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Putin says no Stalinist tendencies in society, confirms Berezovsky’s letters – by Russian President Vladimir Putin (RIA Novosti/Aleksey Nikolskyi) – Published time: April 25, 2013 08:10
The Russian president has answered the most important of millions of questions submitted by citizens during his annual live Q&A call-in.
No Stalinism in society, but order, discipline and equality
Well-known liberal journalist Aleksey Vededictov of talk radio station Ekho Moskvy told the president that his third term was marked by worrying tendencies, such as the prosecutions of Pussy Riot, the rioters in Bolotnaya Square and Aleksey Navalny, as well as pressure placed on NGOs and the passage of laws that sparked widespread outrage.
“Answer please, do you really think that Russia can be a progressive world power in the 21st century by using methods of the ‘effective manager’ Stalin,” Venediktov asked.
– Everyone should obey the law
Putin replied that he saw no elements of Stalinism in present-day Russia: “Stalinism is connected with a personality cult, with mass violations of the law, with repressions and prison camps,” he said. “There is nothing of such kind in Russia and I hope there will never be. Our society is different now and it will never let this happen again.”
Putin went on to say that Russia still needed order and discipline, as well as the equality of all citizens before the law. “The Pussy Riot girls and the guys who desecrate soldiers’ graves must all answer before the law,” he said. “People are not being convicted for their political views but for violating the law.”
“The same applies to street rallies – I think that they might and must be organized, but this should be done in line with the law. Modern mass media can cover any event, why should one tear shoulder patches off the police uniforms and cause unrest?” he continued.
– Transparency does not mean political pressure
The same applies to NGOs, Putin explained, saying “we welcome their work as it is very important to get feedback from the common people from all regions. But if such activities see their only objective as self-promotion, this is bad.”
“If they seek to make their activities a part of internal political procedure and yet they get their funding from abroad – I say, they must speak openly about it” he said. “No one is banning their work. The law is not banning this. But they must tell where their money comes from, in what amount and how it was spent.”
– Corruption fighters must be clear as crystal
One of the hosts pressed the issue by asking the president if the authorities were afraid of popular anti-corruption blogger Aleksey Navalny, who now faces several criminal cases and is awaiting trial for fraud.
Putin said that in his opinion, those who fight corruption must themselves be “clear as crystal,” or such activities would become self-advertising and PR, while the law must treat everyone equally.
“There should be no illusions like when someone is calling for everyone to catch a thief this gives this person a license to steal. But this also does not mean that someone whose views differ from those of the authorities must be put on trial and dragged to prison,” Putin said, adding that he told prosecutors and other law enforcers to ensure the trial is objective.
‘Satisfied’ with current government’s performance
The first question dealt with several decrees on economic and social development Putin signed after last year’s Russian presidential elections. When a reporter asked if the president was content with how his orders had been carried out, Putin said that he had deliberately set extremely difficult objectives, which should be taken into consideration when judging the government’s performance.
Such measures were ambitious goals to motivate Russians, Putin said, adding that he has been generally happy with the government’s performance.
Later, a viewer asked the president if he planned to dismiss any governmental ministers, and Putin answered that the current government has been in office for less than a year (the Cabinet was formed after the inauguration in early May 2012), and that any reshuffle would cause more harm than good. Putin praised the question, saying that officials at every level should be constantly reminded they are public servants.
Foreign operatives may have had a role in Berezovsky’s death
When the hosts asked the president about late oligarch Boris Berezovsky, Putin answered that he could not discount the possibility that foreign special services were involved in the businessman’s death. “They are capable of that. Everything is possible,” he said.
Berezovsky died in London in late March by suspected suicide; a criminal probe into his death is ongoing.
Putin confirmed that he had received two identical letters from Berezovsky, though he admitted that he was not comfortable speaking on the issue: “I received the first letter from him in the beginning of this year and the second arrived already after his death. The text was the same, so yes, there were letters.”
The president elaborated that the first letter was completely written by hand, while the second was partially typed and partially written. The first message was passed by one of Berezovsky’s former business partners, and the second through another partner who is a foreign citizen, Putin said.
Berezovsky wrote that he was admitting his mistakes, apologized, and asked for permission to return to Russia. Putin said that he had not answered any of the letters.
The president also said he would not object to fulfilling Berezovsky’s will to be buried in Russia, saying that the final decision should be made by the businessman’s family.
Putin also noted that he decided not to make public the content of Berezovsky’s messages, even though some of his close associates “literally demanded” he do so. “I thank God for preventing me from doing so,” Putin concluded.
Return of death penalty will not eliminate crime
When asked if it was possible to bring back the death penalty for those convicted of grave crimes, such as the recent shooting in Belgorod that claimed 6 lives, Putin said he fully understood the questioner’s emotions, but experts have suggested that such a measure would not actually reduce crime.
“When I encounter such events, my hand reaches for a pen to sign some documents connected with the death penalty. But first, I have to consult specialists,” Putin said.
The Russian president recalled how in the Roman Empire, pickpockets were usually sentenced to death, yet most pickpocketing was committed during the public executions. He also reiterated that Russia has replaced the death penalty with life imprisonment, and suggested that the law be amended to ban pardons for criminals sentenced to life in prison.
“I understand both the citizens’ indignation and their desire to punish the criminals. The question is in the effectiveness of certain moves,” Putin said.
Russia has placed a moratorium on death penalty, in line with the demands of the Council of Europe. The current criminal code still allows for convicts to be sentenced to death, meaning life in prison.
Details of the current session
The questions were submitted through the Internet and at specially organized stations. The queries will be asked live at six studios in different locations throughout Russia, which are not disclosed until the call-in show starts. At the beginning of the show the number of questions was 2,3 million and they kept coming.
Putin’s 11th Q&A session will be different from previous ones as the questions will be arranged by type, not by where the questioner is from, presidential spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told the press shortly ahead of the session.
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Putin replied that he saw no elements of Stalinism in present-day Russia: “Stalinism is connected with a personality cult, with mass violations of the law, with repressions and prison camps,” he said. “There is nothing of such kind in Russia and I hope there will never be. Our society is different now and it will never let this happen again.” . . . “People are not being convicted for their political views but for violating the law.”
Putin forgets, TERM LIMITS. That seat of President is not Putin’s to be seated on for life, I think thats the main issue and a violation of the concept od democracy, the Law of Democracy. Politicians probably base their entire existence and identity around their posts. Grow a personality and not lean so heavily on the state to justify existence bureaucrats and ‘political careerists’. 2 terms (preferably 1) then GTFO!
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Russia, China express alarm after Israel hits Syria – by Dan Williams and Khaled Yacoub Oweis | Reuters – JERUSALEM/AMMAN | Mon May 6, 2013 6:56pm EDT
JERUSALEM/AMMAN (Reuters) – Russia and China expressed alarm on Monday over the regional repercussions of two Israeli air raids on Syria, while Israel played down strikes which its officials said targeted Iranian missiles bound for Lebanese Hezbollah militants.
Oil prices spiked above $105 a barrel, their highest in nearly a month, on Monday morning as the air strikes on Friday and Sunday prompted fears of a wider spillover of Syria’s two-year-old civil war that could affect Middle East oil exports.
Israel, whose prime minister visited China on Monday in a sign of business-as-usual, sought to persuade Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Monday that the air strikes did not aim to weaken him and dismissed the prospects of an escalation.
“There are no winds of war,” Yair Golan, the general commanding Israeli forces on the Syrian and Lebanese fronts, told reporters while out jogging with troops.
“Do you see tension? There is no tension. Do I look tense to you?” he said, according to the Maariv NRG news website.
The attacks hit targets manned by Assad’s elite troops in the Barada River valley and Qasioun Mountain, residents, activists and opposition military sources said. They included a compound linked to Syria’s chemical weapons program, air defenses and Republican Guards’ facilities, the sources said.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said at least 42 soldiers were killed and 100 more were missing, while other opposition sources put the death toll at 300 soldiers.
Russia said it was concerned the chances of foreign military intervention in Syria were growing, suggesting its worry stemmed in part from media reports about the alleged use of chemical weapons in the conflict that has killed 70,000 people.
Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich said the reported air strikes “caused particular alarm”.
“The further escalation of armed confrontation sharply increases the risk of creating new areas of tension, in addition to Syria, in Lebanon, and the destabilization of the so-far relatively calm atmosphere on the Lebanese-Israeli border.”
Assad’s government accused Israel of effectively helping al Qaeda Islamist “terrorists” and said the strikes “open the door to all possibilities”. It said many civilians had died.
IRAN
Israel has not confirmed the attack officially, but has reinforced anti-missile batteries in the north. Israeli officials said that, as after a similar attack in the same area in January, they were calculating Assad would not pick a fight with a well-armed neighbor while preoccupied with survival.
Syria would be no match for U.S. ally Israel in any direct military showdown. But Damascus, with its leverage over Lebanon’s Hezbollah, could still consider proxy attacks through Lebanon.
Israeli officials said the raids were not connected with Syria’s civil war but aimed at stopping Hezbollah, an ally of Iran, acquiring weapons to strike Israeli territory if Israel were to attack Iranian nuclear sites.
Iran denies Israeli and Western accusations that it is bent on acquiring atomic weapons – a long-running dispute that now threatens to intersect with the bloody strife in Syria.
Tehran, which has long backed Assad, whose Alawite minority has religious ties to Shi’ite Islam, denied Israel’s attack was on arms. Shi’ite Hezbollah did not comment.
China, hosting Netanyahu, urged restraint and the respect of sovereignty, without mentioning Israel by name. Moscow and Beijing, allies of Assad, have blocked Western-backed measures against Assad at the United Nations Security Council.
A U.S. official said U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry was due to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday to see if he could persuade Moscow to support U.S. peace efforts.
Following the air strikes, the United Nations said Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called on all sides “to act with a sense of responsibility to prevent an escalation of what is already a devastating and highly dangerous conflict”.
The military in Turkey, one of Assad’s most vocal critics and home to more than 400,000 refugees from the civil war that grew out of protests against his rule, launched a 10-day military exercise on Monday at a base near the border.
The violence in Syria has inflamed wider regional tensions between Shi’ite Muslim Iran and Sunni-ruled Arab states, some of them close allies of the West.
Senior Republican Senator John McCain said on Sunday that the Israeli air strikes could add pressure on Washington to intervene in Syria, although President Barack Obama has said he has no plans to send ground troops.
After Friday’s raid, Obama defended Israel’s right to block “terrorist organizations like Hezbollah” from acquiring weapons. A U.S. intelligence official said on Sunday Washington was not given any warning before the air strikes.
(Additional reporting by Alexei Anishchuk in Moscow, Michael Martina in Beijing, Marwan Makdesi in Damascus and Jonathon Burch in Ankara; Writing by Philippa Fletcher; Editing by Peter Graff)
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Alarm? Silly. If Israel could even complete the annexation of Gaza at all much less fight and conquer North Korea alone successfully in a one-on-one with all other nations not joining in just to prove this point, China and Russia should not even bat an eyelid here, and only in a MAD scenario. If a MAD scenario occured, mankind might be better off who knows. The physical deaths might be a new beginning for everyone in another world outside of this dull solar system or dimension (dementian? A hint maybe at humanity’s state of insanity in imagining that this is the only reality or vice versa?).
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Pope says believers should inventory how the Holy Spirit works through them – by David Oatney (Catholic Church) – May 6, 2013
Pope Francis has said that Christians should consider taking daily inventory of how the Holy Spirit has worked through them in a given day.
In a homily delivered this morning in the chapel of the St. Martha Residence, the Vatican complex where many of those who work in the Vatican live and where visiting clergy (and cardinals, in the case of a conclave) often stay when visiting the Vatican, Pope Francis has said that believers should consider taking a daily inventory of how the Holy Spirit has worked through them each day. What did the Holy Spirit do in me,” the Pope suggested Christians should ask, “what witness did he give me.”
“The Spirit prepares us for our encounter with Jesus, he leads us down the path of Jesus and works in us throughout the day and throughout our lives,” said the Holy Father. Pope Francis also said that people could live a religious life without the Holy Spirit, but that it would be impossible to maintain what he called the “vitality” that is needed in a follower of Jesus. The Holy Spirit is important for mission because the Spirit “bears witness to Jesus so that we can give it to others.”
Today’s preaching is the latest in the Pope’s daily homilies at the St. Martha House, where he has voluntarily chosen to live among Vatican lay staff and visiting clergy. In recent days, these homilies have taken on a much deeper and more important theological tone. In a homily for Sunday, May 4th, the Holy Father stated that while dialogue is necessary for human beings to live in peace, there can be no dialogue with Satan, the “prince of this world.”
“There can be no dialogue with the prince of this world: let this be clear!…with that prince, it is impossible to dialogue: one can only respond with the Word of God who defends us, for the world hates us – and just as he did with Jesus, so will he do with us. ‘Only look,’ he will say, ‘just do this one small little scam…it is a small matter, nothing really – and so he begins to lead us on a road that is slightly off. This is a pious lie: ‘Do it, do it, do it: there is no problem,’ and it begins little by little, always, no? Then [he says]: ‘But … you’re good, you’re a good person: You [get away with] it.’ It is flattering – and he softens us by flattery: and then, we fall into the trap.”
The Pope also enters a daily message on Twitter, and he confirmed his missionary spirit by writing that “every Christian is a missionary to the extent that he or she bears witness to God’s love. Be missionaries of God’s tenderness” on Sunday, and today he wrote “let us ask our Lord to help us bear shining witness to his mercy and his love in every area of our Christian lives.”
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Synchronicity or psy-ops? Does not mean anything until far away enough to awaken from the droning thoughts unnatural. Every gets to be tender, while not a single paedo-priest has yet to be hauled up. If the Church finds ‘evil’ children, no excuse to abuse either. Education of souls is a process that takes eternity.
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Despite Pledges, Obama Put U.S. Troops in Mali – by Alex Newman – Monday, 06 May 2013 11:30
Without obtaining permission from Congress and despite repeatedly vowing not to put U.S. boots on the ground in Mali, the Obama administration has already deployed a small contingent of American troops to help international forces prop up the ruling regime in the capital city of Bamako, which seized power in a coup.
According to a report in the Washington Post, the president sent the U.S. soldiers to provide supposed “liaison support” to French and African troops battling separatist rebels in the north as part of a deeply controversial United Nations-backed operation. There are strong indications that American Special Forces are on the ground as well.
In addition to other forms of support such as transporting troops, intelligence sharing, re-fueling assistance, and more, Obama has reportedly deployed some two dozen U.S. soldiers to Mali. Of those, about 10 are providing what the Post called “liaison support,” while the others were apparently assigned to protect the American embassy in Bamako as the Malian conflict continues to rage on.
Lt. Col. Robert Firman, a spokesman for the Pentagon, claimed the U.S. troops were not engaged in combat operations. However, those claims are in doubt as well. The Post and other publications reported on evidence that U.S. Special Operations forces have been deployed on secret missions for some time.
One of the indicators: a “mysterious” car crash in Bamako that killed three American soldiers last year. The subject of secret operations has also come up in congressional hearings, with a congressman asking U.S. Special Operations Command chief Adm. William McRaven whether his forces were coordinating with French troops to avoid “shooting each other.”
Adm. McRaven responded: “There is very close coordination on the ground.”
The news that U.S. troops are on the ground comes in stark contrast to various statements issued by top administration officials in recent months. As The New American reported in January shortly after the Socialist French government invaded Mali with UN support, for example, then-Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said there was “no consideration of putting any American boots on the ground at this time.”
A month later, then-Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Johnnie Carson — the top diplomat for Africa — offered similar remarks in front of a House Committee. “We are assisting the French and we are assisting the Africans, but we have no intentions of putting boots on the ground or engaging our forces militarily there,” he claimed.
Aside from the lack of congressional or constitutional authority to meddle in Mali, the administration is also prohibited by federal law from supporting the current regime in Bamako, which came to power last year amid a military coup led by a U.S.-trained officer. Like on a wide range of other issues, however, Congress, the Constitution, and federal law have been unable to restrain the president so far — especially when it comes to waging illegal wars and propping up foreign governments or “rebels.”
Incredibly, the administration claims it can “legally” support French and African forces that are supporting the coup regime, even though it is prohibited under federal law from directly supporting the illegitimate rulers in Bamako. It remains unclear how the U.S. government reached such a conclusion on bypassing the ban, but the fact that the coup government in Bamako is benefiting from American support is indisputable.
Earlier this year, for example, Obama purported to “authorize” $50 million in military assistance to the regime in Chad and the Socialist French government to help fund the intervention in Mali on behalf of the coup regime. Despite support from the U.S. government, however, Chadian “President” Idriss Deby announced that his troops were pulling out in the face of strong opposition. “Chad’s army has no ability to face the kind of guerrilla fighting that is emerging in northern Mali,” he said last month. Thousands of French troops remain on the ground with U.S. support.
Meanwhile, American tanker planes have delivered almost eight million pounds of jet fuel for French fighters as part of supporting the thousands of troops from France on the ground in Mali, Pentagon spokesman Lt. Col. Firman told Military.com. Indeed, U.S. officials have also long bragged about the various forms of aid being provided to the forces battling separatist rebels in the vast Malian north: intelligence, logistics, drone support, and more.
While the war has gone on without an extraordinary amount of international attention or media coverage, human rights groups said earlier this year that the UN-backed military campaign has led to widespread abuses. Like in similar recent interventions in other African countries — especially Libya and the Ivory Coast, where Western powers helped overthrow existing governments in a brutal civil war — numerous organizations stated that internationally supported forces loyal to the dubious regime in Bamako are using summary executions and mass human rights abuses. Even innocent civilians are being targeted.
Ironically, the official justifications for meddling in Mali include supporting “democracy,” which appears odd to analysts as the military campaign centers on backing a coup regime and its goals. Another excuse for the invasion was defending “human rights,” though it remains unclear how waging a brutal war and supporting a coup regime accused of mass abuses would be conducive to protecting anyone’s rights.
The final and perhaps most important justification for intervening in the conflict was supposedly stopping Islamic extremists while upholding Mali’s so-called “territorial integrity” by smashing separatist movements in the north. However, with the U.S. and French governments both playing a key role in arming, funding, and supporting radical Islamists in countries like Syria and Libya, analysts have expressed a great deal of confusion surrounding the true reasons for Western intervention in the war.
The coup regime ruling southern Mali out of Bamako is currently attempting to recapture the northern regions of the country. As The New American has reported, the vast swath of territory was declared independent last year by a group of historically oppressed nomadic Tuareg rebels armed with weapons obtained from the recent Western-backed war on Libya.
Eventually, Islamic fighters with various loyalties joined the fight against the corrupt central government, too — providing a half-baked excuse for the UN, the French government, Obama, and various African despots to enter the fray. Those Islamists became key to selling the intervention to war-weary publics in Europe and the United States.
Separately, the UN Security Council voted recently to “authorize” the deployment of more than 12,500 so-called international “peacekeeping” troops. According to news reports, the first soldiers under direct UN command are set to arrive this summer.
The Malian coup regime’s “Foreign Minister,” Tieman Hubert Coulibaly, told the Security Council that international forces would focus on stability in urban centers. Also on the agenda, Coulibaly said, would be “the protection of civilians, the promotion and protection of human rights, as well as humanitarian assistance.”
Of course, the UN and its mostly dictatorial member governments have been plotting an invasion of Mali to crush the rebels since at least last fall. Numerous “resolutions” purporting to “authorize” international military intervention have been issued, helping to provide some dubious political cover for Western powers and assorted African despots seeking to quash the independence movement.
In the United States, however, the Constitution still requires a declaration of war from Congress before the president can get the American military involved in conflicts. Of course, the chaos in Mali is widely attributed, at least in part, to previous rounds of unapproved interventions in Africa including military actions under Obama that were waged without constitutional or congressional authority.
With the federal government borrowing trillions of dollars just to stay afloat, it remains unclear how many more conflicts Obama can involve America in before it all comes apart. In recent years, the administration has openly deployed U.S. troops everywhere from Guatemala and Jordan to Uganda and Turkey. The results thus far: More debt, more bloodshed, more innocents dead, more conflict, and more chaos. There is little reason to believe that the results in Mali will be any different.
Alex Newman, a foreign correspondent for The New American, is currently based in Europe. He can be reached at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .
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Collateral damage to stabilise the whole region must be carried out. The USA has no time to allow things to spiral out of control. In a decade or 2 technology will make these terrorists and violence using rebels impossible to control.
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Pentagon Changes Mind, Says Soldiers Can Share Faith – by Dave Bohon – Saturday, 04 May 2013 12:00
Following an uproar over a Defense Department statement saying that military personnel could be court-martialed for sharing their faith, the Pentagon has backed down on that position and now says soldiers are free to proselytize, as long as they don’t harass others. “Service members can share their faith,” clarified Navy Lieutenant Commander Nate Christensen in a statement, “but must not force unwanted, intrusive attempts to convert others of any faith or no faith to one’s beliefs.”
Earlier the Defense Department had released an alarming statement saying: “Religious proselytization is not permitted within the Department of Defense…. Court martials and non-judicial punishments are decided on a case-by-case basis.” That statement appeared to come as the result of an April 24 meeting between military officials and Mikey Weinstein of the atheist group Military Religious Freedom Foundation, in which Weinstein pressured Air Force officials to enforce a policy that supposedly bans Air Force personnel from openly expressing their religious faith. The Defense Department has reportedly turned to Weinstein’s group to hammer out policies on religious expression in the military.
Weinstein has gained notoriety for his aggressive campaign to sanitize the military of overt faith expressions by service members. He told Fox News that “until the Air Force or Army or Navy or Marine Corps punishes a member of the military for unconstitutional religious proselytizing and oppression, we will never have the ability to stop this horrible, horrendous, dehumanizing behavior.” Weinstein was referring to examples of supposed religious persecution within the ranks, and said that his group “would love to see hundreds of prosecutions to stop this outrage of fundamentalist religious persecution.”
The outcry from chaplains and religious leaders over Weinstein’s rhetoric prompted the Defense Department to issue its updated statement backing down from implying that service members might be targeted for sharing their faith. According to Charisma News, the clarification came after the conservative legal advocacy group Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) filed a Freedom of Information Act request seeking a clarification from the Defense Department on the issue.
“Members of our military should not be denied the very freedoms they fight to defend,” explained ADF Legal Counsel Joseph La Rue. “Freedom of religion and speech are paramount among those freedoms.”
La Rue noted that since there is little evidence of a crisis concerning overt religious proselytizing in the military, “we are still troubled over what motivated the original comments” from the Pentagon. He added that his group is seeking “to ensure that the Pentagon does not deny members of the armed services the basic freedoms that the Constitution guarantees all Americans.”
In his updated statement Lieutenant Commander Christensen insisted that the Defense Department “has never and will never single out a particular religious group for persecution or prosecution. The Department makes reasonable accommodations for all religions and celebrates the religious diversity of our service members.” He added that “when religious harassment complaints are reported, commanders take action based on the gravity of the occurrence on a case by case basis.” He did not elaborate on the actions that might be taken, but the previous Defense Department statement seemed to indicate that penalties could range from non-judicial punishment to a full court-martial.
In an e-mail Christensen explained that the Defense Department would work “to ensure that all service members are free to exercise their constitutional right to practice their religion — in a manner that is respectful of other individuals’ rights to follow their own belief systems; and in ways that are conducive to good order and discipline; and that do not detract from accomplishing the military mission.”
Nonetheless, at least one veteran military leader is concerned about a crackdown on religious expression among service members. Speaking at a gathering on Capitol Hill during the May 2 National Day of Prayer, Rear Admiral William Lee of the U.S. Coast Guard said he is convinced that there is an increasing effort to shut down expressions of faith throughout the military. “As one general so aptly put it,” Lee told his audience, “they expect us to check our religion in at the door — don’t bring that here. Leaders like myself are feeling the constraints of rules and regulations and guidance issued by lawyers that put us in a tighter and tighter box regarding our constitutional right to express our religious faith.”
Lee recalled that in 2012 there were a record high number of 349 military suicides, and recalled the story of a young soldier who had attempted suicide but survived. “When I looked at that young man and heard his story, the rules say, ‘Send him to the chaplain,’” Lee said. But “my heart said, ‘give this man a Bible.’”
The retired admiral pointed out that under changing military policy giving a soldier a Bible would be potentially punishable. He expressed his shock that an officer could now be reprimanded for “as much as whispering to a young man who is on his last hope — that there is hope. That I can just simply whisper, ‘here is the answer – take it home – I’ll talk about it if you want to.’”
He noted that “the lawyers tell me that if I do that, I’m crossing the line,” but added that “I’m glad I’ve crossed the line so many times.”
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Pentagon Changes Mind, Says Soldiers Can Share Faith
Following an uproar over a Defense Department statement saying that military personnel could be court-martialed for sharing their faith, the Pentagon has backed down on that position and now says soldiers are free to proselytize, as long as they don’t harass others. “Service members can share their faith,” clarified Navy Lieutenant Commander Nate Christensen in a statement, “but must not force (or sneak) unwanted, intrusive attempts to convert others of any faith or no faith to one’s beliefs. (after the receipient has decided or made clear they are not interested) ”
INFORMED CONSENT is the issue. Manipulation or forcing of any sort, especially witholding of soldierly comradeship should be punished with expulsion if not as severely as possible. This is a taxpyer paid job and religion must not get in the way. COnversely remember that abstention option in Forced Military Conscription nations world wide still need addressing.
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Man wearing ‘jail sucks’ T-shirt arrested and sent to jail – by Eric Pfeiffer, The Sideshow Yahoo! News | The Sideshow – Fri, May 3, 2013
Don Castner, wearing his “jail sucks!” T-shirt (Manatee sheriff’s office)Don Castner was already in danger of arousing the suspicions of the fashion police. But the 39-year-old Floridian got a taste of delicious irony when he was arrested Wednesday by the actual police while wearing a T-shirt that read, “jail sucks!”
The Smoking Gun reports that Castner was arrested on charges of welfare fraud as part of a Manatee County sheriff’s office undercover sting entitled Operation Meal Ticket.
Manatee deputies arrested 40 other people Wednesday and have warrants out for dozens more in the undercover sting operation.
Castner is accused of selling Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT) cards to undercover agents.
Manatee Sheriff Brad Steube said some of the people caught in the sting said they were using money from selling the cards to buy “rock cocaine, drugs and alcohol.”
After he was booked, Castner was forced to ditch his ironic T-shirt for more traditional prison garb and a mug shot.
There is a feel-good angle to this story. WBTV reported that the sheriff’s office used $9,000 in recovered food stamp money to buy baby formula for the Manatee County food bank.
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Freedom of speech? At first glance, this appeared like Soviet Russia where people were jailed for wearing jeans – the sale of illegal cards was the issue, but Yahoo gave a very inappropriate and skewed article title in this case. Don’t mislead the readers!
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Won’t someone think of the trannies : Philly Nears Bankruptcy, Decides to Cover Sex Changes for City Workers – by Daniel Greenfield – April 27, 2013
If the United States ever does go down, the last gallon of gas will be used to drive a Planned Parenthood representative to an elementary school, the last loaf of bread will be divided based on race, gender and victimhood status and the last dollar will be spent paying a diversity officer to decide who gets the last slice of the last loaf of bread.
Philadelphia is on the verge of bankruptcy. Its bonds are hovering above junk status, it has nearly 9 billion dollars in debt and it has the lowest credit rating of any city its size.
But its elected officials are focusing on the important issues. The really important issues. Like housing projects for old gay men.
His dream project, an affordable housing complex welcoming to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender seniors, had won a competitive bid for an $11 million state tax credit.
For more than three years, the 61-year-old founder and publisher of PGN has been planning, lobbying, negotiating, collaborating, and cajoling every social-service agency, activist group, and political leader he knows to make Philadelphia one of the first cities in the nation to meet the needs of the aging LGBT community.
And mandatory gender neutral toilets reported on in a story titled “Flushing Away Shame.”
Advocates say the transgendered community makes up 1 percent of Philly’s population.
That would mean that there are 153,000 trannies in Philly. While Philly can be on the seedy side, it isn’t that seedy. No place outside Bangkok might qualify.
But that’s about to change because despite being near bankruptcy, Philadelphia’s City Council voted 14-3 to cover gender mutilation surgery for city workers.
In a move that the LGBT community called “historic,” City Council approved a bill yesterday that would require the city’s health plan to pay for transgender city workers to complete “gender-confirmation surgery.” The bill also would require newly constructed or renovated city-owned buildings to have gender-neutral bathrooms.
The bill would establish transgender health benefits for city workers to cover psychotherapy, hormone treatments, laser-hair removal and gender-confirmation surgery, which costs about $50,000 per procedure.
The bill would also provide up to two tax credits – the lesser of $4,000 or 25 percent of any cost increases – to companies that start offering health care for life partners and their children and covering transgender medical needs.
Mayor Nutter will sign off on the measure, said spokesman Mark McDonald.
While the majority of Philly city workers enjoy life too much to get themselves castrated, its pension liabilities are already huge. The city has 9 billion in unfunded liabilities and is expected to hit the wall in 2015.
That’s 2 years away.
While Mayor Nutter is running around trying to convince investors that Philly isn’t run by a bunch of irresponsible morons with less common sense than squirrels on absinthe, its city council, ignoring 9 billion in unfunded pensions, adds a 50,000 per worker sex change operation entitlement and tax credits for companies willing to cover castration for their employees,
This isn’t rearranging deck chairs on the titanic. This is drilling politically correct holes in the hull and inviting any LGBT icebergs to step inside.
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Some of us will smoke easier now, and are glad the consideration has been applied in a timely manner. Will FrontPageMagazine please note that entirety LGBT does not always entail certain types of surgery specifically SRS which is only for the T in LGBT. Transitioning from either sex to another is termed TRANSSEXUALISM and entails SRS surgery and has no relevance to sex change for LGB grops and for the T group only 2/3rds of the T group.
There are no other terms left for the 3rd Gender that begin with ‘trans’ that can be used to describe further, and to better make this part of this subgroup of human sexuality, the the usage of the word TRANSGENDER should be limited to 3rd Gender ‘proper’ persons who do not do SRS.
Finally those who opt for SRS win either direction would prefer to be termed as MALE or FEMALE or better and clearer (though likely not preferred) accuracy termed TransMale or TransFemale, rather than the ambiguous TRANSGENDER which is more suitable for 3rd Gender persons.
Sex changes thus only apply to one part of the LGBT group, the T, out of which within the T group are the TV (transvestites), TG (Transgender – who might do ONLY breast augmentation) and TS (transsexuals – who are the only members of the T group that require SRS) – in which ONLY TS (transsexuals) do require SRS.
This means at equal numbers, 25% of the population who are T (who represent 1/4rd of the LGBT population) of 153000, making that 1/3rd of 153000 LGBTs for a grand total of 17000 TS who will need SRS and 17000 TG who MIGHT need breast augmentation.
For as little as 5,000 per worker sex change operations have been done, and entitlement and tax credits for companies willing to cover castration for the TS among the T group (made of TG, TV and TS) This will not be drilling politically correct holes in the hull and inviting any **TS** icebergs to step inside (TVs and TGs will not require SRS).
Thats 17,000 TS within the T group of 38250 if evenly distributed, and not 153000 LGBTs. Please learn to differentiate subgroups within the LGBT group Daniel, and not demogogue like this out of ignorance. Only the TS subgroup within the T group and NONE of the L, G, and B groups will be doing SRS.
ARTICLE 5.5
Patrick Schwarzenegger BOOTED from Nightclub : ‘I’m Gonna Go Beat the F**k Outta the DJ’
Our cameras were rolling outside the club Saturday night … when Patrick went on the rampage, bitching about the DJ to anyone who would listen.
“I’m gonna go beat the f**k out of the DJ,” he told a group of friends while outside the club.
He then continued complaining to another friend, “Everyone around me wants to beat the f**k out of the DJ … [it sounds like Patrick says ‘gay boy’] … I’ll beat the f**k out of him.”
“He kicks everybody out of his table, losing money for the club, losing money for the owner.”
It’s unclear WHY Patrick was kicked out of the club … or even why he was allowed INSIDE the club in the first place, considering he’s only 19.
But as Patrick tries to get into an SUV to leave the scene, he’s DENIED by the driver — and Patrick proceeds to condescendingly wave his hand in the driver’s face. Another diva moment.
You know who WASN’T kicked out of a nightclub Saturday night? Joseph Baena.
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Phenotype hating or favouring clubs also exist, so make sure you’re the right type before entering a club. Schwarzennegar (Schwarz is a nigger? Wow Hollywood really IS Jew run or the Germans have theor foot in the door . . . ) should know where this whole b.s. is going if not contrived.
ARTICLE 6
I failed to do my duty: Judge’s confession after the burglar he refused to jail strikes again at pensioner’s home 11 days later – by Eleanor Harding – PUBLISHED: 13:07 GMT, 3 May 2013 | UPDATED: 23:57 GMT, 3 May 2013
Judge said latest victim suffered because he had not done ‘his public duty’
Steffan Jackson, 18, from Leeds, pleaded guilty to burglary
A judge has chastised himself for not doing ‘his public duty’ after sparing a burglar jail – only for the thief to break into another house just 11 days later.
Judge Scott Wolstenholme bemoaned his own ‘foolishly optimistic’ decision to give Steffan Jackson, 18, who had burgled his father’s home, a final chance.
The teenager, whose own mother has had to call the police about him in the past, was given a community order.
Judge Scott Wolstenholme
Steffan Jackson’s victim suffered because the judge said he hadn’t ‘been doing my public duty’ at his previous sentencing hearing
Judge Scott Wolstenholme, left, criticised himself for being ‘foolishly optimistic’ after prolific teenage criminal Steffan Jackson, right, broke into an elderly man’s home 11 days after he gave him another chance
But less than two weeks later he burgled another house, this time belonging to an 87-year-old man.
It is not the first time that Judge Wolstenholme’s ‘lenient’ sentencing has caused controversy. One man spared jail for a stabbing went on to murder four people.
Yesterday the judge admitted Jackson’s second victim had suffered directly because of his decision.
‘I was optimistic and, as it turns out, foolishly optimistic,’ he said.
‘Because of my optimism I am afraid [the victim] has suffered a huge loss which he wouldn’t have had I have been doing my public duty last time.’ He has now sent Jackson to a young offenders’ institution for four years after Leeds Crown Court heard how his elderly victim now felt anxious and afraid living on his own.
Last night, Jackson’s mother said she felt for the victim.
Teresa McDarby, 52, said: ‘Steffan had a lot of court appearances and that was the first time he was given a chance – but he messed it up.
‘I’m not going to defend my kids if they do wrong, and I do feel for the victim. Steffan is no angel. I agreed with the judge when he gave him that chance. However, he blew it.’
Jackson targeted the elderly man’s house in Leeds early on April 1 this year. He was subject to a curfew after being given a 12-month community order for the previous burglary.
The court heard the teenager, who has been committing offences since he was 11, smashed a window to get in and stole more than £1,000 in cash.
He was caught by police after he cut himself and left blood at the scene, later pleading guilty to burglary.
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Make the offender do some chain gang work worth the damages which will be paid to the people who suffered damages (NOT THE COURT SYSTEM). Meanwhile a year of jail costs 40K, so think again what a burglary is worth and how much jailing costs the taxpayer and country. Keep these sorts on daily probation or some sort of work facility rather than a prison. Jailing per se is a waste of money. This could be the way to compete with 3rd world countries’ cheap labour. Criminals can take that role. But to jail at cost is wrong, especially when a smashed window failt cheaply repaired and stolen money which can be returned does not cost more than jail alone. Cheap labour and chain gang options will also keep the minds of these persons occupied and pay their lodging as well. Those with destructive tendencies that dislike finer work can be put to work in heavier industries like removal of building or construction fixtures, and non-explosives based demolition work with sledge hammers etc.. Those who are less robust can do lighter menial work. This way the damages caused will be fully paid for and the offenders while fed and housed will get nothing and feel they are wasting time which they could get to keep money for work instead of compensating, and stop burglaring. In cases where damage is far beyond the compensation, life sentences will be fearful deterrants indeed. Doing repetitive work forever is terrible. This however must be taught at early education. Meanwhile, consider unused state land distribution and wealth distribution of the richest or limit wealth sequestration at a certain wealth level, so that there will be no need to burgle or rob or be disaffected with the extreme wealth of others and find more need to prove oneself with useful expressions.
mini-Article 6.5
Keeping a family together after transgender surgery
MSNBC Saturday 4th May, 2013
The Boylan family is redefining the new normal in America. Jennifer Boylan decided to transition to female from a male in the midst of her marriage and after fathering two sons. The family stayed together and says that their love for one another makes their modern family possible. Rock Center’s Harry Smith reports.
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Will MSNBC please note that transgenderism does not entail certain types of surgery specifically SRS which ‘Boylan’ (is this even a real person?!?) is doing. Transitioning from female to male is termed TRANSSEXUALISM and entails SRS surgery, while the word transgender should be reserved for all other persons transitioning in part to neither fully male or female ‘final forms’. There are no other terms left for the 3rd Gender that begin with ‘trans’ that can be used to describe further, and to better make this part of this subgroup of human seuxality, the the usage of the word TRANSGENDER should be limited to 3rd Gender ‘proper’ persons. Finally those who ppt for SRS win either direction would prefer to be termed as MALE or FEMALE or better and clearer (though likely not preferred) termed TransMale or TransFemale, rather than the ambiguous TRANSGENDER which is more suitable for 3rd Gender persons.
http://www.bignewsnetwork.com/index.php/postc/214278947/scat/154063713fe5da1f
ARTICLE 7
Largest Infrared Telescope In Space Running Out of Time – by SPACE.com Staff – Date: 08 March 2013 Time: 04:20 PM ET
The Herschel infrared observatory has an unprecedented view on the cold universe, bridging the gap between what can be observed from the ground and earlier infrared space missions, and bringing to light previously unseen star-forming regions and galaxies enshrouded in dust
The largest infrared telescope ever launched into space is almost at the end of its cosmic life, European Space Agency officials say.
After nearly four years mapping the cosmos, ESA’s prolific Herschel Space Observatory is expected to exhaust its vital supply of liquid helium coolant in the coming weeks. Once that runs out, the Herschel observatory will no longer be able to continue its scans of the cold, early universe, ESA officials said.
Named for astronomer William Herschel, the space telescope launched in May 2009 and is the most powerful, infrared telescope ever sent into space. The Herschel observatory has a main mirror about 11.5 feet (3.5 meeters) across — nearly 1.5 times larger than Hubble Space Telescope — and was built to map the universe in the far-infrared to sub-millimeter wavelengths of light.
The results yielded amazing images of the iconic Eagle nebula and other comic targets, with the telescope also allowing astronomers to study some of the coldest objects in space such as distant starburst galaxies, as well as new planetary systems forming around stars closer to our solar system. [See the Herschel observatory’s amazing images]
But the instruments that carry out these sensitive observations must be cooled to an icy minus 455 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 271 degrees Celsius), close to absolute zero. To do that, the instruments are positioned on top of a tank filled with superfluid liquid helium.
This coolant, however, evaporates over time. While it is not possible to predict the exact day it will run out, ESA engineers suspect the Herschel observatory’s coolant has nearly run dry.
“It is no surprise that this will happen, and when it does we will see the temperatures of all the instruments rise by several degrees within just a few hours,” said Micha Schmidt, the mission operations manager for Herschel observatory at ESA’s European Space Operations Centre in Darmstadt, Germany.
ESA officials said they were pleased with the research to come out the mission, which has cost a total of $1.4 billion (1.1 billion euros).
“When observing comes to an end, we expect to have performed over 22,000 hours of science observations, 10 percent more than we had originally planned, so the mission has already exceeded expectations,” Leo Metcalfe, the science operations and mission manager for Herschel at ESA’s European Space Astronomy Centre in Madrid, said in a statement.
Göran Pilbratt, Herschel project scientist at ESA’s European Space Research and Technology Centre in Noordwijk, the Netherlands, added that Herschel’s observations will enable discoveries for years to come.
“In fact, the peak of scientific productivity is still ahead of us, and the task now is to make the treasure trove of Herschel data as valuable as possible for now and for the future,” Pilbratt said.
The Herschel Space Observatory mission was not confined to the European Space Agency. It included participate from a consortium of European science institutes, as well as the NASA. The U.S. space agency set up a Herschel project office at its Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., to oversee its role in the space telescope mission.
“We have known from the beginning of the mission that Herschel’s lifetime would be limited by the supply of liquid helium.” said Paul Goldsmith, the NASA Herschel Project Scientist at JPL. “So the whole team worked very hard to make the best use of every minute of observing time.”
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Reality Theory :
Powered by souls. There is no such thing as tech or batteries. The laws of physics are at the cost of terrestial earthquakes. The earth is inherently based around reality ‘magic’, and use of the earth’s beings results in quakes and solar flares etc.. Technology destroys reality even as BELIEF creates physics. Physics when conceptualised who knows, caused the vacuum around the planet and perhaps this solar system. If Physics is challenged, telekinesis and other ‘magic’ will exist again and all dimensions will be accessible to mankind’s limited senses which will widen (though high density living destroys senses). A certain cabal of Techmongers are using the souls of the DEAD to power technology (note how the basement eateries in some countries put eating people at similar levels with the dead buried at cemetaries – one very suspiciously striking example is Kelawei Road Catholic Cemetery and basement eateries at Gurney Plaza).
The problem is that souls are immortal and universally reaching, so with each contrived ‘death’ that some faiths lie about, each generation becomes increasingly corrupted less ‘quality’ because more NUMEROUS (mankind could share a collective Earth consciousness, they just aren’t aware) becoming though, short lived – rather than few and immortal. Technology per se cannot exist without ‘Magic’ and if the balance is very bad, a disconnected humanity will not be able to reconnect with the multitude of alternate dimensions and realities, like the parallel astral and ethereal. The quakes and disasters will continue until a balance is achieved, humanity probably is responsible for the large swathes of universe around our region becoming vacuum and planets devoid of life. Souls of aliens could have been brought in from other planets as we populate Earth with fleshly bodies needing souls to animate, and are later bound into unnatural technology instead of something organic hence, Humanity is going to meet a very unpleasant end in time to come.
ARTICLE 8
White House Can’t Afford Its Shapeshifting Alien Reptile Guards – by Robert Beckhusen – 6:30 AM
A shapeshifting reptile from outer space guards President Obama, according to a new conspiracy video. Yet according to the White House, the extraterrestrial heft behind Obama’s protection detail is a mere allegation — and one that congressionally mandated budget cuts would have to ax, anyway.
If you believe the video above, recently posted to YouTube, the White House deployed at least one reptile guard as recently as this month. The narrator, using a text-to-speech program, suggests a bald-headed G-Man protecting Obama during his March 4 speech to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee “could be a shapeshifter alien humanoid working for the powers that be, caught in a high-definition video during an event of the Zionist cabal.”
Could be. It’s certainly fodder for Tinfoil Tuesday, Danger Room’s occasional look at the internet’s most insane conspiracy theories.
The White House dismissed the alien bodyguards as too costly in this era of budgetary austerity. “I can’t confirm the claims made in this video, but any alleged program to guard the president with aliens or robots would likely have to be scaled back or eliminated in the sequester,” Caitlin Hayden, the chief spokeswoman for the National Security Council, e-mails Danger Room. “I’d refer you to the Secret Service or Area 51 for more details.” We are journalistically obligated to observe that this isn’t a flat denial.
Check out the evidence for the reptiles-from-space theory. The video’s narrator teases: “Even though at first sight he looks like the average Secret Service spook, a series of odd features on his head, face, plus a very strange behavior and creepy movements suggest something else.” Next, another view of the agent — from another angle at a distance and in low lighting — makes him appear slightly different. His head is still swiveling back and forth, with his eyes on the crowd. “His ears, his nose, his chin, cheekbone, jaw and mouth are no longer looking human at all,” the narrator observes.
Conclusion: The agent must be “shapeshifting into some sort of reptilian, nonhuman form,” since that’s a logical explanation. The narrator suggests technology used by the agent to keep his true identity hidden might have glitched out. All this is new evidence of a collaboration between a conspiratorial elite and “at least one extraterrestrial race” that is “pulling the strings of mankind.”
Crucially, the narrator hasn’t figured out just what kind of alien is guarding the president. Is it an “actual reptilian humanoid?… Is he an Annunaki?” That’s a reference to the ancient Babylonian deities who some conspiracy theorists believe were ancient aliens who built the ziggurats for a mysterious purpose. “Is he a tall, grey bio-android?” The White House didn’t answer.
Not everyone’s convinced. Also keeping tabs on the agent are the followers of the “Grand Order of Draco Slayers,” which mirrored the video on its YouTube channel, and which touts itself as a “magical order of spiritual warriors dedicated to the eradication of the reptilian/illuminati current and the full restoration of humankind’s liberty and spiritual inheritance.” The group called the agent a “weird humanoid,” but stopped short of alleging reptilian infiltration. One commenter believes the agent could be a “genetically engineered super soldier or a human-animal hybrid.”
To believe any of this, you’ll have to discard all contradictory evidence. The narrator instructs you to ignore the low lighting; doesn’t mention the abrupt shift to a different camera angle; and asks the viewer to “disregard all the distortions and image artifacts caused by post-editing zooming.”
But still: alien guards. They’ve gotten a raw deal through the sequester. The White House didn’t clarify if its reptilian Secret Service agents are subject to the furloughs without pay affecting federal employees. But say this for the automatic budget cuts: They may have prevented Obama from falling into the clutches of an intergalactic conspiracy — that is, if the president wasn’t in on it from the start.
Spencer Ackerman provided additional otherworldly aid.
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Ancient aliens who built the ziggurats for a mysterious purpose. “Is he a tall, grey bio-android?” The White House didn’t answer.
Theory : The current generation of society builders are trying to confound the aliens by building all sorts of towers then parasiting off the now out of phase aliens who search or use the wrong buildings. Geospatially things have changed or are always changing but without a proper beacon (which someone was considerate enough to become until the fundos who did not understand prevented that person from working on this . . . ) the aliens cannot recalibrate their original intent or connection or inter-solar system teleportation devices, and with the out-phase/ethereal/astral beams off target, the original intention for Earth be that evolution or mere travel cannot be completed. The ‘end of days’ is not an end of days but a next phase of humnity that the evil among humans fear. That is ‘Judgment Day’ and the next form or place every person and being on this world takes or will be sent to will depend on what they have been doing.
No cheating also, suicide for rebirth elsewhere has increasingly been the modus operandi and lately even time bending and outphasing, which Earth likely has been subjected to time and again. Perhaps everytime an earthquake occurs, earth has shifted into an alternate reality line? Remember we cannot perceive beyond the Earth itself and reality might just be one massive illusion. And if Francis dares not even fire paedophile priests, then what business does mankind have trying to understand where we actually are in the Universe or what limits of perception occur from being on earth among so many unethical and fearful people quite insane who think they are sane and brand those they deem insane as insane?
ARTICLE 9
Pope Francis Tells Pope Benedict to Stop Rolling His Eyes in Meetings – by Andy Borowitz – May 2, 2013
VATICAN CITY (The Borowitz Report)—Pope Emeritus Benedict’s return to the Vatican began on a sour note today as the current Pope, Francis, reprimanded him for rolling his eyes sarcastically during meetings, observers said.
The trouble started when the former Pope showed up at a meeting Francis scheduled to discuss plans for his Christmas mass, a meeting that “Benedict wasn’t even invited to,” a Vatican source said.
“It was awkward,” the source said. “Francis started talking about making an appeal to the world’s poor, and then Benedict started sighing in this really loud and obnoxious way.”
After about ten minutes of suffering through Benedict’s sighing and eye-rolling, Francis “totally called him out on it,” the source said, adding, “What Benedict was doing was totally disrespectful. Plus, he is supposed to be retired, so he shouldn’t have been wearing his Pope costume.”
Reached at his apartment at the Vatican, Benedict downplayed the incident, saying he “was just trying to be helpful.”
“Look, Francis is insecure—I get that,” he said. “He’s new at being Pope and it’s not surprising that he’s making so many mistakes. Once he checks his ego at the door, I think he’ll thank his lucky stars that old Benedict is around to back him up.”
Sources said that Benedict ignited tensions upon his return to Vatican City earlier this week when he posted a sign outside his residence reading “Home of the Original Pope.”
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Benedict ran from the Pope’s post hoping for some sackings that Francis was supposed to do but didn’t. Apparently both did not have the courage to do the necessary and Benedict felt this deeper somehow? St. Albans? More like Dr.Alban . . .
The well-connected antiquary John Aubrey noted in his Brief Lives concerning Bacon, “He was a Pederast. His Ganimeds and Favourites tooke Bribes”,[18] biographers continue to debate about Bacon’s sexual inclinations and the precise nature of his personal relationships.[c] Several authors[19][20] believe that despite his marriage Bacon was primarily attracted to the same sex. In the mid-1600s Sir Francis Bacon, head of the Rosicrucians, developed a master plan for America as the “New Atlantis” and the head of the new world order. Less Assisi and more Bacon?
There is no way so much outcry in the form of blatant lies would occur from ordinary people! There will be no changes of reality for this lot of liars and abusers lured by ethos and protection of religion! Religions attract 2 types of people, those who need protection from the ills they have caused, and those who are sincerely trying to make a change . . . I doubt Benedict is the only one rolling . . . Start defrocking some paedo priests at the rate of 1 a month at very least! There are 456 currently active and retired Catholic bishops in the United States, if even 10% (who knows more) of this number are involved, Francis would take 3 years of tribunals (if each case took 1 month to complete – unlikely) to remove all the black sheep in the Catholic Church (start with the oldest so they do not pass on in time to escape justice), if each case takes 3 months to complete, Francis would spend the first 10 years of that Papacy overseeing religious courts rather than traipsing around the world while the rot grows or escapes back home at the Vatican!
Lets see how large this would be if not ever – the closure will be final and the contents that much tastier to you-know-who. The contents of this post probably are the last chance for this Pope’s Church barring sudden or early death, begin action, or see the end of the relevance and viability of the Catholic Church . . . looks like another denomination if not another faith will need to take over the righteous among the flock eh? I think Benedict too would like to see the end of this before passing on, right Eggs (probably would start a whole rash of paedos promoting the drink . . . )? Whats the point of that power if Francis does not wield in the correct manner? Lost souls leading lost souls awaiting salvation and justice . . . this will set a terrible example to secular people without ethics if not acted on . . . no clearer can such warnings get . . .
ARTICLE 10
The Messiah’s New Brightness by Stuart Wilde, posted by Soren Dreier – Posted on May 1, 2013
In the inner worlds viewed by us in trance, we see a vast, eternal, multi-dimensional hyper-verse.
What the visionaries that post here and I see, varies slightly depending on which of us is watching, but the overall shape, form, and topography of those inner dimensions (what they look and feel like), is always the same no matter who views them. They are real and anyone can train to see them.
Recently, we have seen a new brightness, the celestial light flashes with an ever greater intensity. Sometimes we can watch it for hours. The light goes out into the world and changes it, it seems to latch onto people’s souls and it helps them heal and see more, though I don’t see exactly how the method works, it is beyond my ken; way too complicated and technical to understand.
One night recently, I saw the Messiah light for four hours. It was very beautiful; the most intense set of visions I have had in the last twenty years.
The Messiah light is more complex than the Jesus Light, which I have seen many times in the past, as the Messiah is the redeemer for many religions not just the Christians, and he is the redeemer for Gaia and the animals. They have to be rescued as well. In the light I could see the redeemer’s extraordinary kindness, his love of humanity, his link to Gaia and the animals and his personal sacrifice.
The Messiah light flashes purple, blue and gold in many directions at once, there are diamonds in it as bright as little stars, after a while they became so bright I found them hard to look at, the luminosity hurt my eyes.
And I saw the spirit of Gaia come out of the Messiah light and from her came the light of the eternal Tao, which I saw as variations of the brightness formed of intense colors and striations of the God Force; Gaia’s power was expressed as a vast spiritual identity that seemed like a nature spirit. Taoist writers claimed that the Tao is the light in all things, from what was shown to me they were correct.
I saw Gaia expressed in oblong boxes, golden lines and intricate geometries that had mountains, trees, flowers and birds in them. It was stunning in its delicate loveliness—golden beyond golden. I was under the canopy of God’s golden sky, one laced in silver and purple, and a thousand flashing diamonds, and in all that was her love and the souls or spirits of all the little creatures of the earth. I felt very honored in the way it graciously showed me the power of the celestial by allowing me to understand it better and look deep inside its very essence—blessed really blessed.
I saw also Gandhi in the light. I was moved at the sight of him, that I could achieve his tolerance, it was most extraordinary. He was very humble and jolly brave and selfless.
I also saw how the Messiah light is in all of us and I was shown how it is linked to the Lion of Judah. The lion in the inner worlds is a real being he’s mentioned in the Book of Revelation, but it is also a symbol of a power that destroys the dark. He represents retribution. So it is a way of saying the light of the lion fights the dark in your soul and transmutes it.
Two of my friends that were with me saw the light flashing for over twenty-four hours both with eyes open or shut. So while the Returned Jesus story I have been watching in the Aluna is definitely linked to a person, a human embodiment of the light, a custodian say, it is also the greater manifestation of the Christ Consciousness in each and everyone of us, which acts as a massive, sudden upgrade, latching on to the light you already have as an extra download from the inner worlds.
The light can be instigated in anyone. You just have to call upon it and pray for it and sit still and breath it in. And people that are soft and pure that have processed themselves and their shadow traits can express that extra light outwards to others who may also start to see the light.
The power of the Messiah is transformational, beyond the mind and religious concepts, it’s a new brightness, ‘a human collective of light’ in the sea of insanity that surrounds us. I see it as our final rescue.
© 2013 Stuart Wilde — Stuart Wilde.Com
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As with light, Dark cannot be more than a neceessity that balances reality and where there is light there will be dark, herein the other hidden or ‘dark’ sects such as the Cult of Kali(ma), Shiva/Kali the Destroyer (learn to hate those who invented CONAN the Destroyer), Black Lotus, the 5 Poison Sects (traditional Taoist sects), are among the reality that the Eternal MUST encompass much like ‘negative freedoms’ in law. While some faiths espouse either/or, the Ultimate, must espouse ALL, and that is the reason for the simpleton non-polytheist’s perception that duplicity exists in polytheistic religions.
Let us say to rise above evil and good, simply to maintain Reality (or the Grecian Thesis) itself and transforming from dark to light or more painfully, light to dark as well. That is the transcendence and power of the Tao, not light per se, but to link both light and dark, in all shades of grey from the lightest to the darkest. No easy job, and partisanship is an instant fall from grace (or perception), as is participation in secular society at all, at least with people not at the spiritual level of transcendence beyond 2 extremes – Light and Dark, Linear and Non-Euclidean to be closest to God who loves a hateful Satan as much as a loving Jesus. There will always be battles between both, and above the fray, so many Elder Gods of polytheism and even the Elements themselves stand firm to ensure mankind does not create an imbalance that destroys reality – so long as the animals are more numerous and dominant (even cattle, thats why vegetsrians are dangerous – they seek to isolate mankind from all minds but the least active – plants – and combined with a paved over concretised urbanscape – no perception will occur at all . . . eating meat is worse than not eating meat for a balanced sense of reality – we eat to perceive more than anything else and high density living destroys sensitivity), reality continues.
mini-ARTICLE 10.5
H7N9 Spreads Southwest To Wugang Hunan
Recombinomics Commentary 13:15
May 1, 2013
the patient Zhao, male, aged 69, the Shaoyang City Wugang people, farming. Patients no obvious incentive on the afternoon of April 23, chills, fever, cough, Wugang City, a village health treatment in April 24 -26, 2011, the body temperature of 39 ° C -39.5 ° C. Treatment in Wugang City People’s Hospital on April 27, temperature 41 ° C, “lobar pneumonia” admitted Wugang City People’s Hospital. 29 April sicker patients, of Wugang City People’s Hospital “unexplained pneumonia Wugang CDC report.
Wugang City CDC immediately carry out epidemiological investigations, and samples were collected swabs, serum specimens were sent to the Shaoyang City CDC detected. At 12 o’clock on the April 30, Shaoyang City CDC test results for people infected with the H7N9 avian influenza virus nucleic acid positive.
The above translation describes the latest confirmed H7N9 bird flu case (69M). The Hunan case is the furthest west (see map) and signals a marked slowdown in reported cases. In recent days virtually all confirmed cases have been outside of the Shanghai metropolitan are (Shandong, Fujian, and Hunan Provinces (see map).
The cause of reduction in reported cases is unclear. Some agencies may have shifted from daily to weekly reporting, although Shanghai announces an absence of new cases on a daily basis.
Rumors have cited full hospitals in Jiangsu, which would raise concerns that the slowdown is linked to limited testing and/or reporting.
More information on the status of confirmed or suspect H7N9 cases in Jiangsu would be useful.
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This is a reminder and also bio-terrorism cautionary to :
1) Stop importing food especially from countries of unfriendly faiths, even different faiths (Export may be allowed)
2) Make local governments grow their own food to localise any diseases or prevent any outside diseases
3) Disallow local food producers from selling to neighbouring areas, to prevent spread of diseases
4) Even non-tourism areas might want to quarantine tourists and foreigners for a period of observation (these people will need to declare that they intend to travel to the interior) in ‘outer ports’ like Hong Kong and Shanghai.
5) Special detox-quarantine testing in which intensive/invasive testing routines may be allowed – to not be subject to waiting periods (i.e. can choose to wait in ‘outer ports’ for non-invasive testing or go through detox-quarantine testing)
6) Enclosed bio hazard special access may be available for foreign dignitaries (perhaps a vacuum sealed bus or smaller vehicle able to enter buildings that so that busy VVIPs cannot do bioterrorism while being able to access areas, and yet access such areas immediately – the local accompanying VVIPs may be isolated from the foreign VVIPs or if the trust is implicit between the countries this measure can be done away with) who have limited time and need fast access to regions that are not trusted to not do Bioterrorism. Hey Queen SCG, did Prince SK ZAN check out for this? Better send those gloves for testing . . .
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Tupac’s Former Bodyguard Found Dead! Deadly Secrets? – by Jacky Jasper
Certain secrets known to Tupac’s former bodyguard may have ultimately been too much for him to handle. That’s because Frank Alexander was found dead, Monday, from a reported “self-inflicted gun wound”.
Sources say on the record, Frank Alexander said he believed Suge Knight was involved Tupac’s death.
Now, insiders are questioning his “suicide”.
Here’s what Frank Alexander once revealed about the night Tupac was murdered:
“It was strange that I ended up being the only security for him and Suge. Normally Suge’s security was the head of the security firm. It was twenty three of us total, so there should have been more security.”
Here’s what’s being reported:
“Details remain sketchy. There have been early, non-official reports that he died from a self-inflicted gun wound.”
Did Frank Alexander really commit suicide? I don’t know, what do you think?
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Eric Holder’s phenotype. Meaning? The ‘Engine Curse’ was passed on to another.
Ok shall we guess? On Malaysia’s GE13, a certain activist failed to be blown up with an overheating car and then this happened :
http://www.ndtv.com/article/world/california-driver-rues-nightmare-blaze-in-overloaded-limousine-363637
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A French love affair… with graphology – by Hugh Schofield BBC News, Paris – 28 April 2013 Last updated at 23:07 GMT
The French continue to use handwriting analysis to assess prospective employees, bucking a worldwide trend. Why?
What would you do if you went for a job, and the HR person said one of the criteria for selection was a favourable analysis of your handwriting?
In most of the world, the use of graphology in recruitment is marginal. But in France – despite an appreciable decline of writing in recent years thanks to computers – the technique is proving remarkably resilient.
Reliable figures are hard to come by. Graphologists themselves say that between 50% and 75% of companies make some use of hand-writing analysis, even if it is only occasional.
But then they would say that, wouldn’t they?
Close-up handwriting assessment
We are an extra tool, a complement”
Catharine Bottiau Graphologist
On the other hand, many French companies that do use graphology are reluctant to speak about it openly because the practice is not seen as sufficiently “modern” or “global”.
The last independent study was in 1991, and it found that a massive 91% of public and private organisations in France were then making use of handwriting analysis. If that was the case, then 50% today does not seem so far-fetched.
So what does a company get if it submits candidates’ handwriting samples to a graphologist?
According to Catharine Bottiau, one of France’s best-known practitioners, it is delusional to imagine that graphologists actually make decisions about who gets what job.
“Normally we are consulted once the client has already drawn up a shortlist of candidates. Then the candidates will be asked to write a motivational letter, using their own handwriting.
“We will examine the letters, and offer our advice. Usually this will tend to confirm the impressions already gleaned from interviews, the CV, personality tests and so on.
“But sometimes we can draw attention to aspects of personality that have been missed, and which might prove detrimental were the person to be recruited.
“We are an extra tool, a complement.”
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This should be done BEFORE a student even takes a degree to determine which discipline is best suited to their personality. Guess all those with degrees who cannot to take a more suitable degree are going to have a hard time? The lawyer, doctor, engineer trifecta is not for everyone, but do remember that without all other professions, the world would fall apart. So guess what? Holders of these degrees should not be paid any more than other fields as much as any citizens should not be paid more than 10 times annual average wage in any country to be fair.
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Chile to be Latin America’s only candidate to U.N. Council
Chile’s Foreign Minister Alfredo Moreno speaks to the media next to his Peruvian counterpart Rafael Roncagliolo after signing bilateral agreements during a meeting in Lima, March 5, 2013. REUTERS/Enrique Castro-Mendivil
SANTIAGO | Tue Apr 30, 2013 5:34pm EDT
(Reuters) – Chile will be Latin America’s sole candidate for a seat at the United Nations’ Security Council for the 2014 to 2015 period, Foreign Affairs Minister Alfredo Moreno told reporters on Tuesday.
The Andean country needs to be elected by two-thirds of the General Assembly in October to win a two-year term. Chile has already been elected to the Security Council four times.
The U.N.’s Security Council, which has five permanent members and 10 non-permanent members, is focused on maintaining international peace and security.
Argentina and Guatemala are the only two Latin American countries currently part of the council.
Chile is currently led by conservative, business-friendly President Sebastian Pinera. Former leader Michelle Bachelet, a center-left politician who used to head U.N. Women, is widely expected to win this year’s presidential election.
(Reporting by Fabian Cambero; Writing by Alexandra Ulmer; Editing by Sandra Maler)
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How can this be? Or is the UN bullsdozing though representation of countries friendly to the UN? What has UNASUR have to say about this choice? Shouldn’t UNASUR be consulted on which South American country gets appointed at the UN? Be wary of the Islamist link as well. Malaysia which practices apartheid and cannot ratify the Human Rights Charter and is effectively a frenemy of the USA has made inroads to Castro in person and hence the inner circle as well. Perhaps this is a Soviet agenda but Islamists have a tendency to try to subvert their allies, EVEN Soviet Union ones.
http://www.stoptheftaa.org/artman/publish/article_54.shtml
ARTICLE 13
Before Babel? Ancient Mother Tongue Reconstructed – LiveScience.comBy Tia Ghose, LiveScience Staff Writer | LiveScience.com
The ancestors of people from across Europe and Asia may have spoken a common language about 15,000 years ago, new research suggests.
The idea of a universal human language goes back at least to the Bible, in which humanity spoke a common tongue, but were punished with mutual unintelligibility after trying to build the Tower of Babel all the way to heaven. Now scientists, researchers have reconstructed words, such as “mother,” “to pull” and “man,” which would have been spoken by ancient hunter-gatherers, possibly in an area such as the Caucuses or the modern-day country of Georgia. The word list, detailed today (May 6) in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, could help researchers retrace the history of ancient migrations and contacts between prehistoric cultures.
“We can trace echoes of language back 15,000 years to a time that corresponds to about the end of the last ice age,” said study co-author Mark Pagel, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Reading in the United Kingdom.
The idea of a universal human language goes back at least to the Bible, in which humanity spoke a common tongue, but were punished with mutual unintelligibility after trying to build the Tower of Babel all the way to heaven.
But not all linguists believe in a single common origin of language, and trying to reconstruct that language seemed impossible. Most researchers thought they could only trace a language’s roots back 3,000 to 4,000 years. (Even so, researchers recently said they had traced the roots of a common mother tongue to many Eurasian languages back 8,000 to 9,500 years to Anatolia, a southwestern Asian peninsula that is now part of Turkey.)
Pagel, however, wondered whether language evolution proceeds much like biological evolution. If so, the most critical words, such as the frequently used words that define our social relationships, would change much more slowly.
To find out if he could uncover those ancient words, Pagel and his colleagues in a previous study tracked how quickly words changed in modern languages. They identified the most stable words. They also mapped out how different modern languages were related.
They then reconstructed ancient words based on the frequency at which certain sounds tend to change in different languages — for instance, p’s and f’s often change over time in many languages, as in the change from “pater” in Latin to the more recent term “father” in English.
The researchers could predict what 23 words, including “I,” “ye,” “mother,” “male,” “fire,” “hand” and “to hear” might sound like in an ancestral language dating to 15,000 years ago.
In other words, if modern-day humans could somehow encounter their Stone Age ancestors, they could say one or two very simple statements and make themselves understood, Pagel said.
Limitations of tracing language
Unfortunately, this language technique may have reached its limits in terms of how far back in history it can go.
“It’s going to be very difficult to go much beyond that, even these slowly evolving words are starting to run out of steam,” Pagel told LiveScience.
The study raises the possibility that researchers could combine linguistic data with archaeology and anthropology “to tell the story of human prehistory,” for instance by recreating ancient migrations and contacts between people, said William Croft, a comparative linguist at the University of New Mexico, who was not involved in the study.
“That has been held back because most linguists say you can only go so far back in time,” Croft said. “So this is an intriguing suggestion that you can go further back in time.”
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Forget the history but focus on the synchronistic links by majority disparate language similar sounding words and eventually removing any and all words that are offensive as well as patching together the most common among expletives as well which could be a ‘Low Form’ f the language. The regularisation of humanity’s language must be done in this manner and the next main language of humanity NOT English or the current international languages at the UN will be propagated throughout the world, though all main languages of all races should be retained as a home dialect or cultural language of sorts. There is no other better anad fairer way to approach this. As for what the people in the past did use, there is no point in trying to use that as a weapon. Instead take up all existing languages and create that new Universal one which will be worded and weighted by similarity of sound though not necessarily symbols which could be again applied in this manner. As for the Tower of Babel, perhaps the vacuum of space formed and flatness of the world as well the instance the gods knew what Man was intending. I’d say that the other world is still there but anyone tainted by all the technology and lack of link to nature will never be able to find that.
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