Who Is Marc Aupiais | About our Editor

Marc Aupiais

LLB Law Graduate. Journalist. Editor. Aspirant Advocate at Law.

Location

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

Industry

Law Practice  

Marc Aupiais's Overview

Current

• Editor in Chief at SACNS News
• Correspondent in South Africa at Les News (A French language international news service based in Paris)
• Writer at InfosNews Breaking News

Past

• Class Representative for all learners at the day school plenary class. at LEAD: Legal Education and Development (Auckland Park) [Law Society Day School]
• Student Paralegal, Family Division at University of the Witwatersrand Law Clinic
• Web assistance, upkeep, technical advice. at ADHASA

• Class Representative elected unanimously by Students for Contract Law Class at University of the Witwatersrand
• Deputy Chair of the Executive Committee on Campus (elected unopposed and in first year) at Democratic Alliance Students Organization (DASO) at the University of the Witwatersrand
• Class Representative elected unanimously by Students for Global English Literature and Film Class at University of the Witwatersrand
• Leader at St John's Northriding YCK
• Student Key Holder at De la Salle Holy Cross College

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Education

• LEAD: Legal Education and Development (Auckland Park) [Law Society Day School]
• University of the Witwatersrand
• St John's North Riding Catholic Church

• Trinity House High School
• Trinity House School
• De la Salle Holy Cross College
• De La Salle Holy Cross College
• Roosevelt Park Nursery School, near Linden

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Connections

85 connections

Websites

• Personal Website
• Poetry
• Blog

Marc Aupiais' Summary

My greatest skill is in presenting myself and in presenting my views. In high school, all the children said I should go into law. In first year, I was instantly electable, often unanimously: to positions of authority, this continued in later years. I am told I come across as intelligent, presentable, and knowledgeable on subjects I speak of. I've been told that I take questioning well, and am at ease during a crisis.

I have a fascination with language, and have extensively investigated my own home language of English. I love to read, especially older books, and enjoy reading non-English works also. Law absolutely fascinates me, as do most of the workings of the world.

I have extensively investigated, where I can: the world's cultures, legal systems, morals, courtesy, language systems and intricacies, and religions: for the purposes of my own interests. In my spare time I have also written a number of novels, and edit a network of on-line informative services, which have had an unexpected proportion of success.

I consider myself a global citizen and a South African patriot, and have many connections in different countries across the world, who have aided me in better understanding other points of view.

I like to argue a controversial matter, and do not fear debate, nor do I easily fall into fear, when faced with a predicament.

I believe success requires more than hard work, it requires intelligence, perseverance, and where necessary, the assistance of those better versed in a matter than I am, which advice I am not afraid to seek out to better my argument, and where necessary: myself.

I especially have a passion for evidence law, and criminal law.

Specialties: web design, debate, negotiations, convincing hostile parties, law, branding and identity, economics, politics, political watching, geopolitics, defence monitoring, fact verification

Marc Aupiais' Experience

Editor in Chief

SACNS News

Educational Institution; 1-10 employees; Media Production industry
September 2007 – Present (6 years 9 months) Worldwide
The SACNS News Service has a global audience. Many other news services rely on it, and many journalists the world over take into account what appears on it. I am proud to have founded and to edit this exceptional entity.

'Accuracy without Harm... Truth intrepidly told... A striking spotlight on the beautiful and terrible events of humankind.'

It is something we hold ourselves to.

http://sacns.scripturelink.net/

The first article of the actual SACNS (15 September 2008) service began long after my first work on the larger network which eventually coalesced under it (In 2007 I began publishing the first research articles). A scholarly tradition from the earlier sites, of research, expertise, and critiques remains.

Correspondent in South Africa

Les News (A French language international news service based in Paris)

December 2013 – Present (6 months) Paris Area, France
Les News was founded 17 July 2009. With 280 k followers on Twitter including from the French political class, Les News has a reputation for breaking news fast. It first came to fame reporting on the Columbine massacre when others had yet to report on it globally.

What I report on is global, and very few of the many stories published with me in the via line are on South Africa, with most being about Europe or America. Much of the news I provide for Les News gets at least dozens of Retweets, with some getting in excess of 100. I am one of about 30 journalists of Les News globally.

'Les dernières informations du monde en français. Alerte, Flash info, Breaking news !
http://lesnewsfr.com'

Writer

InfosNews Breaking News

January 2014 – Present (5 months) France
I started my work here on 12 Jan 2014. It is a side project of Les News. InfosNews was founded 23 April 2011. I have taken over a primary role with InfosNews, and write most of the Tweets on their twitter breaking news site, for my bosses at France's Les News.

Temporary Class Representative for all learners at the day school plenary class.

LEAD: Legal Education and Development (Auckland Park) [Law Society Day School]

January 2014 – January 2014 (1 month) Auckland Park, Johannesburg
The lecturer for criminal court practice asked if we had a class representative. While the students at the school said I was the class representative for all the students in the day school: I stated that I had not been elected as such in any official capacity. The lecturer asked if students wanted a class representative, most shouted they wanted me to be so. One student said they would like their friend to be representative instead, so I requested we have a vote in case there be any dispute or hard feelings. The lecturer put one of the students, a man named Brendan in charge of the election, and three candidates including myself were nominated and seconded. One candidate got 6 votes (10 % of the students), and another got about 10 votes, however, the plurality of students by show of hands, again decided that I should be class representative, confirming the vote by voice earlier.
 When I brought the first major student issue to the attention of the director, she stated that the LEAD program did not have student representatives elected by majority, but rather selected from among the group leaders from groups which were to be created for groupwork. The group I was in chose another student as their group leader, and the group leaders and LEAD staff chose a class representative from among these in accordance with their procedures and informed us of those they had selected to fill class representative and deputy class representative from among these group leaders.
 My role thus had ceased to exist.

Student Paralegal, Family Division

University of the Witwatersrand Law Clinic

Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry
January 2013 – October 2013 (10 months) Empire Road and Yale Road, Johannesburg
My job was to act as a legal advisor, write memos, write legal letters, draft legal pleadings, communicate with clients and others, form legal opinions.

Area: Divorce, Custody, Status, Domestic Violence, Guardianship, Unmarried Fathers, Maintenance, Breach of Promise, Common Law Universal Partnership laws, Appointment of Receiver and Liquidator where needed, Post-Divorce, Annulments, Court Orders, and variation and nullification thereto.

I achieved 67% for the Practical Legal Studies subject this formed part of. One of my memorandums was considered useful enough that I was asked to produce a redacted version to be shared with other supervisors by my supervisor, to assist those faced with similar cases.

Web assistance, upkeep, technical advice.

ADHASA

2011 – 2012 (1 year) Johannesburg Area, South Africa
I acted as a consultant to ADHASA on technology and information technology. I assisted with their website and in their interplay with experts, in order to help them achieve their goals.

Class Representative elected unanimously by Students for Contract Law Class

University of the Witwatersrand

Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry
July 2010 – November 2010 (5 months)
During the currency of my 2nd year 2nd Semester at the University of the Witwatersrand, the Contract Law lecturer asked for the election of a class representative to represent our class's concerns as she succeeded our first semester contract law lecturer, half way through the year. I was readily elected. I interfaced regularly with the lecturer and my suggestions were generally followed, and the class concerns were relayed.

Deputy Chair of the Executive Committee on Campus (elected unopposed and in first year)

Democratic Alliance Students Organization (DASO) at the University of the Witwatersrand

June 2009 – March 2010 (10 months) Empire and Yale Road, Johannesburg
When I accepted the position, I was informed that I was the first ever First Year student ever to be elected to the position. As my grandfather was a politician for the Progressive Party, in Welkom, who campaigned on the platform that Apartheid was damaging the economy, I thought it interesting to join the student body of the Democratic Alliance, into which this party was later amalgamated. I spent half a year on the executive of DASO, a time in which I thoroughly utilised my political techniques, knowledge, and expertise to help insure we were optimally productive, and to prevent very present special interests of outside forces from crushing our mandate. I subsequently chose to resign at a bi-election after the already tenuous working of the executive collapsed due to differences between the then president and chairperson, whereby I was promoted from third to second in charge, and it appeared the committee had become defunct given we did not have the numbers in the executive to proceed normally. My resignation was almost immediately after registration for 2010, where I determined not to sign up for DASO but to become politically unaffiliated, given the DA's union with the Independent Democrats and my uncertainty as to the future direction of the party. I remain politically unaffiliated but involved in my community, which I think is possibly for me, a beneficial position, given the fast moving, often changing political climate in South African politics. When I do vote I vote on the merits of a candidate in a particular political contest and not due to any loyalty to one or other party. I pride myself in my respect for the views of people who either support the various parties as well as those who support none, or who vote based on a particular candidate or other, and I believe our diversity as a nation, and our ability to vote for the party of our choice are vital institutions of a democracy, despite my unaffiliated, but politically involved status.

Class Representative elected unanimously by Students for Global English Literature and Film Class

University of the Witwatersrand

Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry
February 2009 – November 2009 (10 months)
The University of the Witwatersrand desired to have a class representative to interface with on matters of concern and asked students to elect one. I was elected unanimously by several hundred students present. I was elected to this esteemed position by students in the First Year Global English Literature and Film class. My task was as liaison between the students and the applicable department of the university's staff. I furthermore was tasked by the university with the responsibility to remain aware of any changes in venue and of the curriculum and any matters which might arise which could be of concern, or affect the welfare of the students enrolled in the course, I would then be required to assist the other students with these and other matters of concern. I fulfilled my duties to the best of my ability, and believe I was effective as Class Representative.

Leader

St John's Northriding YCK

June 2007 – June 2009 (2 years 1 month) Northriding, Johannesburg
As a requirement of confirmation into the Catholic Church, I was required to serve my community in some way or other. I originally intended to attend YCK (Young Christian Kids) as an assistant to the leaders for such purpose, however when my required time was finished I was approached by Amanda, the person in charge, to continue, and to be brought on formally as a leader as I was seen as very effective in leadership. Others who had assisted for confirmation purposes were not asked to stay on. I thought it over and decided to continue on as a leader, a position which entailed planning, catering, day to day running, and involvement in the planning meetings to insure we remained on track and were prepared and organised for a particular year.

I assisted in insuring the weekly smooth running of the YCK, which included providing games and entertainment for children, and conflict prevention management so as to prevent fighting and bullying when problems emerged.

The YCK further involved discussions on the importance of family, good behaviour, good life choices, and involved discussions of the basics the Catholic religion to which I belong, and the meaning of religious holy days such as Christmas.

Student Key Holder

De la Salle Holy Cross College

February 1998 – November 1998 (10 months) Victory Park
I was appointed to this position by the Grade 2 teacher, as students sometimes left their possessions in class accidentally, and the teacher did not desire to leave the door unlocked. The Grade 2 teacher requested that I keep the classroom key during break time in case there was some student emergency. This is a role I held for most of my Grade 2 year of schooling, until the end of the year. This was one of my first positions of responsibility. I was 7-8 years of age.

Marc Aupiais' Volunteer Experience & Causes

• Volunteer Interests

  • Causes I care about:

    • Disaster and Humanitarian Relief
    • Education
    • Environment
    • Health
    • Human Rights
    • Politics
    • Science and Technology

  • Organizations I support:

    • Catholic Relief Services
    • ADHASA

Marc Aupiais' Courses

• LLB 4 year, Law, English

  University of the Witwatersrand

  • Delict (Laws2003)
  • Insurance (Laws3002)
  • Negotiable Instruments & Banking Law (Laws3005)
  • Business Entities (Laws3010)
  • Constitutional Law (Laws3011)
  • Introduction to Law (Laws1006)
  • English Global Literature and Film (Eng1003)
  • Introduction to Constitutional Law (Laws1002)
  • Foundations of South African Law (Laws1004)
  • Persons & Family Law (Laws1005)
  • Customary Law (Laws1003)
  • English Literature in Context (Eng1001)
  • Criminal Law (Laws2001)
  • Contract (Laws2002)
  • Succession (Laws 2004)
  • Legal Information Literacy (Laws2005)
  • Criminal Procedure (Laws3031)
  • Jurisprudence (LAWS2017)
  • Property (LAWS3029)
  • Public International Law (LAWS3030)
  • Evidence (LAWS3032)
  • Civil Procedure (LAWS3033)
  • Forensic Medicine (FORM 4005/1)
  • Administrative Law (LAWS 4060)
  • Special Contracts (LAWS 4056)
  • Appropriate Dispute Resolution (LAWS 4043)
  • Practical Legal Studies (LAWS4003)
  • Competition Law (LAWS4045)
  • Environmental Law (LAWS4047)
  • Insolvency Laws (LAWS4050)

Marc Aupiais' Publications

• The Tempest and the Hurricane

  • scripturelink.net
  • January 1, 2008
  Authors: Marc Aupiais
  My extensive knowledge of and deep passion for language is on display within my poetic and other works on this website.

• SACNS News Service

  • SACNS News Service
  • September 15, 2008
  Authors: Marc Aupiais
  ~The SACNS News Service
  'Accuracy without Harm... Truth intrepidly told... A striking spotlight on the beautiful and terrible events of humankind.'

Marc Aupiais' Skills & Expertise

1. Web Design
2. Programming
3. Research
4. Fact checking
5. Blogging
6. Public Relations
7. law
8. legal
9. journalism
10. internet
11. computers
12. Microsoft Office
13. Journalism
14. Pathology
15. Legal Drafting
16. Drafting Pleadings
17. Legal Letter Writing
18. Legal Research
19. Legal Writing
20. Legal Advice
21. Legal Assistance
22. Legal Documents
23. Legal Issues
24. Criminal Law
25. International Law
26. Family Law
27. Administrative Law
28. Web Content
29. Editing
30. Publishing
31. Books
32. Politics
33. Proofreading
34. Copy Editing
35. Freelance Writing
36. Editorial
37. Press Releases
38. Contract Law
39. Strategic Communications
40. Management
41. English
42. Human Rights
43. Speech Writing
44. Investigative Reporting
45. Legal Translation
46. Public Speaking
47. Storytelling
48. French
49. Courts
50. Document Drafting

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Marc Aupiais' Languages

• English

  (Native or bilingual proficiency)

• Spanish

  (Limited working proficiency)

• French

  (Professional working proficiency)

• Afrikaans

  (Limited working proficiency)

• Zulu

  (Limited working proficiency)

• Latin

  (Elementary proficiency)

Marc Aupiais' Education

LEAD: Legal Education and Development (Auckland Park) [Law Society Day School]

I enrolled in the 6 Months day course (January to June 2014), Practical Legal Training, Bar Exams contents, ethics, day to day, court process, trial advocacy, etc

2014 – 2014 (expected)
The Legal Education and Development school was established by the Law Society of South Africa, with the statutory function of substituting one year of article clerkship with six months of consistent examination and training in the practical aspects of a legal career. In a sense it is a respected trade school set up for statutory purposes of insuring lawyers are well trained in the day to day matters in running a practice and in managing and arguing a case. I was accepted to the 6 month day school course at LEAD.

It allows 6 months intensive training, as a substitute, in order to take a year off of clerkship under the requirements to become an attorney, and also can provide experience should an individual desire to be admitted to pupillage to become an advocate, and this course also qualifies a person to write the Law Society board exams after completing it.

Activities and Societies: Labour Law

University of the Witwatersrand

LLB 4 year, Law, English

2009 – 2013
Grade: I qualified for my degree in 2013, and have graduated Bachelor of Laws LLB.
My grandparents on my mother's side, my mother, and sister attended Wits. I determined also to attend this esteemed educational institution.

I was accepted to the most difficult law degree, the LLB or Legum Baccalaureus.

In first year I was unanimously elected class representative in Global English Literature and Film by several hundred students. I was also the first ever First year to be elected to the executive of a specific political party on campus. In subsequent years I was continually elected to positions of responsibility and leadership.

While I did engage in sports: tennis and Kayaking among others, I preferred to do so outside of campus. I have a K1 River Kayak, and also joined a tennis club outside of university.

I consistently spent much of my free time bettering myself and my general and specific knowledge outside of university, including by means of on-line learning via coursera, and I additionally edited and reported for SACNS as a journalist.

Activities and Societies: DASO, ACTS

St John's North Riding Catholic Church

Confirmation, Catholicism, life Skills, Christian Faith

2007 – 2009
Grade: Confirmed
Confirmation is a religious ceremony for Catholics to enter or confirm their desire to be a part of the Catholic Church. It involved training in being a good South African citizen, bible study, ethics classes, classes referencing South African law. and the study of Catholic social doctrine and morality, as well as classes on marriage, and on being respectful to your partner and yourself and considerate in a romantic relationship. Community service and attendance of a camp which entailed prayer, confession, meditation, study of the Mass (Catholic church service), etc. were also mandatory.

Activities and Societies: YCK, Stations of the Cross, Weekly lessons on Tuesday afternoon, education on abortion, discussions on faith, God, Society, History, sexual education, mandatory attendance of confirmation camp, to learn about the Mass.

Trinity House High School

Matric, IEB Curriculum

2004 – 2008
Grade: Passed with university exemption.
As I had attended Trinity House School, I continued onto Trinity House High School.

Like the junior school it had a very high academic standard even for a private school. Dress was formal and always strictly enforced upon students, and the school was very disciplined.

I did well academically, despite the high standard demanded of students.

When we as a class read Shakespeare, I impressed my fellow students with my public speaking skills, and also gained a reputation for being able to do group-work report-back as well as ordinary speeches off the cuff, and in what I was told was an impressive manner. My ability to argue a point and detailed knowledge of history caused other students at this school to suggest that I go into law as my career.

Activities and Societies: Chess club, Field Hockey

Trinity House School

Primary education / Junior School, IEB Curriculum

2001 – 2003
Trinity House School had a very high academic standard even for a private school. Dress was formal and enforced. Students underwent regular and extensive academic testing to insure they were up to standard for examinations. In English class reading fiction books was encouraged as a necessity. Zulu and Afrikaans were studied from Grade 1 at a high standard.

I received +-90% in Zulu in my final year at Trinity House school, and also succeeded in passing Afrikaans at the higher level demanded by this school. I played Cricket at Trinity House School.

Activities and Societies: cricket

De la Salle Holy Cross College

Primary education, general

1997 – 2000
Having attended De La Salle Holy Cross College for Grade 0, I began my academic career in Grade 1 in this long established learning institution. It focussed on English language ability, especially speech giving ability, on mathematics, computer science, and on history.

In art class, we were taught the history of art, and the meaning of paintings and symbols. We copied the Old Masters, sculpted, painted, did cross-hatch, worked with wire, and created organic art via a small enclosed tree atrium. We also had a field trip to an art museum.

Activities and Societies: wrote book in extra mural class with teacher and few other students in Grade 2, soccer, cricket, extra mural math puzzles

De La Salle Holy Cross College

Grade 0, learnt to sing in latin, did a play

1996 – 1996
Students were taught to sing songs in Latin and other languages, and there was also a Christmas play.

Activities and Societies: Church, choir, play on nativity

Roosevelt Park Nursery School, near Linden

general, pottery, Papier-mâché, sandpit castles, naps, music, painting, drawing, art

1994 – 1995
Classes involved singing of songs as a teacher played on the guitar, games, story telling, arts and crafts, painting, creation of large Papier-mâché artworks, drawing, and so forth.

Activities and Societies: pottery, paper mache, sandpit castles, naps, music, painting, drawing, art

Marc Aupiais' Additional Information

Websites:

• Personal Website
• Poetry
• Blog

Interests:

Law, Geopolitics, intra and inter-politics, economics, social issues, history, Greek Mythology, Roman Mythology, Egyptian Mythology, myths and legends, literature, music, history, geography, writing systems, language, linguistics, world religions, cultures, genealogy, psychology, International law, Treaties, conflict history, Kayaking, Golf, digital photography, web design, design, language studies, stenography.

South Africa becoming a communist dictatorship?

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

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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

Voice of the Vatican 7th July 2011 #VIS #NEWS #PRESS #VATICAN #CATHOLIC #Audio



Article by Marc Aupiais

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Vatican Information Service 7th July '11

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VIS 06th July '11 #Audio

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


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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

Article by Marc Aupiais

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Audio: 5th July 2012 VIS READ BY MARC EVAN AUPIAIS

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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?

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"

(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

Tweet from @SACNSNew:@SACNSNew: Proposed Legislation in Russia Seeks to Strongly Restrict Abortions in Order to Overcome Low Birthrates http://bit.ly/jRf9an agreed!

@SACNSNew: Proposed Legislation in Russia Seeks to Strongly Restrict Abortions in Order to Overcome Low Birthrates http://bit.ly/jRf9an agreed!

The Third Instinct - By Marc Aupiais

Article by Marc Aupiais

Author's message:

The Third Instinct - by Marc Aupiais

 

Soon to be in physical format too!

http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Third-Instinct-by-Marc-Aupiais/123825231030011

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Sancte Philomena Ora Pro Nobis!

About:

Set in the Greater Johannesburg Area, where the author grew up, this novel discussed South African history, geography, politics, religion, and so much else, in a suspense filled and thriller format. Also entering into the discussion on bio-ethics, murder, death of a friend, suicide, as well as the ethics of espionage and computer hacking, and where patriotism is good, and where it is to the nation's detriment.

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.

The novel was written by author Marc Aupiais at the age of 14, before minor edits were made, including footnotes for North American readers, before the author's 21st birthday. It was published first as an ebook, and finally in physical form!

Voting right

Note by Marc Aupiais

As we have a right to vote, we ought certainly vote right. Whether not voting at all, or voting for the right mayor.

Mother convinced me to vote this time. I am not to say for which party. Private as I am. No longer a Democratic Alliance politician at my University, I need no longer say whom I voted for.
Voting encourages transparency. Especially in by-elections when your voice is amplified. So few vote. So many count the consequence.

Both the COPE and ANC have raised the ancestors from the ground, and resurrected God for their campaigns- or so they claim.


The DA has claimed business management and experience and lack of corruption as their manifesto. And added bad dancing to the mix.

What does this all mean?

My electricity bill is so high it affects my ability to buy new gadgets. I am restricted in my number of pets I'm allowed, I think unfairly. Madmen have been forced to the streets so I fear to open my car window.
All this is my fault. Is yours.

For a healthy democracy we must debate, must vote, must raise the real issues and criticise both sides- objectively.

We must educate all on real issues. Not smoke, mirrors and sunlight dish washing liquid.
The DA and ANC's ability to build toilets and walls around them have been a focus.
People march and riot in streets. Police torture, murder.

My phone conversations, yours are all kept on record (RICA Amendment act), as with our e-communication.

Vote. But also talk politics.

Wake up oh sleeper. I certainly have. And I shall vote... Possibly DA as I always have.
Discuss the election. Write about it. Tell your friends on facebook.
You are more connected to your friends and acquaintances than anyone else... Than a distant newspaper writer with bi-focals.

Superman was my hero growing up. Not the guy with the underwear without. Likely not washed ever. And very uncomfortable and unfashionable in a woman's tights.

No- Clark Kent, Louis, his girlfriend. Tell the truth. It will set things right, and let the good out.
But tell it wisely. Look between the smoke and mirrors. God bless you. Now off and vote.

Osama Bin Laden executed?

USA claims: No us soldiers, no civilians killed, Osama's 2 wives, 6 kids arrested. "Targeted operation". "Buried at sea". 3 males killed, one female. 24 navy seals sent in. Killed "after" a fire fight! - SkyNews UK based on USA reports. Note "after firefight".

Al Qaeda in Yemen admits death of Al Qaeda leader.

Splinter groups will be strengthened. No strategic value- Sky News.

US embassies on high alert. Death could set off splinter cells. Gradual deterioration of relations between usa and Pakistan. Body taken to Afghanistan before sea. Pakistan will see this as an affront on sovereignty. USA says Osama Bin Laden told to surrender before being shot. But said to be killed "after firefight".

Source on this update is SkyNews UK;

Osama Bin Laden killed

Bin Laden killed in USA military operation involving Apache helicopters attacking his upper class mansion in Pakistan just next to governmental military academy. AlJazeera is quoting USA official: women; children taken arrested, while men, Osama Bin Laden killed in "gun fight". CNN says USA likely thinks Pakistan knew Osama's location.

~Faith~ investors turn on unsound, unsustainable ~corporate practice~

Marc Aupiais

Christian Brothers is Catholic. They and other Christian investors want responsible, sustainable, moral, sound capitalism.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/pharmaceuticalsandchemicals/8469777/Faith-investors-turn-on-pharmaceuticals-companies.html

'Miracle' baby survives birth at 21 weeks - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Marc Aupiais

A child has survived being born at 21 weeks. Having insufficient organs, she was assisted through her belly button area to survive. Her twin brother died.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2011/04/23/3199113.htm

A thought on Good Friday

Note by Marc Aupiais

This day we remember Christ died for us when we were sinners!

This day we remember we are sinners.

This day contrite we must repent, and turn to the infinite mercy of God~ who unlike mankind forgives all!

Thoughts on Rebecca Black

Note by Marc Aupiais

With Rebecca Black emerging as the latest wealthy "village joker"... I got thinking about fame.

About how people we don't know, we mock, adore, obey...

How we put them and their views before friends... And forgive them what we'd never easily forgive a friend. And hate and love them.

Rebecca Black proves that fame isn't talent. As does Justin Bieber who shocks me in his fame. But most up and coming artists are hardly worth a second glance. As with presidents and politicians...

So who does that leave?

Rebecca Black may have brought twitter to her song- in how she sings thoughts as twitter tweets thoughts...

But shouldn't our real heroes be those who make us make good decisions even when they're mean in how they achieve it?

Shouldn't our real heroes be those who hold the faith and don't just claim to?

Shouldn't it be those who live and not those who die pointlessly in political and vendetta wars who are heroes. The peacemakers... The meek... The man who died on a cross was not a rock star. Just the opposite. Isaiah 53: Jesus was not attractive or charismatic. What drew people was truth.

As for Rebecca Black. She's thirteen years old. More than the cyber bullying: the life where people never leave highschool is her greatest cross to bear in life. Woe to the celebrity. You either obey the crowds or your intuitive self. So many choose the crowds.

What is worse? Convincing someone they are a God, and to close off to all criticism like a plague in the stomach? Or mocking them sometimes?

A culture of celebrity is a culture of death: that death is suffered first by the object- those sought to replace God!

Admire, love, pray for those you care for. View celebrities as people with human dignity not objects. And be cautious when mocking- perhaps first mock the society which creates these false gods of the culture of death: where the law of the jungle prevails over truth, meekness, kindness: mere Christianity! Sadly by the choice of many a guilty party~

Good Friday

Article by Marc Evan Aupiais


Today is felt every Sunday, every moment since the universe began. The moment pain entered the creator's pen, his mind filled with images of death, of a fruit toxic to man, of sin. Sinfulness inglorious sinfulness.

Blood is what we drink to live. Blood renews us, blood saves our being, our soul. Without blood we do not live. Christ's blood, the Eucharist.

Today is the moment we turn to every Sunday, every mass, every moment in God. It is the blood spilt today two millennia hence, which washes our sins into the ground, where they explode and an earthquake, and a new heart is found.

Good Friday is good, because it is what makes us good.

Dearest of Friends, I dedicate this story to you

(Fissure of Faith: Journey in A Broken World)

Title: Dearest of Friends, I dedicate this story to you

Article by Marc Aupiais

I do not care much if any other reads this, dear friend of mine. For the longest time I have been writing for you, and one other perhaps. You asked me to write you a story and thus I shall.

I thought of the caves i created, or of the pristine valley you so loved.

I thought of you lying with my words as your pillow, all printed out. Thinking of me as you sleep, of my words, which adore you, dear friend of mine, my words, which you adore. Which make you cry of sorrow, and of joyous love.

As i write, as is usual in my country, it is raining, I hear a thunder storm, as classical music from the Vatican itself does play, and I think of the water you bought me all that time ago, in a place of honour in my soul and mind.

I can tell so many stories, and I shall but a few.

You see, dear friend of mine. This world we see, isn't really real. No, indeed, it is not.

What we see as insurmountable is indeed not at all.

I shall tell you of a dream I had dear friend, dearest of all mine, and you can say if it compares, with the laboured out works, which usually I pen.

I have always believed I shall die violently, perhaps of a shark attack. It is why I never swim, this superstition of mine. I fear, shall I enter the ocean, I shall be carried up and away. I shall die, this fear of mine, mine heart and soul.

A witch, I call her, in this daylight dream. I stand at the strangest place I know, my University, that of the Witwatersrand, dear friend of mine.

Not by the law building, with men carrying crucifixes, but who are not Christ, and men in hell, or something the like, standing, beckoning us to where law students belong.

Nor by the libraries, stories high, with not a book I have bothered to consult, not to care for. Or for the English classes where I nearly got a first, and would have, perhaps, if I'd bothered to read the labourous works.

No, this occurs, at a favourite spot of mine, near where last I saw a friend who soon would die. It happens by a tall building housing a shop, by stairs in front. In front of the shop- the "Lighthouse" we universally call it. Mysterious not.

None the less, this is where I imagine it happening. five students, innocent, and with a sixth. The sixth is our hero, you see.

And a strange woman, everyone calls a witch. She stands there in the background, invisible, unseen, and she transfers the sixth and then all the others, with him. To another world, this beautiful siren she is.

They stand together on a deserted Island, only sand and one tall coconut tree.

And around them are fins, larger than buildings, of sharp razor teeth, we need not mention.

And while the others argue, as the tide rises, sure to soon cover their Island. The sixth hears the siren in his mind, and swims straight towards a giant shark, which fortunately is distracted, and doesn't bother to attempt top eat him just yet.

Here is where I hault in this story I've held for years.

Does he swim below the shark, avoiding attack and find some system of underwater caves, with air within? Does he meet locals, or get saves in a boat, rickety, or a jet ski. What happens to this man, in the see, 27 miles from the mainland beyond. A black rock coast, deadly to those who approach.

If he is the man I believe him, and the siren who she is, either way, with everything against him. It is sure he must fight for his life as he swims and gets nowhere.

Perhaps he holds the shark's fin, and it doesn't kill him by dunking down, or maybe it takes him further out to see or chomps him right up.

I am not sure how it writes.

It the water beyond him is blood, and fish in a frenzy. Perhaps in the middle is the Siren, whom he must save.

In another story dear friend of mine.

A man is climbing a mountain, tireless, and on instinct. He does not desire glory, or the arcane joy of the achievement. No, he knows there is a timepiece of gold, that he must grab unto. It is the soul of a woman, trapped in time, in the world, which is delusion. He climbs up the black rocks, and leans over the edge, knowing he'll sink forever into the snow, if he isn't careful to balance, and not to lean upon. He grabs and grabs at the timepiece, but cannot reach it. He holds unto a rock ledge, much like a tree, and upon a limb, he holds upon his hand, and leans, his legs holding up. He grabs at the timepiece in an avalanche, and finds he grabs a woman's hand. He pulls her up as she reaches for him. Upon the black rock, looking below at the avalanche, he knows he's found his wife.

He was to save her, as she was only but his own and not never for another to touch or to love. For none but him could be so constant or indeed love as much.

Kill me Lord: Death rather than that

(Journey in A Broken World)

Article by Marc Aupiais

Death, lord, this I ask. I ask not for loyalty or friendship. Not for a lover or wife. Not for her or her loyalty to me. But if my being is for her, rather give me death than that yet do not deny the choice, do not prevent. Link my life to that choice, my death not hers if her loyalty fall. Do not oblige her to me, do not hold her to me.

I image bowing in a cave before a still lake. In a catacomb. I enter the lake, and it pulls me in. It moves me.

Our loyalty is to life, and to God. We are never never entitled to our own life. Perhaps if God commands, infallibly, then we should take our lives, for not to would be a most egregious, most heinous a sin against God and all men. The Christian has a complete loyalty to life.

We should ask God, if he does not permit us to obey him, rather for death than for that. And rather a life of every insufferable ill. Than death.

We are called to marriage or priesthood, or celibacy. This is our daily preaching of the Gospel. Therefore, to be selfish, to seek our own in dating or marriage is to seek death not life.

I sink into the water, it takes away my breath, and I am at peace. My will is dead, is gone, yet I beg and plead with God. Make me Lord, Make me, my life yours, not wealth, not friendship, not love. Make me utterly in poverty, for all I own is yours. Make me utterly poor, my very blood and veins, and marrow yours, not mine.

Make me poor in spirit. Punish me for the entirety of my life.




Fissure of Faith: Journey in A Broken World at 2/06/2011 10:21:00 PM USA time

"Marc's Good Points" 1998 (that's last century!!!!)

(Journey in A Broken World)

Article by Marc Aupiais

It was lying around the study, by Mother's computer. She'd scribbled it in grade 2. Before the illness that kept me from school, and which I still have not recovered entirely from- I don't really have allergies, but the chemicals in my body are much more sensitive. Tonsil problems need to be fixed before it gets as far as mine did.

So, before I went through the greatest trauma of my life, these were my traits, as Mother saw them.

They say the personality is set by age 7. Who you are is set.

Does this still apply to me? And if so, what does really matter? Kindness, caring, fighting others' battles? Empathy?

If my personality is set then these mean very little.

But as the bible says- love, hope, faith. Do I have self control, do I act in accordance with God's dear laws? Am I chaste? Christianity is not accidental. Personality is!

I am at a wedding in another world

( Journey in A Broken World)

Article by Marc Aupiais

I am at a wedding, is it not so. There is dancing, there is movement. A twirling, and interplay. People are moving and circling in dance. Man and woman, and a foreign sound plays, a foreign language sings a wedding song. They predict our lives, in this strange ancient tongue. A Song of Songs, and me and her, this strange woman, this foreign woman, we dance.

Is this not life, this image that hit my idle eyes. This author's vision, this thought of dear God?

I am at a wedding in another world?

What world is this, what is a wedding?

Jesus says there is no marriage in heaven, just as there is no confession, baptism of of child. Not, you must surely come to know, because people are not special, more to some. For Mary God says is more special to him than us, and Philomena more care in Mary likewise as well. Some saints are patrons, to a different cause.

They are different.

Marriage is not in heaven, though we are told not to divide what God has made one, and indeed that marriage is permanent even as the law holding one to other ends in their deaths.

But that is just it, there is no need for legal protection of love and sacrifice in heaven.

Marriage exists. A spouse loves their spouse, more than they love others. There is no general communist love... no, in heaven, there is specific love. There are relations.

Heaven is not an ocean, but a city.

Who Am I really Today...[really]...?

Article by Marc Aupiais

A friend was upset with me. She said I was not true to myself. That while I would

never do something alone... that with a friend I would.

She said I was not true to myself.

It got me thinking. What is me..?

I am after all a very complex personality. So strangely off. So caring but ashamed to care. So aware and perceptive physically and mentally of patent and latent... that myself I get terribly upset when others know not to.

But I know to... and also I love someone present. Around. inside of me. In my soul... always. No matter what. Even when I fight with someone I love.

I want them there.. I do need to learn... to own myself more... to be less polite at times.

But. Who I am. Is whom I love. And why. And how. And for how long.

God made us in his image and likeness.

God made us as love. That is what was lost in the not long forgot garden.

That is the Eden of Eden.