Signs

Discussion in 'The Signs of the Times' started by themilitantcatholic, Sep 3, 2015.

  1. CrewDog

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    If Ya got any "Spare Change" it may be a good time to stock up on essentials for yourselves and those The Lord may be sending your way!! If there is any serious good National or International News "Out-There", I would sure like to hear it! I'm sure many here have awakened to The Dangers but I'm guessing many still are waiting for "That Special Sign".
    USA Election is 7 weeks away and the current Administration and their Ministry of Truth, AKA: Liberal News Media is in full Cover-Up Mode about all the multitudinous BAD News Stories ... everywhere!! ... and the GOP is afraid to tell the truth about The Bad News for fear of being called Alarmists with, no doubt, racist, homophobic and misogynist tendencies. Sooooooo ... this means a huge % of BoobLand USA is in Ignorant Bliss and at The Mall! They will be Shocked & Appalled when The House of Cards comes tumbling down and they are down to their last jar of Peanut Butter, no electricity and marauders roaming the streets. The below is part of a post I placed on MILINET Blog in reply to a Post about the Charlotte, NC Riots. It's USA Centered but I'm guessing it applies to the EU in many respects:
    "Well ... Fall is here and I figured that Race Riots 2016 would have started back in July?
    With this Weird Election, Illegal Alien Criminals-n-Terrorist Muslims Run-amok, Economy in de Crapper, PC Politicized Federal Bureaucracy, Most Divided Nation Since 1861, Well Organized Radical Anarchists (La Raza, BlackLivesMatter, ISIS, Occupy) connected to Instant Social Media plus a nervous Producer TaxPayer Class that, in Red States anyway, is armed to the teeth and PO about all of the above ... and I have not even touched upon Bleak Foreign Affairs Situations ;-( ... HullyGee!! .. It's not: "Is The Fuse Lit"? It's: "How close is the Lit Fuse to the Powder Keg!??!"

    GOD SAVE THE REPUBLIC & ALL HERE!!!!
     
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  2. padraig

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    Denis I saw this in Spirit Daily today, I remember watching this a few years back, it certinaly catches the attention and is in line iwth what Charlie has been saying:

     
  3. Carol55

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  4. CrewDog

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    Yes it is very Scary!! When society is divided along class, racial or religious and society becomes chaos, then radical/evil groups on all sides of the situation will form and people, for their own protection, will join-up depending upon their own fears, prejudices and ID. It's happened throughout history ... and will be repeated soon.... then after a period of Horror/Terror, Good People of Faith of All Colors-n-Denominations will band together to defeat the evil/radicals and restore Peace .... Please God!!

    GOD SAVE ALL HERE!!
     
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  5. Carol55

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  6. djmoforegon

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    World’s first baby born with controversial new ‘three-parent’ technique

    The birth of a baby using a new ‘three-parent baby’ technique in Mexico could speed the creation of a similar child in the UK New Hope Fertility Centre


    The world’s first child created using a controversial “three-parent” baby technique has been born in Mexico, it has been announced.

    Limited details about the birth were revealed ahead of theAmerican Society of Reproductive Medicine's scientific congress in Salt Lake City next month, where it will be discussed more fully.

    According to critics, the procedure is tantamount to genetic modification of humans or even “playing God”. But supporters say it allows women with a particular type of genetic disease to have healthy children who are related to them.

    A report in the New Scientist magazine said the baby was now five months told. His parents are Jordanians and the work was carried out by a team of experts from the US.

    The child’s mother has Leigh syndrome, a fatal disorder that affects the developing nervous system and would have been passed on in her mitochondrial DNA.

    Although she is healthy, two of her children have died as a result of inheriting the disease: a girl who lived until she was six and an eight-month-old baby.

    There are different ways of creating a so-called three-parent baby.

    The technique used by Dr John Zhang, of the New Hope Fertility Clinic in New York, and his team involved taking the nucleus from one of the mother's eggs – containing her DNA – and implanting it into a donor egg that had its nucleus removed but retained the donor’s healthy mitochondrial DNA.

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    Unlike ordinary DNA, which has the genetic information that helps make us who we are, mitochondrial DNA provides power for the cell and has been compared to a battery. Many scientists in the field insist the term “three-parent baby” is inaccurate for this reason as the significant DNA is still from two people.

    Dr Zhang told the New Scientist that, as the technique has not been approved in the US, the team went to Mexico where “there are no rules”.

    “To save lives is the ethical thing to do,” he added.


    Vote yes to three-parent babies
    In 2003, Dr Zhang and his team revealed they had used a different technique to create three-parent babies, sparking international outrage.

    The British Parliament voted to allow the creation of 'three-parent babies' in principle but regulators must still decide whether the specific technique is safe before such a birth could happen in Britain.

    Other scientists working in the field welcomed the news.

    Professor Bert Smeets, director of the Genome Centre at Maastricht University, said: “At last, the first child of a mother with a mtDNA mutation is born after mitochondrial donation.

    “The safety of the method had already been quite convincingly demonstrated by the Newcastle group in the UK and introduction into the clinic would only be a matter of time – obviously, dependent on national regulation or the absence of it.

    “A US-based research group apparently escaped the more rigid regulatory framework in the US to perform this treatment in Mexico. That is a concern, especially as the framework not only safeguards the introduction into the clinic, but also the follow-up of the children born after this treatment.

    “Hopefully, now the first child is born and the heat is off, it takes away the pressure to involve patients in unsecured treatments, when good alternatives are available.”

     
  7. Dolours

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  8. DeGaulle

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    Another nail in the EuroCoffin. This combined with the wholly unpredicted expense of catering for the immigrant influx, with Austria recently disclosing 35% of her welfare budget being thus absorbed, is going to place immense strain on the finances of a progressively disuniting Europe.

    Anyway, what business does a government have bailing out a commercial bank? This is simply more socialism for the elites, because the ordinary citizens of Germany, and ultimately of the EuroZone, will be forced to pay up. Between the bankster crash of 2008, the Apple .005% interest rate, the cost of supporting immigrants and now this, I think the citizenry will be approaching breaking-point.
     
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  9. Dolours

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    It will be interesting to see how the Germans manage to bail out Deutsche Bank since the rules were changed to protect Spanish, Italian and French taxpayers being saddled with private bank debts. Merkel says she won't bail them out which means that she will have a chat with the French and Italians and come up with a loophole that works for those three countries. Different rules for them have worked so far but the reports yesterday that hedge funds are running for cover could pose other problems. I expect we'll limp along for a while yet - at least until after important elections in Germany and France and the referendum in Italy.

    The frightening scenario is that some of those waiting in the wings to replace the current leaders are just as bad from a Catholic perspective. The likes of LePen in France or Podemos in Spain (not to mention most if not all of our options here in Ireland) don't fill me with hope for the future. It might take a few years before we in Europe finally get the message about trusting in God rather than princes but the message is surely being delivered.
     
  10. DeGaulle

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    We don't matter and usually blindly whatever fad is current. That niece of LePen is seemingly a devout Catholic and seems to be growing in influence. Realistically, in order to achieve their aims, the Right need to encourage Christian sentiment. Secularism is too tepid and effete to face up to Islam.
     
  11. Dolours

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    Do you mean Marine LePen? I didn't know that. I got the impression that she was trying to double down on secular France's tactic of making all religions subject to the State - a tactic that they have had success in exporting. We have to be careful of the atheist modus operandi of first promoting Islam and then using it to get all religions removed from the public square.
     
  12. DeGaulle

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    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marion_Maréchal-Le_Pen

    (I meant niece of Marine LePen. And isn't the old boy a practising Catholic?).

    I daresay my wife won't mind me saying that she has considerable vote-catching potential, at least amongst the male, heterosexual side of the population! Seriously though, she seems a formidable young lady.

    I repeat my point. The likes of LePen will be at nothing without reviving a traditional Christian consciousness of Europe. It is the only mortar that can bind.
     
  13. padraig

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  14. Dolours

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    I didn't know that the father was a practising Catholic. Of course, the meaning of "practising" is as elastic as "devout" these days. And I agree with you about the Christian consciousness. It will take something really catastrophic for a return to Christian consciousness across Europe.

    The discussions surrounding Deutsche Bank are interesting. It seems that they have a capital problem, which can lead to collapse in the long term. The scare yesterday came from a fear that they have a liquidity problem, which can lead to an overnight collapse. The leak about the US slapping a fine on them also contributed to yesterday's scare. One commenter drew attention to the "coincidence" that the $14 billion US fine is similar to the back-tax bill the EU has slapped on Apple. His suggestion was that this could be driven by politics and protectionism. The general consensus is that Germany won't let the bank fail; that it isn't the same as Lehman's because Lehman's was a brokerage and not a bank and that no major bank has been allowed to go under. Deutsche's shares have plummeted by 50% in the past year but nobody's panicking yet.

    I have some sympathy for Merkel over the migrant crisis. She was under a lot of pressure from NATO (specifically the US and UK) to fast track Turkey's full membership of the EU. Traditionally the Germans were opposed, backed strongly by Austria, which always sides with Germany. Sarkozy was also strongly opposed but Hollande is weaker and with his party getting 80% of the Muslim vote he wouldn't have the same incentive to resist NATO's pressure. It's clearer now than it was then that the Turks were using the refugees as a bargaining chip. The refugee flow increased and decreased depending on what concessions were given to Turkey. For all we know, she could have been calling Erdogan's bluff when she said "let them come, we can handle it". Visa free travel for Turks is on hold at the moment and the agreement that Turkey will take back failed asylum seekers could collapse. When Erdogan gets his internal problems sorted, he will be back with his demands but he won't have UK influence next time, Hollande could well be in the political wilderness, and it would be political suicide for any French or German government to ease the way for Turkish membership. That won't stop Erdogan pretending he doesn't notice people traffickers loading people into rubber dinghies all along his Western coastline. The East Europeans are digging their heels in on redistribution of refugees, so I expect there will be ramped up rhetoric about threats of a Russian invasion to whip the Hungarians and Poles into line, forcing them to accept whichever refugees the Northern Europeans don't want.

    That catastrophic even might not be too far into the future.
     
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  15. DeGaulle

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    Some points (after a few Armagnacs!):

    1). If ZeroHedge is right, the rate of fall of share price of Deutsche Bank has entered a new paradigm in the last day or two. The term 'falling off a cliff' seems appropriate.

    2). I suspect Merkel is Stasi (a 'sleeper' long woken up-Obama may be another example).

    3). Traditionally, Germany and Turkey are allied. That was so in the Great War. And almost all Islamic immigration until recent times was from Turkey. Personally, I perceive a historic shared barbarianism.

    4). I don't foresee the Poles or, more particularly, the Hungarians, being easily whipped into anybody's line. They also would be wary of the Germans almost as much as the Russians. And they need no tuition regarding the Mohammedans.
     
  16. Dolours

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    The share price rallied today. There's no panic in Germany because (a) the new EU rules mean that there will be a bail-in before there is any question of a bail-out which means that major creditors and stakeholders will have to take a hit first; (b) the US fine is expected to be more like $5 billion than $14 because the amount and terms will be negotiable. It was hinted by some pundits today that the US Justice Department which will be negotiating the terms is in close contact with the White House (in other words they do what they're told) and Merkel and Obama are on very good terms. What they didn't say was that the Apple fine is being contested in Europe where Germany is not without influence.

    Merkel is not left or liberal enough to be Stasi. Anyway, Scheuble is the real power in Germany.

    Obama could well be a plant. He doesn't strike me as the sharpest tool in the box, and his academic progress seems to have been due more to who he knew rather than what he knew. He was steeped in atheist and Islamic influences during his formative years. Although he calls himself a Christian, it is unlikely that he was ever baptised. His religion was recorded as Muslim when he attended Catholic school in Indonesia. In Muslim countries, especially one like Indonesia, Muslim children would be excused from any instruction in Christianity even in a Christian school. I doubt very much that he believes in any religion, but if he does it's most likely Islam. For example, despite all his talk about freedom and women's equality, neither he nor his journalist hangers on ever mention that in Indonesia it is illegal for a Muslim woman to marry outside the faith.

    The German/Turkish alliance doesn't exactly translate into a love match. The Germans only permitted joint citizenship for Turks during Merkel's leadership, and that was a concession to take the bad look off Germany's opposition to Turkey's EU membership. The Americans are responsible for Erdogan. Not for the first time, they exploited religion to get what they wanted and with Gulen's help they put Erdogan in power and the US was to the forefront of pushing Turkey into the EU. It was all about securing NATO's interests in the region. With Europe moving towards federalism and an elected presidency, the long term consequences could have been disastrous for Europe, but they didn't care. Given the size of Turkey's population and the growing number of Muslims in Europe, any Muslim candidate would have been a serious contender for President of Europe. There's too much Israeli and Petrodollar influence in the US corridors of power.

    Black coffee is good for a hangover.
     
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  17. DeGaulle

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    Armagnacs, and grape products generally, agree with me. Guinness, much as I like it, kills me.

    You seem to have your act well put together and I would be reluctant to disagree with what you you say, except for Merkel. I think such a meteoric rise for such a mediocrity smells to high heaven. She has already been badly exposed. There lies much more unpleasantness for her ahead.

    If there is no bail-out, something which is far from certain now that Germany's own two largest banks simultaneously face catastrophe, the bail-in will be quite a slaughter. Half a trillion of deposits are at risk and incomprehensible amounts of financial derivatives. How far can the proverbial can be kicked down the road? These elitists are either idiots or absolute geniuses of a completely unprecedented kind. I wager upon the former, for some reason.
     
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  18. padraig

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  19. CrewDog

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    As this video points out, absolutely NOTHING has been done to harden the USA Electric Grid and Congress has been sitting on their hands since first briefed on the dangers 12 years ago. In that past 12 years they have wasted countless $$$ Billions on any number of non-productive energy schemes, Union Pay-Offs, corrupt Crony Capitalists and the usual fraud, waste and abuse that DC has become infamous for! :mad: Besides all the Natural Disasters "Out-There", The European Banking Crisis and the WorldWide Financial Derivatives, $$ 550+ TRILLION, BUBBLE is about to BURST! .... Oh!!! Then there is Nuke Iran, North Korea and China's South China Sea "Plans" .... and Russia's re-built Soviet Empire "Plans" ... and a Weak, Dithering and Morally-n-Financially Corrupt Western World ....... and .....! :(
    Anybody here think 2017 is gonna be a Good Year!?? ... Yes!?? ... Wake the **** Up!

    GOD SAVE ALL HERE!!
     

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