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May 30 - Bilderberg is 'a conspiracy reality'
Article: One World Government
Daniel Estulin, author of The True Story of the
Bilderberger Group, contends people should care because
the idea behind each and every Bilderberg meeting "is to create what they
themselves call the aristocracy of purpose between European and North
American elites on the best way to manage the planet. In other words, the
creation of a global network of giant cartels, more powerful than any nation
on Earth, destined to control the necessities of life of the rest of
humanity." This year's private meeting is being held at
the Westfield Marriott Convention Center in Chantilly, Va. - the same place
it was held four years ago when rumors
circulated the group had determined Barack Obama would be the Democratic
presidential nominee, not Hillary Clinton. Two days after the event, Clinton
bowed out of the race. The group usually holds its
annual meeting in Europe, with past meetings in France, Switzerland, Italy,
Spain, Denmark, Scotland and Norway. But this week, through June 4, the
Bilderberg Group is meeting about 20 miles from the U.S. capital. Observers
point out George H.W. Bush attended in
1985. He became president in 1988. Bill Clinton attended in 1991. He became
president a year later. Tony Blair attended in 1993. He became prime
minister of England in 1997. Romano Prodi attended in 1999. Later that year
he became president of the European Union Commission. If
people participate in the ideas shaping the world, if a nation is allowed to
grow its own food, develop its own natural resources, be truly
self-governing, it would end the Bilderbergers' oligarchy."
The meetings are private, invitation-only for about 150 individuals from the
worlds of politics, business, finance, energy, media and nobility. No
resolutions are voted on, no outsiders at the meetings, no minutes are
taken, not statements issued. Estulin has cited David Rockefeller's own
admission. Rockefeller, a Bilderberg member, wrote:
"Some even believe we are part
of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States,
characterizing my family and me as 'internationalists' and of conspiring
with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and
economic structure - one world, if you will. If that's the charge, I stand
guilty, and I am proud of it."
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June 5 - Will These Next-Gen Surveillance Cameras in Calif. Detect Crime Before It's Even Committed?
Article: Miscellaneous
If you've seen the 2002 science-fiction film
"Minority Report," you're familiar with the idea of predicting and stopping
crimes before they even happen. Now, a
decade after the movie came out, we're one step closer to making this sort
of preemptive crime fighting a reality.
BRS (Behavioral Recognition Systems) Labs is
deploying surveillance cameras with
technology that can detect certain behaviors in San Francisco subway
systems. According to Fast Company, the San Francisco's
Municipal Transit Authority's contract is for
12 subway stations to be outfitted with the cameras
that use algorithms to target potentially criminal behavior.
Here's how it works:
Servers connected to
security cameras observe locations for weeks at a time and then establish a
baseline of "normal" behavior based on this timespan; anomalous activities
afterwards (loitering, abandoned packages, abnormally high/low numbers of
passengers) trigger an alert. No tripwires or programming of initial
parameters are required.
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June 11 - International Eucharistic Congress Brings the World to Dublin
Article: Roman Catholic Church And The Last Days
An unusual sunny day
brightened the atmosphere here in Dublin as participants from all over the
world joined together for the 50th International Eucharistic Congress. A
palpable joy could be felt as some went to see the various exhibitions
taking place and young teens walked arm and arm singing. The message that
many here cling to is one: the grace that
comes from the Church and from the sacrament of the Eucharist can form a
true communion, even in a gathering as diverse and grandiose as this.
Entering the main stadium of
the RDS (Royal Dublin Society) was a group of 52 pilgrims from the Diocese
of Vancouver, Canada. Led by Sabiniana Banares, the group is part of an
estimated 900 pilgrims from Canada.
Along with the group was Fr.
Amador Abundo, the spiritual director, who says he views the Eucharistic
Congress as an opportunity to call back
those who have been far from the faith. "We are campaigning now to bring
back our brother and sisters, especially the Catholics back to the faith.
The Eucharist can surely help us to bring them back to the Church. In my
parish, I have perpetual Eucharistic adoration, and I am always campaigning
to the people to come and pray before Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament.
It's the only way that we'll be able to ask them to return to the faith,"
he said.
Sein Soto Rosa, who along
with Rosa Santos, came all the way from the Diocese of Fajardo in Puerto
Rico. They belong to a group in their diocese, "Verano Misionero"(Missionary
Summer), that prepares and sends Catholic missionaries to different parts of
Latin America. Rosa spoke to ZENIT about what he hoped to bring back to the
Caribbean island upon his return. "We are
hoping to receive more graces for the island of Puerto Rico, which is in
need of it. It's my wish that, through the gift of the Eucharist, there can
be a fraternal communion between all Puerto Ricans."
The congress is not only
attended by lay people seeking to enrich their spiritual lives, but
religious and those in consecrated life as well. Sister Mary Dolora, along
with four other nuns from the Religious Sisters of Mercy in Washington,
D.C., told ZENIT that the Dublin event is
an opportunity to pray that love of the Eucharist "may grow and that our
faith will deepen in the Church and in the Holy Eucharist because it is the
source and summit of our whole life. My prayer is that it will deepen all of
our faiths. Really to know and recall the gifts that we have been given in
the sacramental life of the Church: in baptism, in the sacrament of the Holy
Eucharist, in the sacrament of Penance," she said.
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June 12 - 'Youth Space' Unites Catholics and Anglicans
Article: Bridges To Rome
The International Eucharistic
Congress is one of the biggest events in the Catholic Church. There are
conferences, addresses and exhibitions that are for all participants.
For the first time in its history, the
congress has an area dedicated to young people called the "Youth Space,"
which brings youth from both Catholic and Anglican denominations in the
spirit of ecumenism.
ZENIT had the opportunity to speak to
Anna Keegan, youth officer for IEC 2012 and Greg Fromholz, youth director
from the Anglican Church of Ireland, about this unique ministry within the
congress.
ZENIT: Why is it important to have
this "Youth Space" for the youth in Ireland?
Keegan: I think
it's important for young people to be invited to feel welcomed in the
Church, this is also a site for them to ask questions that they are asking
out in the street; here they can get their religious and spiritual answers
and we can have a forum that brings a real joy to this space. And we've
turned this space into a big church community where they can come in and
feel welcomed. Just to make them know and feel that they are part of this
community, and they can come in and make friends.
Fromholz: I agree. I think that as
well, it's an opportunity for anyone to question the
bishops, to grill the bishops, we have had several bishops on site that can
actually handle the tricky questions about every issue that young people are
struggling with. Not only is it the first "Youth Space", it's the first
ecumenical space in so far as they bring together both traditions. I myself
am Anglican from the Church of Ireland and to even coexist like that within
one space, within one house with four walls, it's not a hard issue that we
wrestle with.
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June 10 - Pope praises Corpus Christi processions
Article: Roman Catholic Church And The Last Days
Pope Benedict XVI praised the "lively
tradition" of holding solemn processions with the Blessed Sacrament
"through the streets and squares" on the Feast of Corpus Christi.
"The
Catholic Church professes worship of the Eucharist 'not only during
Mass, but also outside of its celebration, preserving with the utmost
diligence the consecrated hosts, presenting them for the solemn
veneration of the Christian faithful, carrying them in procession with
the joy of the Christian crowd'," he said, quoting
his predecessor Pope Paul VI's 1965 encyclical "Mysterium Fidei."
The Pope told pilgrims that the annual
feast "renews in Christians the joy and
the gratitude for the Eucharistic presence of Jesus" in the midst of his
people. It is, he said, "a great act of public worship" that reminds
everybody "the Lord remains present beyond the time of the celebration"
of Mass. This is why in churches, from earliest times, "the most sacred
place is precisely where the Eucharist is kept" in the tabernacle.
With many of those affected having to
attend Sunday Mass in the open air or in make-shift tents, the Pope
reminded pilgrims that it is in the
Eucharist that "the ability to share life and property, to carry each
other's burdens, the capacity for hospitality and welcome" is "born and
renewed."
He concluded by giving some personal
advice on how to adore the Eucharist in
prayer, suggesting that one can do so individually, "pausing in
recollection in front of the tabernacle, and in community, also with
psalms and hymns."
Either way such prayer should preferably be done "in silence, in which
to listen interiorly to the Lord alive and present in the Sacrament."
The model for
this form of Eucharistic prayer, he said, was the Virgin Mary "because
no one knew better than she how to contemplate Jesus, with eyes of faith
and openness of heart, the inner resonances of his human and divine
presence."
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June 15 - Pope establishes Australian ordinariate for former Anglicans
Article: Bridges To Rome
On June 15 Pope Benedict
officially erected the Ordinariate of
Our Lady of the Southern Cross for Anglican groups and individuals
who want to enter full communion with the Catholic Church.
Archbishop Dennis J. Hart of Melbourne, the president
of the Australian Catholic Bishops' Conference,
assured former Anglicans of "a warm welcome in
the Catholic Church throughout Australia," and offered his "respect
and admiration" for the "gifts" that Anglicans bring.
"For them and for us, this is a very special
moment on which we pray the blessings of the Holy Spirit and the
prayers of Our Lady of the Southern Cross," he
said.
The ordinariate is a
special church jurisdiction similar to a diocese. Pope Benedict XVI
announced the ordinariates for former Anglicans in his November 2009
apostolic constitution "Anglicanorum Coetibus."
They allow Anglicans to join the
Catholic Church while retaining aspects of their liturgy and
customs.
Fr. Entwistle said that
membership is open to former Anglicans
who accept what the Catholic Church believes and teaches, as well as
to former Anglicans who have previously joined the Catholic Church.
Those who have close family members in the ordinariate may also
join.
The Pope
has also created ordinariates in England and
Wales and the U.S. Their leaders welcomed the Australian
ordinariate.
Msgr. Jeffrey Steenson,
the head of the U.S. Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter, also
welcomed the news. He offered support for Fr. Entwistle's "important
work" in making a home for
Anglicans in Australia who have been "called by God to full
communion with the Catholic Church and the rock from which we were
hewn."
Fr. Entwistle said
Pope Benedict has made it "very clear"
that Christian unity is not achieved by agreeing on "the lowest
common denominator." Those who join an ordinariate "accept the
Catechism of the Catholic Church as the authoritative expression of
the Catholic faith," he said.
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June 15 - "India: Mary Is an Important Key to Heal Division"
Article: Roman Catholic Church And The Last Days
On June 15 Pope Benedict
officially erected the Ordinariate of
Our Lady of the Southern Cross for Anglican groups and individuals
who want to enter full communion with the Catholic Church.
Archbishop Dennis J. Hart of Melbourne, the president
of the Australian Catholic Bishops' Conference,
assured former Anglicans of "a warm welcome in
the Catholic Church throughout Australia," and offered his "respect
and admiration" for the "gifts" that Anglicans bring.
"For them and for us, this is a very special
moment on which we pray the blessings of the Holy Spirit and the
prayers of Our Lady of the Southern Cross," he
said.
The ordinariate is a
special church jurisdiction similar to a diocese. Pope Benedict XVI
announced the ordinariates for former Anglicans in his November 2009
apostolic constitution "Anglicanorum Coetibus."
They allow Anglicans to join the
Catholic Church while retaining aspects of their liturgy and
customs.
Fr. Entwistle said that
membership is open to former Anglicans
who accept what the Catholic Church believes and teaches, as well as
to former Anglicans who have previously joined the Catholic Church.
Those who have close family members in the ordinariate may also
join.
The Pope
has also created ordinariates in England and
Wales and the U.S. Their leaders welcomed the Australian
ordinariate.
Msgr. Jeffrey Steenson,
the head of the U.S. Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter, also
welcomed the news. He offered support for Fr. Entwistle's "important
work" in making a home for
Anglicans in Australia who have been "called by God to full
communion with the Catholic Church and the rock from which we were
hewn."
Fr. Entwistle said
Pope Benedict has made it "very clear"
that Christian unity is not achieved by agreeing on "the lowest
common denominator." Those who join an ordinariate "accept the
Catechism of the Catholic Church as the authoritative expression of
the Catholic faith," he said.
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We hope the Weekly News In Review has been a
blessing to you.
Sincerely,
Roger Oakland
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