"NEVER AGAIN"? PASTOR MARTIN NIEMOLLER WARNED US.

PASTOR MARTIN NIEMOLLER WARNED THE WORLD

THE TRUMP REGIME ECHOES NAZI GERMANY SO CLEARLY, BUT MILLIONS OF AMERICANS ARE REPEATING WHAT THE GERMANS AND AUSTRIANS DID IN THE 1930'S.

THE HOLOCAUST DIDN'T START WITH THE OVENS. IT STARTED WITH LIES AND ETHNIC CLEANSING. IT STARTED WITH TEARING CHILDREN FROM THEIR PARENTS' ARMS.

JUST LIKE THE NAZIS, THE REPUBLICANS ARE CRUSHING EVERY FREEDOM AND SWALLOWING UP EVERY POSITION OF POWER. 

DONALD TRUMP IS FOLLOWING MEIN KAMPF TO THE LETTER.

WE WERE WARNED.

http://phylliscartersjournal.blogspot.ca/2015/02/we-said-never-again-world-war-pastor.html

http://phylliscartersjournal.blogspot.ca/2017/01/fifteen-warning-signs-of-impending.html

TRAINED TO LIE: "WHO ME, SIR? OH, NO, NOT ME, SIR..."

In the movie, Heartbeat - (1946, Ginger Rogers Adolphe Menjou, Basil Rathbone), we learn about professional training on how to be a successful liar and a thief.

In Paris, a troubled but charming young runaway, Arlette Lafron (Ginger Rogers), trains as a pickpocket under the tutelage of Professor Aristide (Basil Rathbone), who runs an academy for street thieves.

On her first assignment, Arlette is caught attempting to lift a tie pin from an ambassador (Adolphe Menjou), who blackmails her into stealing an expensive watch from a handsome diplomat, Pierre de Roche (Jean-Pierre Aumont). He brings her to Professor Aristide where the novices are taught the fine art of lying. They are carefully coached:

"Who, me sir? Not me, sir. I wasn't even there, sir. It must be someone else, sir."

In real life, Donald Trump was coached by Roy Cohn.

ALWAYS DENY, DIVERT, NEVER CONFESS, ALWAYS LIE.

Not me, sir. She must be confused. It must have been three other guys who happen to look like me. I wasn't even there, sir. I was on my knees in church ... 

AMERICA'S DESTINY IN THE HANDS OF FAKE CHRISTIANS

Choices that will change American lives for decades. 

Will America still be a democracy?

Will a few politicians sell their souls, the future of their children and grandchildren, in order to protect their jobs, their positions of power? 

In a few days, a tiny handful of politicians will be deciding the destiny of millions of Americans, and the lives of billions of people around the world by extension. 

So much power in the hands of so few powerful people.

The cover-up is so all-encompassing. The most important documents are hidden. The witnesses are muzzled.

All that is left - for the moment - is the free press, the open media, the Internet, the voices in the streets.

Silence implies consent.

THOUGHTS THAT KEEP ME AWAKE AT NIGHT

In the Face of Evil, It is Right to Be Insubordinate.

I was an Agent for Pinkerton.

 

http://phylliscartersjournal.blogspot.com/2018/06/in-face-of-evil-it-is-right-to-be.html.

 

I think about poor people and refugees on their trek through deserts and forests, losing their precious, wide-eyed babies to heartless wild seas as they rush out toward dreams, in desperate search of safe haven. How they must suffer without toilets and toilet paper, soap, precious water. I imagine what they leave behind in addition to their broken bodies, their terrified children and their bitter tears. Bloody fertilizer of the future – for better or for worse?

 

I wonder about the millions of starving people around the world. Even in the most remote jungles, so many seem to have the most modern ipods, "smart phones", cell phones and lap tops. We can see that they take and send videos and "selfies". But so many are gaunt and boney and have broken, rotting brown teeth. I don't understand.

 

I watch patients in waiting rooms in hospital in Montreal – greatly blessed by Medicare - many in poor shabby clothes ... tapping away in the glow of their gadgets… and I wonder how they pay for them. Almost every patient is focused on one of those gadgets. Only a few chat with the human beings who accompany them, volunteer companions or their neighbours. (Great opportunity for inter-cultural exchange, learning and perhaps making friends). But how do they afford the rental of those gadgets?

 

I wonder about the hospital gowns in our beautiful, modern hospitals: "Put one on in the front and one in the back". I can't tie a knot or a bow in the back. Many elderly sick people can't. "Ask a nurse to help you". As if nurses have nothing more urgent to do.

 

I see patients walking about with their backsides exposed - dignified people, teachers and store keepers, grandfathers, mothers - undone by barely covered bottoms in these primitive hospital gowns. "One long size fits all" dips into the toilet as you struggle to accommodate the necessities of life.

 

Why two gowns? Why not one gown – straight, spacious front panel, matching attached back panel, spaces for arms, just slip over the head - no ties, no buttons, no snaps? Every dignity covered. How costly to launder, transport and maintain the extra stacks of long clumsy gowns still in use.

 

The nurses bring welcome, comforting warm blankets. What "brain" decides how to fold those long, long blankets? How can sick people keep covered when the blanket seems to be 20 feet long and no feet wide? Who has the energy to unravel a heavy blanket and figure out how to cover up?

 

Why use so much fabric to cover a single bed? Why not fold the blankets in the laundry so they open in a way that most patients could open them without asking for help?

 

In the darkness of our world's really serious problems, these thoughts often keep me awake. It is now almost 7:00 am and I will try, again, to sleep.

 

This is my "Blog". It is always about JUSTICE.

 

Phyllis Carter

WARNING - I WAS BURNED BY CHALET BBQ

September 22, 2018

 

I was injured by a delivery man from Chalet BBQ. 

 

I have been dealing with Chalet BBQ on Sherbrooke West in Montreal for years. Their food is very good. But yesterday, September 21, 2018, the delivery man (#0528) injured me and I want to make sure he never hurts anyone again.

My bill was $29.95. When the delivery man arrived I asked him to take $30.00 from my $40.00 and I gave him a ziplock bag with about $2.00 in coins as a tip.

 

The delivery man plopped the bag with the burning hot chicken onto my arm, took my two twenties and went into his wallet to give me two $5.00 bills. My arm was on fire. He said he didn't need my (tip) bag and he threw it at me and left.

 

I was reeling in pain. I dropped everything on the floor, tried to close my door and bumped into shelving close by the door. I was falling over and everything was falling down around me.

 

A medical gel ice pack from the pharmacy eased the pain but my arm was bright red and welts appeared. I couldn't eat or sleep.

I had called Chalet BBQ and I was told there was no one in charge and the manager would call me back "tomorrow".

I received a call this afternoon. The manager did not want to come and see my burns and blisters. He denied that I am injured and tried to engage me in an argument. My arm is still red and these nickle-size blisters are real. I will not be caught up in a debate.

 

I don't want money or "compensation" from Chalet BBQ. I just want to make sure that delivery man never injures anyone else and that he never comes near me again.

Phyllis Carter

THE KU KLUX KLAN RULES AMERICA

Republican, Rep. Ralph Norman opened up a debate between himself and Democratic challenger Archie Parnell on Thursday afternoon by making a joke about the sexual assault allegations surrounding Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.

"Did y'all hear this latest late-breaking news from the Kavanaugh hearings? Ruth Bader Ginsburg came out that saying she was groped by Abraham Lincoln," the South Carolina Republican said to the crowd at the Kiwanis Club in Rock Hill, South Carolina.

The remarks come as President Donald Trump's choice to fill the vacant seat on the Supreme Court is in the midst of a scandal after Christine Blasey Ford, a professor from California, accused him of sexually assaulting her when he was 17 and she was 15. Kavanuagh has denied the allegation.

Norman's campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Laughter and some applause could be heard after Norman made the remark Thursday.

While Parnell did not immediately respond to the comment during the debate, he released a response soon after it ended.

"My opponent apparently thinks sexual assault is a joke. It is not. But I guess that's the best we can expect from someone who pulled a loaded gun on his own constituents," Parnell said in a statement.

He was referring to an April event where Norman pulled out his loaded, personal .38-caliber Smith & Wesson handgun and laid it on the table at a diner where he was meeting with his constituents in Rock Hill.

Norman told CNN after the event that he wanted to make a point in the debate over gun violence. "I merely proved a point that guns themselves are not the issue," he said.

Parnell has been embroiled in his own controversy concerning his relationship with a woman. In May, he admitted to abusing his ex-wife 45 years ago after his then-campaign manager obtained court documents that detailed the abuse.

"Forty-five years ago, while still a college student, I did something that I have regretted every single day since. In response to actions I feel unnecessary to specify, I lashed out and became violent with other people, including my former wife, which led to a divorce and monumental change in my life," Parnell said at the time. "These actions were inexcusable, wrong and downright embarrassing."

National and South Carolina Democrats repeatedly called for Parnell to drop out of the race at the time, but he ignored their wishes and won the primary on June 12. The House race had been thought of as one of the nation's most competitive after Parnell nearly beat Norman in a 2017 special election, but those aspirations disappeared after the abuse from Parnell's past surfaced.

CNN

THE BLOOD OF YEMENI CHILDREN STAINS THE AMERICAN SOUL

In news from Yemen, U.S.-backed Saudi forces have launched a new series of attacks on the port city of Hodeidah, sparking fears of a humanitarian crisis.

The charity Save the Children has warned disruption to supplies coming through Hodeidah could "cause starvation on an unprecedented scale." The group warns 5 million children are at risk of famine.

Meanwhile, CNN is reporting new evidence confirms U.S.- made bombs have been used in a series of attacks killing Yemeni civilians since the Saudi assault began in 2015. The CNN probe was based on shrapnel found at the scene of multiple bombings. Several of the bombs were manufactured by Raytheon.


https://www.democracynow.org/2018/9/19/headlines/yemen_new_evidence_of_us_made_bombs_charity_warns_of_starvation_on_an_unprecedented_scale.

CHEF JOSE ANDRES - WE CAN FEED THE WORLD IF WE CARE

Chef Jose Andres who has 31 restaurants in North America and the Caribbean, arrived on Puerto Rico five days after Hurricane Maria hit and quickly set up shop to get food to those affected. He worked with World Central Kitchen and 20,000 volunteers, staying roughly three months and serving about 3 million meals.

To date, World Central Kitchen has served over 3.6 million meals reaching every municipality in Puerto Rico from 25 kitchens with the help of over 19,000 volunteers. Learn more about the story of #ChefsForPuertoRico.

WCK founder José Andrés and the World Central Kitchen team arrived in September 2017  just a few days after Hurricane Maria wiped out the entire power grid and decimated agriculture and infrastructure. After cooking a few thousand meals from his friend Jose Enrique's restaurant in Santurce, we began receiving calls for aid from all over the island.

We began to expand operations all across the island, mobilizing a network of emergency kitchens, food trucks, and partner organizations to make sure that communities in need received quality meals. The #ChefsForPuertoRico movement quickly grew to serve over 150,000 meals in a single day to communities all across the island, becoming the largest fresh meal operation following the hurricane.

#ChefsForPuertoRico continues to remain active by empowering our chef and food truck partners through rebuilding grants and investing in agriculture, fishing, and culinary training.

Chef Jose Andres has some choice words for President Donald Trump.

 

The president on Thursday rejected the official death toll from hurricanes that slammed Puerto Rico last fall. Without evidence, he blamed Democrats for grossly inflating the tally.

 

Andres, who traveled to Puerto Rico to help those on the island shortly after Hurricane Maria hit, told CNBC on Thursday, "This is insane."

 

"Nobody should be proud," he said on "Power Lunch."

 

"We should be honoring those people, those men and women, that died. What is astonishing to me is that a year later we are still talking about this," he added.

 

Trump made his comments Thursday morning on Twitter, saying "3000 people did not die in the two hurricanes that hit Puerto Rico."

 

Donald J. Trump@realDonaldTrump

3000 people did not die in the two hurricanes that hit Puerto Rico. When I left the Island, AFTER the storm had hit, they had anywhere from 6 to 18 deaths. As time went by it did not go up by much. Then, a long time later, they started to report really large numbers, like 3000... This was done by the Democrats in order to make me look as bad as possible when I was successfully raising Billions of Dollars to help rebuild Puerto Rico. If a person died for any reason, like old age, just add them onto the list. Bad politics. I love Puerto Rico!

 

The president on Thursday rejected the official death toll from hurricanes that slammed Puerto Rico last fall. Without evidence, he blamed Democrats for grossly inflating the tally.

 

Andres, who traveled to Puerto Rico to help those on the island shortly after Hurricane Maria hit, told CNBC on Thursday, "This is insane."

In August, the Puerto Rican government raised the official death count dramatically to 2,975, after maintaining for months that only 64 people had died as a result of Hurricanes Maria and Irma.

 

Andres said this should have been known a long time ago.

 

"If we knew officially that there were so many deaths, the full weight of the federal government will be there in Puerto Rico making sure that we will help those American people in the Caribbean," he said.

 

The chef, who has 31 restaurants in North America and the Caribbean, arrived on Puerto Rico five days after Hurricane Maria hit and quickly set up shop to get food to those affected. He worked with World Central Kitchen and 20,000 volunteers, staying roughly three months and serving about 3 million meals.

 

"If I was able to know how many meals I was serving every day, if I knew how many volunteers I had, if I knew how many kitchens I had, … if a little NGO [non-governmental organization] that was not supposed to be there was able to know all of that, how is it possible the federal government and the government of Puerto Rico were clueless on the real number of deaths? Those questions need to be answered."

 

Earlier in the day, he slammed Trump on Twitter.

 

José Andrés@chefjoseandres

 You are the face of "No shame"! That actually people died in the days, weeks and months after María, only shows how little you care. Those deaths happen on your watch.

https://www.worldcentralkitchen.org/category/puerto-rico

PARDON?

                             

HITLER DIDN'T HAVE THE ADVANTAGE OF PARDONING HIMSELF.

HE JUST COMMITTED SUICIDE.

PUERTO RICO - THREE THOUSAND CORPSES - AND HERE IS TRUMP'S WATER

TOO LATE FOR 3000 HUMAN BEINGS WHO DIED.

 

20,000 pallets of bottled water left untouched in storm-ravaged Puerto Rico. Stacks upon stacks of bottled water sit near a runway in Ceiba, Puerto Rico, on September 12, 2018.

Case after case, pallet piled upon pallet, blue tarps and plastic glinting in the sun.

The emergency supplies were brought in by FEMA in the aftermath * of Hurricane Maria, which smashed the island and left its residents without power, without roofs and without running water.

Federal officials commandeered the area in the far east of the island last fall as a staging ground, collecting the water and containers full of tarps to patch damaged and destroyed roofs in surrounding neighborhoods.

And there the supplies sat. And sat. Storm survivors were collecting spring water from the mountains for cooking and bathing, even with the threat of disease that brought.

cnn

* WHEN?

NUNS TORTURED, MURDERED CHILDREN AT VERMONT ORPHANAGE

IN JESUS' NAME -

For Decades, Nuns Brutally Abused and Killed Kids in Vermont Orphanage ...

 

Since the Boston Globe's spotlight team ran more than 600 stories, in 2002, revealing that the Catholic Church had buried thousands of children's sexual-abuse allegations against hundreds of priests, child molestation within the Church has become a major ongoing scandal. However, per a new bombshell investigation in BuzzFeed News, there exists another accusation of systemic abuse against the Church, one that is equally dark but less-known.

 

For decades now, countless adults who moved through the American orphanage system have been trying to speak out about the gut-wrenching conditions they endured in the now-defunct traditional system. Among other horrifying claims, they say that nuns regularly forced children to eat their own vomit, dangled them upside down out windows, and even murdered minors in their care by pushing them out of windows or leaving them to drown. To this day, though, the allegations have not fully come under the national spotlight.

 

Reporter Christine Kenneally cites numerous locations around the world where children were allegedly subjected to horrific abuse in orphanages and homes for minors, but her nearly 30,000-word report focuses on St. Joseph's Orphanage in Burlington, Vermont. From the mid-1800s up until the orphanage closed in 1974, thousands of children passed through the building. 

 

In the mid-1990s, journalists at the Burlington Free Press began to report extensively on allegations of child abuse and litigation surrounding the claims, and survivors started to come forward. One such person was Sally Dale, a woman who lived in the orphanage from age 2 to 23, who revealed her traumatic recollections to lawyer Robert Widman: She recalled a nun pushing a boy out of the window to a his death, witnessing a boy die by drowning, and being forced to kiss the dead body of a boy who had been electrocuted. She also claimed that a Sister sent her into a fire pit to retrieve a ball, which left her with blackened skin, and that she was molested by the resident chaplain.

 

In 1996, Widman filed lawsuits on the behalf of Dale and nearly 30 other residents against the Roman Catholic Diocese of Burlington, Vermont, Catholic Charities, and the Sisters of Providence. In November of that year, Dale endured a 19-hour-long deposition, where defense lawyers attempted to discredit the survivors' testimonies by calling them "antediluvian" and "impossibly stale." However, it was around the time that some nuns and priests began to acknowledge that children were physically and sexually abused at St. Josephs.

 

By spring of 1998, the federal judge delivered major blows to the plaintiffs when he ruled that the survivors could not band together in a consolidated trial, and that the Church was not required to hand over letters that allegedly outlined child abuse, written by a lawyer who had previously worked on the case.

 

"Dear Bill … If L was caught not paying attention, the nuns would take a needle and regularly prick his fingertips," read a letter to Bill O'Brien, the church's attorney. Another read, "K remembers that Sister Madeline and Sister Claire … slapped her head and face, pulled her hair, struck her face with the backs of their hands, so that their rings split her lips, and tripped her and knocked her down." 

 

Many survivors only received paltry settlements, and never found the closure they sought. But those who have revisited this case today - more than two decades after it first came to light - are still discovering details that corroborate the former orphanage residents' testimonies. Kenneally writes that the one story that both she and Widman found difficult to believe was Dale's about a boy who got electrocuted when he tried to crawl under a fence while wearing a metal helmet. But in the four years that she spent reporting this story, she finally found the death certificate -pieces of evidence that she and the lawyers struggled to uncover.

 

According to the certificate, 13-year-old Joseph Millette died from electrical burns in April 1955 at a power station, where he "crawled under a high tension wire and made contact through metal helmet." The document may not state why the boy was climbing under the fence, but Dale - who died 18 years ago from cancer - would've argued that he was trying to run away from the orphanage.


By Amanda Arnold@aMandolinz
https://www.thecut.com/2018/08/nuns-allegedly-abused-murdered-countless-kids-in-orphanages.html.

WHOSE DEAD BABIES ARE THEY? WILL THE VATICAN TELL?

It has been confirmed that significant numbers of children's remains lie in a mass grave adjacent to a former home for unmarried mothers run by the Bon Secours Sisters in Tuam, County Galway.

This is exactly where local historian Catherine Corless, who was instrumental in bringing the mass grave to light, said they would be. A state-established commission of inquiry into mother and baby homes recently located the site in a structure that "appears to be related to the treatment/containment of sewage and/or waste water", but which we are not supposed to call a septic tank.

The archbishop of Tuam, Michael Neary, says he is "deeply shocked and horrified". Deeply. Because what could the church have known about the abuse of children in its institutions? When Irish taoiseach Enda Kenny was asked if he was similarly shocked, he answered: "Absolutely. To think you pass by the location on so many occasions over the years." To think. Because what would Kenny, in Irish politics since the 70s, know about state-funded, church-perpetrated abuse of women and children? Even the commission of inquiry - already under critique by the UN - said in its official statement that it was "shocked by this discovery".

If I am shocked, it is by the pretense of so much shock. When Corless discovered death certificates for 796 children at the home between 1925 and 1961 but burial records for only two, it was clear that hundreds of bodies existed somewhere. They did not, after all, ascend into heaven like the virgin mother. Corless then uncovered oral histories from reliable local witnesses, offering evidence of where those children's remains could be found. So what did the church and state think had happened? That the nuns had buried the babies in a lovely wee graveyard somewhere, but just couldn't remember where?

 

Or maybe the church and state are expressing shock that nuns in mid-20th century Ireland could have so little regard for the lives and deaths of children in their care. The Ryan report in 2009 documented the systematic sexual, physical and emotional abuse of children in church-run, state-funded institutions. It revealed that when confronted with evidence of child abuse, the church would transfer abusers to other institutions, where they could abuse other children. The Christian Brothers legally blocked the report from naming and shaming its members. Meanwhile, Cardinal Seán Brady – now known to have participated in the cover-up of abuse by paedophile priest Brendan Smyth - muttered about how ashamed he was.

 

 It may be time to stop acting as though the moral bankruptcy and hypocrisy of the Catholic church are news to us.

The same year, the Murphy report on the sexual abuse of children in the archdiocese of Dublin revealed that the Catholic church's priorities in dealing with pedophilia were not child welfare, but rather secrecy, the avoidance of scandal, the protection of its reputation and the preservation of church assets. In 2013, the McAleese report documented the imprisonment of more than 10,000 women in church-run, state-funded laundries, where they worked in punitive industrial conditions without pay for the crime of being unmarried mothers.

 

So you will forgive me if I am skeptical of the professed shock of Ireland's clergy, politicians and official inquiring bodies. We know too much about the Catholic church's abuse of women and children to be shocked by Tuam. A mass grave full of the children of unmarried mothers is an embarrassing landmark when the state is still paying the church to run its schools and hospitals. Hundreds of dead babies are not an asset to those invested in the myth of an abortion-free Ireland; they inconveniently suggest that Catholic Ireland always had abortions, just very late-term ones, administered slowly by nuns after the children were already born.

 

As Ireland gears up for a probable referendum on abortion rights as well as a strategically planned visit from the pope, it may be time to stop acting as though the moral bankruptcy and hypocrisy of the Catholic church are news to us. You can say you don't care, but – after the Ryan report, the Murphy report, the McAleese report, the Cloyne report, the Ferns report, the Raphoe report and now Tuam - you don't get to pretend that you don't know.

 

Two members of my family were born in the Tuam home, lived short lives there, and are likely lying in that septic tank – sorry, in that structure that "appears to be related to the treatment/containment of sewage and/or waste water". Their mother died young, weakened from her time in the custody of the church. Because of this I understand that otherwise good, kind people in Ireland handed power over women and children's lives to an institution they knew was abusive. And I wrestle with the reality that - in our schools and hospitals – we're still handing power over women and children's lives to the Catholic church. Perhaps, after Tuam, after everything, that's what's really shocking.


https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/mar/07/catholic-church-children-buried-at-tuam-ireland

FILTHY PRIESTS EXPOSED - SO LITTLE, SO LATE

More than 3,600 children in Germany were assaulted by Roman Catholic priests between 1946 and 2014, a leaked report has revealed.

 

The study was commissioned by the Church itself, and was due to be published on 25 September, 2018.

 

According to the report, some 1,670 clergymen in Germany committed some form of sex attack on 3,677 minors, German outlet Spiegel Online reported.

 

A Church spokesman said it was "dismayed and ashamed" by the findings.

 

The report is the latest in a long series of revelations that have uncovered decades of sex abuse by Roman Catholic priests around the world.

 

Sex abuse and the Catholic Church explained

According to the new study, only 38% of the alleged perpetrators were prosecuted with most facing only minor disciplinary procedures, German media said. About one in six cases involved rape.

 

Most of the victims were boys, and more than half were aged 13 or younger.

 

Predatory clerics were often moved to new communities, where no warning was issued about their actions.

 

The study was compiled by three German universities, using 38,000 documents from 27 German dioceses. Its authors said the true extent of the abuse may be even greater, as some records were "destroyed or manipulated".

 

How has the Catholic Church reacted?

"We know the extent of the sexual abuse that has been demonstrated by the study. We are dismayed and ashamed by it," said Bishop Stephan Ackermann, a spokesman for the German Bishops' Conference which commissioned the report.

 

He said the aim of the study was to shed light on "this dark side of our Church, for the sake of those affected, but also for us ourselves to see the errors and to do everything to prevent them from being repeated".

 

"I stress that the study is a measure that we owe not only to the Church but first and foremost, to those affected," the bishop added.

Bishop Ackermann said the report had been leaked to the press before the Church itself had seen it. He said the Church had planned to provide counselling helplines for people affected by its contents.

 

What is the Church doing about abuse claims?

The Vatican did not immediately respond to Spiegel's account of the report. But elsewhere on Wednesday, Pope Francis summoned Catholic bishops to the Vatican for a discussion on how to protect children in February next year.

 

The damning German study is the latest in a series of blows to the Roman Catholic Church.

 

Claims of clerical sex abuse have been leveled around the world, and with them allegations that Church leaders hushed up or ignored the wrongdoing.

 

Pope faces twin battle in Church split over sexual abuse.

Pope keeps silent on abuse claim letter.

Pope Francis was caught up in the scandal last month, after a former Vatican diplomat accused him of ignoring allegations against a US cardinal for five years.

 

The Pope's supporters vehemently question the credibility of this accusation, which the pontiff has refused to respond to.

 

In August, the Pope condemned the "atrocities" of child sex abuse in a letter to the world's 1.2 billion Roman Catholics.

 

It came after a grand jury report detailed seven decades of abuse in the US state of Pennsylvania. The investigation found more than 1,000 children had been abused by 300 priests there. It found evidence of systematic cover-ups by the Church.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-45500072.


IT HAS BEEN GOING ON FOR CENTURIES.

KENYA. HYDROELECTRIC DAM ENDANGERS ANCIENT PEOPLE

Lake Turkana is endangered primarily by Ethiopia's construction of a hydroelectric and irrigation dam on the Omo River, which replenishes the lake seasonally.

A UNESCO panel added Thursday Lake Turkana, a conservation hotspot in Kenya and a candidate site for the birthplace of mankind, to the list of endangered World Heritage Sites.

The impact "poses a further threat to the site," UNESCO said in a statement on Wednesday issued from Bahrain.The UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization's World Heritage Committee expressed concern about the disruptive effect of Ethiopia's Gibe III dam "on the flow and ecosystem" of Lake Turkana downstream.

Located in northwestern Kenya and known as the Jade Sea, Lake Turkana is the most saline lake in East Africa and the largest desert lake in the world. Its islands are breeding grounds for the Nile crocodile, hippopotamus and several snake species while the lake itself is important to migratory birds. The area is also a possible site of mankind's birth, hosting the fossil deposits at Koobi Fora.

Lake Turkana is endangered primarily by Ethiopia's construction of a hydroelectric and irrigation dam on the Omo River, which replenishes the lake seasonally. The dam threatens to disrupt the seasonal flooding that is essential to the reproductive cycle of the lake fish, with an estimated 300,000 people depending on fishing Turkana for their livelihoods.

The irrigation project is also expected to significantly reduce the total amount of water entering the lake.

Many fear that the two Omo River projects will cause the lake level to reduce dramatically - by several tens of meters  - echoing the environmental disaster previously seen in the Aral Sea, in Central Asia, which dried up after its feeder rivers were diverted for irrigation schemes.


https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Kenyan-Lake-put-on-World-Heritage-Danger-List-for-Dam-Project-20180628-0018.html - June, 2018.

JEWS SICKENED BY STEPHEN MILLER

 

The childhood rabbi of Stephen Miller, a key aide to Donald Trump who has been instrumental in formulating the president's hard-line approach to immigration, on Monday slammed his former student's "negativity, violence, malice and brutality," the Guardian reported.

  

Rabbi Neil Comess-Daniel used his Jewish New Year sermon to excoriate Miller and his involvement with the administration's immigration policies, particularly the now-reversed policy of separating migrant families at the border. 

 

 "Honestly, Mr Miller, you've set back the Jewish contribution to making the world spiritually whole through your arbitrary division of these desperate people," the Guardian quoted Rabbi Comess-Daniel as saying. "The actions that you now encourage President Trump to take make it obvious to me that you didn't get my, or our, Jewish message.

Stephen Miller replaced 'Javanka' as the most hated figure in American-Jewish life. 

 

"This is the season of apology, and to get to an apology, shame over past actions is necessary," the rabbi said. "Some shout at others when they are self-righteous enough: you should be ashamed of yourself ! That's not something I would ever shout or demand." 

 

Miller was the subject of similar criticism last month by his uncle, David Glosser, who recounted "dismay and increasing horror" at Miller's actions.

 

In June, an unnamed White House adviser reportedly called Miller "Waffen-SS" and "a twisted guy" who "actually enjoys seeing those pictures at the border."

 

A few months earlier, seventeen Jewish groups urged the White House to dismiss Miller as senior policy adviser. "As Jews, we are in solidarity with immigrants and refugees and believe that our nation must be a refuge and welcoming home for new Americans," they wrote in an open letter.

https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/stephen-miller-s-childhood-rabbi-rips-trump-aide-s-malice-brutality-1.6466611

http://phylliscartersjournal.blogspot.com/2018/06/stephen-miller-you-cant-be-jew-and-nazi.html

http://phylliscartersjournal.blogspot.com/2018/03/jews-in-white-house.html

http://phylliscartersjournal.blogspot.com/2018/01/stephen-miller-is-puppet-master.html

http://phylliscartersjournal.blogspot.com/2017/08/stephen-miller-exposed.html.

PIG FECES IN THE AIR - IF YOU ARE POOR, BLACK, BREATHE DEEPLY

In Eastern North Carolina, hog farms collect billions of gallons of untreated pig feces and urine in cesspools, then dispose of it by spraying it into the air. Environmental advocates warn of mass contamination if these are breached by Hurricane Florence:

Democracy Now!‏

https://www.democracynow.org/2017/5/3/nc_lawmakers_side_with_factory_farms.


WHAT DO YOU EXPECT IN THESE INSANE TIMES WHEN UP IS DOWN, LIES ARE TRUTH, THE ENVIRONMENTAL "PROTECTION" AGENCY OBEYS A CLOWN, THE WHITE HOUSE IS THE CENTRE OF THE UNIVERSE AND A LUNATIC DECIDES THE FATE OF HUMANITY?

COLIN KAEPERENICK. TRUMP ISN'T CUTTING OFF HEADS - YET.

He's been vilified by millions and locked out of the NFL - all because he took a knee to protest police brutality. But Colin Kaepernick's determined stand puts him in rare company in sports history: Muhammad Ali, Jackie Robinson- athletes who risked everything to make a difference.

 

In 2013, Colin Kaepernick was on the cover of this magazine because he was one of the best football players in the world. In 2017, Colin Kaepernick is on GQ's cover once again - but this time it is because he isn't playing football. And it's not because he's hurt, or because he's broken any rules, or because he's not good enough. Approximately 90 men are currently employed as quarterbacks in the NFL, as either starters or reserves, and Colin Kaepernick is better - indisputably, undeniably, flat-out better - than at least 70 of them. He is still, to this day, one of the most gifted quarterbacks on earth. And yet he has been locked out of the game he loves - blackballed - because of one simple gesture: He knelt during the playing of our national anthem. And he did it for a clear reason, one that has been lost in the yearlong storm that followed. He did it to protest systemic oppression and, more specifically, as he said repeatedly at the time, police brutality toward black people.

 

When we began discussing this GQ cover (see source *) with Colin earlier this fall, he told us the reason he wanted to participate is that he wants to reclaim the narrative of his protest, which has been hijacked by a president eager to make this moment about himself. But Colin also made it clear to us that he intended to remain silent. As his public identity has begun to shift from football star to embattled activist, he has grown wise to the power of his silence. It has helped his story go around the world. It has even provoked the ire and ill temper of Donald Trump. Why talk now, when your detractors will only twist your words and use them against you? Why speak now, when silence has done so much?

 

At the same time, Colin is all too aware that silence creates a vacuum, and that if it doesn't get filled somehow, someone else will fill it for him. In our many conversations with Colin about this project, we discussed the history of athletes and civil rights, and the indelible moments it called to mind, and we decided that we'd use photography - the power of imagery and iconography -to do the talking.

  

By the end of the 1960s, Muhammad Ali's stand against the Vietnam War—he'd marched in Harlem with the Nation of Islam after he was drafted and refused to serve - resulted in him being locked out of his sport for three years, at the peak of his talent, much as Colin is now. He continued to train throughout that period, waiting for his chance to return to boxing. He was known for jogging in the streets, and kids would chase him - the People's Champ, boosted in his darkest days by the joy of his truest fans. That's why we decided to photograph Colin in public, in Harlem, among the men, women, and children he is fighting for. To connect him to a crusade that stretches back decades. And because Colin has spent a year as a man without a team, we worked with him to assemble a new one: ten of his closest confidants - artists, activists, academics, and one legend of the civil rights movement - who shared with GQ what Colin's protest means to them, and what we all should do next.

* https://www.gq.com/story/colin-kaepernick-will-not-be-silenced.

WE, THE REAL PEOPLE EVERYWHERE, KNOW THE TRUTH. COLIN KAEPERNICK IS A MAN OF COURAGE STANDING UP FOR THE TRUTH BY KNEELING DOWN. 

TYRANTS RAGE WHEN GOOD PEOPLE PROTEST WITHOUT VIOLENCE. 

REMEMBER WHAT "LOYAL WHITE CHRISTIAN" AMERICANS WITH BATONS AND BOOTS AND KNIVES AND GUNS AND CROSSES DID TO DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. AND THE MANY CIVIL RIGHTS PROTESTERS NOT SO LONG AGO. 

HOW MANY HEROES HAVE BEEN BUTCHERED ON THEIR KNEES WHILE ISLAMIST MURDERERS CUT OFF THEIR HEADS? 

TRUMP HASN'T CUT OFF HEADS -YET ....

(WE WILL SPEAK OF BOMBING HOSPITALS IN YEMEN ELSEWHERE.)

WELCOME TO MY NEWEST READERS AROUND THE WORLD

I have been publishing PHYLLIS CARTER'S JOURNAL for many years.  Where to begin?

 

 

WHO IS PHYLLIS CARTER? - AN INTRODUCTION.

 

http://phylliscartersjournal.blogspot.ca/2017/11/who-is-phyllis-carter-people-and_19.html

 

You have expressed concern about the crime case that destroyed my family.

 

Begin with this.

 

 

THE DAWN MCSWEENEY CRIME CASE.

 

 

EVIDENCE THAT DEMANDS A VERDICT

 

"MRS. CARTER'S RIGHTS WERE VIOLATED THREE TIMES."

MARLENE JENNINGS, MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT

 

http://phylliscartersjournal.blogspot.ca/2017/10/mrs-carters-rights-were-violated-three.html

 

http://phylliscartersjournal.blogspot.ca/2014/03/evidence-that-demands-verdict-summary_11.html.

 

http://phylliscartersjournal.blogspot.ca/2017/11/dawn-mcsweeney-thief-who-destroyed-my.html

            

POLITICIANS ARE OUT TO MAKE THEMSELVES MORE COMFORTABLE, RICHER MORE POWERFUL. CANDIDATES MAKE PROMISES THAT THEY NEVER KEEP. IF YOU ASK THEM FOR HELP, THEY SMILE AND SAY THAT THEY CAN'T DO ANYTHING UNTIL THEY ARE ELECTED.

 

AFTER YOU WORK TO GET THEM ELECTED, THEY SMILE AND SAY, "YOUR RIGHTS WERE VIOLATED BUT JUSTICE IS NOT IN MY JURISDICTION."

 

JUSTICE IS IN NOBODY'S JURISDICTION IN CANADA.

 

MONTREAL MAYOR MICHAEL APPLEBAUM SET FREE - A MOCKERY OF JUSTICE

 

http://phylliscartersjournal.blogspot.ca/2017/06/montreal-mayor-michael-applebaum-set_10.html

 

Former Montreal mayor Michael Applebaum was quickly granted parole on the year-long sentence he received for having accepted bribes while he served as a borough mayor. Corruption to benefit the rich permeates society - including our injustice system. Crime victims are an inconvenience.

 

MONTREAL POLICE COVER-UP.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/montreal-police-projet-alex-norris-1.4042467

 

SECURE SHREDDING AT MONTREAL CITY HALL.

WHAT WAS MAYOR DENIS CODERRE SO EAGER TO HIDE?

http://www.tvanouvelles.ca/2017/11/06/operation-dechiquetage-a-lhotel-de-ville-de-montreal

 

MONTREAL POLICE CHIEF TO BE RELIEVED OF DUTIES.

 

http://montreal.ctvnews.ca/police-chief-philippe-pichet-to-be-relieved-of-duties-report-1.3709005.

 

Facebook recently started to censor my comments about Donald Trump, Sen. Joseph McCarthy, criminal lawyer, Roy Cohn, Jared Kushner, Vladimir Putin, the Ku Klux Klan, the Nazis, yesterday and today, and even my reports with videos and photographs of the excruciating torture suffered every day by helpless animals in Asia and Romania and elsewhere. That fur collar is still crying in agony. Facebook no longer allows me to publish the facts, the evidence. But anyone in the world with access to the Internet can see everything at PHYLLIS CARTER'S JOURNAL.

 

More than 400,000 people from Montreal to Moscow have read my reports to date.

 

I have published many articles on health issues over the years. I have reported many cases of painful and even life threatening abuses at the Jewish General Hospital. Most recently, I reported on the accident I had at the Jewish General Hospital on January 26.  It is titled - GIVE ME A BRAKE.

 

http://phylliscartersjournal.blogspot.ca/2018/01/jewish-general-hospital-give-me-brake.html

 

JEWISH GENERAL HOSPITAL

 

http://phylliscartersjournal.blogspot.ca/2017/07/excellent-care-at-jewish-general.html

 

http://phylliscartersjournal.blogspot.ca/2017/07/what-is-security-guard-jewish-general.html

 

http://phylliscartersjournal.blogspot.ca/2017/05/complaints-jewish-general-hospital.html

 

http://phylliscartersjournal.blogspot.ca/2011/10/haunted-by-painful-memories-of_1031.html

 

http://phylliscartersjournal.blogspot.ca/2017/03/if-you-are-abused-at-jewish-general.html

 

http://phylliscartersjournal.blogspot.ca/2017/03/no-help-if-you-are-abused-at-jewish.html

 

http://phylliscartersjournal.blogspot.ca/2016/09/dental-clinic-jewish-general-hospital.html

 

http://phylliscartersjournal.blogspot.ca/2010/09/how-we-might-die-in-hospital-legare.html

 

http://phylliscartersjournal.blogspot.ca/2011/12/some-of-my-articles-on-health-care.html

 

http://phylliscartersjournal.blogspot.ca/2011/10/hush-keep-your-voice-down-hospital_2409.html

 

http://phylliscartersjournal.blogspot.ca/2014/04/abuse-at-jewish-general-hospital-now.html

 

http://phylliscartersjournal.blogspot.ca/2017/03/no-help-if-you-are-abused-at-jewish.html

 

http://phylliscartersjournal.blogspot.ca/2010/11/carter-report-on-patients-plight.html

 

For detailed reports of events through the years, you might also Google

PHYLLIS CARTER'S JOURNAL /JEWISH GENERAL HOSPITAL.

 

You may also be able to access my reports through the years by following the archive on the left side of the page.

 

 

If I have ever published anything that was not absolutely true, why has no one ever sued me?

 

 

On a happier note, for those of you who still believe in love and music, I offer my own true love story.

  

MR. NOSTALGIA, CLIFF CARTER.

http://cliffcartermrnostalgia.blogspot.ca/2010/10/gentleman-at-piano-is-cliff-carter_2144.html

http://cliffcartermrnostalgia.blogspot.ca/2010/08/cliff-carter-quiet-man_01.html

 

http://cliffcartermrnostalgia.blogspot.ca/2010/08/cliff-carter-gentle-man.html

 

http://cliffcartermrnostalgia.blogspot.ca/2016/05/mrnostalgia-and-sheba-our-true-love.html

 

http://cliffcartermrnostalgia.blogspot.ca/2011/03/mr-nostalgia-and-sheba-our-true-love_15.html

 

http://cliffcartermrnostalgia.blogspot.ca/2012/02/ode-to-cliff-i-think-of-him.html

 

http://cliffcartermrnostalgia.blogspot.ca/2017/02/mr-nostalgia-cliff-carter-his-claim-to.html

 

http://cliffcartermrnostalgia.blogspot.ca/2016/05/cliff-carter-mr-nostalgia-his-claim-to_22.html

 

http://cliffcartermrnostalgia.blogspot.ca/2010/07/memories-of-cliff.html

 

http://cliffcartermrnostalgia.blogspot.ca/2010/05/casablanca-and-le-touche-bar-behind.html

 

http://cliffcartermrnostalgia.blogspot.ca/2016/01/youre-mine-all-mine-cliff-wrote-mr.html

 

http://cliffcartermrnostalgia.blogspot.ca/2011/11/what-is-sacred-ground-raphael-and-astor.html

 

http://cliffcartermrnostalgia.blogspot.ca/2011/10/how-beautiful-was-cliff-carters-music_14.html

 

http://cliffcartermrnostalgia.blogspot.ca/2013/01/one-magic-moment.html

 

http://cliffcartermrnostalgia.blogspot.ca/2015/04/love-stronger-than-death_5.html

 

http://cliffcartermrnostalgia.blogspot.ca/2015/03/march-25-2015-twenty-three-years-it.html

 

http://cliffcartermrnostalgia.blogspot.ca/2014/06/cliff-attended-50th-anniversary.html

 

http://cliffcartermrnostalgia.blogspot.ca/2014/03/do-you-believe-in-miracles-i-was_2109.html

 

http://cliffcartermrnostalgia.blogspot.ca/2014/01/our-paths-may-sever-but-ill-remember.html

 

http://cliffcartermrnostalgia.blogspot.ca/2014/01/all-love-songs-were-written-for-us.html

 

http://cliffcartermrnostalgia.blogspot.ca/2013/04/i-didnt-dance-with-cliff_27.html

 

http://cliffcartermrnostalgia.blogspot.ca/2010/01/date-at-olympics-in-calgary-rca-records_29.html.