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Cult

Patriarchal Catholic Church and the Great Nunquisition

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© Seth Perlman, AP
Today's generation of nuns are progressive women, two things the Church isn't used to.

Nuns are an endangered species. They are dying and not being replaced.

If you think the news is bad now, a world without nuns would be a far worse place. The nuns that I know are much too humble to tout their achievements and all of the good they contribute to society, but make no mistake, they are an integral part of the fabric that holds our civilization together.

In 2014 there were just 49,883 religious Catholic sisters in the United States, down 13% percent from 2010 according to figures from the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate. To put it in greater perspective, that is a 72% decline since 1965.

Black Cat

Systemic child abuse: British boarding schools reporting an epidemic of sex abuse claims

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At lights out one Sunday evening within weeks of starting at his senior school, Joel Shaw was "stripped, sexually assaulted and publicly humiliated by my housemaster jeered on by loads of my peers", he recalls bitterly. It resulted, he claims, in him being remorselessly taunted as being this master's 'Bum­Boy', a nickname seared into his memory and one that dogged him throughout his school career.

"I want an apology," says Joel (not his real name). He has recently made a claim for damages against the boarding school where he was allegedly abused nearly 30 years ago at the age of 13. "I want an acknowledgement abuse happened and also recognition of how it affected me."

The taunting - publicly, vocally, and therefore known to other staff at the school - only reinforced his feelings of anger and shame at what he says was done to him. He remains conflicted about the close relationship he subsequently developed with the teacher, who, he says, took pains to nurture his enthusiasms and helped shape his deep appreciation of the arts. The confusion for a teenager was agonising, he says, and, as a man, the shame remains.

Last year, to Shaw's horror, his alleged abuser emailed him at his place of work, "asking whether I'd care to 'indulge in some nostalgic reminiscences'", he says.

"I broke out into a cold sweat, given the abuse that he'd subjected me to as a new boarder. This is only conjecture, but I think he liked me, and wanted to revive good memories of times we spent in his living room when we put the school magazine together, drinking lager, listening to his amazing classical music collection," says Shaw.

Feeling shaken, furious and shocked by the approach "out of the blue, after so many years", Shaw made a complaint to police. His old housemaster was questioned but there will be no criminal prosecution: he is the only complainant and under the legislation in force at the time, the type of abuse he was subjected to is not covered.

Comment: The UK has a culture of paedophilia in high places. It's not surprising that elite boarding schools are now being outed for abusing children. What better place for pedophiles to prey on children, where they are away from the watchful eyes of parents? As Tony Gosling writes for RT, the problem is systemic and inquiries are set up to fail. The child abusers run free. Make no mistake, these are the same people running western civilization into the ground, fomenting chaos in the Middle East, and demonizing Putin to clear the way for criminal oligarchy and psychopathic license.

UK government ignored warnings about pedophiles: "There's too many of them"
Rotherham UK: Den of paedophilia covered up by a corrupt system
Gatekeepers attempt to erase pedophilia: BBC and gov't operatives still hoping to stop hemorrhaging of public confidence
Leading British opposition party politicians under investigation for channeling public funds to elite pedophile network


Megaphone

Protesters speak with one voice: NATO poses the threat to world stability and peaceful relations


Some 400 people have joined a protest camp in Newport to protest against NATO. The march comes ahead of next week's military summit that will see 60 world leaders descend on the area and is already causing considerable disruption to locals.

"Nuclear NATO - no, thanks!" or "Iraq, Ukraine - no more wars" read the numerous placards as about 400 protesters took in a march on Saturday against the upcoming NATO summit.

The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament said that they expect Saturday's march to be a "major demonstration" and local officials have said a number of roads will be affected by the march, which began at 2 pm local time.

The campaigners are organizing a week of marches and meetings against NATO as well as a "peace camp" and a Counter Summit to take place on the campsite on Sunday. The NATO summit is to run at the Celtic Manor resort on the outskirts of Newport on the 4th and 5th September.

Comment: NATO is the real aggressor, not Russia: Western aggression: US-NATO to deploy ground troops, conduct large scale naval exercises against "Unnamed Enemy"


Stormtrooper

'I want to cut your throat': British MP Galloway recalls being brutally beaten by pro-Israeli fanatic for standing up for Gaza

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George Galloway after the attack
In his first TV interview after release from hospital, British MP George Galloway told RT he is surprised by the lack of condemnation from other UK politicians of the brutal attack on him. The assault by a pro-Israeli man left Galloway in much pain.

Galloway, 60, was brutally beaten in Notting Hill, London last Friday allegedly for his views on the conflict in Gaza.

"It's very painful to walk, to move, even to speak because I sustained a dislocated jaw, quite bad head injuries, and very badly cracked ribs," he said.

He said the attack occurred during broad daylight, when he was in the street around 19:30.

"Unlucky for me, there weren't many people around. Though, luckily for me as it turned out none of my small children were there to witness what happened next," he said. "I was posing for a picture with two Moroccan gentlemen who have a business in the street. And whilst I was posing for that picture, out of nowhere - dressed in an Israeli Defense Force shirt, complete with logo - came a man charging at me, cursing and swearing and shouting support for Israel and opposition to my views on Israel. Then a torrent of punches and kicks [followed] - which is admitted in court today though he has pled not guilty to the charge that it was religiously aggravated."

Heart - Black

UK version of Justina Pelletier case? Family arrested for fleeing to Spain to seek alternative treatment for sons' brain tumor

Aysha King
© AP Photo/Hampshire PoliceFile photo issued by Hampshire Police on Monday Sept. 1, 2014 of Ashya King
The parents say they want to give their 5 year-old-boy with a brain tumor the best chance to live with a revolutionary new treatment they learned about on the Internet. Their British hospital says the boy has a 70 percent to 80 percent chance of survival with the treatment it offers, and it's the parents who are putting the child at risk.

Britain has become riveted by the case of little Ashya King, whose parents plucked him from a hospital in southern England and fled to Spain amid a dispute over treatment - with British justice close on the family's heels.

Brett and Naghemeh King signaled Monday they would fight extradition, defying doctors and the legal system as a British court considers a ruling on forcing the family to come home.

"I'm not coming back to England if I cannot give him the treatment I want, which is proper treatment," Brett King said as he cradled the child in a video posted before his arrest. "I just want positive results for my son."

The Kings are seeking a new type of proton beam radiation therapy that typically costs at least $33,000. The Southampton General Hospital says that more conventional methods have a very high chance of succeeding. It said that while proton beam therapy is effective for some tumors, in other cases "there isn't evidence that this is a beneficial treatment."

Comment: This case is similar to that of Justina Pelletier, where the hospital and police have decided that they know what is best for children and are willing to kidnap children and arrest parents for daring to disagree with a diagnosis or treatment protocol. It's becoming frightfully obvious that the State wishes to eliminate parental rights. So we have now entered a new era of medical blackmail where some are finding the hard way how few rights they have and how fascist their medical "care" system really is.

Justina Pelletier's family promises to sue Massachusetts for abducting their daughter
Ashya King case: Missing boy with brain tumor alive in Spain, parents arrested


Arrow Up

Wishful thinking? Putin hopes common sense prevails and West cooperates to end sanctions war

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© RIA Novosti / Alexey NikolskySeptember 1, 2014. Russian President Vladimir Putin
Russian President Vladimir Putin has said he hopes Russia and the west can return to normal cooperation from the current mutually damaging "war of sanctions," as Europe ponders whether it should go further in penalizing Moscow.

"Concerning limitations in trade and economic activity, at the end those who are implementing this policy will suffer most of the harm," Putin said, speaking at a meeting Monday devoted to supporting investment projects in Russia's Far East.

"I hope that common sense prevails and we will work in a normal, modern way," he added. "And that neither we nor our partners suffer losses from these mutual pinpricks."

Earlier Monday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said he believed it was still possible to return to "pragmatic cooperation" between Russia and the West.

"But for that, we need to abandon the futile policy of ultimatums, threats and sanctions," Lavrov said.

By imposing sanctions, the US and the EU are simply pushing Russia toward shifting its cooperation priorities from the West to the East, he added.

Comment: The West would do well to heed Putin's conciliatory comments, however they are woefully adept at cutting off their noses to spite their faces, so it's questionable at this point if common sense will prevail:

Sanctions blowback: US shoots itself in foot again and the money goes to China
More sanctions blowback: EU countries whine that Russian food embargo is hurting their economies
Sanctions against Russia starting to backfire, particularly in Germany


Target

Radio show host Mike Malloy tries to discuss Israel-Palestine conflict with zionists

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Watch: US broadcaster Mike Malloy wipes the floor with Israel apologists


Reasoning with a Zionist is an oxymoron. It is as self-contradictory as saying something is falsely true.

This, we have no doubt, is the conclusion everyone who has tried to have a rational, fact-based debate with Zionists would have drawn.

If that is also your experience - or if you have never had the misfortune of debating with a Zionist - then you will want to listen to the two short clips below from Mike Malloy's radio show.

For those who don't know him, Malloy is a self-syndicated American radio broadcasterfrom Atlanta, Georgia, who describes himself as "a traditional liberal democrat doing his part to return the Democratic Party to its liberal roots".

In this clip, he routs a Zionist caller who uses the jaded argument that Israel, the aggressor and occupier, has a right to defend its ill-gotten gains.

Comment: The are a few reasons why Mike Malloy - or anyone for that matter - cannot explain to or enlighten zionists as to why Binyamin Netanyahu and the government of Israel are behaving psychopathically. The first is that most zionists are programmed from a very early age to believe that Israel must defend itself; that's to say that Israel must defend itself, and, also, Israel must defend itself. In other words, Israel must defend itself. That's it. There is NOTHING - ever, provided in the way of objective facts or a true history of the conflict to let them understand that the Palestinians were, and still are, victims of a very systematic program of Ethnic Cleansing.

Secondly, the pathological programming that is zionism is hard-wired. This means that most people would have to undergo a great deal of mental and emotional pain to even bring themselves to the point of being receptive to the idea that they may be wrong about what they believe. How many people are willing to undergo such pain since it is so much easier to go with what they 'know' and remain comfortable with the programs they've lived with for so long?


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Stop NATO!: Anti-militarist protest gains momentum in Wales ahead of summit


Hundreds of people have gathered in Wales for the second day running to march through the center of Cardiff and Newport in an anti-NATO rally ahead of the alliance's upcoming summit.

Organized by the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, the Stop the War Coalition and South West against Nuclear, protesters gathered to state that 150 heads of state and ministers heading to the Celtic Manor Resort on Thursday and Friday will not be welcomed.

Black Magic

BigPharma manufacturers of addictive painkillers providing financial support to 'anti-drug' coalitions to prevent marijuana legalization

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BigPharma wants to keeps its drug profits and is countering the movement to legalize marijuana
Patrick Kennedy, son of the late Senator Ted Kennedy, did several stints in rehab after crashing his car into a barricade on Capitol Hill in 2006, a headline-making event that revealed the then - US congressman for Rhode Island had been abusing prescription drugs, including the painkiller OxyContin. Kennedy went on to make mental health - including substance abuse - a cornerstone of his political agenda, and he is reportedly at work on a memoir about his struggles with addiction and mental illness. In 2013, he also helped found an advocacy group, Project SAM (Smart Approaches to Marijuana), which has barnstormed the country opposing the growing state and federal efforts to legalize pot.

Taking the stage to rousing applause last February, Kennedy joined more than 2,000 opponents of marijuana legalization a few miles south of Washington, DC, at the annual convention of the Community Anti-Drug Coalition of America (CADCA), one of the largest such organizations in the country.

"Let me tell you, there is nothing more inconsistent with trying to improve mental health and reduce substance-abuse disorders in this country than to legalize a third drug," Kennedy boomed. The former congressman also praised his fellow speakers for standing up to the "extremist responses" from legalization advocates.

Given that CADCA is dedicated to protecting society from dangerous drugs, the event that day had a curious sponsor: Purdue Pharma, the manufacturer of Oxy-Contin, the highly addictive painkiller that nearly ruined Kennedy's congressional career and has been linked to thousands of overdose deaths nationwide.

Prescription opioids, a line of pain-relieving medications derived from the opium poppy or produced synthetically, are the most dangerous drugs abused in America, with more than 16,000 deaths annually linked to opioid addiction and overdose. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report that more Americans now die from painkillers than from heroin and cocaine combined. The recent uptick in heroin use around the country has been closely linked to the availability of prescription opioids, which give their users a similar high and can trigger a heroin craving in recovering addicts. (Notably, there are no known deaths related to marijuana, although there have been instances of impaired driving.)


Comment: For organizations who claim to have the interests of society at heart by countering drug addiction, the fact that their financial support derives from the makers of some of the most deadly narcotics that kill more than heroin and cocaine combined is jaw-dropping!


Comment: While we don't recommend the use of any drugs, it must be stated that these organizations attempting to prevent the legalization of a relatively harmless substance while promoting the use of drugs that have unleashed an ongoing epidemic of addiction and deaths, is completely psychopathic!

Updated tally of all the people who have ever died from a marijuana overdose (Hint: it's less than 1 and more than -1)
In 13 "medical pot" states nearly 25 percent lower opioid painkiller overdose deaths
Let's end the prescription drug death epidemic


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'Paranoid' FL divorce judge accused of punishing woman who refused Facebook 'friend' request

Judge Linda Schoonover
© via official Florida court webpageJudge Linda Schoonover
A Florida judge who is being investigated for sending a Facebook "friend" request to a woman whose expensive divorce case she was deciding is asking the state's Judicial Qualifications Commission to dismiss the charges against her, The Orlando Sentinel reports.

In an August 25, 2014 hearing, Circuit Judge Linda Schoonover was charged with three dozen counts of improper conduct. Schoonover claims that all the charges should be dismissed because three allegations were removed from official court documents, which she believes means the Judicial Qualifications Commission needs to formally restart its entire investigation.

The charges stem from behavior that fellow lawyers and judges described to The Orlando Sentinel as "bizarre," "inexplicable," "disruptive," and "paranoid."

For example, Schoonover secretly installed a camera in chambers because she believed employees at the courthouse had bugged her office, and she wanted to record video of them retrieving the recording equipment. She contacted the Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) and turned over the video. The FDLE reported that there were men in the crawl space above her courtroom, but they were heating and air conditioning contractors.

She also punished a local real-estate agent with a harsh debt and property ruling after the woman refused her Facebook "friend" request. Schoonover is also accused of refusing to listen to the testimony of a litigant because "he annoyed her."

Russell Hershkowitz, who is one of 17 lawyers whose cases Schoonover is barred from hearing, said that "she's got too much power and lacks the ability to control herself."