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December 3 - Cops to Congress: We need logs of Americans' text messages
Article: Miscellaneous
AT&T, Verizon Wireless,
Sprint, and other wireless providers
would be required to record and store information about Americans'
private text messages for at least two years, according to a proposal
that police have submitted to the U.S. Congress.
CNET has learned a
constellation of law enforcement groups
has asked the U.S. Senate to require that wireless
companies retain
that information, warning that the lack of a current federal requirement
"can hinder law enforcement investigations."
They want an SMS retention requirement to
be "considered" during congressional discussions over updating a 1986
privacy law for the cloud computing era -- a move that could complicate
debate over the measure and erode support for it among civil
libertarians.
Chuck DeWitt, a
spokesman for the Major Cities Chiefs Police Association, which
represents the 63 largest U.S. police forces including New York City,
Los Angeles, Miami, and Chicago, said
"all such records should be retained for two years." Some providers,
like Verizon, retain the contents of SMS messages for a brief period of
time, while others like T-Mobile do not store them at all.
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December 10 - Virgin of Guadalupe the best evangelist, Supreme Knight reflects
Article: Roman Catholic Church And The Last Days
Our Lady of Guadalupe is the model for
evangelization, especially in America,
according to Carl Anderson, head of the Knights of Columbus.
"She is the evangelist par
excellence, in part because she enters the world...from the
beatific vision, a state of supreme closeness to God,"
he said Dec. 10 at the "Ecclesia in America"
conference in Rome.
"Her example and continued
motherhood of all peoples is a sure path today for the new
evangelization." The international congress,
held Dec. 9-12, commemorates Pope John Paul II's post-synodal
apostolic exhortation of the same name. It also focuses on the
new evangelization.
"'Ecclesia in America' is the blueprint
for the new evangelization," he said.
Its importance is that it treats
the American continents as a unity, and gives not a political
vision, but an ecclesial vision for the future.
"Not a vision
of systems but a vision of humanity encountering Christ. In
other words, it presents a
vision of an 'inculturated' evangelization, in which our
diversity is sanctified and purified in its communion in the
Church by orienting us toward Christ and therefore to our
brethren as well."
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December 11 - Our Lady of Guadalupe - She Who Crushes the Head of the Serpent
Article: Roman Catholic Church And The Last Days
There is an
amazing connection between the Solemnity of the Immaculate
Conception which is celebrated on December 8 and the Feast of
Our Lady of Guadalupe which is celebrated on December 12.
Actually, in many ways, these two beautiful Marian celebrations
are one and the same feast day.
"The Lord God said to the serpent: 'Because you have done this,
you shall be banned from all the animals and from all the wild
creatures; on your belly shall you crawl, and dirt shall you eat
all the days of your life. I will put enmity between you and the
woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will strike at
your head, while you strike at his heel" (Genesis 3: 14 - 15).
"I will put enmity between you and the woman."
Who is the woman in this text from
Genesis. The woman is not Eve, but the new Eve, Mary.
"He will strike at your head, while you
strike at his heel." Scripture
scholars over the years have debated regarding the word he.
Should it be translated he or she or even they? But does it
matter? In another words, does the he refer to the Messiah who
is to come? Does the she refer to Mary? Does the they refer to
the descendants of Mary; i.e., Christ and the Church?
What would you think if I told you that Our
Lady of Guadalupe is not really Our Lady of Guadalupe,
instead she is really Our Lady of
coatlaxopeuh which is pronounced "quatlasupe" and sounds
extraordinarily like the Spanish word Guadalupe? Coatlaxopeuh
means She who crushes the head of the serpent.
Experts believe that title Our Lady of Guadalupe came from a
misunderstanding of the translation into Spanish of the word
Nahuatl coatlaxopeuh. Thus, Our
Lady of Guadalupe is in reality Our Lady of Quatlasupe - She who
crushes the head of the serpent.
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December 10 - U.S. Spies See Superhumans, Instant Cities By 2030
Article: Miscellaneous
3-D printed
organs. Brain chips providing superhuman abilities. Megacities, built from
scratch. The U.S. intelligence community is taking a look at the world of 2030.
And it is very, very sci-fi.
Every four or five years, the futurists at the National
Intelligence Council take a stab at forecasting what the globe will be like two
decades hence; the idea is to give some long-term, strategic guidance to the
folks shaping America's security and economic policies. On Monday, the Council
released its newest findings, Global Trends 2030. Many of the prognostications
are rather unsurprising: rising tides, a bigger
data cloud, an aging population, and, of course, more drones. But tucked into
the predictable predictions are some rather eye-opening assertions. Especially
in the medical realm.
We've seen experimental prosthetics in recent years that are
connected to the human neurological system. The
Council says the link between man and machine is about to get way more cyborg-like.
"As replacement limb technology advances, people may choose to enhance their
physical selves as they do with cosmetic surgery today. Future retinal eye
implants could enable night vision, and neuro-enhancements could provide
superior memory recall or speed of thought," the Council
writes.
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December 11 - Census shows rise in foreign-born
Article: Miscellaneous
The Christian population of England
and Wales has fallen by four million to 33.2 million in the past decade,
the 2011 census reveals.
The number of people describing themselves as
having no religion rose from 15% to 25% of the population. The British
Humanist Association said it was a "significant cultural shift."
The Church of England said Christianity
remained the most populous faith in England,
but the fall in people choosing to identify themselves
as Christians was a challenge. Spokesman the Reverend
Arun Arora said: "One of the reasons may
well be fewer people identifying as 'cultural Christians' - that is, those
who have no active involvement with churches and who may previously have
identified as Christian for cultural or historical reasons.
A spokesman for the Catholic Bishops'
Conference of England and Wales said: "The
overall decrease in the number of self-identifying Christians is consistent
with recent social attitude and social value surveys. There are 14.1 million
people of no religion compared to 7.7 million a decade ago.
But Christianity still remains the largest religion at 33.2 million, or
nearly six out of 10 people, in spite of registering a fall of just over
four million.
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The decision represents a major u-turn on the
position set out in a formal Government consultation earlier
this year which proposed a blanket ban. It raises the prospect
of a major battle between church and state over the issue as
well as a massive backbench rebellion with at least 130
Conservatives set to vote against the proposals. 
Archbishop José H. Gomez of
Los Angeles is
describing Advent as "a season of Mary" and a time for
Catholics to "turn to Mary in a new way."
With so
much of our banking and interactions taking place on our mobile
phones, we still live with a false sense of
security because it doesn't take much for someone to hack our
phones. By using more unique
identifiers - biometrics such as eyes, rather than passwords -
corporations and banks may have a more secure way to authenticate
our identity.
In the middle of the night at a U.N.
conference in Dubai, the presiding
chairman of the International Telecommunication Union
conference surveyed the assembled countries
to see whether there was interest in
having greater involvement in the U.N. governing the
Internet. A majority of countries gave their approval.