I agree, he was a holy man like many others who did whatever was in their power to do to help the Jewish people during a time when there was a great amount of conflicting information and motivations let alone great danger and crisis in the world. I think some of this comes down to something I have noticed with people of other faiths about the church and specifically the Pope. For instance there are those who after the war were liberated and in their gratitude publicly thanked the church for its help and even went so far as to say they would not have survived without it. Then there are those from within this same group who just relentlessly attack the church. They use its failures and the sins of its members against it at any opportunity because I think we can all agree that it is their goal to topple it. They accuse it of thousands of years of persecutions and oppression. They work to turn the entire world against it and in turn achieve their ends.
Yes, I wondered how long it would be before the slander began. I have to admit I am surprised it arrived so quickly. I am excited to see what comes from the information made public from a time of such great evil and good. I think it will be very important to pay careful attention to the authority behind these reports. There are bound to be some incredible and inspiring bits of information that we would not otherwise hear. Now we just need to have some patience.
They say the first casualty in war is TRUTH. I remember seeing a book written by Bill Casey who was in the CIA, I believe it was his autobiography. I am certain he said in the book I saw many years ago that the CIA had teams working all across Europe during the second world war. So how in the name of God can anyone claim USA knew nothing about what was going on. If you read Bill Casey's book you will see the CIA knew, why did they not make their government aware. All this is a load of poppy cock. We know the Church tried to help hide people whose lives were in danger from the Hitlerites, indeed other non Church groups also tried to help. When you think of it, there were people who would betray the Jews and people who would try to help the Jews. I never understand why the Pope is all of a sudden the most powerful and only man expected to stand alone against armies under the orders of a tyrant. Get a grip. Who will be held responsible for the abortion and euthanasia in our day. Need you ask. The Pope will be held responsible in the twisted history that seems to make it into the educations system which is so corrupt it is a joke. That is Julias little rant.
I'm not sure where to post the following and I didn't want to create a new thread for this but last Fall I noticed a little plant under one of my evergreens. I live on LI, NY in the suburbs but we have have lots of birds around so I'm assuming that a bird brought the seeds of this plant to my yard (or possibly the wind but I believe that this is far less likely). On Mother's Day, I asked my daughter to help me figure out what the plant is and she determined that it is a Chimaphila maculata or spotted (or striped) wintergreen. I have not seen one bloom yet but I am hoping to do so this year. I am posting this on MOG because I simply found this to be a very interesting little plant and I was wondering if anyone here is familiar with it and if it is in abundance where they live. In NY it is considered Exploitably Vulnerable which I also found interesting. It is a perennial evergreen herb and the following is from wikipedia: Medicinal history "The Creek Indians called it 'pipsisikweu' – which means 'breaks into small pieces' – after the supposed ability to break down gallstones and kidney stones. ... Native Americans used its leaf tea to treat rheumatism and stomach problems, and crushed leaves were applied as a poultice to sores and wounds."[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimaphila_maculata Here is a picture of it, it is a cute little thing imo:
It is very cute. How wonderful that it is now in your yard. Your daughter did a good job researching this. If it blooms, send us a picture.
Very neat Carol and it sounds like it works really well for things like kidney stones and gall stones. It's all over Northern America as well.
etoa, I am not sure if this news has been posted yet. Navy Officially Releases Controversial UFO Videos The Navy says it hopes this will "clear up any misconceptions by the public." By Joseph Trevithick April 27, 2020 | https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/33179/navy-officially-releases-infamous-ufo-videos ... "The Department of Defense has authorized the release of three unclassified Navy videos, one taken in November 2004 and the other two in January 2015, which have been circulating in the public domain after unauthorized releases in 2007 and 2017. The U.S. Navy previously acknowledged that these videos circulating in the public domain were indeed Navy videos. After a thorough review, the department has determined that the authorized release of these unclassified videos does not reveal any sensitive capabilities or systems, and does not impinge on any subsequent investigations of military air space incursions by unidentified aerial phenomena. DOD is releasing the videos in order to clear up any misconceptions by the public on whether or not the footage that has been circulating was real, or whether or not there is more to the videos. The aerial phenomena observed in the videos remain characterized as "unidentified." The released videos can be found at the Naval Air Systems Command FOIA Reading Room: https://www.navair.navy.mil/foia/documents." ... [Please click on the link above to read the whole article.]
Maybe something, maybe nothing. I didn't know where else to put this but it seems interesting given his young age and the timing. https://www.yahoo.com/news/chinas-ambassador-israel-found-dead-081053259.html China's ambassador to Israel found dead in Tel Aviv home: police FILE PHOTO: China's Ambassador to Ukraine Du Wei attends a news briefing in Kiev JERUSALEM (Reuters) - China's ambassador to Israel was found dead in his home in a Tel Aviv suburb on Sunday, an Israeli police spokesman said. He did not comment on the cause of death of ambassador Du Wei, who was 57 years old and became ambassador to Israel in February, according to the embassy's website. "As part of the regular procedure, police units are at the scene," the spokesman said. Israel's Channel 12 TV, quoting unidentified emergency medical officials, said initial indications were that Du died in his sleep of natural causes. (Reporting by Ari Rabinovitch; Editing by Jeffrey Heller and Catherine Evans)
Don, Well, if I told you what I think is "next" from the CCP you might think that I am crazy. But they have already successfully "shutdown" Jerusalem temporarily, I think that the ultimate goal of a tyrannical communist government besides gaining control of the whole world is to destroy all evidence of the basis of most religions in the world. They probably won't do this themselves but more than likely they would supply the means to do this to some other group and/or country but God is not going to allow this to happen. This, of course, is just my opinion. So, if I'm right could the death of this Chinese ambassador to Israel be related to this? Yes, I think so especially if we consider that the some Chinese people who were speaking out about the Wuhan virus were murdered it is quite possible that this ambassador was going to speak out (either about my conspiracy theory or about something else). But don't be scared, just be prepared. + *** This is video is pretty good. *** Edited to add: This happened on LI where I live and the people are right and Trump is right. They are also right that News 12 has gone to the darkside, this news channel seems to be huge fans of Cuomo. Trump retweets video of coronavirus lockdown protesters, says they're 'great people' by LIZANDRA PORTAL, WPEC Staff Saturday, May 16th 2020 https://fox56.com/news/coronavirus/...rotesters-says-theyre-great-people-05-16-2020
That Chinese ambassador: He wrote in an article in the Jerusalem Post in mid-March that he immediately had to enter two weeks of mandatory self-quarantine on his arrival. Perhaps he didn't spend enough time in quarantine!!! Wonder if the public will ever find the truth because IF COVID was involved that could cause more public panic and not make the gov. protocol look too good....esp. for those coming from China.
You are certainly not crazy Carol. I don't know what more of a sign we could ask for. When I see things like this it gets my attention. We may never know what the real story is behind it but knowing the party involved it is certainly not unlikely that there is more to it. I saw that News12 video. It seems that some of the people of RI are getting pretty fed up with the media's coverage to put it lightly. I also saw this article this morning and I hope that the Congressman continues in his pursuit of the truth and pray for his ongoing protection. I watch the Global Times tweets because it quite literally is the mouthpiece for the CCP on Twitter. A few weeks back they had the audacity to tweet that America would never be the same as a result of the pandemic. I don't know about anyone else but having seen the tone of their statements for months now it struck me that they were quite literally throwing it in our faces collectively. https://www.tapinto.net/towns/barne...threatens-harm-to-u-s-congressman-chris-smith China's Government Threatens Harm to U.S. Congressman Chris Smith By CONGRESSMAN CHRIS SMITH'S OFFICE May 17, 2020 at 10:43 AM NEW JERSEY: U.S. Congressman Chris Smith, represents district 4, NJ. Smith is demanding the truth from China, and is seeking to legally empower victims of COVID-19. The Chinese government through its propaganda organ the Global Times threatened Congressman Chris Smith of New Jersey and a handful of American lawmakers and officials seeking to legally empower victims of the COVID-19 pandemic to bring lawsuits in U.S. courts against the Chinese government. The Global Times wrote on May 14, “China is extremely dissatisfied with the abuse of litigation by the US against China over the COVID-19 epidemic, and is considering punitive countermeasures against US individuals, entities and state officials. China won't just strike back symbolically but will impose countermeasures that will make them feel the pain, analysts said.” The article continued, “Smith has also been a frequent instigator on China-related topics, particularly on so-called human rights issues. In March 2019, Smith introduced legislation to tackle China's political influence in the US by saying ‘Beijing's influence operations are sophisticated and threatening.’" Smith said: “Sanctions will not silence me or anyone who demands genuine accountability for this horrific pandemic. In my state of New Jersey alone, more than ten thousand people have died from COVID-19. Beijing cannot continue to hide, lie and now threaten to stop us from demanding the truth.” Smith is the prime author of H.R.6524 - Compensation for the Victims of State Misrepresentations to the World Health Organization Act of 2020 a bill he introduced on April 17th joined by Rep. Ron Wright (R-TX) to waive the Foreign Immunities Act to legally empower U.S. citizens to sue the government of China for monetary damages, “for personal injury or death, or damage to or loss of property, occurring in the United States as a result of a willful or grossly negligent misrepresentation of information to the World Health Organization.” Additionally, on Friday (May 15th) Smith, joined by Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX), introduced H.R. 6915 to establish a truth commissiontasked to with compiling the factual record on the origins of and response to COVID-19 by both China and the World Health Organization (WHO) and make recommendations for future improvement. The Smith-Cuellar truth commission legislation states that “With the onset of the COVID-19 the Government of the People’s Republic of China provided factually-inaccurate information to the WHO and Director-General Ghebreyesus, resulting in the spread of disinformation globally about the pandemic.” In addition to the lawsuit and truth commission legislation, Smith is the prime author of numerous bills, amendments and laws to combat Chinese government abuse including most recently: · The Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act · Countering the Chinese Government and Communist Party’s Political Influence Operations Act · Combating Illicit Fentanyl Act of 2019 · Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act Smith has chaired more than 60 congressional hearings on Chinese human rights abuses, from China’s "soft power" use of Confucius Institutes, to NYU and other institutions of higher learning being given unimaginable deals, the pervasive use of forced abortion, coerced sterilization, torture, religious persecution, laogai labor, and organ harvesting. The 20-term Republican said he has traveled to China several times and after one human rights visit to Beijing was blocked for seven years from getting a visa. Smith chaired a landmark hearing in 2006 with top executives from Google, Microsoft, Cisco and Yahoo demanding that these and other top U.S. corporations end what he called their “complicity with China’s secret police repression and Beijing’s ubiquitous censorship of the internet.” Soon after the Tiananmen Square massacre, in March of 1991, Smith and then-Congressman Frank Wolf led a human rights mission to China and visited Beijing Prison No. 1 where over 40 democracy protestors were making shoes and socks for export to the U.S. The two congressmen got U.S. Customs to place an import ban on all products from the prison. On another trip to China in January of 1994, Smith visited with Bishop Su Zhimin, Roman Catholic Bishop of the Diocese of Baoding in Hebei Province who spent decades in prison for his faith. After celebrating Mass with Smith and his delegation, Bishop Su was arrested and held for nine days. Smith said that “on human rights, democracy and the rule of law, President Xi is in a race to the bottom with North Korea. Under his policy of sinicization all religious faiths are required to comport with communist ideology.” In December of 2018, Smith wrote an op-ed published by the Washington Post: The world must stand against China’s war on religion. “I sponsored the first (of dozens) committee and floor amendments beginning in 1983 to defund the UN Population Fund (UNFPA) for its complicity in China's coercive one child per couple policy,” he said. Smith said that for over 30 years, he has “pushed back on the fantasy notion that trade with China—in reality, a gutting of American manufacturing and a wholesale transfer of intellectual property--would somehow ameliorate China’s behavior.” Along with a handful of other congressional voices “we fought the Clinton Administration when it abandoned the linking of trade benefits (Most Favored Nation, or MFN) with significant progress on human rights and he put together and chaired the only congressional hearings opposing China’s accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO).” When Bill Clinton abandoned human rights linkage with China MFN on a Friday afternoon—on May 26, 1994—Smith put together a press conference to protest what he called Clinton’s “abandonment”: China Most Favored Nation Status Reaction. “Since that infamous day in May, we—and the human rights defenders inside China—lost much of our leverage to promote human rights in China,” he added.
Another article concerning the Chinese Ambassadors death. Let's hope that Israel chooses wisely in regard to China. Unfortunately I could see Netanyahu's Govt wanting to use China's technology apparatus on a segment of their society and could consider it to be a solution to their problems. China has turned the police state into something much much worse than we have ever seen before. https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news...el-found-dead-in-hertzliya-home-report-628299 Chinese ambassador to Israel found dead in Herzliya home There are reportedly no signs of violence. Wei's death comes a week after US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo visited Israel in an apparent attempt to convince the gov't to limit Chinese investment. By TAMAR BEERI, LAHAV HARKOV MAY 17, 2020 20:46 China's Ambassador to Israel Du Wei attends a briefing in his previous post in Ukraine. (photo credit: REUTERS/VALENTYN OGIRENKO) Chinese Ambassador to Israel Du Wei was found dead in his Herzliya home on Sunday morning, a Foreign Ministry official said. Police were investigating at his home. The Chinese Embassy said it could not confirm the reports. There were no signs of violence, leading investigators to believe that Wei died from a heart attack, Army Radio reported. Other sources close to the investigation claim he died of cardiac arrest. Foreign Ministry director-general Yuval Rotem expressed his condolences to Chinese Deputy Ambassador to Israel Dai Yuming. The Foreign Ministry would help in any way necessary, he said. Wei, 57, was a husband and father to a son. His family is not in the country with him. He arrived in Israel in February to assume the position of ambassador, having served as Chinese ambassador to Ukraine before that. Wei’s death comes one week after US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo visited Israel in what seemed to be an attempt to convince the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to limit Chinese investments in Israel. Chinese Embassy in Israel spokesperson Wang Yongjun wrote an op-ed in The Jerusalem Post on Friday about the resilience of the Chinese and Israelis, calling Pompeo’s claims and comments “absurd.” “Historical experience also shows that pandemic is accompanied by conspiracies and the dark mentality of seeking scapegoats,” Yongjun wrote. “Jewish friends know it well.” “China-Israel cooperation is win-win in nature, and the projects are market activities based on supply and demand. In the hi-tech area, our cooperation opened the largest market in the world to Israel’s innovation achievement, and in the infrastructure fields, Chinese companies bring cost-effective labors that are much needed by Israel’s construction endeavour and provide a large number of job opportunities,” he wrote. “Above is the response of the Embassy towards Mr Pompeo’s comments on China. We trust that the Jewish friends are not only able to defeat the coronavirus but also the ‘political virus’ and choose the course of action that best serves their interests.” Former foreign minister Israel Katz tweeted that he was “shocked to hear tragic news related to the sudden death of H.E. Du Wei... Ambassador Du was a distinguished career diplomat and during his short time in Israel had already contributed to the bilateral relations between the countries.” Katz conveyed his condolences to the Chinese Foreign Ministry on behalf of Israel.
You have to take into the equation that the ambassador had just taken up the position in Israel in Feb. He was the Chinese ambassador to Ukraine when he took up this position. Did he know where all the bodies were buried in that former corrupt regime in Ukraine....esp. where the investigation of Biden's son was interrupted by Biden, the Chinese's preference for President in the coming election? If this happened in Ukraine there would be a lot of assumptions pertaining to that former regime there. The modus operandi of Ukraine also involves hit men in other countries. Whatever the investigation into his death may include I doubt if we will ever know the truth since there is the same kind of division and lies and accusations against Israel's Trump.....Netanyahu.....and the left there is just as power hungry and secular as the one here.
Biden doesn't have "people".....he's a puppet of the DS here and thus they have their own connections in many places for same reasons. A stolen election that places that puppet into the most desired position of power in the world is their last hope to keep power. They are desperate now and will do anything to stay in power.....or.....they go to jail. BiBi is hanging on but barely. He will be much more empowered once Trump gets re-elected. The Chinese ain't gonna protect him from Iran's puppet terrorists in the region or their nuke program. Israel probably already has its own anti-viral answer. Who knows....maybe that's what Trump already has news of. Meanwhile China gets the focus now for hoarding all of the aids to helping the pandemic. They're now saying the Ambassador died in his sleep of natural causes!!! You'll never hear who may have helped him along!
Two long time friends of mine are finally looking towards God. One a long time atheist called Tom is asking be about my spirituality and finally opening up, wow, great guy with 4 daughters. The other, Gerry is a long time born again but more of a DIY a la carte Christian is finally warming to Catholicism, that was some battle. I know him since I was 4. Please say a prayer for these two possible saints and their conversions. Thanks.
Harry Miller: My Free Speech High Court Victory Over Alleged Anti-Trans Tweet & Police Investigation Thought police in Britain - Orwellian
