HH, I should have been clearer with my post that this idea is not being proposed yet but that article that I posted is discussing "alternatives" to our current methods. When I first heard about the Equifax breach I thought that the implanted microchip might be proposed as a "solution" and then I read about others who were thinking the same thing. It gives me an uneasy feeling also but hopefully this won't happen.
What I love in this rendition is the complementary interchange between the male and female voices. There is a beauty, a type of harmony; not competition, but balance, almost like the deeper meaning of marriage. I can sing it, but I wish I could put the following to music. It was a song that was sometimes sung in worship by the members of a family prayer group I was associated with- a sung rendition of Psalm 29. It produced this same effect of beauty. Psalm 29 1 Ascribe to the LORD, O heavenly beings, ascribe to the LORD glory and strength. 2 Ascribe to the LORD the glory of his name; worship the LORD in holy array. 3 The voice of the LORD is upon the waters; the God of glory thunders, the LORD, upon many waters. 4 The voice of the LORD is powerful, the voice of the LORD is full of majesty. 5 The voice of the LORD breaks the cedars, the LORD breaks the cedars of Lebanon. 6 He makes Lebanon to skip like a calf, and Si'rion like a young wild ox. 7 The voice of the LORD flashes forth flames of fire. 8 The voice of the LORD shakes the wilderness, the LORD shakes the wilderness of Kadesh. 9 The voice of the LORD makes the oaks to whirl, and strips the forests bare; and in his temple all cry, "Glory!" 10 The LORD sits enthroned over the flood; the LORD sits enthroned as king for ever. 11 May the LORD give strength to his people! May the LORD bless his people with peace! Vineyard Hymn: Ps 29- Ascribe to the Lord A) Ascribe to the Lord all ye heavenly host, ascribe to Him glory and strength. Ascribe to the Lord the glory of His name, and worship Him in holy array. B) Alleluia…The voice of the Lord is upon the waters Alleluia…The God of glory thunders forth Alleluia…The Voice of the Lord full of power and majesty Alleluia…And in His temple all cry, “Glory!” C) The Lord sits enthroned over all the flood, the Lord enthroned as king forever. May the Lord give strength to His people, may the Lord bless His people with peace. D) Alleluia…The voice of the Lord breaks the cedars of Lebanon Alleluia…The voice of the Lord flashes forth flames of fire Alleluia…The voice of the Lord strips the oaks and forests bare Alleluia…And in His temple all cry “Glory!” E) Everyone: And in His temple all cry, “Glory!” Arrangement A) Women sing v. 1 & 2 B) Back-to-back: 1) Women sing: Alleluia 2) Men sing v. 3, 4 & 9b C) Women sing v. 10 & 11 D) Back-to-back: 1) Women sing: Alleluia 2) Men sing v. 5,7, & 9 E) All: And in his temple all cry glory! ____________________________________
I think this inevitable. State bureaucracies and global corporatism are in lock-step and the 'mark of the Beast' serves the interest of both. Already, there is much talk of abolishing cash. In that circumstance, the people will certainly not be able to buy or sell. Unquestionably, pensions (both state and private) and all social welfare payments will require the 'mark' in order to be collected. The same will apply, naturally, to wages and salaries and all access to institutional savings. Access to all public services, such as doctors, hospitals and so on will require the 'mark'. The same with shops, supermarkets and the like. Those who wish to avoid being 'marked' will be reduced to bartering and to utter deprivation, struggling for enough food to eat and to wear rags for clothes. It will be very difficult to abstain from this pinnacle of slavery.
DeGaulle, I have remained on the fence about what the "mark of the Beast" represents but this implanted microchip is more and more believable as time goes by. It may be proposed for legal voting purposes also, ugh.
Voting would be one of the lesser inconveniences. At the point of the introduction of this type of slave-shackle, one's vote would only be nominal. As it is, we are offered a choice of either a left-liberal or right-liberal option in most countries. They are all heading towards perdition, the only difference being in which gear, as far as I can see. Expect a massive, unprecedented 'consensus' on this issue, with propaganda coming from all directions proclaiming the most exciting, 'liberating' technological development in the history of humankind. Most people will even believe it. Opponents will be dismissed as irresponsible and anti-social. That's my read of it.
North Korea Launches Another Missile, Escalating Crisis By RUSSELL GOLDMAN SEPT. 14, 2017 HONG KONG — North Korea fired a missile off its east coast on Friday, the South Korean military said. Continue reading here, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/14/world/asia/north-korea-missile.html
I had the exact same uneasy feeling. It was just one of those odd moments where I noticed that the man's face and words seemed "off" and I wondered why. I just had the feeling that perhaps he knew about this in advance and it was perhaps deliberate. You know, like one of those false flags. And then I dismissed the feeling. I hate to speak as if I know something is true if I don't have enough evidence. So I will keep praying and trusting in the Lord.
Check out the writings of Emmett O'Regan (Unveiling the Apocalypse). In his first book he made a very strong case that the "Mark of the Beast" involves the World Wide Web and cell phone technology. In Africa, in many places it's too dangerous to carry money, so instead cell phones are used to transfer funds when buying or selling things.
Fr. Martin Calls for “Reverence” for Homosexual Unions News: US News by Trey Elmore You are not signed in as a Premium user; we rely on Premium users to support our news reporting. Sign in or Sign up today! NEW YORK (ChurchMilitant.com) - Homosexualist Jesuit Fr. James Martin is calling for gay relationships to be shown "reverence" at a September 5 symposium at Fordham University, a Jesuit institution in the Bronx. Martin said, "I have a hard time imagining how even the most traditionalist, homophobic, closed-minded Catholic cannot look at my (active homosexual) friend and say, 'That is a loving act, and that is a form of love that I don't understand but I have to reverence." Father Martin was referring to his friend whom he calls Mark. Mark left a religious order and currently lives as an active homosexual. Martin said: He came out and has been with his partner for 20 years. His partner has a fairly serious illness that is at times extremely serious and requires a lot of attention. Mark has cared for him for, I think, 15–20 years now. And one of the questions I would like the institutional Church to reflect on is: 'Is this not love?' He went on to remark, "I do not understand how a person could say the following things: This is not love, this is a lesser love, they should be apart, they should have never met, they should never be together." Father Martin went on to describe meeting a couple at a parish that consisted of a woman and a man who was transgender and living his life as a woman. They told Fr. Martin, they were married before the husband "was a man." Fr. Martin said, "The first question that came to my mind was 'what can the Church learn from them about fidelity?'" In a post on Facebook, Joseph Sciambra, an ex-gay porn star of whom Church Militant has written previously, gave the following response to Fr. Martin's argument, "After listening to the LiveStream discussion between James Martin and Patrick Hornbeck — I had even less respect for James Martin." Sciambra told Church Militant the following when asked for comment: I believe that as human beings, two men or two women, no matter what their perceived sexual orientation, can express true compassion for each other, but the problem that I see with James Martin is that he perceives this 'loving' relationship within a homosexual context. That because two men for example, can care for each other, consequently, the homosexual orientation must be good. This is false. As a man who lived through the height of the AIDS crisis in the early 1990s, I saw many of my friends who exhibited an immense amount of self-sacrifice towards their dying lovers. In this sense, homosexual men and women are just like heterosexuals in their capacity to reach out towards those who suffer. But this goodness comes from God and not from their sexual orientation. For someone like James Martin, because he argues that 'God made you this way,' the individual and the orientation are inseparable. Therefore he can't see the good in someone without equating it with their sexuality. Sciambra went on to re-post a comment from Pittsburgh Theological Seminary Professor Robert Gagnon, who said the following, "This is a virtual endorsement, not merely of a friendship (to which no one would object) but of a romantic, homosexual relationship ("to be together" normally refers to sexual relationships)." Gagnon pointed out that Martin conflated the circumstances, surrounding an objectively sinful lifestyle and acts and the lifestyle and acts themselves: Martin likes to obscure a distinction between friendship love and romantic love when he points to the relationship being 'loving' as the defining feature. Suppose this were instead an adult-consensual, incestuous relationship in which a man cared for his mother or sister. Would Martin make the same observation, inferring a validation of the incestuous component of the union? The symposium also featured Patrick Hornbeck, chairman of the theology department at Fordham and an active "married" homosexual, who said that Fr. Martin had "performed a great service." Hornbeck actually criticized Fr. Martin's position in his book that the so-called LGBT community gives the hierarchy "the gift of time," saying "we have to ask the question, 'what is the cost' to the members of the LGBT community?" Hornbeck pointed out that homosexual teenagers have higher suicide rates than heterosexual teenagers, implying that the Church's never-preached-about teaching is the reason for the trend in order to make the point that active homosexuals should demand the instantaneous formal abrogation of the Church's teaching, which isn't possible in the short or long term. Hornbeck said, "When an LGBT person comes and sits in a Church space, the theological presuppositions that are at work in that space includes the idea that their attractions are objectively disordered — includes the position that the institutional Church has taken that just discrimination is possible."
Full disclosure: I've spent 20 years in IT; I currently work Member Support for LifeLock, an identity protection company. Of course the president of Equifax knew just when the breach occurred -- you don't hide something like that from the president of the company. No way were they going to tell everyone about the breach as soon as they found out. First you have to find out how the breach occurred, where is happened, are any other systems affected, etc. Then you need to patch the systems (if a patch is available; if not, one has to be written and tested) and then test the systems with the patch installed to make sure there are no other holes that were made by your fix. What REALLY upsets me is that they keep talking about "freezing your credit". NO!!! A credit freeze is something you do to handle major identity theft. It locks down your credit; you have to arrange in advance if you want credit for buying a car or a house, and most importantly, IT COSTS MONEY. Equifax is pushing that because they will make up some lost revenue this way. Plus, just freezing your credit at Equifax does nothing. You also have to freeze your credit at Experian and at TransUnion, both of which will ALSO charge you. The answer is not a credit freeze, it's a 90-day Fraud Alert. For the next 90 days, anything that touches your credit report will generate an alert. When you set one up at one credit bureau, they pass it on to the other two, so you only have to do it once. Most importantly, IT'S FREE!
Keep an eye out for these guys, the AFD is ultra nationalist as well as supports the gay cause. They are pulling people into their midst precisely because of the massive wave of Muslim immigration into Germany. http://edition.cnn.com/2017/09/14/europe/germany-far-right-lgbt-support/index.html Bremen, Germany (CNN)Karsten P. empties a test tube filled with metal pieces into the palm of his hand. They're the tiny screws and bolts that held his face together after he and his partner Sven were violently assaulted in a life-changing attack outside their local store. Two surgeries later and fearful of being attacked again, the openly gay 52-year-old taxi driver -- who doesn't want to be identified because of concerns of another attack -- avoids public spaces and always takes pepper spray with him. He and his partner have also been forced to move neighborhoods in the northwest German city of Bremen following mounting costs as a result of being injured. "I went outside and saw someone kicking my partner's head. I was trying to stop him and right at that moment, I got hit from the side," Karsten recalls about the attack. "I kind of lost consciousness and when I got up again, I thought my partner was dead. He was all covered in blood and he didn't move at all." Police identified the attackers as two locally known Muslim extremists. They were never arrested and later fled to Syria. After demanding answers from local prosecutors and the mayor's office and not getting a response, Karsten turned to Germany's far right party, the Alternative for Germany (AfD). "I don't like everything they say," Karsten says, "but this is too dangerous for gay people to live openly here, if we get attacked like that. We need a party that's talking openly about this."
He is a modernist priest who serves his own needs. He is one who helps bring God's chastisement closer. And when fire does fall from heaven (Akita) in God's own time all of us will know that it is a result of sins that cry to heaven for justice! CCC 1867 The catechetical tradition also recalls that there are "sins that cry to heaven": the blood of Abel,the sin of the Sodomites, the cry of the people oppressed in Egypt,the cry of the foreigner, the widow, and the orphan, injustice to the wage earner.
Of course, Hornbeck completely dismisses the option that the 'lifestyle' might be the reason for the suicidal tendencies. It would be interesting to see some data of the suicide rate among young people of all religions and none. It is strange that the incidence of suicide appears to be increasing in direct proportion to the declining influence of the Churches of all denominations. As for the notion of homosexual relations attracting 'reverence'-that can only have one source, and it's not God. The notion that 'God made you this way' directly contradicts the allies of the homosexuals in the LGBT_whatever_you're_having_yourself coalition who claim that one can change one's entire sex and sexuality at the drop of a hat. Neither is there a fig of evidence to support what Martin asserts, no matter how loudly Lady Gaga bawls in her 'song'. Imagine if a homosexual gene was discovered. The abortion rate would be phenomenal and the highest incidence would, I guarantee you, be among the most liberal, who are all for homosexuality but not for themselves if they can avoid it (see how girls are discriminated against, if it's legal). The only ones trying to help the 'homosexual babies' would be the very Christians they despise. An excellent comment from Sciambra, who certainly can't be accused of not knowing what he's talking about.
Evils on both sides. On one side, violent Mohammedans whose behaviour is totally wicked-one can't tolerate such attacks on homosexuals. On the other, the totally wicked homosexual lobby. In fairness, this AFD party may be one that supports the rights of homosexuals to not be beaten up rather than their entire cause. It might be simply electoral opportunism-they would be naive to refuse votes. According to CNN 'Germany's far right AfD party opposes same-sex marriage'. I can't see the disadvantage in opportunistically splitting two of the great idols of liberalism-it may be the way to conquer them. Defeat the Mohammedans, the greatest immediate threat, first. Then the homosexualists can be dealt with in a more proper way. Let's not forget that the perverts in Germany are getting desperate. Their liberal masters have chosen to favour the Mohammedans over them, even at the cost of their lives. That might make them a little less 'proud'.
Thought-provoking video on earth changes. Go to 2:30 for testimony of Inuit elders that seem to confirm this.
Looks like we can check off most of those here in the US. Maybe in the West at large. God's patience with us has been beyond anything we had a right to expect. He really does not wish--as He says in scripture--to destroy the sinner but how many warnings will it take? I was reading Romans last night. Led there by the Holy Spirit I think. (I asked for Him to give me His Word) and it was the passage about giving "them over to a reprobate mind"so that perversions and terrible even worse sins followed. The footnote said God didn't make it happen. He simply left them to themselves. Exactly what we are seeing now.
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world...njuring-22/ar-AArXyZI?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=UE07DHP Improvised bomb explodes on packed London commuter train injuring 22 September 15, 2017 Please pray for those affected by this. Thank you. Also, Ben Shapiro speech at UC Berkeley results in arrests at protests Published September 15, 2017 http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/09/1...ng-to-speech-by-conservative-ben-shapiro.html CNN host Anthony Bourdain says he would poison Trump if he had to cook for him By Brian Flood Published September 14, 2017 http://www.foxnews.com/entertainmen...ould-poison-trump-if-had-to-cook-for-him.html Vandals Deface Statue of National Anthem Author F.S. Key in Baltimore September 13, 2017 http://insider.foxnews.com/2017/09/13/francis-scott-key-statue-vandalized-star-spangled-banner-writer-racist-Baltimore Protesters Toting Black Lives Matter Signs Cover UVA’s Thomas Jefferson Statue in Black Shroud September 13, 2017 http://www.breitbart.com/big-govern...ter-signs-cover-uvas-thomas-jefferson-statue/
Looks like yet another un named caught up in the child abuse inside the Vatican. http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/storie...ME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2017-09-15-07-51-34 VATICAN CITY (AP) -- A high-ranking Vatican priest working in the Holy See's embassy in Washington has been recalled after U.S. prosecutors asked for him to be charged and face trial in a child pornography investigation, Vatican and U.S. officials said Friday. The Vatican declined to identify the diplomat, but said he was currently in Vatican City and that Vatican prosecutors had launched their own probe. The State Department said it had asked the Vatican to lift the official's diplomatic immunity on Aug. 21. It said that request was denied. For the State Department to make such a request, its lawyers would have needed to be convinced that there was reasonable cause for criminal prosecution. In a statement, the Vatican said the U.S. State Department had notified the Vatican on Aug. 21 of a "possible violation of laws relating to child pornography images" by one of its diplomats in Washington. A U.S. official familiar with the case said the priest was a senior member of the Vatican embassy staff. The Vatican yearbook lists three counselors who work under the nuncio, or ambassador. The Vatican said recalling the priest was consistent with diplomatic practice of sovereign states. In declining to identify him, the Vatican said the case was subject to confidentiality while still under investigation. The Vatican has recalled envoys before - including its former ambassador to the Dominican Republic, who was recalled in 2013 after being accused of sexually abusing young boys on the Caribbean island. The Vatican justified its decision to remove Monsignor Jozef Wesolowski from Dominican jurisdiction by submitting him first to a canonical court proceeding at the Vatican, and then putting him on trial in the Vatican's criminal court, which has jurisdiction over the Holy See's diplomatic corps. Wesolowski was defrocked by the church court. But he died before the criminal trial got underway. Dominican prosecutors initially balked at the recall, and they never filed charges because of his immunity. The Vatican doesn't have extradition treaties. After he was defrocked, Wesolowski lost his diplomatic immunity and the Vatican said he could be tried by other courts. However, it refused to provide Dominican authorities with information about his whereabouts or how even he had pleaded to the charges.
