I'm sure that most governments have some kind of continuity plan for a national emergency although not many would have special bunkers in a permanent state of readiness. I've read that some mega-rich people have special places of refuge where they can sit out any major upheaval although I'm sure they would be horrified to be classified as preppers. Maybe they got the idea from that CoG plan. I'm going to get that Jonah Goldberg book. It's a topic that interests me especially with the rise of demonstrations which are often depicted as spontaneous angry public reactions to some trigger event or government decision. As often as not, the demonstrators are cast as right-wing or left-wing, depending on the reporter's own bias. I wonder sometimes whether the two wings are being controlled by the same bird and whether the "wings" even know the identity of the bird controlling them.
I’m sorry, but that infuriates me....CNN and the other fake news outlets keep getting away with this. “ more than a thousand” should boycott their sponsors! They do this every year....and I’ll never get used to it.
In my own state no less. It is no surprise, I live in a state only second to CA in pagan insanity. https://www.crisismagazine.com/2019/human-composting-the-ultimate-denial-of-the-soul January 21, 2019 Human Composting: The Ultimate Denial of the Soul From time immemorial, people have buried the dead. Sometimes they even risked their lives to carry out this most basic duty. In times of persecution, for example, Christians put themselves in great danger to recover the bodies of martyrs so that they might receive the holy rites of Christian burial. The Old Testament recounts the story of the elder Tobias, who, while exiled to Nineveh, observed the Hebrew Law by burying the dead against the wishes of King Sennacherib. Even ancient peoples like the Greeks felt compelled to pay a final reverence to the deceased. Thus, Sophocles in the play “Antigone” relates the story of a sister who defies the orders of the Greek tyrant Creon not to bury her brother, whom he had defeated in battle. She proclaims the right to bury her brother came from “unwritten and unchanging laws. They are not just for today or yesterday but exist forever, and no one knows where they first appeared.” The body is sacred and must be treated with all due dignity and respect. It has always been this way. No one needed to explain why the dead must be buried—until our time. Recomposition: An Eco-Religious Act Indeed, when human life is deemed disposable through abortion and euthanasia, the human corpse fares no better. However, it is hard not to be shocked by a bill now before the Washington State Legislature with a good chance of passage. Lawmakers are working toward allowing a new process called “recomposition,” by which human beings would be turned into compost. Human composting is not just a practical alternative to burial. It is an eco-religious act. Its advocates openly promote it as an expression of social justice and ecological fervor. It fits into a pantheistic worldview where everything is reduced to matter in constant transformation. The process of human composting consists of putting shrouded unembalmed human remains in a revolving cylinder with wood chips, alfalfa, and other organic matter to hasten decomposition. After a month, the body is reduced to a cubic yard of nutrient-dense soil that can be used for planting trees to benefit the Earth. An Anti-Metaphysical Manifesto Some practical-minded people will find little wrong with this process. They will claim that the useless corpse is put to good use by enriching the soil and preventing the release of Earth-warming carbon dioxide. What difference does it make if the person’s final resting place is at the base of a tree rather than laying in a grave? Indeed, it would make no difference at all if there were no soul. The great accomplishment of the ecologists who created “recomposition” is not engineering the mechanical contraption that turns humans into compost. It is overturning those “unwritten and unchanging laws” embedded in human nature by which people have sensed the need for reverencing the dead from time immemorial. The seemingly harmless process of “recomposition” is like the proclamation of an anti-metaphysical manifesto that implicitly denies the existence of the soul, the resurrection of the body, and the need for redemption. It leads to still more radical insinuations that life is meaningless and history pointless. Great Care in Dealing with the Dead The Church has always shown the utmost care in dealing with the dead. To bury the dead is a corporal act of mercy. The Church buries the body with great ceremony and liturgy. It maintains cemeteries and consecrates the ground that will cover the bodies of the faithful. While allowing cremation, the Church insists that even these remains be treated with great reverence and are not to be scattered about where all might tread upon them. The reasons for this great care are many. Temple of the Holy Spirit The Church takes great care in her treatment of the bodies of the baptized because she recognizes that the body is not just a shell or husk that can be cast aside once the soul has departed. For Christians, burial is not the disposal of a thing. It is one aspect of caring for a person whose soul continues to exist and is in the hands of God. The Church teaches that the body is sacred because it is the temple of the Holy Spirit, and thus the instrument by which the Christian soul expressed itself in life. Indeed, the body was washed in the waters of baptism, anointed with the oils of salvation, and nourished by the Holy Eucharist. The body was the means by which acts of charity and virtue were practiced. It is not proper that this same body be treated with indifference and neglect. The Resurrection of the Body The burial of the dead is linked to the belief in the resurrection of the body at the end of time. Catholics believe that all men will be resurrected for the Final Judgment. Thus, the reverence and care rendered to the body come from the honor and respect for the deceased person. One is not free to dispose of the body as if it were trash or fertilizer. The body that is buried belongs to the person who will one day be resurrected and will once again enjoy possession of it. The belief in the resurrection of the body is essential to the Faith. To deny this truth is to reject Christ’s Resurrection and the need for the redemption. The Faith is meaningless without these dogmas that address Christ’s victory over death and the promise of life everlasting. Death Does Not Terminate Relationships Another reason why the Church buries the dead is the recognition that death does not terminate our relationships with the deceased. They are merely transformed. The dead are still part of the Christian community. Proper burial provides the framework whereby loved ones can fulfill their responsibilities to the dead. To pray for the dead is a spiritual act of mercy that is encouraged by burial and visits to their graves. Masses offered for the repose of souls are yet another way to show charity toward the deceased. On their part, the poor souls in Purgatory can also intercede on behalf of the living. Thus, the deceased benefit from the participation of the community and parish that extend these relationships beyond death. At the same time, the community comes to recognize the impact and possible intercession of the individual upon all. The deceased person is integrated into the history of the community, recorded as it is by the Church. Radical Ecologists and the End of Man How different this is from the “recomposition” option now being debated. Implicit in this initiative is the modern secular notion of man as a being with no soul or purpose in life. The body is a mere phase in the constant transformation of matter. An individual has no real significance, history, or eternal destiny. Thus, Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) could claim that man’s “origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and his beliefs, is the outcome of accidental collocations of atoms; that no fire, no heroism, no intensity of thought and feeling, can preserve an individual life beyond the grave.” Today’s ecologists draw ever more radical conclusions from this secular view. They not only believe humans to be insignificant but also harmful to the Earth. Some denounce humanity as a virus that would best be wiped from the face of the Earth. They deplore civilization and yearn to live (or die) in harmony with nature. Indeed, should an eco-dictatorship ever be established over the Earth (beyond the extensive socialist regulations now in place), the “recomposition” option might not be optional but mandatory. Pondering Human Extinction These morbid ideas about humanity are mainstream in many sectors of society. Professor Todd May of Clemson University recently penned an op-ed in The New York Times in which he asked if the extinction of the human race would be a tragedy. “It may well be, then, that the extinction of humanity would make the world better off and yet would be a tragedy,” he mused. “I don’t want to say this for sure, since the issue is quite complex. But it certainly seems a live possibility, and that by itself disturbs me.” Such dark, despairing ponderings are the backdrop of a spirit of unhappiness and depression that haunts and mocks postmodern society. Only the Church has the proper response, based as it is on the “unwritten and unchanging laws” that give meaning and purpose to life. Of course, the fact that many do not believe in the soul or an eternal destiny does not change reality. The soul does exist. God did create and redeem humanity. There will be a general resurrection and the Last Judgment to determine our eternal destiny be it found in Heaven or Hell. Man is not an accidental collision of composted atoms but made to be an adopted son of God and co-heir to his Kingdom.
We are at the edge of the abyss. You want to know what the enemy thinks of souls created in the Image of God? Look no further. Human compost. Yet Alinsky dedicated his book to this creature, Christian Bale praised him for his award. Chelsea Clinton affectionately greets his followers. Is it any wonder they murder babies and sell their little body parts. I am simply at the end of any regard for Hollywood or Hellywood as it is more appropriately called. Dems and media and all and sundry. May God in His compassion grant them the grace of repentence.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-new...first-state-legalize-human-composting-n952421 Washington could become the first state to legalize human composting Washington residents "are very excited about the prospect of becoming a tree or having a different alternative,” state Sen. Jamie Pedersen said. A process known as "recomposition" reduces human remains to compost. CAHNRS Communications / Washington State University Dec. 29, 2018, 10:06 AM PST / Updated Dec. 30, 2018, 6:45 PM PST By Tafline Laylin When Americans die, most are buried or cremated. Washington could soon become the first state to allow another option: human composting. The novel approach, known as “recomposition,” involves placing bodies in a vessel and hastening their decomposition into a nutrient-dense soil that can then be returned to families. The aim is a less expensive way of dealing with human remains that is better for the environment than burial, which can leach chemicals into the ground, or cremation, which releases earth-warming carbon dioxide. “People from all over the state who wrote to me are very excited about the prospect of becoming a tree or having a different alternative for themselves,” said state Sen. Jamie Pedersen, a Democrat, who is sponsoring a bill in Washington’s Legislature to expand the options for disposing of human remains. The recomposition bill would also make Washington the 17th state to allow alkaline hydrolysis, the dissolving of bodies in a pressurized vessel with water and lye until just liquid and bone remains. Pedersen plans to introduce the bill when the new legislative session begins next month. Related Mach In the Future, Death Will Be a Lot Greener — and a Bit Creepy Pedersen sees recomposition as an environmental and a social justice issue. He said allowing it would particularly benefit people who can’t afford a funeral or aren’t comfortable with cremation. Recompose aims to charge $5,500 for its services, while a traditional burial generally cost more than $7,000 in 2017, according to the National Funeral Directors Association. (Cremation can cost less than $1,000, though that doesn’t include a service or an urn.) The push to allow composting of human remains originates with Katrina Spade, 41, a Seattle-based designer who started focusing on the idea in 2013 while working on her master’s in architecture at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. “We really only have two easily accessible options in the U.S. — cremation and burial,” she said. “And the question is: Why do we only have two options, and what would it look like if we had a dozen?” Spade’s initial goal was to design a system that would restore people’s connection to death and its aftermath, which she said had been severed in part by the funeral industry. A friend introduced her to the farming practice of composting livestock after they die. Called mortality composting, the practice has been shown to safely keep pathogens from contaminating the land, while creating a richer soil. “It was like a lightbulb went off and I started to envision a system that uses the same principles as mortality composting … that would be meaningful and appropriate for human beings,” she said. She worked with researchers at Western Carolina University and the Washington State University to turn her vision, which she dubbed “recomposition,” into reality. The process involves placing unembalmed human remains wrapped in a shroud in a 5-foot-by-10-foot cylindrical vessel with a bed of organic material such as wood chips, alfalfa and straw. Air is then periodically pulled into the vessel, providing oxygen to accelerate microbial activity. Within approximately one month, the remains are reduced to a cubic yard of compost that can be used to grow new plants. The vessel where the composting takes place.CAHNRS Communications / Washington State Univ. Continued...
The safety of the process depends on maintaining a temperature of 131 degrees Fahrenheit for 72 consecutive hours to destroy pathogens, according to Spade. This heat is generated by the naturally occurring microbes. Recompose, a public-benefit corporation Spade founded in 2017 to expand research and development of her concept, recently co-sponsored a $75,000 pilot program through Washington State University. Led by researcher Lynne Carpenter-Boggs, associate professor of sustainable and organic agriculture at Washington State, the five-month program recomposed six donor bodies in a carefully controlled environment, aiming to allay concerns about spreading pathogens. The research concluded in August, and the recomposition of human remains was found to be safe, according to Carpenter-Boggs, who plans to submit her results for publication in 2019. (Recomposition isn’t for everyone — some pathogens, like the bacteria that causes anthrax, are known to survive composting in animals, so recomposition’s safety will depend on excluding people with certain illnesses.) Recompose founder Katrina Spade, left, with researcher Lynne Carpenter-Boggs.CAHNRS Communications / Washington State Univ. “The advantage that I see as a soil scientist and an environmental scientist is that it is relatively low in resource use and it also creates this soil-like or compost-like product that helps to store carbon,” Carpenter-Boggs said. Human compost adds nutrients to soil, potentially improving its ability to absorb water and reduce erosion, she added. Recommended 2019 Oscar nominations: 'Roma' and 'The Favourite' lead the pack 2019 Oscar nominations: See the full list of nominees An earlier version of Pedersen’s bill, which included alkaline hydrolysis but not recomposition, failed in Washington in 2017, which Pedersen attributed to opposition from the Roman Catholic Church. Thomas Parker, a former lobbyist for the Washington State Catholic Conference, said the church was concerned about dissolved human remains draining into sewers. But State Sen. Michael Baumgartner, a Republican who chaired the Senate’s Labor and Commerce Committee in 2017, when the bill was introduced, said the church’s opposition did not play a significant role in the legislation’s failure. “We prioritized other issues that year,” Baumgartner said. Alkaline hydrolysis may go against Catholic doctrine that requires the human body to be respected, said James LeGrys, theological adviser to the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. LeGrys was unfamiliar with recomposition, but noted that it could be problematic if body parts are separated in any way. There is little risk of this happening through recomposition unless families request it, according to Spade, who said she has not received opposition from any groups, religious or otherwise. She anticipates that some families may choose to take their loved one’s remains home to plant, while others may donate remains to nourish conservation lands. Pedersen has signed up several co-sponsors of the bill in the state Senate, which is now under Democratic control, and he’s optimistic about its chances. Gov. Jay Inslee, a Democrat, has not taken a public position on the bill and did not respond to a request for comment. If the bill passes, it would take effect May 1, 2020. This would allow Recompose to officially launch operations in Seattle. Spade hopes to partner with funeral homes and cemeteries to bring recomposition to other parts of the state and country. In the meantime, her company is developing a modular vessel design and refining its business model. For Spade, the pilot program at Washington State University affirmed the inherent beauty of naturally returning humans to the soil. “This is something that is really good for humanity,” she said. CORRECTION (Dec. 30, 2018 9:45 p.m. ET): An earlier version of this article misstated a university Katrina Spade worked with. It is Washington State University, not the University of Washington.
It is like living in the movie Logans Run. No, it is worse. These poor people can not see that they are under the dominion of demons and what they are doing is utterly blasphemous. They demand that others adhere to their definition of reality and soon, they will kill those who refuse them openly. I saw the picture of the woman who created this and is pushing it in our legislature and I just feel pity for her. She has no clue and she is being encouraged and raised up by her peers, the media and politicians for her efforts.
You are right. She has no clue. What a dizzying speed down the slippery slope. Even ten years ago no one could have imagined.
There are SOME cases I can see doing something like this. In one state (Kentucky?) the medical school has set up a couple of acres for the use of their forensic pathology program. Human bodies are placed outside in different areas and conditions: shallow burial, covered by brush, etc. The students can then see the state of decomposition, etc, which lets them learn how to interpret conditions when a body is found in the woods, for example. However, I haven't heard of anyone COMPOSTING the bodies when the school is finished with them. I imagine the bones are either collected into an ossuary or cremated.
China, Russia Building Super-EMP Bombs for ‘Blackout Warfare’ Report reveals electromagnetic war scenarios Several nations, including China and Russia, are building powerful nuclear bombs designed to produce super-electromagnetic pulse (EMP) waves capable of devastating all electronics—from computers to electric grids—for hundreds of miles, according to a newly-released congressional study. A report by the now-defunct Commission to Assess the Threat to the United States from EMP Attack, for the first time reveals details on how nuclear EMP weapons are integrated into the military doctrines of China, Russia, North Korea, and Iran. The report discloses how those states could use EMP attacks in theaters of battle in the Middle East, Far East, Europe, and North America. "Nuclear EMP attack is part of the military doctrines, plans, and exercises of Russia, China, North Korea, and Iran for a revolutionary new way of warfare against military forces and civilian critical infrastructures by cyber, sabotage, and EMP," the report states. "This new way of warfare is called many things by many nations: In Russia, China, and Iran it is called Sixth Generation Warfare, Non-Contact Warfare, Electronic Warfare, Total Information Warfare, and Cyber Warfare." Nuclear-electronic warfare also is called "Blackout War" because of its effects on all electronic devices. EMP attacks will be carried out at such high altitudes they will produce no blast or other immediate effects harmful to humans. Instead, three types of EMP waves in seconds damage electronics and the strikes are regarded by adversaries as not an act of nuclear war. "Potential adversaries understand that millions could die from the long-term collateral effects of EMP and cyber-attacks that cause protracted black-out of national electric grids and other life-sustaining critical infrastructures," the report said. The attacks are regarded by enemy military planners as a relatively easy, potentially unattributable means of inflicting mass destruction and forcing opponents to capitulate. EMP strikes can be adjusted in the size of the area and the intensity of the wave by detonating at different altitudes. The closer to the earth the more powerful is the pulse. The higher the altitude, the wider the area of impact. "A single nuclear weapon can potentially make an EMP attack against a target the size of North America," the report said. "Any nuclear weapon detonated at an altitude of 30 kilometers [18.6 miles] or higher will generate a potentially catastrophic EMP." Super-EMP bombs produce gamma rays that generate a peak EMP field of 200,000 volts per meter—enough to fry strategic communications and intelligence systems. China, Russia, and probably North Korea are said to have these arms, according to the commission. The United States has no super-EMP weapons in its nuclear arsenal. The bombs do not require accuracy and the weapons do not require a re-entry vehicle, heat shield, and shock absorbers required for nuclear warheads detonated in the atmosphere above targets. The weapons can be delivered through a variety of means including satellites, long- or medium-range missile; short-range missiles launched from a freighter; from some cruise missiles and anti-ship missiles; from jets or a commercial jetliner; or a meteorological balloon. The declassified report was cleared for release by the Pentagon after a security review and provides graphics showing for the first time in an official government publication how nuclear detonations triggered 18.6 miles to 248 miles above the earth will produce targeted electronic waves stretching up to 1,500 miles. Portions of the report are redacted in order to prevent adversaries from learning U.S. electronic vulnerabilities. The report shows how Iran—a state U.S. intelligence agencies have assessed is one year away from building a nuclear weapon—could use a single nuclear weapon fired on a medium-range missile to black out Israel, Egypt and Israel together, or Saudi Arabia without creating blast damage. China also could use EMP weapons to plunge the island of Taiwan into electronic darkness and disable aircraft carrier strike groups sailing to defend Taiwan from a mainland attack. North Korea could set off a nuclear bomb in space over Japan. Both Japan and Taiwan are heavily reliant on electronics that are vulnerable to EMP. Russia could fire off one of its super-EMP bombs over Europe to throw NATO and the continent into darkness and create chaos as well, according to the report. The Islamic State might acquire a nuclear weapon from North Korea or Iran along with a short-range missile that could loft it into space and detonate over Italy. For the United States, an EMP war scenario is shown as the result of conflicts involving Russian strikes on Canada and U.S. retaliation using conventional precision strikes. In a major conflict with either China or Russia, the first shot in the war could be a space burst of a super EMP weapon designed to knock out U.S. nuclear command and control and weapons. "A super-EMP warhead, in the possession of Russia or North Korea, could put at risk the best protected U.S. assets, even threatening the survival of the U.S. nuclear deterrent," the report said. (cont'd below)
(cont'd from above) Moscow has adopted a new nuclear strategy called escalate to de-escalate a conflict with nuclear arms that the report suggests is tailored to space-based EMP attacks. Russian nuclear missile submarines could use super-EMP warhead to paralyze U.S. strategic and conventional forces and blackout the national grid. The report states that 14 EMP bursts up to 60 miles would create powerful electronic waves for key facilities, including national missile defenses at Alaska and California; the command center at the Pentagon outside Washington; and the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) in Colorado. Other EMP strikes would shut down missile and bomber wings in Minot, North Dakota, F.E. Warren Air Force Base, Wyoming and Malmstrom Air Force Base, Montana. Bomber wings in Missouri, Louisiana, South Dakota, and Texas also could be blacked out along with nuclear missile submarine bases in Washington and Georgia. A U.S.-China conflict over Taiwan could lead to Beijing conducting a black-out EMP strike on the lower 48 states that it hopes would disrupt military command and control and communications and knock the United States out of the regional Asian conflict. Iran, too, could launch a long-range missile nuclear attack in space over the United States as a way for the Islamic regime in Tehran to destroy what its leaders regard as the "Great Satan." If North Korea or Iran covertly supplies the al Qaeda terrorist group with a nuclear weapon, the terrorist group that attacked the World Trade Center and the Pentagon could obtain a short-range mobile missile and fire the nuclear warhead into space above the country as part of its war against the United States. North Korea, which several years ago covertly transferred SA-10 surface-to-air missiles on a ship after repairs in Cuba, could use a short-range missile with a nuclear warhead to black out the Texas electric grid in a bid to force the United States to halt military exercises in South Korea. "The United States is particularly vulnerable to this new type of warfare, because we have come to rely on information systems and computerized technologies," said Peter Pry, a former CIA officer, commission member, and author of the new report. "Much of the administrative information in the armed forces goes through the civilian internet," he said. "Ours is the most technologically advanced society, and therefore the most susceptible to attack. What is surprising is that our enemies do not consider an EMP attack to be an act of nuclear war." The report makes clear that the potential use of EMP attacks is a real danger and one openly discussed in military doctrine writings. Russian Gen. Vladimir Slipchenko first disclosed Moscow's intentions for using EMP in his book "Non-Contact Wars" in 2000. "A single low-yield nuclear weapon exploded for this purpose high above the area of combat operations can generate an electromagnetic pulse covering a large area and destroying electronic equipment without loss of life that is caused by the blast or radiation," he stated. China's military doctrine is similar and was outlined in a book on "Total Information Warfare." "As soon as its computer networks come under attack and are destroyed, the country will slip into a state of paralysis and the lives of its people will ground to a halt," the author Shen Weiguang wrote. Shen urged China to build "nuclear electromagnetic pulse" along with cyber weapons that will "enable it to stand up to the military powers in the information age and neutralize and check the deterrence of Western powers, including the United States." Iran's doctrine is contained in a military textbook "Passive Defense" that calls for EMP attacks. "As a result of not having the other destructive effects that nuclear weapons possess, among them the loss of human life, weapons derived from electromagnetic pulses have attracted attention with regard to their use in future wars," the book states. North Korea has threatened to use nuclear EMP attacks following its most recently underground nuclear test. State-run North Korean media said the thermonuclear test blast involved tests for EMP strikes. The latest EMP commission report, "Nuclear EMP Attack Scenarios and Combined-Arms Cyber Warfare," is the 13th and final report of the commission. It is dated July 2017. However, as a result of a lengthy security review the report was made public last week. https://freebeacon.com/national-security/china-russia-building-super-emp-bombs-for-blackout-warfare/
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The public school system in WA is turning into the social justice training institute for the criminally insane. Last week at my daughters HS there was a fight after school that two large groups of kids had assembled for. It took place off of school grounds to begin with but eventually ended up on school grounds where one kid apparently stabbed another in the eye. Blinding the kid before others were able to keep the aggressor from killing him. The whole thing was of course made into video by 30 kids with 30 phones and spread all over social media. So the Principle of the school obtained the names of many of the kids present and suspended those who actively took part in the fight. The kid who was stabbed may not regain his sight but otherwise is OK and has been released from the hospital. So fast forward to today. At 10AM the kids at the school decided to organize a walk out of the students from class which was in session of course and disrupt the entire school so they could assemble in the commons area and protest the kids being suspended and chant for the principle to be fired. You just can't make this stuff up.
Humanistic education, after morphing from secular principles founded two hundred years ago , at its best. How dreadful and unmanageable.
The increased number of people in our lives or who have closely touched our lives, we learn realize they are gay and view that realization as being more honest with themselves strikes me as another sign we're getting much closer. In the last month I have learned of 2 more men. One "married" his partner. Both are heartbreaking to me. All I can say about that is at least he is monogamous. It's pretty scary, those we suspect (whether we dare actually think it or not) so often turn out to be gay. I still get stuck on the question, how can this be a "choice" for anyone, especially those devoted to the Church or who otherwise love the Church? I can't believe it's a choice. If we're still within the final year or two of Satan's 100 years, stands to reason why things feel like they are ramping up more intensely. Oh yea, and talk about brutally cold weather in the U.S.!!
Check out the 35:20 point on this Dutch earthquake video: 1/24/2019 - East Coast USA - S. Carolina Nuclear Power Plant Earthquake
