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Zambia- gets a new Bishop

2012-01-12T16:11:00.001+02:00

Article by Marc Aupiais

The Old South West Africa, which many South Africans visited while invading it, has a new bishop appointment, says the good Old Pope's News Service: VIS. The Zambian nation, is often praised by the pope for respecting the nuclear family, founded on one man and one woman and their potential children. It has many Catholics. Both of these, contrast us not so good, not so old folk in South Africa (their old occupiers).

VIS says:

OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, 12 JAN 2012 (VIS) - The Holy Father appointed Bishop Ignatius Chama of Mpika, Zambia, as archbishop of Kasama (area 59,130, population 1,182,000, Catholics 705,208, priests 66, religious 177), Zambia, and as apostolic administrator "sede vacante et ad nutum Sanctae Sedis" of the diocese of Mpika.
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Pope on destiny- the collective humanity makes the individual destiny happen

2012-01-12T16:05:00.001+02:00

Article by Marc Aupiais

A simple, simply brilliant look at destiny/serendipity by the pope?

Benedict XVI, God's Rottweiler looks at simple destiny, and says simply enough, that we influence the collective destiny and it makes our own fate for us. How people act, each of us, like butterfly wings, causes the hurricane that is the ends and starts that are human life!

Or as the Pope's news service puts it:

INDIVIDUAL DESTINY IS LINKED TO COLLECTIVE DESTINY

VATICAN CITY, 12 JAN 2012 (VIS) - "The challenges we are currently facing are numerous and complex, and can be overcome only if we reinforce our awareness that the destiny of each of us is linked to that of everyone else. For this reason ... acceptance, solidarity and legality are fundamental values". With these words the Holy Father welcomed the authorities of the City of Rome, the Region of Lazio, and the Province of Rome, whom he received this morning in a traditional annual meeting for the exchange of New Year greetings.

The Pope went on: "The present crisis can, then, be an opportunity for the entire community to verify whether the values upon which social life is founded have generated a society that is just, fair and united, or whether it is necessary to undertake a profound rethink in order to rediscover values which ... not only favour economic recovery, but which are also attentive to promoting the integral good of human beings".

Benedict XVI expressed the view that the roots of the current crisis lie in "individualism which clouds the interpersonal dimension of man and leads him to close himself into his own little world, concerned first and foremost with satisfying his own needs and desires with scant concern for others". The consequences of such a mentality are "speculation in housing, increasing difficulty for young people to enter the world of work, the solitude suffered by so many elderly, the anonymity which often characterises urban life, and the sometimes superficial attention paid to situations of marginalisation and poverty".

The first step towards creating a more human society is "to rediscover relationships as the constituent element of our lives". Man is called to live in relation with other people and with God, Who alone "is capable of welcoming man unconditionally and of giving him infinite love".

Institutions must foment and increase the awareness that we all form part of the same structure, encouraging values of acceptance, solidarity and legality, said the Pope highlighting the work of Christian organisations which welcome people who have abandoned their own countries due to poverty or violence. He invited his audience to develop ways to integrate people into the social fabric, so that "individuals may learn to consider the place in which they reside as a 'common home', in which to live and for which to care".

Acceptance must be accompanied by solidarity, because "charity and justice require that, in times of need, those with the greatest resources should look after the disadvantaged". Benedict XVI insisted that institutions must give particular support to families, especially large families, in which context he invited the authorities "to defend the family founded on marriage as an essential cell of society". They must also show solidarity towards young people, "who are most penalised by the lack of work, ... implementing policies which ensure fairly priced accommodation and which help to guarantee employment", so as to avoid the risk that young people "fall victim to criminal organisations offering easy takings".

Finally, the Pope turned his attention to the need "to promote a culture of legality, helping citizens to understand that law exists to channel the many positive energies that exist in society, and thus to promote the common good. ... Institutions have the task ... of issuing just and fair provisions, also taking account of the law which God inscribed in man's heart, and which everyone can understand through reason".
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How to defraud an electorate and the Republican front runners

2012-01-11T09:46:00.001+02:00

Article by Marc Aupiais

Primaries- where presidents are made, before they are made. The Republican primary voters are facing a dilemma. Vote for the best candidate, or vote for the one you think Democrats and non-republicans may vote for.

The Republican primaries are being strongly fought- between Mitt Romney, controversially more Democrat than Republican, and a mormon (still demonised in mainstream American society), and his opponent: aka every other candidate. The Democrat media all say that Mitt could beat out Obama, by making the election a referendum on Obama. The other candidates would have to fight based on their actual policies, which shockingly are Republican.

The fact that Romney and the other candidates keep competing strongly, with one or other often polling much stronger than him. The sudden low turnouts at rallies he attends, and other factors, hint at a different equation.

Romney, seems to be so UN-Republican, rather than a made to fit candidate, that Mormon, not so pro-life, not so pro-marriage Romney, seems to have both angered and alienated the Republican base, and Tea Party grassroots.

It is rare if ever that someone is elected purely because they aren't someone else. Generally voters just don't appear at stations.

Republicans who want the election handed to them on Obama's unpopularity, have a distinct problem. If they don't have a candidate who is not only slightly different than Obama, but who is independently someone who inspires their own grassroots, they will land up having to run a likely disastrous and meek anti-Obama campaign, replacing the epic evil dictator with another evil dictator- that is- like with like.

Its much easier to win on a positive campaign than a negative one.

Its sort of cheating really, voting not for who you support but who you think can hand you an election. The sort of cheating which backfires, so alien to Democracy is it. Its not even Republican anymore. The only party that can save America right now: through austerity and good social; economic policies! Not Obama's closed minded denialism!

Cardinal Foley: a likeable, effeminate, Christmas loving but slightly incompetent man?

2011-12-13T07:38:00.000+02:00

Article by Marc Aupiais

Cardinal Foley was the Christmas commentator for years: for the American English church. He was appointed by Pope Benedict XVI as head of the order of the Holy Sepulchre. That is: of getting charity for the Church in Jerusalem and the Middle East.

He is described as leaving thank you notes and making constant communication with friends and colleagues. They remember his jokes, and his ignoring of his cancer. His support of Salt and Light Television, his sentimentality and softness of person. His support for sometimes very politicised propaganda by Catholic News Service. His never bad mouthing a soul- allegedly.

Chaput notes his charismatic ability and that those who loved and cherished him and respected him: he hopes will be consoled. The Pope gave similar words.

Oddly lacking in all accounts is any claim that the man was even slightly effective as Head of the Social Communications department of the Vatican.

From the moment he retired there, news quality has gone considerably up.

The Cardinal died in Philadelphia.

Zuma considering usurping other branches of government- shadow minister claims to our Service

2011-12-13T06:54:00.000+02:00

Article by Marc Aupiais

The Deputy Shadow Minister of Transport has written to the Editor of the SACNS, as has been his habit for a long time, requesting that the following view be noted. We do not take sides in political matters at present although the Scripturelink Vote Service will when the next election occurs. The claims of the DA and their representatives while highly interesting are their own.

Letter:

"Letter to the Editor

Dear Editor,

The Simelane ruling highlights the Zumafication of government

Earlier this month the Democratic Alliance was victorious in defending our Constitution. The Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) found in the DA's favour that the appointment of Menzi Simelane as National Director of Public Prosecutions (NDPP) in November 2009 was unconstitutional and as a result invalid. Judge Mohamed Navsa in the delivery of a unanimous decision emphasised the fact that the legislative and executive arms of government are not above the law. Judge Navsa reminded the government that it cannot ignore, defy or subvert the Concourt.

However Zuma and his government simply do not understand this. They also do not understand our Constitution. This is evident when Zuma was being questioned during a Parliamentary session recently, he said the following; "The powers conferred on the courts cannot be superior to the powers resulting from the political and consequently administrative mandate resulting from popular democratic elections." In other words Zuma's understanding is that once a party is elected it can govern like a dictatorship presumably until the next elections when it should be able to do so until the following elections.

This scary scenario is further reinforced as more of the ANC leadership demonstrate their ignorance of how our democracy was carved out and how it should work. ANC secretary-general Gwede Mantashe is quoted in the media as saying, "you can't have a judiciary that seeks to arrest the functioning of government" describing the Constitutional Court as a consolidation of opposition to government.

The ANC is simply ignoring the principles of separation of the powers and arms of government, especially the assurance that no government could impose their will unchecked. Again, this statement is supported by the fact that the cabinet will be appointing a research institute to review the Constitutional Court's decisions.

Almost weekly we see how President Zuma is running the country- by constructing the "Zumafication" of South Africa. An example of this is the fact that Zuma ignored concerns raised about Simelane's character during the Ginwala Commission of Inquiry into whether the then NDPP Vusi Pikoli was fit to hold office. In truth Simelane gave misleading evidence to the Ginwale Inquiry into the fitness for office of his predecessor, Vusi Pikoli.

This ruling has opened an even bigger can of worms; it is clear that the Minister of Justice, Jeff Radebe, who was supposed to have advised Zuma on Simelane's fitness for office, is loyal to President Zuma and not the Constitution. We can be sure that Radebe will continue to serve on Zuma's cabinet as it suits his plan perfectly.

Zuma's mission is simple: to "Zumafy" state institutions so that they shield and protect the President and his network from being accountable to the law for any illegal actions he may have committed.

The President is however left with a dilemma; who must he appoint as the National Director of Public Prosecutions. He needs to apply his mind this time round. If he doesn't then the potential is there that this could escalate into a constitutional crisis. For once, Zuma needs to follow the interests of the country and not himself. I somehow doubt it though.

Kind regards,

Manny de Freitas MP
Member of Parliament
Shadow Deputy Minister for Transport
Member of Parliament for Johannesburg South
Democratic Alliance"

Sorry

2011-12-07T15:09:00.000+02:00

Wrote on wrong Blog by accident!

Was meant to go on my diary Blog!

Sorry again!

A magazine

2011-12-07T14:27:00.000+02:00

Diary

Sometimes I feel a bit lonely. Today I certainly did. I noticed one of a female relative's magazines. I'd cleared it with everything else downstairs. Shape.

I simply looked through at the pictures of smiling women. Oddly pacifying!

Chicken Stir fri! With lotsa chicken

2011-12-07T14:26:00.000+02:00

Diary

So, last night, I help make chicken stir fry. Really it was half chicken stirred and half anything else fried.

I enjoyed cooking. Especially as I didn't have mom's guidance. Was a bit like swimming alone in a lake for the first time.

Possible tan! Dunno

2011-12-07T14:24:00.000+02:00

Diary

So, today... Was a day. A day to go down to the beautiful enclave of that cove we discovered on Monday.

Mostly some teenaged girls were bathing in the tepid Indian Ocean waves. I sat, then lay with my Oakleys sunglasses on, and tons of SPF 30. Finally, when the girls near the ocean calmed down, I went for a splash at the waves myself.

Was 30 degrees today (86 F)- so hectic heat.

I enjoyed the waves, at the height. It was almost midday. One to 7. One to seven. Intensity heightening like tension. Ebbing slowly away.

And hour in the surf, spray and sunspray. I hope I got a tan.

Today is my last day of Holiday in Margate. On Thursday we leave at 5 a.m. Then off to Kruger soon.

Is South African "invasion" of Nigeria illegal?

2011-12-03T10:19:00.000+02:00

Article

The Johannesburg Star: headlines with the diplomatic storm, after heavily armed South African police tries to storm the Nigerian Consulate.

The Nigerian officials were accused of stealing the passports of 68 South African citizens after they allegedly refused to pay a bribe. Invasion of a diplomatic station is a serious crime in International law. Nicaragua v USA, is one case where the sovereignty issue was shown costly for a violator of it. Peru v Venezuela, at the ICJ also, however showed that the laws of sovereignty and embassies are limited and complex.

The invasion of "Nigeria" by police, doesn't rank near South Africa holding alleged Rwanda Genocide criminals. That is, diplomatically.

But, the taking of nearly 4 score South African's passports away, is a very serious matter also. Passports are property of the state. Passports are part of citizenship, a constitutional right.

Nigeria swiftly handed back the 68 South Africans' passports, and denied travel visas. Their staff, want the responsible parties for the "invasion" taken to task.

Precedent would say sovereignty is one of the strongest factors in any diplomatic activity. The South African constitution does not allow for the nation to go to war offensively.

The question, if this lands in the ICJ, is this: is the alleged human rights abuse of 68 members of one country by another: adequate justification for violating territory to "rescue" them. Especially, given the fact that Al Qaeda flies on South African passports.

Abstain. World Aids day

2011-12-01T14:10:00.000+02:00

Article

As the world powers cut back in funding for HIV/AIDS: endangering lives: one method is still very cheap. The oldest method.

Abstinence.

Remember this. And that the organization which treats more than any other: of the ill who suffer with this virus, patients of all creeds: is the Catholic church.

Also! ARV treatments have had the greatest success after campaigns against dangerous sexual activities: polygamy and homosexual lifestyle. Condoms, have unfortunately often lead to an initial increase in infections due to false perceptions of "safety". Condoms are not 100% effective, and in preventing pregnancy also lag behind.

Terror attack in South Africa foiled

2011-11-28T16:22:00.000+02:00

Article by Marc Aupiais

Usually BBM messages from some sources are scams. This had a touch of reality. This was from a reliable source:

"Please send to family & friends who may be in the area - From [omitted]: Confirmed bomb at Eastgate. Building evacuated. Avoid area."

I forwarded to my contacts, with the warning it may be spam.

Then, I got a reply, and said:

"another friend said they watched, said personally to me, the news! Said they heard there was a bomb! So please doubly avoid Eastgate- Marc!"

It seems by then it was defused. My final message on the matter was:

"All clear: They have announced on radio that there was a bomb and it has been defused and taken away. And my friend said bomb was disarmed already now!"

A few minutes ago!

I'm glad for bbm, or without my friends, I couldn't have kept right up to date and send this out to the other friends who didn't know.

Bombing, and terrorism is rare since an Islamist insurgency was halted in the 1990's. The Ethnic Afrikaans Farmer's Army, in the 2000's, was also infiltrated successfully and dealt with by security forces.

I am against the death penalty: but I found I wanted her dead

2011-11-27T15:30:00.000+02:00

Article by Marc Aupiais

It made national headlines, just because of the gruesome vivisection that the woman had committed on her victim. Her lover had helped. They had lured him in, by promising a date with her. They were to meet at a graveyard. He had had no hope of escape. Fortunately, he informed his employer, who told the police who arrested her.

She had written poetry about it, fantasized for years. The sort of poetry to disturb a school psychologist but meant!

I watched Bear Grylls and also River Monsters: hoping that the nausea would end. It is now only I know what bothered me most.

Having read she was going to jail for life, parole considered at 20 years: I wanted her dead. I wanted to inject her myself, or be on the firing squad. Like Hercules, I wanted to cut off her head and parade it to the villagers! To say the monster was dead.

I oppose the death penalty. Even in her case. Even in such a case as even Stephen King could not hope to write. A case unprecedented in history.

The reason we want monsters killed is that we feel the world is dirtied by them.

The reason I don't believe in the death penalty: isn't the monster: safely behind bars. It is because when you kill any person you remember them. You are tainted by them. They haunt you. Person and society lose their entire humanity.

Serial killers scare us because they treat people like animals. They treat us as nothing special.

But if we treated them as animals: we'd be worse than them. We'd have no soul!

Western and other investors causing famine deaths in Africa- UN official claims

2011-11-26T18:15:00.000+02:00

Article by Marc Aupiais

Agenzia Fides, has quoted a UN official claiming that food prices of basic goods on the international market have doubled in price in a year due to food price speculators buying securities. Food has become a market Western investors entered after the failures in the American and Western economies over weak banking regulations.

The article also quotes the British newspaper Guardian which claims that over a thousand million (US Billion) US dollars have been taken unscrupulously from poor countries in Africa, by vulture funds, which invest only in order to liquidate African firms.

The amount "stolen" through such false investment in equivalent to what the UN requested for Somali famine relief. It is twice the budget of the International Committee of the Red Cross allocated for the continental region of Africa.

Philippines government not genuinely interested in peace: Vatican news bureau reports

2011-11-26T18:06:00.000+02:00

Article by Marc Aupiais

With fighting for years, against the Communist and socio-political brand of separatist Sharia Islam, the Philippine government has increasingly relied on its armed forces. Agenzia Fides has reported claims by a source, a Jesuit priest: who has made certain the Vatican press know that all initiatives at peace are being shelved.

Talks between Catholic and Muslim leaders are no longer being sponsored by the state (under Benigno Aquino) reports the Vatican based news agency. Talks with any real merit at lasting peace with communists and Islamists have been halted- Fides' source claims.

In the South-Eastern island of Mindanao, the largest in the Philippines, and one of the few parts which were unaffected by Catholic Spanish rule, and where Islamists originally fought the United States of America in 1913, and continue to resist the current government of President Aquino, more trouble stirs.

Locals believe that the killing of a local priest is the work not of Sharia Islamists in the area, or of those the state claims to be pursuing in secret. They have held public demonstrations, believing paramilitaries linked to the army are responsible for the killing.

After years of civil war, the powerful Philippine army, is accused of rampant rank and file corruption in the report by Agenzia Fides. The current administration, has clashed with the Catholic church, after it decided it would obey American pressure to attempt population control measures. The Church which caused the downfall of many previous regimes, has also been a major voice for peace. The state is currently at war with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) and Maoist offshoot: New People's Army. The Moro, the M in MILF, are an ethnic group in the Southern Philippines.

The priest murdered was attempting to protect the land of South-Eastern Mindanao islanders against what Agenzia Fides sees as military linked land grabs. Mindanao, a trouble spot, is the largest of the Philippine Islands.

The Philippines' natural resources include nickel, cobalt, silver, gold, copper. All of these require mining to access. The rights of local populations have often been subjected to the will of well connected individuals in the Philippine state.

The Philippines, is a republic. It has one hundred and one million citizens. It is 80.9 percent Catholic, and 5 percent Muslim according to statistics dating year 2000 provided by the US government.

Pakistan's Minister for Harmony sees hope for Christians

2011-11-26T06:28:00.000+02:00

Article by Marc Aupiais

In his recent visit to the Vatican, the successor of assassinated Minister for Minorities Minister Shahbaz Bhatti: Minister for Harmony: Akram Masih Gill, a Catholic, was given special Treatment. The Pope Benedict XVI, gave the minister the same treatment as ambassadors to the Vatican and heads of state. He was given a private audience.

While Asia Bibi has made headlines, and still is in a Pakistani death row cell, facing execution for alleged blasphemy, many others face extra-judicial killings, kidnapping, and workplace discrimination for being members of a minority.

Members of Parliament must understand Islamic beliefs, and be considered by them to be in harmony with these. The Pakistani president must be a Muslim, but a few places in the legislature are reserved for minorities and women. The Ministry for Minorities was quietly disintegrated and replaced in duties by the ministry for Harmony. The Minister for Harmony: Akram Masih Gill, recently proved his worth, by acting to have the name "Jesus Christ" removed from a list of terms the state forbids the use of in cellular networks' SMS (text) communications.

The British Foreign Office notes that attacks on minorities and different religious "sects" are high in Pakistan. There are constant police checkpoints, and foreigners often need police protection. People or places associated with the Western world or the state face bombings, kidnapping, and assassination plots.

Pakistani Christians, claims Zenit News Agency, face kidnapping, en mass assassination, workplace discrimination, and bribery to convert.

It is reported in Zenit: that the socio-political class of Islam fronted by the Taliban and Al Qaeda, in particular focusses on fresh recruits to Islam. Those who convert from Christianity are seen as easier to convince into suicide bombings and violent acts. Christians are therefore consistently intimidated, told they will have a better life if they convert and offered just such life.

Those who won't convert are intimidated, kidnapped, killed.

The lawlessness in Pakistan and in particular the Federal Tribal areas, where a protracted civil war is taking place, means that minorities are easy targets for Sharia Islamists.

Religion must be stated on official documents of Christians, reports Zenit. It claims that VISAs to leave are often denied by state officials to Christians, while Muslims are not. Jobs also, Zenit claims, are often denied Christians, who have a lot similar to illegal immigrants in the west. They have poor working hours and lack days off. Zenit claims from a refugee in Italy, that even Catholic organization Caritas Internationalis engages in discrimination against Christians. Caritas boasts that in Pakistan it has just about an entirely Muslim staff. It claims this as a boast that it aids irrespective of religion and is not purely religious. 95% of Pakistan is Muslim, but one in 20 people are not.

A more conservative conclave to elect the next pope

2011-11-25T19:11:00.000+02:00

Article by Marc Aupiais

Cardinal Adrianus Simonis, is set to turn 80 years old on Tomorrow, November 26th 2011: reports Rome Reports. The fact of the matter, is that at age 80, the Cardinal will no longer be allowed to partake in the election of the next pope.

Rome reports, notes that with the retirement of the cardinal from the Netherlands, minus the retiring Dutch Cardinal: there will now be: 111 Cardinals able to elect; 63 appointed by John Paul; 48 by Benedict XVI; with about 82 cardinals currently unable to elect due to their age.

Benedict XVI, has consistently attempted to create more conservative cardinals. He has also moved to have the offices which appoint bishops, hold conservatives.

The current pope appears to be of the view that obedience to Canon Law, with its origins in the secular laws of the Roman Empire, ensures a better bishop or cardinal or pope. Benedict XVI, as a cardinal was instrumental in breaking up the conspiracy that had existed before he took charge of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. His efforts lead to the near non-existence of sexual indecency cases after his appointment in the Congregation. The Bishops he has appointed Cardinal: are more likely to be those who believe in obeying the Canon Law: which has a basis pre-dating Christianity in the Early Roman Republic.

The Roman Law basis of Canon law, is the same basis of continental European law, South African, Zimbabwean, Pakistani law.

Canon law, in recent times, forces bishops to offer their resignation at age 75, and disqualifies Cardinals from electing a pope at age 80.

Farmer killed in Punjab, Pakistan: was Muslim, not Christian, and allegedly a criminal

2011-11-25T17:50:00.000+02:00

Article by Marc Aupiais

The Vatican missionary Agenzia Fides: faith news agency: has noted a stern warning from the local Catholic Church in Punjab province of Pakistan. The killing of a farmer, Akram Masih in the region could not possibly have been an act of religious hatred. He had Muslim funeral rites, and had since ten years past abandoned all semblance of Christianity for the Muslim faith. The farmer was wanted in relation to criminal acts he was suspected of. He was killed in a police operation. Fides source: Fr. Nisar Barka, of the Catholic commission of "Justice and Peace" for the relevant Diocese of Faisalabad has made the above particular claims.

There certainly is an issue of human rights in the area however.

Punjab is Hindi for Five Waters. It is identified in a fertile plain, traversed by the Indus River which is fed by the five tributaries on which its name has its basis. It crosses the border between India and Pakistan. Herein the reference is to the Pakistani province of which the capital is Lahore.

Fr. Khalid Rashid Asi: Vicar General of the diocese of Faisalabad explained to Fides, that wealthy businessmen in the area, often allegedly steal land from poor farmers with assistance of the state: in particular the army. These "Land Grabs" are recently common in Punjab and Sindh. The vast majority of Pakistan's population resides in Punjab. The official language is English. Land Grabs, despite these two factors are not commonly reported in Western media.

Whether police claims that the man was essentially a criminal, have any credence, or whether he was killed due to any opposition to development is uncertain. What the Vatican and local church want to make utterly clear: rumours that the man was attacked as a Christian: are utterly unfounded and counter-productive.

Punjab, is a strategic region, being a launching place of many of the invasions into the Pakistani nation.

Pakistan is 95% Muslim, 5% Christian, Hindu, etc. Having been formed on religious differences with Hindu India, after Gandhi's passive revolution, Pakistan still takes religion to the zenith. In the Northern Tribal areas, the military held government has waged a war with the Taliban, who hold a socio-political tainted version of Islam. Muslim faith is an important factor in gaining political power in Pakistan, although there are seats for non-muslim parliamentarians.

The army is thought to hold the power in Pakistan, with the elected government consistently relying on American power as a basis for its existence. Claims by Fides sources that links to the military give some level of power certainly have basis.

Somali Islamist strike at Kenya, as the African powerhouse may have succeeded in cutting off their power

2011-11-25T16:25:00.000+02:00

Article by Marc Aupiais

The Vatican's Agenzia Fides, Agency of faith: has reported on retaliation by Islamists: Shabab. A number of people were killed in terror attacks, after a major port supplying The Islamists with shipping taxes, allowing transport of Charcoal to the Middle East, and contraband into Kenya was blockaded by the Kenyan Navy and Airforce.

Shabab had previously attacked a pentecostal church and a government base. The latter being a failed attack.

Kenya intervened in Somalia after a wave of Kidnapping caused danger to their citizens.

The move to blockade the port, may cause the Al Qaeda linked Somali rebels, to be forced to scale back operations. The port is so strategic, it may even be the start of the end of the Somali civil war. Fides calls it the Shabab primary source of revenue.

Pope's call to fraternity (brotherhood/sisterhood)

2011-11-25T16:11:00.000+02:00

Article by Marc Aupiais

The pope has in passing mentioned that fraternity was the answer to the economic crisis: here is his statement in context. Paragraphing added:

"Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) -

"This is the Christian distinctive: faith that becomes active in charity. Each of you is called to give his contribution so that the love with which we are always and forever loved by God becomes hard work of life, strength of service, sense of responsibility": this is Holy Father Benedict XVI's exhortation to those attending the meeting sponsored by the Italian Caritas, received at the hearing on November 24, on the 40th anniversary of the founding of the organization.

In his speech, the Pope emphasized "the important educational role" assigned to Caritas "to communities, families, civil society where the Church is called to shed her light. This involves taking responsibility for educating people to the good life of the Gospel, and that life is good only if it includes the witness of charity". He then recalled the work method adopted in the past four decades, "based on three interrelated and mutually reinforced attention: listen, observe, discern ...

This is a style that makes it possible to act pastorally but also to pursue a deep and fruitful dialogue with the various areas of church life, with the associations, movements and the diverse world of organized voluntary".

Recalling the pages of the Gospel, that narrate the various "gestures" carried out by Jesus, the Holy Father said that "Jesus' gestures, signs are deeply-rooted to the pedagogical function of Caritas. Through concrete signs, in fact, you speak, evangelize, educate. A work of charity speaks of God, it announces hope and induces us to ask questions".

He then wished the members of the Caritas of "knowing how to best cultivate the qualities of the works" and know how to make "talk'', especially taking care of the inner motivation that animates them, and the quality of the testimony that emanates from them. Such works are born of the faith. They are works of the Church, expressions of her concern for those who suffer most. There are educational acts because they help the poor to grow in dignity, Christian communities to follow Christ and civil society to shoulder its obligations ...

The Church's humble and concrete service does not seek to substitute, even less to assuage, collective and civil conscience, but accompanies them with a spirit of sincere collaboration, and with due concern for autonomy and subsidiarity".

In the concluding section of his speech, the Pope focused on the need to be able to "read the evolution of people's lives", as "charity requires an open mind, broad vision, insight and foresight, a « heart which sees»".

And he explained:

"Responding to needs means not only giving bread to the hungry, but also asking ourselves about the reasons one for their hunger, using the gaze of Jesus, Who could see the profound truth of the people around Him... Our thoughts cannot but go to the vast world of migration. Natural calamities and wars often create emergencies.

The global economic crisis is a further sign of the times which calls for the courage of fraternity.

The gap between the north and south of the world and the wounded human dignity of so many people call for a charity able to expand in concentric circles from the small to large economic systems to the great. Increasing poverty, the weakening of families, and the uncertainty faced by the young all point to the risk of diminishing hope.

Humankind needs not only benefactors, but also humble practical people who, like Jesus, stand alongside their brothers and sisters and share their fatigue. In a word, humanity is looking for signs of hope. The source of our hope is in the Lord.

This is why we need Caritas, not to delegate it with the responsibility for charitable service, but for it to be a sign of Christ's charity, a sign that brings hope". (SL) (Agenzia Fides 25/11/2011)

Police in Northern India arrest and detain Christian based on Islamic Tribunal decision (Sharia Law)

2011-11-25T15:50:00.000+02:00

Article by Marc Aupiais

A shocking event, whereby Indian police in the extreme north of the majority Hindu Nation, arrested an Anglican pastor: based on a decision by a Sharia Law court, is just another example of the shocking human rights situation on the sub-continent. Paris based Iglesis d'Asia reports that the arrest of Anglican reverend Channa Mani Khanna, pastor of the Anglican All Saints Church occured when a Sharia Law Islamic tribunal accused him of forced conversions. A common accusation against Christians in India.

While Christians and Islamic populations are both heavily persecuted in large parts of India by Hindu nationalists and the BVP, this arrest happened in Jammu and Kashmir. This region is just below Azad Kashmir, a part of Islamic Pakistan. Fighting over it is common.

The police in Srinagar, a city on the Jhelum River, in the Himalayan foothills, with half a million population: conducted the arrest due to the decision of the Sharia court under Muslim spiritual leader for Kashmir: Ahmad Bashir-ud-Din.

This arrest is similar to that conducted against Catholics in other areas of India, based on the same sort of "forced conversion" accusations. In that case the victims were nuns of Mother Theresa's Sisters of Charity.

The arrest based on a decision of a Sharia Law court has raised concerns that it is against the laws of India which sees all citizens as equal, none above the law. The Global Council of Indian Christians (GCIC) is reported as calling the arrest unconstitutional.

To give an except of a source on this:

Zenit New reports:

"Dans l'Etat du Jammu-et-Cachemire, à l'extrême nord de l'Inde, la police de Srinagar a arrêté le Rév. Channa Mani Khanna, pasteur anglican de l'Eglise All Saints Church, sur décision du tribunal islamique présidé par le grand Mufti de la vallée du Cachemire.

L'affaire a éclaté mi-novembre lorsque le grand Mufti Ahmad Bashir-ud-Din a accusé le pasteur de conversions forcées, sur la foi d'une vidéo postée sur YouTube (1) où l'on voyait le Rév. Khanna baptiser sept jeunes hommes et femmes, reconnus comme ayant été de confession musulmane. Cette vidéo, reprise immédiatement sur d'autres réseaux sociaux du web, avait déclenché alors une avalanche de commentaires menaçant le Rév. Khanna de représailles. Depuis, de nombreux chrétiens sont venus témoigner sur les mêmes sites, de la difficulté à vivre leur foi au Cachemire où leur communauté ne représente que quelques milliers de personnes (2)"

The New Mass: Resources from the Bishops

2011-11-25T14:49:00.000+02:00

Article by Marc Evan Aupiais

This is a link the Southern African (Catholic) Bishops' Conference (SACBC) has sent out:

We have not vetted it:

"[...] resources for the Implementation of the new Roman Missal, including English Music resources. (see link below).
http://www.sacbc.org.za/implementing-the-new-roman-missal/ "

A resolve for war

2011-11-25T13:30:00.000+02:00

Article by Marc Aupiais

Increasingly, Western Nations, and others are taking conflicts in poorer parts of the world into their own hands.

Stronger armies allow fewer casualties. When a battle gets too tough, even after destroying an economy and killing tens of thousands or innocent civilians, withdraw occurs.

The truth is any nation is very cautious to go to war with an equally matched enemy. America would not go to war with Russia or China.

A weaker nation, being able to attack one: serve to prove strength: without the risks true bravery will inevitably incur.

Unfortunately for the West: destabilising regions across the world, results in extreme poverty on which Islamic Fundamentalism thrives. It is the sort of poverty and poor existence which hurts moderate Islam, and feeds a socio-political cult: on which Al Qaeda and allies of it relies.

By attacking weaker nations, the West think no harm is done. Political clout is gained. With this clout however will emerge the Plebian disaster which destroyed the Roman republic. Violence, especially against the weak: only serves to destroy the basis of peace, and the security upon which the wealthy rely.

America and Europe are in danger of economic collapse. If their armies cannot be funded, what will stop the ever greater threat of terrorism against their states? Violence only lasts as long as it can be sustained. This is the same with the peace gained by it!

Turkey steals land from Christian monastery

2011-11-25T13:16:00.000+02:00

Article by Marc Aupiais

A group of Christians, who have lived in a monastery for 1,600 years: pre-dating Islam, and the Turkish republic, have decided to approach the European Court of Human Rights of the Council of Europe.

The government of the Turkish nation claims that agricultural land not used for agriculture belongs to the state. The Christians, in the minority in the strange secularist nation, face a strange situation. Those owning the land the government declares to belong to it: say they have the documents to prove their ownership to the European court.

It is common for laws to regulate land needs be controlled and used to be owned. In South Africa, it allows land to be transferred after 30 years of uninterrupted use and enjoyment as though owner. There is a marked difference however between allowing those who have been maintaining land to use it indefinitely, and become bona fide owner, and taking land because it is not being used to farm.

In Vietnam a similar situation exists: where the Catholic Church owned many lands. These were taken by the Vietnamese government, despite the Catholic Church being the just owner.

Legislation, has often been used throughout the world to weaken Christian churches. From MYANMAR to the South African Apartheid regime: defunding churches and hospitals.

The results of this case will certainly be noteworthy.

The Council of Europe is older and has more nations than the EU. Some of its decisions have been highly controversial.

Jesus Christ is then isn't a forbidden word in Pakistan SMS regulations

2011-11-25T13:04:00.000+02:00

Article by Marc Aupiais

Pakistan, released a list of forbidden words to be censored in all SMS (text) communications via cellular networks in the Asian nation. One of these words was "Jesus Christ".

The Catholic Church, and Pakistani Diospora, launched a campaign against blocking the name "Jesus Christ". They stated it was not an obscenity. They said that the ban on the word, hurt the gospel, and would hurt evangelization of the nation. They said it hurt the common good to ban the name "Jesus Christ" as an obscenity.

In another nearby Asian nation, Catholics faced violence for calling God Allah: God in Arabic.

In this case, the minister for harmony of religions, stepped in. The list of censored words, not to be allowed in telephonic text communications : now excludes the name of "Jesus Christ"!

Brotherhood, Sisterhood: The solutions to the economic crisis: Pope

2011-11-25T12:55:00.000+02:00

Article by Marc Aupiais

Having just recently visited Africa, which he sees as a bedrock of humanity, its poverty a testimony to the fact God speaks through the weak not the strong, the pope has given his own solution to the economic crisis he postulated would occur.

"Brotherhood".

The western world ought not to laugh at this suggestion of the Holy Father, or call it moralising, or preaching impracticable truths.

The basis of modern western civilisation. The basis of capitalism. The basis of modern democracy.

These are the awards the concept of the brotherhood of humanity can claim. From the Magna Carte, to the American constitution, to the basis of modern France.

To view the economy as one where all people have equal dignity: is to make more sound and stable financial decisions.

French Woman loses enslavement case against Opus Dei

2011-11-25T12:47:00.000+02:00

Article by Marc Aupiais

The headline above, this is quite close to the headline that made it into the British newspaper: Telegraph.

"French woman loses Opus Dei enslavement case"

The enslavement case was not over Opus Dei beliefs and controversial communal existence, but over a woman actually working for the group. This was an important distinction to be made at the time of the case. Media refused to make this distinction.

The fact the case resulted in vindicating the group: has proven that media ought to take with a grain of salt: certain accusations against groups they do not approve of. Groups which hold practices and views, consistent and present throughout all human history, as old, in truth: as Christianity itself.

Older than modern western civilisation could hope to claim.

Bishops lobby for the green movement in South Africa

2011-11-25T10:48:00.000+02:00

Article by Marc Aupiais

The Southern African Bishops' Conference SACBC has released a letter demanding that the South African government push a Green, Environmentalist agenda. It has asked they focus on carbon dioxide and other "green house gases" but mostly CO2.

~SACNS, our service has consistently taken the view that while CO2 may play a role in climate change:

- other actions by people such as disrupting natural sand ratios,
- deforestation
- the building of cities and roads, urbanisation: causing heat traps,
- sun spots known to alter temperatures,
- extra-terrestrial gravity from sun and moon and cosmic forces
- impacts on the Ozone layer and magnetic field of the earth
- tectonic activities
- the introduction of plastics and heavy metals into the oceans: affecting fish including plankton.
- the introduction of chemicals into the environment resulting in cross-sex fish, and affecting the abilities of marine life.
- the emissions of bovine animals domesticated for their meat: which contribute a good deal of non-CO2 gases
All also play a role.

Recent data from NASA satellites showed that heat is not so deeply hampered from leaving the atmosphere as thought by Green House gases.

Even sceptics of climate change do not deny it is happening, they deny that it is a simple matter of CO2 emissions causing it. Some even believe it irreversible!

~SACNS believes that the Bishops ought to have suggested a combined approach to climate changes facing us. Demands for aid from first world countries based on damage: seems counter-productive as Aid promises are already not fulfilled as it is. It takes the responsibility off local governments. The Bishops ought to also have noted that Climate Changes if extant, can only be combated in such a way as does not sacrifice innocent human lives and livelihoods.

Emphasis on the positive impacts of insulation in keeping out heat and cold, of greening city roof tops, of alternate construction materials, and solar power could have been much better suggestions on the part of the Bishops.

South Africa is aiming unlike what they have claimed: for a nuclear future: focussing on building massive new coal and nuclear power stations. The government has however done so with greener designs in mind.

A pastoral letter from the bishops: ought to have focussed on what each individual can be encouraged to do to combat any extant climate changes or to adapt to them.

The bishops were right to acknowledge that climate change is a natural process. In fact it is continuous, and the world, so stable for the last 60 000 years, historically would be due an upset.

A united approach to Climate Changes: where not only developed nations are obligated to act, and where all take responsibility for climate change, while acknowledging that people are an asset not a obstacle in combating or adapting to climate changes would be much wiser an approach and in line with actual Catholic doctrine.

Catholics are not under obligation to obey mere pastoral letters, which are there to help order the church.

Here is the press release, not sent to ~SACNS but as sent to Agenzia Fides (paragraphing added):

"
AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA -

"Defending creation fighting greenhouse gases": the request of the Bishops of Southern Africa on the eve of the UN Conference on climate change

Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) -

"Our beloved world and the entire creation - that God has given us - are threatened by climate change", write the Bishops of Southern Africa in a Pastoral Letter published on the eve of the 17th UN Conference on Climate Change to be held in Durban, South Africa, from 28 November to 9 December.

"While climate change is a process that happens naturally, there is now a general consensus that human activities make this happen much faster.

Those responsible for this process are the 'greenhouse gases' like carbon dioxide and methane, which are released into the atmosphere", says the Letter of the Southern African Catholic Bishops Conference (SACBC), of which a copy was sent to Fides.

The Bishops launch an appeal to put pressure and encourage the South African government, which chairs the Durban conference, to support the following resolutions: to reduce global emissions of greenhouse gases (mainly carbon dioxide) so that the increase in global temperature remains below 1.5 ° C; to ensure that current decisions concerning economic development are not based only on the immediate economic needs, but take into account the survival of future generations; forcing the Countries that emit large amounts of "greenhouse gases" to meet its obligations to fund the programs of developing Countries to reduce their emissions and adapt to the impacts of climate change; South Africa, in the 13th place among the Countries that release more carbon dioxide in the world; commits itself in the production of renewable energy, gradually eliminating coal and nuclear production, and developing the potentiality of renewable energy.

The Bishops also ask for the Kyoto Protocol of 1997 (on limiting greenhouse gas) to be extended and that the treaty becomes a binding agreement and that there are real controls in compliance with these agreements. (L.M.)

No mention of combating the abuse of populations in Africa by both commercial developers and by climate change believers. This press release is likely to have little if any impact. It pushes an agenda of the extreme left, so far from practicality that it will not impact negotiations.

Practical suggestions for talks, or a more comprehensive approach would mean far more.

Why the secrecy bill is a GOOD thing!

2011-11-23T20:45:00.000+02:00

Article by Marc Aupiais

I don't know if we can believe ANC claims on 702 that corruption and felonies being shown up will be adequate defences: but Public Interest is not any good justification for spilling state secrets: given what the term really means.

In Delict you study Public Interest: truth and in the public interest, in general. For media that becomes Reasonable Publication.

Public interest includes hypocrisy. If the Military or Crime Intelligence knew someone had been naughty on the phone or was cheating with their secretary. This is Public Interest material. It is very wide.

The Regulation of the Interception of Communications Act, as amended a.k.a. RICA forces phone and internet companies to keep all emails, SMS (text), MMS (image SMS), sent through South Africa: for government access. Phone calls on cellular phones are also all recorded. Only BBM and BlackBerry etc Enterprise Server Email, are except. The government claims to be attempting to legislate these under the RICA powers in March or so next year.

Believe it or not: your phone behaviour, etc is in the public interest.

When RICA passed, the Secrecy Bill was both inevitable, and necessary.

It may need some altering under Constitutional challenges, but the worst thing in the world would be allowing public interest defences: given that the South African government now has more intelligence on its citizens than Soviet Russia ever dreamt of.

(please note: This does not constitute and is not legal advice. Consult a legal professional in relation to any facts or real world situation facing you. I do not guarantee the accuracy of these statements, nor warrant against harm in reading or listening to or acting on them.)

Zenit the new l'Osservatore Romano: secretly under Vatican control

2011-11-23T10:06:00.000+02:00

Article by Marc Evan Aupiais

Suspicious ousting of Zenit editors after the Legionaries of Christ came under Vatican curatorship made few headlines outside the Catholic press.

After the shaming of the legionaries by the Vatican, for their founder's double life, the editorial team of Zenit wanted to give the organisation, with a generally European world view over to the American Catholic media organisations. The founding editor was asked to leave. His team quit in protest.

The question: was it the Legionaries or their Vatican curators who had this done. ZENIT's news agenda is now not only written similarly to Vatican press, but follows the Vatican agenda perfectly.

Just as Agence France Presse is really the French Government, and RT is really the Kremlin: due to not too well hidden financial ties, another organisation has in fact secretly been renditioned.

The Legionaries are under Vatican control after their criminal activities were discovered. Zenit is owned by the Legionaries. Zenit is following the same news agenda as the Press Office of the Holy See.

How long it will last is uncertain, but the half a million subscribers must have been too big a temptation for the Holy See, because an organization now under their indirect or direct curatorship: is now following their news agenda. The editors from years under loyal service to the Legionaries: having been fired or quit.

Obama targeting 13 year olds to convince parents to elect him for them

2011-11-21T08:25:00.000+02:00

Article by Marc Aupiais

-Scripturelink's Catholic Voter's Guide-

Sacns's negative coverage of Justin Bieber over the past has certainly had nothing to do with his consistent support of the US democratic party policies (calling capitalist healthcare "evil") and his asking Christians to butt out of homosexual "marriage" issues. It also has nothing to do with the sad fact that the South African government has considered bankrupting National Health Insurance due to American adoption of the now very unpopular policy. A policy that never worked in Canada or the United Kingdom: but instead resulted in corruption, limited service and pressure on the elderly and discrimination based on weight and other issues.

Obama, is quoted in the Sunday Independent (owned by Britain's Independent) as once again showing his companions. Justin Bieber is his name drop this time: saying that it certainly didn't hurt his campaign hanging out with him. The teenager recently even met a girl at Obama's request (the US president promising the meeting on the spot), to create goodwill for the ultra-leftwing and frankly anti-capitalist US president.

Obama, in 2008 got into power with the help of anti-war campaigns which have disappeared, as Obama escalated US military campaigns three-fold, targeting civilians and alienating old allies. While the bush administration opposed the move, Obama had the revolutionaries in Egypt trained to overthrow Mubarak, after receiving intelligence that they planned a revolution when it in fact later occurred, as detailed by Wikileaked cables. The sudden buying by Egypt's military of massive US arms caches before the revolution, is something the SACNS noted with alarm, believing then there may be other reasons for arms stockpiling.

Mubarak was an army plant: openly put in power by the army, and the army remains as in power today as when they made him their third appointed puppet president. The difference is, most people in the Middle East, now heavily oppose Obama and America. A similar belief holds in Pakistan, due to CIA blanket drone bombings of tribal areas. Also, Western and Christian schools in places like Afghanistan don't exist any longer. In Libya, leaders who were renditioned by MI6 as suspected Al Qaeda: now suggest Sharia Law as a constitution now in power. In Afghanistan, radicalist legislation has also passed. In Kenya, US allies under Obama have introduced Sharia law into their constitution. In all these countries, anti-Israeli, and Anti-US sentiments have sky-rocketed. Also, the average person is forced to pick up the pieces after wars. Their well-being is damaged. Radical Islam which Now rules their puppet regime nations, only thrives among the vastly poor. It operates much like the prosperity new wave "Christian" Churches in North Africa: which only really succeed among the poor: and introduce shocking, unwise laws. In Afghanistan, marital rape was one of the things the US backed government attempted to assist: allowing a man to starve his wife for three days whenever she refuses sex with him.

Obama can call on the Hollywood elite, for re-election. It is they, like Justin Bieber now, who fought so hard to get him elected in 2008, before shutting up quickly when he repeated Bush's mistakes to an even greater degree. While songs were made about Bush failing New Orleans: the fact Obama sidelined the need for safety regulations for off-shore drilling is often ignored. That he used poisonous chemicals to clean the spill, when natural dissipation was advised by experts, again is not sung of. The deepest destruction to the gulf coast environment was from the clean-up not the oil spill.

Like the ANC in South Africa, Obama relies on fear mongering: Climate Change (which he has done nothing but exacerbate internationally), lack of jobs (a lack created by him and bad management), fear or the religious right (which founded his country and its constitution), and support of Muslim, but not Christian holidays, while putting in place policy that disenfranchises mainstream Muslim culture in America, many parts of the world, and forces Catholics in America to disobey they consciences.

On the matter of Justin Bieber's support, which Obama has flaunted at town (halls) meetings. A sad fact no self respecting politician would be proud of. It certainly is a good thing that this kid only appeals to 13 year old girls, and some male rap artists.

One can only hope that parents dumb enough to wait hours in ticket lines, won't vote for the man who put them out of a job and alienated the rest of the world, simply because their 13 year old daughter wants Justin Bieber to marry her.

Just as Justin Bieber's parting at gay club Kremlin, and support of gay marriage special privileges, should concern his flock of 13 year old zealots, Barack Obama's choice to use celebrity to try to be re-elected should concern just about everyone.

South Africa weathered the financial disasters of world economics by keeping close advisors like Standard and Poors: Obama, however has alienated and attacked the authorities of world finances.

His just recent attempt is dangerously, of late: to do away with conscience protections against his radical social and financial agenda: forcing the closing of adoption agencies, and hurting Catholics who would be excommunicated if they assisted in abortion and other things.

The man who prompted a senior Vatican official to state his healthcare legislation was an act of war against the Vatican, is running for re-election. France 24 and all international media and authorities, have warned of the effect of US withdrawals in nations they destabilised, but that has been just the agenda.

Like Justin Bieber, he (Obama) relies on a cult of dedicated followers, blind to his courting of several others: here the special interests of the companies that funded him into power. Companies such as abortion and healthcare chain Planned Parenthood, who gained millions of dollars from healthcare legislation, which a vast majority of Americans oppose. Supporters such as those that praised US intervention, introducing Sharia law in to Kenya, Libya, Afghanistan, et al.

Obama in 2008 was very vague in his promises. He is again.

ultra-cheap air-conditioning sans the electricity

2011-11-21T07:00:00.000+02:00

Article by Marc Aupiais

-World Tainted Green: Environmental Service of Scripturelink.net-

On Sunday I was in Entabeni conservation wildlife reserve, at Legend golf and safari resort lodge. The temperature was such to create heat stroke, and as I was in the car for two hours, I needed a way to stay cool. It is a myth that you get heat stroke just by being in a vehicle. I put my survival knowledge to use.

Earlier, on my arrival. Air-conditioning off, I was cooler in the car than outside air was. Once, again it got me thinking.

What I did was insulation. I put up that reflective tinfoil on the wind shield, and covered the windows with a cotton jersey, and my wind breaker from Pringle. I then opened all the windows, and created the right amount of space to create a through breeze.

Early man would spend his days in caves. They provide insulation against hot and against cold. Houses used to be built to insulate against weather, at certain angles, in certain ways.

This morning when I woke up I put blankets over my curtains, pulled blinds too. One blanket I attached to the window on the top of one side and closed it, the other was over.

Already, with only my fan on, and even with my window open, and light on: my room is cooler than the rest of the house. The wall of insulation against the outside is doing what my fan alone could not.

Mine is the only bedroom in the house without air conditioning. A simple survival trick I knew to use to spend two hours in desert like temperatures in the Waterberg, has now lead to an experiment.

Blankets keep heat in and out. A few layers of insulation and my 1970's or '80's fan is able to keep me as cool as in winter or spring.

Especially up on the hill where I live.

Perhaps I will have to wait for a sunny day for the full test. It is raining and nearby Johannesburg is on 15 degrees according to the weather on my phone. It is set to reach 25 degrees today. Where I am it is 5 degrees hotter than on road level it should be interesting to test.

If the insulation by curtains isn't enough (my house has brick walls 4 layers about thick), then I will move to put soil in bags above my room in the ceiling, if fire safe or some other method. Either way, what worked in Mpumalanga, ought work here!

Ex Catholic Justin Bieber could still be 'Baby' daddy to Mariah's child

2011-11-17T15:30:00.000+02:00

Article by Marc Aupiais

Sadly, in the world of Celebrity News, just as in the world of Religion, the truth is often well hidden. Whole lies and half truths occupy tabloid pages. Especially with such a popular, but openly dishonest man as 17 year old Justin Bieber.

It has been reported in some media that Mariah Yeater withdrew her paternity case: just in time before a promised test. The truth, her lawyers tell media, is that Justin Bieber's fans, "Beliebers" with his encouragement, were giving her such believable death threats that her lawyers told her to halt proceedings temporarily to seek settlement out of court if possible. This was her original intention. When the case was originally laid and denied, Bieber's lawyers claimed they hadn't even read through the papers when denying it. They had refused to meet to settle before the publicity of a trial. So, while Selena Gomez tells Ellen: "It's good to be good again!" her nightmare has perhaps not ended just yet. The advantage if settlement is outside of court, is it gives Mariah better chances of not going to jail for statutory rape, as she, and Selena Gomez Bieber's girlfriend, is a major, while he is classified as a minor still. If no settlement is reached, Mariah can still continue her legal case, which hasn't been withdrawn.

When the "Other" Vatican spoke: crackdown on personal views, in the Holy See: after document appears to support Occupy Wall Street!

2011-11-11T06:47:00.000+02:00

Article

Dark waters swirl at the Vatican. Notorious for sporadic shocking press releases, and lack of media packs to explain statements to major press houses: forcing Catholic media to defend it. Famous for misstatements and infamous clarification.

When the Vatican press office released a statement which media saw as supporting anti-establishment and anti-deodorant occupy wall street, despite the document itself claiming no Vatican sanction: the press office wasn't replaced.

The Justice and Peace department of the Vatican city state, which made the statement, caused some division and calls of foul play, unnamed sources have released to the press. The Secretary of State, responsible for the Vatican government and foreign relations, reeled at the impact of such an anti-G20 document being delivered to the G20 and the world without permission or clarification. Damage to Vatican G20 relations, and with the public, where the document was misinterpreted, has made waves.

"No more firing from the hip, even if it was hurt in a fall"
Down to the intrepid facts

Secretary of State for the Vatican: Tarcisio Bertone, Sandro Magister of L'Espresso is reported in CWNews as reporting: has ordered that all Vatican government departments have their statements to the public vetted by the Department of the Secretary of State, before media ravenously are allowed to devour them.

"Blot out my offence"

The document, asking that the IMF (International Monetary Fund) be replaced by a new global financial authority, controlled within the UN (United Nations) structures, which would govern world financial authorities, and act like a central bank: apparently was even controversial within the Vatican itself, and released to media far in advance of any Vatican officials seeing it.

The Vatican's IOR central bank, has been known to issue statements in the past, as has the pope, but the Justice and Peace Council, really would be better suited to justice and peace issues than those of finance or relations with states. It is surprising despite the controversy of their document, that Italian media now reports they kept all other interested Vatican departments in the dark. On such an important spiralling out of control issue. It seems it involves ruffling feathers, when some independents take to: Involving crimes against logic and body odour; monetary and social left wing, anti-institutional agendas, and bad Halloween costumes: with the Vatican's clean, institutional ("right wing"), intellectual, the-anti-Halloween-like clean bathed image!

The question is why the National and International Relations and not the dogma department is the one to review these documents. The answer is simple enough. The release is clearly seen as hurting the Vatican: on its global stage.

CISA and the not so Super "super" site of the Southern Cross

2011-11-07T22:14:00.000+02:00

Article by Marc Aupiais

South African Catholic actually owes its birth to the fact the Southern Cross was once entirely void of an internet presence.

Back then, in the stone age, I was known as a Catholic apologist, a blogger: seldom political, and creater of a search engine of the Vatican: better than the Vatican's own blind fumblings at the search world.

But, my fascination, my obsession with the Continent: my continent: Africa: meant that I wanted search results for events here. Or RSS or something. CISA (hereinafter CISA; that is Catholic Information Service for Africa) spoke of Africa, but their website was impossible.

I begged the Southern Cross to let me Blog their articles. I pleaded, and instead got the right to discuss them, as critically as I should choose. I did. Kindly. Then critically. A good friendship emerged.

A storm however changed the shadows of time and space. I was contacted by a person from media, who informed me of their strict view: that the Southern Cross were not good friends.

It turned out they published more anti-Catholic than Catholic letters: Cardinal Napier told us, calling them anti-magisterial (anti-Vatican). But he wouldn't bring his own newspaper, on which board sat his inferior Chris Townsend: under raps.

The Southern Cross promoted legal abortion, gay rights, condoms, sedevacanists: all while contradicting anything the Vatican said as false.

I had Catholic Culture review their website with the note that they sold their product in Parishes officially for the Bishops. I noted their failings. A review came out attacking them.

The offer I had to help the Vatican design a new search engine, and that to help set up a specialist news service for the SACBC soon fell away: especially when I caught out an ally of theirs' abusing Vatican charity funds to support anti-Catholic political campaigns. They were forced out of office, following Vatican activity on the SACNS.

It was then that the Southern Cross launched their new website, finally giving the SACNS a minor competitor online: in our own water territories.

CISA, allied with them, and started to Blog for them. The Church also now has the paper which organised to have the new mass trashed, after the Bishops in charge of it introduced a version early: the church now has it explain, "justify" such mass.

So, if one goes on this new website, easily linked to by Radio Veritas, and other Catholic media locally: but not by us: one finds a basic platform: the type non-IT types update easily.

What is lacking, in this pseudo-independent media; ironically is independence. Articles are either clearly from the SACBC: some figure demanding them, or else fitting a specific liberal, secularist almost ex Catholic worldview.

Sadly for the Southern Cross: such publications are a dime a dozen: especially among local media.

Even more sadly: their site disappoints.

Even if their contents didn't, their site is only mediocre, if even that.

SACNS was founded to create a Catholic web presence in South and Southern Africa: because I thought Southern Cross articles, or some Catholic view needed to go online: even if I had to write some of my own articles.

Ironically: that very fact: is why we compete in a small but powerful way: independent of the Bishops: yet successfully against the Southern Cross.

At a total operations cost of about R 1 000 a year, it isn't bad that we compete online with much larger services.

Sadly, CISA and others, who's value I can't determine, as they truly enter so little into the debate: have sided with the Southern Cross over their own independence. At present I know of only two Southern African Catholic Voices: SACNS and our allies etc, and the Southern Cross.

But the latter, even if it were loyal: hardly competes. It is marketed sorely by almost every parish priest, but hardly grows. It is neither fascinating nor independent where other services are. It isn't original, and its views are clear and in opposition with what those same priests promoting it, same bishops publishing it promulgated!

A site of mixed opinions, all most confusing than the last: helps explain why 90 percent of Johannesburg Catholics have left the Church. Though other contradictions more strongly evidence this contradiction in terms, that is at work within the SACBC.

What gospel is preached, when the gospel itself is the enemy of so many claiming to be within the City of God?

We obey our rulers in what they say not what they do: as long as they don't contradict the magisterium or good morals: yet, what sadness when the lives of the church's servants are so undedicated to the gospel, as to allow it to be slandered right within the very walls of the church!

Zenit dead! Long live Zenit!

2011-11-07T21:40:00.000+02:00

Article by Marc Evan Aupiais

Zenit. Such a strange, mysterious name. Perhaps an ancient Peruvian monster. A sea monster, which warriors pursue. Zenit, the internationally recognised Catholic powerhouse, now ironically dead under Vatican indirect control.

Zenit, the voice and face of the Legionaries of Christ: now so infamous: somehow claimed to be independent all its years of quiet operations. The Late Editors, now claim, to the competition at Catholic News Agency, that it was following a desire for more transparency; for changes to the board: that a tornado of change engulfed Zenit.

The Editorial Team: wanted members of other Catholic media on the board: to push out the legionaries. They quit or were asked to quit when this failed.

The shining star of Catholic independent media: through wanting to be less independent but more transparent on funding use: frankly died. The Founding Editors left, en masse. Zenit died. Hydra Zenit rose in its place.

After the plagiarism, and the shocking double life of the former, Late (dead) head of the Legionaries of Christ : Fr Marciel: was discovered; and the complicity of the legionaries: high tea Zenit found itself in the Vatican and Legionary Cross-hairs.

The Legionaries came under Vatican control. Zenit came directly under Legionary control: losing its famed editors, and their bright ideas of submitting to other Catholic media: their competitors.

Independence from a monopoly was persevered at Zenit: but now fully clawed by the tentacles of their legionary masters.

When I read Zenit now, I almost wonder what monster hides just below the surface, what Yeti hides in the snow white of the page: what sea serpent hides under the blue: waiting just that moment to grab me.

Fact is: while dramatically boring: something Zenit wasn't the last time I really truly read it before it died: about a year ago. After the change just a short time ago, articles have continued much the same but without a flair they had. It is as though an old priest now edits it, rather than laymen. It has that ancient dignified sense.

While many have unsubscribed, I have not. I read AFP of the French government. I read Fides of the Vatican. I read Zenit: of the Legionaries; who are now directly babysit by the Vatican.

It makes an interesting read. One wonders: who controls Zenit: the legionaries, or their Vatican babysitting teams.

The tentacles reach out around the world symbol of Zenit! But who's tentacles? And perhaps is it not a good thing: that American Catholic media houses have not taken over what was always a largely global viewed operation: once truly a view from Rome.

Don't be a Celebrity- Jesus?

2011-11-05T19:35:00.000+02:00

Article by Marc Aupiais

Be better than the Pharasees or you won't enter heaven. Don't be like the Hypocrites, who's faith is false. Don't be like a tax collector. Tax collectors, and harlots will enter heaven before you!

Any of these ring a bell.

Pharasees came from the Maccabees: the famous Jewish warriors who fought on the Sabbath. They became a religious cult/denomination in Jesus' time. They were closer to the truth than the other Jewish major Hebrew sect.

Hypocrites: were stage actors in the Greek plays. Actors, celebrities to use a modern word. If you want to know what not to be: pick up People Magazine, Time Magazine, Forbes. Jesus also said only through God's grace can the kings, emperors: the rich: of our days be saved. John the Baptist said: those with good clothes serve in the palaces of kings: you did not come to see such a man. Jesus said to a disciple: if you want to be perfect give up all you have and follow me: but as a rich man he could not accept the call to be a monk.

Jesus shows again: by his wisdom: that kings, claim to be representatives serving the people, but really aren't: saying: be the least that you may be greatest in Heaven: God's presence is Heaven: his dominion: we call heaven! The pearly gates don't exist yet, God however does. They will after all is destroyed that can be destroyed.

Be humble. Don't seek after the things people seek. Don't emulate actors, celebrities. Jesus reacted to the celebrities of his day by mourning them. The Pharasees who everyone greeted, and who valued the respect they gained. The kings, who he snubbed: saying: My Kingdom is not OF this world, even if it includes THIS WORLD!

Jesus has no respect for celebrity. He said Greet EVERYONE in the marketplace: knowing most only greeted the important! Jesus doesn't want us to have two standards: one for the rich and one for the poor: where the rich always get the softer standard: rather: he wants us to be as he is: frankly unimpressed! Unimprinted! Honest! And thriving and doing every deed, taking every sip, stroke: in honest air and water of honesty! I AM WHO I AM: not who YOU tell me (ME) to be!

The theology of suicidal depression

2011-11-05T19:07:00.000+02:00

Article from Marc Aupiais

The mortal sin of suicide has always fascinated me. It seems to contravene Lumen Gentium XVI to say it always is for hell, but also it likely often is a mortal sin, and seems likely those who commit it go to hell.

I suffer from suicidal depression, periodic temporary paralysis, and 24 hour pain throughout my body. I am 21 years old.

The depression usually follows the collapse and pain. It is when whatever it is affects my brain. I sense a change in me and know it is coming. Brain chem alters. I have attempted suicide in this state. I survived. Each time.

I also suffer from PANDAS, something still under research, the cutting edge. It means that happy pills will mix with me in a Catastrophic way, I am more likely to die from them than my depression.

Pain killers also react badly, and most medication. When I take medication, I usually land in hospital.

The Catholic Dogma of Hell and Mortal Sin, and Tolkien's metaphor of tending our own little garden in life: our duty to God to live: keep me alive. My pain, which can feel like being killed, no doubt: is constant and always present. Sometimes, it becomes unmanageable.

Sometimes I also feel extreme emotions: love, anger, lust, joy, happiness, embarrassment, etc. These I generally control ten times better than anyone else: I have learnt to control emotion, but depression is different.

I tell when I sense the brain chem alteration, I pray and ask for prayer, I inform, and I try to get home and sleep in a dark room. I read also: Jane Austin has literally saved my life!

I fight depression: our task as Catholics. I control me.

The question for you, or anyone affected, if someone you know commits suicide: isn't: are they in hell, but how does one fight as best they could to obey! If I fight as best I can to obey- to live: to tend that little garden: and a sudden wave crashes, killing me as deeply as an ocean tragedy: how can you live as best to obey God!

My spelling goes, my ability to speak, sometimes my hearing. Sometimes when I get up, I go blind. My reasoning goes, my emotions too: these three remain: Love (Divine Charity); Hope (God's Hope in my Soul); Faith (God's Faith in Me; My Faith in God; Love; Hope; Family; True Good Humanity; Friendship; Community; Love)!

So from someone who knows; and who believes in obeying God to absolute: Catholics must focus on their most utter best: to strive: and when the pain is impossible: strive some more: try your hardest: to fulfil the duty to live! Life is a duty not a gift!

Why ex Catholic Justin Bieber is lying about fathering Mariah's baby

2011-11-05T08:26:00.000+02:00

Article by Marc Aupiais

My favourite activity is to gauge truth. I love it deeply. I read news: between the lines: judging behaviour.

So Justin Drew Bieber (apparently Drew is a boy's name), says he doesn't "know the woman, it's crazy". That's his denial. Remind anyone of Bill Clinton's: "That Woman". It is distancing behaviour. In addition he says he is sent straight to his hotel after shows: the same guy who disappeared to Bali with his girlfriend, and routinely manages to get around unseen. And who lies to his Belieber's cult: constantly either about location (claiming he was in Canada when he was with his girlfriend Selena Gomez), or about his life. Even daring reporters to find him.

30 seconds in the day is something a schedule can't account for. Why not say: "I don't recognise Mariah, the first time I saw her was in the newspapers when she filed the civil suite. I may have met her, I have met over a million girls, I don't remember them all, but even if I met her I know I never had casual sex with a fan. I am not in the habit of having casual sex with fans, or anyone who I would not recognise in future. This is why I am certain this is not my child. To prove it I will submit to blood tests at a mutual location."

Rather than: "the woman" even more distant than "that woman", and "it's crazy" ( is it, is it that crazy: or are you attacking the girl's credibility?). Bieber hasn't told his fans not to threaten to kill Mariah, sounds a bit like the Jacob Zuma rape trial.

She risks jail by this suite, and all this publicity! She risks a lot, while he calls he crazy, and doesn't tell his cult not to hurt her. She never sold her story, it is known from court papers.

Mariah, the claimed mother of Justin Bieber's child, was in court facing charges for slapping a man in the face recently. She also posted revealing images of herself and her tattoos on social networks (no more revealing than Justin Bieber's girlfriend Selena Gomez in her picture on her facebook). This suggests the girl is passionate, and defined by what others think: an external locus of ego. It suggests she is the type to pursue or fantasize about a well known individual. Clearly his type! And remember there were denials of dating Selena Gomez, when he was caught kissing her, sharing a yacht and penthouse and caressing her buttock from behind. If he was so um.. Affectionate about his girlfriend at around the time, it is possible he would have elsewhere. Of course the lines of that song he sings with friend Sean Kingston are telling "if she holla's, let her go!"

Of Mariah:

She refused to name the father, even considered giving up the child. Her family only found out who from the papers/media.

At age 20 she is three years older than Justin Bieber who was 16 when the alleged intercourse occurred. This might reduce the alleged crime from statutory rape to a more minor offence.

Again, Justin Bieber's taste is in older women: Kim Kardashian, Selena Gomez, Bioncé. And that Brazilian model he was reportedly caught cheating on his girlfriend, Selena Gomez, with, recently. If Mariah committed rape, then Selena Gomez who shares hotel rooms with him, and paid an overnight stay without changing at his grandfather: should also be arrested or investigated, on the same charges or similar!

There is 250,000 US Dollars a month at stake, which is why I suggested neutral, mutually agreed healthcare facility. Whether Beiber had sex with Mariah or not, he certainly can't guarantee he doesn't have casual sex with fans: because his alibi is a lie in the first place. He is known for lying as a "joke" and for misleading and lying to media, as well as for controlling behaviour with his current Mariah, I mean girlfriend. Walking ahead, and so on. She (Selena) told Ellen, that he would force her to sleep on a pillow with his picture on it.

Perhaps, like Steve Jobs, Justin Bieber is guilty and will get away with all. But perhaps and I hope this is the case, the child of a single mother will be forced to pay maintenance to a single mother. Minor considering he recently rented a sports stadium for about double the amount, so he could relive a moment of Adam Sandler with his girlfriend Selena Gomez.

So whether He or Another got Mariah pregnant, he isn't innocent, he doesn't know or knows, but is lying.

I love judging truth on statement. That is my analysis. "That woman" is usually a giveaway of attempt to deceive even when you are innocent.

Smiling. That is why I love news: decoding truth! What is your view!!?

The Toll Road System is bad for the country- Catholic Parliamentarian- Manny De Freitas says

2011-11-01T16:47:00.000+02:00

Article by Marc Aupiais

Where a contract results from government incompetence and bribery, which benefits special interests and hurts the citizens, I see no reason why such an immoral contract against public policy and the constitutional duties of government should be upheld- in my personal capacity. Further, the Tea Party, and Right Wing, while foreign concepts to the liberal Democratic Alliance, actually are those in America seeking sound financial governance and smaller government where this is efficient. They directly mirror the Democratic Alliance in these, or one would hope this were the case.

On to a press release emailed the South African Catholic SACNS by Manny De Freitas, a known Roman Catholic who the Editor of the Archdiocesan News, Johannesburg a long time ago: introduced our service to and we as they had: verified was: Member of Parliament, Shadow Deputy Minister for Transport, Member of Parliament for Johannesburg South, Democratic Alliance: Manny De Freitas, as the emails claimed:

Manny claims the following: given in full, as political statements are often twisted, something our service doesn't do in our past practice:

"Reasons to oppose Toll roads continue piling up

The construction of toll roads in Gauteng has been a subject of debate for a while now. The overwhelming majority of residents in Gauteng are against it – the main reason being that motorist will be forced to fork out money they don't have. The tight economic conditions we are currently in reinforce this. Government is making it expensive simply to get around. Unlike many other countries motorist have no choice as the use of a public transport system is not an option, simply because it does it exist.

The complicated e-tolling system alone costs some R14-billion. Whilst foreign companies install these systems and get rich, South Africans are forced to pay up and tighten their belts. Not only will motorists pay the toll fees but will be charged VAT on these charges. Basically, we will be paying tax on a tax!

The argument against toll roads continues to pile up. The reality is that with these expensive tolls have to be paid for by everyone, including businesses who have to use our roads for products and services. This will make everything more expensive. The poor will be most affected. Irrespective of what SACP (South African Communist Party) Secretary General, Blade Nzimande may say, who describes our anti-toll campaign as "right-wing, tea-party campaign" – the reality is that this will lead to a loss of jobs. As the cost to conduct business increases, businesses will have no option but to lay off workers or even move out of Gauteng to more economical provinces. Gauteng, the economic heartbeat will dramatically suffer.

As this happens and more and more people feel the financial pinch, motorists will seek alternative roads to use. Roads previously less used suddenly will become busy. This will mean that these roads will need additional repair and maintenance attention that they previously didn't require. These roads fall within the jurisdiction of municipalities and provinces. These tiers of government will be unable to keep up financially with the newly required repair work as they historically didn't have these requirements – and thus were not budgeted for. These roads will begin to crumble whilst local and provincial authorities will be unable to keep up with this decaying infrastructure.

Don't be fooled by the clever spin and smoke and mirrors coming from the Department of Transport and SANRAL (South African National Roads Agency Limited). The toll roads system in Gauteng is going ahead – the fight is not over. We need to fight it all the way.

Help us in this fight by visiting www toollfreegp.co.za and fill in the petition as a first step.

Sincerely,

Manny de Freitas MP"

Toollfreegp.co.za seems like a spelling error, however we have not corrected it: in accordance with policy.

World Bank, a new system proposed by Vatican? Not occupy Saint Peter's Square, but sound advice to the G20?

2011-10-27T15:45:00.000+02:00

Article by Marc Aupiais

Vatican calls for new world bank, what about the IMF?

The Vatican calls fir a world financial authority are actually an advisory to the G20, which the Vatican believes has too much power and too little diversity to control the world finances. Also, the IMF does not fairly allow one vote per nation like the UN General Assembly. The Vatican essentially wants sound financial practice to be enforced throughout the world, and imposed on both the poor and the rich. The IMF makes poor nations have sound policies if they want funding, while nations like the USA endanger another financial Tsunami.

Did the Vatican call for this? Is it binding?

The Vatican's Justice and Peace Council/(department of sorts) compiled the document in question to suggest the G20 work on becoming more representative and on preventing bad financial functions, basing itself on the magisterium and financial information but in a non-binding, non-interfering advisory manner. It is intended for the G20 representatives, but not the faithful. It is merely a contribution, suggesting more representative and binding means of regulating financial markets in what it believes ought to be a manner governed by common sense and sound financial wisdoms.

The Vatican has never supported Capitalism that focuses on things and not the human person. To the Vatican, the world's greatest natural resources are its very human nations and peoples. It wants a capitalism that recognises this. To achieve this, it believe the UN structures, in a representative manner could be used to set up firmer regulations of financial markets, thus growing economies and peoples in a manner that can be kept up, to the benefit and fruits of all concerned.

The Vatican is neither, nor has ever been either left or right wing. Further, its work on such matters as finances here is generally pastorsl, interesting, useful, but not binding on the conscience.

It would seem the Vatican is violating subsidiarity?

The IMF and other bodies and nations, even financial advisors like Standard and Poors already govern markets internationally. The Vatican seems to be suggesting a framework in which smaller nations also have a voice in their own powers against the powerful. Laws applicable to all, can be useful. One must remember that any Public International Law, is not enforceable as domestic laws are, but rather is based on persuasion. Here, the Vatican is proposing a framework on a matter it believes requires higher international co-operation to insure safety in a global climate.

So is this binding on anyone?

No, further, while it purports to be based on an interpretation of the pope's understandings of economics and its interlacing with the worlds of religion, human essence, morality, mortality also: this is not the pope's document, nor necessarily even seen by the pope before publication. Further, it is not in a jurisdiction where the Vatican can be anything more than to be noted. It is merely a contribution to the G20 talks in order to assist delegates, using the financial expertise or knowledge of certain individuals associated with one of the Vatican's councils, in order to assist delegates. The document itself notes that this is not of the divine jurisdiction of the church's moral authority. It is a council/(governance department of the Vatican City State) of the church acting any errors in tact in the secular world of finances, the document's suggestions and equations of commerce: where applicable: ought be judged by us as judges on their merits if any relevant and applicable and based on their actual pragmatic, practical worldly based standard: worth in this case.

Pope's fascinating speech

2011-10-27T15:15:00.000+02:00

Article by Marc Aupiais (Editor of South African Catholic News Service)

We the sacns used to publish every single dispatch of the vis. We no longer do so, however this speech by Benedict XVI we considered worthy to replicate thoroughly here:

SUMMARY:

- Assisi: Religion Can Never Be Justification for Violence {powerful speech}

- Acts of the Oriental Churches {not copied here}

- Other Pontifical Acts {not replicated here}

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ASSISI: RELIGION CAN NEVER BE JUSTIFICATION FOR VIOLENCE

VATICAN CITY, 27 OCT 2011 (VIS) - Today marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the historic meeting for peace in the Italian town of Assisi, called by Blessed John Paul II. For the occasion, Benedict XVI has made a pilgrimage to the city of St. Francis, accompanied by representatives of other religions and by non-believers, for a Day of reflection, dialogue and prayer for peace and justice in the world under the theme: "Pilgrims of Truth, Pilgrims of Peace".

The Pontiff and the members of the various delegations left the Vatican by train at 8 a.m. today, reaching Assisi at 9.45 a.m. where they were greeted by the civil and religious authorities in front of the Basilica of Santa Maria degli Angeli. As the ceremony unfolded inside the basilica, the large numbers of faithful present were able to follow events on giant screens set up in the square outside.

Following a greeting from Cardinal Peter Kodwo Turkson, president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, a video was screened in commemoration of the 1986 meeting. Then, one after the other, the representatives of the various religions rose to speak: His Holiness Bartholomew I, Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople; Anglican Archbishop Rowan Williams of Canterbury, Primate of the Anglican Communion; Archbishop Norvan Zakarian, Primate of the Armenian Diocese of France; Rev. Olav Fyske Tveit, secretary general of the World Council of Churches; Rabbi David Rosen, representative of the Chief Rabbinate of Israel; Wande Abimbola, spokesperson for the Yoruba faith; Acharya Shri Shrivatsa Goswami, representative for Hinduism; Ja-Seung, president of the Jogye Order of Korean Buddhism; Kyai Haji Hasyom Muzadi, secretary general of the International Conference of Islamic Schools, and Julia Kristeva, representing non-believers.

The Holy Father then rose to make his address, extracts of which are given below:

"Twenty-five years have passed since Blessed Pope John Paul II first invited representatives of the world's religions to Assisi to pray for peace. What has happened in the meantime? What is the state of play with regard to peace today?

"At that time the great threat to world peace came from the division of the earth into two mutually opposed blocs. A conspicuous symbol of this division was the Berlin Wall. ... In 1989, three years after Assisi, the wall came down, without bloodshed. ... In addition to economic and political factors, the deepest reason for the event is a spiritual one: behind material might there were no longer any spiritual convictions. ... For this victory of freedom, which was also, above all, a victory of peace, we give thanks. What is more, this was not merely, nor even primarily, about the freedom to believe, although it did include this. To that extent we may in some way link all this to our prayer for peace.

"But what happened next? Unfortunately, we cannot say that freedom and peace have characterised the situation ever since. ... Violence as such is potentially ever present and it is a characteristic feature of our world. Freedom is a great good. But the world of freedom has proved to be largely directionless, and not a few have misinterpreted freedom as somehow including freedom for violence. Discord has taken on new and frightening guises, and the struggle for freedom must engage us all in a new way".

"In broad strokes, we may distinguish two types of the new forms of violence, which are the very antithesis of each other in terms of their motivation and manifest a number of differences in detail. Firstly there is terrorism, for which in place of a great war there are targeted attacks intended to strike the opponent destructively at key points, with no regard for the lives of innocent human beings, who are cruelly killed or wounded in the process. In the eyes of the perpetrators, the overriding goal of damage to the enemy justifies any form of cruelty. Everything that had been commonly recognised and sanctioned in international law as the limit of violence is overruled. We know that terrorism is often religiously motivated and that the specifically religious character of the attacks is proposed as a justification for the reckless cruelty. ... In this case, religion does not serve peace, but is used as justification for violence".

"The fact that, in the case we are considering here, religion really does motivate violence should be profoundly disturbing to us as religious persons. In a way that is more subtle but no less cruel, we also see religion as the cause of violence when force is used by the defenders of one religion against others. The religious delegates who were assembled in Assisi in 1986 wanted to say, and we now repeat it emphatically and firmly: this is not the true nature of religion. It is the antithesis of religion and contributes to its destruction".

"As a Christian I want to say at this point: yes, it is true, in the course of history, force has also been used in the name of the Christian faith. We acknowledge it with great shame. But it is utterly clear that this was an abuse of the Christian faith, one that evidently contradicts its true nature. The God in whom we Christians believe is the Creator and Father of all, and from Him all people are brothers and sisters and form one single family. For us the Cross of Christ is the sign of the God Who put 'suffering-with' (compassion) and 'loving-with' in place of force. ... It is the task of all who bear responsibility for the Christian faith to purify the religion of Christians again and again from its very heart, so that it truly serves as an instrument of God's peace in the world, despite the fallibility of humans.

"If one basic type of violence today is religiously motivated and thus confronts religions with the question as to their true nature and obliges all of us to undergo purification, a second complex type of violence is motivated in precisely the opposite way: as a result of God's absence, His denial and the loss of humanity which goes hand in hand with it. The enemies of religion - as we said earlier - see in religion one of the principal sources of violence in the history of humanity and thus they demand that it disappear. But the denial of God has led to much cruelty and to a degree of violence that knows no bounds, which only becomes possible when man no longer recognises any criterion or any judge above himself, now having only himself to take as a criterion. The horrors of the concentration camps reveal with utter clarity the consequences of God's absence.

"Yet I do not intend to speak further here about State-imposed atheism, but rather about the decline of man, which is accompanied by a change in the spiritual climate that occurs imperceptibly and hence is all the more dangerous. The worship of mammon, possessions and power is proving to be a counter-religion, in which it is no longer man who counts but only personal advantage. The desire for happiness degenerates, for example, into an unbridled, inhuman craving, such as appears in the different forms of drug dependency. ... Force comes to be taken for granted and in parts of the world it threatens to destroy our young people. Because force is taken for granted, peace is destroyed and man destroys himself in this peace vacuum".

"In addition to the two phenomena of religion and anti-religion, a further basic orientation is found in the growing world of agnosticism: people to whom the gift of faith has not been given, but who are nevertheless on the lookout for truth, searching for God. Such people do not simply assert: 'There is no God'. They suffer from His absence and yet are inwardly making their way towards Him, inasmuch as they seek truth and goodness. They are 'pilgrims of truth, pilgrims of peace'. They ask questions of both sides. They take away from militant atheists the false certainty. ... But they also challenge the followers of religions not to consider God as their own property, as if He belonged to them, in such a way that they feel vindicated in using force against others.

"These people are seeking the truth, they are seeking the true God, Whose image is frequently concealed in the religions because of the ways in which they are often practised. Their inability to find God is partly the responsibility of believers with a limited or even falsified image of God. So all their struggling and questioning is in part an appeal to believers to purify their faith, so that God, the true God, becomes accessible. Therefore I have consciously invited delegates of this third group to our meeting in Assisi, which does not simply bring together representatives of religious institutions. Rather it is a case of being together on a journey towards truth, a case of taking a decisive stand for human dignity and a case of common engagement for peace against every form of destructive force. Finally I would like to assure you that the Catholic Church will not let up in her fight against violence, in her commitment for peace in the world. We are animated by the common desire to be 'pilgrims of truth, pilgrims of peace'".

Following the meeting in the basilica, Benedict XVI and the delegations made their way to the convent of Porziuncola. A frugal lunch was followed by a period of silence for individual refection and prayer before the participants moved on to the Basilica of St. Francis for the concluding ceremonies of the Day.

PV-ITALY/ VIS 20111027

The Uprising Against the Desert Mirage: Why Egypt's power is the same as under Mubarak

2011-10-15T11:04:00.002+02:00

(Scripturelink: Social Justice South Africa)

Article by Marc Aupiais

The phantom in the pond, of the Egyptian revolution, is that the people who put Mubarak in power, were not overthrown, and if anything are more powerful. Now, with the massacre of Christians... Some in media are beginning to realise, that the Egyptian army has no intention of ceding the power of might that they used to have held up and with which they had appointed Mubarak. The temporary supreme power remains , along the Nile of Egypt, of the very people, who were the clandestine true ruling power; behind the figurehead that once was Mubarak.

When the Egyptian Revolution of sorts was in full swing, South African Catholic, in an article I wrote, warned against the change of power as something potentially catastrophic. A change in power where people die, religious freedom is damaged, and nothing really changes.

Media knew full well, and were wilfully negligent in neglecting to inform us the public of something we all knew from a bit of research, something I noted worriedly and wished that media would report on. South African Catholic certainly reported on the haphazard and deadly true position in the Revolution in Egypt.

Mubarak was a figurehead. Real power in Egypt, as I have noted time and again, has always, and continues to lay with the ferocious but diplomatic Egyptian Generals and army corpse.

Mubarak was one of a number of puppet princes installed by this army, funded with a Billion US dollars a year by America, and in the current constitutional framework, far more powerful a nemesis of the people than Mubarak, a mere figurehead ever was.

The army of Egypt, was careful not to partake directly in fighting, the very reason for a figurehead is that they are expendable. The New York Times, and others are finally, allegedly only now awaking to the fact that the Egyptian army always has been the king maker in Egypt, that they appointed Mubarak, and intend officially and publicly now to appoint Egypt's next dictatorship/government.

Whereas the Catholic press were deeply concerned by the revolutions, whereas it warned of future crackdowns against Catholics, as either a rebel government came to power, or the army was forced to act in a populist manner, mainstream Western media lauded the revolution, and the role Facebook, Google, twitter played.

The real spark, is not the massacre of Christians by the Egyptian army recently, in which allegedly, Coptic Christian Minority Egyptians were driven over, and shot at with live ammunition by Egyptian soldiers. The real spark was noted by Official Vatican news agency, Agenzia Fides: always a useful source in conflict monitoring. Fides reported that a marked change occurred with the storming of the Israeli embassy recently, that in past times the building would have been sourly protected to the death by Egyptian soldiers, who would far outnumber protesters. Israel is where the army of Egypt gets its billion dollar a year funding from America from, yet the army in Egypt, now believed that bowing to populist intentions was more important. Interestingly, just before the revolution occurred, I monitored increased sales of US arms to the Egyptian army, as I noticed this reported in specialist military monitoring news media.

The cabinet it says, must be chosen by the army, as with the Prime Minister: a return to Mubarak days. The power behind the power allegedly wants to insure it can keep this power. It also, allegedly desires the huge power which would come with suggested power to intervene to keep Egypt secular. The powers will be greatest until 2013 when there may be an election, according to military officials, quoted in the New York Times. The Carte Blanche to protect "secularism" may extend much further with dire consequences.

c.f. extrapolation in evidence of this New York Times October 14th 2011

Wikileaks, according to the UK Telegraph reported that the revolution in Egypt, had been planned for exactly when it occurred. While George W. Bush, rejected attempts to insure regime change in Egypt, the Obama administration had a different view. Either way, the people who organized the Egyptian uprising, were trained by the Americans, according to the Telegraph, as our service detailed when the revolution was allegedly in full swing.

c.f. extrapolation in evidence of this SACNS January 30th 2011; February 2nd 2011

The army, in Egypt, chose figureheads because like a hydra, it can lose them one by one. The power behind the power remains, and it will be surprising if any real democracy emerges in Egypt. Certainly... now that Satellite Television viewers have had their viewing pleasure: the seeming alleged fall of a monolithic state, and have moved onto Libya: a seeming genocide against Sub-Saharan Africans *, by tribally connected warlords, disguised as an overthrow, more viewing pleasure can result.

c.f. extrapolation in evidence of this SACNS September 2nd 2011;

In North Africa and the Middle East:

Everything "Changes", Everything :"Stays the same".

(once again my source is the New York Times, claims that the revolution on the ground was pushed forward by propaganda against "kaffirs" ("unbelievers": specifically in this case: black ones))

Government not protecting citizens from illegal spying

2011-10-14T09:09:00.000+02:00

Article by Marc Aupiais

Media now claims that police and intelligence officials are bypassing court orders, to access the permanent record of : all phone and electronic, private conversations: in under 36 hours, easily and illegally.

The Regulation of the Interception of Communications Act Amendment Act, RICA was not about registering phones to people. The true purpose, which unless you read page something far in of the Pretoria News, guessed it from the Johannesburg Star, or read the actual act, is still a frightening concept.

Every SMS you wrote was already kept for 5 years by Vodacom, MTN, Cell C etc. Now. Every phone call (a voice recording), sms (text), mms, email that you make has to be kept permanently for the government, as I reported for South African Catholic earlier in this emerging situation.

The government needed a court order to access this permanent record. They had to suspect you of criminal activity. To access every word you utter in private, they needed a court order.
According to the Mail and Guardian (owned by British "The Guardian"), and to their major competitors Primedia ("Eyewitness News"), police and intelligence officials are bypassing court orders, to access private conversations in under 36 hours illegally. Primedia claims that the practice is rampant in crime intelligence.

The state has still not been able to break into the Blackberry encryption, and it appears that Blackberry doesn't allow local partners access either. It is suggested a bill will be put to vote in March on whether to force compliance. Blackberry has claimed they will refuse access, but with activist shareholders threatening to gut the company after a recent outage, it is uncertain whether the last hold-out will remain.

After all, non-enterprise Blackberry email likely is read by the government already. BBM, and enterprise email still seem the last safe way to avoid your e-conversations, and phone calls the equivalent of speaking into a dictaphone for someone else's permanent record.

If the practice is rife for government means, it is almost certainly rife for private purposes. It was through espionage conducted on former President Thabo Mbeki and the former NPA Scorpions head, that the Mbeki government fell, and Zuma got away with avoiding courts of law.

That accidental flirting in an adulterous manner, so-called sexting, gossiping, rumours, discontent with the state, that moment in time when you lost it, swore, let off steam... Such popular means of using electronics... Such a dangerous animal trap.

Don't just be careful what you write on social networks! Watch your every breath.

The 3rd Instinct / The Third Instinct: When Sidney Wolf Is Accused of Murder- Marc Evan Aupiais

2011-10-12T16:59:00.001+02:00

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The Third Instinct:

When Sidney Wolf is Accused of Murder

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The main character Sidney Wolf, as well as other characters, in life and death situations, are forced to choose between what they believe is right and what is most expedient, with varying results. --~SACNS; Aupiais Notes

A Thoroughly scary thrilling novel, where humanity, psychology, and espionage combine.

A spy novel that questions deeply human nature, surveillance,obedience to unjust authority, and thrills all round with intrigue.

While the paperback merely declared The 3rd Instinct; The full Title including subtitle is The Third Instict: When Sidney Wolf is Accused of Murder...

A novel showing deep belief and disbelief in love, humanity, science, espionage, and the extreme sometimes almost absolute power of the state...

The main character Sidney Wolf, as well as other characters, in life and death situations, are forced to choose between what they believe is right and what is most expedient, with varying results. --~SACNS; Aupiais Notes

A Thoroughly scary thrilling novel, where humanity, psychology, and espionage combine.

A spy novel that questions deeply human nature, surveillance,obedience to unjust authority, and thrills all round with intrigue.

While the paperback merely declared The 3rd Instinct; The full Title including subtitle is The Third Instict: When Sidney Wolf is Accused of Murder...

A novel showing deep belief and disbelief in love, humanity, science, espionage, and the extreme sometimes almost absolute power of the state...

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"The sirens flashed almost silently in the winter air, only slightly penetrating the stale darkness, but even in this light, you could always feel it, always sense it..."

-Thus begins this powerful, story of intrigue, that is the unexpectedly, undeniably gripping suspense ride which is the 3rd Instinct by Marc Evan Aupiais

Just a teenager... Sidney Wolf, a hard working, intelligent young girl, is unjustly accused of murder...

An adventure begins. Desperate to find the truth, Sidney is thrown into the currents of the dark world of espionage as she quickly realizes that someone stored the sole copy of a one time pad code inside of her.

The code decrypts the Third Instinct, the last bit of information that remains unknown from a social formula known as Chameleon works. If the instinct is decoded, then absolute control of anyone would be in the reach of whoever found it. The problem is that if it isn't taken from her, then she will die.

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Important Characters & Important People (12)
Sidney Wolf:
Main character, protagonist. A High school teenaged girl, who's parents drive her to study, and give her little time to socialise. After her friend Alex's death, the police arrest her for his murder. As long as the Third Instinct, a code used to unlock a secret, is hidden in her DNA, she is in deadly danger. Her hair is sleek, and brown.
Tom Rider:
A complex character Sidney goes to for help. He is, in Sidney's re-evaluation, possibly capable of murder, even murdering her, whom he holds feeling for, for his patriotic idealism. He has to choose constantly between what is right and what he believes expedient. The sudden and grim experience, of the seeming death of their mutual friend Alex, in grade 7 impacted his entire life, and has caused him to be cold at times towards others. He has replaced loyalty with patriotism with possibly toxic side effects for him and Sidney.
John Robinson:
Someone Sidney knew from school.
Female NIA Agent:
Interrogates Sidney in prison.
NIA Prison interrogation man:
Interrogates Sidney
Alex:
Died in grade 7, impacting Sidney and Tom.
Sidney's parents:
Seemingly professional, and pushy when it comes to working hard.
The Assassin:
A main antagonist in the novel.
The Vigil Ante:
A character who in one chapter dedicated to him is involved in spying, and causes a massive explosion of what he considers networked evil. It seems he blew up a compound before relaying something on his laptop.
V:
Scientist who's name, past, and much else is uncertain. Sidney doesn't trust him.
Jake:
Tom's Pack contact.
Tom's mother:
Not too focussed on caring for Tom, or guiding him in life adequately.

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Sidney Wolf, a Johannesburg teenager, who's parents make her study hard, is out shopping with her friends at the mall, having likely planned movies for the evening, when she is arrested in connection with the murder of Alex, who she had thought died in grade 7, only a few years ago if that.

It turns out she isn't really wanted for the murder, but police are attempting to monitor her for the NIA. She like Alex has the same flu injection. Alex died due to this injection, being shot with a neurotoxin designed to make a one time pad code used in encryption appear on his skin.

Sidney is rescued from jail by a female NIA agent, who claims the NIA, South Africa's world famous, very controversial, and effective intelligence agency has been compromised, and that all Sidney's friends would be observed. Sidney asks to be dropped off with Tom, a friend from when Alex died.

Tom Rider, unfortunately is wrapped up in the adventure being close to the Pack, who themselves had the code inserted in her DNA. He believes he will be ordered to kill her, and is just about to when his superiors call him off.

Sidney and Tom, who has a slight crush on her, despite. Together go on a quest to the spot where Alex was murdered in deadly central Johannesburg's Central Business District. They find some of his blood, barely escaping a sniper from The Trust, a group seeking the code, and discover that it was Alex who was shot, years after he was meant to be dead, and he was working for the Pack actively. Tom, claims to only be working on computers for them mostly.

Sidney discovers a psychological formula the Pack uses to negotiate and control others called the three instincts, the third is missing, preventing absolute and utterly accurate readings of any person's choices.
The Third Instinct is what is inside her. She is told it can only be removed by her death via a deadly neuro-toxin.

Sidney hides out in a government safe house with Tom in the pristine Northern Suburbs until she is seemingly discovered and contacted by phone, told if she doesn't meet a hit man at her high school's sports field, she will be met with the deaths of her family.

She goes to the sports field, only to find she's been tricked.

She soon meets John Robinson on the field, and he and his friends take her to safety at his house. John, and Ross join Sidney and a mysterious character V who claims to have helped develop the 3 Instinct formula in trying to find a machine that will extract the instinct from Sidney.

V is shot in the shoulder, the car rolls. Ross shouts that Sidney is a danger to everyone around her. She runs off, and is caught by the Trust at a filling station.

John runs after her, and surrenders in order to be there for her... Captured, they are to be brought, by his killers, to the same place Alex was assassinated, for the very code Sidney also holds.

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The Eternity Effect

2011-10-11T21:22:00.004+02:00

Article by Marc Evan Aupiais

I recently published my second Novel (this has a Catholic basis): tell me what you think:

The Eternity Effect
[The Original Unabridged, Unedited version]
(The Adventures In Farnar and Other Lands)

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Gripping, thrilling, but sometimes controversial novel by Marc Aupiais of the Third Instinct: When Sidney Wolf is Accused of Murder!

A fast paced, gripping can't put down novel with religious and cultural undertones, in which the author intentionally seems to have made some spelling errors! Some passages are controversial due to how close to human history they stray.

An advanced use, and mastery of the English language, unexpected, as Marc Aupiais ("The Third Instinct: When Sidney Wolf is Accused of Murder") wrote this book at age 16. This original published, spelling errors intact, but also far in excess in relation to suspense, language use, style, than that of what many authors could hope to write!

Knowing Marc Aupiais, it certainly is not for controversial purposes, but parts of this novel are a bit too close to Christian beliefs, for every Christian to feel comfortable. For instance, the Trial of the Lion, in which the proceedings are similar to those in the Gospel!

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When Anne's world is destroyed by the Deity, "The Divine Lion", She is sent to Earth, and then to Farnar, to find love, and through the death of perfect sacrifice, Save her world from destruction. She goes first to earth to find love, and brings the Earth People to Farnar, using the Pseudonym Alice Wonderland, In Farnar she is a foreigner, and some think a witch, ... a war breaks out... Which could kill both Alice Wonderland, and her new Earth Human Companions... Kindle ebook description: read at: The Eternity Effect (The Adventures In Farnar and Other Lands) [Kindle Edition] Marc Evan Aupiais (Author) amazon.com/Eternity-Effect-Adventures-Farnar-ebook/dp/B005MGETZO/

{The Eternity Effect by M. E. (Marc Evan) / Marc Aupiais is the first novel in the Series "The Adventures in Farnar and Other Lands": Note, this is the version of the book written as the author intended it, including poetic spellings, even seeming errors and arcanum at times. At the time this was published, a different version of the manuscript was being worked through! Which differs at times from the author's intent!

The book is supposed to reflect how one would read an actual, translated ancient manuscript including errors, much as the bible, and many ancient works had many spelling errors in publication, even many variations.

The original concept of the author was to comment on human history, even portray very close to it, and its many ancient manuscripts at times, with the intent of creating perspective of these. Humanity's manuscripts for the great religions, for instance often refer to wind or breath, when referring to God or the spiritual, and if wolves were higher beings such as human beings, the phrase wolfs would exist.

There is no direct copying of any ancient manuscript, however at times events are purposely close to those of human history: this is intended to note details afresh, even compare ancient ideas of nationality, causing so much unnecessary strife to modern ideas on foreigners in many cultures, to cause a reader to think, deeply on these, sometimes mysterious or unexplained or unexplainable events. The different nations of Farnar and the groups are not meant to reflect any one culture in a negative sense, but rather ideas of human history and especially at the present time.
The Author has dedicated much of his time in study, of history, often with the intent of better describing it in unusual ways. He has decided that this unabridged unedited version of his work be published, that his original intent may be noted, while working on a more refined version that loses some of the intent!

The author is a South African, Caucasian, and strongly Roman Catholic, however, he is well known for curiosity in study of cultures, and religions across the world; and both the Literals and The Wolves of Farnar are not only based on human history, but on modern culture and conflicts, especially as regards superstition that has caused many unfortunate witch killings and trials in Africa, and violence against foreigners, minorities, and tribal groups: sometimes both for political gain with unfortunate consequences.

The novel certainly makes commentary on ancient Judah and Ancient Israel, and on Eastern and Western, European and African cultures, nations and regions in modern times ;

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Why South Africa made the MORAL choice in refusing a VISA to the Dalai Lama

2011-10-11T11:55:00.001+02:00

Editorial by Marc Aupiais

The blood thirsty media couldn't help but publicise the statements. "Worse than the Nationalists". This was the defamation Anglican retired archbishop Desmond Tutu uttered with such wrath.

He was referring to the decision to refuse the Dalai Lama a visa to visit him.

To give background, Tutu's autobiography of sorts is called "Rabble Rouser for peace", in it he pitches himself as some kind of vigil ante, and of course cannot help but dedicating much to his belief that homosexuals obey God by having homosexual sex, and other attacks on marriage. Tutu, aptly named, also called for South Africa to break International Law, and fight and invade Zimbabwe, in addition to asking that every white South African pan extra tax in collective scape goating for Apartheid.

The Dalai Lama, so often portrayed as peaceful by the Nobel committee (set up originally by the inventor of dynamite) of some or other European government, in fact has often supported acts of war. While the Vatican lamented the summary execution without trial, in front of a minor child of Osama Bin Laden, the Dalai Lama had to be held back from clapping, making very public his approval of a human rights and humanitarian and international law abuse.

China invests billions in our economy, and our Deputy President was in China attempting to get more export rights into their markets and the investment the west denies our nation.

At this time, Mr Tutu, who lied in saying he'd fade from public life a few years past, decided to invite the separatist who's been living comfortably in India for years, to come for a visit.

The visit would have cost billions of Rands to the economy and hundreds of thousands in jobs. Our economy already shed a Million or round about last year.

The lives of millions, the livelihood of these, is far more important than a political statement in support of a few people and their "deity incarnate" leader of faith. A man who really is more political than spiritual, and so deeply wants his own name engraved as to insist that after his death, there be no more Dalai Lama's, only an ordinary government among his separatists.

Only a short while ago, the west slammed Russia for attacking Al Qaeda in some of their provinces, now they are alleged heros for these same acts.

America is letting their population and world influence decline significantly, and uses their foreign policy to bully into place population decline and its lever, "gay marriage" across the world. Europe also bullies likewise. No one mentions these. But when an enemy of our major ally and trade partner and investor and creditor China, with so much power to harm us: is invited by not our government, but a man who sees himself as a mob inciting superhero: we are to betray the hundred of thousands of South Africans for their livelihoods, to help a man living comfortably in India?

France made the mistake, as did America, of inviting the Lama over. Both economies were tragically hit by the loss of exports to China. Obama may even have caused their second US recession by this teenage choice.

Jobs are more important than hopeless causes of separatists! If you disagree, ask those who lose their jobs in countries like America- for attempts to be frankly rude to another nation!

The politics of left and their opponents the morally right

2011-10-11T11:33:00.000+02:00

Editorial by Marc Evan Aupiais

One cannot escape it on Twitter or in the American Media, "Occupy Wall Street" for one: people with no fashion sense and likely smelling foul, marching through New York City, and camping like illegal immigrants on the farm that is Wall Street.

They wear that American Symbol: the Halloween mask, and say they want to eat people. Not very nice.

Of course, unlike the civilised Republican Tea Party, the American Left Wing Media consider their presence legitimate: asking for universal debt relief and other communist ideas which Communist China, America's major creditor I assure, will never permit.

It reminds me of the "Gay Pride" parades where each contestant for most immoral tries to be more extravagantly horrendously unnatural than the rest. Carrying whips, treating people as dogs, dressing in outrageous teapot outfits. That any sensible woman or man would never wear.

It reminded me of Solidarity, the Catholic Workers Union, that overthrew communism: and how unlike these, they marched silently and were well behaved! As with seemingly all Traditional European Christian Values protesters across the world, all these seem to be so.

I know who is good and bad by who they oppose. I know what is good and bad by its opposition. Often enough.

What type of person protests for left wing agendas, are these those we want to obey?

New/NTC Libyan leader wants Sharia Law constitution for Libya, after NATO installs him in a coup d'etat against secular leader Gaddafi!

2011-09-13T06:50:00.000+02:00

Article by Marc Aupiais

"We Strive for a state of the law, ... A state that will have Islamic Sharia law the basis of legislation," says the head of USA backed Coup in Libya!

His name is Musta Abdul-Jalil, the NTC, Libya Leader and his calls for SHARIA to be imposed are recorded in September 12th Globe and Mail Libya's new leader calls for state based on sharia law ANNE BARNARD!

He said them at a rally!

And seems to suggest, as seen in the quote above that he clearly wanted the SHARIA as a constitution of a Libyan Republic. Whether formal or informal, this is the underlying law he, backed into power by NATO, wants to implement.

The rebels are lead by the very people MI6, CIA used to think were Islamist terrorists, and renditioned for torture and captivity- USA then backs in coup, these individuals, who their own CIA feared to be Islamist terrorists!?

America also illegally funded the introduction of Sharia law into the Kenyan constitution, according to documents and one of the US senators probing the matter then c.f. Fox News Tess Civantos White House Spent $23M of Taxpayer Money to Back Kenyan Constitution That Legalizes Abortion, GOP Reps Say 22nd July 2010; National Review KATHRYN JEAN LOPEZ Obamacare in Kenya? 12th July 2010 . Afghanistan made it law that a man of a certain religion can deny his wife food if she denies him sex, under the current American backed government, according to Canada's Globe and Mail, as noted by our Canadian correspondent at the time. The BBC said the Afghani election was rigged, based on their observations at the time of it. In nations America has conquered: Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as in its international law efforts, it has continuously promoted Sharia law initiatives, to the shock of some.

These, hereto mentioned are the same Libyan rebel council USA backed, European recognised: NTC (National Transitional Council). The same group of violent men, NATO backed and arresting, rounding up, killing Black Africans, when according to Mail and Guardian quotes: both Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International say there is NO evidence of any REAL black mercenaries in Libya, despite almost 30 blacks being executed by the Rebels NTC. To quote the Mail and Guardian :

"Amnesty International researcher Diana Eltahawy said the rebels taking control of Libya had tapped into "existing xenophobia". The New York Times refers to "racist overtones", but sometimes the racism is explicit. A rebel slogan painted in Misrata during the fighting salutes "the brigade for purging slaves, black skin". A consequence of this racism has been mass arrests of black men and gruesome killings -- just some of the various atrocities human rights organisations blame rebels for.
The racialisation of this conflict does not end with hatred of "Africans". Graffiti by rebels frequently depicted Gaddafi as a demonic Jew.
[...]
Into this space stepped those who had the greatest resources -- the former regime notables, businessmen and professionals, as well as exiles. It was they who formed the National Transitional Council (NTC).

"The dominance of relatively conservative elites and the absence of countervailing pressures skewed the politics of the rebellion. We hear of "the masses" and "solidarity", but masses can be addressed on many grounds -- some reactionary. There are also many bases for solidarity -- some exclusionary. The scapegoating of black workers makes sense from the perspective of elites. For them, Libya was not a society divided on class lines from which many of them had profited. Instead, the more success Gaddafi had in stabilising his regime the more the explanation for this relied on the claim that "Gaddafi is killing us with his Africans"." c.f. Mail and Guardian RICHARD SEYMOUR A revolution disgraced by racism 2nd September 2011.

I Plead: Be Righteous, Wherein: I ask: What is sin? In a relative world!

2011-09-03T19:46:00.000+02:00

Note by Marc Aupiais

For the first time in ages I returned to Catholic forum CAF and decided to discuss things to help people. Someone said they hung out every Friday night with friends who got completely drunk, and had a number of beers with them. They played video games at these events.

My response was: these were seemingly teenagers, illegally drinking alcohol, playing violent likely video games, and likely having lewd talk as drunkenness creates.

Drunkenness always has an effect on our ability to avoid sin, and being around drunks, drinking with them, joking with them, encouraging their behaviour? It sounded not only occasion to sin, but in fact encouraging and peer pressuring his friends to sin. A whole bad situation with a bad bunch.

Ephesians 5 I believe says: have nothing to do with the deeds of darkness but reproach them: show them to be what they are. And throughout the bible says bad company corrupts and "birds of a feather flock together", and "avoid the way of the mocker".

Jesus did associate with prostitutes, with tax collectors: but he never drank excessive amounts with them. He never spent his days discussing football with them, or hanging for hours among prostitutes.

It seemed I was the only one in the forum to even consider looking at what the bible said: it was labelled "student lifestyle" etc. Some said the friends were losers: most said: "have a good time", and "what events you may miss if abandon good friends who will soon abandon drinking".

Except people don't abandon drinking. And drinking excessive amounts is itself a mortal sin. Sitting around a friend playing Russian roulette. Or killing a baby: would be immoral surely? Drinking is a Mortal sin: it is the killing of a soul.

When we routinely associate closely with the sinful, when we routinely surround ourselves with sin, our senses are dulled to it. Our true vision, or the other world, our otherworldly memories and truths of heaven: fade, and we are dulled into a vast sleep, gradually and truly destroying the wooden log in the river, which is our soul tossed upon the rapids of time and space. least we forget, we are timeous, in that ever changing river: temporal and human! Not Just Yet Aeviternal, even as Our Rational Soul IS!

Drinking among drunks: well that's like putting a juicy stake in front of a starving person. It is peer pressure. This person is spending their Friday nights wasting away with bad influence friends, in South Africa where so many die from Alcohol, drugs, drunk driving, and drink related rape resulting in HIV.

And what do respondents in a Catholic forum say: either that their friends seem unwholesome, or to go for it.

Whenever Jesus was around sin he stood against it, or removed himself. The bible says: "have nothing to do with the deeds of darkness".

Sadly, the advice for this person, who could be studying or making good influence friends: was to enjoy playing video games and drinking.

The sort of friends who lead astray: bad company corrupts good Character: do not be lead astray- to quote the good book- the bible.

And yet, the advice is not to remove from the situation? The advice on a Catholic forum?

Jesus said: you are either with me or against me. The Book of Revelation likewise says of the Lukewarm: the lukewarm will be sent to hell.

We must be in the world and not of it. And that means not partaking in or promoting evil, not associating with it. Helping widows and orphans in their distress- the helpless innocent vulnerable, and NOT being polluted by the world (St James in the Bible book of James).

The apostles note how the Christians stopped attending orgies, how they separated from their past lives through morality. Not through associating with evil: as the bible says: "light can have nothing in common with darkness", and "focus on all things good and true and nobel".

How we live our lives makes us Christian. Religion is always striving to be the most good, perfect: we can be for God. I sin, but I try not to sin: this is my motto.

Yes, one or two people sometimes take precedence to God in my life: always the same two- but I try to be good. I try to fight for what is right.

And a good person must remove themselves from bad situations.

A saint doesn't hang out at the local club or bar, or strip club, or casino. A saint is separate. A saint does not obssess over immoral television shows, and scandal. A saint lives a separate existence. A saint does not act as though fornicating, or be excessively passionate and public in kissing- this is scandal- the gravest sin: of encouraging others to sin. And a saint- DOES NOT hang out playing video games and getting "smashed".

Woe, warning, beware: "the devil prowls like a Lion"- says Saint James. And "the Mature in faith do not think themselves safe", least they fall. We are not safe, or out of darkness, we walk, and walk, and walk: tirelessly in the dark dark dusk, unto dawn, we are the night watch of this world of ours. We aim at dawn and serve the King of the Dawn, the Emperor over the sea of time and fate!

Why does sainthood matter? Because a saint is just another word for someone who made it to heaven. And the word means separated by God.

Separate! Holy! In Heaven!

If the standard is to try out in this audition, with out very very best- and note the parable of the gold coins or old english "talents". It is not about talents, in the modern sense from an Americanism: it is about what is given a man. And that for every little thing we are given: God expects a return, least we be sent to hell.

Do not trifle with the eternal things of God, nor with your Aeviternal soul. DO NOT give the devil a foothold, dear sheep of God! Fight with all your might! Conquer every sin! Fight! Because the road is windy, and the path is small: few ever find the route unto salvic heaven. And if you don't like God's presence, or his path and behaviour: remember: Heaven is His Kingdom, His Presence: already among the moral on Earth.

For Jesus, when he preached, did not preach faith but judgement, and hell fire, he preached love certainly, especially in response to a question, but he firstly preached repentance from sin, and this is indeed love, as Saint John Says in the bible, in his epistle: "This is Love, to follow the commands of God", and "he who continues to live in darkness has never known God".

Our religion is not trifles, or possessions, reputation, sensuality, fame, gregarious pursuit. Our religion is Holiness: the separation and difference without which- I assure you, without which the Apostles, and the bible assure you: YOU WILL NOT ENTER HEAVEN. Whatever religion you possess or claim to hold unto. C.f. Lumen Gentium XVI, and the church's clarification on the dogma: "extra Ecclesium, Nulla Salus" (Outside the Church, No Salvation).

Error in last article

2011-09-02T18:18:00.001+02:00

An article against wanting America's harm accidentally got opposite tinge by a spelling error. I have asked someone with access to alter it. None the less, while I don't have internet I can still send in this correcting it:

UPDATE: ERROR CORRECTED!

Response to readers on Libya coverage

2011-09-02T17:42:00.001+02:00

Note explanatory by Marc Aupiais

I subscribe to Subsidiarity, and the concept that violent means achieve setbacks not advances: that forward movement ought be with, not against the system, and attempt to move through the current regime: be it a constitution, or government, this ought always be the first recourse before external means. Simply put: the cost of external means: is usually far greater than the benefits if any: except surface/apparent benefits sometimes cited out of context!

So what is this response to argued from and to?

Why I do not believe harm to America, an act, or course or hope which some have suggested: is something to be wished for - but rather than that: that America's good- like that of any nation, ought controversially be wished for-

Readers have given different responses to Libya and to the American backed Coup D'etat.

One response was that America ought to be destroyed/wiped out, was too powerful and played with weapons like a child in a temper tantrum.

Certainly an interesting response, none the less one I choose to differ with on the first point considerably.

I do not believe America ought be wiped out or have any violent act against it for a number of reasons.

The first of which is many Americans are exposed to propaganda from birth, in schools, television, books, news, everywhere. They are exposed to some points hyper-magnified, true or false: and are not willingly and knowingly complicit. This in their nation's wars, bullying of other nations, and use of aid to destroy economies, regimes as is often the case with Unicef and other American run organisations.

Instead, notions of justice guide them, terrible stinted and misdirected by the evils of their Patriotic Press, which filters and magnifies and hides, and misrepresent a world very different than they perceive! Certainly, our own press does the same to many degrees, I know this having seen press releases misquoted, and massive events not covered as small ones almost identical were.

Secondly, the violent or otherwise overthrow of a nation: creates a vacuum and damages stability, and for addition, the world economy for years if not decades or centuries is damaged by such acts. Those without experience are then put into power, and empower those allied to them. A strong government on the other hand can afford to employ experts, and not merely beneficial allies.

Thirdly: America is best suited to solve the problems it creates. Subsidiarity dictates this principle. Effectively.

Fourthly: both September 11th and the Madrid train bombings have allowed inexperienced people to take power in America and in Spain: resulting in financial degrading of both, and damage to the world economy.

Violence does not serve anyone. Either America will naturally lose power, as even today it damages its economies and people through mismanagement and abuse of extensive government power; or it will continue to exist. In the event of the second: we ought pray to Americans: to act responsibly and sustainably- rather than pursue wars, oil, homosexual, sexual revolution pushing: of adults and children (Unicef schooling), pro-abortionist and these and other special interest agendas as their foreign policy. These damage and hurt subsidiarity. And help damage America's contributions.

Either way, fairness, skills, equality, etc will always build along the current lines of power, or else in response to them. Only gradual alteration is responded to well in the global economy. Frankly put: what hurts Libya hurts everyone; what hurts America hurts everyone more. A small gradual real grasping of foot upon foot of ground: is healthy; a sudden shock as in these violent acts and scrummages: hurts everyone!

What helps America in an objective sense, and not this waste of money and damaging their standing in the world: also helps the rest. What is needed is change in America: by her peoples' hearts.

The Republican Tea Party is the start of this: it is they who objected to the Libya war, voting to air their discontent at the unconstitutional use of force by their nation's elected leaders, and they who promote sound finances. Peoples are dynamic, ever changing for better or worse: along the infinite scale.

Libyan Rebels rounding up, executing black Africans in Unseen Genocide- reports

2011-09-02T15:32:00.000+02:00

Note Analytical by Marc Aupiais

The Mail and Guardian- owned by Britain's Guardian paper, and connected to the ruling ANC has reported on a not often reported part of the Libyan coup d'etat.

It reports, based on Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and other groups that Black Africans are being rounded up, arrested and executed in Libya by rebels serving under the USA backed National Transitional Council.

It isn't the first report that rebel troops were being pushed by rebellion propaganda and inspired to kill black Africans- mostly of Christian or African belief systems. The fact that almost 30 black African corpses line Tripoli streets in a Rebel Massacre, and not one mercenary of colour can be proved anywhere however shows a different story.

Sources on the ground suggest that racism against minorities protected under Gaddafi and the opportunity to rid Libya of these are a major source of the Rebellion's steam.

Allegations of Black Mercenaries, being given Viagra to rape Libyan rebel women and other such propaganda have certainly not helped Black Africans, fleeing Libya where they are a minority.

The Vatican has reported that NATO bombings were often aimed at civilians, and that Rebels as well as the Regime were killing civilians on the streets of Tripoli. It did so through multiple articles in Missionary News Service Fides: which is an official arm of the Vatican press office.

The Vatican has also praised the BRIC and German approach asking for diplomacy in Libya, while lamenting the NATO approach of USA and France.

America and her allies have already moved to have the funds of the Libyan government transferred to the unaccountable performers of the coup d'etat, and American oil companies are already reported as vying for lucrative deals.

South Africa contends that the Libya NTC may not be recognised under International Law: as it has emerged from an American backed civil war, which was not in accordance with the SC R 1973. A Resolution South Africa voted for to protect civilians: while has been used as a justification to bomb civilians in Tripoli, while providing military cover to a coup d'etat force which has used its power to take control of money, resources, army bases, weapons: and to wipe out minority groups. The formation of such a state, the reasoning follows cannot be recognised as it violates a Ius Cogents to which all states are bound.
The Libyan government has pointed out that the rebels have no manifesto. The ability of rebels to govern the vast African nation is also questionable.

America spent close to a billion dollars to overthrow their standing critic Gaddafi. They did so based on no UN mandate, and seemingly against the will of many Libyans- and resulting in many civilian deaths.

If the Libyan economy ever recovers to pre-coup levels it will be decades. Instability has been created, and minorities are at risk. Catholic media, and figures in the Vatican, fear that Christians in Libya will now face greater persecution, and that further instability is now added to the region.

Afghanistan, where America similarly overthrew a government, has still not recovered. Further, drugs trade, human trafficking and many crimes and corruption flourish there and in another American puppet state: Iraq.

The BBC reported that the Afghani election was rigged. France 24 and others have noted that as soon as American troops withdraw the Taliban will retake control of the nation.

In Libya likewise, many residents of Tripoli have openly started to complain that their lives were better under Gaddafi.

The terrible fact of a revolution cannot be better shown than in South Africa: the poster child of overthrows of nations the International community doesn't like.

20 years after Apartheid: corruption and crime and rape are endemic, and statistics show that the poor and average South African: especially the "liberated" average black South African: have a poorer standard of living on the index, today: than under a regime designed to destroy them.

Love, whatever the flaws of the loved

2011-08-27T11:00:00.001+02:00

Note by Marc Aupiais

If I love someone, the only flaws that tend to bother me are those that hurt them or me. Of course those I love most: I often love for their flaws. Firstly their physical flaws: like glasses, or being slightly too thin or fat, or any number of things. I think that imperfection is how God made them. Then for their personality flaws.

Of two of my best friends: one is ultra-emotional- easily upset; and quick to revanche. The other timid, cold almost at first but loyal to a fault.

My celebrity Crush, my only one: Selena Gomez: is filled with flaws, but I love her as much for them as against them: as for her virtues and good qualities.

The thing about flaws: is they show intimacy and safety and trust.

But when a flaw hurts someone you love, sometimes it hurts you also. You may love them deeply for being just as God made them! But you don't want them hurt! Or to lose .. You .. For their flaws! And that is why God asks us to be as perfect as we can be! Because he loves us. I truly love my loves for their flaws. I know them better than they do. Still, sometimes, knowing they may get hurt I try intervene. Sometimes accidentally hurting when attempting to help.

That is why Christ says: take the speck out of your eye first: make sure you have their best interests in mind, then you can safely remove the log from their eye.

This is where I hurt most! When I see Someone I Love HURT!

The Mortal Sin: of Time Travel

2011-08-27T10:37:00.001+02:00

Article by Marc Aupiais

In the end, any moral analysis of time travel must conclude: it is extra-ordinarily selfish: it is based on pride and self assurance: it aims to avoid consequences we incur in life: it aims to destroy our accountability to choices and thus the concept of choice itself.

Where every choice can be reversed: no choice is made: without permanent consequences: people only do what is most advantageous; a culture of selfish self enrichment emerges from time travel.

Further, the possibility of ruining someone else's life, causing them to never exist perhaps, a grey soul, if even possible.

Even where it is only to observe: the Butterfly Effect, and Quantum mechanics warn of an effect. Shrodenger's cat! Time travel in its essence cannot escape changing the state of life.

Make no mistake! I love Time Travel shows and filmography. But fact is: time travel is an attempt to be God! To distrust God's Fate! God's truth! His Intent! His Ways in Our Life!

Life is consequences! God allowed evil, because without consequences: there is no choice! Choice was important enough: to Create Heaven! To Create Hell!

Nigeria Bombing Update

2011-08-26T21:22:00.001+02:00

Note by Marc Aupiais

The death count is now 16, more in the range of more professional bomb-makers than previously appeared.
An Islamist terror tactics group, the Associated Press: says claimed responsibility.

My analysis saying it was likely a state actor or state connected actor stands.

There are always claims of responsibility- as verifiable each as one next. Yes, it may be an identifiable terrorist group bombing Nigeria for taking the side of the West at the UN, but the Islamist groups would likely bomb any group but Nigeria's UN, given the Nigerian government is the only to endorse Islamist enemies of an enemy of Islamists: Gaddafi.

The explanation by the American media- motive wise makes no sense.

I still think it was a state actor. The size of the bomb was bigger that I thought, which makes it harder to identify who made the attack. None the less, the motives seem to benefit states more than terror ideologies.

The Attack in Nigeria

2011-08-26T16:28:00.001+02:00

Note Analytical by Marc Aupiais

My internet is down, so I cannot fact check, beyond what I knew to be fact two days ago: I have fact checked all I mention: but there may be new facts. [Note Facts Verified since Publication]

... But if I remember correctly Nigeria is the only country in the African theatre to endorse the Rebels in Libya as legitimate. The only nation to oppose the Republic of South Africa, which has gathered the entirety of the African Continent and the Arab League against the NATO overthrow of the sovereign Libyan state.

South Africa originally voted pro 1973 sc resolution. It thought the goal was to protect civilians- not provide cover for one side against another in a civil war. A civil war not between good and bad, but between two grey peoples.

The UN, largely funded by the United States of America- often also pursues its interests.

There is a reason why South African Gift of the Givers, and French MSF can get into Somalia where the UN cannot. The UN has been used against democracy in Somalia and other nations.

The Vatican supported South Africa, Germany, Russia, India, China, Brazil, the Arab League, and The African Union: in their opposition to the NATO invasion and bombing of Libya.

Vatican sources on the ground have been telling Vatican official news service Agenzia Fides: that civilians are being bombed by NATO, even seemingly more often than military targets, and that both sides have been shooting bystanders on the spot. This and the fact that it is against a Ius Cogents to accept a nation created by illegitimate means such as an illegal war, are some reasons why the very astute South African Public International Law team and our government have consistently opposed the NATO effort, and enforced a uniform shield: that Libya under the Rebels is not a legitimate nation.

The bombing of the UN in Nigeria is certainly political: I would think: if I am correct in remembering that it is Nigeria alone and against all other nations on the Continent- who recognised the Libyan rebels. And therefore: that a state actor: an ally of Gaddafi or Libya's fallen Regime, in terrible death throws of revenge; bombed the UN building.

Al Qaeda would have used twin bombings. This was a single car bomb, seemingly not a suicide attack. This is military style attack; against a political target. A clear statement of hatred, wrath, and warning in terror tactics. It killed just 7 people... It was clearly a small bomb and a small military style attack.

It is unlikely South Africa would be the state actor: in that case the bombing would be larger.

South African Coup D'etat efforts around the continent would indicate this is not the same style. It seems more the Arabic intelligence world's style of attack. It may be Libya intelligence, or allies or rogue troops.

All evidence would suggest that Libya is the cause of the issue! All I have said is fact checked!

However my information except on the bombing is two days old. My information on the bombing is from a Scripturelink.net journalist, the Associated Press, and the French Government's propaganda wing: France 24/AFP.

Activist Human Rights Watch in 'malicious' report: attempts to destroy private enterprise, South African Wine, Fruit Export?

2011-08-23T18:44:00.002+02:00

Article by Marc Aupiais

Human Rights Watch Purposely defames South African farmers- Agri SA Argues

c.f. [23rd August 2011] Agri SA: HRW farm report 'malicious’ - IOL Business Day
http://www.iol.co.za/business/business-news/agri-sa-hrw-farm-report-malicious-1.1123485

In a report based on interviews with 260 people, of whom 161 were reportedly in no way directly involved in farming, and where those interviewed were often listed as procured by Trade Unions, Human Rights Watch has alleged that South African farm workers have their human rights abused. This despite farms involved being certified for good labour practices by GlobalGap and by Ethical Trade of the international retailers. The 260 interviews were supposed to represent 121,000 farm workers.

South African Wine is a major export, as with Fruit exports to Europe. The report, heavily assisted by Trade Unions, as demonstrated by Agri SA, interestingly comes, just as those Trade Unions, through Cosatu, have called for nationalization of Agriculture. Many South Africans have left the country to farm elsewhere, as farm owners are murdered when they held out against government attempts to take the land in the past according to popular investigative journalism service Carte Blanche.

Agri SA: HRW farm report 'malicious’ - Business News | IOL Business | IOL.co.za

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While USA government controversially Promotes sterilizing college students as a need, their vice president endorses one child policy in China

2011-08-23T18:16:00.000+02:00

Article by Marc Aupiais

USA Vice President endorsed Chinese One Child Policy, as USA promotes free sterilization as a good for college students

USA Vice President Joseph Biden as representative of the United States has endorsed the Bare Branches prone One Child Policy in China, as USA itself suggests sterilization of college students

One Child policy a good thing, but with some drawbacks - the USA Vice President claims, while explaining his take on US debt to Chinese college students

Through its representative, Vice President Joseph Biden, Obama's Democrat USA calls Communist China's one child policy and its horrific results understandable, while noting its cost in social security? Susan B Anthony List and one republican opposition politician were both forthright enough to slam the move by the Obama administration. China's policy has created an imbalance between male and female populations, a disaster for the elderly, and the possibility of social instability through the direct creation of bare branches, a tinder for revolutions.

c.f. [August 23, 2011] Fox news ; Biden Says He's Not 'Second-Guessing' China's One-Child Rule

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/08/23/biden-says-hes-not-second-guessing-chinas-one-child-rule/

Through Obamacare, the HHS of USA recently asked to rush policy through forcing insurance companies to cover sterilisation, to insure college students had access

c.f. [1st August 2011] HHS: No “Delay” in Contraceptives, Sterilization for College Students - Cardinal Newman Society, which quotes the submission the HHS made to not wait for public comment due to "adverse" side effects of not sterilizing college girls.

http://blog.cardinalnewmansociety.org/2011/08/01/hhs-no-%E2%80%9Cdelay%E2%80%9D-in-contraceptives-sterilization-for-college-students/

Interestingly, Obama's administration recently bent the rules about public comment, to enable universal and enforceable coverage on permanent female sterilization, and contraception in So Called Obamacare. Obamacare is the nickname for the current Insurance Law Regime in America regulating insurance companies, and enforcing universal healthcare insurance as something every citizen must buy from birth to death.

This achieved by citing what Health and Human Services department under Obama Democrat Party administration's curator: Secretary Kathleen Sebelius: labelled as an urgent need for permanent sterilization among college and university students, who it says would be denied "health" benefits if the policy were delayed. Her department's alleged concern was to prevent unwanted pregnancies. This was something slammed by the USCCB, which says pregnant women are not diseased or ill, but healthy. Kathleen Sebelius: according to the health and Human Services website is well known for this quote:

"Prevention isn’t as exciting as a life-saving surgery after a heart attack. It doesn’t create headlines like a massive food recall. Success often doesn’t show up until many years later. And even then it’s hard to see. But the potential benefits are huge - Secretary Kathleen Sebelius"

HHS USA Secretary of the HHS Biography
www.hhs.gov/secretary/about/biography/index.html

Sebelius, according to ~SACNS Archives, supported, and threw a party in honour of an abortionist who performed late term abortions when on trial for reportedly doing so even when flouting legal restrictions. The party was for the abortionist and his staff. Late term abortions are classified as those abortions where the child would survive if it were born.

c.f. [Monday, June 1, 2009] Americas News: Late Term Abortionist, George Tiller Dies: death gets more recognition from major pro-life group, than countless victims of his late term abortions were given by him, and his allies in the "White House"

http://sacns.scripturelink.net/2009/06/americas-news-late-term-abortionist.html

Biden Says He's Not 'Second-Guessing' China's One-Child Rule

Vice President Biden is facing criticism after telling a crowd in China that he doesn't have a problem with the country's one-child policy.

Massive Municipal Strike; Malema Corruption Evidence? Whites to be taxed for skin colour? And Friction amidst ANC Allies over anti-USA Botswana coup d'état call

2011-08-14T09:42:00.004+02:00

(Social Justice South Africa: Social Justice; Family; Life news Service of the ~SACNS)

Article by Marc Aupiais c.f. Google Plus account of Marc Aupiais, where this opinionated post originally appeared!

Today in the Communist Dictatorship column :

Summary:
Zuma King Maker Over-steps the very small Line, President asks if the man who got him into power along with leftest allies runs this country: a truly good question, considering !
Government Workers STRIKE for a further 18% increase in already huge salaries, on tomorrow the day of the Assumption of Mary into heaven
Sunday Times: finally links Malema to alleged Government Tender Fraud in Limpopo?
Desmond Tutu calls for already legally discriminated against "Whites"/Europeans/Caucasians to be further taxed as revenge for Apartheid: SAPA Reports

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Zuma King Maker Over-steps the very small Line, President asks if the man who got him into power along with leftest allies runs this country: a truly good question, considering !

Mr Malema, who's called for nationalisation of Industry (Banks, Mines, etc), has apparently been upsetting Mr Zuma (President). But this time over his comments that there is a need for "Regime Change" to be imposed on neighbouring Botswana for its support of the American government.

The ANC NEC, changed a meeting with the Youth League at the last minute, sending go fetch boy, Communist Party Leader Montashe to inform Malema the meeting was cancelled. As the one man to oppose nationalisation of what COSATU says the ANC has agreed for "General Industry", Mr Montashe is allegedly out of favour in certain circles. Malema didn't believe he had been so affronted as to see the meeting post-poned as its agenda changed from inducting the Youth League Leaders, to possible disciplinary action for endangering South African ties with neighbouring Botswana with what sounds iconically like a call for coup d'état in the country.

And as Montashe was sent to tell the Youth League of the cancellation, caused by his reported pressure to have them called into account, they decided allegedly not to believe him.

As Malema unceremoniously bust into the ANC NEC meeting where high level issues were being discussed, where Mr Zuma (President) set a new president: apparently asking with furore if the Youth League ran the country.

There were four people at the meeting, three NEC members confirmed the events where Zuma lost his temper. As there were seemingly two Youth League members there also. Two of the members of the Youth League confirmed the event.

Source on the specific events of the said meeting:

President Zuma fumes at Malema ... - Times LIVE http://www.timeslive.co.za/politics/2011/08/14/president-zuma-fumes-at-malema-... lets hope Mr Zuma gains courage: as so far his King Makers have called for overthrowing Botsawna, communism?

Government Workers STRIKE for a further 18% increase in already huge salaries, on tomorrow the day of the Assumption of Mary into heaven

If the perils of Cosatu's claims the ANC NEC will introduce general Nationalisation of Industry are anything to go by, their strike actions to further bleed the government dry will be even worse in future. Municipal strikes often turn out quite similar to London Riots, as Unions, allied with the ANC, answer to no one. I've driven through streets impacted by strikes, it is a scary sign in Braamfontein during Municipal strikes.

The Government workers now take up a huge portion of budget, stopping building of schools, new roads, just to afford paying salaries ever higher than in the private sector. A situation resulting in job losses everywhere.

Source for Strike's date, percentage:

http://www.timeslive.co.za/politics/2011/08/14/big-strike-begins-tomorrow

Sunday Times: finally links Malema to alleged Government Tender Fraud in Limpopo?

According to the Sunday Times, which claims to have positive proof: Steve Bosch is alleged to have paid 1.2 Million of his company's " Sizani Build It" money from its Standard Bank account into Malema's account, and his architect's account in his name. The Sunday Times, which revealed similar facts by then National Prosecuting Authority Vusi Picoli against then Deputy President Zuma and Shabir Shake (released from jail controversially on death leave but yet to die years later) who was convicted: has a tendency to aim at Government corruption by the ANC. Steve Bosch got Tens of Millions in Tender money in Limpopo, for his company. Malema recently called for the nationalisation of all South African banks.

Source on Alleged bank records: http://www.timeslive.co.za/politics/2011/08/14/tender-boss-paid-malema

Desmond Tutu calls for already legally discriminated against "Whites"/Europeans/Caucasians to be further taxed as revenge for Apartheid: SAPA Reports

Sapa reports on comments by the former Anglican Archbishop and gay activist Desmond Tutu, to make whites, who he sees as rightly having felt guilt for Apartheid to pay extra taxes. With the Help of Nelson Mandela's cabinet, and policy decisions, and others: Whites are already barred from many top jobs even when there are not black South Africans to fill them, from money for charitable causes (such as when an orphan is white), and from certain degrees of ownership of companies. Whites are also unlikely to get educational scholarships, and unions, allied with the Ruling ANC: often bar the appointment of whites, either in low paying jobs, or in positions such as principle of a government school.

At least 6 00 000 of the minority population are already impoverished.

I am white.

For source on Tutu's words and far right Afrikaans Party's response this is our source:
http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/Politics/Tutus-white-tax-is-racist-20110813

Just another day in what was once paradise for many more people than now: as ironically the average standard of living for all South Africans was higher under Apartheid, when half the world abandoned us under sanctions. Or perhaps Iconically. Not Ironically! Iconic of a nation where the pendulum swings from one dangerously out of sync state to another, perhaps even more dangerous for its seamless apparent powers and its deals with Unions, and others!
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Grinding, a obscene American Dance, is finally meeting backlash among girls, a decade after the immoral dance was popularised

2011-08-13T12:48:00.001+02:00

(SW2SNews: See What We See News)

Article by Marc Aupiais

Sex on the dance floor; Lap Dance without the Fee? (Just excuse that she's American?)- finally some Americans are deciding they don't want to Grind with TOTAL STRANGERS, in PUBLIC anymore - Reports the New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/14/fashion/with-grinding-an-unwanted-advance-at-the-dance.html?_r=1

"With Grinding, an Unwanted Advance at the Dance

In middle schools, grinding is causing a stir — among teachers and the female dance partners.

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BIKE uses brainwaves to change gears : Toyota makes it so beware

2011-08-13T12:44:00.003+02:00

(SW2SNews: See What We See News)

Article by Marc Aupiais

BIKE uses brainwaves to change gears : Toyota makes it so beware

When Toyota mats in cars made them go in uncontrolled acceleration, Toyota clearly got an idea, use a technique used by psychologists (I helped install one) called bio-feedback to control bikes and make them shift gears by brainwaves: you know: alpha, Beta , etc!

Did I mention Beta as in Test:

Not for the market,

Perhaps because of that uncontrolled acceleration issue?

See their promoting Toyota uncontrolled I mean mindwave accelleration as a good thing video on that wave at IT peoples MAshable.com site!

http://mashable.com/2011/07/31/bike-of-the-future/

Bicycle Of The Future Shifts Gears Via Brain Waves [VIDEO]

The electronic neuro-transmission on this carbon-fiber bicycle lets its rider control gear shifts with brainwaves.

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Taken from Plus Account of Marc Aupiais

The Disasters: Rioting, economic fails in Britain: will spread throughout Western World- Governments', KPMG Studies Suggest

2011-08-13T12:31:00.003+02:00

(SW2SNews: See What We See News)

Article by Marc Aupiais

With the collapse of the British Family, and thus the rise of gangs; the laws protecting Youth, and thus the encouraged misdeeds, there are many causes for the British Chaos, but none more terrifying than the demographic Cause predicted to the EU Parliament to cause disaster in 2009

It is normal in a society, with a decreasing birthrate, to have xenophobia, as is seen in Europe, it is a psychological response. In a welfare state which claims it cares, but begins to drop that care, it is normal, as with Jewish prisoners in Concentration Camps, surviving: to feel entitled to what is not the belongings of the now or then disadvantaged. What is also normal, is economic collapse when birthrates reverse, and riots and protests as social welfare is no longer affordable as population aging population dynamics interlace.

With a reduction in respect for woman, and their necessity in marriage, also, one may presume the same elements of that disastrous Bare Branches phenomena in the Far East, resulting in most of the uprisings in India and China, could well be simulated by the lack of duty to girlfriends, or potential wives, among the mostly male rioters.

British Riots, largely influences include those by media... coverage of issues, including disastrous endorsements of Arab Spring (Which won't in fact bring better quality of living if examples such as the Ending of Apartheid are any clues)

Recently SACNS Marc Aupiais reported:
Associated Press say tech savvy rioters who use bbm to co-ordinate, and avoid police, unsurprisingly avoided London resulting in quiet. They spread to other cities. is what we call vulnerable house rule.anyway. they just said quiet night. spread to other cities.

British Youth Riots! Vatican Radio, following subsidiarity reporting, which I. Highly value! Says of London Riots:

The riots which surprising in their nature, form, timing: were hardly out of Character for Modern British Youth! Violence has normative mainstay in most British lives at that age. It is a norm. Not an exception to be affected by violence. The issue started after a peaceful protest. Rioters abused sentiments. London had huge policing over night- and like all criminals they switched to softer looter targets!

This! Vatican Radio in particular emphasizes, has been kindled for years.. Into Today!

London RIOTS, what are the Causes?

who else rates London Riots is due to Video Games. Role playing. Mtv. Rapper USA Culture. Union Riots recently on fees. UK not using rubber bullets. lack of laws protecting AGAINST immature youth. And global recession. and Arab Spring Uprisings being played along with how they were achieved. All giving people with bbm and able to teamwork from games. ability and resources and want to cause chaos and anarchy. to get free stuff. e.g. wii cotrollers. while making burning cars, murder seem cool. as usa media says. Not to mention separatist riots in NI. called wooing rituals by some media. simply put. its a game in a society where laws are not ruled by morals, and law enforcement and government have little authority,and no deep moral authority in the relativism they pursue.

EU Parliament was warned: Disaster awaited

Article I first wrote here, analyses Economic collapse in the west, based on demographic statistics and relational issues

~SACNS: The Demographic connection, the real cause of Economic woes in Europe, USA

~SACNS. South African Catholic News Service~ "Accuracy without harm!"~ News, events, apologetics and more specific to South African Catholics, and other news and events. ~edited by Marc Evan...

Demographics: low birthrates, high family breakdown -cause for concern in Public Order

What isn't being mentioned by those covering the global economic crises, and the revolutionary activities in Europe is why the social systems such as USA Social Security, so apparently viable, e.g. retirement funds, in the past, are now something so dangerous:

I personally attribute much of the modern crime issues to the Bare branches theories involving Indian and Chinese revolutions, as interestingly elaborated by the Washington Post http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24761-2004Jul2.htmlwith of course some variation i.e. marriage is not encouraged anymore, nor responsibility to their possible wife and children.

And as Breastfed children develop fewer behavioral issueshttp://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-13336986 plenty of psychological studies also show children without care from a parent, eg children in group care at a creche' are much more likely to enter crime later in life, and to have less empathy (Never mind the constant barrage from television and in Britain the lack of laws protecting against violent youths, something other nations follow also). Further a massive amount of people in jail are hyperactive as per population, something I read in Lancet, can be linked to chemicals in food in much of the Western World.

Also Important is the fact that due to abortion, and contraceptives (which make fish half male half female down wind from sewerage plants, them or plastics: I wonder if this has anything to do with "homosexuality" and its increase) the global population is aging:http://www.kpmg.com/AU/en/IssuesAndInsights/ArticlesPublications/Pages/Rising-to-the-challenge-global-demographic-change-public-sector.aspx
due to lower birthrates, a problem South Africa and the West is under together. KPMG's source of this is the governments themselves, I recommend the read!

And the political willpower to do away with increasingly unsustainable debt and programs reliant on debt is fading fast, as voters agehttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43929476/ns/business-stocks_and_economy/ do note that the bloomberg article is biased towards left wing ideology, tax raising on the rich will do next to nothing proportionally. What really needs cutting is USA medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security in General. And, for America's safe, needs also is: to stop attacking accountants such as Standard and Poor's, as Barack Obama instists on doing, for downgrading them from AAA to AA+ for the first time since the 19 teens. [c.f.http://www.standardandpoors.com/servlet/BlobServer?blobheadername3=MDT-Type&blobcol=urldata&blobtable=MungoBlobs&blobheadervalue2=inline%3B+filename%3DUS_Downgraded_AA%2B.pdf&blobheadername2=Content-Disposition&blobheadervalue1=application%2Fpdf&blobkey=id&blobheadername1=content-type&blobwhere=1243942957443&blobheadervalue3=UTF-8 ]

One of the biggest problems from this issue, which I reported in November 2009, is that the EU has already been hit by the Aging Population problem, exasperated byt Xenophobia over immigrants and their low skill levels, lack of the local culture, the European Parliament was warned of potential collapse in 2009 to start 2010:

http://sacns.scripturelink.net/2009/11/europe-faces-collapse-starting-2010.html

Why does this apply to US debt: because people are having less and less children: can one descendant pay the debt of two parents?

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~SACNS: Europe faces collapse starting 2010- report given EU Parliament

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Obama-care "Individual Mandate" - "Unconstitutional"- claims court

2011-08-12T19:43:00.001+02:00

Article note by Marc Aupiais

The 11th Circuit Court has ruled USA Universal Health Insurance Scheme nicknamed "Obama-Care" by Opponents "Unconstitutional" in re individual mandate to buy health insurance!

According to the court forcing citizens to buy an expensive product such as health insurance from birth to death, is beyond the commercial areas power of the federal congress. Reportedly two of the three judge panel support the US president's party, or are affiliated with it, another possible blow for the US President.

The HHS, under Obama has recently used the legislation to define pregnancy as an illness of sorts, according to the USCCB, the Catholic hierarchy in the United States of America. The new regulations, as applied by Obama's representative mandate coverage of expensive sterilisation, artificial chemical contraceptive, and abortion pills.

Recent studies have linked some of these "preventative measures" to serious diseases and to later infertility where unintended.

Obama-Care "Unconstitutional" US Court

2011-08-12T19:34:00.001+02:00

Note by Marc Aupiais

The 11th Circuit court, with two judges reportedly Democrats, and a third judge, ruled the "Individual mandate" to buy health insurance was unconstitutional as it reportedly "exceeds Congress's enumerated commerce power".

The Barack Obama government has used the controversial law to aid his campaign ally Planned Parenthood, his HHS department forcing insurers to cover sterilisation of people, artificial contraception, and proven abortificant pills. Pregnancy being considered an illness under the rules. Catholic bishops opposed the system while supporting healthcare expansion, stating that it would introduce universal abortion coverage, and that pregnancy was not an illness. The USCCB is sure to welcome this small victory.

The debate will likely go to the Supreme Court.

The Demographic connection, the real cause of Economic woes in Europe, USA

2011-08-09T18:42:00.001+02:00

Article by Marc Aupiais, our Editor, who also who first aired this opinion on a social network

Marc Aupiais - 18:26 - Public

What isn't being mentioned by those covering the global economic crises, and the revolutionary activities in Europe is why the social systems such as USA Social Security, so apparently viable, e.g. retirement funds, in the past, are now something so dangerous:

I personally attribute much of the modern crime issues to the Bare branches theories involving Indian and Chinese revolutions, as interestingly elaborated by the Washington Post http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24761-2004Jul2.html with of course some variation i.e. marriage is not encouraged anymore, nor responsibility to their possible wife and children.

And as Breastfed children develop fewer behavioral issues http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-13336986 plenty of psychological studies also show children without care from a parent, eg children in group care at a creche' are much more likely to enter crime later in life, and to have less empathy (Never mind the constant barrage from television and in Britain the lack of laws protecting against violent youths, something other nations follow also). Further a massive amount of people in jail are hyperactive as per population, something I read in Lancet, can be linked to chemicals in food in much of the Western World.

Also Important is the fact that due to abortion, and contraceptives (which make fish half male half female down wind from sewerage plants, them or plastics: I wonder if this has anything to do with "homosexuality" and its increase) the global population is aging:http://www.kpmg.com/AU/en/IssuesAndInsights/ArticlesPublications/Pages/Rising-to-the-challenge-global-demographic-change-public-sector.aspx
due to lower birthrates, a problem South Africa and the West is under together.

And the political willpower to do away with increasingly unsustainable debt and programs reliant on debt is fading fast, as voters agehttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43929476/ns/business-stocks_and_economy/ do note that the bloomberg article is biased towards left wing ideology, tax raising on the rich will do next to nothing proportionally. What really needs cutting is USA medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security in General. And, for America's safe, needs also is: to stop attacking accountants such as Standard and Poor's, as Barack Obama instists on doing, for downgrading them from AAA to AA+ for the first time since the 19 teens. [c.f.http://www.standardandpoors.com/servlet/BlobServer?blobheadername3=MDT-Type&blobcol=urldata&blobtable=MungoBlobs&blobheadervalue2=inline%3B+filename%3DUS_Downgraded_AA%2B.pdf&blobheadername2=Content-Disposition&blobheadervalue1=application%2Fpdf&blobkey=id&blobheadername1=content-type&blobwhere=1243942957443&blobheadervalue3=UTF-8 ]

One of the biggest problems from this issue, which I reported in November 2009, is that the EU has already been hit by the Aging Population problem, exasperated byt Xenophobia over immigrants and their low skill levels, lack of the local culture, the European Parliament was warned of potential collapse in 2009 to start 2010:

http://sacns.scripturelink.net/2009/11/europe-faces-collapse-starting-2010.html

Why does this apply to US debt: because people are having less and less children: can one descendant pay the debt of two parents?

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Diagram on the different views on nationalisation of South African Industry - South Africa headed to Communist collapse? Marc Aupiais compiles a SACNS Diagram

2011-08-05T17:21:00.005+02:00

Article by Marc Aupiais

See Our Diagram on mining and banks, etc nationalisation claims at\ SACNS Image Works+

Diagram on the different views on nationalisation of South African Industry

Who Is Marc Aupiais | About our Editor

2011-08-05T15:57:00.000+02:00

Article Edited by Marc Aupiais

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The second half of that page reads as follows:

MARC AUPIAIS: FOUNDER AND EDITOR OF SACNS

South African Catholic (SACNS Service)(founded and edited by Marc Aupiais) is seen by many as Orthodoxly obedient to the Catholic Faith, and papacy. SACNS articles have a high fidelity rating, and much use! [See Marc Aupiais' Blogger Profile]

His search sites are well known for expertise quotable by journalists and experts on topics such as:

Health; Catholicism; Law; The Vatican City State, views and affairs; Roman Law; News

While his poetry on Tempest and the Hurricane, and political Tempest Without the Hurricane and views on "Marc Aupiais' view on matters": Aupiais view, often are detailed and well researched.

His books, such as The Third Instinct, are generally known to be supense filled, and try to, and perhaps successfully portray the world in a fuller sense than some writers, including characters' religious and philosophical views (c.f.these details on Shelfari also).

Biography (Marc Aupiais)

Specialities:

"web design, debate, negotiations, convincing hostile parties, law, branding and identity, economics, politics, political watching, geopolitics, defense monitoring, fact verification."

It is not arrogance to admit truth- or to call falsehood what it is-

the real arrogance is in calling falsehood truth for whatever reason we choose to do so!

-Marc Aupiais

Marc Also says of himself personally:

"I am outspoken, and believe in justice, I like joking, and to have fun with fun people. I like animals, and have a small crush on Saint Philomena, an ancient Greek Princess: fine, not a crush: but I admire her: as a saint, I once tried to ask out a girl by the wrong name, which was hilarious, and I am generally content!"

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About Marc:

Marc (Evan) Aupiais, South Africa: @SACNSNew Roodepoort, South Africa Marc Aupiais is Editor of Scripturelink.net He loves Saint Philomena and adores God infinitely! He hopes his tweets on spiritual matters will be of some use to you http://marc-aupiais.scripturelink.net

Writing with latent truth in novels, in complex worlds, including: society, religion, history, geography and other researched information, author and internet journalist, poet and philosopher Marc Aupiais is best known for his suspenseful novels, and intricate views on the world.

The bibliography listed with his first published novel: The Third Instinct says of this author (Marc Evan Aupiais):

"ME (Marc Evan) Aupiais (Born: June 30th 1990 in Johannesburg) grew up and lives in the Greater Johannesburg Area, Gauteng Province. His Mother's side of the family was extensively involved in political opposition to Apartheid, and he thus took a great interest in people and politics at a young age. His books attempt to be real to psychology and human nature. They are generally suspenseful, and contain political systems, ideology, and some form of religion within the fictional worlds he creates. He is Roman Catholic, Caucasian, and believes in acting "International" rather than only holding local bias.

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Marc-Aupiais/90710969887 "

Marc Aupiais says of himself:

"I'm very proud of my French, Irish, likely ethnic German: Swiss Australian (they moved to Australia for about a generation), and German (possibly with a bit of Scottish, possibly some Dutch, but no one say anything if that's there) heritage, as well as being proud of being a born and bred South African and citizen of the world!

Books:

Classics,

Started reading again of late!

See my notes on books

Heroes:

Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, my Patron Saint Philomena- whose name is now my confirmation / saint name though don't call me Philomena, the relatives in my family who died for the French resistance in World War II, my grandfather, my parents and sister, Pope Benedict XVI, C.S. Lewis, Chesterton, Tolkien, Joan of Ark,

Marc Listed these as his favourite quotes in his private Facebook account:

"(Extra ecclesiam salus non est (just because everyone says extra ecclesiam nulla salus; which is newer; and hey, Catholic Pride (to be taken with Lumen Gentium XVI accepted also)),

Always be prepared for the consequences of saying no to people, before you say yes! - to do with Sancte Philomena

"In Principio Creavit Deus Caelum et Terram" (Some of my first Latin Words) (In the beginning God created heaven and Earth)

"Fiat" (Awesome "quote" of the Mater Deus: Mary said let it be done to me as you have said!)

"On the Contrary" Lawyer Talk!

And Joseph told his Brothers they would bow down to him... da da da dum (ok, not exactly, well maybe, dunno, but ya have to luv da honesty)

"Flash" (Woman asking for the help of Flash Gordon, of Earth for help, in some episode!)

"I'm gonna need a ball-point pen and a knife" (Paraphrase: Emma Robert's Character in that Nancy Drew Movie: so classic, legend).

"Everyone has a right to dignity": Constitution of South Africa!

Pax Tecum, Amor Vincit Omnia, : Peace be with you, Love Conquers all!

"A Person is a Person, no matter how small" (DR Seus)

"He's No Tame Lion" (C.S. Lewis)

"Si mundus vult decipi, decipiatur"

-Gaius Petronius Arbiter (The world wants to be deceaived, so let it be deceived: classical satire)

"Alex Russo has a book" (Wizards of Waverly Place: episode where Harper from the future is met.)

"I'm in love with Dean" Alex Russo totally defeating Ronald Longcape Junior.

"Magic is cheating" - Alex Russo

"But that shirt has got you halfway"- sassy Alex to her brother.

"But did it hurt just a little bit... then it made sense" - Alex Russo to her brother!

"I have this pressure point that only I know about" - Alex Russo after using a weapon on her 3d photocopy to steal a dress which really does look good on her!

Almost anything Pope Benedict XVI says!

"Illustrious virgin and martyr, Saint Philomena, behold me prostrate before the throne whereupon it has pleased the Most Holy Trinity to place thee"

- Prayer to Sancte Filumena

"Space, the Final Frontier"? Whatever?:)!

Stating that the following people inspire him:

"Pope Benedict XVI

"G. K. Chesterton

"Helen Zille

"Anna Sewell"

South Africa becoming a communist dictatorship?

2011-08-05T15:08:00.003+02:00

Note by Marc Aupiais

[See Sources and visual representation Diagram at ~SACNS: Image Works+]

Cosatu says ANC NEC uniformly support nationalisation of banks, mines, textiles, and "General Production" in South Africa- reports pro-ANC Mail and Guardian paper, quoting a Cosatu economist!

Coastu says any report to the ANC by an inquiry- which does not advocate Nationalising, will be REJECTED by the ANC, which rules South Africa with just below 66 % of seats in parliament.

The South African constitution, while allowing discrimination against white South Africans, which is also enshrined in BEE laws, and extends to preventing charities which help both black and white orphans from being funded, does allow a right to land.

The Chamber of Mines, speaking to Carte Blanche, said they would take the matter right to the Constitutional Court. Government regulations also plan to change the nature. And status of this court, to hear more cases, and opposition has accused the government of appointing loyalist judges.

Malema, who has spearheaded calls for nationalisation, papers claim, has cannibalised government tenders for self-enrichment, via a trust fund. His Youth League recently called for the over-throwing of Botswana's government before claiming they never really meant for a "coup", all over Botswana's ties to the United States.

While attacking their ally Jacob Zuma for "lack of leadership", the ANCYL, a powerful player in government, and run by Julius Malema, did not mention that South African troops, routinely train ON SOUTH AFRICAN soil with American troops, and in our seas with their ships- pointing either to lack of political literacy or another reason for wanting to have Botswana over-ruled. South Africa, has bailed out nearby dictatorship Swaziland, which Mail and Guardian claims is close-knit with the president, despite human rights abuses.

The ANC, has condemned the ANCYL for calling for an alleged "coup" in Botswana, saying it over-reached. In today's Mail and Guardian, the ANCYL fired back, claiming that their calls against USA ally Botswana for change of Regime, were mandated by a progressive/leftest Youth alliance of which it appears to be a member.

Former ANCYL heads include Nelson Mandela.

Ironically, the South African Communist Party, a part of the ANC, as much as Cosatu is; but less powerful- has slammed the slated move to take away private property- saying that it is motivated by personal corruption, not the good of the people. See Sources and visual representation Diagram at ~SACNS: Image Works+

Not Carbon Based Global Warming After All- Nasa Satellite DATA Study

2011-07-28T18:22:00.005+02:00

Article by Marc Aupiais

Forbes reports (And please note, additional research by our service shows they chose to publish it under their online blogs section)
New NASA Data Blow Gaping Hole In Global Warming Alarmism 27 / 28 July 2011
James Taylor
http://news.yahoo.com/nasa-data-blow-gaping-hold-global-warming-alarmism-192334971.html

The study, by the University of Alabama, based on Satellite Data claims that "Global Warming" caused by carbon trapping heat in the atmosphere is so minimal as to be negligible. The research, if noted by Carbon model proponents is sure to be hotly disputed.

As I reported recently, the Daily Mail, reported on a press release by the University of East Anglia, saying that most of the temperature DATA used to correlate with carbon levels in the polar ice, on which global warming claims are based, was destroyed by scientists in the 1980s, British media also reported on great inaccuracies in climate change claims involving the Himalayas, and other regions. The Daily Mail, and other media also recently reported that Earth is set to enter a mini-ice age, due to a temporary lack of Sun Spots (a phenomena discovered by Galileo centuries ago, which then lead to a 2 degrees centigrade reduction in temperatures). Media claiming climate science was in peril include: Daily Mail, the Times and Sunday Times, and the Telegraph in Britain, the first and last still claiming global warming as real.

c.f. January 24, 2010
UN wrongly linked global warming to natural disasters

Sunday Times

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article7000063.ece

November 29, 2009

Climate change data dumped

Jonathan Leake, Environment Editor

"SCIENTISTS at the University of East Anglia (UEA) have admitted throwing away much of the raw temperature data on which their predictions of global warming are based."

Sunday Times

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article6936328.ece

Eminent geophysicist rejects global warming theory, says world on verge of ‘mini ice age’

BY MATTHEW CULLINAN HOFFMAN

LifeSiteNews

Fri Feb 18, 2011 22:48 EST

http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/eminent-geophysicist-rejects-global-warming-theory-says-world-on-verge-of-m?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=Feed:+LifesitenewscomLatestHeadlines+(LifeSiteNews.com+Latest+Headlines)&utm_content=FaceBook

Blow to ‘global warming’ - Study: many Himalayan glaciers are growing or stable

BY MATTHEW CULLINAN HOFFMAN

LifeSiteNews

Mon Feb 07, 2011 19:48 EST

http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/another-blow-to-global-warming-many-himalayan-glaciers-are-growing-or-stabl

Climate change not linked to African wars

Quirin Schiermeier

Nature Magazine

Published online 6 September 2010 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news.2010.451

http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100906/full/news.2010.451.html

Climate change scandal deepens as BBC expert claims he was sent leaked emails six weeks ago

By CAROL DRIVER

Last updated at 11:36 AM on 26th November 2009

Daily Mail

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1230943/Climate-change-scandal-BBC-expert-sent-cover-emails-month-public.html#ixzz1TQ3X0zHF

John Beddington: chief scientist says climate change sceptics 'should not be dismissed'

The Telegraph; Andrew Hough7:30AM GMT 27 Jan 2010

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/climatechange/7081039/John-Beddington-chief-scientist-says-climate-change-sceptics-should-not-be-dismissed.html

Ian McEwan says Americans are 'profoundly bored' by climate change

The Telegraph; By Anita Singh, Showbusiness Editor8:00AM BST 17 Jul 2010

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/climatechange/7895747/Ian-McEwan-says-Americans-are-profoundly-bored-by-climate-change.html

The most recent discovery, that the computer models were wrong, would not surprise the columnists of these papers, which have for years cited the completely inaccurate short and medium term climate forecasts of the British weather servide, since climate change variables were introduced.

The alternate view of climate change is that it is constant and consistent, and more recently caused by soil changes, urbanization and astronomical phenomena such as sun spots etc.

University of Alabama, USA has released the following statement to the Press, July 26th 2011, according to a source cited by the Yahoo News article (Forbes hosted on Yahoo)

"Climate models get energy balance wrong, make too hot forecasts of global warming

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (July 26, 2011) — Data from NASA’s Terra satellite shows that when the climate warms, Earth’s atmosphere is apparently more efficient at releasing energy to space than models used to forecast climate change have been programmed to “believe.”

The result is climate forecasts that are warming substantially faster than the atmosphere, says Dr. Roy Spencer, a principal research scientist in the Earth System Science Center at The University of Alabama in Huntsville.

The previously unexplained differences between model-based forecasts of rapid global warming and meteorological data showing a slower rate of warming have been the source of often contentious debate and controversy for more than two decades.

In research published this week in the journal “Remote Sensing” http://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/3/8/1603/pdf, Spencer and UA Huntsville’s Dr. Danny Braswell compared what a half dozen climate models say the atmosphere should do to satellite data showing what the atmosphere actually did during the 18 months before and after warming events between 2000 and 2011.

“The satellite observations suggest there is much more energy lost to space during and after warming than the climate models show,” Spencer said. “There is a huge discrepancy between the data and the forecasts that is especially big over the oceans.”

Not only does the atmosphere release more energy than previously thought, it starts releasing it earlier in a warming cycle. The models forecast that the climate should continue to absorb solar energy until a warming event peaks. Instead, the satellite data shows the climate system starting to shed energy more than three months before the typical warming event reaches its peak.

“At the peak, satellites show energy being lost while climate models show energy still being gained,” Spencer said.

This is the first time scientists have looked at radiative balances during the months before and after these transient temperature peaks.

Applied to long-term climate change, the research might indicate that the climate is less sensitive to warming due to increased carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere than climate modelers have theorized. A major underpinning of global warming theory is that the slight warming caused by enhanced greenhouse gases should change cloud cover in ways that cause additional warming, which would be a positive feedback cycle.

Instead, the natural ebb and flow of clouds, solar radiation, heat rising from the oceans and a myriad of other factors added to the different time lags in which they impact the atmosphere might make it impossible to isolate or accurately identify which piece of Earth’s changing climate is feedback from manmade greenhouse gases.

“There are simply too many variables to reliably gauge the right number for that,” Spencer said. “The main finding from this research is that there is no solution to the problem of measuring atmospheric feedback, due mostly to our inability to distinguish between radiative forcing and radiative feedback in our observations.”

For this experiment, the UA Huntsville team used surface temperature data gathered by the Hadley Climate Research Unit in Great Britain. The radiant energy data was collected by the Clouds and Earth’s Radiant Energy System (CERES) instruments aboard NASA’s Terra satellite.

The six climate models were chosen from those used by the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The UA Huntsville team used the three models programmed using the greatest sensitivity to radiative forcing and the three that programmed in the least sensitivity."
July 26 University of Alabama

Who MURDered Sean Hoare when MURDoch was in the DOCk?

2011-07-20T12:16:00.003+02:00

Article by Marc Aupiais

"In a tragic development, British police were also investigating the unexplained death of whistleblower Sean Hoare, a former reporter at the newspaper who first implicated Coulson in the scandal."
France 24 (AFP TV Service; French Governmental; Secularist; Left Leaning; Competitor of Murdoch Empire)
19 July 2011: Murdoch rejects blame for phone-hacking practices

Thus starts the end of what Media is putting at the end of Media articles on Murdoch. While Murdoch has been docked in hearings for the British parliament, and several of his employees have been placed under the dock, a man has died from "unexplained" causes, say the British police. The man, who first implicated former press advisor to David Cameron, Mr Coulson. Coulson, also worked for Murdoch, at the News of the World, sadly shut down after over a century in journalism.

As I noted in opinion Yesterday, for the SACNS, while Murdoch could lose his empire, Sean, has lost his empire of one, perhaps over the Murdoch phone hacking saga, where answering machine services were hacked into.

Murdoch's Fox News in America, and BSkyB (Sky News) in Britain, along with the Sunday Times, Sun, and formerly the News of the World, are among the most influential voices in the world, never mind the Wall Street Journal.

Reuters, in an article where they stress they...

...are competitors with Murdoch, stress how hands on he was, how editors 12,000 miles away feared Murdoch, even as they were in Australia, and he in America etc. He is known for micromanaging, and getting rid of anyone who sent a message he didn't approve of or an alternate world-view. Editors, it says, quaked in their boots of the omnipresent Murdoch.

"The 80-year-old News Corporation chief's Chinese-born wife Wendi Deng leaped up and slapped the assailant, who was dragged off by police, before the parliamentary committee resumed quizzing Murdoch and his son James."
France 24 (AFP TV Service; French Governmental; Secularist; Left Leaning; Competitor of Murdoch Empire)
19 July 2011: Murdoch rejects blame for phone-hacking practices

The attacker, a comedian (say sources of the press, though police only mentioned a man in his twenties arrested for a public incident, no "Mr Comedian who attacked a Murdoch"), said to have made a joke about hurting Murdoch on twitter before the attempted attack, which saw the foam pie on his face not Murdoch's, was taken off by police, after somehow being allowed so close to Mr Murdoch. Police, and Terrorism Intelligence chiefs had resigned, after seeming to have taken "Murdoch Inc." bribes. Even David Cameron has of late turned on the most influential newspaper owner in Britain.

Mr Murdoch's wife, slapped the oppressor with his pie, thought to be a comedian and to have tweeted on his mischief before. Murdoch is 80 now, and his son, James Murdoch of 38 years, says AFP, repeatedly had to interject for his confused looking father.

With police, intelligence, Britain's Prime Minister, influential papers, and the Murdoch clan all possibly morally or legally responsible, who is it who killed Mr Sean Informer? Was it Mr Cameron, with the Candlestick in the Living Room? Was it his former advisor Mr Coulson, or the former Terrorism Intelligence lad, or the former police chief, or another who had information, or was it a conspiracy, in which Mr Sean Informer had been paid to lie, or had held back information?

How the British police deal or don't deal with the issue will surely tell us World Public some details of this. Perhaps a Wikileaks source will hack police data showing a conspiracy, maybe even phone messages? Then we'd likely see Reuters, the Guardian, and so many others carry the story, gained by questionable practices, certainly.

What do you think? Comment below or contact us by our online contact form!

Murdock, and the dead whistle-blower

2011-07-19T19:00:00.001+02:00

Article by Marc Aupiais

See our more recent story:

Who MURDered Sean Hoare when MURDoch was in the DOCk?

http://sacns.scripturelink.net/2011/07/who-murdered-sean-hoare-when-murdoch.html

As Murdock (Actually Murdoch), Rupert, is under scrutiny for phone hacking, Associated Press, like his other competitors is having a bit of fun. They are reporting that a major whistle-blower in Murdock's scandal, was found unexplainedly dead, according to police.

Reuters, which loves to note that they compete with Murdock's news services says sources note the Fox News and BSkyB man to be very controlling of the message of his services. He is said to have been much like the pictures of kings once hung in houses, always present!

The former Australian, has certainly an impact. His tentacles, combatted Soros' even more terrifying but better hid influence on media, as they fought constant propaganda wars.

Lately I've prayed for both Tycoons to lose control! They both present biased world views. So much, one may call American media "Patriotic Press".

The fall-out of the phone hacking could get ever bigger, or could be snuffled, shuffled and scuffled away.

The death of what Associated Press call a major whistle blower, is a different story! If connected with this story, the flack he got for it was fatal to his empire of one!

Thought on SAPA and an article on Buddhist monastery

2011-07-19T13:45:00.001+02:00

Article by Marc Aupiais

Sapa Reports: A Buddhist Monastery in homosexuality-"friendly" Thailand has since 2008 been training homosexually inclined youth novices to be manly. Make-up and perfumes are banned, and novices are taught- you are what you're born. The monks want to extend the program country-wide. While a novice is quoted as saying he came to the monastery due to his stigma as a transsexual, homosexualist claim that the monastery causes novices to hate themselves, by teaching that it is better to act as a man even if inclined to act like a woman.

This contrasts a France 24 report on Germany, where picture books promoting "sexual diversity" are compulsory in schools. 50 % of Germans reportedly identify themselves as "homophobic", prompting the government response.

Recent studies have found that "homosexuality" is commonly temporary, ending with the full development of the brain at age 26, or a misdiagnosed due to the response known as the placebo effect- especially on effeminate men treated as homosexual.

20 percent of people self identifying as homosexual suffer manic depression, 18 percent in homosexual-"friendly" societies. Those who don't identify themselves as homosexual have much lower levels of depression in general.

Of men who have sex with men, 20 percent have hiv/aids- the figure raises dramatically when other sexual diseases are factored in.

SACNS takes the position on homosexuality, that the stereotypes encouraged by media, and encouragement to "come out" or engage in dangerous sexual lifestyle to those who experience unusual attractions or abnormal inclinations are in fact a sort of persecution of a psychologically targeted minority.

HIV/AIDS prevention medication is commonly tested on homosexuals in the West where they are the typhoid Mary of the condition, and on polygamists, in The Republic of South Africa, and other republics, where HIV/AIDS is a heterosexual disease, and polygamy is accepted by much of society.

Legalisation of homosexual "marriage" in South Africa, instead of creating "tolerance", has caused further polarisation, while 80 percent of South Africans, reports the Johannesburg Star, believe all homosexual acts always wrong.

A homosexual in the South African sense is a person who actively, and presently engages in homosexual lifestyle.

Electricity and Sin

2011-07-15T09:41:00.001+02:00

Article by Marc Evan Aupiais

It was an experiment I told myself. Screws in hand by the plug socket. Screws in socket, the same explanation. I placed on in Earth, and the other two in the remaining current producing electrodes of the plug. I was about 9 years old. One of my famous experiments.

I'd placed a cup underwater upside down with toilet paper in to test air pressure's effect on water, and many other curiosities.

Now, I was trying electricity!

I touched the large screw. I began to suffocate. I felt like in water for hours. I tried to pull away... All energy, sifted into the socket. It grabbed my hand. I took hold of my lungs. Adrenalin pushed and failed. My memory after that is blank. Too traumatic? Stress!

Even now! I hold my breath as reminisce!

On school camp, the guys and some girls would touch and electric fence and make a line, for the thrill. I refused. It was stupid.

Electricity! Pulls you in. It hurts you. It takes your energy. You'd expect it to release you, push you away. It doesn't. It sticks you to itself, and pulls and pulls. You become tired, but the more you give in, the less you have to fight it.

They say you only realise how evil you are when you try to be good.

Jesus said to the good rich man: "give up everything and follow me". The Early Christians all tended to do this- to give up their possessions and join the disciples.

The Bible holds the letter of Saint Paul, I believe to Timothy. It says: don't give the devil a foothold.

Most people see lying or small sins as unimportant, but like electricity they pull us in. They drain us, they weaken our defences. They hint at relying on the world, ourselves, fearing, esteeming it and us more than God, who claims his ways are higher than wisdom, so high they appear stupid to the stupid, evil to the evil; but good and wise to the good and wise;

The most effective answer to sin is what society tells us: SHUN; Morbidity. Which is really the old word in a way for insanity, this is how society views it. How society views giving up all to join Jesus, or self mortification; fasting; marriage.

The most effective method against sin is mortification. Reminding one one will die one day.

Of late, when I'm depressed, sad, weak, struggling, sorely tempted: into sin. My answer has been to hope in death.

Death is the promise God gives all. We all die. Its incontrovertible. Now, Tomorrow; Decades away. We die.

When we die, fame, fortune, horror, disability, sadness, family, friends, career, pride, boasts, nation, patriotism, loyalty: all come to none. The word perfection refers to end. A thing's end, its means, purpose: is its perfection. Our perfection is our death. It is why martyrs are so important. Their end slide, their perfection, is a message of Christ.

Death wipes away all! Nothing we've done can harm or hinder us anymore. We are judged and sent to heaven or hell, or purgatory then heaven. Morbid yet? In heaven, we are judged by our lives! Living, Obedience. We are given our reward. Great or small, and its all we have for eternity. That and our relations with those in heaven, who are closer or further from us.

Finality. Finite. Mortal. End.

I am transient. I am ending. I am dying every day of my life.

This death one day, which I shall not, ought not, must not for the life of me so unjustly quicken by foolishness of any kind: by order of God: is my hope.

It seek it in my body when I want to sin! I hope in it! I figuratively do what the early Christians did literally, and strip myself clear.

I can take nothing out! I cannot get out! I am me, and my ticket reserves space for one. We must all buy our own tickets by our acts of faith in God!

I look at death as a sign, as my hope! In it is strength to weather the terrible winter storm upon me! It gives me strength each day to live and not despair! Death is upon my organs! Day by day whatever I do it edges closer! This is my hope! My answer to morbidity; I am mortal! I am dying! I am transient... Fading ... Failing ... Flailing, dying in the desert wind! As beautiful Brown Desert Eyes, watch me collapse!

My hope is death! For to love this life is to lose the next! To hope in the next is to gain this life and the next! For there is only one life! And it starts when we are conceived, and never truly ends! Death is not our enemy but our deepest sign of God! It is our hope! And by hoping in this absolute of one day, by acquiesce into God's power in death. Grounding, thus combats swirling deadly electricity of sin! Death cures death! In hope of death! But not that opposite, terrible terrible suicide which is love of this life not the next! Oh! Cowardice that almost certain is a sign of hell not heaven.

The non-religious zealot for religion

2011-07-14T12:25:00.001+02:00

Article by Marc Aupiais

I guess I'm returning to my old ways! The great blog I hope this once was.

A swear word I uttered...

In the beginning... Was the word, and the word was with God and the word was God. Jesus, says the catechism was God's one conclusive word.

This was pointed out to me by a lax wasted away Catholic in highschool... After I said the s word back to him in the negative, saying, I'm not talking s word, I'm telling the truth. On a matter, who knows what.

So he got me to hand him my catechism compendium by Ratzinger, which I carried everywhere. And he proved me wrong when I said swearing wasn't a sin. He was sure of it.

This is how highschool was. The guys wanted me to be good. Defended me as a virgin. And asked me advice.

I remember telling one it was more moral not to wear a condom for instance- condoms are directly linked to divorce, abortion stats. My advice was sought after. Everyone insisted I be a role model. So I was.

In the old says they didn't say "God NO" they said "Alack". Gay was happy. Sex was male or female, not that long phrase shortened. Making love was flirting.

St. Paul says to us little-uns: do not let your speech be course.

Indeed, course speech destroys our meaning and thus the gospel. Un-thought speech does damage.

Think of the word Hypocrite. In biblical times it meant stage actor. Jesus said: don't be a stage actor: be genuine. Do things to be good not look good. Be genuine not fickle.

But by un-thought speech. Hypocrite now means even a person who knows right but does not do it for being lack of maturity. They are told not to promote right then, ought they not be told to promote right by actions not only words?

A word un-thought is most aggregious!

I was wrong to swear!

Opus Dei on Chastity- a friend sent it to me

2011-07-10T15:44:00.001+02:00

A friend sent me this, perhaps as a joke on me; saying I need it! I love the language! Very defining and very overbearing, the liveliness I love to read in some early authors who are not politically correct!

"Chastity is a virtue"

You, a doctor, an apostle, write to me: 'We all know by experience that we can be chaste, living vigilantly, frequenting the sacraments and stamping out the first sparks of passion before the fire can spread. And it so happens that among the chaste are found the finest men in every way. And among the lustful predominate the timid, the selfish, the treacherous and the cruel--characters of little manliness.' (The Way, 124)

http://www.opusdei.ca/art.php?p=17566

Voice of the Vatican 7th July 2011 #VIS #NEWS #PRESS #VATICAN #CATHOLIC #Audio

2011-07-08T07:51:00.005+02:00

Voice of the Vatican 7th July 2011 #VIS #NEWS #PRESS #VATICAN #CATHOLIC #Audio

Article by Marc Aupiais

It may be best to right click and open in new tab or download the audio recording as our audio player struggles with the size and takes a while to load the VIS dictations
Vatican Information Service 7th July '11

http://scripturelink.net/quickpodcast/VN-20110707-00001.m4a

VIS 06th July '11 #Audio

2011-07-06T17:12:00.012+02:00

Voice of the Vatican 6th July 2011 #VIS #NEWS #PRESS #VATICAN #CATHOLIC

Article by Marc Aupiais

Here is an audio reading of the Vatican's Press releases Vatican Information Service for today, read by our Editor, Marc Evan Aupiais

http://scripturelink.net/quickpodcast/VN-20110706-00001.m4a

It may be best to right click and open in new tab or download, as our audio player loads slowly!

July 6th 2011
News.va:

"

AUDIENCES

VATICAN CITY, 6 JUL 2011 (VIS) - The Holy Father today received in audience Archbishop Fernando Filoni, prefect of the Congregation ...

OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, 6 JUL 2011 (VIS) - The Holy Father:

- Appointed Bishop Severino Clasen O.F.M. of Aracuai, Brazil, as ...

POPE VISITS EXHIBITION DEDICATED TO BLESSED JOHN PAUL II

VATICAN CITY, 6 JUL 2011 (VIS) - This morning Benedict XVI visited an exhibition dedicated to Blessed John Paul II. The ...

MESSAGE FOR WORLD TOURISM DAY

VATICAN CITY, 6 JUL 2011 (VIS) - The Message for World Tourism Day published by the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral ...

AGREEMENT ON STATUS OF CATHOLIC CHURCH IN AZERBAIJAN

VATICAN CITY, 6 JUL 2011 (VIS) - This morning in the Apostolic Palace of the Vatican, Archbishop Dominique Mamberti, secretary for ..."

http://www.news.va/en/source/vatican-information-service

5th July 2012 VIS #VATICAN #NEWS Today's #Catholic #VIS READ BY MARC EVAN AUPIAIS

2011-07-05T15:12:00.006+02:00

Article by Marc Aupiais

Right click and open in new tab (our audio player is struggling with this file, is 8 mb, otherwise wait for whole file to load which it will, but faster if right click)
Audio: 5th July 2012 VIS READ BY MARC EVAN AUPIAIS

http://scripturelink.net/quickpodcast/VN-20110705-00005.m4a

Vatican Press Office : http://press.catholica.va/news_services/bulletin/bollettino.php?lang=en

"JULY 5, 2011

BENEDICT XVI VISITS OFFICES OF THE "OSSERVATORE ROMANO"

VATICAN CITY, 5 JUL 2011 (VIS) - This morning the Holy Father visited the headquarters of the "Osservatore Romano" newspaper, which ...

FORTHCOMING EXHIBITION OF THE VATICAN SECRET ARCHIVES

VATICAN CITY, 5 JUL 2011 (VIS) - At midday today in the Holy See Press Office, a press conference was held ...

http://www.news.va/en/source/vatican-information-service"

South Africa to bail out failed dictatorship to tune of 10 billion without democratic reforms, amid crackdowns on decent?

2011-06-24T16:16:00.001+02:00

Article by Marc Aupiais

One need not repeat the headline, what the SACBC Cardinal Wilfred Napier has asked is that South Africa demand Swaziland reforms before granting the bail out to the mismanaged land!

"Pretoria

24 June 2011

For Immediate release.

Statement by Cardinal Wilfrid Napier, Spokesman of the Southern African Catholic Bishops' Conference (SACBC).

The Catholic Bishops of Southern Africa wish to register their concern at the financial bailout by the South African Treasury of the Government of the Kingdom of Swaziland.

It is understood that an amount of R10 Billion is needed to keep the Swazi Government afloat and the administration from collapsing.

Swaziland is currently in the throes of an unprecedented financial and societal crisis. It has

• the highest HIV & AIDS infection rate in the world (26%);• the lowest life expectancy in the world (32 years);• an unemployment rate of 40% and rising;• and extreme poverty with 70% of its population living below the poverty line of less than US$6 a day.• A State of emergency that has curtailed freedom of expression, association and dissent for the last 37 years.

We believe that the Swaziland Government must abandon or at least reform the "Tinkhundla" system of governance of royal favour and alliance which is a breeding place for corruption and greed. Monies intended for alleviating the people's suffering are diverted to support the lavish lifestyle of the monarchy.

The People of Swaziland love their King and Country, but the conditions that have created this crisis must not be disregarded by South Africa in considering a bailout.

We therefore call on the South African Government to make the loan CONDITIONAL on the following:

∙ the recognition and implementation the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in Swaziland;∙ the revocation by King Mswati III of the royal decree of 12 April 1973 which established a state of emergency;∙ that King Mswati III enter into meaningful dialogue with his people in order to facilitate movement towards true democracy his country;∙ the establishment of a democratic process for writing a new constitution in which all Swazi's have a part;∙ that the current Swazi Constitution be amended to reinstate the full range of human rights;∙ And that none of the bailout money go directly or indirectly to fund the Monarchy.

In the same way that the South African Government has laudable process examining the sale of Arms to other countries, the same type of process should be employed when it comes to financial support for ailing regional economies.

Cardinal Wilfrid Napier

Archbishop of Durban

Spokesman for the Southern African Catholic Bishops' Conference

(The SACBC is constituted by the Catholic Bishops of Botswana, Swaziland and South Africa)

That quoted, South Africa sold arms to Libya, North Korea, just saying etc. I don't think it will be conditional!

Rorate Caeli blog calls SSPX publisher "the best overall Catholic publisher and bookseller in the English-speaking world"! And a "gift to the world"

2011-06-12T18:48:00.049+02:00

(Tridentine and Faith)

Article by Marc Aupiais

Rorate Caeli which covers special interests relating to the Latin Mass, and to the FSSP and SSPX, has written an article which would suggest their sympathies are closer to the SSPX than to the church, here is an extract:

"We thank the best overall Catholic publisher and bookseller in the English-speaking world, Angelus Press, for their generous support of our contest [...] Angelus Press never fails to print and/or offer excellent publications. Visit their website frequently and watch out for their latest announcements. (This is certainly not an ad, but a sincere acknowledgment of the gift that Angelus Press is to the world.)"
Rorate Caeli (relabelled SSPX sympathisers; SSPX special interests news; American; possible affiliation with SSPX)

We quote "New Catholic"

Article link: "New design" : 12 / June / 2011

So, who are these "never fails to print and/or offer 'excellent' publications" people? But the unofficial voice of the SSPX, the schismatic group of priests who split from Rome under former Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre:

It's own website says:

"Angelus Press was founded in 1978 in Dickinson, Texas by Fr. Carl Pulvermacher, OFM. It began as an apostolate of the Society of St. Pius X to promote Catholic literature. Since its conception, Angelus Press has published a monthly magazine – The Angelus -- "A Journal of Roman Catholic Tradition.” [...]

In time, Angelus Press began to publish and print its own books on rudimentary presses. Collation was done completely by hand – a most time-consuming process.
From the confines of our humble Texas shack, we moved to Kansas City, Missouri in 1992, occupying the basement and the first floor of the SSPX’s St. Vincent’s Priory (formerly known as the Regina Coeli House)."
Angelus Press (SSPX Publisher)
About Page
2011

Says Catholic Answers' This Rock Magazine, the Angelus Press published the following title, which on its own even if you don't read the open affiliation to the sspx, you will see is pro-sspx:

"The Collected Works of His Excellency Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, vol. 1 [The Angelus Press]"

As quoted by Catholic Answers Apolostate: This Rock Magazine (Catholic Special Interests and church issues; Independent; American)

We quote "Brian O’Neel"

Article Link: How Rejection of Vatican II Led Lefebvre into Schism : April 2003

The New Old Environmentalism: A Sea-Change in Western Conservatives towards old style Conservationism

2011-06-09T09:19:00.003+02:00

(World Tainted Green)

Article by Marc Aupiais

I was amazed to see the article, in a pro-life, conservative, Canadian publication. It didn't front global warming, which given that that conveyor belt of the sea will be replaced by a Southern African heat source if it collapses, really is the correct term again. It just promoted sustainable development, Something we as South Africans always do: traditional environmentalism, which like traditional liberalism (I am a liberal), is only a good thing.

"In fact, this is this sort of common sense revelation that my young pro-life friends seem to be increasingly having. Things like: that the West is producing and consuming non-essential goods at such a breakneck speed that it will inevitably run straight off an environmental and economic cliff if it doesn’t stop, soon; that it is neither healthy nor humane to eat eggs or meat that come from animals that are packed by the thousands into windowless, airless food factories and fed genetically modified grains; that it is a lot more fun and educational to grow your own food, etc.

"What we are witnessing is a new, and, I believe, commendable backlash against two different excesses: that of a radical form of capitalism that views incessant wealth creation as the primary purpose of human life, and that of a radical environmentalism that views humans as little more than a pest to be carefully controlled or even eliminated.

"Fundamentally I believe this backlash is fueled by one simple, self-evident, but critical fact: that this is the only earth we have, and its resources are necessarily limited. Eco-extremists view this limitedness as a reason to stop humans from reproducing at all, to “save the planet.” Pro-life environmentalists, on the other hand, view this limitedness as a reason to exercise self-restraint and intelligence in the way we consume resources for the sake of future generations - to “save the humans.”"

(LifeSiteNews: Canadian; Independent but pro-life; Pro-life; Pro-family; pro-Subsidiarity)

Article link: 8th June 2011

If only our American pro-life friends would have the same awakening about Eastern slave labour, and debt based economies: whereby those without ability to get debt cheques go through their government to China. Fact is, social security in the West ought to be replaced by micro-loans. If anything, the aid dumping by Unicef, et al and the way it has wrecked African economies should serve this purpose: to alert America as to what the storm is they are fighting: one of their own making!

Tweet from @SACNSNew:@SACNSNew: Proposed Legislation in Russia Seeks to Strongly Restrict Abortions in Order to Overcome Low Birthrates http://bit.ly/jRf9an agreed!

2011-06-02T09:18:00.001+02:00

@SACNSNew: Proposed Legislation in Russia Seeks to Strongly Restrict Abortions in Order to Overcome Low Birthrates http://bit.ly/jRf9an agreed!