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Bishop Pablo Virgilio David, who chairs the Bishops' Conference, calls on faithful to 'accompany" the civilian supply mission promoted by the Atin Ito Coalition NGO. About 200 volunteers, 100 fishermen, and five boats evaded China's naval blockade reaching the disputed Scarborough Shoal.

US Housing Starts/Permits Ugly In April After Huge Revisions Tyler Durden Thu, 05/16/2024 - 08:52

Jobless Claims Decline After Last Week's Big Surge Amid New York Chaos Tyler Durden Thu, 05/16/2024 - 08:38

CME Plans To Launch Spot Bitcoin Trading Tyler Durden Thu, 05/16/2024 - 08:25

The notion that the US or any Western country is a democracy accountable to the people is the most absurd notion in human history

https://www.unz.com/mwhitney/mario-savios-call-to-arms-put-your-bodies-upon-the-gears-and-upon-the-wheels/

“One of the aspects of the emergence of the student movement is that ….there is more and more clarity that the allegation of antisemitism is simply a pretext for suppressing legitimate protest against Israel’s genocidal policies against the people of Gaza. I should also add that among the list of surprises is the fact that a group of Jewish billionaires—in order to suppress campus criticism of Israeli genocide—are now openly using the blackmail weapon. They are telling the universities, the Board of Trustees, and the president—that unless you repress these demonstrations, we are going to withhold our hundreds of millions of dollars.

“This is without question, the most brazen assault by the private sector on academic freedom in our country’s history. And compounding that, there is now an assault by the right-wing in our country exploiting the false claim of antisemitism to repress academic freedom on our campuses. So, it began with Jewish billionaires trying to repress dissent of Israel, and now that false claim of antisemitism is being used by the right-wing in our country to repress any critical thought on our campuses. This is not just an assault on academic freedom, but it’s also a prefiguration of a fascist movement among the right-wing and supported by the billionaire class to suppress any dissent beginning on college campuses but then eventually spreading everywhere else.” — Norman Finkelstein on Genocide in Gaza, https://twitter.com/MayadeenEnglish/status/1785511330813755681

Israel Lobby Knuckles Biden Under

US president is no match for Israel’s lobbyists. How can neoconservatives claim American hegemony over the world when Israel has hegemony over America?

What a weak shameful country America has become.

https://sputnikglobe.com/20240515/biden-sending-1-billion-arms-package-to-israel-in-latest-flip-flop–report-1118439991.html

https://www.rt.com/pop-culture/597634-eurovision-terrible-russian-minister/

As I asked yesterday, what is left of Western civilization to defend? https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2024/05/15/does-western-civilization-any-longer-exist/

The Russian education minister said, truthfully, that the West is destroying its future by destroying education, the upbringing of children, and the foundations of humanity.

Maria Zakharova said, “The funeral of Western Europe is going according to plan. No surprises.”

Welcome To LaLa Land As Market Jettisons Tail Risks Tyler Durden Thu, 05/16/2024 - 08:10

The totally corrupt Australian “justice system” sentences a man to prison for telling the truth

The Western World has become the most hostile place for truth-tellers. All Western governments are determined to banish truth and replace it with official narratives.

https://www.asia-pacificresearch.com/sentencing-australia-david-mcbride/5632026

Putin & Xi Say Their Cooperation Is Not a Threat to Others

It is a threat to US hegemony, which is why Washington tries to drive wedges between Russia and China.

https://www.rt.com/news/597711-xi-putin-meeting-exemplary-relations/

Climate scientist says only way to save the planet is to cull the human population with a deadly pandemic

This is the Bill Gates Plan.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/05/sick-climate-scientist-suggests-culling-human-population-deadly/

The World Health Organization Is the Enemy of Humanity

WHO is an instrument for depopulation.

https://www.globalresearch.ca/who-health-tyranny/5856975

Hillary Projects Her Crime onto Trump

Both Hillary and Biden got free passes for their real crimes while the Democrats are busy at work trying to frame Trump on the same charges that Hillary and Biden were given DOJ passes.

In America law is a weapon used in the service of official narratives. The US Department of Justice serves Democrat political agendas, such as the replacement of white Americans and the creation of a one party state. Republicans and white Americans sit there disbelieving while it happens. The whore media tells them reality is a conspiracy theory.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/i-gave-shame-years-ago-clinton-denounces-trump-doing-what-she-did-2016

A few pieces came into my inbox over the past couple of weeks around organ donation and transplantation that caught my attention. While we don’t often write about this topic, it is within our concern of medical ethics as it relates to new technologies and developments in medicine. I’ve always been both fascinated and concerned about medical ethics in this domain.  In my nursing days, I worked in university hospitals that did pediatric transplants (heart, kidney, liver, and bone marrow) so I very clearly saw the pros and cons of transplantation medicine as these issues were in front of us daily.

The first story in my inbox was a report about a woman who is the second person to receive a genetically modified pig kidney transplant.  She had suffered from several heart attacks, years of diabetes, and was in kidney failure requiring dialysis just to keep her alive.  Because of her serious health issues, she was deemed not to be a suitable candidate for a human organ transplant.  Receiving a genetically modified pig kidney seemed to be her only chance of survival and she told herself, “You know what? I’m going to do it. I have to do it – for myself and for the rest of my family.” The previous report of such a transplant was in a 62 year old man. He was in end stage kidney failure when he received his genetically modified pig kidney.

Both people had no chance of long-term survival.  These are often the types of patients who are approved to be part of a new clinical trial for a new treatment, whether it be an experimental new drug, medical device, or in this case, being allowed to receive a genetically modified pig kidney.

The ethics of xenotransplantation, the transplanting of tissue or organs between different species, has long been debated. In this new field, the ethical debate usually is framed within three categories.  First, is the concern of animal welfare and the ethical and humane treatment of animals who are often sacrificed for their organs or tissue. Next is the real and serious concern of the dangers of organ and tissue rejection and the long-term need for immunological suppression to keep rejection of the transplant at bay.  Finally, there is the always heated debate around the procurement and allocation of the organs that are available for transplant.  How do we decide who can donate, which includes the debate around living donor donation? And then decide who receives the organ and by what criteria is that decision made?  Over 100,000 people in the United States are on a waiting list to receive a transplant with 17 people dying each day because the supply can’t meet the demand.

Which brings me to another story that caught my eye, where it was reported that there was manipulation of data that made certain patients ineligible for liver transplants at a Houston hospital. Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center announced that they had stopped their liver and kidney transplant programs while they conduct an investigation after learning that “a doctor made ‘inappropriate changes’ in a database for people awaiting a liver transplant.” The alleged charges involved changing the acceptance criteria, which of course are serious and warrant an investigation, especially since these sorts of breeches in policy erode confidence in medical ethics. The public is already skeptical of the ethics of organ donation in general and allocation of organs in specific and many lack trust in the system. Stories like what happened in Houston only confirm the public worries.  Will the increase in xenotransplantation alleviate or heighten skepticism and distrust? Whether the field of transplant medicine expands to include xenotransplantation or not, it is clear that we need to think clearly and ethically about transplantation medicine more broadly. Ethics matter and this ethical debate will get murkier as our ability to sustain life increases.  I’d love to hear your thoughts on this.

The post The Ethics of Transplantation Medicine appeared first on The Center for Bioethics & Culture Network.

Speaker Johnson could do something about what he calls a Travesty of Justice

The House Republicans could vote to cut the Dept of Justice (sic) budget. The Senate Democrats would not go along, but the House could block future DOJ appropriation bills and leave the corrupt department unfunded.

But do not expect Republicans to do anything except talk.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/speaker-johnson-says-trump-trial-is-a-travesty-of-justice-5649715?utm_source=RTNews&src_src=RTNews&utm_campaign=rtbreaking-2024-05-14-4&src_cmp=rtbreaking-2024-05-14-4&utm_medium=email&est=AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAceE5JjMFys3H%2BbdAvWpUcQzPZ0WlGLZbDFlFfmdQNQ%3D%3D

The West Has an Illiterate Financial Press

Paul Craig Roberts

The entire the financial press has zero understanding of basic economics. The financial “journalists” just print press releases.

The US debt has never mattered, because the US dollar is the world reserve currency. That means US debt is the reserves of the world’s central banks. If US debt rises, so does the reserves of the world banking system. All central banks were delighted to accumulate more US Treasury debt as it meant the reserves of their banking system went up.

The Federal Reserve can always redeem US Treasury debt by creating money with which to buy it. The debt is always redeemable because it is denominated in dollars.

The problem arrives when the dollar is deserted as world reserve currency. The morons who comprise the Biden regime are scaring central banks away from the dollar as their reserves because of sanctions against Russia, Iran, China, Venezuela, and others. The slow mental processes of central banks are beginning to understand that having your reserves in US Treasury dollar debt means they can be frozen, seized, denied to your use if you cross Washington.

The threat to Washington is, whereas the Fed can print dollars to redeem the debt, the Fed cannot print foreign currencies to redeem the US dollar. So, if central banks shift their reserves out of dollars into gold, as Russia and China are doing, or into other currencies, the supply of dollars in foreign exchange markets have fewer and fewer takers. Consequently the dollar loses its value relative to gold, silver, and rising currencies, and the dollar’s value falls in foreign exchange markets. As America’s manufacturing is offshored and as America relies on imports of food, US inflation rises. Historically, the Fed’s response to inflation has been unemployment.

The Federal Reserve and the institutions used to suppress gold and silver prices use naked shorts to control the price by dumping shorts into the futures market. In other words, contracts unsupported by actual gold holdings can be used to increase the paper supply of gold in futures markets. As the futures market settles in cash, not in gold deliveries, a flood of paper contracts unsupported by actual physical gold can be used to suppress the price. In other words, the supply of paper gold can be printed just like the Fed can print paper money. Myself and Dave Krantzler have explained this over and over on my website.

This price control process fails when the demand for gold exceeds the physical supply at the suppressed price. We have recently witnessed a new outbreak in the gold price. Is this a sign that the controlled price can no longer hold against the demand for physical gold, or is there some other explanation?

As the fools ruling the US continue their destruction of the country, the dollar and living standards will die with the country. America is likely living her last years. Perhaps this is why Putin and Xi don’t bother to dispose of us.

We have all certainly heard about the rights of the pope, who enjoys supreme jurisdiction in the Church; and we have certainly heard about the duties of bishops toward the Chair of Peter. But what about the pope’s duties to the bishops (and, indeed, to the Church as a whole, and to Christ its eternal Head?) And what of the bishops’ rights over against papal overreach? Os Justi Press has just Peter Kwasniewskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02068005370670549612noreply@blogger.com0

She was one of the three candidates to succeed Phu Trong at the head of the Party, the most important post. Forced to resign by the 'fiery furnace' anti-corruption campaign, which is intertwined with the manoeuvres ahead of the Congress scheduled for January 2026. Politburo reduced to 12 members from the previous 18 with incumbent Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and Security Minister To Lam in the top positions.

Bishop Aldo Berardi, head of the vicariate that includes Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar and Saudi Arabia, comments on Pope Francis' decision to grant the Syro-Malabar Church jurisdiction over Indian migrants. "This is not a secondary element, it concerns areas that go beyond rituals" and will have to be defined. The problem of places of worship, relations with the State and interlocution with the Muslim world. "Too many voices" can create "confusion".

Politicians, bolstered by economic quackery such as modern monetary theory, believe they face no fiscal constraints as they impose their visions upon us. But costs are real things and economic, reality sooner or later sets in.