Sign after sign after sign...

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfo...rt-mcmurray-wildfire-escape-stories-1.3567821

 

This is awful. (I can't help but wonder if anyone was forewarned about this. There are so many messages, I read through them and I thought I saw something about Canada but I can't remember exactly.)

 

There is this one from April 9, 2016 to Luz de Maria:

Pray, My children, pray for Canada; it will suffer because of man’s egotism through terrorism, and Nature will flog it.

 

https://www.yahoo.com/news/pope-francis-tells-europe-tear-down-walls-111724670.html?ref=gs

To me this seems like the pope wants to destroy Europes identity.
He is just one of many well intended but self deceived persons who think that because their
positions on the world stage seem to be important they possess wisdom.

 

And they have legalized assisted suicide . . .

 

Looking out for Big Brother
May 12, 2016 by sd



World watch:
For years — decades now — many have fretted of a time when some entity would rise to seize control of the global populace, perhaps after unification of nations into a single or semi-singular conglomeration.

Most point to government as the likeliest candidate — whether American, Russian, or Chinese, or one based out of the United Nations or some other international power center (from the World Health Organization to the European Union, there are many of them).

But if a controlling entity is to arise — an entity with a true stranglehold, which we consider a distinct possibility — it could well come out of the corporate, private, technological sector.

In this regard one watches in an attempt to obviate the overwhelming rise and dominance of digital companies such Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Google, Twitter, and some others.

We already know how dominant Microsoft has been — and how it has taken a role on the international stage outside of the tech world (sometimes in a way that is beneficial, other times, as with contraception, far more questionable).

Where will Facebook go?

Its founder seems headed to precisely the Gates direction, perhaps even more aggressively.

And this is significant.

Facebook now claims 1.65 billion monthly users — or nearly a quarter of the world’s population. So young…

The number of actual, regular users, or at least intense ones, of course, is likely substantially lower. But the numbers are astronomical no matter how they are recalculated, and chilling it has been in recent days to read of Facebook’s alleged stifling of conservative news outlets in its “trending” news section — and how it outright wants to control the flow of news via alogorithm by creating something called “instant articles,” whereby users no longer click on outside links for a story but instead get everything directly from Facebook’s servers. And they want news organizations who desire participation to submit ten sample articles for their discernment.

How brilliant and all-knowing they are, these young folks, out in the land of silicon!

In a recent expose, journalists hired by Facebook to vet (censor?) the “trending” (important) news discussed how they felt about their experience. They said — and this chills a bit — it was as if Facebook was learning a way to create a program that would vet as they, the “curators,” were asked to do. “It was degrading as a human being,” said one. “We weren’t treated as individuals. We were treated in this robot way.”

How might they treat the rest of us?

Ironically, Facebook, it seems, is into facelessness.

Our discernment is that this is a grab for power and larruping dangerous control of the news, if not much of the internet itself.

Further advice (if you will excuse it):

Those using Facebook should be extra careful to keep their independence in mind — cautious in not being overly dependent on it.

Many users now spend fifty minutes or more a day on Facebook.

In fact, much of Facebook is smoke and mirrors, including its statistics on “likes” and post “reaches”: Not even Facebook seems to know how exactly that is calculated — though it certainly knows much more than do we and has a tremendous data bank of personal information about its users. Even government agencies have sought its help in collecting information.

As for Apple: it recently refused to cooperate with the FBI — the United States government — in cracking an iPhone that had been used in that terrorist attack in San Bernardino, California (an attack that costs fourteen lives). The government was forced to spend $1.5 million and weeks of expert hacking to finally access the phone. This is a case of Big Brother versus Growing Younger Brother, though in this case one sides with the government. Meanwhile, phones:

That our cells know where we are each moment when we are connected to Wifi or GPS or cellular data and that companies or government agencies could theoretically track our every movement through that now-pervasive technology is worth contemplation. News item (USAToday, today):

“DENVER — Computer security pioneer John McAfee pulls out his cell phone to stare at a notification on the screen.

“’It says something changed in my account, please press next,’ McAfee says. ‘I have the best (security) habits in the world and I cannot keep my phone secure.’

“McAfee, whose name became synonymous with antivirus protection, says he’s no longer as worried about computer security. Now, he says, the danger comes from the camera and microphones we carry everywhere in our pockets, attached to our smartphones. It’s a ‘trivial’ matter, he says, for a hacker to remotely and secretly turn on a phone’s sensors.” Translation: the spy — Big Brother, or growing one — may be in your pocket or purse.

Microsoft and Droid and AOL and many have long felt free (as an older brother, they know what is best) to insert updates into your phone or computer or even to turn it on or off, sometimes without proper notification. It enters our private space without permission. (Look at how malware and viruses and “robots” can access your system: A big government or corporation cannot?)

You are tracked in many ways, not just by security and red-light cameras.

All these companies can be forces for convenience and good but now have access to fantastic technology that can easily track every single person on the planet if every person is registered in various computer data banks, which so many now are. Health information? Banking?

When it comes to people, a billion — or a trillion — is nothing to the computer chips they now have. Google wants to even develop devices that would be inserted into human eyes to automatically adjust their lenses (no need even for glasses).

Other firms have spoken about wiring the body in such a way that we become computers (conductors and cyborgs).

They also have those cars that cruise the streets across America taking pictures of homes and logging exact addresses.

Amazon customers are similarly recognized and herded.

Purchases are all tracked meticulously by robotic systems.

Is it not appropriate to question it all — and: why isn’t it watched more closely?

Amazon is seeking to crush small businesses (including Catholic bookstores). It wants dominance. The other day, its founder made a billion dollars on his stock in a single hour. He has ordered a company he picked up for pocket change, The Washington Post (and star Bob Woodward), to dig into the life of a presidential candidate he opposes.

One might also ask: how many (or few) actually control the oil industry? The banking industry?

How can technology control the entire national electrical grid?

Who controls key master internet servers? Notice this verb: control.

Brave new world indeed! Also, highly dangerous. That governments have been so slow to keep ahead or even keep up with the tech “curve” is worrisome. They are still struggling to halt hackers from their own highly classified websites in their most sensitive agencies — although of course government entities such as the National Security Agency and DARPA (Department of Advanced Research) have tremendous capabilities of their own, capabilities of which we are not remotely aware. Big Brother — or Big Tech?

The future arrives swiftly with wonders and perils.

 

I've recently pondered the vision John had, which he expressed in Revelation:

Revelation 13:15
...and it was allowed to give breath to the image of the beast so that the image of the beast should even speak, and to cause those who would not worship the image of the beast to be slain.

Revelation 14:11
And the smoke of their torment goes up for ever and ever; and they have no rest, day or night, these worshipers of the beast and its image, and whoever receives the mark of its name.”

Revelation 16:2
So the first angel went and poured his bowl on the earth, and foul and evil sores came upon the men who bore the mark of the beast and worshiped its image.

Revelation 19:20
And the beast was captured, and with it the false prophet who in its presence had worked the signs by which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped its image.

Revelation 20:4
Also I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for their testimony to Jesus and for the word of God, and who had not worshiped the beast or its image and had not received its mark on their foreheads or their hands. They came to life, and reigned with Christ a thousand years.

I wonder what this would have looked like to John if he saw it in his vision on Patmos:












I am convinced at the very least, that Facebook is a tool of the beast, to facilitate ego, self-worship, desire for fame, and complete narcissism......Not to mention infidelity and promiscuity. It is not an inherently evil invention, but I believe it serves evil very directly now, and is very useful to evil's intent.

 

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world...scus-blast/ar-BBt07l2?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=UE07DHP
Might the battle of psalm 83 occur soon?

 

Your post reminded of this story http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...-i-would-track-immigrants-like-fedex-packages . It may be started by our government, they may insert something to "track" all of us, they will say that this will allow them to be less discriminatory. It could start off with passport like uses and then used for banking and purchases. Scary.

 

Uh-Oh......... Scary Times

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world...ver-missile-shield/ar-BBt1uop?ocid=spartanntp

 

The pieces are certainly all on the board.

 

It is scary how so many are convinced the answer to all our problems and troubles can be met with technology. virtual reality, robots, harvesting big data, and to argue against is similar to arguing against climate change. God has been taken completely out of the picture and has no part in the cause or solution to our woes.

 

Roads in India become molten seas of tar in Indian heatwave, while two meters of snow paralyzes people in China !

My goodness, I can't imagine living through the above, especially the heat! These people need our prayers.

 

http://www.churchmilitant.com/video/episode/vort-2016-05-24

 

This is a chilling NBC report about microchipping children. The content is bizarre enough but what sends chills down my spine are the reporters, who give no insights or any displays of type of critical thinking in this report. They are just a trio of dumbed down talking heads, like robots reading what is scripted. I wonder how representative of the population at large these reporters are?

 

Perhaps it is just a conincidence: Lightning strikes injure dozens across Germany and France-
http://www.thejournal.ie/france-germany-lightning-2794183-May2016/

 

Very sad that so many were seriously injured.

 

I agree Carol. There seems to be a big increase in natural phenomena such as sinkholes, lightening strikes, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions etc. Occurrences of people being attacked by animals have also increased significantly.

 

"Pope Francis: ‘Migrants Are Not a Danger, They Are in Danger"

The Pope, of course, is technically correct that some of the "migrants" were in danger in their home countries but many are flooding the EU for economic reasons and an unknown percentage coming to spread Islam through Jihad. This flood of "migrants" is nothing less than an invasion of The West that will not end well
Think Barbarians flooding through the borders of the Roman Empire in the 4th/5th Centuries ... and Muslim invasion of Christendom 8th through 15th centuries. Yup! As Ol' Georgy sez: "Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it." George Santayana
The comments section of this article will give you an idea of the damage to the "Catholic Label" that Papa seems tone deaf to!?

http://www.breitbart.com/london/2016/05/29/pope-francis-migrants-not-danger-danger/

GOD SAVE ALL HERE!!

PS: I know some here will think that I'm a Pope basher!? Not so! I'm just reporting the news and alerting my friends that the Catholic Haters are being "stirred-up" over these comments and all the other off TelePrompter ones! We, sadly, may well have to deal with the anti-Catholic backlash along with all the other unpleasantness of The Storm