LOL how did I miss this video! The real kicker is that there are more trees today in North America than there were when it was settled. I guess young tree vibes don't mean as much as old growth forest vibes and whatever waves they generate to be absorbed by these eco hippies must not be as effective or something. That's OK, 5G will be along to block all their waves soon.
It struck me to actually have been a more typical beneficial liberal/lefty expression against the privileged class, exposing their covered up scandals, their manipulations through those they know in high places, their silly unnecessary grooming provided by their superfluous assistants....and the great differences while, in their basic human natures, not so different between the classes. And doing so in a comedic way as well as providing the tragedies that do not avoid any class. And it's a parody of rather laughable situations where the "downstairs" personnel are expected to be seen and not to hear a thing. Thus the "upstairs" personalities are better known to the lower level than vice versa. And in the end it shows that such a system cannot survive the natural evolution of freedoms that arrive for the formerly considered class of servitude.....those upstairs inevitably become a gawked at class that must sell tickets to those properties in order to maintain even the very basics of their assets. It alludes to the dignity of the downstairs class that is kept while the upper class collapses into a kind of humiliation as their material wealth diminishes. There are still similar situations as well in most institutional type religions where the wealthier of the "faithful" had their private home chapels and "private" priest confessors, some who lived on the property and who lived/live for the beck and call of the elites and their contributions to their private $$$ projects. We still have a kind of royalty within the hierarchy which is exposed when their own private properties/homes have had to be sold to pay for coverups and scandals getting shocking exorbitant prices for that property. Seems the more things change the more they stay the same. I think people are entertained by the fabulous costuming which used to be an expected part of big hit movies....which has been lost today to the banal. It's escapism....sort of like places like Disney World or fancy hair salons w/ manicurists or massages w/ pedicures of today. ha! And the caricatures of the most outrageous personalities on display by the stronger actors....like the dowager.....leaves nothing in doubt as to their personal manipulation of that power!
Viktor Orbán in Rome: Forget Migrant Distribution Quotas. We Need Deportation Quotas! Posted on September 24, 2019 by Baron Bodissey Last Saturday Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán was invited to speak at an annual event hosted by the Fratelli d’Italia (Brothers of Italy) in Rome. If Italians are ever allowed to vote again, the FdI will almost certainly become part of the next governing coalition, along with Matteo Salvini and the Lega. Mr. Orbán gave a rousing speech that was punctuated about five minutes in by the Italian audience singing a popular political anthem (in Italian) about the Hungarian uprising against the Soviets in 1956. When you watch that part of the excerpt below, you’ll see Giorgia Meloni, the leader of the Fratelli d’Italia, stand up and sing along with everyone else. Many thanks to CrossWare for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling. The translated lyrics of the Italian song have been inserted at the appropriate point: VIDEO https://gatesofvienna.net/2019/09/v...stribution-quotas-we-need-deportation-quotas/
As DS/globalists continues to go after Trump the same is happening to Netanyahu and now BJ Boris Johnson Suspended Parliament Unlawfully, UK Supreme Court Finds The United Kingdom Supreme Court has ruled that Prime Minister Boris Johnson was acting unlawfully when he suspended Parliament in August for five weeks, a move which anti-Brexit campaigners claimed was intended to thwart their attempts to prevent Britain leaving the European Union. In a shock ruling which strongly went against the government on every count, the Supreme Court in London unanimously found Tuesday morning that Boris Johnson’s decision to suspend Parliament was not only unlawful but was null and void, meaning it legally did not take place. Parliament is now free to sit again as soon as desired by the speakers of both houses, the court explained. https://www.breitbart.com/europe/20...parliament-unlawfully-uk-supreme-court-finds/
The school is looking into this claim. They do not think someone who works for the university posted this, but they are checking. The context of this disturbing projection was not given by the student who took the image. It may have been blown out of proportion by the student and then by the author of the article. We do need a radical conversion to Jesus, it is very true. I can not fathom the mercy of Jesus. There are so many ways for Him to be offended by the styles, speech, and blasphemy that is evident all around, yet He sustains us and always calls us back to Himself. Jesus is Love and Mercy.
Could also mean the increased activity means we are closer to something much larger spiritually. Almost as if they may be running out of time so thus the increased activity.
We'll soon see if Canada will get a new PM soon, I think that the election is on October 21st. Trudeau Campaign Drops in Polls After Blackface Photo Scandal By Zachary Evans | September 23, 2019 9:47 AM | https://www.nationalreview.com/news/trudeau-campaign-drops-in-polls-after-blackface-photo-scandal/ Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will resume his reelection campaign Monday after taking the weekend off following the appearance of multiple images of the premier in blackface, leading to a precipitous drop in poll numbers. The incumbent prime minister is now polling behind his Conservative challenger, Andrew Scheer. Trudeau would win 32.9 percent of the national vote to Scheer’s 35.5 percent if elections were held at this time, according to a Nanos Research poll released on Sunday. Trudeau’s campaign ground to a halt last week after a photo surfaced in which the prime minister appears dressed in the costume of what he asserts was a character from Aladdin, which included darkening face paint. Shortly thereafter, a video from the early 1990s emerged in which Trudeau is wearing black makeup on his face and arms. Trudeau also admitted that he appeared in blackface in a high school performance in which he imitated Harry Belafonte. Support for Trudeau in Ontario, Canada’s most populous province and a key to any campaign victory, dropped 15 percentage points after the scandal, decimating Trudeau’s former lead. Pollster Frank Graves of EKOS Research called the scandal a “body blow” to the Liberal campaign. “Will the Liberals be able to recover? Who knows?” he said in an interview. “There’s no way of putting lipstick on a pig and making this go away.” NOW WATCH: 'Trudeau Continues to Sink as Racist Images Come to Light'
Pardon me if this is a particularly stupid question, but why is what they call blackface considered racist? Say if a school of mostly white or oriental children put on a play about Martin Luther King or Mohammed Ali and one of the white kids got the lead role, wouldn't it make sense for him to darken his skin colour? Or would that make him a racist? I don't have a high opinion of Trudeau, but he does look like he's dressed as Aladdin in that photo. Is the problem that his make-up is too dark for a Middle Eastern character?
Dolours, I agree with you, I really don't think that it is racist to dress up as someone who has darker skin and therefore, darken your skin but Trudeau himself apologized for his past actions and more or less accepted that his actions were racist although he also stated that he did not realize this at the time. Personally, I think that this is ridiculous. The same thing occurred to Meghan Kelly a few years ago when she lost her job for stating that she dressed up in "blackface" for Halloween in the past but she stated that she didn't see a problem with it and I agree. For instance, I wouldn't be upset if a dark skinned person dressed up as a lighter skinned person. If Trudeau loses the election, this will be a case of liberal stupidity backfiring on him. I can only hope that if he does lose that the conservative who wins will be an improvement but it does appear that almost anyone would be an improvement over Trudeau. The "peoplekind" will have spoken. This is from the Truth Factory, the cat is Canadian. Edited to add: This is not the only incident of this kind... DISTURBING: Liberals Block Canadian Journalist From Covering Trudeau Press Conference https://www.spencerfernando.com/201...alist-from-covering-trudeau-press-conference/ September 22, 2019
I don't have strong feelings about it. I'm just trying to figure out the why of it. I would be the first to condemn someone for racist speech or behaviour but when it comes to the blackface controversy I can't figure out where the line has been drawn and who drew/draws the line between what is and isn't racist.
That occurred to me too. I did a search for Sir Laurence Olivier playing Othello and came up with this: http://www.arogundade.com/sir-laurence-oliviers-othello-in-blackface.html Apparently even Olivier came in for flack and I gather that the blackface controversy was already a thing in the US when the movie was released. Rather than getting rid of racism, the long term goal seems to have been to debar white actors from playing non-white characters in plays and films. Isn't that another kind of racism? Shouldn't the goal be that the best actor gets the role irrespective of his race? Or, in the anti-hatred/anti-racism spirit, shouldn't Sir Laurence Olivier be posthumously stripped of his knighthood? Is there a cut-off point in a person's past where bad or questionable behaviour can be consigned to the foolishness of youth and not used as a stick to beat the adult applying for any job? Think of school nativity plays and all the little boy "Josephs", "shepherds" or "wise men" wearing tea towels on their heads . Nowadays we see lots of slurs against Arabs and Muslims wearing "tea towels" (scarves). What if the anti-hate speech lobby determines that a white person dressing as a Middle Eastern shepherd or wise man is racist, anti-Semitic, or Islamophobic? The way things are going, we could well reach a stage where a photo of any of those kids could debar them from public office some time in the future. Should Daniel Day Lewis have been prohibited from playing Christy Brown in My Left Foot because Daniel didn't have a physical disability? I'm not on some kind of crusade here. I'm just trying to figure out what's going on with politicians and others being demonised for something they did in their youth when either there was no malicious intent or malice cannot be proven.
We are fortunate in the Philadelphia Archdiocese to have Archbishop Chaput who has ordered all parishes to pray the St. Michael prayer after each Mass. Now that he is retiring I hope his replacement will continue the same. If not, that will tell us a lot about him! Time for Church to re-introduce prayer to St Michael admin September 26, 2019 1 Comment Pope Leo XIII The power of Satan is real, and we must pray to overcome it, writes Fr Pat Collins CM According to Pope Leo XIII’s private secretary, when the Pontiff had a vision of demonic spirits about to mount an attack on the city of Rome he wrote the prayer to St Michael the Archangel. It reads: “St Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle, be our protection against the wickedness and snares of the devil; may God rebuke him, we humbly pray; and do thou, O Prince of the heavenly host, by the power of God, cast into hell Satan and all the evil spirits who prowl through the world seeking the ruin of souls. Amen.” In 1886, Leo instructed that the prayer was to be said after every low Mass. However, when the liturgical reforms of the Second Vatican Council (1962-65) were introduced in 1967 the prayer was no longer said after the Celebration of the Eucharist. Mistake In retrospect, perhaps that was a mistake. In recent decades it sometimes seems as if all the powers of hell are attacking the Church both from within and from without. Many people feel that Pope St Paul VI was correct when he said in 1972 “from some crack the smoke of Satan has entered the temple of God”. When I spoke about my book Freedom from Evil Spirits on the Late Late Show in February, I said to Ryan Tubridy that there are reasons in contemporary Ireland to think that a tsunami of evil is threatening to overwhelm us. Aware that this is so, it is not surprising that recent Popes have encouraged Catholics to recite the prayer to St Michael in private. In 1994 St John Paul II said: “May prayer to St Michael strengthen us for the spiritual battle that the Letter to the Ephesians speaks of: ‘be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might’.” (Eph. 6:10) Leo XIII certainly had this picture in mind when, at the end of the last century, he brought in throughout the Church a special prayer to St Michael. Although this prayer is no longer recited at the end of Mass, I ask everyone not to forget it and to recite it to obtain help in the battle against the forces of darkness and against the spirit of this world. In 2018, Pope Francis echoed those sentiments when he asked Catholics everywhere to pray the Rosary each day during the month of October and to conclude it with the prayer to St Michael to preserve the Church from the attacks of the devil – the great accuser – while at the same time not only making the Church more aware of and resistant to the faults, errors and the abuses committed in the past, so that evil may not prevail. Earlier this year I had occasion to conduct two parish missions in Michigan in the US. While there, I found that the prayer to St Michael was being recited after every Mass. When I enquired about it, I was told that bishops in more than a dozen American dioceses have recommended that the prayer should be recited after every Mass. One way of responding to St John Paul’s request…is to say the prayer to St Michael the Archangel at the end of each Mass: That got me thinking. When St John Paul II was in Ireland in 1979 he said in a prophetic way at Limerick: “Your country seems in a sense to be living again the temptations of Christ: Ireland is being asked to prefer the ‘kingdoms of the world and their splendour’ to the kingdom of God. Satan, the tempter, the adversary of Christ, will use all his might and all his deceptions to win Ireland for the way of the world…dear sons and daughters of Ireland, pray, pray not to be led into temptation…I ask you today for a great, intense and growing prayer for all the people of Ireland, for the Church in Ireland, for all the Church which owes so much to Ireland. Pray that Ireland may not fail in the test.” Surely, one way of responding to St John Paul’s request, which is as relevant today as the time when he made it, is to say the prayer to St Michael the Archangel at the end of each Mass. Perhaps some of our bishops, like their counterparts in the US, will recommend this practice in their dioceses. It is sure to call down great blessing on the Church in our beloved country. Fr Pat Collins CM is a Vincentian missionary, exorcist and author of Freedom from Evil Spirits: Released from Fear, Addiction & the Devil, published by Columba Books www.columbabooks.com https://www.irishcatholic.com/time-for-church-to-re-introduce-prayer-to-st-michael/
My diocese has put the prayer to St. Michael back at the end of mass. I have seen it often but not in all churches/masses yet, but very comforting when I do hear it and recite it at the end of mass!
Same here, Andy. My pastor has it recited at the end of every Holy Mass! O Mary conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee!
Same at my Parish. When we got our new Pastor last year, he started one hour of Eucharistic Adoration every day before the morning Mass, and also put the prayer of St. Michael back at the end of Sunday Masses.
