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January 10 - Food skyrockets to highest prices ever
Article: Signs Of The Last Times
Figures recently released by
the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
index of 55 food commodities indicates that worldwide food
prices hit a record high in December. Though the costs of
some food commodities like rice, corn and soy actually decreased,
oil seeds and sugar jumped significantly due to various
factors including erratic weather and droughts, according to
reports.
In the past, such ups and downs on the commodity market did not immediately
affect actual food costs for consumers, but
some experts say that this is no longer the case, and that "food
inflation"
will occur right alongside the commodity price gains. And rapid
food
inflation has already taken place in India, for example, with recent reports
indicating that the country experienced an overall food inflation rate of 18
percent in 2010.
Low food stocks, droughts and poor weather
conditions have all
contributed to the escalating food crisis, which has led many nations to cut off
exports in order to save supplies for their own populations.
And the resulting global shortages only exacerbate the problem further as
importing nations scramble to source needed commodities for their own
populations.
Abdolreza Abbassian, a senior economist at the FAO, explained in a Bloomberg
report that since not all commodity prices are rising, the overall indicator can
be deceiving. Even so, prices across the board may
increase as a result of a domino effect from the commodities that are in short
supply, or even from the same conditions like
droughts
and poor weather that have caused shortages and price increases in the other
categories.
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January 5 - Anglican Ordinariate Begins: Reception into Full Communion at Westminster Cathedral
Article: Bridges To Rome
Church
History was made in London, England on January 1, 2011.
It was no accident that it occurred on the Feast of the Mother of
God in the Roman Liturgical calendar - when the Church paused to
commemorate the humble Virgin whose obedient "Yes" brought heaven to
earth and earth to heaven. In Westminster Cathedral,
a prophetic sign of the coming full communion of
the Church took place.
Without any fanfare the former
Anglican Bishop of Ebbsfleet, Andrew Burnham, former Anglican Bishop of
Fulham, John Broadhurst and former Anglican Bishop of Richborough, Keith
Newton, all dressed in suits and ties, were called forward during Holy Mass.
Along with them were several members of their families and three Anglican
sisters from the Anglican community at Walsingham. As Baptized Christians
already, they made the profession of the Ancient Creed adding
"I believe and profess all that the Holy Catholic Church believes, teaches,
and proclaims to be revealed by God." They were then
confirmed and returned to their seats to what one observer called "gentle
applause". When the time came to receive Holy Communion, they came forward,
now as Christians in full communion with the Catholic Church, to receive the
Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of Jesus Christ.
Accounts indicate that the
simplicity of the reception caught the Press off guard. They probably
expected a lot more fanfare. It was
"Marian" for a reason. Humility forms the path toward the healing of the
divisions in the Body of Christ. Those who came forward did so with
humility. They gave their own "Yes" to the invitation of the Lord who
continues His redemptive mission through His One, Holy, Catholic and
Apostolic Church.
Pope Benedict XVI is the Pope of Christian Unity.
Do not underestimate the significance of what occurred. We will mark January
1, 2011, the Feast of the Mother of God, as
the beginning of the healing of a division in the Body of Christ.
It was no accident that the seed of the healing began in the land of John
Henry Cardinal Newman. He prayed for this day.
It is also no accident that the Pope of Christian unity raised him to the
altars just months ago. It was a prophetic act.
Andrew Burnham, John
Broadhurst and Keith Newton will be ordained to the Diaconate on Thursday
13th January. Then, two days later, Saturday, January 15, 2011
they will be ordained to the Holy Priesthood. They
will be set aside to serve a beautiful expression of legitimate diversity
within the Unity of the One Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church.
January 1, 2010 marks the beginning of a new chapter in Church history.
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January 12 - Airline Passengers Are Sprayed for Bugs
Article: Miscellaneous
An airline flight to the
tropics may involve greater health risks than a dose of airline food--
pesticides are routinely sprayed in
aircraft cabins by U.S. airlines sometimes over the heads of passengers
during flight. "Disinsection" is the industry term
for this practice, which continues
despite clear evidence of risk to passengers and crew.
People more vulnerable to the effects of pesticides, such as
infants, pregnant woman or asthmatics
are informed, if at all, only just prior to spraying.
The International
Civil Aviation Organization reports that most airlines use permethrin
and pyrethroid, both are suspected
endocrine disruptors, and permethrin may be a carcinogen.
The Northwest Coalition for Alternatives to Pesticides (NCAP) points out
that pesticides cause even greater harm
on airplanes, where up to 50% of the air in the cabins is recycled.
"Pesticides break down slowly in the enclosed, poorly ventilated
aircraft," says a NCAP spokesperson.
The airlines are
not required to inform passengers at
ticket purchase of flight sprays, and there is also no control over how
much pesticide is applied on the aircraft. The
Association of Flight Attendants reported in 2001 that one airline used
50-60% more pesticide than the maximum
recommended by the World Health Organization. Between 2000 and 2001, one
cabin crew union received complaints of pesticide-related illness on
more than 200 flights. Many complaints cite damp
surfaces and pesticide odors in crew rest compartments. Crews and
passengers have reported sinus
problems, swollen and itchy eyes, cough, difficulty breathing,
hoarseness, skin rashes/hives that vary in intensity, severe headaches
and fatigue, and heightened sensitivity to other chemicals. Some crew
members have medical documentation of reactions consistent with nerve
gas exposure, such as blood, optic nerve, and nervous system
abnormalities.
The Association of
Flight Attendants suggests that passengers contact the airline to find
out if pesticides will be sprayed on their flight, or if they will be
boarding a "residually sprayed" craft. The U.S. Department of
Transportation website also lists countries that require spray.
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January 10 - Latest Food Crisis Brewing for Months
Article: Signs Of The Last Times
The United Nations, which is
trying to reach out to nearly a billion undernourished people, some living
in perpetual hunger, is anticipating
another food crisis later this year. And the signs of impending trouble
have been there for some time.
The Rome-based Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO)
warned last week that world market prices
for rice, wheat, sugar, barley and meat will remain high or register
significant rises in 2011 - perhaps replicating the crisis of 2007-2008.
Rob Vos, director of development policy and analysis at
the U.N.'s Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), told IPS that
higher food prices are already affecting many
developing countries. He said countries like India and a number of
other East and South Asian countries are facing
double-digit inflation, mainly caused by higher food prices - alongside
higher energy prices.
The short-term implications are not only that
the poor are especially heavily affected - and that more people could be
pushed into poverty - but also that it will hamper the recovery in the
countries facing higher inflation as consumers lose purchasing power,
he noted.
"Food riots and civil unrest affected some 30 countries in 2008,
and this can be repeated today since the situation has
not changed in the last three years," said Mousseau,
author of 'The High Food Price Challenge: A Review of Responses to Combat
Hunger.' The most vulnerable countries are those which are the most
dependent on food imports and the least able to handle high prices in
international markets through public mechanism and public policy, he noted.
According to the FAO price index released last week,
the price of a basket of cereals, oil seeds, dairy, meat and sugar has
continued to rise for six consecutive months.
Abdolreza Abbassian, an FAO economist, was quoted by a London daily
as saying: "We are entering danger
territory."
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January 8 - Rioting spreads across Tunisia; unrest also reported in Algeria
Article: Signs Of The Last Times
Reporting from Beirut -
Protests and strikes driven by
unemployment and high food prices continued to sweep across the tightly
controlled North African nation of Tunisia on Friday
amid police attempts to clamp down on the unrest. Reports also trickled
out about similar unrest in neighboring
Algeria, where rioting youths this week burned shops in the capital and
clashed with police in several cities.
At the root of the unrest in
Tunisia is discontent with the autocratic government's
management of the economy. Thousands of lawyers went on strike
Thursday. News reports said Friday that teachers had joined the strikes.
A journalist in Tunis, the
capital, who requests anonymity for security reasons, said in an e-mail
interview that clashes continued Friday in the
northern farming town of Siliana between security forces and residents.
Banks and some government buildings there had been set on fire, the
journalist said.
Censors appeared to be putting substantial effort into stopping the
information flow about the unrest. Pages on Facebook criticizing the
government reportedly have been taken down, and some bloggers and
journalists covering the protests complain that their
accounts on social networking sites have been hacked.
The demonstrations began
after an unemployed 26-year-old university
graduate set himself on fire last month in Sidi Bouzid to protest the police
seizure of his vegetable cart. He died of his injuries
Tuesday.
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January 10 - Economy, inflation, crisis: Experts predict price shock in 2011
Article: Signs Of The Last Times
2011 is likely to become
a record year in terms of inflation and price
hikes for food in the world, and countries such as Algeria
and Tunisia have already been rocked by social riots due to the
unavailability of food.
The world economy is facing a food "price shock",
which may turn into a food crisis, reports the
Financial Times, quoting the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of
the United Nations. The UN believes that in many developing countries,
including China and India, inflation has become a major economic and
political problem.
World prices for many commodities have risen
sharply in recent years. According to the IMF,
the prices of maize and rice have increased by
more than 40 percent since July, soybeans and wheat prices have risen by
more than 20 percent. Consequently, the price of bread in Armenia has
increased by more than 10 percent over the past four months.
"At the same time, the level of prices for some
Armenian foodstuffs is really high as compared to international prices,
which is connected with structural weaknesses in the distribution
sector, limited competition between importers and producers in some
sectors," said Tolosa.
Meanwhile, the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun), which
positions itself also as a socialist party, has published a special
brochure, in which it says that Armenia is facing
a crisis of economic management. This crisis, according to the party, is
manifested in all spheres, beginning from "the ruthless and inefficient
use of natural resources" (water, soil, mines) and ending with
decision-making by state bodies.
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January 12 - Rick Warren to Lose 90 Pounds in Saddleback Fitness Plan
Article: Miscellaneous
Comments from Understand
The Times
Rick Warren has a plan to
lose 90 pounds in 52 weeks. His partner in Rhwanda,
President Paul Kagame, who is for a purpose driven nation,
had a plan to kill millions of humans. This goes to show
that if you are purpose driven you can do good or bad. What
do you think of that if you are a member of Saddleback.
Rick Warren pledges to lose 90 pounds during
a 52-week church fitness plan, developed by Dr. Oz
and two other medical experts, that will launch on Saturday at
Saddleback Church. The Daniel Plan, based on the prophet Daniel
who chose healthy eating instead of the king's rich foods, is
a yearlong, churchwide program to help the
Saddleback parishioners get physically healthier.
Renowned physicians Dr. Daniel Amen,
bestselling author and psychiatrist, Dr. Mark Hyman, a metabolism
expert, and Dr. Mehmet Oz, a cardiac surgeon and host of The Dr. Oz
Show, will join Warren at the church's main campus in Lake Forest,
Calif., to kick off the initiative. Warren will speak about spiritual
health while the three doctors address topics under their area of
expertise.
Around 6,000 people signed up for the
program when Warren introduced it during a sermon last year. The church
will launch a website, www.danielplan.com, to help
members track their progress through an interactive profile and tips on
meals, food shopping and exercising.
At the Saturday event, medical
professionals will record health numbers and attendants will have the
chance to take a "before and after" photo. Warren said there will also
be a monthly conference call to encourage those in the plan. Small
groups will also be able to follow along in a six-week curriculum.
The fitness plan is part of
Saddleback's Decade of Destiny, the church's
spiritual growth and expansion plan for the next 10 years. The campaign
aims to equip church members in seven key areas: spiritual, physical,
financial, relational, vocational, emotional and mental.
Hoping that
the event will also serve as a "non-threatening" platform for outreach,
Warren has asked his congregation to invite their friends and neighbors
to attend.
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January 12 - Purgatory inflames hearts with God's love, Pope says
Article: Roman Catholic Church And The Last Days
Pope
Benedict continued his recent theme of reflecting on
women saints during his weekly audience,
highlighting St. Catherine of Genoa
and her insights on Purgatory.
The Pope said that St. Catherine - a 15th
century Italian mystic -
didn't focus on the "torments"
of purgatory but rather called it an "interior fire"
that purifies and inflames our hearts with God's
love.
The Pope reflected on the saint's writings, saying
that "in her mystical
experiences, Catherine never received specific
revelations on Purgatory or on the souls
being purified there."
St. Catherine, he underscored,
did not see Purgatory "as a place of transit in the
depths of the earth" or as "an exterior fire."
Rather, she saw it as "an interior fire."
For St. Catherine,
the soul in Purgatory "is aware of God's immense
love and perfect justice; as a consequence, it
suffers for not having responded to that love
perfectly, and it is precisely the love of God
Himself which purifies the soul from the ravages of
sin," he said.
Pope Benedict recalled that St. Catherine used
the image of a thread
of gold linking the human heart to God as a
depiction of the relationship between a soul in
Purgatory and God. "This
situation of elevation towards God and abandonment
to His will, as expressed in the image of the
thread, is used by Catherine
to express the action of
divine light on the souls in Purgatory, a light
which purifies and raises them towards the splendor
of the dazzling rays of God," he
said.
"By writing about
Purgatory, the saint reminds us of a fundamental
truth of the faith which becomes an invitation for
us to pray for the dead, that
they may achieve the blessed vision of God in the
communion of the saints," he said.
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"Miracles of Mary," book documents miracles of the Virgin Mary
Article: Signs And Wonders
Comment
from Understand the Times:
The
apparition "delusion" will soon get hot. More and
more people are placing their trust in the Queen of
Heaven than Jesus now that the pope is about to show
his power and try to become king of the world. Only
those who follow the leading of the Holy Spirit will
understand this deception. All others will be duped.
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January 13 - Archbishop describes agenda of Pontifical Council for New Evangelization
Article: Bridges To Rome
Comment from Understand the Times:
The New
Evangelization Program is about to really intensify.
The Road to Rome is wide and many are they who
travel on it. The way to Jesus Christ is narrow and
few are those who find it. It is better to take the
narrow way and go to heaven than the wide way and go
to you know where.
In an
interview with L'Osservatore Romano,
Archbishop Salvatore Fisichella, president of the
Pontifical Council for the New Evangelization,
discussed the background of the new dicastery and
described its agenda.
The
pontifical council, he said, has its roots in
Blessed John XXIII's famous opening address to the
Second Vatican Council in which the Pontiff
called for the unchanging
faith to be presented in new ways to the
contemporary world. A milestone in the years
that followed was Pope Paul VI's 1974 apostolic
exhortation Evangelii Nuntiandi, which the
archbishop described as a "key document in the life
of the Church." Pope John Paul II
"continued to focus on the new
evangelization," while Pope Benedict has set forth
"the particular task of rethinking and implementing
the new evangelization" in cooperation with bishops
around the world.
Archbishop
Fisichella said that the dicastery's mission field
is the secularized countries of the West. In the
years before the next synod of bishops,
which will be devoted to the
new evangelization, the archbishop hopes to
gain "a complete picture of the various
initiatives-- and there are already so many-- in
place in the Church. We know that there are very
well organized groups and movements, born at the
time of John Paul II,
with the intent to promote and
support the new evangelization."
Citing
evangelization efforts on US university campuses as
well as Latin American and European apostolates, the
archbishop said that
there is a wealth of lay
movements that have as their purpose the new
evangelization. There are diocesan pastoral plans
designed for this purpose. But
all this is rather fragmented. The first objective
of the department, therefore, is to know the
realities in the field
in order to harmonize and
support the efforts of all, overcoming fragmentation
and fostering greater unity. The intent is to
promote the complementarity of each group
working together, while respecting and enhancing the
charism of each.
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January 10 - Sarkozy urges less international reliance on US dollar
Article: One World Government
France is hosting this year's G8 and G20 summits,
and French President Nicolas Sarkozy has started to
campaign for a
change to the way the US dollar plays a central role
in the global economy.
In his New Year's Eve address to his country,
Sarkozy said France would look
to change a system which no
longer reflects our modern global society.
"The system put
in place in 1945 is for a world that doesn't exist
anymore," the French president told the
nation.
Sarkozy's plan is
to update everything to what he regards as the new
reality of a more multi-polar world and the rise of
new powers like India, Brazil and China.
"The Federal Reserve's latest actions favor the US
but have consequences for the rest of the world,"
Dessertine said.
"Emerging countries and Europe really want to change
that."
Dessertine and other economists say the dollar will
remain king for now, so long as the world economy
does not go into recession.
But if things get worse, the US will have to work
with other nations to reduce the dollar's influence.
He will now be hoping he will succeed at least in
getting world leaders
to talk about a new monetary
system at this year's global
summits in France. He will be
hoping President Obama will also be prepared to join
in these discussions.
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January 7 - Obama Eyeing Internet ID for Americans
Article: Technology For Glaobal Monetary System
President Obama is
planning to hand the U.S. Commerce Department
authority over a forthcoming cybersecurity effort to
create an Internet ID for Americans,
a White House official said here today.
It's "the absolute
perfect spot in the U.S. government" to centralize
efforts toward creating an "identity ecosystem" for
the Internet, White House
Cybersecurity Coordinator Howard Schmidt said.
The Obama administration
is currently drafting what it's calling the National
Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace, which
Locke said will be released by the president in the
next few months. (An
early version
was publicly released last summer.)
"We are not talking about a national ID card," Locke
said at the Stanford event. "We are not talking
about a government-controlled system. What we are
talking about is
enhancing online security and privacy, and reducing
and perhaps even eliminating the need to memorize a
dozen passwords, through creation and use of more
trusted digital identities."
Details about the
"trusted identity" project are remarkably scarce.
Last year's announcement referenced
a possible forthcoming smart
card or digital certificate that would prove that
online users are who they say they are.
These digital IDs would be offered to consumers by
online vendors for financial transactions.
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January 9 - Move Over, Joysticks: Brainwave-Controlled Gadgets Are Here
Article: Miscellaneous
Gamers set aside their
joysticks recently to test out a new video game. All
they needed instead?
The power of thought.
InteraXon, a Canadian
digital
innovations company, was the hit of CES when it
unveiled the latest products incorporating
Thought Controlled Computing
-- a technology
that lets users control a digital interface using
simply the power of their concentration. Their
creations include thought-controlled 3D glasses as
well as an
iPad
game that tests a person's ability to focus their
mind for an extended period of time.
"We've developed a
simple sensor that sits on your forehead and
reads your brainwaves,"
InteraXon CEO Ariel Garten told FoxNews.com. "It's
just like a heart monitor that can read your heart
rate. And the
software translates your brainwave
data
and uses it to control your virtual world."
She called it a
brain/computer interface, or BCI, and InteraXon
builds it into a simple, lightweight headband. "You
have patterns of thought that are readable," Garten
explained. Enter
the company's 3D TV glasses, which can detect your
mood and will adjust what you're watching according
to how you're feeling. "It gives
you the ability to watch a movie or televised
content, and it knows the state that you're in,
whether it be scared, excited, or bored," Garten
told FoxNews.com. "This is not just an immersive
environment because it's 3D,
it's an immersive environment because it understands
you."
"This is just the
beginning of an
enormous industry to understand brain activity, to
use it, and to have intelligent responses to
brain-activating activities,"
Carlen told FoxNews.com. "Ultimately, we'll have an
intelligent response simulation
that can modulate to what you are thinking. These
are just the early days, but this is going to be a
multi-billion dollar industry."
"In the short term, we're going to see these
kinds of systems integrated in home devices like
cell
phones
and televisions. But in the long term, it's going to
be the way we control the world on a regular basis."
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January 12 - Few Millennials Interested in Religion, Study Finds
Article: Signs Of The Last Times
Millennials, those born
between 1980 and 2000, are not anti-Christian or
anti-religion, but
they are, in general, just not interested in
religion, says a new book based
on a survey of members of this generation.
An apathetic attitude
towards religious and spiritual matters is common
among members of this generation,
according to The Millennials by Thom
Rainer, president and CEO of
LifeWay
Christian Research, and his son Jess, a Millennial
born in 1985. Members of this generation
are likely to care less about
spiritual matters than those from previous
generations, the Rainers wrote.
Nearly
two-thirds (65 percent) of
this generation rarely or never attend religious
services, according to the
survey conducted by LifeWay on 1,200 Millennials.
And spiritual
matters was ranked sixth, below friends and
education, in a list based on an open-ended question
on what is important to respondents.
Rainer suggested that
the church has become less effective in reaching the
Millennials because members of this group tend to be
a high commitment generation and they see most of
what takes place in churches as low commitment so
they are not interested. Another possible
reason is that
three-fourths of these Millennials come from an
unchurched background, meaning they have no
Christian faith background.
The survey also found
that Millennials
are "a confused generation spiritually."
Although, 65 percent of this generation
describe themselves as Christian -
notably many of them do not
know or practice the basic teachings of the faith -
only 26 percent say they believe they will go to
heaven when they die because they have accepted
Christ as their savior.
Millennials are also
confused over who Jesus is.
They were divided on whether Jesus is the only way
to salvation and if he was sinless.
An astounding
70 percent of Millennials agree that American
churches are irrelevant today.
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