"As far as trading is concerned, it is impressive to see the variety of souvenirs offered, much more than in Lourdes,” said Hoser." I do hear a comparison and implied superiority thanks to the sheer number of gift shops / souvenirs present at Medjugorje in direct contrast to Lourdes, by name. The site of an already approved, dogmatically significant apparition. Just saying. That is pretty ridiculous. You're arguing for validity based on gift shops available to the public? That is what it sounds like to me. Yikes.
Here are Archbishop Hoser's words from the article. He describes Lourdes as a 'great shrine'. He is not knocking Lourdes.
Here is the entire article for people to decide. Medjugorje is a site of global importance and its message is intended for the whole world. This is one the messages from the interview of the Apostolic Visitor to the parish of Medjugorje, Msgr. Henryk Hoser, published in the latest issue of Veritas, a magazine issued by the Franciscan community, reports Vecernji List on October 5, 2018. "Medjugorje has a meaning not just for this part of Europe, but for the whole world. Medjugorje is an international site whose message is directed to the whole world. Its existence and emergence in this part of Europe are very symbolic because this part of the world was almost always been excluded from the peace in the past. Through the centuries, we could say that this land has always been a land of martyrs. This area has a mosaic of peoples, languages and cultures. I believe that the message of peace, which is central here in Medjugorje, is intended for the whole world," said Msgr. Hoser, ranking Medjugorje together with Lourdes and Fatima. "With regard to the international phenomenology, they are very similar. These are certainly the three greatest pilgrimage sites. Here we have two and a half million pilgrims a year. It was wonderful to see the the Youth Festival, where I was present, which was attended by 30,000 young people from 72 countries. Many young people from Croatia also came. In addition, these are the three Marian shrines which call for repentance, conversion and the prayer of the Rosary." "Lourdes is a great shrine based on the dogmatical truth of the Immaculate Conception and it tells us about the identity of the Mother of God. Fatima gives us a contemporary history of the world, the current as well as the future. Between these three pilgrimages sites there is a kind of spiritual solidarity and bondage, said Hoser, comparing Medjugorje to Lourdes and Fatima. He explained that the most important characteristic of Medjugorje is "the power of grace." "Medjugorje is not an imposing structure which delights in its size. It is a simple parish. The power of grace that is felt here, the power of God's words here proclaimed, makes us witnesses to many radical transformations that are happening here. Medjugorje has become the confessional of the world. The confessors confess in almost all languages," said Hoser. Asked about the apparitions, he said that the Church had not yet announced its official position and judgment. "The Church's position is: let's wait and see. In general terms, the message of peace that emerges from the Medjugorje phenomenon is always valid. The Queen of Peace- the title of the Mother of God which is present here- existed in distant history as well," said Hoser, adding that he was very happy living with the friars in Medjugorje. "This is a very quiet area. The people are very open and joyful, smiling all the time. This is how it feels," Hoser said. Asked about the complaints about too many shops and hotels in Medjugorje, he replied that those are located outside the shrine and that the Church had no authority over them. "After all, pilgrims who come here must have somewhere to sleep, eat, wash, etc. As far as trading is concerned, it is impressive to see the variety of souvenirs offered, much more than in Lourdes," said Hoser. Asked about the views of Pope John Paul II, Benedict XVI and Francis about Medjugorje, he said there is continuity. "Pope John Paul II monitored the development of the situation. The relatively short pontificate of Benedict XVI was very positive towards Medjugorje. This was also demonstrated by the establishment of the international commission for Medjugorje. And finally, Pope Francis has made the biggest step by sending his representative here. Pope Francis wants to develop pastoral activities in Medjugorje and thus confirms the value of this place, concluded Hoser. Translated from Vecernji List (reported by Darko Pavicic) ++++++++++++++ Note that this is a translation from the original language which may contain awkward and imperfect words that do not convey perfectly the original intent. The Blessed Mother does not compete with herself over her various titles. If we love her Son, her Spouse and the Father, she will be happy. I think Archbishop Hoser is a good priest and that is why I am taking time to defend him and his entire interview.
Magnitude 5.9 earthquake hits northern Haiti (CNN) — At least 10 people were killed after a magnitude 5.9 earthquake struck near Haiti on Saturday night, according to Haiti's civil protection agency. Another 135 people were injured and are currently receiving treatment in hospitals, the agency wrote on Twitter Sunday.
Will this be another opportunity for Hill/Bill to make more money via their "Foundation"......as before in Haiti??
Break up Amazon before it does any more damage to America When Jeff Bezos announced that Amazon would be raising its minimum wage to $15 an hour last week, the reception was rapturous. The Seattle Times called it “the just thing.” “Good for them,” said President Trump’s chief economic adviser Larry Kudlow. “I’m in favor of higher wages.” Bloomberg called it proof that “an even higher minimum wage is probably safe for big, productive cities.” Senator Bernie Sanders, a chief Bezos antagonist, called it “enormously important.” “Unequivocally good news,” said The Washington Post. The latter is owned by Jeff Bezos, an all-too-easily forgotten point these days. Because for all the questions to follow this announcement — Why now? What is Amazon eliminating to pay for this? How much praise does Bezos, recently crowned the World’s Richest Man, deserve while paying, as of 2017, a median Amazon income of $28,446? — we are not asking the real one. When did we become The United States of Amazon? Author, entrepreneur and NYU business professor Scott Galloway has emerged as one of Amazon’s fiercest critics. At last month’s Recode Code Commerce, Galloway gave a 45-minute talkon the future of retail that savaged Amazon and warned of the threats the company poses not just economically but philosophically and morally. “I believe our society is effectively going through this very uncomfortable transition that is bad for our youth, bad for America and bad for the planet where we no longer worship at the altar of character and kindness,” he said. “We worship at the altar of innovators and billionaires.” Galloway calls this “a perversion” that has occurred without our true realization. And Amazon, he says, is more responsible than any other tech giant. In his best-selling book “The Four: The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google,” Galloway cites some arresting statistics: Far fewer U.S. households have a gun than Amazon Prime, by 30 to 64 percent. More Americans have Prime than voted in 2016 (55 percent), or earn $50,000 or more a year (55 percent), or go to church (51 percent). He calls Amazon’s ability to woo Prime subscribers at a $119 yearly cost the equivalent of “entering into a monogamous relationship” with its consumers, who as of 2016 spent, on average, $193 per month. (Non-Prime members average $138 per month.) From 2006 to 2016 Amazon’s stock price growth surged by 1,910 percent, destroying Sears, J.C. Penney, Kmart, Best Buy, Macy’s, Nordstrom, Target and Walmart. Perhaps most importantly: Since the Great Recession, Amazon has paid just $1.4 billion in corporate taxes compared to Walmart’s $64 billion. “We have institutionalized a regressive corporate tax structure at the hands of our idolatry of innovators and Amazon,” Galloway says. In 2017, Amazon paid nothing in federal tax. The company is now on pace to become the largest clothing retailer in the country by 2021 and has become the most valuable company on the planet without ever posting substantial profit. Think about that. Perhaps no other publicly traded company aside from Tesla has convinced the markets and investors of future profitability with such lopsided margins. And Amazon has made itself such an indispensable part of the supply chain that it sets the price points of just about everything. If you are someone who makes something or sells something, from books to fire pits to flat- screen TVs, Amazon tells you what the market — its market — will bear. Its limitless supply of cash means it can undercut any other retailer in any space it wants to dominate. In a world where so much is now controlled by so few — there are five big book publishers left, five Hollywood studios, five large health insurers, four phone providers and four cable companies — and this summer AT&T bought Time Warner — Amazon’s reach is terrifying. Its ostensible search for the next city to house its second headquarters has become “the Olympics on steroids,” Galloway says, with state and local governments promising tax breaks that would starve funding for schools, police and fire departments. We have a new national holiday, Amazon Prime Day. Alexa and Echo, Amazon’s cloud-based voice-operated systems, sit in an estimated 40 million homes and spy on us, reporting our moods, tastes, wants, needs and fears back to HQ. Yet we don’t fear Alexa. (cont'd below)
(cont'd from above) Bezos has even greater ambitions. His acquisition of Whole Foods, which plunged competitor Kroger’s stock from $31 to $22 per share, is but one step in dominating what and how we eat. Amazon is spending $5 billion on original programming this year and is on pace to outspend Netflix by 2022. Think about that, Galloway says: A retailer in Seattle as content king. And after announcing a vague health care initiative back in January, stock prices for major health care insurers plummeted — such is Amazon’s power that the mere hint of market entry damages long-standing competitors. That’s not all. Bezos’ company Blue Origin, with a mission statement that goes not just to colonizing the planet but outer space — “Earth, in all its beauty, is just our starting place” — plans to launch the first private manned spaceflight by next year. Bezos also says he’s going to establish free preschools in low-income areas based on the Montessori method. Outer space aside: Amazon wants to feed, treat, entertain, educate and medicate America — and that’s just what it’s told us. Nothing Orwellian here, right? Galloway says that Amazon’s new $15 hourly wage needs to be viewed through a much more cynical lens. “Jeff Bezos doesn’t do anything that’s not the smart thing to do,” he says. “When Amazon raises their wages so publicly, other people are forced to do so” — thus starving out the competition. It’s our new Cold War, he says, and Amazon won’t stop at retail. It will outspend every other entity in pursuit of global domination. And if we ever hope to stop it, we need to understand how we got here. Our tectonic shift, Galloway believes, was the death of Steve Jobs in 2011. We were already on the path of technology replacing religion, but Jobs, in dying young, “became our Christ, Apple our religion, and the iPhone the cross,” says Galloway. If you find this theory blasphemous, push through. Think, Galloway says, of Apple’s refusal to unlock the iPhone used by a terrorist in the 2015 San Bernardino mass shooting, despite the FBI’s pleas. “Apple waves a finger and the majority of Americans support it,” Galloway says. “What if a terrorist had a Blackberry? The next day there would have been legislation. But the iPhone is sacred. It embodies the perversion of our culture.” In little more than a decade, we have put full faith in these companies, all operating in shadow. Take Facebook’s insistence that there was no way to prevent Russian troll farms from hacking in 2016. One huge lie, says Galloway. “Big Tech uses the word ‘impossible,’ ” he says, “and all of media has bought it. We’re not talking about the realm of the possible. We’re talking about the realm of the profitable. If The New York Post said Russian trolls manipulated content and advertising in key areas or swing states unknowingly, I think the paper would have been shut down the next day. But not Facebook.” We have become equally complacent while technology mauls our economy, he says. “We seem to be comfortable, at least in tech, with the 8,000 people who work at headquarters splitting $80 billion in revenue,” while lower-wage workers struggle to get by. Business Insider reported that as of this year, Amazon was among the top companies whose employees relied on food stamps. And that $15 minimum wage? In exchange, the company quietly cut monthly bonuses and stock options. Meanwhile, Amazon is shedding the need for human workers at a rapid clip. In 2012, the company paid $775 million for robotics firm Kiva Systems and as of June had over 100,000 robots fulfilling online orders. A higher minimum wage for human workers doesn’t make Amazon suddenly moral. It just makes it smart. So what do we do? Galloway says the future is in voice recognition — a future that once belonged to Apple and Siri. Today it’s Amazon. Tomorrow it might be Google. This should alarm us, he says, because Big Tech, “running out of excuses to abuse the commonwealth, will start saying, ‘But wait — if you do anything to us, the Chinese are going to take over with AI,’ ” Galloway says. Not so. China doesn’t innovate and hasn’t figured out how to launch a global product. If anything, he says, China has become America’s 3-D printer. This complicated problem, he says, has a simple answer: Break up Big Tech. “The key to competitive markets is that no one entity has too much control of the marketplace,” he says, adding that no other company has violated anti-trust over the past 100 years as Amazon and its ilk. Bezos’ recent support for a universal basic income is alarming, Galloway writes, because it means he sees a near future in which Big Tech permanently puts people out of work. “Ma Bell couldn’t have been easy to break up, and we unleashed 30 years of incredible innovation,” Galloway says. “Teddy Roosevelt broke up the railroads. If the Department of Justice hadn’t moved in on Microsoft [in 1998], do you think we would have Google? We don’t break companies up because they’re evil or take jobs or don’t pay taxes. We do it because it’s time.” https://nypost.com/2018/10/09/break-up-amazon-before-it-does-any-more-damage-to-america/
Rudy Giuliani calls George Soros the ‘anti-Christ’ On Saturday, Rudy Giuliani — former New York City mayor and current lawyer for President Trump — retweeted a tweet calling George Soros the “anti-Christ.” The tweet also suggested that Soros’ assets should be frozen. Then on Sunday, the Wall Street Journal published an op-ed by Asra Q. Nomani titled “George Soros’s March on Washington.” She argues that “while most demonstrators are not paid for their efforts, the [anti-Kavanaugh] protests at the Capitol Saturday, and the ones that have included stalking lawmakers inside and outside their offices, are organized by groups of which Mr. Soros is an important patron.” This all of course follows President Trump’s inflammatory tweet from Friday, in which he insinuated that Soros helped pay for the fierce protests in Washington against Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation to the Supreme Court on Saturday. He also called the protesters “#Troublemakers.” President Trump tweet: The very rude elevator screamers are paid professionals only looking to make Senators look bad. Don’t fall for it! Also, look at all of the professionally made identical signs. Paid for by Soros and others. These are not signs made in the basement from love! #Troublemakers 9:03 AM - Oct 5, 2018 This latest round of anti-Soros rhetoric can be traced to an interview Sen. Chuck Grassley gave to Fox News’ Maria Bartiromo earlier on Friday morning. “Do you believe George Soros is behind all of this, paying these people to get you and your colleagues in elevators or wherever they can get in your face?” Bartiromo asked. “I have heard so many people believe that,” Grassley responded. “I tend to believe it. I believe it fits in his attack mode and how he uses his billions and billions of resources. I think it promotes incivility in American society.” Soros, an 88-year-old Jewish billionaire, Holocaust survivor and one of the biggest liberal donors in the country, has been the right’s favorite bogeyman in recent years in his native Hungary. There Prime Minister Viktor Orban has pegged Soros and his organization Open Society Foundations as symbols of intruding globalist forces. Orban’s unabashed anti-Soros message and anti-democratic goals have been widely criticized by the E.U., Human Rights Watch and others. Trump has singled out Soros before too. During his presidential campaign in 2016, he ran an ad that criticized “those who control the levers of power in Washington” and “global special interests.” Over those words were images of Soros and the then-Federal Reserve chief Janet Yellen, who also is Jewish. Some found Giuliani’s retweet problematic. In her article, Nomani links to a spreadsheet she compiled of liberal groups’ funding sources. Of these “resistance” groups, she writes at least 50 have received grants from Soros organizations. Nomani is a co-director of the Pearl Project, an investigative project that looks into the murder of her former Wall Street Journal colleague Daniel Pearl — the Jewish reporter kidnapped and beheaded during a reporting stint in Kariachi, Pakistan. The post Rudy Giuliani calls George Soros the ‘anti-Christ’ appeared first on Jewish Telegraphic Agency. https://www.clevelandjewishnews.com...cle_8ab6e470-9df3-5129-843f-22b883affc30.html
Kirill is apparently considering breaking communion with Constantinople over this. https://www.rt.com/news/441014-ukraine-church-independant-russia/
Territorial power grabs......by the institutional churches! Simply going back to the way it was around 300 years ago. That's life in the defective, finite world! No one seems to be immune.
Epstein: ‘Google Is the Most Powerful Mind-Control Engine Ever Created’ Psychologist Dr. Robert Epstein argued that Google is the “most powerful mind-control engine ever created” in an interview with Breitbart News Tonight on SiriusXM. Dr. Robert Epstein appeared on Breitbart News Tonight this week to discuss his appearance in the new documentary, The Creepy Line, which focuses on overreach and censorship by social media giants like Facebook and Google. “In a piece I published in US News and World Report, I identified Google as the biggest censor that has ever existed in human history. And I identified nine types of censorship in which this company engages,” Epstein said, referring to an internal Google document published by Breitbart News. “Here, they are confirming that they are aware that they are doing this.” “What my research has shown beyond any doubt is that the search engine is the most powerful mind-control machine that’s ever been invented in the history of humankind,” he said. “We are able to shift thinking and opinions and voting preferences and shift thinking about almost anything. We are producing enormous changes in people without them being aware that they are being manipulated.” “Take that another step further and now you have the Google home device which they are trying to get people to put in every room in their house,” Epstein continued. “The Google home device, like Amazon’s Alexa, gives you the answer to a question. That produces enormous shifts as well in people’s thinking and behavior.” Epstein went on to comment on Google’s new relationship with China, which was created so that Google could begin to build censored search engine products for the company. “So Google working with China is actually a perfect match,” he added. “I don’t know if you are aware of this, but some people are predicting now that China will break away and form its own Internet.” Epstein appeared alongside other experts like Peter Schweizer in The Creepy Line, which was named after a famous quote by former Google CEO Eric Schmidt. “There is what I call ‘the creepy line.’ The Google policy about a lot of things is to go right up to ‘the creepy line’ and not cross it.” https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2018...st-powerful-mind-control-engine-ever-created/
Is that what's going on now? The chasm between the first and second heavens and those becoming more spiritualized is deepening and much more noticeable.
Could be the run up to it. Many countries are seeing a draw back of their markets in part due to their own debt and inflation but also US/China/EU issues affecting them as well. I suspect and have for a long time now that it all is part of a far bigger effort that the tower of Babel sorts have had all along. To unite the world in a single world fiat currency first they must cripple the sovereign nations fiat and apply an enormous amount of pain to the people so that we ourselves cry out for it. Just like with war. Make it as atrocious as you possibly can so that the people will agree to anything in the cause to stop it from happening again whether just or not.
We have truly entered BAZZARO land. When a communist country can argue against God because it holds the keys of genetic manipulation it doesn't take a rocket scientist to see where this is leading. https://science.slashdot.org/story/...sts-create-healthy-mice-with-same-sex-parents Researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences were able to make baby mice with two moms and no dad. "The aim of the Chinese researchers was to work out which rules of reproduction they needed to break to make baby mice from same-sex parents," reports the BBC. "That in turn helps understand why the rules are so important." From the report: It was easier with double mums. The researchers took an egg from one mouse and a special type of cell -- a haploid embryonic stem cell -- from another. Both contained only half the required genetic instructions or DNA, but just bringing them together wasn't enough. The researchers had to use a technology called gene editing to delete three sets of genetic instructions to make them compatible (more on that later). The double-dad approach was slightly more complicated. It took a sperm, a male haploid embryonic stem cell, an egg that had all of its own genetic information removed and the deletion of seven genes to make it all work. The reason we need to have sex is because our DNA -- our genetic code -- behaves differently depending on whether it comes from mum or dad, the study in Cell Stem Cell suggests. And without a female copy and a male copy our whole development gets thrown out of whack. It's called genomic imprinting with parts of the DNA in sperm and parts of the DNA in eggs getting different "stamps" that alter how they work. The bits of DNA carrying these stamps were the ones the researchers had to delete in order to make the baby mice viable.
And another rather ultimate way of taking away the dignity implanted in the creation of man.....only creation made in the Image and Likeness of God. The Luciferian plan from the beginning.....the very reason for not serving when tested, and the fall of that 1/3. There is also the realization among the fallen angels that they are being "matched" by those Christians who also give themselves as followers of Christ's original example where those angels first realized and felt the loss of their power at the crucifixion. With every Christian's offering of self that power is diminished and felt lessened by the fallen ones until that power is completely matched and toppled. This is why things are becoming more blatant, chaotic, and horrific as those human minions of Satan are pushed more and more to disrupt the Divine Will. Using creatures far below man for "creation" which are to be controlled by man according to the natural law has the end of causing man himself to be humiliated within his very being.....and split him further from his connection to God....and creating a willingness to worship only that "prince of this world" who was given real power, although finite. Just a portion of the latest translated messages to Luz de Maria: just where we find ourselves currently: from Jesus, Sept. 28th: ........My Mercy is inexhaustible, therefore I call you to conversion and to make amends, before evil catches you and does not allow you to extract yourselves from its clutches. MY PEOPLE, THIS IS THE INSTANT THAT MY MOTHER ANTICIPATED FOR YOU IN HER REVELATIONS; CONFUSION WILL COME AND MY CHILDREN WILL NOT DIFFERENTIATE WHERE THERE IS EVIL FROM WHERE THERE IS GOOD. THIS IS THE INSTANT IN WHICH THE WHEAT AND THE TARES ARE PLACED ON THE SCALES AND YOU WATCH WITHOUT RECOGNIZING IT... You have not recognized the errors of evil committed, but you go on from evil to evil, in the absence of a conscience that has been crushed by human arrogance and the whims of living in debauchery and accepting the devil as your god. The Earth is threatened by celestial bodies that pass nearby, and you are not aware of it. That the Earth's axis will change is not far off, given the unusual and increased temperatures in the core of the earth. Great changes will happen throughout the Earth, Nature will strike great nations and small nations over and over again. Man attached to money will fall without that god that he has created and of which he is proud. YOU ARE THE ONES WHO WILL WITNESS THE GREAT CHANGES TO THE EARTH, THE GREAT CATACLYSMS, AND IN THE END YOU WILL SAY: EVERYTHING WARNED ABOUT HAS BEEN FULFILLED. My People, be aware of the offenses that you are causing Our Trinity and My Mother; a single one of you who is aware of it and is not a participant in the horrors with which you offend the Power of Our Trinity, is a balm that ascends to Our Throne.
Don, found loads of that image after generally googling your info. So no need for any specific link. Thanks.
