In his letter, Ahmadinejad referred to an Aug. 30 meeting with Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and wrote, “You recommended that it is not suitable at this time for me to participate in the elections. Therefore, I have declared my obedience. … I have no plans to compete in next year’s election.” MORE

Mother nature is doing a number on the whole world

Watermelons once sprung from this soil, the giant striped fruit dotting the arid landscape like mushrooms after a rain.

“It was such a garden,” farmer Hossain Mirakhouri, 45, recalled of his childhood on this sun-scorched plateau east of Tehran. MORE

SALTON CITY, Calif., Sept. 27 (UPI) — Almost 200 earthquakes were recorded in Southern California’s Salton Sea in roughly a 24-hour period, geologists said Tuesday.

The U.S. Geological Survey recorded the quakes that began Monday and persisted throughout the day. The strongest quake had a magnitude of 4.3, officials said.

Most of the earthquakes were small but three had a magnitude of 4.0 or greater and nine of at least 3.0, the USGS said. MORE

If there were any doubt as to just how toxic sectarian politics has become in the Middle East, the latest statement from the leader of the Iran-backed Lebanese Shia militant group Hezbollah should clear things right up.

Hassan Nasrallah, the secretary general of a group that has been fighting Israel for decades, declared on Tuesday that “Wahhabism is more evil than Israel,” Lebanon’s Al Akhbar newspaper reported. MORE

This is becoming a growing movement. To much corruption in the Religions everywhere.

(RNS) 1976 was, Time magazine declared, “the year of the born-again Christian.” “Born-agains” were the hot demographic in American religion, and one of them, Jimmy Carter, won the presidency.

Though no one could know it at the time, we were entering an era of movement politics unprecedented in American history. Religious conservatives of all stripes, but especially white evangelicals and Mormons, made the Republican Party their own and turned “the social issues” — abortion and gay rights above all — into markers of partisan identity. MORE

Russia’s newest nuclear submarine has been sent on permanent deployment to the country’s Far East, state news agency Itar-Tass reports. MORE

Nate “Buster” Jaros is a retired USAF fighter pilot with over 2,000 hours in F-16 C/D/CM and T-38A/C aircraft and over 500 hours in General Aviation aircraft. He is currently a Test Pilot, Instructor Pilot, and LO SME with Lockheed Martin Skunkworks.

Nate provides a detailed review of China J-20 stealth fighter.
Several other analysts have said that the the J-20 is not a fifth generation fighter. MORE

CLOVERDALE, Calif. — A wildfire that erupted amid hot, dry conditions and gusty winds in Sonoma County north of San Francisco has sent about 90 people fleeing from their homes.

The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection says the blaze in rural Cloverdale began Sunday morning and spread to 1,500 acres, or more than 2 square miles. MORE

Boone Pickens doesn’t always get things right. He has over the last several years made a habit of trying to predict what the price of crude oil is going to be in the future in these interviews, and I’m sure he’d admit he’s been pretty consistently wrong in those projections. But on this particular topic, Pickensis absolutely, 100% correct,a realitythe President’s media defenders can’t really do anything to change. MORE

In as much as this scandal has been brought to light. The new church does not have the jurisdiction for anything let a loan appointing Saints.

Physicians Were Paid off to Sign onto Phony “Miracles”
From: The TRADITIO Fathers
Francis-Bergoglio
Francis-Bergoglio Proclaims the Latest Phony Newsaint of Newchurch
Theresa of Calcutta on September 4, 2016

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The crown jewel among America’s oil refiners may soon be owned by Saudi Arabia.

Saudi Aramco, the state oil company of OPEC’s most powerful player, recently announced plans to take full control of the sprawling Port Arthur, Texas refinery. The Gulf Coast facility is the largest refinery in the U.S. and can process 600,000 barrels of oil a day. MORE

Vol 9 Issue 43 ~ Editor: Rev. Fr. Courtney Edward Krier
September 24, 2016 ~ Our Lady of Ransom, opn!

1. Baptism: Means of Salvation (87)
2. Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost
3. St Firmin 4. Christ in the Home (61)
5. Articles and notices

Dear Reader:

Here in Las Vegas there are two music festivals this weekend: Life is Beautiful and iHeart. I cannot vouch for the iHeart, but the Life is Beautiful festival which, as the Church is in the middle of it, I can comment on having witnessed the event. It seems sad that the people of this world want happiness yet irrationally seek it in what can never bring happiness: Evilness. The perverseness of misery is such that one can have a perverse happiness in enjoying evil. The art is not an expression of peacefulness, of truth, of joy and uplifting—it expresses the emptiness and soul except for the

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Well here you have it my friends. Life Site News is just now seeing what transpired as a result of the Vatican II Council. This council was called to bring ALL the religions together but to do that Jesus had to be reduced to a mere prophet. Not God man. To do this and suck the other religions into the trap the Councillors made Biblical changes Starting with the American Bible when they changed Isaiah (7:14): from “A virgin shall CONCEIVE,” to a young woman is with child. Continue reading →