If you have evidence of a crime being committed, it is your duty to report it to the relevant authorities. Otherwise you are complicit in the alleged fallings and loss of 'time, money, faith'. If you lack such evidence, you are engaging in calumny.
What happened to "really my last word'? To whom do I report the loss of time and faith, pray tell? As for the money aspects, others have posted about that on Glenn Dellaire's blog, and I believe sent personal stories to the chancery in Denver. ETA: Some people complained about losing money on Charlie Johnston's own blog.
My friends in Melbourne got their electricity and water back yesterday, so I think that it was under 24 hours that it was restored. They are a distance from where the real impact of the storm was felt in Florida so this makes sense. Hopefully, others in Florida will have their utilities restored soon and if necessary, their houses rebuilt, etc.
I wanted to add to my response: Yes, I was so interested in my secret evil plot that I invited Padraig into the conversation and asked his advice. As Padraig can attest, I ask his advice and help whenever issues arise. You yourself posted he saw nothing problematic. And no, I do not leave debates too early, quite the reverse.
Don, Thank you for posting that. I think that you are correct that we might want to pay attention to things like this and continue to pray fervently. The following article just popped on my portal, South Korea Plans 'Decapitation Unit' to Try to Scare North's Leaders By CHOE SANG-HUN September 12, 2017 http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world...hs-leaders/ar-AArO7p8?li=BBnbfcL&ocid=UE07DHP © Choi Jae-gu/Yonhap, via Reuters South Korean marines during a military exercise on Baengnyeong Island, near the disputed sea border with North Korea, last week. SEOUL, South Korea — The last time South Korea is known to have plotted to assassinate the North Korean leadership, nothing went as planned. In the late 1960s, after North Korean commandoes tried to ransack the presidential palace in Seoul, South Korea secretly trained misfits plucked from prison or off the streets to sneak into North Korea and slit the throat of its leader, Kim Il-sung. When the mission was aborted, the men mutinied. They killed their trainers and fought their way into Seoul before blowing themselves up, an episode the government concealed for decades. Now, as Mr. Kim’s grandson, Kim Jong-un, accelerates his nuclear missile program, South Korea is again preparing to target the North’s leadership. A day after North Korea conducted its sixth — and by far most powerful — nuclear test this month, the South Korean defense minister, Song Young-moo, told lawmakers in Seoul that a special forces “decapitation unit” would be established by the end of the year. The brigade-size unit, unlike its earlier counterpart, would operate officially. The military has been retooling helicopters and transport planes to penetrate North Korea at night so that the forces, known as the Spartan 3000, can carry out raids. Rarely does a government announce a strategy to assassinate a head of state, but South Korea wants to keep the North on edge and nervous about the consequences of further developing its nuclear arsenal. At the same time, the South’s increasingly aggressive posture is meant to help push North Korea into accepting President Moon Jae-in’s offer of talks. It is a difficult balancing act, pitting Mr. Moon’s preference for a diplomatic solution against his nation’s need to answer an existential question: How can a country without nuclear weapons deter a dictator who has them? “The best deterrence we can have, next to having our own nukes, is to make Kim Jong-un fear for his life,” said Shin Won-sik, a three-star general who was the South Korean military’s top operational strategist before he retired in 2015. © Korean Central News Agency, via Associated Press The North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, third from right, has accelerated his nuclear missile program, leading the South’s government to adopt an increasingly aggressive posture.
continued from above... The measures have also raised questions about whether South Korea and the United States, its most important ally, are laying the groundwork to kill or incapacitate Mr. Kim and his top aides before they can even order an attack. While Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson has said the United States doesnot seek leadership change in North Korea, and the South Koreans say the new military tactics are meant to offset the North Korean threat, the capabilities they are building could be used pre-emptively. The tactics led to a breakthrough last week when President Trump agreed to lift payload limits under a decades-old treaty, allowing South Korea to build more powerful ballistic missiles. The United States helped South Korea build its first ballistic missiles in the 1970s, but in return, imposed restrictions to try to prevent a regional arms race. “We can now build ballistic missiles that can slam through deep underground bunkers where Kim Jong-un would be hiding,” Mr. Shin said. “The idea is how we can instill the kind of fear a nuclear weapon would — but do so without a nuke. In the medieval system like North Korea, Kim Jong-un’s life is as valuable as hundreds of thousands of ordinary people whose lives would be threatened in a nuclear attack.” Although a majority of South Koreans, especially conservative politicians and commentators, call for arming their country with nuclear weapons of its own, Mr. Moon has repeatedly vowed to rid the Korean Peninsula of such weapons. In June, Mr. Trump reiterated Washington’s nuclear-umbrella doctrine, promising to protect the South with “the full range of United States military capabilities, both conventional and nuclear.” But after North Korea tested two intercontinental ballistic missiles in July, including one that appeared capable of hitting the mainland United States, South Koreans are not so sure the Americans would follow through. “Would the Americans intervene in a war on the peninsula if their own Seattle were threatened with a North Korean nuclear ICBM?” said Park Hwee-rhak, a military analyst at Kookmin University in Seoul. South Korea has now introduced three arms-buildup programs — Kill Chain; the Korea Air and Missile Defense program; and the Korea Massive Punishment and Retaliation initiative, which includes the decapitation unit. Mr. Moon has vowed to expand the defense budget to 2.9 percent of South Korea’s gross domestic product during his term, from 2.4 percent, or $35.4 billion, as of this year. For next year, his government has proposed a budget of $38.1 billion, nearly $12 billion of it for weapons to defend against North Korea. In a Twitter post last Tuesday, Mr. Trump said, “I am allowing Japan & South Korea to buy a substantially increased amount of highly sophisticated military equipment from the United States.” Under the Kill Chain program, South Korea aims to detect impending missile attacks from North Korea and launch pre-emptive strikes. © South Korea Defense Ministry, via Associated Press A Hyunmoo-2 missile was fired by South Korea’s military during an exercise this month at an undisclosed location. North Korea keeps artillery and rocket tubes near the border, and is capable of delivering 5,200 rounds on Seoul in the first 10 minutes of war, military planners in South Korea say. The North also operates hundreds of missiles designed to hit South Korea and United States bases in Japan and beyond to deter American intervention should war break out. The need to detect an impending strike has become more critical. North Korea has made its nuclear bombs small and light enough — weighing under 500 kilograms, or about 1,100 pounds — to be fitted onto its missiles, though it is still unclear whether they are fully weaponized, Mr. Song, the defense minister, said last week. But detection has also become harder. North Korea hides missiles in its many underground tunnels. Switching to solid fuel has made some of its missiles easier to transport and faster to launch. In recent years, North Korea also has flight-tested missiles from submarines, which are tougher to detect. And the potential consequences are huge. Miscalculation could prompt an unwarranted pre-emptive strike, which could start a regional nuclear war. Speaking to a United States congressional hearing in June, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Joseph F. Dunford Jr., said, “We will see casualties, unlike anything we’ve seen in 60 or 70 years.” Intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities are crucial, said Daniel A. Pinkston, a defense expert at the Seoul campus of Troy University. Without those capabilities, “they would be ‘shooting blind’ because the missile units could not identify the targets,” he added. Last month, South Korea said it would launch five spy satellites into orbit from 2021 to 2023 to better monitor weapons movements in North Korea. In the interim, it is talking with countries like France and Israel to lease spy satellites. It also plans to introduce four American RQ-4 Global Hawk surveillance drones by next year. If pre-emptive attacks failed, South Korea would hope its Korea Air and Missile Defense would shoot down any rockets from the North. South Korea is planning to upgrade its PAC-2 interceptor missiles for a better low-altitude defense. Last week, South Korea helped the United States military install a Thaad missile-defense battery, which intercepts enemy rockets at higher altitudes. For additional protection, South Korea is developing its own L-SAM interceptor missiles, as well as installing more early warning radars for ballistic missiles. After the North’s latest nuclear test, South Korea fired its Hyunmoo-2 short-range ballistic missiles in a drill simulating an attack on the North’s test site. In July, the South’s military also released simulated images of Taurus bunker-buster missiles hitting the defense ministry in the North Korean capital, Pyongyang. South Korea is buying 260 Taurus missiles from a German and Swedish joint venture. The weapons are part of the Korea Massive Punishment and Retaliation plan. Under that program, South Korea would try to divide Pyongyang into several districts and wipe out the area where Kim Jong-un is believed to be hiding, defense analysts said. Washington’s decision to lift the missile payload limits may allow South Korea to develop new Hyunmoo missiles capable of destroying weapons sites and leadership bunkers deep underground, said Shin Jong-woo at Korea Defense Forum, a Seoul-based network of military experts. Mr. Shin said there was talk of building a Hyunmoo with a two-ton warhead. The earlier restrictions barred South Korea from attaching a payload weighing more than half a ton to its Hyunmoo missile when the rocket had a range of up to 497 miles. As word of South Korea’s new assassination plans has spread, Mr. Kim has used his deputies’ cars as decoys to move from place to place, South Korean intelligence officials told lawmakers in June. Still, many say they doubt that the threat is enough to deter Mr. Kim. Only the prospect of nuclear retaliation will suffice, they say. “The balance of terror is the shortest cut to deterring war,” Yoon Sang-hyun, a conservative opposition lawmaker, told Parliament last Tuesday.
I find it interesting that the bones are thought to have been placed there at a time of schism within the Church... and they are only being discovered now, of all times.
I know a church that has first-class relics of St. Peter and St. Paul. I was lucky to be able to pray with those (holding both) before Mass on their joint feast day. It was a strange thing, my arms felt heavy as I held them... I suppose the bones were scattered far and wide early in the life of the church; I wonder how many bones are in the latest find.
Caravans of electric power workers have been sent by your friends in the North East and have probably already arrived. Hopefully, you will have power shortly! Praying......
Booklady, I am sorry to hear that and I just read on MOG that you are on the east coast like them and north of them. I have experienced a few hurricanes and loss of power for well over a week, a lot of the conveniences gone for a period of time. I also know that some times the power comes on and goes off again due to trees or part of trees continuing to fall down for a short period after the storm has hit, or possibly other related things occurring. I will be praying for you. I wonder how member Florida Panther is doing. Hopefully we will hear soon. PS- Something else just occurred to me. Yesterday, my husband told me that our friends water may have gone out due to the power being out, that makes sense. The fact that they had no water probably moved them up on the priority list.
Arming these nations to the teeth is asking for trouble. That said, I don't know what other alternative there is to this one upmanship that exists in the western Pacific now. NK is hell bent on insulating itself from the entire world. Pushing the US constantly. Threatening its enemies. We are surrounded by wolves, nipping at our flanks. I don't think they understand at all the gravity of their ambitions. There is a little bit of profanity in this, (one word) but the gravity of where all this is going is pretty straight forward. God, family, country. In that order forever.
My reading of the situation, and I could be completely wrong, is that China has been using NK as a proxy over the years to provide a little threat in obtaining favourable trade treaties for herself. On the lines of if they don't get their way they might no longer be able to 'restrain' NK. Now Trump has arrived and is actively ending the previous global trade regime and bringing in one more favourable to US industry and conversely less so for that of China's. Also, he is determined to reverse the flight of US manufacturing to China. Intriguingly, North Korea greatly ups the ante-just a coincidence, of course. Instead of backing down, President Trump has called their bluff. Not only is Mr Trump the better poker player, he seems to have all the aces. I think it very unlikely that China will ultimately risk a possible nuclear confrontation in her own back-yard. This could all go completely 'pear-shaped', of course. Please God not.
Sometimes one has to make exceptions for nasty provocateurs, no matter how reluctant one is to do so. I will say goodbye now, because you are not one to decline having the last word.
No, you are spot on and I am right there with you DeGaulle, a conflict would entail China. NK is no threat, the Chihuahua of nations. The real issue here is the evils of communism and how a good portion of our own nation has subscribed to it in a kind of proxy capitalist globalist take over. It is a threat to us in South America and in our own country. We have been weakened both socially and militarily for many years. That time is over, the Stennis recently left port early after having a huge overhaul for sea trials and then the West Pac. It is the first time I have ever seen a carrier leave early and I watch things like this and have a lot of friends and family who are actively serving. It has only been 9 months since President Trump took office. I pray every day that peace will win the day, and that our and their leaders will bow to Our Lord's wisdom and heed it. That said, the time for diplomacy is seemingly over. Every weapon we arm these nations with can just as easily be used to fight China. So the pressure is mounting. I would bet that soon we covertly arm the Philippines as well. China is going to have to make their move soon.
I will keep an eye on this thread from now on and will delete all ad hominem attacks. If they continue I will delete the user. Be warned.
My biggest Sign at the moment is some of the graces I am getting in prayer. They are heart stopping. I wonder if anyone else is getting great graces in prayer? If you don;t want to post publically please PM me. I feel like God is getting me set for what is coming, it just made me wonder if I was the only one?
Jason A is putting up some truly wonderful stuff on his utube channel , he is worth subscribing to. He was always great but at the moment he appears inspired.
