Mexico decriminalizes marijuana…Did Joseph’s letter help?

05Mexico-web-master675This is a victory for the Mexican people.
I wrote to the newly elected “Enrique Peña Nieto, President of Mexico,” and even though I don’t have a copy of it, I do have a copy of their reply, dated 10-4-2013.

The suggestion’s I recall was to legalize marijuana in order to get rid of the drug cartels. Then legalize and develop a Las Vegas type gaming city with the opportunity for those drug cartel’s without murder crimes, an opportunity to manage a casino which would take them out of their crime world. Continue reading

VIDEO: At Least 17 Dead, 45 Missing, Town Leveled In ‘Catastrophic’ Dam Collapse In Brazil – Video Footage

In what is being described as a “catastrophic” accident, at least 17 people have reportedly been killed, with at least 45 still missing as a dam collapsed in the southeastern Brazilian state of Minas Gerais, leveling the town with a resident count of 620. The total number of dead and injured will not be known until rescues and evacuations are completed by officials. MORE

Headline: “Millions of salmon mysteriously just disappear” off West Coast — Expert: “Literally within 2 days it disappeared

SALMONLate sockeye numbers ‘disturbingly low,’ monitoring group says

Pre-run estimate of 1.24 million dropped to 200,000 for entire Fraser River run

“The late South Thompson sockeye run has seen far fewer fish than expected, but the federal fisheries department says it’s still very preliminary with the final numbers not known until late December or January.

“In terms of the sockeye return, it’s much more disappointing than people were hoping to see this year,” said Greg Taylor, senior fisheries adviser for the Watershed Watch Salmon Society, a Vancouver-based non-profit organization that monitors wild salmon. MORE

Don’t impose the sexual revolution on Ukraine! Sign the petition:

ukraine_The United States government has made it clear that they will not stop until the liberal sexual agenda has been imposed across the globe. Their most recent “project” is Ukraine’s new Constitution. 

Instead of letting countries like Ukraine keep their traditional cultural beliefs, a group of U.S. Representatives from the United States incorrectly assumed that the disastrous “non-discrimination” solution – which has allowed religious persecution to run rampant in the United States – is the correct answer for every nation. MORE

Halloween or Hell-O-Ween? ‘Witch’ the Hell is it?

halloweeSaturday October 31st – ARTICLE 19

THREE DAYS ON HELL, HEAVEN & PURGATORY (OCTOBER 31-NOVEMBER 2)

We have entered a period of time which, under the surface, could be said to be a battle between Heaven and Hell. Today, October 31st, the eve of All Saints Day, which traditionally begins with the liturgy of First Vespers on (Ocotober 31st) the evening before All Saints Day (November 1st), has been turned into a glorification of pagan and diabolical customs. We will therefore, over the course of three days, a triduum of sorts, look at Hell (Halloween), Heaven (All Saints Day) and Purgatory (All Souls Day). Continue reading

Introibo Ad Altare Dei Baptism

photo_baptismTHE TEACHING OF THE CHURCH ON BAPTISM
 
According to theologian Prummer, baptism is “the sacrament of regeneration through water in words” (quoting the Catechism of the Council of Trent). The effects of baptism by Divine Law are six: 1. The bestowal of the Baptismal character (even if the sacrament is unlawfully administered or received); 2. the remission of all sin; 3. the remission of all punishment; 4. the bestowal of Grace, virtues, and the gifts; 5. the bestowal of sacramental grace; 6. incorporation in the Church. (See Handbook of Moral Theology, 1957; pgs. 252 and 254) MORE

 

Vatican II saint-hoods bought for $100’s of $1000’s of dollars

ViiVATICAN CITY — The Vatican is bracing for more allegations of financial wrongdoing and mismanagement with the publication next week of two books that underscore the challenges Pope Francis is facing to reform the Holy See.

Italian journalist Gianluigi Nuzzi’s “Merchants in the Temple” follows his blockbuster 2012 book, “His Holiness,” based on confidential papal correspondence detailing corruption and political intrigue in the Vatican. The so-called Vatileaks scandal that ensued resulted in the conviction of Pope Benedict XVI’s butler for leaking the documents, and some say, to Benedict’s historic resignation. MORE

The assassination of Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem

diem ignatiusNote: We had a successful peace treaty under President Nixon but after he was impeached the North Vietnamese knew by invading,  President Ford would do nothing, end of story. Joseph

New revelations: how Kennedy lost the Vietnam War

Numerous books, articles, and exposés have sought to understand how and why the United States ultimately failed in the Vietnam War, despite losing thousands of troops and innocent lives, and expending billions. A new book seeks to understand why by offering new details into the assassination of Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem, the first president of the Republic of Vietnam. Diem, a wily politician, was widely regarded at the time as having what Confucians call “Mandate of Heaven:” a moral and political authority recognized by all Vietnamese. He was the first president of the Republic of Vietnam, following the end of French colonial rule. However, he was deposed in a military coup ordered by the Kennedy administration and ultimately murdered on November 2, 1963. MORE

British SAS Special Forces “Dressed Up as ISIS Rebels” Fighting Assad in Syria

british-army-troops-iraq“More than 120 members belonging to the elite regiment are currently in the war-torn country” covertly “dressed in black and flying ISIS flags,” engaged in what’s called Operation Shader – attacking Syrian targets on the pretext of combatting ISIS.

Maybe covert US special forces and CIA elements are involved the same way. During Obama’s war on Libya, Britain deployed hundreds of Special Forces Support Group (SFSG) paratroopers – drawn from SAS (Special Air Service) and SBS (Special Boat Service) personnel. MORE

October heat breaks Southern California records

HEATIt was like being in an oven for more than a month

LOS ANGELES >> October 2015 will go down as the hottest October ever in most of Southern California, as the average high temperature was 4 degrees hotter than the previous hottest October.

A large pool of unusually-warm water off the Pacific Coast, called “the Blob” by climatologists, brought the warmest October nights to almost every nook and cranny of Southern California, a National Weather Service meteorologist said. MORE