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Speaking about civilization, I only see a continuation of violence against people, against societies and nations against nations during humanities continual evolution into the future. How sad for young people to have to experience that kind of a life. I see very little redeemable qualities in the repression of the human free-spirit within these evolving authoritarian societies, which will only lead to chaos, on top of more chaos. Even the so-called emerging global society, is fraught with corruption, lies, deceit and greed, which with their lust for power, had been high-jacked by the globalization leaders with its self apointed power that it drives any free-spirited person further away from such a society and lifestyle. A global society very much like that which had been depicted by George Orwell in his 1949 novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four. A global society where people will be living in a totally regulated totalitarian regime, in which people had willingly helped to bring about, through their own initiatives. A global society in which will be split into roughly three parts, that of Europia, Euasia, and Americana. Where people will be subjugated to the global masters, the overseers and enforcers, and its citizens (sub-human druids), will become its minions, their production slaves.
March 8th, 2009; Well Journal, during the past few days, we had spring like weather with temperatures around the 2-4 °C mark. This morning we have overcast skies with temperatures around the -15°C with wind coming from the North at 19km/h making it feel like it is -24°C outside. I must not forget to move the clocks ahead 1 hour for the Daylight Saving Time. Frankly, I think this moving the clock ahead and back one hour if full of crap. All it does is disrupt one's normal sleep pattern. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton during her weeklong Asian tour appealed to the Beijing government to keep up its purchases of US treasury notes or risk the onset of an even deeper economic crisis which will effect China as well as the USA. As President Barack Obama chief foreign policy representative, Hillary Clinton assumed her role as an official high-pressure bond saleswoman. Her aim was to convince China to keep investing its foreign exchange reserves in US treasury securities in order to help finance the bailout of failing US banks and pay for the $787 billion US stimulus package. The US treasury has indicated it must raise nearly $500 billion in the first quarter of this year alone. Her Asian tour also took her to Japan, South Korea and Indonesia. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke in testimony to the Senate Banking Committee, said that "the economy is likely to keep shrinking in the first six months of this year. Housing, credit and financial crises, the worst since the 1930's has plunged the economy into its worst slide during the end of last year". Despite all of the economic stimulation packages that is being deployed, I really wonder if it can break the vicious cycle in the economy's downturn. Even Finance Minister Jim Flaherty says Canadians should expect a "continuing deterioration" of employment figures for much of this year before the Conservative budget can turn around the country's economic fortunes and create jobs. The recession or depression, which had started in December 2007, has already killed thousands of jobs. With the disappearing jobs, people are loosing their homes, and people are seeing a drop in the market value on their homes, while municipal taxes on people's homes keep going up, not to mention that people's nest egg is shrinking, which are forcing consumers to cut back sharply on their spending, which is only worsening the economy's downturn tailspin. I have no doubt that the police force will see an increase in home and business break-in's and armed muggings if the economic situation do not inprove by next year. That will no doubt put an acute strain on our court and prison system.
Last week, a news item had caused me to ponder about my own level of sanity. The news item was about Vincent Li, the person who had killed, beheaded and cannibalized 22-year-old Tim McLean, who was a bus passenger on board the Greyhound bus that Li had been riding in last summer. According to news reports about Vincent Li trial, Psychiatrist had deemed that Li was schizophrenic. According to psychiatric diagnosis, schizophrenia is a mental disorder characterized by abnormalities in the perception or expression of reality. It most commonly manifests as auditory and or visual hallucinations, paranoid or bizarre delusions, or disorganized speech and thinking with significant social or occupational dysfunction. Vincent Li believed he was acting on God's orders to eliminate "the force of evil". Li believed that 22-year-old Tim McLean was going to "execute" him if he didn't act fast. This was the reason given why Li had attacked Tim McLean, who was sleeping in the next seat to LI. Vincent Li had to further decapitate and defile McLean's body because Li believed McLean had supernatural powers and would come back to life to finish Li off. I have no doubt that Vincent Li has a major psychotic mental health problem, given what had transpired on the Greyhound bus last summer. This mental disorder of schizophrenia got me to ponder about my own mental state of mind. I say this because I have heard GOD speak to me. It was the sole reason which led me to write the Holy Testament. But if I am schizophrenic, then so are all the people that is written about in the Jewish Torah and the Christian bible who had claimed to have heard from GOD. People like Abraham, Moses, Samual, Isaiah, Ezekiel, Jonah, David, Yeshua, and Mohammad must have been suffering from schizophrenia. In other words, do that mean that sane people are putting their trust in people who had auditory and visual hallucinations like Abraham, Moses, Samual, Isaiah, Ezekiel, Jonah, David, Yeshua, and Mohammad? The Torah and the Christian bible are full of people that Psychiatrist would deem to have been schizophrenic. So what are Psychiatrists telling people? That anybody who hears GOD speak to them are schizophrenic? That these people are suffering from some form of mental disorder? These are interesting questions to ponder upon. According to Psychiatrist then, there is no GOD, or that GOD is incapable to speak to human beings. Because if any person should hear GOD speak to them, they are delusional and must have some mental health disorder according to their
reasoning. This is a classic catch 22 situation. I know that Psychiatrist have
good reason to deem people who claim to have heard or had visual hallucinations from a fictitious, man-made God. Psychiatrist have also good reason to deem Christian priests, protestant preachers and Christian believers are suffering from schizophrenia when they claim to have heard or had visual hallucinations of their fictitious, man-made God, Je-Zeus Christ or had auditory and visual hallucinations of the Virgin Mary, Satan the devil, or claim to see or be possesed by demons. These are what I would call true examples of auditory and visual hallucinations of the mind.
March 9th, 2009; This morning it is cloudy with
cold temperatures hovering around the -13°C mark, though it is expected to warm up to -4°C by mid-day. Once again we are hearing that impoverished Muslim
mothers are selling their daughters to the sex trade. The youngest daughters,
some who are just 11 and 12 years old, fetch a good price and are sold for as
much as $30,000. while those daughters who are around 20 years of age are sold
for as little as $2,000. The buying and selling of these young girls in Iraq is just like selling livestock, according to Time news reports. Muslim mothers will even haggle with the sex agents over the price of their teenage daughters. These girls are sold mostly to Muslim countries like Syria, Jordan and the United Arab Emirates. The victims are brought to Syria, Jordan and the United Arab Emirates illegally on forged passports, or are legally transported through forced marriages. A married female, even one as young as 11 to 14 years of age raises few eyebrows or suspicion, if she's traveling with her husband in a Muslim country. When the girls arrive to their destination, the girls are then divorced upon arrival, and put to work as sex slaves. To think that Muslims claim to believe in GOD, and consider themselves to be religious, is not only a blatant lie, it is an atrocity against GOD and humanity. Is there no limit to their treachery?
I had thought that the fight between Northern Ireland's Protestants and
Catholics was over. After years of calm between Protestants and Catholics, the
shooting at a Massereene army base in Antrim, north of Belfast, had killed two
young soldiers and had seriously injured four others, including two civilians.
Police say the soldiers came under attack when they stepped out to collect a
pizza delivery. It is apparent that the gunmen were intent on killing the
soldiers. After the gunmen had fired their initial shots, they approached the
soldiers, some of whom were wounded and lying on the ground, and shot them a
second time. The group responsible for the attack is called the "Real IRA",
members of a dissident "Republican group" who oppose the power-sharing between
Northern Ireland's Protestant and Catholic political parties. The "Real IRA" was responsible for the Omagh bomb which had claimed 29 lives in 1998, which was one of Northern Ireland's bloodiest bombings in the 30-year conflict.
A robbery suspect was shot dead after a shootout with police had occurred in Ottawa's east end on Friday. The shooting took place when several police
officers were sent to a reported armed robbery at a TD Bank late in the evening. Police officers had spotted a male suspect fleeing the area on foot and shots were fired. The robbery suspect is reported to have been 24 years old. He has not been identified. Witnesses said he was wearing a mask. Ontario's Special Investigations Unit, a civilian agency, is investigating the shooting, as it does every time police officers are present in cases where injuries or death occur. Being a police officer in this day and age is getting to be a very dangerous business, despite all the gun laws and regulations that people have to contend with. Is it any wonder why police officer might be edgy and do not want to take unnecessary risks when confronting a gunman? These officers really put their lives on the line to protect society from the scum's of the earth.
March 10th, 2009; A major weather warning for New
Liskeard and Temagami is being issued today. Strong damaging winds is expected
to sweep across southern Ontario regions. Environment Canada's Official Weather Warnings stated that An intense Colorado low pressure system will strengthen as it sweeps across the Great Lakes late this evening and moves through central and northeastern Ontario by Wednesday morning. This major snowstorm system will bring periods of heavy snow and blizzard conditions tonight affecting Moosonee, Moose Factory, Fort Albany, Attawapiskat, Kapuskasing, Hearst, Timmings and Kirkland Lake. Heavy rain with strong winds are expected in southern regions, as a warm front associated with the storm system approaches. Strong winds associated with the deepening low pressure system will be triggered by a fast moving cold front moving from west to east Wednesday. The cold front will arrive over western regions late overnight with average winds increasing to 60 km/h. Along the front winds will gust to 90 km/h. A few locations near Lake Huron, Niagara and along eastern Lake Ontario will gust near 100 km/h as well as over higher terrain. There is also a risk of a thunderstorm with this warm frontal system. A cold front will move into eastern Ontario late in the morning. Note that temperatures will drop to below freezing behind the cold front. In general a total rainfall amount of 25 to 35 millimetres are expected with the system before changing over to isolated flurries.. Environment Canada's Official Weather Warnings stated that An intense Colorado low pressure system will strengthen as it sweeps across the Great Lakes late this evening and moves through central and northeastern Ontario by Wednesday morning. This major snowstorm system will bring periods of heavy snow and blizzard conditions tonight affecting Moosonee, Moose Factory, Fort Albany, Attawapiskat, Kapuskasing, Hearst, Timmings and Kirkland Lake. Heavy rain with strong winds are expected in southern regions, as a warm front associated with the storm system approaches. Strong winds associated with the deepening low pressure system will be triggered by a fast moving cold front moving from west to east Wednesday. The cold front will arrive over western regions late overnight with average winds increasing to 60 km/h. Along the front winds will gust to 90 km/h. A few locations near Lake Huron, Niagara and along eastern Lake Ontario will gust near 100 km/h as well as over higher terrain. There is also a risk of a thunderstorm with this warm frontal system. A cold front will move into eastern Ontario late in the morning. Note that temperatures will drop to below freezing behind the cold front. In general a total rainfall amount of 25 to 35 millimetres are expected with the system before changing over to isolated flurries.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper used his first major speech on the recession to urge the opposition to co-operate with his government, saying budgetary measures will help boost Canada's strong economic situation and help it emerge from the economic downturn faster than the rest of the world, despite that the
International Monetary Fund claims that the global economy will shrink this year as the world enters a "Great" recession. I wonder if the International Monetary Fund really meant to say, a great depression? No doubt time will tell if this global economic downturn becomes a great recession or a great depression.
According to recent religion surveys done by the Baylor University in 2006
and 2008, each based on 35000 interviews, indicate that most religious groups in the USA have lost ground. My own personal observation from studying various
surveys which had been done over the years indicate that globally, the Christian religion has declined, while more people say they have no religion. Out of those who claim to be Christians, it has dropped more than 11% within a generation. A lot of Christians have scattered out of their traditional religion and are exploring spirituality, or had fallen off the religion map completely. This decline do not come from Christians going to other religions but from a rejection from all forms of organized religion, the surveys tend to indicate. Countries that had long been considered to be Christian which were predonomently Protestant, they are now becoming a minority. The number of people who are members of Protestant denominations now stands at barely 51% or half of what it used to be. Moreover, out of those within the Protestant population, they are fragmented into hundreds of different denominations loosely grouped around three fairly distinct religious traditions, that of evangelical at 26.3%, mainline Protestant churches at 18.1% and historically black Protestant churches make up 6.9%. Out of the Christian religion, Catholicism has experienced the greatest net losses. While those who were raised in the Catholic faith, today fewer than one-in-four describe themselves as being practicing Catholics. Other religions reflect considerable internal diversity. For instance, Jewish numbers showed a steady decline since 1990 to today. Out of the overall Jewish population, religious Jews identify themselves with one of three major groups, that of Reform, Conservative or Orthodox Judaism. Jewish surveys report that a greater numbers of Jews consider themselves as being "cultural" Jews, those who connect themselves to Jewish traditions, rather than being actively practicing Judaism as a religion. Similarly, more than half of Buddhists population belong to one
of three major groups within Buddhism: Zen, Theravada or Tibetan Buddhism.
In Islam, the overall Muslim population, is divided primarily into two major
groups, Sunni and Shia, which have seen a major decline since 9/11. Other religious faiths such as Wicca, Asatru, Druidism, Native American, Baha'i, and others, account for about 1.2% of the general world population. A large percentage of people now consider themselves as being spiritual, in that they believe there is a GOD, but are not affiliated with any of the mentioned above religions. The rest of the population describe themselves as being atheist. People who claim no religion at all has increased by 15%, since 1990. I am not the least surprised by the survey findings that traditional religions has declined, given that the majority of the population don't agree with the major traditional religions, who have become dangerously out of touch with people because the "Religious" leaders, the clergy, be they Priests, Preachers, Rabbi's, Imam's, ect, had been less than forthright, had been dishonest with people about the religion they represent, as I, on this web site, and so many other people have revealed. It's not surprising that a great many people have been completely turned-off from any form of religion, given the level of deceitfulness and falsity that are inheirent and found within the major traditional religions. Frankly, I can not blame people for having lost faith in GOD or in any kind of religion. But because people are spiritual beings, which is embedded deep down within very person's soul/spirit, people will invariably seek to be re-connected with GOD, the Creator, unless their motivation had been totally squashed, totally devestated, by the deceit of false religious teachers that they no longer want to re-connect with GOD, the Creator. I have no doubt that a day will come when a common spirituality, based upon truth, will emerge out of the religious chaos that presently exist.
March 11th, 2009; Well, last night it was mild at
plus 2°C with light snow flurries which changed into light drizzle. We did not
get the damaging winds, heavy snow or blizzard conditions in the Temiskaming
Shores (Haileybury/New Liskeard/Dymond) region. This morning we have nice balmy tempatures at 5°C with light SW wind. A gunman in Alabama, USA had left nine bodies scattered across two counties after his shooting spree. He also burned down his mother's home with her still inside, killed four relatives on a porch and then targeted strangers before killing himself. By the time Michael McLendon stopped shooting, he had killed his grandparents, his aunt and uncle, the wife and child of a sheriff's deputy, and three other people, according to local police. At some point, the gunman headed down state Highway 52, firing at least seven bullets into a state trooper's car. The trooper suffered minor injuries from shattered glass. Two victims, a woman and man were killed at a Big-Little Store service station off the highway and outside the Samson Pipe and Supply store. Both victims were apparently shot at random, authorities said. The gunman ended up at the Reliable Metal Products plant in Geneva, where police rammed his vehicle, forcing him to get out. He fired a 30-round burst with what appeared to be an M16 rifle, grazing Police Chief Frankie Lindsey with a bullet. Then the gunman entered the business and within minutes, shots were heard. Law enforcement officers found him dead. Sheriff's officials say the gunman was a former employee of Reliable Metal Products. Then in Stuttgart, Germany a 17-year-old former student dressed in military gear with a Beretta 9 mm pistol killed at least 15 people. Nine students and three teachers were killed when he opened fire at a school in southwest Germany before fleeing the scene. The students who were killed in the attack were eight girls and one boy who are believed to have been in Grades 9 and 10. After fleeing the school, the gunman ran into the downtown area where he shot two pedestrians, killing one and wounding the other. He then hijacked a car and forced the driver to take him to Wendlingen, about 40 kilometres away, where the driver swerved off the road and escaped. The teenager, with police in pursuit, ran in to an automobile dealership, where he shot and killed a salesman and a customer. He then emerged from the building and opened fire on police. Officers returned fire and the teen fell to the ground wounded, but he then got back up, reloaded his weapon and ran down a dead-end street. Police said they found him there dead from an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head. Two police officers had suffered serious injuries, but was described as not being life-threatening. There is no further details about the suspect. If that was not bad enough, a pastor of a Maryville, Illinois, church was shot to death during a religious service yesterday in front of horrified parishioners. According to news reports, the pastor of the First Baptist Church of Maryville was shot and killed when a gunman walked in during the church service, walked up to the pulpit and opened fire. The pastor was shot three times. The gunman's .45-caliber pistol jammed so he pulled out a knife while two worshippers were attempting to tackle the gunman were injured by the knife. During the struggle, the gunman was also wounded and is in very serious condition. St. Louis University Hospital spokeswoman Laura Keller told CNN that three males, including the gunman, were brought to the hospital. One worshipper was dead on arrival, the second worshipper was in an operating room, the third church member was treated and released. The hospital was not releasing the names and ages of the worshippers or gunman. Police are still trying to determine a motive in the shooting and that church members did
not recognize the gunman. According to a Christian Security Network, in the
first two months of 2009 alone, they had tracked 139 incidents in 31 states
against Christian churches, schools and Protestant ministries. Last year in
July, a shooting took place when a 58-year-old man opened fire in a Tennessee,
Illinois Unitarian Universalist Church during a children's play. Two people were killed and six wounded in that shooting.
March 12th, 2009; A Sikorsky S92 helicopter, known as Cougar 911 had crashed into the Atlantic Ocean 65 kilometers southeast of St. John's, Newfoundland, while carrying offshore oil workers to two offshore oilfields. 16 people are still missing, out of a total 18 people who were on board when the Cougar Helicopter went down. One man, Robert Decker, was recovered alive from the crash site. Searchers also recovered a dead person. Two empty life-rafts were found among the debris field near the crash site. Search and rescue officials have still not received any locator signals from the beacons that were attached to the survivor suits the people aboard were wearing. A search and rescue official, Maj. Denis McGuire, a spokesman for the Rescue Co-ordination Centre in Halifax stated that "At this time, the helicopter was initially spotted floating upside down, but has now sunk. All we've got now is the debris field. No indications of any survivors, but the search will continue throughout the night. Two Cormorant helicopters, a Herculese aircraft and an Aurora fixed-wing plane are still searching for survivors, along with two surface ships. We hope for the best". The helicopter was heading to two offshore oilfields. The helicopter was carrying two workers who were under contract to Husky, while the rest were working for Hibernia.
At about 9:18 a.m. NT, or 7:48 a.m. ET, its crew issued a mayday and an alert about technical problems, saying there was a main gearbox oil-pressure problem and requesting clearance to return to St. John's. The helicopter had turned back to St. John's after issuing the mayday, but it crashed into the water about 37 minutes later. So far, there are no signals from any of the survivor suits beacons. officials do not know why the locator beacons have not worked or what the issues may have been, because Search and Rescue did not receive any signals. The low-power beacons are designed to work when people are on the surface of the water, officials said. All passengers and crew must wear a survivor suit before they board a helicopter. Authorities said a healthy adult wearing a survival suit could be expected to live for about 24 hours in the frigid Atlantic waters. Personally, I think the reason Search and Rescue did not receive any survivor suit signals is because the missing 16 people went down to the bottom of the ocean with the downed helicopter. The lone survivor Robert Decker was listed in critical condition at the Health Sciences Centre in St. John's. A source told CBC News he had aspirated sea water and was being treated in intensive care for hypothermia and a broken bone.
Enough with all this depressing news that is going on in the world. Well, I
am back teaching computing to seniors at our local public library. This time I
an fortunate to have a student who is more advanced in using a computer. This is more of a challenge for me, whereby I can teach more advance lessons rather than just the basics course on computing. This service is free for any seniors who want to enter this computer program. I enjoy helping seniors expand their
knowledge in computing, while I am still here in Haileybury. Though I am looking forward towards the day when I will get my piece of wilderness land and build that little log cabin for Buddy and me. To get my mind away from what is going on in the world, I went to our public library and picked up a book called "Company of Adventurers" Volume 1, by Peter C. Newman, which is a marvelous history of Canada's fur trade, the beaver and the Hudson Bay Co. It tells the story of the people and brave explorers and the crucial role they had played in shaping Canada during the late sixteenth and eighteenth century. I think I am going to like reading this book, especially when it deals with history. So if I happen to miss some days writing in this Journal, that is the reason why.
March 14th, 2009; It is quite mild today with tempatures hovering around the -6°C mark. It will warm up to 0°C by afternoon.
As the economy continues to shrink, banks are becoming more and more reluctant to approve new loans. The banks are being more tight fisted when it comes to handing out loans. Banks will likely continue to be tight-fisted while people continue to loose their jobs and are having trouble paying off on their mortgage. As the economy continues to shrink, people are looking elsewhere to get a loan. Thanks to Markerplace for their program "LAWLESS LOANS" which was broadcast on March 13, 2009 on CBC-TV they have uncovered a crop of legitimate-looking loan companies that are really scams. These loan company scams are appearing on the Internet and in newspapers, who are advertising a quick financial fix for those people who have bad credit or have no collateral. The basic scam runs like this... A person applies for a loan from one of these fly-by-night loan companies that appear to be quite legitimate. The loan company says that the person has been approved and qualifies to get the loan . But before the person recieve any of the loan money, they are told that they need to send $1,000 to $3,000 to the loan company to cover some security check before they can release the loan money. According to Marketplace, there are thousands of Canadians who were taken in by these scams and were scammed out of their money, by an estimated $60 million. If anyone should encounter one of these quick-fix financial Loan companies that require a security deposit before the loan is given, call the police so that they are made aware of this scam. These type of loan frauds always require the borrower to make some upfront payment before they get the loan, a practice that's illegal in both Canada and the U.S.A. One would think that people who were stupid enough to fall for these loan scams, they would have noticed a red flag warning waving in their mind. But then again, maybe that red flag warning mechanism that is built-into every sensible person, no longer is working. Due to the fact that these people have long ago had made it a habit to ignore that red warning flag mechanism in their mind when something is not quite right, or just do not add-up. Most people who have lost that ability to reconize that red warning flag mechanism, are people who were stupid or gullible enough to have believed in those phony Baal "religion" scams that just do not add-up when they are scrutinized. Religions like Christianity, Islam, Hinduism and even Orthodox Judaism fit into that phony Baal "religion" scam category. In order for people to have believed in those phony Baal religions that just do not quite add-up, they would have had to ignore their built-in red warning flag mechanism. Once people make it a habit to ignore that built-in red warning flag mechanism, they are susceptible to fall prey to any and all types of scams that are on the go. Once a person has lost that ability to reconize that red warning flag mechanism, it is difficult to regain it. Other negative attributes that tend to dull or obscure a person's built-in red flag warning mechanism is a lust for adulterated sex, the deliberate pursuit of greed, power or fame. These people tend to habitually throw caution to the wind.
Despite all the sexual abuse scandals by Christian clergy that had been exposed during the past years, sexual impropriety by Christian clergy upon children continues to come out of the "sacred" woodwork. A lawsuit is being filed against an Adventist pastor, who was identified only by his initials, alleges he took a 5-year-old girl to an isolated area of the Roseburg Junior Academy during a "week of prayer" and had sexually abused her repeatedly. The girl is now 21 and attends a community college. Three Insurance companies that insure a majority of Protestant churches say they typically receive upwards of 260 reports per year of children being sexually abused by members of the clergy and church staff members. No wonder Insurance policies have skyrocketed in the past few years! On February 25, 2009 The late Rev. Marcial Maciel Degollado had left behind sexual misconduct charges and a daughter. Rumors about Rev. Marcial Maciel Degollado, who founded the conservative Catholic sect Regnum Christi in 1941, have been around for years. Still, the news came as a shock to the roughly 9,500 Regnum Christi (Kingdom of Christ) families in the United States. New Orleans writer Jason Berry, along with Connecticut newspaperman Gerald Renner, had uncovered evidence in 1997 that Maciel “was not who he appeared to be,” The Times-Picayune reported this week. The accusations of nine former seminarians who said they were sexually abused by the priest were met with adamant denial by the legion. However, now that reports have surfaced proving Maciel fathered a daughter—now in her 20s—the former supporters are more apt to believe the original allegations, according to the story. The priest had died in early 2008, at the age of 87, always proclaiming his innocence. Maciel’s alleged “double life” is not the only harsh criticism the sect has received. The groups ran schools and did missionary work, but were also controversial for their insular dependence on their founder. Once embraced by the Vatican, Maciel, who also founded an affiliated order of priests called the Legion of Christ, was forced into retirement when Pope Benedict XVI investigated the sexual misconduct charges. Juan Vaca of Holbrook, N.Y., one of the nine who had accused Maciel of misconduct, said he was not surprised. Joanne Morrison felt nervous whenever her children stepped out the door. Morrison felt trapped by her own childhood memories of sexual abuse and felt paranoid over the safety of her own kids. Morrison was first molested by her priest when she was eight years old. The abuse lasted about three years, but the pain never went away, she said. Even now, decades later, the victims' voices falter as they describe the encounters that damaged them in ways they cannot fully cast off. Mary Dunford tells of a molester visiting her dormitory bed when she was 15. Susan Pavlak speaks of the teacher who talked to her of love, then seduced her at 16. Siblings describe how their piano teacher touched them in ways no adult should touch a child. In each case, the perpetrators were, or recently had been, Roman Catholic nuns. According to Associated Press on February 11, 2009, a former Roman Catholic priest gets 25 years for having sex with a boy during "religious" retreats. Father Donald McGuire, of Oak Lawn, displayed no emotion as U.S. District Judge Rebecca Pallmeyer imposed a 300-month sentence that likely means the 78-year-old former priest will die in prison. Father Donald McGuire was the spiritual adviser to the now deceased Mother Teresa who worked in Calcutta. Catholic parents thought that because of his stature and international reputation, they could trust McGuire that he would take good care of their children during those religious retreats. In February, 2009 a former nun's tell-all story which details illicit relationships, sexual harassment and bullying in the convent where she spent three decades is causing ructions in the Catholic Church in the south Indian state of Kerala. In "Amen" which is an autobiography of a nun, Sister Jesme says when she became a nun she discovered priests were forcing novices to have sex with them. There were also secret homosexual relationships among the nuns and at one point she was forced into such a relationship by another nun who told her she preferred this kind of arrangement as it ruled out the possibility of pregnancy. "I did not want to make this book controversial. I want to express my feelings and to explain what happened to me... I want people to know how I have suffered. People say that everything is OK, but I was in the convent and I want people to know what goes on. I have concerns for others, she told The Independent, speaking from the town of Kozhikode. Sex scandals by the clergy can no longer be brushed aside or hushed-up. Such things were once able to be contained within a local area, and the scandal not get known elsewhere. Now with the Internet in place, it informs people throughout the world about the abuse of children by the clergy. No longer can child abuse by the clergy be kept hidden and silent for long, now that the Internet has come of age.
The man, Barry Manion who had pleaded guilty to the murder of a 12-year-old girl in Kirkland Lake, Ont., who had disappeared almost 40 years ago and was found to be in London, Ont, had pleaded guilty to the murder of a 12-year-old girl in Kirkland Lake, Ont., and was charged with first-degree murder, abduction and forcible confinement, was found dead in his cell. Ontario Provincial Police confirmed Barry Manion died early Friday morning at a correctional facility near Timmins Ont. Manion was located in his cell at approximately 5 o'clock in the morning, his vital signs were absent, according to Ontario Provincial Police Const. Marc Depatie. The nature by which Mr. Manion had died is under investigation.
March 16th, 2009; It is quite mild today with tempatures hovering around the plus 8°C mark. What a beautiful spring like day it has been today as I walked to Temiskaming Lodge to give Monday’s art class to the residents there. How low and cheeky some people can get, when one hears that AIG, a insurance company giant intends to pay out US$165 million in "bonuses" to its executives despite that they were on the verge of bankruptcy. Imangin giving "bonuses" to executives which got AIG into deep finical trouble that would have bankrupted the company, had not for the US government bailout with US taxpayers money to keep AIG from totally collapsing. Had AIG not been bailed out by the US government, AIG, would not have been in any position to have paid out $165 million in "bonuses" to any of its executives as generous gifts, unless of course, it comes from the public treasury. At least U.S. President Barack Obama has announced that he will "pursue every legal avenue" to block AIG (American International Group) from paying out millions in executive bonuses after taking federal government bailout funds.
Alberta paleontologists are hailing a newly discovered pint-sized predator that is considered to be one of the smallest meat-eating dinosaur ever found in North America. Nick Longrich of the University of Calgary says the miniature version of the two-legged velociraptor, Hesperonychus is only half the size of a house cat. This small dinosaur was armed with razor-sharp claws and dagger-like teeth that killed small mammals and amphibians about 75 million years ago. He says researchers now believe that such small carnivores played an important role in the ecosystem than scientists had previously realized. Longrich and fellow researcher Philip Currie of the University of Alberta have published their findings in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
According to the latest data, Canadian household net worth is down by 4.4 per cent, the biggest quarterly drop on records dating to 1990. While Canadian assets fell, credit market debt of the Canadian household sector grew 1.7 per cent to hit an all time high of $1.3 trillion at the end of the fourth quarter of 2008. In the last three months of 2008, Canadian households had 24.5 cents of debt for every dollar of assets. Well, my net monetary worth is something I do not have to worry about, for I have none. Besides, I do not measure people's nor my own net worth in monetary value terms. I measure my own and people's net worth by what is in a person's heart. When we come to the end of our life, it matters little what our financial status was, for what will count is how we had lived our lives, in being truthful and honest, and the people we helped and touched during our lives. That is the true measuring rod of a person's "net worth".
March 17th, 2009; Today is another mild day with tempatures hovering around the plus plus 7°C mark. What a beautiful spring like day it is. According to the news media, all of the remaining 16 bodies have been recovered, along with the cockpit voice and flight data recorders from that downed Cougar Helicopter that had crashed last week off the east coast of Newfoundland, killing all but one of the 18 people on board. Investigator with the Transportation Safety Board, said the recorders, including the so-called black box, (which is actually orange) were brought to St. John's with the bodies, and have now been sent to Ottawa, where they will be examined by TSB technicians. A full analysis of the recorder is expected to take between a week to 10 days. However, some preliminary information may be available as early as late Tuesday. The recorders may shed important information on what happened in the final minutes of the helicopter's flight. It is hoped that Robert Decker, the lone surviver of the helicopter crash will shed some light during the final minutes of the Cougar helicopter's flight, which could be critical to the investigation. After Decker speaks with authorities, investigators will be responsible for releasing any information about the crash. At least those people in that downed Helicopter had been recovered and will be repatriated to their fanilies and bring some closure to them.
According to a Global Finance magazine report, it puts four Canadian banks among the top 50 safest banks in the world in 2009. The report list the Canada Royal Bank of Canada in 10th place, the Toronto-Dominion Bank in 14th place, Canada Scotiabank in 23rd place and Bank of Montreal in 33rd place. Canada's banks, which have long hankered to merge with their U.S. rivals, to become big enough to compete on a world scale, now find themselves among North America's largest, while some of their U.S. rival banks are on federal life-support bailout systems. According to CBC's Marivel Taruc report on Tuesday, the Canadian banking system is being called the world's soundest in the wake of a credit crisis that began with junk mortgages in California and mutant debt securities on Wall Street. So the U.S. banks loss, is very much the Canadian banks gain, and this is going to add to the praise, right around the world, of the solid banking sector that Canada has. Canada’s six largest banks made money in the latest quarter while big U.S. banks such as Citigroup, Wells Fargo and Bank of America lost billions of dollars. According to CBC's Marivel Taruc report "Canadian banks have remained profitable, outperforming US Banks, because of tighter government restrictions on lending and capital requirements. Canadian banks have long chafed at Prime Minister Jean Chrétien Liberal Government's reluctance to let them merge, saying that they needed to achieve sufficient size to compete internationally. But they were lucky this time to have stayed closer to home than major overseas banks now humbled by bad mortgage-related bets in the United States. The Canadian Banks were not immune to the temptation, but they took their lumps on such bets too, as they did in past decades by lending to Third World dictators, real estate promoters and rogue energy traders. But at least they did not lose their shirts in the process". One must never forget that these banks get the majority of their profits from the people who use their services through loans, saving accounts and user fees.
Just when we get a bit of good news, it seems that the Harper Government do not mind blowing another $21 million of Canadian taxpayers money towards the Afghan Moslem regime, at a time when Canada is trying to stay afloat. Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon and International Trade Minister Stockwell Day made the announcement at the end of a two-day visit to Kandahar and Kabul. The money will be administered by the UN through a trust fund, a fund that should cover the salaries of about 3,000 police officers and prison guards, officials said. Given all the job losses and finicial problems in Canada, this is not the right time to be playing Santa Clause to Moslems who really want to see our demise. How stupid are those Canadians who believe that there are moderate Muslims, who are a benevolent, peaceful people, as that Canadian program, "Little Mosque On The Prairie" on CBC likes to portray them to be, when in reality, according to the dictates of Islam, Moslems are secretly required to work towards the downfall of all "Infidels" and their western civilization, and replace it with a backward Islamic totalitarian regime.
Hundreds of thousands of people blindly participate on St. Patrick's Day in Canada. Canadians all across the country have St. Patricks Day Parades & booze-up at make believe Irish Pubs while most people who partisapate in this, do not fully realize that what they are actualy celebrating, is an Irish, Roman Catholic festival. How people are so eaisly fooled into being sucked-in, and blindly celebrate in what realy amounts to is a Roman Catholic pagan festival. But then again, when the booze is flowing, and people are getting inebriated, who really gives a damn.
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March 20th, 2009; Yesterday, the tempature had dropped to -5°C with a cold Northerly wind which made it feel like -19°C that the first outing for seniors at Temiskaming Lodge had to be canceled. Today, the first day of spring is not much better given that it is -19°C this morning. The New York City medical examiner's office said that actress Natasha Richardson had died from a blunt impact which caused bleeding in Richardson's brain. The 45-year-old Tony Award-winning actress fell while taking ski lessons on Mont Tremblant resort's bunny hill. That is where first time skiers learn to ski on a gentle decline slope. Richardson appeared to be fine after the fall, but about an hour later she complained she didn't feel well. She was hospitalized in Montreal, and was later flown to New York, where she died in hospital. Upon hearing the news about Natasha Richardson death, Mount Tremblant ski resort, issued their most sincere condolences to Ms. Richardson's family and friends at this sad and difficult time. The staff at Mont Tremblant, Que., intends to fully co-operate with any resulting investigations. No doubt that this was a tragic event for that talented and very classy, beautiful actress, for her two sons and husband. Personally, I have a strong suspicion that Natasha Richardson was a walking time-bomb which that minor ski fall percipated her death. She could have tripped while walking on a sidewalk and fall down, causing a blood vessele to burst due to internal blood pressure, for the kind of condition she must have had, to cause her brain injury and death. A blood vessle in her brain had ruptured and nothing, except maybe an early diagnose from a brain scan could have prevented the death of actress Natasha Richardson. The medical examiner ruled Richardson had suffered from an epidural hematoma, which causes bleeding between the skull and the brain’s covering. She might have survived had she received immediate treatment. However, nearly four hours had elapsed between her fall and her admission to hospital. If there was any question about the injury, a head CT scan should have been made as soon as she was admitted to the hospital. A CT scan can detect bleeding, bruising or the beginning of swelling in the brain. I recall when I was around ten years old, a baseball had hit my temple area by a batter, while playing baseball, and I had rocks struck my skull by some moron, and no one at that time seem to be concerned about those injuries. Thousands of people have minor falls every year who do not wear a helmet, be they walking, running or are enjoying other outdoor activity, and do not suffer from any kind of brain injury. Most people end up with a bad ankle or wrist sprain or only a few skin scrapes and their self-esteem being injured. Personally, I have no problem if people want to wear a helmet, but it may give people a false sense of security. Helmets may work fine at slow speeds, but when a person collides with solid objects like a tree or another skier at high speed, even a helmet will not necessarily save a person's life. I just hate the idea that people want to make it "mandatory". Adding one more mandatory law upon a whole slew of mandatory laws that have beem imposed upon people, in a land we had once prided ourselves to be living in a land of freedom, which is fast becoming only a wishful dream.
There is some good news that scientists are using nanotechnology to develop new ways of detecting pathogens such as salmonella in our foods. According to a CBC News article, public health experts estimate that each year, more than 11 million Canadians suffer from food-borne illnesses such as salmonella or, more rarely, listeriosis. Some cases are mild, but for the very young or old, or pregnant women, the effects can be severe. How often have I become a victim from salmonella food poisoning from meats bought in supermarkets, and fast foods burger & chicken outlets. It is a miserable thing for anyone to have to go through, be they young or old. Right now, nanoparticles are being used to build devices that sense the DNA of microbes such as salmonella or listeria, said Dutch biotechnology researcher Frans Kampers of the Biotechnology Centre for Food and Health Innovation at the Wageningen Research Centre. Currently, the food industry has no rapid test for the pathogens. Nanoparticles could also be used in packaging to signal when food has passed its best-before date. When perishable foods like lettuce or milk deteriorate in quality, volatiles are created that could be sensed using nanotechnology, he explained. Personally, I would like to see someone make a portable scanning device for household use. Such a device would allow a person to check if the food is safe to eat, be it in the home, restaurant or fast-food outlet. That would greatly help alleviate salmonella or listeriosis food poisoning, and greatly help build trust with consumers.
I recall how some Christians have made the claim that the name "Yeshua" is just a made-up name that do not exist in the Hebrew text in the Torah or "Old Testament". Anyone who can read the "Old Testament", knows that the name Jeshua, as in Nehemiah 8:17, is the English name for Yeshua. It is even apparent in the King James Version where it is written in English as, "Jeshua the son of Nun." (The letter J was pronounced like a Y in Old English.) If those Christians claim that the name "Yeshua" which the English name is "Jeshua", is just a made-up name that do not exist in the "Old Testament", then how do these idiots explain these text where the name of Jeshua (Yeshua) was used in the Old Testament? Passages like; 1 Chronicles 24:11 The ninth to Jeshua, the tenth to Shecaniah: 2 Chronicles 31:15 And next him were Eden, and Miniamin, and Jeshua, and Shemaiah, Amariah, and Shecaniah, in the cities of the priests, in their set office, to give to their brethren by courses, as well to the great as to the small: Ezra 2:2 Which came with Zerubbabel: Jeshua, Nehemiah, Seraiah, Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispar, Bigvai, Rehum, Baanah. The number of the men of the people of Israel: Ezra 2:6 The children of Pahathmoab, of the children of Jeshua and Joab, two thousand eight hundred and twelve: Ezra 2:36 The priests: the children of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua, nine hundred seventy and three: Ezra 2:40 The Levites, the children of Jeshua and Kadmiel, of the children of Hodaviah, seventy and four: Ezra 3:8 Now in the second year of their coming unto the house of God at Jerusalem, in the second month, began Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and the remnant of their brethren the priests and the Levites, and all they that were come out of the captivity unto Jerusalem, and appointed the Levites, from twenty years old and upward, to set forward the work of the house of the LORD. Yoshua's (Joshua) name is 100% identical to Yeshua. Yeshua was a common nane which was also the name of our founder of our faith, whom Christians had taken and re-worked it to translate into the perverted, disgraced name of "Je-Zeus Christ" for their pagan Baal God. This is another clear example how "Christians" tend to lie and twist everything around. The true founder of our faith was Yeshua, which means "Salvation" which was prcicely what Yeshua was trying to do to save the Jewish people from destruction from GOD's angry wrath. Why were the Jewish people in danger? Because the Jewish people had reverted to worship their old Canaanite Baal God YHVH, in the Temple, which Jewish people presently refer today as Hashem. So why do Christians refer to Yeshua as Je-Zeus Christ? Yeshua is the true Hebrew name of our founder, and its English spelling is "Jeshua". The early pagan Christians had high-jacked our Beloved founder's persona and his teachings, and transformed by re-working it to make a pagan God for themselves and gave their pagan God the name of Je-Zeus Christ. The command is to call on the name of "Yeshua" with the promise that people "shall be saved" (Acts 2:21). Not by that perverted pagan name of Je-Zeus Christ which Christians have made into their phony man-made Baal God. When Yeshua said that he will build his Congregation which was commissioned to teach his sayings, the very message he brought from GOD to the Jewish people first and then to the Gentiles, he did not found hundreds of Christian denominations (churches) that exist today. The thousands of apostate Christian churches of various denominations each professing to be teaching the truth, yet contradicting and disagreeing with each other on all forms of theology were originally founded by the early Roman Catholic and Greek Orthodox church fathers. Christianity is the Gospel of Babylon! Yes, "many" would come in the name of that phony God, Je-Zeus Christ, proclaiming that Je-Zeus is the Christ, proclaiming that Je-Zeus Christ is GOD, and deceive the world. Those people who continue to worship the Canaanite Baal God YHVH, (Hashem), or that phony man-made Christian Baal God, regardless what they call it, be it Je-Zeus Christ, Yeshua, Jeshua or Emmanuel, they shall not be saved. The judgment of GOD has been cast upon the Baal worshipers and all of humanity. I say again, those people who worship a false God or Gods of their own making, and had not heeded the Holy Spirit through the Holy Testament, or what I had revealed, these shall not be saved from everlasting death. Need I elaborate on this pronouncement? I believe it has been made abundantly clear during the teachings I have revealed.
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