSE WHO PREPARE THE WORLD GOVERNMENT, THE SINGLE CURRENCY, AND A UNIQUE RELIGION, present Jesus and the Blessed Virgin Mary as the enemies of humanity, to INTRODUCE THAT new “humanist and seemingly pacifist” religion. The land is prepared in front of everyone.
Police surround last holdouts at Hong Kong university Hong Kong (AFP) - Dozens of exhausted pro-democracy protesters occupying a Hong Kong university defied warnings to surrender Tuesday on the third day of a stand-off with police, as China sent fresh signals that its patience with nearly six months of unrest was running out. Fearing arrest or being shot at by police, a dwindling number of protesters remained huddled inside Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) as night fell. The siege at PolyU began Sunday with many hundreds of protesters occupying the campus as part of a broader campaign of massive disruption across Hong Kong that began last week. The ensuing confrontation turned into the most intense and prolonged of Hong Kong's pro-democracy crisis, which has seen millions take to the streets since June to voice anger at China's erosion of the territory's freedoms. During the siege protesters had repelled police surges with a barrage of Molotov cocktails, arrows and bricks. Police in response threatened to use live rounds. Some protesters escaped overnight on Monday by shinning down ropes from a footbridge to a road, where they were whisked away on motorbikes. Others disappeared into manholes to try to probe the drainage system for a route out. In an apparently co-ordinated effort to distract police, tens of thousands of people streamed towards the PolyU campus on Monday night as clashes simultaneously raged with police in nearby Kowloon district. - New phase of violence - Footage on Monday showed armoured police beating fallen protesters with batons as they lay on the ground. One officer was filmed stamping on the head of a man who was already subdued. Alleged police brutality is one of the central complaints of the protest movement. Senior officers insist their men are acting proportionately. In her first public comments on the PolyU crisis, Hong Kong chief executive Carrie Lam said surrender was the only way to achieve a peaceful outcome. "This objective could only be achieved with the full cooperation of the protesters, including of course the rioters. "They have to stop violence, give up the weapons and come out peacefully and take the instructions from the police," she said. Lam said children who surrendered would not be arrested, though protesters aged over 18 would face charges of rioting. About 1,000 people had been arrested throughout Hong Kong over the previous 24 hours, Chief Superintendent Kwok Ka-chuen said on Tuesday afternoon. This was roughly a fifth of all arrests since the unrest began in June. Kwok said those arrested included some who had abseiled from the footbridge, as well as motorcyclists who helped them. And in an apparent contradiction of Lam, Kwok insisted everyone would feel the force of the law. "No excuse, no political demand or motive can spare anyone from legal liability," he said. "Regardless of their age and causes, they are to face the consequences of their own actions." - Determination - With police custody their best option, some inside PolyU were determined to fight on. "Even if we surrender they will still put us to jail. It seems we have two options, but actually we only have one... which is jail," one of the protesters, a mechanical engineering student who gave his name as Matthew, told AFP inside the campus. But their numbers were dwindling. AFP reporters on site estimated up to 100 remained by late afternoon. The new phase of mass disruption, which began last week, has caused chaos throughout the international financial hub, with schools closed, train lines disrupted and major roads blocked by barricades. With the crisis deepening, China's ambassador to Britain upped the ante on Monday. "If the situation becomes uncontrollable, the central government would certainly not sit on our hands and watch," Liu Xiaoming said. "We have enough resolution and power to end the unrest." In another ominous signal, China insisted Tuesday it had sole authority to rule on constitutional matters in Hong Kong, which it rules under a special model giving the city greater freedoms than enjoyed on the mainland. The warning came as it condemned a decision by the city's high court on Monday to overturn a ban on face masks worn by pro-democracy protesters. Only China's parliament has the right to rule on Hong Kong's Basic Law -- the city's mini-constitution, parliament spokesman Zang Tiewei said. "No other institution has the right to make judgements or decisions," he said. A mainland scholar who requested anonymity to speak freely about such a sensitive subject said while the parliament had the right to take away what it gave, the timing of the announcement was ill-advised. "Such a statement would gravely affect people's views on the principle of 'One Country, Two System'." Carrie Lam has repeatedly insisted that her unpopular police force can contain the unrest, and said Tuesday there was currently no need for the People's Liberation Army to intervene. Protests started in June as a peaceful condemnation of a now-shelved China extradition bill. They morphed into a broader movement to defend the city's unique freedoms, which were meant to be enshrined in the Basic Law when Hong Kong was handed over by Britain in 1997. burs-hg/apj/kma https://news.yahoo.com/hong-kong-siege-third-day-china-sounds-warnings-031850303.html
‘I Was Possessed’: How One Man Was Freed From Satanic Possession The testimony of a man who was possessed by cohorts of demons after a séance and was saved by his conversion. PARIS — Michel Chiron was a simple educator in an institute for the mentally disabled in central France and led an uneventful life. In the 1980s, boredom and a love disappointment led him to participate in spiritualist séances with some colleagues. The Catholic education he received in his childhood had been swept away by the cultural revolution of May 1968, and he proudly described himself as an atheist. However, as he started such practices in order to “have fun,” without believing in their effects, Chiron saw, with great astonishment, the pedestal table turn and the spirits communicate coherent messages through Scrabble letters. A decade later, it is with a darker state of mind that he appealed to the same spirits again, alone, in search for answers regarding his romantic life. It was a step that will cost him dearly, as it enabled demonic spirits to take possession of his body and to torment him day and night for more than nine months. In this interview with the Register, Chiron gives a chilling account of this authentic trip to hell — from which he came back, thanks to his return to the faith. Such a story is told in the newly published book J’étais Possédé (“I Was Possessed”). Prefaced by Father Jean-Baptiste Golfier, a prominent expert in the field of exorcism and demonic possession, this book also provides a warning against the deleterious and unknown effects of occult practices, more and more popular in Western societies. You claim to have been possessed by several demons 25 years ago. How did everything begin? It was in 1993. I had recently been divorced. I had a free life, but I was feeling very lonely. I hoped I could start over. I didn’t want to grow old this way, so one day, I decided to ask questions to a pendulum with Scrabble letters. When I did it with my colleagues 10 years earlier, we couldn’t get interesting answers. But I felt it was different this time. I was far more serious, and I was looking for answers to my questions and miseries. I wrote down the words, which were coherent but didn’t answer my deep questions about my emotional life. I was in desperate need of help. For about 10 days, every day after work, I tried to get some answers. I was impressed by the idea of an openness to the hereafter. But one day, the letters said: “Now, we won’t need the pendulum anymore. We will talk to you directly, from inside you.” And I immediately heard weird voices coming from my head, from my chest and throat. They wanted to show me they could totally control me. At some point, they said, “It is the devil speaking.” I was so afraid. I trashed the pendulum right away and went immediately to bed. I slept like a brick. When I woke up, they started playing with me. “Yesterday we scared you, but now we will tell you the truth,” they said. How many were they? And what was that “truth” they wanted to tell you? I don’t know how many spirits were inside me, but they were definitely an impressive number. They said they were sent by their “king” and described themselves as part of the “first kingdom.” There was a hierarchy. At the beginning, they described themselves as spirits of anterior lives and not as demons, of course. I asked them many questions, especially how they were formed. We had a dialogue. They said: “You don’t know that, but we are made of ions, of particles.” They also told me things about my life and childhood, things I totally forgot. They had a full access to my brain and memory. Don’t you think that your distress may have contributed to making you more prone to possession, or even to hallucinations? Were the voices distinct enough? Didn’t you believe that you could have had a kind of split personality? No, absolutely not. My mind was clear, but it is obvious that the demons were already there. The devil is interested in every person, especially the most fragile, those who are going through difficult times. It can also happen to people who have faith, as we can see in the cases of pedophilia. The demonic aspect is here. But these people are responsible for their actions because they failed taking weapons against these demonic attacks, like the practice of prayer and virtue, just like me when I gave up my faith in the 1970s. How was their voice like? They had very clear voices. But I noticed they had no sense of humor at all. They just sounded like strict teachers, because they claimed to have knowledge and spoke with authority. Did they explain what they wanted with you? They said their program was to transform me so that I could have “potentialities.” Such potentialities were clearly diabolical, but I didn’t know that at that time. They said I had been chosen for that. It was crazy. They said that such potentialities were meant to help me bring more people to their king. How did they show their power to you? For instance, they would ask me to hold a card deck, and they would always guess which card I was about to pick. Then, after about 10 days, it became worse. The real nightmare began. They began making me stick out my tongue, and there was nothing I could do. The first time they did it, it lasted more than 30 minutes. And I felt tingling sensations in my head, just like thousands of ants trying to bite me. They really tormented me. One day, while I was eating, my palate started bleeding. I couldn’t eat, it was so painful, and I couldn’t eat anything tough. For about a week, I couldn’t eat anything but soft food. Some nights, I woke up with terrible backaches — it burnt so bad. They said these trials were meant to purify and strengthen me. Then they made me drink water. A lot of water. Perhaps more than 15 liters a day. They said that it was what would enable me to have “potentialities.” I’ve been told later that it could be very dangerous for the body to drink too much water, but my body resisted. Water gave them strength, a kind of electric strength. I gave them power by drinking; hydrogen gave them power. I believe there is something scientific behind this. They also told me they would change my face and that I would rediscover new youth. They even tried to make me believe that I would become immortal. One day, they told me to put my fingers on my facial bones, and all of a sudden, my bones became soft, especially my chin. It was incredibly scary. The following morning, everything was back to normal. cont'd below
cont'd from above Were you able to work during these nine months? How did you manage your relationships with others? I did work the whole time. When I was in presence of other people, they kept quiet, most of the time. Did they ever talk about Jesus? Yes, they did. They told me he did exist in the past but that he should be forgotten, as nowadays human beings no longer needed him. They even said that he was with their king now. They also attacked Jesus by putting him in the same basket as Buddha or Allah, etc., saying they were only parts of history, irrevocably behind us. But they spoke often about the Virgin Mary, naming her “The Woman,” but it is only later that I understood who they were referring to. They were very scared of her. In your book, you say that you maintained a free will the whole time, even though the devil took possession of your body. How do you explain that? The fact that I didn’t commit suicide during this nightmare was the fruit of my own will, as the demons wanted me to do so at some point. But my body was prisoner during the whole possession. My thought was somewhat free, but they had access to my thoughts and tried to manipulate them. They also tried to make me leave my own body … but they failed. They couldn’t do what they wanted with me. They couldn’t possess my soul. Obviously, some limits were put to them, but I didn’t know where such a protection was coming from. I understood later, after my conversion, that it was the Virgin Mary and my mother, who died years before this demonic attack. Have you ever felt they were capable of killing you? The demons cannot kill humans directly. But they can make you want to die. And it happened to me. At some point, they understood they couldn’t really use me to serve their agenda. I wanted to make them stop. I remember I even banged my head against the wall so that they would stop talking to me. Can you tell me more about the turning point that made you fight against these demons? I got more and more angry. I went three times on the edge of a railroad. I didn’t really want to die; it was more a way to test them. Oddly, they stopped talking to me when I was doing this. One day, though, it just became too much. It was on the New Year’s Eve. I was so desperate that I took a bottle of surgical alcohol and opened the gas in my kitchen. But I quickly had a kind of jolt. I said: “No, you don’t want to die. You have children, and you must resist.” I immediately decided to go and see a doctor to ask a work stoppage and thought I should see a priest. I didn’t really know why I was thinking to see a priest, but I was deeply convinced it was what I was supposed to do. I wasn’t very aware of the fact that I was possessed, but I knew I was in deep trouble. The most incredible fact is that the demons heard my thoughts and suddenly told me they lied to me and that God existed. How did you react? Not very well. Initially, I wasn’t very pleased to hear that, as I had gone so far in sin. It was such a shock. So, I thought that if God existed, then the entities within me necessarily belonged to the devil. This is how I understood I had to see an exorcist. And I started to pray. It was so difficult at the beginning, as I wasn’t used to it; even in my childhood, when I received a Catholic education, we weren’t really taught how to pray. But I quickly found prayers and realized it was not so difficult. In fact, I couldn’t stop praying. It was like running water. I had a kind of effusion of the spirit, thanks to the Holy Spirit. It showed the demons the power of God, his mercy! So, it silenced them. It was such a relief, such a revelation. The day after, I called the exorcist of my diocese in Loir-et-Cher (Centre-Val de Loire region), Father André Farcet. Did you feel any sign of internal resistance when the priest performed the exorcism? Not at all. Usually there is resistance when the soul is prisoner, which wasn’t my case. Their power was due to their number. Did you notice any reaction from the demons during the exorcism? They kept saying that they got robbed the whole time. And they repeated it was all “The Woman’s” fault. I understood that “The Woman” referred to the Virgin Mary, as I was doing Rosaries and praying many Hail Marys every day. She was their ordeal. They were afraid of her, as well as “the cauldron.” I found this word very funny; they didn’t mention hell, but [called it] the cauldron. The demons took power over me, but the situation changed, and I finally took power over them. Did the exorcist eliminate all of them all at once? He only removed the biggest demons. They disappeared. But a few demons stayed, and it took quite a lot of time to totally eradicate their voice inside me. One day, as I was simply shaving in my bathroom, I got a lightning flash of the Virgin Mary. She appeared inside me. I couldn’t even think; the image took all of my body. She was infinitely beautiful; she had pretty dark skin and wore very colorful veils. Then another image appeared, without any rupture between the two images — it was like a crossfade. The second image was my mother. She was dressed all in white; she looked very young and was all smiles. This is when I understood how I was saved. The remaining demons didn’t leave right away, but were even more fearful of “The Woman,” without ever pronouncing her real name. The full and definitive liberation happened in Lourdes, a few years later, where I deeply felt that Mary, my Mother in heaven, was welcoming me with open arms. You finished the book by quoting a prayer to St. Joseph. Why him? Simply because the Prayer to St. Joseph is one of my favorite prayers. I pray a lot with saints today. I wake up every morning at 4:30am and start praying to the saints to which I am close. I start with the Holy Spirit and continue with the Virgin Mary, then St. Joseph, St. Padre Pio and St. Michael the Archangel. I feel very close to St. Margaret Mary and St. André of Montreal, as well. Today, I feel fully protected and couldn’t be happier; this is why I accepted to share my testimony. I’ve never had the idea of writing a book, but I do have a blog in which I publish stories about my experience; and a Catholic journalist noticed it and showed his interest. This is how the idea of the book was born. I am happy to share the treasure I received with as many people as possible, and I hope it can help them. Solène Tadié is the Rome-based Europe correspondent for the Register. http://www.ncregister.com/daily-news/i-was-possessed-how-one-man-was-freed-from-satanic-possession
Sandinistas Storm Managua Cathedral, Assault Priest and Nun A mob of dozens of pro-government activists stormed the cathedral of Managua, Nicaragua, Monday afternoon, repeatedly striking the cathedral vicar and a Catholic nun who protested their intrusion. The pro-Sandinista throng sought to interrupt a hunger strike carried out by seven mothers of political prisoners being held by the regime of President Daniel Ortega, according to local reports. The archdiocese of Managua, Nicaragua, has posted videos of the incursion, as well as an official statement informing “all the people of God” of the incident. “This afternoon violent government-sponsored groups entered and took control of the Metropolitan Cathedral of Managua,” the statement reads. “Confronted by Father Rodolfo López and Sister Arelys Guzmán, these people responded with violence by beating the priest and the sister, who are all right but had to leave the church to seek shelter.” “Also, tonight members of this same group broke the locks of the bell tower and other padlocks of the church, desecrating our Metropolitan Cathedral,” it continues. “We condemn these acts of desecration, siege, and intimidation that do not favor the peace and stability of the country.” The archdiocese of Managua has called on President Ortega and his wife, Vice-President Rosario Murillo, to take “immediate action” to restore respect to Catholic churches, as well as demanding that the national police “withdraw their troops who raid and intimidate the cathedral and our parishes.” The Managua cathedral hunger strike was launched in support of a similar hunger strike begun four days earlier at the church of San Miguel Arcángel in the nearby city of Masaya. On the night of November 14, police and paramilitary units surrounded the church, cutting off its electricity and water service and preventing anyone from entering or leaving. Officials arrested 13 activists and human rights defenders who were trying to take water to the striking mothers of political prisoners. At a news conference Monday, the opposition coalition Blue and White National Unity (UNAB) called for additional hunger strikes around the country to demand the release of 150 political prisoners. https://www.breitbart.com/national-...orm-managua-cathedral-assault-priest-and-nun/
PURE EVIL. SPLC Labels Latin Rite Catholics the “Largest Hate Group in America” The Southern Poverty Law Center has a history of listing Christian groups and Catholics as “hate groups.” The SPLC has repeatedly placed the “Singing Nuns” on its hate group map. The Singing Nuns are traditional Catholic Sisters, members of the Congregation of Mary Immaculate Queen. In other words, they wear their full-length blue habits all the time — not just on special occasions or when they are singing. Their motherhouse, St. Michael’s Convent, is located at Mount St. Michael, just north of Spokane, Washington. The far left SPLC says these traditional Catholic nuns are a hate group. The SPLC is also behind a terrorist attack on a conservative organization in Washington DC. In August 2012, a LGBT volunteer carrying bag of Chick-fil-A sandwiches shot up the conservative Family Research Council headquarters in Washington DC. The shooter, Floyd Corkins, later admitted he got his information from the far left Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) website. Recently the SPLC labled “radical(?) traditionalist Catholics as a hate group. Via the SPLC: “Radical traditionalist” Catholics, who may make up the largest single group of serious antisemites in America, subscribe to an ideology that is rejected by the Vatican and some 70 million mainstream American Catholics. This is just more Christian bashing by the SPLC. It’s what they do. YouTube is using the Southern Poverty Law Center to decide which content is “extremist.” https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/20...-catholics-the-largest-hate-group-in-america/
You can clearly see that hate has affected the brains of the people working for SPLC. The emotion of hate really does change people. Makes me roll my eyes but people like this are frightening. This type of hate marched millions of fellow humans to death in WWII.
UPDATE: All Three Nicholas Sandman Lawsuits Against Liberal Media move Forward… WaPo, CNN, NBC Federal Judge William Bertelsman reopened the $250 million defamation case filed by Covington Catholic student Nicholas Sandmann against the Washington Post in late October. Sixteen-year-old Covington Catholic student Nicholas Sandmann was smeared and maligned by the liberal press after he was harassed in Washington DC following the March for Life. The Washington Post accused the teen of blocking and impeding Nathan Phillips as the native American elder was harassing the Catholic boys in Trump hats. It was all a lie and the Washington Post was one of the leading liberal outlets attacking the young Catholic boys. Attorney Robert Barnes responded to the news in October. "Let me thank @ewarren for removing our Covington case to federal court & giving us the chance to brief the issue. After briefing, the judge also reconsidered & reopened the Sandmann case against the Post. Despite many big corporate media law firms against us, justice is coming." The same judge has now ruled in similar cases against CNN and NBC. This allows the cases to move forward on the same basis as the WaPo case. Nicholas Sandman’s attorney Lin Wood cheered the decision by Judge Bertelsman today. "As predicted, today Judge Bertelsman entered an order allowing the Nicholas Sandmann case against NBCUniversal to proceed to discovery just as he had earlier ruled with respect to WaPo & CNN cases. Huge, huge win!" https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/20...inst-liberal-media-move-forward-wapo-cnn-nbc/
At the risk of sounding vengeful I hope Nicholas and his lawyer clean their clocks! I hope damages are punitive enough to really hit them in the pocketbook. They have done grave harm.
S.N.U.B.: Spygate-Netanyahu-Ukraine-Brexit — It’s Time for the West to Outlaw George Soros’ Open Society What used to be shrugged off as just another crazy conspiracy theory has become too overwhelmingly evident to deny: Billionaire investor George Soros and his Open Society Foundation have become a supranational non-state power that topples governments and threatens the workings of democracy. Open Society must be declared a hostile foreign agent, writes Former National Security Council member Fiona Hill raised eyebrows on Capitol Hill this week by calling the investigations into Ukrainian interference in the 2016 elections “a fictional narrative”. George Soros’ favorite newspaper The Guardian chimed in that “Some Republicans on the intelligence committee have pushed a discredited conspiracy theory, embraced by Trump and amplified by conservative media, that Ukraine, rather than Russia, meddled in the last election.” The fact that Ukrainians like MP Serhiy Leschenko and Ukrainian-American DNC operative Alexandra Chalupa sought to influence the 2016 elections is well-documented by reporting by John Solomon, Politico and even a Ukrainian court verdict. Gateway Pundit unveiled the connection to George Soros’ Open Society and the Democratic National Committee in April. Naturally, neither The Guardian nor Fiona Hill offered any evidence for their claims. Independent conservative media quickly revealed a possible explanation for Fiona Hill’s outrageous act of contempt of Congress: Hill was a member of the board of Soros’s Open Society Institute from 2000-2006 on Russian and European affairs, as her CV at the Brookings Institute shows, and also admitted to having worked with the author of the Russia “dossier” Christopher Steele, commissioned by opposition research firm Fusion GPS and paid for by the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee. Speaking to Alex Jones in 2017, former Trump adviser Roger Stone said: “George Soros has penetrated the Trump White House. Soros has planted a mole infiltrating the national security apparatus – a woman named Fiona Hill, who has a Harvard background, has been on the Soros payroll and the payroll of the Open Society Institute”. Naturally, Stone and Jones were dismissed as “conspiracy theorists” at the time. Presumably, it will take generations of historians to unravel exactly how the Soros machine contrived the Spygate attack on Trump and American Democracy. The Open Society network is by no means confined to the USA, however: Overseas, Soros NGOs engage in actual coups and regime change, such as in Ukraine and Macedonia. Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán has even charged Soros with being responsible for the murder of Slovak journalist Jan Kuciak. When the British people voted to regain their sovereignty, George Soros was “proud” to fund the anti-Leave campaign Best for Britain, as The Guardian writes. Guardian journalist Carole Cadwalladr made up a wild conspiracy theory around Steven Bannon and Cambridge Analytica to explain the Brexit vote, which was completely debunked by the British Information Commissioner’s report but is still cited as fact around the world. When the center-right Austrian government was brought down in May 2019 over a scandal involving secret video recordings, the story was broken by two journalists who belong to the Soros-funded International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, Bastian Obermayer and Frederik Obermaier. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has called Soros “openly set on capturing European institutions”. According to Orbán, EU proceedings against Hungary indicate “the huge influence of Mr. Soros, who wants to gain even more.” This must be prevented in the elections to the European Parliament, Orbàn told Kossuth Radio Jan 25, 2019, because “we want pro-immigration MEPs to be reduced to a minority in the European Parliament”. Speaking in the EU Parliament in Strasbourg, Nigel Farage has called George Soros “the biggest danger to the entire western world”: “His influence here and in Brussels is extraordinary. I fear we could be looking at the biggest level of international, political collusion in history.” Open Society “since 1984 has given away $32 billion” to left-wing political causes, the Foundation acknowledges on its website. Writing in “Secret Empires”, corruption researcher Peter Schweizer has shown how Soros uses “fomenting chaos” and government ties as a lucrative investment tool: The ultimate insider trader. And now, the government of Israel, a state fighting for its very survival on many fronts and facing the threat of nuclear annihilation, has been paralyzed by a lawfare campaign that originates with the Soros-funded New Israel Fund and its left-wing NGOs Human Rights Defenders Fund (HRDF) and the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI). As both Alan Dershowitz and Caroline Glick noted last week, like in Trump’s case, the charges against Benjamin Netanyahu are entirely trumped-up and completely without merit: “From beginning to end, (the) criminal persecution of Netanyahu has been a travesty of every norm in democratic societies governed by the rule of law. Carefully edited and wholly distorted recordings and transcripts of police interrogations of Netanyahu, his wife, son, and advisors were systematically leaked to the media. The fact that every such leak was a felony offense was of no matter. Netanyahu’s attorneys submitted request after request for Mandelblit to order an investigation of the criminal leaks. All were summarily and scornfully rejected”, writes Glick. “I think we’re seeing the weaponization of criminal justice for political purposes,” Dershowitz told JNS. “In Israel, the attorney general is supposed to be outside of politics.” Given the antipathy Soros has for the State of Israel, it’s little surprise to find these corruption charges originate with the New Israel Fund, whose ties to Soros were only revealed by a Wikileaks hack. Edwin Black documented the anti-Israel Activities sponsored by NIF in his book “Financing the Flames” 2013, and NGO Monitor documented the anti-Israel activities of Open Society in their report “Bad Investment” 2013. cont'd below
cont'd from above The campaign to pressure Israeli Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit to pursue the elected Prime Minister goes back at least to 2017, as NIF writes: “The Human Rights Defenders Fund (HRDF) and the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) fought this month for the rights of demonstrators to protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after police used excessive force at a demonstration. The two NIF grantees worked to defend protestors near the home of Israeli Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit in Petah Tikva. Protestors demanded that he fully and quickly investigate allegations of bribery against Netanyahu. Police had declared the demonstration illegal, saying it was too close to Mandelblit’s home.” However, the campaign to put pressure on Mandelblit predates the current campaign by at least 9 years, as Wikileaks revealed 2010. According to an article by Noak Pollak in Commentary, Jessica Montell, the head of Soros NGO B’Tselem “wanted the highest level decision-makers held accountable for the decisions they made on how to prosecute the (Gaza) conflict, including Military Advocate General (MAG) Mandelblit… Her aim, she said, was to make Israel weigh world opinion and consider whether it could “afford another operation like this (Operation Cast Lead 2008-9).” Apparently, the Soros NGOs realized as early as 2010 they would not be able to get rid of Netanyahu and the Likud government by democratic means, which led to their campaign of “lawfare”, waging war on the State of Israel by legalistic means. “New Israel Fund (NIF) Associate Director in Israel Hedva Radovanitz, who manages grants to 350 NGOs totaling about 18 million dollars per year, [said] that the campaign against the NGOs was due to the “disappearance of the political left wing” in Israel and the lack of domestic constituency for the NGOs”, writes Pollak. “She noted that when she headed ACRI’s Tel Aviv office, ACRI had 5,000 members, while today it has less than 800, and it was only able to muster about 5,000 people to its December human rights march by relying on the active staff of the 120 NGOs that participated. She commented that she believed that in 100 years Israel would be majority Arab and that the disappearance of a Jewish state would not be the tragedy that Israelis fear since it would become more democratic.” According to this version of events, NIF and the Soros NGOs have been plotting the “disappearance of a Jewish State” for almost 10 years. Given the fact that B’Tselem director Jessica Montel “estimated her 9 million NIS ($2.4 million) budget is 95 percent funded from abroad, mostly from European countries”, it is high time for the democratic countries of the West to consider whether Vladimir Putin did not have an excellent point when he banned Open Society from Russia. https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/20...the-west-to-outlaw-george-soros-open-society/
At papal Mass, the Marian image that survived Nagasaki's atom bomb Nagasaki, Japan, Nov 25, 2019 / 01:35 pm (CNA).- When Pope Francis offers Mass during international trips, an image of the Marian devotion of the country he is visiting is usually placed near the altar. On Nov. 24 the image used at a papal Mass in Nagasaki had an additional significance: It is a sculpture of Mary that survived the explosion of the atomic bomb in 1945. They call her the Virgin of Nagasaki or the Burnt Virgin. On Aug. 9, 1945, it was at the altar of the former Urakami cathedral, just a few blocks from the epicenter of the explosion of an atomic bomb dropped by American forces during the Second World War. Originally the bust was part of a wood carving sculpted abroad and given to the cathedral in 1920. It was inspired by the painting of the Immaculate Conception by Spanish painter Bartolomé Esteban Murillo. The bomb that destroyed Nagasaki was dropped at 11:01 in the morning. That day Catholics were praying the novena of the Solemnity of the Assumption of Mary, for which a Mass was held. Everyone in the cathedral died, incinerated by temperatures exceeding 7,000 degrees. More than 35,000 people died in the city within hours; thousands more died in the months to follow. The cathedral was left in ruins. When the bust was found, the face of the Virgin seemed fatally damaged, with empty eye sockets, and the cheeks and hair charred, and a crack on the left side of the face which, some believers say look now like tears of the Mother of God. The image, also known as the Virgin of Urakami, is now placed in the new city’s new cathedral, built in 1959 on the ruins of the first one. It has become a symbol of peace and the fight against the use of nuclear weapons. https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/...arian-image-that-survived-the-atom-bomb-16662
Protestant believer telling Catholic Bishops to do their Job!! Franklin Graham to Catholics: Excommunicate Cuomo https://stockdailydish.com/franklin-graham-to-catholics-excommunicate-cuomo/ Catholic Bishop warns that the crisis in the Church will lead to many becoming Protestant!! Cardinal Müller warns ‘hundreds of thousands’ will leave Church over Pachamama idolatry https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/c...nds-will-leave-church-over-pachamama-idolatry
It's a delicate balancing act with this pontificate isn't it. At times it has crossed my mind that so many will leave over this and all the other shenanigans going on. It will be a loss. I think the ones who leave because of the idol will be devout Catholics. Most of the cafeteria types don't see anything wrong with any of this so they stay. So many are still not paying attention to the idols. A lot probably don't even know about it. The priest scandal however is ripe for making people leave. The Church is literally burying any talk about this and the homosexual crisis. The play book being read. I have always told my children to always be proud of being Catholic. I fear we are coming to a time when people will openly scorn and persecute Catholics. I pray my children will stay strong. It is going to be hard.
Will such places be places of refuge for the coming times? Bringing the Faith to the Ends of America: Monasteries Take Root in Remote US Locations Three such communities have chosen to live in isolated areas where they may better live a life of prayer and contemplation, while sustaining their needs with manual labor. Some religious communities, such as the Franciscan Friars of the Renewal in New York City, work in the heart of the city. Others have planted their communities far from population centers in remote regions of the country. Three such communities have chosen to live in isolated areas where they may better live a life of prayer and contemplation, while sustaining their needs with manual labor. Our Lady of the Angels (OLAMonastery.org) is a Trappist-Cistercian Monastery in Crozet, a small Virginia community in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. The community was founded by six sisters in 1987 and today is home to 13 sisters, ages 40 to 87. The sisters live a regimented life of prayer, rising at 3am for individual prayer and spiritual reading and retiring after Compline at 7:30pm. The sisters support their community through manual labor and are well-known for their Gouda cheese, called Monastery Country Cheese, which they have manufactured and sold since 1990. The monastery is located on a 500-acre site, 390 acres of which are woodlands, about a mile from a main road. The area is remote, far from any housing developments or other residential or urban areas. Sister Barbara Smickel first became a Cistercian sister in 1956 and was one of six founding sisters of the Crozet community. She said the monastery’s location was chosen with care. As she explained, “We appreciate silence and solitude. Our location gives us the privacy we need for prayer. The forest and mountains are also beautiful, and beauty is very uplifting for prayer.” However, despite the far-away location, she said, “People still make their way up here to go on retreat, buy our cheese or pray in our church, which is always open to the public.” The sisters’ church was completed just two and a half years ago, funded by proceeds from cheese sales and donations. When not at work, the sisters wear a traditional white robe covered by a black scapular, along with a black veil (or white, for those who haven’t professed their final vows). Their formation period is nine years. Sister Barbara feels blessed by her vocational discernment: “I love it. Living in this community has been the greatest gift of my life.” Another religious community remote from the world but close to the faith, the monks of Our Lady of Clear Creek Abbey in Hulbert, Oklahoma (ClearCreekMonks.org), are celebrating the 20th anniversary of their abbey’s founding. The Benedictine community is located in a wooded site about 50 miles southeast of Tulsa. Its 50 monks live a regimented life in accordance with the Benedictine motto ora et labora, “pray and work.” The community got its start from the Great Books program at the University of Kansas, which studies the roots of Western civilization through the classic works of literature. Students in the program interested in the monastic life made their way to Notre-Dame de Fontgombault Abbey in France, with the intention of returning to the U.S. to establish a new monastic foundation. After looking throughout the U.S. for a monastery site, they selected a ranch along Oklahoma’s Clear Creek. Its first buildings included a log cabin, barn and stable; the barn was the community’s first chapel, and horse stalls were the first monastic cells. Benedictine Father Norton, a priest with the community, recalled his first visit to the site 13 years ago: “It was very primitive.” The community prays in Latin and celebrates Mass according to the extraordinary form, and Father Norton was first attracted to their celebration of the liturgy. “Their whole day was centered around saying Mass,” he said. “It was devout and reverent.” About a third of the monastery has been built since those early days. The monks’ goal is to build a magnificent abbey, said Abbot Philip Anderson, “to last a thousand years.” Because the monastery is located in a remote rural area, its monks work the land and may be found chopping down trees for use on the property and planting new ones to take their place. The monks also milk cows, raise pigs and sheep, perform carpentry work, cook their own food, and make items to sell to visitors. Father Norton said that it was difficult for him “to live a Christian life in the modern world.” Now, happy in his vocation, he lives “a more simple life centered on Christ.” The Southwestern region of the U.S. has also made a welcoming site for monastic life. The Monastery of Christ in the Desert of Abiquiu, New Mexico (ChristDesert.org), is a 55-year-old community located in an especially remote location, the wilderness of Chama Canyon. It is a beautiful setting in a valley, surrounded by mountains and trees. To reach the site, visitors must travel 13 miles down a dirt road off U.S. Route 84 and along the Chama River (when it rains, the road may become impassible for a time), which the prior, Brother Benedict, calls “our driveway.” The nearest small town is a 45-minute drive away. The monastery’s 60 Benedictine monks also engage in manual labor to provide for their needs. They operate a retreat house for visitors and offer religious items for sale. They wear a traditional Benedictine habit, as well as a habit designed for work. The modest buildings of the monastery blend into the landscape, and much of the monastery’s power comes from a solar array. The monks keep a rigorous prayer schedule, from 4am to 8pm, and rarely leave the monastery. Prayers are sung; and the monks perform regular penances, including abstinence from meat. When not in prayer, monks might be found repairing machinery, caring for visitors on retreat, baking bread or cleaning or making religious items to sell. Yet despite its wilderness location, the abbey draws 30,000 visitors a year. Abbot Emeritus Philip Lawrence, leader of the community from 1976 to 2018, noted that visitors are impressed by the “daily discipline of the monks.” Visitors ask, he said, “Why would anyone want to get up early and pray? Can’t we pray just as well and get up later? So the discipline of our lives touches the guests and visitors.” Jim Graves writes from Newport Beach, California http://www.ncregister.com/daily-new...-of-america-monasteries-take-root-in-remote-u
I'm unable to comprehend how Bitcoin works but it sounds like the intro to a cashless society. Now more of its entry into the marketplace?: Bitcoin ATMs May Be Coming to a Mall Near You, as BitStop Makes Deal With Simon Malls The Bitcoin ATM company Bitstop has partnered with the world’s largest mall operator in the world, Simon Malls, to bring a fleet of the machines to multiple locations across the United States. The company has already installed five Bitcoin ATMs at Carlsbad Premium Outlets in Carlsbad, CA; Miami International Mall in Miami, FL; Sawgrass Mills in Sunrise, FL; The Avenues in Jacksonville, FL; and Mall of Georgia in Buford, GA. “With the strategic timing of this new installation of Bitcoin ATMs at Simon Mall locations, customers can conveniently buy Bitcoin while doing their Black Friday and Christmas holiday shopping,” Andrew Barnard, Bitstop co-founder and CEO, said in a statement. “Bitcoin is the perfect gift for family and friends this holiday season. Our Bitstop Bitcoin ATM mall locations are at the forefront of a trend as Bitcoin and digital currencies become part of the mainstream culture.” The ATM’s allow people to buy and sell the crypto currency easily and securely. Bitstop is hoping to have over 500 locations by the end of next year. According to their press release, the Bitcoin ATM industry has been on fire, recently growing to see an average daily installation of more than 10 machines. The entire global Bitcoin ATM count is already over 6,000 machines and, by year-end 2020, is expected to reach more than 10,000. “This is another series of marquee locations after our recent Bitstop Bitcoin installation at the Miami International Airport back in October,” says Barnard. “We want to make sure our customers always have convenient access to our Bitcoin ATMs. There are now over 130 convenient Bitstop Bitcoin ATM locations across the country, with many more growing every month. We intend to expand our Bitstop network to include 500+ locations by the end of 2020.” https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/20...r-you-as-bitstop-makes-deal-with-simon-malls/
