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A TOUR OF BRUSSELS | The Capital of Belgium
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UFO Does Power Ups - ECETI Ranch
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"Literacy is the foundation for a modern society, and this most essential of skills is being transformed almost without our being aware it is happening. This is a trend with profound implications for human society and its values."
Stephan Schwartz/Schwartzreport
Skim reading is the new normal. The effect on society is profound
"When the reading brain skims texts, we don’t have time to grasp complexity, to understand another’s feelings or to perceive beauty. We need a new literacy for the digital age" ...
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"The Vatican, Up Against the World" ...
Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò
Ex-Nuncio Accuses Pope Francis of Failing to Act on McCarrick’s Abuse
by Edward Pentin
Aug. 25, 2018
"In a written testimony, Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò claims Pope Francis withdrew sanctions against Archbishop Theodore McCarrick.
In an extraordinary 11-page written testament, a former apostolic nuncio to the United States has accused several senior prelates of complicity in covering up Archbishop Theodore McCarrick’s allegations of sexual abuse, and has claimed that Pope Francis knew about sanctions imposed on then-Cardinal McCarrick by Pope Benedict XVI but chose to repeal them.
Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, 77, who served as apostolic nuncio in Washington D.C. from 2011 to 2016, said that in the late 2000s, Benedict had “imposed on Cardinal McCarrick sanctions similar to those now imposed on him by Pope Francis” and that Viganò personally told Pope Francis about those sanctions in 2013.
Archbishop Viganò said in his written statement, simultaneously released to the Register and other media, (see full text below) that Pope Francis “continued to cover” for McCarrick and not only did he “not take into account the sanctions that Pope Benedict had imposed on him” but also made McCarrick “his trusted counselor.” Viganò said that the former archbishop of Washington advised the Pope to appoint a number of bishops in the United States, including Cardinals Blase Cupich of Chicago and Joseph Tobin of Newark.
Archbishop Viganò, who said his “conscience dictates” that the truth be known as “the corruption has reached the very top of the Church’s hierarchy,” ended his testimony by calling on Pope Francis and all of those implicated in the cover up of Archbishop McCarrick’s abuse to resign.
On June 20, Vatican Secretary of State, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, on the order of Pope Francis, prohibited former Cardinal McCarrick from public ministry after an investigation by the New York archdiocese found an accusation of sexual abuse of a minor was “credible and substantiated.” That same day,the public learned that the Archdiocese of Newark and the Diocese of Metuchen in New Jersey had received three accusations of sexual misconduct involving adults against McCarrick. Since then media reports have written of victims of the abuse, spanning decades, include a teenage boy, three young priests or seminarians, and a man now in his 60s who alleges McCarrick abused him from the age of 11. The Pope later accepted McCarrick’s resignation from the College of Cardinals.
But Viganò wrote that Benedict much earlier had imposed sanctions on McCarrick “similar” to those handed down by Cardinal Parolin. “The cardinal was to leave the seminary where he was living,” Viganò said, “he was also forbidden to celebrate [Mass] in public, to participate in public meetings, to give lectures, to travel, with the obligation of dedicating himself to a life of prayer and penance.” Viganò did not document the exact date but recollected the sanction to have been applied as far back 2009 or 2010.
Benedict’s measures came years after Archbishop Viganò’s predecessors at the nunciature — Archbishops Gabriel Montalvo and Pietro Sambi — had “immediately” informed the Holy See as soon as they had learned of Archbishop McCarrick’s “gravely immoral behavior with seminarians and priests,” the retired Italian Vatican diplomat wrote.
He said Archbishop Montalvo first alerted the Vatican in 2000, requesting that Dominican Father Boniface Ramsey write to Rome confirming the allegations. In 2006, Archbishop Viganò said that, as delegate for pontifical representations in the Secretariat of State, he personally wrote a memo to his superior, then Archbishop (later Cardinal) Leonardo Sandri, proposing an “exemplary measure” be taken against McCarrick that could have a “medicinal function” to prevent future abuses and alleviate a “very serious scandal for the faithful.”
He drew on an indictment memorandum, communicated by Archbishop Sambi to Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, then Secretary of State, in which an abusive priest had made claims against McCarrick of “such gravity and vileness” including “depraved acts” and “sacrilegious celebration of the Eucharist.”
Memos Ignored
But, according to Viganò, his memo was ignored and no action was taken until the late 2000s — a delay which Archbishop Viganò claims is owed to complicity of John Paul II’s and Benedict XVI’s respective Secretaries of State, Cardinals Angelo Sodano and Tarcisio Bertone.
In 2008, Archbishop Viganò claims he wrote a second memo, this time to Cardinal Sandri’s successor as sostituto at the Secretariat of State, then Archbishop (later Cardinal) Fernando Filoni. He included a summary of research carried out by Richard Sipe, a psychotherapist and specialist in clerical sexual abuse, which Sipe had sent Benedict in the form of a statement. Viganò said he ended the memo by “repeating to my superiors that I thought it was necessary to intervene as soon as possible by removing the cardinal’s hat from Cardinal McCarrick.”
Again, according the Viganò, his request fell on deaf ears and he writes he was “greatly dismayed” that both memos were ignored until Sipe’s “courageous and meritorious” statement had “the desired result.”
“Benedict did what he had to do,” Archbishop Viganò told the Register Aug. 25, “but his collaborators — the Secretary of State and all the others — didn’t enforce it as they should have done, which led to the delay.”
“What is certain,” Viganò writes in his testimony, “is that Pope Benedict imposed the above canonical sanctions on McCarrick and that they were communicated to him by the Apostolic Nuncio to the United States, Pietro Sambi.”
The Register has independently confirmed that the allegations against McCarrick were certainly known to Benedict, and the Pope Emeritus remembers instructing Cardinal Bertone to impose measures but cannot recall their exact nature.
In 2011, on arrival in Washington D.C., Archbishop Viganò said he personally repeated the sanction to McCarrick. “The cardinal, muttering in a barely comprehensible way, admitted that he had perhaps made the mistake of sleeping in the same bed with some seminarians at his beach house, but he said this as if it had no importance,” Viganò recalled in his testimony.
In his written statement, Viganò then outlined his understanding of how, despite the allegations against him, McCarrick came to be appointed Archbishop of Washington D.C. in 2000 and how his misdeeds were covered up. His statement implicates Cardinals Angelo Sodano, Tarcisio Bertone and Pietro Parolin and he insists various other cardinals and bishops were well aware, including Cardinal Donald Wuerl, McCarrick’s successor as archbishop of Washington D.C.
“I myself brought up the subject with Cardinal Wuerl on several occasions, and I certainly didn’t need to go into detail because it was immediately clear to me that he was fully aware of it,” he wrote.
Ed McFadden, a spokesman for the Archdiocese of Washington, told CNA that Wuerl categorically denies having been informed that McCarrick’s ministry had been restricted by the Vatican.
The second half of Viganò’s testimony primarily deals with what Pope Francis knew about McCarrick, and how he acted.
He recalled meeting Cardinal McCarrick in June 2013 at the Pope’s Domus Sanctae Marthae residence, during which McCarrick told him “in a tone somewhere between ambiguous and triumphant: ‘The Pope received me yesterday; tomorrow I am going to China’” — the implication being that Francis had lifted the travel ban placed on him by Benedict. (Further evidence of this can be seen in this interview McCarrick gave the National Catholic Reporter in 2014.)
At a private meeting a few days later, Archbishop Viganò said the Pope asked him “‘What is Cardinal McCarrick like?’” to which the archbishop replied: “He corrupted generations of seminarians and priests and Pope Benedict ordered him to withdraw to a life of prayer and penance.” The former nuncio said he believes the Pope’s purpose in asking him was to “find out if I was an ally of McCarrick or not.”
Freed From Constraints
He said it was “clear” that “from the time of Pope Francis’s election, McCarrick, now free from all constraints, had felt free to travel continuously, to give lectures and interviews.”
Moreover, he added, McCarrick had “become the kingmaker for appointments in the Curia and the United States, and the most listened to advisor in the Vatican for relations with the Obama administration.”
Viganò claimed that the appointments of Cardinal Cupich to Chicago and Cardinal Joseph Tobin to Newark “were orchestrated by McCarrick,” among others. He said neither of the names was presented by the nunciature, whose job is traditionally to present a list of names, or terna, to the Congregation for Bishops. He also added that Bishop Robert McElroy’s appointment to San Diego was orchestrated “from above” rather than through the nuncio.
The retired Italian diplomat also echoed the Register’s reports about Cardinal Rodriguez Maradíaga and his record of cover-up in Honduras, saying the Pope “defends his man” to the “bitter end,” despite the allegations against him. The same applies to McCarrick, wrote Viganò.
“He [Pope Francis] knew from at least June 23, 2013 that McCarrick was a serial predator,” Archbishop Viganò stated, but although “he knew that he was a corrupt man, he covered for him to the bitter end.”
“It was only when he was forced by the report of the abuse of a minor, again on the basis of media attention, that he took action [regarding McCarrick] to save his image in the media,” wrote Viganò.
The former U.S. nuncio wrote that Pope Francis “is abdicating the mandate which Christ gave to Peter to confirm the brethren,” and urged him to “acknowledge his mistakes” and, to “set a good example to cardinals and bishops who covered up McCarrick’s abuses and resign along with all of them.”
In comments to the media Aug. 25, Viganò said his main motivation for writing his testimony now was to“stop the suffering of the victims, to prevent new victims and to protect the Church: only the truth can make her free.”
He also said he wanted to “discharge my conscience in front of God of my responsibilities as bishop for the universal Church,” adding that he is an “old man” who wanted to present himself to God “with a clean conscience.”
“The people of God have the right to know the full truth also regarding their shepherds,” he said. “They have the right to be guided by good shepherds. In order to be able to trust them and love them, they have to know them openly, in transparency and truth, as they really are. A priest should always be a light on a candle, everywhere and for all.”
After requests from EWTN News for comment, the Vatican press office has declined to give immediate response to Viganò's letter."
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Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò
Ex-Nuncio Accuses Pope Francis of Failing to Act on McCarrick’s Abuse
by Edward Pentin
Aug. 25, 2018
"In a written testimony, Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò claims Pope Francis withdrew sanctions against Archbishop Theodore McCarrick.
In an extraordinary 11-page written testament, a former apostolic nuncio to the United States has accused several senior prelates of complicity in covering up Archbishop Theodore McCarrick’s allegations of sexual abuse, and has claimed that Pope Francis knew about sanctions imposed on then-Cardinal McCarrick by Pope Benedict XVI but chose to repeal them.
Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, 77, who served as apostolic nuncio in Washington D.C. from 2011 to 2016, said that in the late 2000s, Benedict had “imposed on Cardinal McCarrick sanctions similar to those now imposed on him by Pope Francis” and that Viganò personally told Pope Francis about those sanctions in 2013.
Archbishop Viganò said in his written statement, simultaneously released to the Register and other media, (see full text below) that Pope Francis “continued to cover” for McCarrick and not only did he “not take into account the sanctions that Pope Benedict had imposed on him” but also made McCarrick “his trusted counselor.” Viganò said that the former archbishop of Washington advised the Pope to appoint a number of bishops in the United States, including Cardinals Blase Cupich of Chicago and Joseph Tobin of Newark.
Archbishop Viganò, who said his “conscience dictates” that the truth be known as “the corruption has reached the very top of the Church’s hierarchy,” ended his testimony by calling on Pope Francis and all of those implicated in the cover up of Archbishop McCarrick’s abuse to resign.
On June 20, Vatican Secretary of State, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, on the order of Pope Francis, prohibited former Cardinal McCarrick from public ministry after an investigation by the New York archdiocese found an accusation of sexual abuse of a minor was “credible and substantiated.” That same day,the public learned that the Archdiocese of Newark and the Diocese of Metuchen in New Jersey had received three accusations of sexual misconduct involving adults against McCarrick. Since then media reports have written of victims of the abuse, spanning decades, include a teenage boy, three young priests or seminarians, and a man now in his 60s who alleges McCarrick abused him from the age of 11. The Pope later accepted McCarrick’s resignation from the College of Cardinals.
But Viganò wrote that Benedict much earlier had imposed sanctions on McCarrick “similar” to those handed down by Cardinal Parolin. “The cardinal was to leave the seminary where he was living,” Viganò said, “he was also forbidden to celebrate [Mass] in public, to participate in public meetings, to give lectures, to travel, with the obligation of dedicating himself to a life of prayer and penance.” Viganò did not document the exact date but recollected the sanction to have been applied as far back 2009 or 2010.
Benedict’s measures came years after Archbishop Viganò’s predecessors at the nunciature — Archbishops Gabriel Montalvo and Pietro Sambi — had “immediately” informed the Holy See as soon as they had learned of Archbishop McCarrick’s “gravely immoral behavior with seminarians and priests,” the retired Italian Vatican diplomat wrote.
He said Archbishop Montalvo first alerted the Vatican in 2000, requesting that Dominican Father Boniface Ramsey write to Rome confirming the allegations. In 2006, Archbishop Viganò said that, as delegate for pontifical representations in the Secretariat of State, he personally wrote a memo to his superior, then Archbishop (later Cardinal) Leonardo Sandri, proposing an “exemplary measure” be taken against McCarrick that could have a “medicinal function” to prevent future abuses and alleviate a “very serious scandal for the faithful.”
He drew on an indictment memorandum, communicated by Archbishop Sambi to Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, then Secretary of State, in which an abusive priest had made claims against McCarrick of “such gravity and vileness” including “depraved acts” and “sacrilegious celebration of the Eucharist.”
Memos Ignored
But, according to Viganò, his memo was ignored and no action was taken until the late 2000s — a delay which Archbishop Viganò claims is owed to complicity of John Paul II’s and Benedict XVI’s respective Secretaries of State, Cardinals Angelo Sodano and Tarcisio Bertone.
In 2008, Archbishop Viganò claims he wrote a second memo, this time to Cardinal Sandri’s successor as sostituto at the Secretariat of State, then Archbishop (later Cardinal) Fernando Filoni. He included a summary of research carried out by Richard Sipe, a psychotherapist and specialist in clerical sexual abuse, which Sipe had sent Benedict in the form of a statement. Viganò said he ended the memo by “repeating to my superiors that I thought it was necessary to intervene as soon as possible by removing the cardinal’s hat from Cardinal McCarrick.”
Again, according the Viganò, his request fell on deaf ears and he writes he was “greatly dismayed” that both memos were ignored until Sipe’s “courageous and meritorious” statement had “the desired result.”
“Benedict did what he had to do,” Archbishop Viganò told the Register Aug. 25, “but his collaborators — the Secretary of State and all the others — didn’t enforce it as they should have done, which led to the delay.”
“What is certain,” Viganò writes in his testimony, “is that Pope Benedict imposed the above canonical sanctions on McCarrick and that they were communicated to him by the Apostolic Nuncio to the United States, Pietro Sambi.”
The Register has independently confirmed that the allegations against McCarrick were certainly known to Benedict, and the Pope Emeritus remembers instructing Cardinal Bertone to impose measures but cannot recall their exact nature.
In 2011, on arrival in Washington D.C., Archbishop Viganò said he personally repeated the sanction to McCarrick. “The cardinal, muttering in a barely comprehensible way, admitted that he had perhaps made the mistake of sleeping in the same bed with some seminarians at his beach house, but he said this as if it had no importance,” Viganò recalled in his testimony.
In his written statement, Viganò then outlined his understanding of how, despite the allegations against him, McCarrick came to be appointed Archbishop of Washington D.C. in 2000 and how his misdeeds were covered up. His statement implicates Cardinals Angelo Sodano, Tarcisio Bertone and Pietro Parolin and he insists various other cardinals and bishops were well aware, including Cardinal Donald Wuerl, McCarrick’s successor as archbishop of Washington D.C.
“I myself brought up the subject with Cardinal Wuerl on several occasions, and I certainly didn’t need to go into detail because it was immediately clear to me that he was fully aware of it,” he wrote.
Ed McFadden, a spokesman for the Archdiocese of Washington, told CNA that Wuerl categorically denies having been informed that McCarrick’s ministry had been restricted by the Vatican.
The second half of Viganò’s testimony primarily deals with what Pope Francis knew about McCarrick, and how he acted.
He recalled meeting Cardinal McCarrick in June 2013 at the Pope’s Domus Sanctae Marthae residence, during which McCarrick told him “in a tone somewhere between ambiguous and triumphant: ‘The Pope received me yesterday; tomorrow I am going to China’” — the implication being that Francis had lifted the travel ban placed on him by Benedict. (Further evidence of this can be seen in this interview McCarrick gave the National Catholic Reporter in 2014.)
At a private meeting a few days later, Archbishop Viganò said the Pope asked him “‘What is Cardinal McCarrick like?’” to which the archbishop replied: “He corrupted generations of seminarians and priests and Pope Benedict ordered him to withdraw to a life of prayer and penance.” The former nuncio said he believes the Pope’s purpose in asking him was to “find out if I was an ally of McCarrick or not.”
Freed From Constraints
He said it was “clear” that “from the time of Pope Francis’s election, McCarrick, now free from all constraints, had felt free to travel continuously, to give lectures and interviews.”
Moreover, he added, McCarrick had “become the kingmaker for appointments in the Curia and the United States, and the most listened to advisor in the Vatican for relations with the Obama administration.”
Viganò claimed that the appointments of Cardinal Cupich to Chicago and Cardinal Joseph Tobin to Newark “were orchestrated by McCarrick,” among others. He said neither of the names was presented by the nunciature, whose job is traditionally to present a list of names, or terna, to the Congregation for Bishops. He also added that Bishop Robert McElroy’s appointment to San Diego was orchestrated “from above” rather than through the nuncio.
The retired Italian diplomat also echoed the Register’s reports about Cardinal Rodriguez Maradíaga and his record of cover-up in Honduras, saying the Pope “defends his man” to the “bitter end,” despite the allegations against him. The same applies to McCarrick, wrote Viganò.
“He [Pope Francis] knew from at least June 23, 2013 that McCarrick was a serial predator,” Archbishop Viganò stated, but although “he knew that he was a corrupt man, he covered for him to the bitter end.”
“It was only when he was forced by the report of the abuse of a minor, again on the basis of media attention, that he took action [regarding McCarrick] to save his image in the media,” wrote Viganò.
The former U.S. nuncio wrote that Pope Francis “is abdicating the mandate which Christ gave to Peter to confirm the brethren,” and urged him to “acknowledge his mistakes” and, to “set a good example to cardinals and bishops who covered up McCarrick’s abuses and resign along with all of them.”
In comments to the media Aug. 25, Viganò said his main motivation for writing his testimony now was to“stop the suffering of the victims, to prevent new victims and to protect the Church: only the truth can make her free.”
He also said he wanted to “discharge my conscience in front of God of my responsibilities as bishop for the universal Church,” adding that he is an “old man” who wanted to present himself to God “with a clean conscience.”
“The people of God have the right to know the full truth also regarding their shepherds,” he said. “They have the right to be guided by good shepherds. In order to be able to trust them and love them, they have to know them openly, in transparency and truth, as they really are. A priest should always be a light on a candle, everywhere and for all.”
After requests from EWTN News for comment, the Vatican press office has declined to give immediate response to Viganò's letter."
Editors' note: This story was updated after publication to reflect a statement provided to CNA from the Archiocese of Washington spokesman Ed McFadden. The Vatican's decline to comment was also added.
Also note: Testimony of His Excellency Carlo Maria Viganò, Titular Archbishop of Ulpiana, Apostolic Nuncio is also posted at the bottom of source page.
Source page: http://www.ncregister.com/daily-news/ex-nuncio-accuses-pope-francis-of-failing-to-act-on-mccarricks-abuse
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And a reminder to all members to please take their meds before posting ...
Korla Pandit - Miserlou
And a reminder to all members to please take their meds before posting ...
Korla Pandit - Miserlou
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True Facts: Bobbit Worm and Polychaete Pals
Published on Aug 17, 2018
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Pair find heart-wrenching message in a bottle in river ...
"A dad and son are looking for the author of a mysterious message in a bottle found in the River Thames in UK.
James Herring and son Jack were on a power-boating trip on the Thames last Saturday when they noticed the turquoise-colored bottle floating in the water near Battersea Bridge in London.
After 12-year-old Jack was handed the bottle by the boating instructor, he opened it and revealed the message inside.
It read: “To whoever sees this message – This is in memory of a dear son and brother who died of a broken heart, two years after his beloved Lisa.
“He loved her so, so much. They had a passion for travel and one of their favorite songs was ‘Somewhere beyond the sea.’
“So this is your final adventure, Jon, your last journey to paradise, and Lisa waiting on those Golden Sands – together forever.”
It continues, “If you would light a candle for them that would be wonderful and smile.
“Knowing they are now at rest, finding peace.
“Thank you XX,” it ends."
"Since finding the message, Herring, 45, and his son have been eager to find out more about the couple and where the bottle came from.
They took to social media to find answers, with Herring tweeting a photo of the bottle along with this message: “Hello Twitter. Long shot but today we found a message in a bottle on the Thames.
“Anyone who knows this Jon and Lisa? Or who wrote the note?
“I’d like them to know we just lit the candle and played their tune. #messageinabottle #somewherebeyondthesea.”
The tweet is becoming popular on Twitter with over 2,000 likes and almost 3,500 replies of support and further pleas for information.
Speaking to the Evening Standard, Herring, co-founder of PR firm Taylor Herring, said: “I told Jack to wait till we were back home to open it but excitement got the better of him and he cracked the seal and rolled out the note onto a dry life jacket.”
He added: “On reading the note he had so many questions about Jon and Lisa and their song.
“Jack wanted to know. How did he die? How did she die? Can you actually die of a broken heart?
“In the car on the way home he searched up ‘Somewhere Beyond The Sea’ on my Spotify account and we both listened.
“Once we got home we lit a candle for them both – as the sender of the note had requested.”
It’s been a week and the dad and son duo are yet to find any answers. But Herring said, “We have both been touched by the thousands of people who’ve shared the tweet and tried to solve the mystery.
“Who knows one day maybe someone will get in touch.”
Beyond The Sea
By Bobby Darin
Source page: https://nypost.com/2018/08/29/pair-find-heart-wrenching-message-in-a-bottle-in-river/[/b][/b]
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It's hard to resist ... 
Reuben the Bulldog: The Dog Always Wins
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Reuben the Bulldog: The Dog Always Wins
Published on Aug 29, 2018
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The battles and backstories ...
Secrets of the Royal Family
Richard Syrett with lawyer/author Sarah Whalen
"Was Princess Diana murdered? Yes, she was. That part is easily seen. But by whom? And to what purpose? In her book Royal Vengeance, author Sarah Whalen answers all these questions and more, and reveals ritual sacrifices the British Monarchy have been hiding for centuries; such as, two of Henry the VIII's wives who were falsely accused then subsequently beheaded. She draws her conclusions from the three inquests that looked into Diana's death. Sarah Whalen's book, "Royal Vengeance": https://www.amazon.ca/Royal-Vengeance-Assassination-Princess-Sacrifice/dp/1634241487/
The Conspiracy Show With Richard Syrett
Recorded Aug 26, 2018 - Published on Aug 30, 2018
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The battles and backstories ...
Secrets of the Royal Family
Richard Syrett with lawyer/author Sarah Whalen
"Was Princess Diana murdered? Yes, she was. That part is easily seen. But by whom? And to what purpose? In her book Royal Vengeance, author Sarah Whalen answers all these questions and more, and reveals ritual sacrifices the British Monarchy have been hiding for centuries; such as, two of Henry the VIII's wives who were falsely accused then subsequently beheaded. She draws her conclusions from the three inquests that looked into Diana's death. Sarah Whalen's book, "Royal Vengeance": https://www.amazon.ca/Royal-Vengeance-Assassination-Princess-Sacrifice/dp/1634241487/
The Conspiracy Show With Richard Syrett
Recorded Aug 26, 2018 - Published on Aug 30, 2018
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My robot makes me feel like I haven't been forgotten'
"Internet-connected robots that can stream audio and video are increasingly helping housebound sick children and elderly people keep in touch with teachers, family and friends, combating the scourge of isolation and loneliness" ... Read more here: https://www.bbc.com/news/business-45332710
*My robot makes me feel like I haven't been forgotten'
"Internet-connected robots that can stream audio and video are increasingly helping housebound sick children and elderly people keep in touch with teachers, family and friends, combating the scourge of isolation and loneliness" ... Read more here: https://www.bbc.com/news/business-45332710
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A wistful disclaimer ...
“I look forward to my client’s day in court, as it is getting harder and harder to pretend he is innocent.”
“I look forward to my client’s day in court, as it is getting harder and harder to pretend he is innocent.”
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Systemic Coercion
Max Igan
Surviving the Matrix - Episode 347 -
American Voice Radio, August 31st, 2018
thecrowhouse
Published on Aug 31, 2018
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The Morality & Ethics of Rumor and Conjecture in Conspiracy Land
"I am C.W. Chanter. I am right just and true ...
Follow me now, for I lead you to glorious times."
Streamed live - 9/1/2018
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The Morality & Ethics of Rumor and Conjecture in Conspiracy Land
"I am C.W. Chanter. I am right just and true ...
Follow me now, for I lead you to glorious times."
Streamed live - 9/1/2018
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Summer's Almost Gone
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Summer's Almost Gone
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Astronomy Headed Toward Collision with Reality?
"Space is a big place. One might think that within that unfathomable vastness, for objects to suffer the same fate as automobiles in busy traffic would be an exceedingly rare occurrence. Nevertheless, a cosmic collision is a process that astronomers and astrophysicists routinely propose to try to explain countless data at all scales throughout the cosmos. This is, in fact, the ad hoc theory astronomers have proposed to try to explain the surprising commonness of double-lobed comets and asteroids. In this episode, we explore both the incredible improbability of such collisions and the alternative explanations the Electric Universe offers" ...
ThunderboltsProject
Published on Sep 1, 2018
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Here and Gone ... 
Burning Man 2018
"Burning Man 2018 takes place August 26 – September 3, 2018 in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada. Participants join in the effort to co-create Black Rock City, a temporary metropolis dedicated to art and community ...
Burning Man isn’t your usual festival. It’s a city wherein almost everything that happens is created entirely by its citizens, who are active participants in the experience" ...
'A quick iPhone hyperlapse of Burning Man art from 2018'
Mark Day
Published on Sep 2, 2018
2:14 minutes
This years highlighted Mirrored Orb and Companion
More photo's Here: https://www.boredpanda.com/burning-man-2018/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=organic
Burning Man 2018
"Burning Man 2018 takes place August 26 – September 3, 2018 in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada. Participants join in the effort to co-create Black Rock City, a temporary metropolis dedicated to art and community ...
Burning Man isn’t your usual festival. It’s a city wherein almost everything that happens is created entirely by its citizens, who are active participants in the experience" ...
'A quick iPhone hyperlapse of Burning Man art from 2018'
Mark Day
Published on Sep 2, 2018
2:14 minutes
This years highlighted Mirrored Orb and Companion
More photo's Here: https://www.boredpanda.com/burning-man-2018/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=organic
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An amazing reunion ...
Brandon Seminatore was born at Stanford Children's Hospital at just 29-weeks gestation,
and was cared for in the NICU nurse Vilma Wong in 1990.
California nurse meets baby she helped save 28 years ago – and he's a doctor
"A California nurse who never forgot a premature baby she cared for early in her career has been reunited with her patient – now a doctor at the same hospital where he was born 28 years ago.
Stanford's Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital, in a post that exploded on Facebook, says Vilma Wong recognized pediatric resident Brandon Seminatore's name when he was doing rounds at the hospital in San Jose.
Seminatore was born at the hospital's neonatal intensive care unit 29 weeks into his mother's pregnancy. He weighed a little more than 2 pounds.
"Fast forward nearly 30 years, and Vilma recognized Brandon’s name while he was rounding at our hospital. What a memory!" the Facebook post says.
Wong, 54, told The Mercury News she saw someone visiting with patients who had not checked in at the nurse station. She asked him who he was and thought his name sounded familiar. She pressed him, and he said he was born a preemie in the same hospital.
She thought she remembered him and asked him whether his father was a police officer.
“There was a big silence,’’ she said, "Then he asked if I was Vilma.’’
Seminatore spent 40 days in NICU as an infant, checking out a healthy 5 pounds, 2 ounces. Wong says he has the same dark eyes and alert expression.
Wong says she loves her work and has no plans to retire. Having the opportunity later in life to meet a baby she had nurtured makes the job even better, she said.
“As a nurse,’’ she said, “it’s kind of like your reward.’’
The hospital's Facebook post drew more than 700 comments, hundreds of them from parents and fellow health care professionals lauding Wong's skill and dedication.
"Vilma was my daughter's primary nurse, I just simply love her!!!" wrote Monica Rodriguez Regalado. "She has a very special place in our hearts!!!"
Seminatore told the Mercury News he doesn't know for sure whether his rocky early weeks played a role in his decision to become a healer. But he was impressed by Wong.
“Meeting Vilma was a surreal experience,’’ he said. “She cares deeply for her patients, to the point that she was able to remember a patient’s name almost three decades later.’’
Source page: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2018/09/03/nurse-meets-baby-she-helped-save-28-years-later-and-hes-doctor/1184421002/
Brandon Seminatore was born at Stanford Children's Hospital at just 29-weeks gestation,
and was cared for in the NICU nurse Vilma Wong in 1990.
California nurse meets baby she helped save 28 years ago – and he's a doctor
"A California nurse who never forgot a premature baby she cared for early in her career has been reunited with her patient – now a doctor at the same hospital where he was born 28 years ago.
Stanford's Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital, in a post that exploded on Facebook, says Vilma Wong recognized pediatric resident Brandon Seminatore's name when he was doing rounds at the hospital in San Jose.
Seminatore was born at the hospital's neonatal intensive care unit 29 weeks into his mother's pregnancy. He weighed a little more than 2 pounds.
"Fast forward nearly 30 years, and Vilma recognized Brandon’s name while he was rounding at our hospital. What a memory!" the Facebook post says.
Wong, 54, told The Mercury News she saw someone visiting with patients who had not checked in at the nurse station. She asked him who he was and thought his name sounded familiar. She pressed him, and he said he was born a preemie in the same hospital.
She thought she remembered him and asked him whether his father was a police officer.
“There was a big silence,’’ she said, "Then he asked if I was Vilma.’’
Seminatore spent 40 days in NICU as an infant, checking out a healthy 5 pounds, 2 ounces. Wong says he has the same dark eyes and alert expression.
Wong says she loves her work and has no plans to retire. Having the opportunity later in life to meet a baby she had nurtured makes the job even better, she said.
“As a nurse,’’ she said, “it’s kind of like your reward.’’
The hospital's Facebook post drew more than 700 comments, hundreds of them from parents and fellow health care professionals lauding Wong's skill and dedication.
"Vilma was my daughter's primary nurse, I just simply love her!!!" wrote Monica Rodriguez Regalado. "She has a very special place in our hearts!!!"
Seminatore told the Mercury News he doesn't know for sure whether his rocky early weeks played a role in his decision to become a healer. But he was impressed by Wong.
“Meeting Vilma was a surreal experience,’’ he said. “She cares deeply for her patients, to the point that she was able to remember a patient’s name almost three decades later.’’
"Brandon Seminatore was born at Stanford Children's Hospital at just 29-weeks gestation and was cared for in the NICU nurse Vilma Wong in 1990. Now he's a second-year pediatric neurology resident at Lucile Packard ChildrenÕs Hospital"
Source page: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2018/09/03/nurse-meets-baby-she-helped-save-28-years-later-and-hes-doctor/1184421002/
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♪ Here it comes ♪
New book reveals a ‘nervous breakdown’ of Trump’s presidency
Read more: https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation-politics/new-book-reveals-a-nervous-breakdown-of-trumps-presidency/
19th Nervous Breakdown
Rolling Stones
New book reveals a ‘nervous breakdown’ of Trump’s presidency
Read more: https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation-politics/new-book-reveals-a-nervous-breakdown-of-trumps-presidency/
19th Nervous Breakdown
Rolling Stones
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Bob Woodward: Insiders Call The White House 'Crazytown'
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Published on Sep 4, 2018
11:08 minutes
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Continuing ...
Walking Around Athens & Talking About Greece
Gabriel Traveler
Published on Sep 4, 2018
27:44 minutes
Walking Around Athens & Talking About Greece
Gabriel Traveler
Published on Sep 4, 2018
27:44 minutes
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Speaking of travel ... 
Tech Titans Plot Their Doomsday Escape to New Zealand Luxury Bunkers
Check it all out here: https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2018-rich-new-zealand-doomsday-preppers/
Tech Titans Plot Their Doomsday Escape to New Zealand Luxury Bunkers
Check it all out here: https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2018-rich-new-zealand-doomsday-preppers/