Getting closer and closer to complete control by the few, godless. BANG FOR YOUR ZUCK? Facebook unveils ‘its most invasive and dangerous form of surveillance yet’ with launch of Libra cryptocurrency FACEBOOK is launching cryptocurrency next year that will allow people to move money from their smartphone into a digital "wallet". The currency is known as Libra, which the social network says it has "no special role" in governing and will manage equally with a group of big companies. Experts have branded the move a dangerous power grab that marks Facebook's "most invasive" form of surveillance yet. So far, Facebook has enlisted 28 firms, including Spotify and Uber, who each had to invest a minimum of £8million to be a founding member of the Libra Association, an independent not-for-profit membership organisation. It wants to attract 100 businesses in time for launch, which it is aiming for the first half of 2020. Libra is supported by a reserve of the world's best assets and the world's most trusted central banks, who gave the cryptocurrency "general cautious support", according to David Marcus, who started exploring blockchain at Facebook a year ago. "Libra holds the potential to provide billions of people around the world with access to a more inclusive, more open financial ecosystem," he explained. The social network is hoping that its collaborative approach can ease volatility concerns of existing blockchains and cryptocurrencies. Facebook will operate its own digital wallet for people to spend Libra, known as the Calibra Wallet, which will be available in WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger and as a standalone app. Users will be able to send money to each other initially, at low to no cost, the social network said. Eventually, it intends to open the Calibra Wallet up to additional services, so that people can pay bills, buy goods by scanning a code or accessing public transport. Account information from Calibra will not be shared with Facebook to improve things like ad targeting, except for "limited cases" where this data may be shared "to keep people safe, comply with the law, and provide basic functionality to the people who use Calibra", the social network added. Libra is open source, meaning anyone will be able to launch their own digital wallet and include the currency. "As a Founding Member of the Libra Network, Vodafone will extend its commitment to digital and financial inclusion by supporting the creation of a new global currency and encouraging a wide range of innovative financial services to be developed through its open-source platform," said Stefano Parisse, group director of product and services at Vodafone Group. "This has the potential to be truly transformative and will benefit those who have never used, or are struggling to access, financial services around the world." Not everyone was singing the project's praises. Phil Chen, Decentralized Chief Officer at HTC, said the move was part of a "dangerous" power grab by Facebook. "If you’re concerned with Facebook knowing too much or having too much access to your private data or social graph, the GlobalCoin will give Facebook even more direct access to your financial information," he told The Sun. "It’s not just access to the information of your transactions, it’s direct access to your wealth and capital. If the top-line question about Facebook and antitrust is about whether to break it up and spin off the likes of WhatsApp and Instagram – well this global coin is the most invasive and dangerous form of surveillance they have devised thus far. This will easily become the most dangerous antitrust case in history. If this is launched and adopted worldwide, we’re bound to see Facebook as the top 10 biggest companies for the next 100 years that have complete ownership of the customer and their data from their social graph to every transaction recorded through Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram. This project is the antithesis of bitcoin and is another step towards total control of data and users." https://www.thesun.co.uk/tech/9319668/facebook-launch-libra-cryptocurrency/
"And you shall hear of wars and rumours of wars. See that ye be not troubled. For these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet." [Matthew 24:6]
The exact same scripture cane into my own heart watching this ...and Psalm 2 1 Why do the nations conspirea]">[a] and the peoples plot in vain? 2 The kings of the earth rise up and the rulers band together against the Lord and against his anointed, saying, 3 “Let us break their chains and throw off their shackles.” 4 The One enthroned in heaven laughs; the Lord scoffs at them. 5 He rebukes them in his anger and terrifies them in his wrath, saying, 6 “I have installed my king on Zion, my holy mountain.” 7 I will proclaim the Lord’s decree: He said to me, “You are my son; today I have become your father. 8 Ask me, and I will make the nations your inheritance, the ends of the earth your possession. 9 You will break them with a rod of ironb]">[b]; you will dash them to pieces like pottery.” 10 Therefore, you kings, be wise; be warned, you rulers of the earth. 11 Serve the Lord with fear and celebrate his rule with trembling. 12 Kiss his son, or he will be angry and your way will lead to your destruction, for his wrath can flare up in a moment. Blessed are all who take refuge in him.
Another reality of today's (and past) world that is very hard to even read about. So be warned of reading such horrors as given in this report. Report Suggests China Preparing Muslims in Concentration Camps for Organ Harvesting A nonpartisan tribunal published a report Tuesday accusing China of “crimes against humanity,” cutting organs out of Falun Gong practitioners alive to transplant into paying clients, and potentially preparing an “organ bank” using the millions of mostly Uighur Muslims believed trapped in concentration camps in western China. The China Tribunal – a panel of international legal experts led by Sir Geoffrey Nice, chief prosecutor in the case against Serbian war criminal Slobodan Milošević – held hearings featuring victims of China’s brutal repression of Falun Gong practitioners and ethnic Uighurs as well as eyewitnesses who testified to seeing and participating in organ testing and harvesting. The tribunal repeatedly highlighted in its report that it attempted to contact the Chinese government and bring in witnesses favorable to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), but China failed to cooperate. It concluded that China is currently harvesting organs from Falun Gong practitioners and has begun extensive testing of its captive Uighur camp population that does not have any other overt utility outside of organ harvesting. It also concluded that “some Tibetan Buddhists and House Church Christians” (those who do not worship in government-run churches) have likely suffered forced organ harvesting. Perhaps most shockingly, the Tribunal noted that its investigators reached out to dozens of Chinese hospitals asking for help in finding organs for a transplant, and over a dozen of them openly stated they were currently using the organs of Falun Gong practitioners in transplants or could acquire them. Another 14 hospitals admitted they used organs illicitly harvested from prisoners, but did not specify if they were political prisoners or common convicts. Chinese officials have openly admitted to using prisoners to harvest organs for transplants, but claimed to have ended the practice in 2014. As recently as 2017, Chinese state media applauded itself for its “fair” organ donation system that it claimed was “hailed” by the international community. Falun Gong, or Falun Dafa, is a spiritual movement based in elements of Buddhism and Taoism that focuses on meditation and light exercises as methods of self-improvement. The atheist Chinese regime branded Falun Gong an “evil cult” under former Chinese President Jiang Zemin and has brutally repressed practitioners of the spiritual movement for decades. The evidence the China Tribunal compiled, alongside multiple previous studies arriving at similar conclusions and the testimonies of their authors, indicated that China continues to harvest organs without consent from political prisoners and that it may be preparing to do so with the Uighurs it has trapped in what survivors call “concentration camps” in western Xinjiang province. Chinese officials defend the camps by claiming them to be necessary “vocational centers” that train underprivileged Uighurs to find better jobs, a claim undermined by the high number of educated and employed people trapped in the camps. In May, Randall Schriver, the Pentagon’s assistant secretary of defense for Indo-Pacific Security Affairs, estimated that China has placed as many as 3 million Uighur, Kazakh, and Kyrgyz Muslims in Xinjiang concentration camps. Survivors say they undergo systematic torture and indoctrination at the camps; officials force them to learn Mandarin, the dominant Han language, eat pork, and memorize songs praising the Communist Party and its leader, Xi Jinping. Those who do not comply face excruciating torture. The China Tribunal report‘s clearest evidence that China is nonconsensually harvesting organs comes from the fact that Chinese hospitals have admitted to it. Its detailed testimony from Falun Gong practitioners and Uighurs serves to prove, however, the systematic dehumanizing of these groups, which facilitates their use for spare organs to sell to needy clients. The report combines this testimony with a clear discrepancy in the number of organs China claims it has available per transplants conducted. According to the report: In the PRC [People’s Republic of China] there is a mismatch between the number of donors who become ‘eligible’ each year by dying and the number of actual transplants performed each year. There are more transplants than could possibly come from the number of registered or ‘elgible’ donors. Given that the PRC asserts that it no longer uses executed prisoners for organ transplant purposes the very substantial mismatch is wholly unexplained and demands justification. The evidence of dehumanizing torture of Falun Gong practitioners featured extensive testimony of outrageous violations of the prisoners’ dignity. In one example, a witness testified of the torture of a Falun Gong practitioner, saying: They shoved faeces into his mouth. They forced a toilet brush handle into his anus. They pushed the handle so hard that he couldn’t defecate. They also handled his genitals and forced his back against an extremely hot heating unit. They woke him at night by pouring cold water on him, or by piercing his skin with needles. “Every witness that appeared before the Tribunal and who identified as a Falun Gong practitioner had been arrested and imprisoned, and then tortured whilst incarcerated,” the tribunal noted. Enver Tothi – a surgeon who admitted in the 2014 investigative report The Slaughter to performing a live organ extraction out of a prisoner while working in Xinjiang’s capital, Urumqi – told the panel he has reason to believe the Chinese regime is preparing to expand its organ base with the imprisoned Uighur population. He noted that China gave “free national health examinations” to all Uighurs in 2016, providing them with key information on organ compatibility. In December 2018, the author of The Slaughter, Ethan Gutman, told the Tribunal, “Over the last 18 months, literally every Uyghur man, woman, and child – about 15 million people – have been blood and DNA tested, and that blood testing is compatible with tissue matching.” Similar testing is occurring in the Uighur camps, according to survivors who spoke to the Tribunal. The report concluded that the testing as described, particularly the use of ultrasounds to evaluate the health of various organs in each prisoner, was “highly suggestive of methods used to assess organ function.” The Tribunal concluded that organ harvesting among Falun Gong practitioners continued, but it did not have evidence to confirm widespread organ harvesting among Uighurs. It further accused China of crimes against humanity, but not “genocide,” because it did not have evidence confirming that the destruction of ethnic or religious groups, and not merely profits from organ transplants, were driving the practice. NBC News estimated that China’s transplant trade is worth $1 billion a year. The report follows a week in which the United Nations concluded a visit to Xinjiang and lauded the Chinese government for its alleged battle against Muslim terrorists, failing to mention the Uighur camps. China’s state-run Global Times newspaper suggested that “via the platforms of the U.N.” China could export the camps worldwide. https://www.breitbart.com/asia/2019...muslims-concentration-camps-organ-harvesting/
National healthcare is driving Christian doctors out of medicine Proponents of a national health care system often describe the program as “all-inclusive.” However, a Canadian court ruling and a new U.S. congressional report show that single-payer health care could permanently exclude faithful Christians. Health care workers in Canada’s national health service must participate in abortion and physician-assisted suicide because they receive government funding, a Canadian provincial court ruled. Wesley J. Smith highlighted the Canadian case at National Review. Physicians argued in court that their constitutional right to conscience is violated by professional guidelines that force them to aid patients seeking to end a human life. The Ontario Court of Appeals described the plaintiffs’ core convictions: [T]heir religion is central to their lives. It informs everything they do, including their practice of medicine. They care deeply for their patients and strive to honour their legal and ethical duties to their patients. They also believe in the sanctity of human life. Nonetheless, the court ruled that these physicians must make an “effective referral”: They must direct a patient to a “non-objecting, available, and accessible physician,” who will perform the life-ending procedure. One can only imagine the pain this would inflict on a healer with the kind of conscience the appeals court described (much less on the victims). Furthermore, the court advised anyone who would not participate in medical actions that take human life to get into another line of work: [In] the following areas of medicine … physicians are unlikely to encounter requests for referrals for MAiD or reproductive health concerns, and which may not require specialty retraining or certification: sleep medicine, hair restoration, sport and exercise medicine, hernia repair, skin disorders for general practitioners, obesity medicine, aviation examinations, travel medicine, and practice as a medical officer of health. The Canadian legal system essentially told any doctor who will not facilitate abortion or assisted suicide to try working for the Hair Club for Men. Indeed, the justices make explicit that these doctors have no right to act in accordance with their deepest-held convictions specifically because Canada has a taxpayer-subsidized national health care system: The appellants have no common law, proprietary or constitutional right to practice medicine. As members of a regulated and publicly-funded profession, they are subject to requirements that focus on the public interest, rather than their interests. (Emphasis added.) The court stated in the starkest terms that anyone who receives public funding must follow the government's decrees, even if that means committing innumerable mortal sins. “[T]he fiduciary nature of the physician-patient relationship requires” physician compliance, it held. The court stated in the starkest terms that anyone who receives public funding must follow the government's decrees, even if that means committing innumerable mortal sins. This ruling on the Canadian system (which Canadians call “Medicare”) took on new significance for U.S. readers, as it nearly coincided with a House hearing on the “Medicare for All” proposal, introduced by Senator Bernie Sanders and endorsed by numerous Democratic presidential hopefuls. The legislation would require doctors to provide “comprehensive reproductive” care, which includes abortion. It removes any restriction on taxpayer funding and adds that “tems and services to eligible persons shall be furnished by the provider without discrimination.” “Medicare for All” has all the contours of a system that could read faithful Christians out of U.S. medical profession. The Congressional Budget Office showed how in a report last month titled “Key Design Components and Considerations for Establishing a Single-Payer Health Care System.” The CBO noted a “key decision for a single-payer system is whether it would allow people to opt out … for moral or religious reasons.” Even those who refuse to use services that violate their religion maybe compelled to “contribute” to them “through existing automatic payroll withholdings and taxes,” as in Canada and much of Europe. Massive government is a jealous god. But doctors may also be compelled to perform them or leave the medical field. “Another key question is whether the single-payer plan would allow participating providers to offer services that the plan covered to private-pay patients and, if so, under what conditions,” it added. It is certainly conceivable the U.S. may follow Canada’s lead in denying the right to practice medicine to someone who refuses to participate in an abortion or physician-assisted suicide. The government could complete its control by denying doctors the right to care for “private-pay patients,” the CBO added. “By owning and operating hospitals and employing physicians, the government would have more control over the health care delivery system,” it said, clearly having deliberated deeply on the matter: In one scenario, the government could own the hospitals and employ the physicians, as it currently does in most of the VHA system. A greater government role could also include converting for-profit hospitals to nonprofit hospitals or quasi-public providers. In quasi-public organizations, the government or its appointees would oversee or manage daily operations. Taken together, the prognosis is clear: “Medicare for All” could create a government takeover of health care, mandate that everyone in the healing profession take part in actions they deem sinful, and then hermetically seal the occupation to systematically exclude conscientious objectors. The justification for this intrusion on conscience is public funding. Private enterprise allows people to act - or refuse to act - according to the dictates of their conscience. Government control circumscribes freedom and eventually threatens religious liberty. National health care systems pose a threat to all religions, as reflected by the Canadian case’s diverse coalition of plaintiffs and supporters which spans from the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada to B'nai B'rith. Taxpayer-funded health care has grim consequences for conscience. And it drives home a reality all people of faith must remember. Massive government is a jealous god. Granting it greater power and authority over economic matters places the actions of our lives, and the end of others', into its hands. https://acton.org/publications/tran...thcare-driving-christian-doctors-out-medicine
Wonder which side Pope Francis would take here..... Do the Jesuits here work at the permission/pleasure of the local authority, Archbishop in this case? Could he replace the order at the school with others? Do we now have "Jesuit schools" AND "Catholic schools" in some places? An Archbishop Told Jesuit School To Fire Gay Teacher. They Said No (CNN)A Jesuit high school in Indiana can no longer call itself "Catholic" because it employs a teacher engaged in a same-sex marriage, the Archbishop of Indianapolis says. Archbishop Charles Thompson's decree, dated June 21, means that Brebeuf Jesuit Preparatory School in Indianapolis will no longer be recognized or identified as a Catholic institution within the archdiocese. Thompson said the church considers Catholic school teachers to be "ministers" of the faith. "To effectively bear witness to Christ, whether they teach religion or not, all ministers in their professional and private lives must convey and be supportive of Catholic Church teaching," the Archdiocese of Indiana said in a statement on Thursday. The Archdiocese said they tried but failed to reach an agreement with the Jesuit school. The conflict pits the Jesuits, an order of priests known for educating generations of Catholics, against the church's powerful hierarchy. It's also the latest battle between Catholic schools who want to employ gay and lesbian teachers against bishops who insist that all employees toe the line on Catholic doctrine. What makes this conflict unusual is that Jesuits and their schools enjoy a degree of independence from the church hierarchy. In contrast to other Catholic schools forced to fire gay teachers, the Jesuits rejected Thompson's request to remove the teacher. "It is rare for a Catholic institution not only to side with its LGBT faculty members, but also do so in the face of such fierce opposition from a bishop," said the Rev. James Martin, a Jesuit priest and author of "Building a Bridge: How the Catholic Church and the LGBT Community Can Enter into a Relationship of Respect, Compassion, and Sensitivity." "In this case, it is also rare that a bishop would go so far as to publicly remove the designation 'Catholic' from the school," continued Martin, who is based in New York and not affiliated with the school. The Catholic catechism teaches that "homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered" but also that LGBT people "must be accepted with respect, compassion, and sensitivity. Every sign of unjust discrimination in their regard should be avoided." In a statement, leaders from Brebeuf Jesuit Prep School said it has "respectfully declined the Archdiocese's insistence and directive that we dismiss a highly capable and qualified teacher due to the teacher being a spouse within a civilly recognized same-sex marriage." The Rev. Brian Paulson, who heads the Midwest Province of Jesuits, said that the teacher does not teach religion and "is a longtime valued employee of the school." The teacher is not named in any of the statements. "To our knowledge, the Archdiocese of Indianapolis' direct insertion into an employment matter of a school governed by a religious order is unprecedented," said the letter from the school's president, the Rev. William Verbryke, and two members of the board of trustees. "This is a unique action among the more than 80 Jesuit secondary/pre-secondary schools which operate in dioceses throughout North America." In 2014 the Archdiocese of Cincinnati ordered teachers at the city's Catholic schools to sign detailed morality clauses if they wanted to stay on the job. The revised contracts forbid teachers from -- among other things -- exhibiting a gay "lifestyle." Paulson said the Jesuits will appeal this new decision, first through Archbishop Thompson, and then, if necessary, at the Vatican. Leaders of Brebeuf, founded in 1962 as an independent Catholic school, said they have always had control over their personnel decisions. "Whereas the Archdiocese of Indianapolis may choose to no longer attend or participate in the school's Masses and formal functions, Brebeuf Jesuit is, and will always be, a Catholic Jesuit school," the school's leaders said. In a tweet on Thursday, the school used the hashtag #BeBrave to announce its decision. "Please be assured, the Archdiocese's decision will not change the mission or operations of Brebeuf Jesuit." https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/20/us/jesuit-school-indiana-gay-teacher/
The creator of the Truth Factory videos' baby is back in the hospital, please pray for her and her little one. Thank you. Does Mark Zuckerberg fit the criteria for the Anti-Christ? I have wondered about this a little bit but I have read/heard that we should not guess who the AC is.
Sanity takes a holiday! They need an exorcist for the next opening "prayer"! Satanic Temple Member Opens Government Meeting in Alaska with “Hail Satan” – Prompting Officials to Walk Out A member of the Satanic Temple opened a government meeting in Soldotna, Alaska by declaring “Hail Satan” which prompted over a dozen officials to walk out. Thanks to policy changes forced by the anti-American ACLU, the Alaska Supreme Court ruled that Satanists are now able to offer ‘prayers’ before government meetings. Fox News reported: The Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly’s previous policy stated that those delivering the invocation must be a member of a recognized church, but the rules were changed last October when Alaska’s Supreme Court decided in favor of the ACLU that the policy was unconstitutional, according to Alaskan Public Media. Iris Fontana, the Satanic Temple member, was one of the plaintiffs in the case. An atheist and a Jewish woman were also involved in the lawsuit. “Let’s cast aside our differences, to use reason, logic, science and compassion to create solutions for the greater good of our community,” Fontana said at the end of the invocation. “It is done. Hail Satan. Thank you.” Several people walked out of the meeting, according to a local reporter for the Peninsula Clarion. “God will be pleased with our public prayers of reparation,” a man who flew from Pennsylvania for the event told KSRM radio. “We want God’s blessings on America, not Satan’s curses. Lucifer is the eternal loser. Let’s keep him out.” Recall, Obama’s IRS expedited granting tax-exempt status to The Reason Alliance which is a Massachusetts group that worships Satan and created an after school Satanic club for elementary schools. They received their tax-exempt status by the IRS within 10 days of applying while Tea Party and Christian groups waited years. The IRS also recently gave the Satanic Temple tax-exempt status, identifying it as a “church.” This is why Satanists are now able to invoke “Satan” at government meetings. https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/20...h-hail-satan-prompting-officials-to-walk-out/
http://www.thebaynet.com/articles/0...d-to-remain-standing-after-scotus-ruling.html We actually won! The Supreme Court voted to let the Bladensburg, MD, Peace Cross World War I Memorial stay where it is on public land. Yay! thank you, Lord.
"Win" being relative. While the statue in the photo above looks nice, in real life it's showing signs of age: crumbling and stains, etc. It has to have a tarp placed over its head to minimize the crumbling. Now that the cross can stay, we need to collect funds to repair and maintain it. Right now, its maintenance is the responsibility of the State. Can you honestly tell me that if it comes to approving money to repair the cross and money to repair parking lots at state parks they're going to raise the ire of the AHA and open themselves to a new round of lawsuits by approving any maintenance beyond cutting the grass?
The Maryland National Capital Park and Planning Commission owns the land and I think, the cross. They own so much property and historical venues in Maryland that I am not able to count them all. That part was not mentioned in the article above. My husband retired from there. He worked on one of their golf courses. They have parks, rec facilities and own historic venues and rights of ways. Why are you raining on the parade? Give it a little time and see what happens. edit: In fact, I think the original article I posted above was product of the MSM, because it didn't name the true owners. My husband and I are both local and we grew up seeing this landmark. We grew up with the MNCPPC. So we know.
https://www.scotusblog.com/case-fil...g-commission-v-american-humanist-association/ This is from the SCOTUS blog. The original case was brought by MNCPPC.
Some legal experts were discussing this decision on Laura Ingraham show. They said they wished Thomas could have written the decision since the way this was written it made it sound that the reasoning leaned more to the age of the monument....like its been in place for such a long time and could then result in a wave of destruction of similar religious type monuments everywhere. They were afraid that there would be another test on new such images/monuments going up now that would be objected to now.
7 dead, 13 injured in Cambodian building collapse JUNE 22, 2019 / 12:19 PM / CBS/AP | https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cambodian-building-collapse-leaves-at-least-7-dead-today-2019-06-22/ Sihanoukville, Cambodia — A seven-story building under construction in Cambodia's coastal city of Sihanoukville collapsed on workers housed inside early Saturday, killing seven workers and injuring 23, authorities said. Three of the dead were Cambodian: one translator and two workers, BBC News reported. Provincial authorities said in a statement that four Chinese nationals involved in the construction have been detained while an investigation into the collapse is carried out. Of the detained, three are construction supervisors. [] Numerous buildings catering to Chinese tourists have been constructed in the region over the past few years, including dozens of casinos, according to BBC News. Trending News Hawaii Plane Crash Trump Iran Sanctions 2020 Fish Fry New Hampshire Crash Construction workers said the unfinished building doubled as their housing, with the crew spending nights on the second floor. Nhor Chandeun and his wife were asleep when at around 4 a.m. they heard a loud noise and the building crumbled on top of them. "All the workers were asleep," the 31-year-old said from a hospital in the city. "A moment before the building collapsed it was vibrating and then it was falling down. But it was too quick to escape." The Ministry of Labor and Vocational Training said that 30 workers were at the site when the building collapsed, but Nhor Chandeun said there were about 55-60 people inside the building. An excavator removes the rubble at the site of a collapsed building in Preah Sihanouk province, Cambodia, Saturday, on June 22, 2019. HENG SINITH / AP Yun Min, the governor of Preah Sihanouk province, said the building was owned by a Chinese investor who leased land for a condominium — one of many Chinese projects in the thriving beach resort. It wasn't immediately clear what caused the collapse. Rescue workers on the scene could be seen using saws to cut steel beams and excavators to move piles of rubble from the site. Officials said 1,000 people were taking part in the operation and it would continue into the night. Nhor Chandeun and his wife were trapped for 12 hours before rescuers found them. "My wife and I kept calling for help," he said. "We were shouting and shouting but there was no sound replying to us and we presumed that we would die under the rubble." "Fortunately the rescuers found me in time," he added. First published on June 22, 2019 / 12:19 PM © 2019 CBS Interactive Inc. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. The Associated Press contributed to this report. *** Kids growing horns on their heads? Don't panic. ...Kids are growing horns on their heads, and guess what? It’s technology’s fault.... Molly Roberts · Jun 21, 2019
