This grieves me. I have prayed for Vincent lambert off and on and I thought he was finally safe. Not. This is a crime.
You’re right..most just accept it as “ normal “...that is what our world has become. I think we are at the bottom of the slippery slope...but I guess it will get even worse unless Our Lord intervenes .
In summer none the less! Now this is weird! https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mexico-ice-storm-hail-guadalajara-jalisco-mexico-city/ Safe Under Mary's Mantle!
The climate change cheerleaders keep pushing the narrative. There is a climate change but it is a result of man's sin. The Earth and man are out of balance because of so much sin. If you say that, however, you are a religious nut.
If they were to read Aristotle or the ancient wisdom of the ages including Shakespeare and his contemporaries they would find that the moral universe aNd the physical universe are connected. When the moral universe is chaotic the physical universe responds in kind.
Hong Kong demonstrators storm government building, police fire tear gas to disperse protesters By Travis Fedschun | July 1, 2019 | https://www.foxnews.com/world/hong-...ions-on-anniversary-of-return-of-chinese-rule Hong Kong police fire tear gas to disperse protesters [Video] Authorities work to oust demonstrators from Hong Kong's legislative chamber; Greg Palkot reports. A group of protesters smashed a window and stormed Hong Kong's legislature building Monday amid another round of mass demonstrations in the city, where a commemoration of the 22nd anniversary of the orderly return to Chinese rule was replaced by tumultuous scenes of civil disobedience, destruction and the deployment of tear gas. The crowd, comprised of mostly young protesters, could be seen on video using a cargo cart and large poles as battering rams against the glass panel of the legislature building. The demonstrators then tore down part of a glass and metal exterior wall of the government building, carrying away the long strips of metal framework. Protesters gather outside the Legislative Council as they stage a rally in Hong Kong, Monday, July 1, 2019. Officers were able to eventually commandeer the cart, using riot shields and deploying pepper spray to push back the hundreds of demonstrators gathered around the building. HONG KONG LEADER IGNORES PROTESTERS' DEADLINE TO PULL CONTROVERSIAL EXTRADITION BILL Hundreds of protesters later surged into the building around 9 p.m. in a situation described as "chaos" as people funneled inside from two places that had been breached, according to the South China Morning Post. Protesters gather inside the meeting hall of the Legislative Council in Hong Kong, Monday, July 1, 2019. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung) Hong Kong Cable TV showed the helmeted protesters walk through a security checkpoint and continue to smash through metal doors to try to go deeper into the building. Journalists film a protester defaces the Hong Kong emblem inside the meeting hall of the Legislative Council in Hong Kong, Monday, July 1, 2019. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung) While inside, the group smashed up portraits of legislative leaders, doors, and walls as about a thousand gathered around the building in the heart of the city's financial district, Reuters reported. A protester steps on a damaged portrait of former legislative leader lie on the ground after protesters broke into the Legislative Council building in Hong Kong, Monday, July 1, 2019. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu) The protestors then took over the legislative chamber, spraying paint slogans on the wall and over the territory's emblem. A protester shouts next to a defaced Hong Kong emblem and a banner reads "No thug, only tyranny" after they broke into the Legislative Council building in Hong Kong, Monday, July 1, 2019. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung) The council, the mini-parliament, issued a red alert, ordering the protesters to leave immediately. Protesters raise a banner reads "Beyond redemption, no retreat" in front of a defaced Hong Kong logo after break in at the Legislative Chamber to protest against the extradition bill in Hong Kong, Monday, July 1, 2019. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu) Hours after the group stormed the building, Hong Kong police announced on Facebook they were planning to clear the area in a short period of time, and warned they would use appropriate force if they encounter resistance. Authorities could be seen on video firing tear gas as protesters ran for cover and advancing on the crowd. Hong Kong protesters break into legislature [Video] Ongoing protests continue against a proposed law that could allow people to be extradited to mainland China; Greg Palkot reports from London As the group tore through the legislature building, tens of thousands of others marched through the city demanding expanded democracy. Hong Kong demonstrators are opposed to a government attempt to change extradition laws that would allow suspects to be sent to China to face trial. The proposed legislation, on which debate has been suspended indefinitely, increased fears of eroding freedoms in the territory, which Britain returned to China on July 1, 1997. Protesters want the bills formally withdrawn and Hong Kong's embattled leader, Carrie Lam, to resign. “I am afraid the march today will be the last protest for Hong Kong," demonstrator Harley Chuk Kit-ying told the SCMP. "If I still chose not to come, then I would regret for a lifetime." A protester tries to break the glass to get into the Legislative Council in Hong Kong Monday, July 1, 2019. (Jeff Cheng/HK01 via AP) The clashes at the government building forced Hong Kong's leader to watch the annual commemoration of the handover from inside the city's cavernous convention center instead of outside, according to Sky News. In an address after a flag-raising ceremony marking the anniversary of the handover, Lam said the recent series of protests and two marches that attracted hundreds of thousands of participants have taught her she needs to listen better to youth and people in general. Protesters in Hong Kong pushed barriers and dumpsters into the streets early Monday morning in an apparent bid to block access to a symbolically important ceremony marking the anniversary of the return of the former British colony to China. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung) "This has made me fully realize that I, as a politician, have to remind myself all the time of the need to grasp public sentiments accurately," she told the gathering. Lam, who has come under withering criticism for trying to push the extradition legislation through, has pledged to be more responsive to public sentiment. She insisted her government has good intentions, but said "I will learn the lesson and ensure that the government's future work will be closer and more responsive to the aspirations, sentiments and opinions of the community." Demonstrators in Hong Kong shut down police headquarters [Video] Protestors in Hong Kong, China have moved toward using a gorilla style mobile strategy to stay one step ahead of the police; Greg Palkot reports. Security guards pushed pro-democracy lawmaker Helena Wong out of the room as she shouted at Lam to resign and withdraw the "evil" legislation. She later told reporters she was voicing the grievances and opinions of the protesters, who could not get into the event. The mass march on Monday was the third demonstration in three weeks after the bill fueled fears that China is eroding Hong Kong's freedoms. Jimmy Sham, a leader of the pro-democracy group that organized the march, told the crowd that Lam had not responded to their demands because she is not democratically elected. The leader of Hong Kong is chosen by a committee dominated by pro-China elites. Protesters flood the streets as they take part in a rally Monday, July 1, 2019, in Hong Kong. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung) "We know that Carrie Lam can be so arrogant," Sham said, rallying the crowd under a blazing sun before the start of the march at Victoria Park. "She is protected by our flawed system." Besides the controversial legislature, protestors are also demanding an independent inquiry into police actions during a June 12 protest, when officers used tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse a demonstration that blocked the legislature on the day that debate on the bill had been scheduled to resume. Police have claimed the use of force was justified, but since then have largely adopted softer tactics, even as protesters besieged police headquarters in recent days, pelting it with eggs and spray-painting slogans on its outer walls. The Associated Press contributed to this report.
At least 40 killed after airstrike hits migrant detention center in Libya By Rami Musa, Samy Magdy | Associated Press | https://www.foxnews.com/world/at-least-40-killed-after-airstrike-hits-migrant-detention-in-libya Fox News Flash top headlines for July 3 Fox News Flash top headlines for July 3 are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com BENGHAZI, Libya – An airstrike hit a detention center for migrants in the Libyan capital early Wednesday, killing at least 40 people, a health official in the country's U.N.-supported government said. The airstrike targeting the detention center in Tripoli's Tajoura neighborhood also wounded 80 migrants, said Malek Merset, a Health Ministry spokesman. Merset posted photos of migrants being taken in ambulances to hospitals. Libyan Red Crescent workers recover migrants bodies after an airstrike at a detention center in Tajoura. (AP) Footage circulating online and said to be from inside the migrant detention center showed blood and body parts mixed with rubble and migrants' belongings. The U.N. refugee agency in Libya condemned the airstrike on the detention center, which houses 616 migrants and refugees. The Tripoli-based government blamed the self-styled Libyan National Army, led by Khalifa Hifter, for the airstrike and called for the U.N. support mission in Libya to establish a fact-finding committee to investigate. A spokesman for Hifter's forces did not immediately answer phone calls and messages seeking comment. Local media reported the LNA had launched airstrikes against a militia camp near the detention center. HIFTER'S FORCES PUSH TOWARD LIBYAN CAPITAL CITY'S CENTER The LNA launched an offensive against the weak Tripoli-based government in April. Hifter's forces control much of Libya's east and south but were dealt a significant blow last week when militias allied with the Tripoli government reclaimed the strategic town of Gharyan, about 62 miles from the capital. Gharyan had been a key LNA supply route. Many camps for militias loosely allied with the U.N.-supported government are in Tajoura, east of the city center, and Hifter's forces have targeted such camps with airstrikes in recent weeks. The LNA said Monday it had begun an air campaign on rival forces in Tripoli after it lost control of Gharyan. His forces include the remnants of Gadhafi's army as well as tribal fighters and ultra-conservative Islamists known as Salafists. They appear more like a regular army than their adversaries, with uniforms and a clear chain of command. Libyan Red Crescent workers recover migrants bodies after an airstrike at a detention center in Tajoura. (AP) Hifter's forces boast MiG fighter jets supplied by neighboring Egypt, as well as drones, attack helicopters and mine-resistant vehicles. It was not immediately clear what munitions were used in the airstrike early Wednesday. The fighting for Tripoli has threatened to plunge Libya into another bout of violence on the scale of the 2011 conflict that ousted longtime dictator Moammar Gadhafi and led to his death. Hifter says he is determined to restore stability to the North African country. He is backed by Egypt, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia while his rivals, mainly Islamists, are supported by Turkey and Qatar. His campaign against Islamic militants across Libya since 2014 won him growing international support from world leaders who say they are concerned that Libya has turned into a haven for armed groups and a major conduit for migrants bound for Europe. LIBYAN CAPITAL, UNDER SIEGE, GETS WATER BACK AFTER 2 DAYS His opponents, however, view him as an aspiring autocrat and fear a return to one-man rule. At least 6,000 migrants from Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia, Sudan and other nations are locked in dozens of detention facilities in Libya that are run by militias accused of torture and other abuses. Most of the migrants were apprehended by European Union-funded and -trained Libyan coast guards while trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea into Europe. The detention centers have limited food and other supplies for the migrants, who made often-arduous journeys at the mercy of abusive traffickers who hold them for ransom money from families back home. The U.N. refugee agency has said that more than 3,000 migrants are in danger because they are held in detention centers close to the front lines between Hifter's forces and the militias allied with the Tripoli government. Libya became a major crossing point for migrants to Europe after the 2011 ouster and killing of Gadhafi, when the North African nation was thrown into chaos, armed militias proliferated and central authority fell apart.
It's already been a reality. We're only seeing the skim on the top of the underworld's activities. Exposure now for the sake of decision....for either good or evil. The measuring scales of Justice are weighing what's necessary to bring forth upon a sinful world. HORROR! Three Babies were Born Alive after Abortions in Minnesota Last Year — Doctors Kept Them Comfortable, Then Left Them to Die Democrats are killing live babies now. In January Virginia Governor “Blackface” Ralph Northam endorsed killing babies after they were born alive in a radio interview. In February 2020 Democrat presidential candidates Senators Kamala Harris (CA), Bernie Sanders (VT), Cory Booker (NJ), Kirsten Gillibrand (NY), Amy Klobuchar (MN), and Elizabeth Warren (MA) all voted “NO” on this bill that would have required doctors to provide proper degree of care to babies born alive after attempted abortion. This is a barbaric new low for the abortion party. Many honest Americans would call this pure evil. Now this… New data has revealed three babies were “left to die” in Minnesota last year after they survived an abortion. This is murder. Life News reported: Three babies survived botched abortions but later died in 2018 in Minnesota, according to a new state Department of Health report. The news comes as Democrats in Congress block a federal bill to require that basic medical care be provided to newborns who survive abortions. Democrats have argued that legislation to protect abortion survivors is a waste of time and not necessary. But data from Minnesota, the Centers for Disease Control and other sources indicate that babies do survive abortions, and laws are needed to protect them. Minnesota has been keeping track of abortion survivors since 2015 when pro-lifers passed the state Born Alive Infants Protection Act. The law recognizes infants who survive abortions as human persons and requires that they be provided with reasonable medical care. Since the law went into effect, state reports indicate that 11 babies have survived abortions: five in 2016, three in 2017 and three in 2018, according to Minnesota Citizens Concerned for Life. https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/20...-kept-them-comfortable-then-left-them-to-die/
German Homeschooling Family Wins Back Custody of Children after Decade-Long Battle with Authorities The Wunderlich family, who have been fighting for the right to homeschool their children in Germany for more than a decade. On Tuesday, a German court restored the Wunderlich children to the custody of their parents, Dirk and Petra. The Wunderlichs have been fighting for the right to homeschool their children for more than a decade. After losing an appeal before a lower court in the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), they are awaiting a response from the highest level of the court, the Grand Chamber. The Wunderlichs' battle traces back to 2006, according to the Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA). That year, a German court twice fined the family hundreds of euros for homeschooling their children. In 2008, the family left Germany to continue homeschooling in France. In 2009, French officials briefly removed the children from their parents. In 2012, the family moved back to Germany after failing to find employment in France. A German court transferred the custody of the children to German social services. On August 29, 2013, 20 German police and social workers removed the children from their parents by force. The children were returned the next month, on the condition that they surrender their passports and attend public school. In April 2015, HSLDA and Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) filed an application before the ECHR, which agreed to take up the case Wunderlich v. Germany in 2016. In January of this year, ECHR ruled that German authorities did not violate the Wunderlichs' rights when they seized their children in 2013. The Wunderlichs have appealed this ruling. After the ECHR ruling in January, the German family judge who was involved in the 2013 removal initiated new hearings in the case. He was later substituted by another judge on grounds that he was biased against the family. This replacement judge ruled in favor of the family, restoring custody to the parents. "The right of parents to direct the education of their children is a fundamental right, protected in international law. We are pleased to see that the German court respected this right and acknowledged that the Wunderlich children are doing well," Robert Clarke, director of European advocacy at ADF International and lead counsel for the Wunderlich family at ECHR, said in a statement. "As we wait for referral to the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights, we hope that, there too, the rights of the Wunderlich family will be safeguarded." Two weeks ago, the two younger children and their parents testified before the court about homeschooling. "I am not ready to attend a public school simply because German judges cannot imagine for me to be educated in a different way. I will not tolerate being forcefully taken and locked up," one of the children wrote in a letter to the judge. A sibling added, "I just want to live and learn in peace with my family without the constant fear of being torn apart like in 2009 and in 2013. I went to a public school for a year and definitely did not enjoy it." Despite ruling against the family, ECHR recognized that "the knowledge level of the children was not alarming and that the children were not being kept from school against their will." The Wunderlich children repeated their preference for homeschooling in an interview with CBN News. "When there are so many children and they are talking about all kinds of things it's really loud," Joshua said. His sister Machsejah added, "in home schooling I felt like we were able to learn a lot more in a shorter time; in school they always make it so long and still you learn less than in homeschool." 'They don't learn anything" in public school, Dirk Wunderlich said. "They get a brainwashing about reality and also they learn bad behavior." https://pjmedia.com/parenting/german-homeschooling-family-wins-custody-battle/
https://catholicherald.co.uk/commen...rised-the-corporations-have-taken-over-pride/ The sexual rebels and the corporate titans march hand-in-hand; indeed, they are one and the same The most jarring fact about New York’s Pride March this year was how perfectly it blended into the surrounding ambience and structures of a hyper-commercialised American megalopolis. There were plenty of freaky sights, to be sure. But from my vantage point – I parked myself at the swanky bar of the Roger Hotel at the corner of Madison and 31st to observe the festivities – the march appeared remarkably… domesticated. This is a painful reality to the most woke among the LGBTQ activists, who detest corporate-friendly “rainbow capitalism”. But I’m afraid the more corporate-friendly side of the movement has the better part of this argument. Pride’s demands for radical sexual autonomy are perfectly attuned to the cultural aims of large corporations and the liberal-technocratic order. Yes, there were the young men roller-skating about in mankinis that left little to the imagination; the Latin drag queens waving regally at their subjects from the backs of convertibles; the young woman dressed as a kind of blasphemous anti-pope, with a plunging neckline on her “cassock” and the word “ABORTION” on her mitre; and so on. But it was all brought to you by … Johnson & Johnson. The medical devices giant supplied a DJ, who spun the latest house tunes from the back of a thoroughly branded pickup truck. Every industrial conglomerate, financial services company, airline and giant retailer under the sun sponsored floats. Nor did the garish rainbow palette clash in any way with the wider cityscape. It would be one thing if the rest of Manhattan were buttoned-up and rainbow-unfriendly. But if the whole city is draped in rainbows, as indeed it was, if every posh hotel screams its “allyship” with the queer community, as indeed they all did, then all the rebelliousness and Judith Butler-ian subversion gets drained out of the Pride March. The sexual rebels and the corporate titans march hand-in-hand; indeed, they are one and the same. The 45,000 or so anti-capitalist demonstrators of the Queer Liberation March protested too much (literally). They dubbed their smaller gathering a “people’s political march” and claimed the “true” legacy of the 1969 Stonewall riots. The corporations, they insisted, have usurped the spirit of that uprising. Martha Shelley, a 75-year-old lesbian activist who took part in Stonewall, told Democracy Now: “The spirit that we had then” was “anti-corporate, anti-war, for liberation for all people. And the most important thing for us at that time was the right to control your own body, the right to have sex with the people of your choice, the right to ingest the drugs of your choice without being thrown in prison.” But in the half-century since, it has become clear that corporations are perfectly happy to accommodate – nay, to encourage and even mandate – “the right to control your own body” and all the rest. In the United States, some 200 corporate CEOs recently took out an ad in the New York Times to voice their displeasure with restrictive new abortion laws in Georgia and Alabama. In Ireland, meanwhile, managers reportedly pressure female pilots who get pregnant to abort their babies lest their careers get aborted. Corporate America has also been the most potent enemy of religious freedom laws and efforts to protect the sexual binary (bathrooms laws). And this should come as no surprise. After all, many of the men and women who occupy today’s C-suites and corner offices were themselves 1968ers and rebel boomers. As the Italian Catholic philosopher Augusto Del Noce powerfully argued, the ’68ers (and Stonewallers) rejected the conformism and soullessness of the immediate post-war period, and rightly so, but they misunderstood the source of that soullessness. Taking their cues from the likes of Herbert Marcuse, the ’68ers concluded that “the metaphysical and theological negations” of materialism “can no longer be called into question”, per Del Noce. Therefore, tradition was out of the window. There was no absolute ideal or authority, Judaeo-Christian or otherwise, against which to judge daily life. Marxism was out, too, by then already discredited in the East Bloc. So what was left to do? Liberate the sexual appetites. Sexual liberation, it turned out, was easy to commodify and control. The ideal corporate subject is, indeed, childless, unattached, ever chasing sexual novelties: the young bankers in mankinis, the hedge fund waving the rainbow flag. Welcome to Pride.
Are we finally at the apex of the wonderful fruits of free will? What a joyless and meaningless existence chasing after the desires of the flesh. I hope that some day Mrs Cyrus is able to break free from her chains and have true peace and understanding.. https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/c...al-construct-miley-cyrus-video-trashes-female ‘Virginity Is a Social Construct’: Miley Cyrus’ Video Trashes Female Sexuality By Gabriel Hays | July 2, 2019 11:50 AM EDT Pop sweetheart Miley Cyrus’ new video for her song “Mother’s Daughter” is intended to be a new age anthem of female expression and freedom. Is it any wonder that it comes off as completely unnerving and a little hellish? Ms. Cyrus’ ode to feminism and inclusivity is a bad acid trip of strange sexuality, including blood red latex, teeth-lined female codpieces, wheelchair bound trans women, aggressive gyrating, and quotes such as “Virginity is a social construct.” The music video premiered July 2, and features an angry and abortion-obsessed Cyrus, wearing red latex and grinding on the floor with her tongue out (no surprise there). What is surprising is that Cyrus thinks that all the BDSM imagery and body mods which follow are convincing anyone that she’s in control and that this is what women want, as her lyrics insist. The chorus line about sums it up: “So-so, so don't flook with my freedom, I came back to get me some. I'm nasty, I'm evil. Must be something in the water or that I'm my mother's daughter.” Granted, it’s no thesis, but rather an “F you” to viewers who aren’t completely in love with this trendy brand of anarcho-feminism. The sexuality is unrestrained throughout the rest of the video. Quotes flash across the screen such as “Every woman is a riot,” and the patriarchy-bashing “Virginity is a social construct.” It’s worth noting also that the line “Don’t flook with my freedom,” is also the tagline for her recent cake-devouring Planned Parenthood fundraiser. In early June, Cyrus announced a partnership with designer Marc Jacobs to sell pro-abortion sweatshirts printed with that line. The proceeds from the sales were given to Planned Parenthood. Speaking of virginity, mixed in with all the depravity is a woman crowned with gold roses, nursing a child in what’s clearly a depiction of the Virgin Mary. It’s unclear what exactly the producers were going for, though it seems that the point is Mary’s standard of womanhood is no greater than that of the transgenders and sexually-liberated woman in the following shots. It’s grotesque. Further lyrics include, “Hallelujah, I’m a witch, I’m a witch, Hallelujah!” or “Hallelujah, I’m a freak, I’m a freak, Hallelujah!” as Cyrus struts around with a codpiece that represents a vagina with teeth. She also sings, “So back up, back up, back up, back up, boy.” Fair warning for any dude with hetero inclinations. Trans women and drag queens flash on screen with body paint that reads, “My body, my rules,” and “I am free.” Adding to the absurdity, an obese woman is glorified in a pose reminiscent of classical art and wheelchair bound, trans “model” Aaron Philip is shown for extra inclusivity. The music video ends with Miley sitting next to her mother Tish Cyrus, as if to say, “I was raised this way. Take it or leave it.”
